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DisComPoSE at the Jornadas Internacionales

DisComPoSE will participate in the fifteenth edition of the Jornadas Internacionales de Arte, Historia y Cultura Colonial organized by the Colonial Museum of Bogotà. The event will be entitled Iconografías del desastre: miradas sobre los…

Monographic section in the journal "Mediterranea"

The number 51 of "Mediterranea" is online, hosting the monographic section "Calamità ambientali e risposte politiche nella monarchia ispanica (secc. XVII-XVIII)" (Environmental calamities and political responses in the Hispanic monarchy -XVII-XVIII…

About the book “Popular culture in Italy”

About Popular culture in Italy. From Gramsci to Unesco by Fabio Dei (Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018).   The first meeting of Verba manent, a cycle of seminars curated by Vittorio Celotto and Gennaro Schiano, involved the participation of…

April - June, 2021: Verba manent

Verba manent Popular cultures and hegemonic cultures in Italy in the Early Modern Age April - June 2021 In 1980 Carlo Ginzburg wrote: "Studies on popular culture will survive the fashion that surrounds them today". The prediction did not…

Environmental calamities in the Early Modern Age

How important are disasters caused by environmental phenomena for historians? Prof. Domenico Cecere tried to answer this question during a lecture for the students of the PhD course in Historical Studies of the Universities of Florence and Siena…

January 14-15 and 21-22, 2021: Saints and institutions in the representation of disasters

Heroic figures in calamitous times. Saints and institutions in the representation of disasters (16th-18th centuries) is a cycle of seminars organized by Gennaro Schiano and Milena Viceconte from the DisComPoSE team, held on14th-15th and 21st-22nd…

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