NeMoSanctI – New Models of Sanctity in Italy (1960s-2000s) — A Semiotic Analysis of Norms, Causes of Saints, Hagiography, and Narratives

At the "Incontri sul senso" 2022

NeMoSanctI is among the organizers of the 2022 “Incontri sul senso”. The seminars will be held at the University of Turin, from 17 January to 12 May 2022. The topic of this year will be “Semiotics and Artifical Intelligence“.

At the Conference “Schermi oscuri. L’inferno dantesco nel cinema e nei media audiovisivi”

PI Jenny Ponzo will be the chair of the session Mappe e territori within the Conference “Schermi oscuri. L’inferno dantesco nel cinema e nei media audiovisivi”, on 17 December 2021. The event will take place in Turin at the Polo Universitario Alto Moro.

Book presentation: “Culture della persona. Itinerari di ricerca tra semiotica, filosofia e scienze umane” (aAccademia University Press 2021)

At the Conference “Nuovi media, nuovi miti”

Jenny Ponzo, Eleonora Chiais, Magdalena Maria Kubas and Francesco Galofaro are participating in the conference “Nuovi media, nuovi miti”, organized by CIRCe, that will take place at the University of Turin. The event will be on 21 and 22 December 2021.

At Compalit conference 2021

Magdalena Maria Kubas is participating in the conference “Con i buoni sentimenti si fanno brutti libri? Etiche, estetiche e problemi della rappresentazione”, organized by Compalit (Associazione di teoria e storia comparata della letteratura). The event will take place at the Unversity La Statale of Milan, on 9-11 December 2021. Her speech is entitled “Matilde Serao e il retorico abnorme ne La Madonna e i Santi”.

At The Challange of Contemporary Religion

Jenny Ponzo and Francesco Galofaro are participating in the cicle of conferences “The Challange of Contemporary Religion”. They will talk about “Santità e agiografie pop” (sanctity and pop hagiographies) on 9 November 2021, starting h. 10.

At workshop “Religion as an Object of Historical and Social Scientific Study: Global Perspectives”

Our team member Marco Papasidero is participating in the international workshop “Religion as an Object of Historical and Social Scientific Study: Global Perspectives”, that will be held at the University of Leipzig on 3-5 November 2022. His speech is entitled “The Canonization Processes of the Catholic Church: A Meta-study Approach”.

At “Language, Economics, Performativity” international conference

Our team member Francesco Galofaro is participating in the international conference Language, Economics, Performativity for the Centennial of Ferruccio Rossi-Landi’s birth (1921-2021). The event will take place at the University “Aldo Moro” of Bari on 25, 26, 27 October, 2021.

At the retrospective Histoire(s) du Cinéma

PI Jenny Ponzo is participating in the retrospective Histoire(s) du Cinéma, organized by the Cinema Museum. She, together with Silvio Alovisio, historian of the cinema, will introduce the film by Carl Th. Dreyer La passion de Jeanne d’Arc (France 1928). The event will be held at the Cinema Massimo, 20 of October 2020, starting h. 18.30

At III Encuentro Internacional de Investigadores en Ciencias de las Religiones (EICR)

Our team members Maria Magdalena Kubas and Marco Papasidero are participating in the III Encuentro Internacional de Investigadores en Ciencias de las Religiones (EICR), that will take place in Madrid at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, on 13-15 October 2021. Marco and Magda will speak on 14 October, h. 17.30.

Book – Jenny Ponzo and Gabriele Vissio (eds.), Culture della persona: itinerari di ricerca tra semiotica, filosofia e scienze umane (aAccademia University Press, 2021)

At Circolo della Stampa

Our PI Jenny Ponzo is participating in the roundtable “Le parole della nuova spiritualità”, with Stefania Palmisano, Nicola Pannofino, Alberto Sinigaglia.

At AISS 2021

Jenny Ponzo, Eleonora Chiais and Francesco Galofaro are participating in the Associazione Italiana Studi Semiotici annual conference (1-3 October, 2021), on the topic “Semiotics of tourism”.

At Alma Dante 2021

Our team member Magdalena Maria Kubas is participating in the third International Dante Conference “Alma Danta 2021”, at the University of Bologna, from 15 to 18 September 2021. Her speech is entitled Lo spazio-tempo litanico tra Purgatorio e Paradiso.

At the Conference “Sant’Angelo carmelitano tra storia, agiografia e iconografia nell’Ottavo centenario del suo martirio”

Our team member Marco Papasidero is participating in the conference Sant’Angelo carmelitano tra storia, agiografia e iconografia nell’Ottavo centenario del suo martirio, that will be hald in Licata (Agrigento, Sicily) on 25 September, 2021.

At the “Notte Europea dei Ricercatori 2021”

On Friday 24 September 2021, from 17.00 PM up to midnight, at the Cortile del Castello del Valentino of the University of Turin (via Po, No. 15, 10124, Turin TO; entrance also from via Verdi 8), there will be many stands from the “European Researchers’ Night 2021“. NeMoSanctI will take part with its own initiative.

Edited book – Interpreting and Explaining Transcendence Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Beyond (De Gruyter 2021)

It is now available the book Interpreting and Explaining Transcendence: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Beyond, edited by
Robert A. Yelle (University of Munich) and ou PI Jenny Ponzo. In addition to having written the introduction together with Yelle, she is also the author of the chapter “Adveniat regnum tuum: Revolutionary paths toward religious transcendence in Italian contemporary narrative”.

At the Festival di Antropologia e Storia delle Religioni

Our team member Marco Papasidero is participating in the Festival di Antropologia e Storia delle Religioni, organized by the Museo delle Religioni. The event will take place in Ariccia and Castel Gandolfo from 9 to 12 September, 2021.

At the EASR 2021

Team members Francesco Galofaro, Magdalena Maria Kubas and Marco Papasidero are participating in the EASR 2021 conference, Pisa, whose theme this year will be “Resilient Religion”. Their papers will be part of the session Modalities of Resilience in the Rereading of Mystical or Religious Experience, coordinated by Alessandra Pozzo.

At the conference “Translatio sanctitatis. Tra Terrasanta e Santiago”

Our team member Marco Papasidero is participating in the conference
“Translatio Sanctitatis. Tra Terrasanta e Santiago: le pergamene ritrovate e il culto di san Giacomo a Capizzi”, that will be held in Capizzi (Sicily), on 27 and 28 July 2021.

Article – J. Ponzo, Dinamiche di violenza nella pratica mistica del digiuno (Actes sémiotiques, 25/2021)

At the International Medieval Congress 2021

Team member Marco Papasidero is participating in the International Medieval Congress of Leeds (5-8 July 2021). The title of his speech is «A graceful rain poured down». Supernatural rains and storms in hagiography
(c. XI-XV), and will be online on 8 July, h. 9.

At the 29th colloque Albi-Nîmes 2021

Team members Francesco Galofaro and Magdalena Maria Kubas are participating in the 29th Colloque Albi-Nîmes 2021. Their speech is entitled Ecological and counter-ecological discourse in Pope Francis’ tweets, and will be on 6 July, starting h. 16.

Chapter – Francesco Galofaro, Introduzione, in C. Petrini, “La pratica religiosa cattolica ai tempi del Coronavirus” (Esculapio 2021)

At CESPEC

Our PI Jenny Ponzo is participating in Il ritorno della persona: prospettive contemporanee su persona e soggetto, organized by CESPEC. The event will take place online on the Facebook page of the Center, on 25 May, 2021, starting h. 17.

At the Seminar of Francesco Marsciani and Giuseppe Mazzarino

Team member Francesco Galofaro is participating in the “Seminario sui fondamenti della teoria della significazione”, organized by Francesco Marsciani and Giuseppe Mazzarino at the University of Bologna. The event will be online (link), on 21 May 2021, starting h. 13.

At the “Sens de la transcendance. Sémiotique et spiritualité”

Our PI Jenny Ponzo is participating in the International Conference Sens de la transcendance. Sémiotique et spiritualité, that will be online. Her speech is entitled “La codification de la sainteté catholique dans les causes de canonisation” and will be on 2 June 2021, h. 15.30.

At the National Conference of Society of Philosophy of Language

Our PI Jenny Ponzo and team members Eleonora Chiais and Francesco Galofaro will participating into the National Conference of Society of Philosophy of Language. The topic of this year is Narrations, Confabulations, and Conspiracies.

Chapter – M. Kubas, Osservazioni su alcune laude (psuedo-)iacoponiche tradotte in polacco (2021)

At the International Conference “Perceptions of the sacred in the suffering body: stigmata and stigmatics in the 19th and 20th centuries”

Our PI Jenny Ponzo and team members Francesco Galofaro and Marco Papasidero are participating in the International Conference “Perceptions of the sacred in the suffering body: stigmata and stigmatics in the 19th and 20th centuries”.

At the Seminar "Semiotics and Bible"

Our PI Jenny Ponzo is participating in the Seminar “Semiotics and Bible”, with the speech “‘L’offrande de la vie’ comme nouvelle voie de sainteté au 21eme siècle”. The event will take place online on 20 May 2021.

Chapter – F. Galofaro, “«Meglio morto per noi che vivo per gli altri»: la rivolta di san Giovanni Rotondo contro il trasferimento di Padre Pio” (2021)

Questioni di santità: prospettive semiotiche su Dante

On the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, NeMoSanctI is organizing the scientific symposium “Questioni di santità: prospettive semiotiche su Dante”. The event will take place online (link) on 10 June, h. 9.

Article – Eleonora Chiais, “Make Up, Make Sense: Appunti sul trucco tra ieri e oggi” (Lexia 37-38)

AUTOBIOGRAFIE SPIRITUALI: NeMoSanctI’s seminar of “Semiotics of Religious Cultures” (2020-2021) at the University of Turin

The goal of this course of Semiotics of Religious Cultures is to provide students with an in-depth comprehension of spiritual autobiographies, through a multidisciplinary perspective. The course is organized as a seminar, with the participation of researchers and scholars who will present different aspects and approaches.

On La Stampa

Our team member Francesco Galofaro has been interviewed by Adriana Riccomagno on the topic of the extraordinary exposition of the Holy Shroud. The article, published on La Stampa, is available here:

At the École Pratique des Hautes Études

Our team member Marco Papasidero is taking a seminar at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, in Alfonsina Bellio’s course on “Ethnologie religieuse de l’Occident contemporain”. The topic of his speech is “Dévotion et culte des saints dans le sud de l’Italie: les études de cas du bienheureuse Luigi Rabatà et de saint Gerardo Maiella”.

At “I Lunedì della Peterson”

Team member Marco Papasidero is participating in the book presentation series “I Lunedì della Peterson. Incontri con gli autori”, at the University of Turin ...

Article – G. Vissio, “Eccezionalmente ordinari. Il santo come modello normativo / Exceptionally Ordinary. Saint as a Normative Model” (Filosofia e Teologia 2020/2)

Article – Francesco Galofaro, “Apocalyptic features of political discourses about the pandemic” (Acta Semiotica, 2021)

Book chapter – Marco Papasidero, “Online Mary. YouTube come fonte per lo studio delle apparizioni mariane”

At the Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose of Turin

Gabriele Vissio takes part in the conference Una fede evanescente? Il Cristianesimo al tempo dell’infosfera, held at the Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose of Turin on 25 February 2021. His speech is entitled I santi nell’infosfera: linguaggi e modelli.

At the conference “Religious Identity and the Media”

Our team member Francesco Galofaro is participating in the conference
Religious Identity and the Media – Methods, concepts, theories, and new research avenues, organized by the University of Bremen under the patronage of the National Science Centre of Poland and the German Research Foundation, which will be held online on 25, 26, and 27 March.

At the AIS Webinar “La religione ai tempi del coronavirus”

Our team members Francesco Galofaro and Marco Papasidero will take part in the Webinar “La religione ai tempi del coronavirus”, organized by AIS (Italian Association of Sociology), that will be held online.

Article – G. Marino, “The Form of Life of Sanctity in Music Beyond Hagiography: The Case of John Coltrane and His ‘Ascension'”. (Int J Semiot Law 2021)

Article – Jenny Ponzo, Motherhood and Personhood: The Canonization of Gianna Beretta Molla and the Figurativization of Catholic Norms (International Journal for the Semiotics of Law – 2021)

Article – Jenny Ponzo and Gabriele Marino, “Modelizing epistemologies: organizing Catholic sanctity from calendar-based martyrologies to today’s mobile apps” (Semiotica 2021)

Book chapter - Eleonora Chiais, From the Bronx to the boutiques: the rise of street style in the fashion industry (2021)

At the Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose of Turin

Gabriele Vissio takes part in the conference Una fede evanescente? Il Cristianesimo al tempo dell'infosfera, held at the Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose of Turin on 25 February 2020. His speech is entitled I santi nell'infosfera: linguaggi e modelli.

Book chapter – Jenny Ponzo, “La santidad como una forma de vida y la figura de Santa Gianna Beretta Molla” (Actas 14° Congreso Mundial de Semiótica: Trayectorias)

Article – F. Galofaro, “On the Juridical Relevance of the Phenomenological Notion of Person in Max Scheler and Edith Stein” (Int J Semiot Law 2021)

At the Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose of Turin