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

Semiotics of Religion
A beginner's guide

The semiotics of religion was born within the French milieu in the 1970s, as a filiation, on the one hand, of literary semiotics (narratology and the work on narrativity carried out by the Paris School gathered around Algirdas J. Greimas) and, on the other, of anthropological, ethnological and mythographic studies (particularly, the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Georges Dumézil). [...]

Book – Ancient and Artificial
Languages in Today’s Culture

Essays by: Andrea Bianchi, Ilaria Fiorentini, James Hamrick, Martin Lehnert, Gabriele Marino, Markus May, Simona Stano, Bruno Surace, Andrea Valle, Ugo Volli, Françoise Waquet, Robert Yelle. [...]

At the conference “Comunicare la santità”
(Rome, Jan. 21-23, 2020)

NeMoSanctI is participating in the conference “Comunicare la santità” (‘Communicating Sanctity’), organized by AISSCA-Associazione italiana per lo studio della santità, dei culti e dell’agiografia (‘The Italian Association for the study of sanctity, worships and hagiography’) as the IV edition of the “Cantieri dell’agiografia” (‘Hagiography in progress’) .[...]

Libro – Semiotica e santità (2019)

Il nostro regalo per il Natale 2019 è un libro di 230 pagine in italiano in cui presentiamo, in maniera divulgativa, i primi risultati delle nostre ricerche sulla semiotica della santità, consultabile e scaricabile gratuitamente. .[...]

At the conference “The Book and the Religions: Birth and Spread of the Sacred Text” (Senigallia, Nov. 30, 2019)

Reasearch team member Gabriele Marino, semiotician, is participating in the conference The Book and the Religions: Birth and Spread of the Sacred Text (Il libro e le religioni: nascita e diffusione del testo sacro), organized by Matteo De Chiara (INaLCO, Paris – CNRS: Mondes Iranien et Indien) and Giovanni Frulla (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose delle Marche), which will take place at Sala Rosa, Palazzo Mastai (Museo Pio IX, Via G. M. Mastai, 14), Senigallia (Ancona), on Saturday November 30th, 2019, starting at 16:30. .[...]

#SemioPills 4: Robert Yelle

Robert A. Yelle (b. 1966) is a distinguished American scholar in the fields of semiotics, anthropology, and history of religion. He is Professor of “Theory and Method of Religious Studies” at Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany. He grew up in Andover, Massachusetts, where he graduated from Phillips Andover Academy (1984) and Harvard College (A.B. in Philosophy, 1988) in General Studies. He received a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (Order of the Coif, 1993) and a Ph.D. in History of Religions from the University of Chicago (2002). .[...]

PERSONA: NeMoSanctI’s seminar of “Semiotics of Religious Cultures” (2019-2020) at the University of Turin

The goal of the course is to provide students with an in-depth comprehension of the notions of person and personhood. By adopting a semiotic perspective, we will analyze these concepts as it were developed across centuries, in different types of discourses and textual genres; from religious and theological to normative and judicial discourse, from ethic and scientific to artistic discourse.[...]

At the “CRAFT-Contemporary Religions and Faith in Transition” Research Center

NeMoSanctI is participating in the “Contemporary Religions and Faith in Transition” (CRAFT) seminar. The title of the event is Santi e veggenti tra Storia del Cristianesimo e Antropologia filosofica (‘Saints and visioners between History of Christianism and Philosophical Anthropology’) [...]

Monographic issue – Lexia 31-32: The Semiotics of Martyrdom

Lexia – Rivista di semiotica, 31-32: The Semiotics of Martyrdom. Edited by Nemosancti – New Models of Sanctity in Italy PI Jenny Ponzo. […]

At the XLVII congress of AISS-Italian Association for Semiotic Studies

NeMoSanctI is participating to the XLVII congress of AISS-Italian Association for Semiotic Studies, L’enunciazione e le immagini (‘Enunciation and Images’), which will take place in Siena from Friday 25 to Sunday 27 October, 2019, with a panel of its own. […]

Hosting a conference by Prof. Alessandra Pozzo about religious fasting

NeMoSanctI is hosting a conference by Prof. Alessandra Pozzo (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris) entitled Il digiuno e i suoi immaginari: Archetipi e criteri per la classificazione di una pratica. […]

At the international workshop “Images in Religious Persuasion: A Cross-Cultural Perspective”

NeMoSanctI PI, Prof. Jenny Ponzo, is participating in the international workshop Images in Religious Persuasion: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, which will take place at the University of Bochum, Germany, on October 1-2, 2019. […]

Presenting “Lexia” 31-32 (The Semiotics of Martyrdom) at the “Seminari di semiotica (settembre-ottobre 2019)”, Urbino

NeMoSanctI is taking part in the “Seminari di semiotica” coordinated by Tiziana Migliore in Urbino (30 September – 4 October 2019, Università degli Studi Carlo Bo, Sala Lauree, via Saffi No. 15). […]

At the “Notte Europea dei Ricercatori 2019”

On Friday 27 September 2019, from 6.30 PM up to midnight, at the Cortile del Rettorato 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 2019“. […]

At the “Excellence Matters” symposium in honor of Ugo Volli

NeMoSanctI is participating in the “Excellence Matters” symposium in honor of Ugo Volli, the dean of Turin semiotics. […]

At the International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law 2019

The PI, Jenny Ponzo, Gabriele Marino, and Gabriele Vissio are participating in the International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law (IRSL), which will take place in Turin, Italy, on September 19-20, 2019. […]

At the XXIV international conference of the Ethno-Anthropological Laboratory of Rocca Grimalda

Research team member Francesco Galofaro is participating in the XXIV international conference of the Ethno-Anthropological Laboratory of Rocca Grimalda (Alessandria), dedicated to the topic Rivolta: miti e pratiche dell’essere contro (‘Revolt: myths and practices of being against’), which will take place in September 20-22, 2019. […]

At the 14th World Congress of Semiotics, Buenos Aires 2019

NeMoSanctI PI, Prof. Jenny Ponzo, and research team member Gabriele Marino, both semioticians, are participating in the 14th World Congress of Semiotics, dedicated to the theme of “Trajectories” and which will take place between September 9th and 13th, 2019, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. [...]

At the 2019 CESNUR International Conference

NeMoSanctI research team member Dr. Marco Papasidero, anthropologist and historian of Christianity, is participating in the 2019 CESNUR International Conference, Re-enchanting the World: Spiritualities and Religions of the Third Millennium. [...]

Article – Jenny Ponzo (2019) Vetus Ordo Missae (in "Social Semiotics")

The liturgical reform promoted by the Second Vatican Council led to a renewed way of celebrating the Mass entailing new ritual features and the drastic reduction of the use of Latin in favor of vernacular languages. [...]

At the International Medieval Congress 2019 in Leeds

Marco Papasidero is participating in the 2019 International Medieval Congress, which will take place in Leeds on July 1-4, 2019. His talk, which will take place on Wednesday 3 July, within the session “The Monastic Dimension of Identity Politics: Hagiographical Rhetoric and the Construction of the Other, II“, entitled: The Furta Sacra Tales as Legitimations of Legitimation Monastic Communities in Medieval Europe. […]

At the seminary Icônes et écrans, talking about Saints and Internet memes

Semiotician Gabriele Marino and philosopher Gabriele Vissio are taking part in the third session of the international seminary “Icônes et écrans / Icone e schermi” organized by the Department of “Humanisme Numérique” at the Collège des Bernardins in Paris […]

At the 2019 European Academy of Religion annual conference

NeMoSanctI organizes a panel at the 2019 annual conference of EuARe-European Academy of Religion, which will take place in Bologna, March 4-7, 2019. The panel explores the codification of the notion of martyrdom in Catholic tradition across a range of textual genres, with a focus on normative and judicial aspects...

At the 17th conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR)

The PI, Jenny Ponzo, is participating in the 17th annual conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR), which will take place in Tartu, Estonia, from June 25 […]

Presentation of Jenny Ponzo’s book “Religious narratives in Italian literature” in Savigliano

Jenny Ponzo’s new book Religious Narratives in Italian Literature after the Second Vatican Council (DeGruyter, 2019) will be presented by the Author and by semiotician and NeMoSanctI member Francesco Galofaro in Savigliano (Cuneo)...

Fiori dell’anima — La simbologia dei fiori nell’immaginario cristiano

Venerdì 24 maggio 2019, ore 16:00 — 18:00
Aula Magna dell’Orto Botanico, viale Mattioli 25,10125 Torino

#SemioPills 3: Ugo Volli

Ugo Volli (b. 1948, Trieste) is a prominent Italian intellectual and a leading figure in the fields of semiotics and the philosophy of language […]

Anonymity and the Martyrologium Romanum at the Incontri sul Senso

On March 29th, 2019, Gabriele Marino is presenting a talk at the University of Turin entitled: Strutture dell’anonimia: di chi è un testo anonimo? Il caso del ‘Martirologio Romano’ (Structures of anonymity: whose text is an anonymous text? The case of the ‘Roman Martyrology’) […]

#SemioPills 2: Jörg Rüpke

Jörg Rüpke is a leading figure in the field of comparative religion and classical philology, and a renowned expert in Roman religion. He is full professor and deputy director of the Max Weber Kolleg at the University of Erfurt (Germany)...

Semiotics of Religion seminar at the University of Turin

The seminar Semiotica della Religione (Semiotics of Religion) held by Jenny Ponzo in the framework of the project NeMoSanctI and of the Master’s Degree in Comunicazione e Culture dei Media […]

#SemioPills 1: Massimo Leone

We are happy to launch our series of video-interviews with the most prominent scholars in the field of semiotics of religion, and to start with Massimo Leone. Massimo Leone is […]

#SemioPills 6: Jenny Ponzo

Article – The semiotics of litanies from the Middle Ages to the YouTube era (2020)

#SemioPills 5: Daniele Solvi

Book – Cassone, Ponzo, Thibault (2020 Eds.) Languagescapes. Ancient and Artificial Languages in Today’s Culture (Aracne)

Hosting a conference by Prof. Emanuele Fadda about Roland Barthes

Panel “Agiografie pop: dagli ex voto ai meme” at the conference “Comunicare la santità” (Rome, Jan. 21-23, 2020)

Libro – Semiotica e santità. Prospettive interdisciplinari (2019)

At the conference “The Book and the Religions: Birth and Spread of the Sacred Text” (Senigallia, Nov. 30, 2019)

At the conference “St. Angel the Carmelite: Art and Faith between Past and Present”

#SemioPills 4: Robert Yelle