Three disciplinary approaches to the representation of catastrophe

The DisComPoSE research group took part in a cycle of meetings organized within the Edinburgh Early Modern Network  through an online seminar entitled Narrating and Communicating Disasters in the Spanish Monarchy: an Interdisciplinary Approach.

The speech by Annachiara Monaco, Milena Viceconte and Beatriz Álvarez García held on 5^th April 2022, showed some research lines that dialogue actively within the project and started from the definition of “disaster” as a phenomenon at the intersection between nature and society.

In particular, the scholars presented three case studies conducted according to three different methodological approaches: historical (Beatriz Álvarez García), linguistic (Annachiara Monaco) and historical-artistic (Milena Viceconte).

Each researcher focused on a specific medium of communication: sermons, reports, paintings or engravings. This interdisciplinary analysis made it possible to highlight how the various forms and strategies of representing catastrophe were inherent in a wider context of the circulation of information, in which heterogeneous spheres and means of communication intertwined and influenced each other.

Go to the program of the cycle of meetings

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