Our team members Francesco Galofaro and Marco Papasidero are participating in the international congress EUARE 2022 (Bologna, 20-23 June). Two are the panels in which they are involved.
Magdalena Maria Kubas and Jenny Ponzo are organizing the symposium “Ribaltare, ri-mediare, oltrepassare i modelli: la preghiera nella cultura letteraria italiana”. The event will take place at the University of Turin (Room S7, Palazzetto Aldo Moro, Via Verdi) on June 14, 2022 and online.
Come si diventa mistici? Per rispondere alla domanda questo libro paragona due casi opposti, eppure legati da molte analogie: quella del filosofo Ludwig Wittgenstein e del frate cappuccino Pio da Pietrelcina.
The goal of this course of Semiotics of Religious Cultures is to provide students with an in-depth analysis of the discourse on the relation between the body and experience of the sacred, through a multidisciplinary perspective.
The goal of this course of Semiotics of Religious Cultures is to provide students with an in-depth analysis of the discourse on the relation between the body and experience of the sacred, through a multidisciplinary perspective.
Our PI Jenny Ponzo is giving a lecture at ART (Aesthetics Research Torino) Philosophical Seminar on the topic “The accessibility of the sacred body in Catholic art and culture”.
Our PI Jenny Ponzo is participating in the new workshop cycle of I santi internauti, organized at the University of Campania by Daniele Solvi, Claudia Santi and Tommaso Caliò, together with AISSCA.
Francesco Galofaro is participating in the Seminario sui fondamenti di teoria della significazione (Seminar on the foundations of the theory of signification), linked to the courses of Prof. Francesco Marsciani, at the University of Bologna.
Our PI Jenny Ponzo with Francesco Galofaro and Magdalena Maria Kubas is participating in the international congress “Juri Lotman’s Semiosphere”, which celebrates the centenary of the birth of Juri Lotman (28 February 1922). The event will take place on 25–26 February at Tallinn University and on 27–28 February at the University of Tartu, Estonia.
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“.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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”.
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.
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
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.
Our PI Jenny Ponzo is participating in the roundtable “Le parole della nuova spiritualità”, with Stefania Palmisano, Nicola Pannofino, Alberto Sinigaglia.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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”.
Team member Marco Papasidero is participating in the book presentation series “I Lunedì della Peterson. Incontri con gli autori”, at the University 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Our team member Marco Papasidero has been interviewed on Letture.org about his recent book Translatio sanctitatis. I furti di reliquie nell’Italia medievale.
NeMoSanctI is organizing the presentation of the book Donne interpreti della Bibbia nell’Italia della prima età moderna, written by Emilia Ardissino, Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Turin. In addition to the author, they will participate Federica Turco (CIRSDe, University of Turin) and Maria Magdalena Kubas (NeMoSanctI, University of Turin) [...]
Anche quest’anno il nostro regalo per Natale è un libro che raccoglie ricerche e approfondimenti, presentati con taglio divulgativo, scritti dal nostro gruppo di ricerca e da altri studiosi di […]
Out team member Eleonora Chiais is organizing the Roundtable “Semiotics of Christmas” (Semiotica del Natale), that will be held online on 18 December 2020, h. 15. Many researchers are invited as speakers: Massimo Leone, Simona Stano, Remo Gramigna, Bruno Surace, Gabriele Marino, Federico Biggio, Victoria Dos Santos, Magdalena Maria Kubas, Marco Papasidero, Eleonora Chiais.
NeMoSanctI is participating in Sharper 2020, the European Researchers’ Night. Our event “L’abito fa il santo, dalla corsia all’iconografia” will take place online, from 24 to 28 November 2020. For this edition, we have decided to create a game...
Our team member Marco Papasidero is presenting is new book, Translatio sanctitatis. I furti di reliquie nell’Italia medievale, at the University of Teramo, for the activities of the PhD candidates in Historical studies...
Team member Eleonora Chiais is participating in the roundtable “Carlo Acutis: dalla cronaca alla storia”, organized by the permanent seminar “I santi internauti” of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”.
Team member Francesco Galofaro is participating in the Semiotics course held by Jenny Ponzo, with a lecture on the ‘intersemiotic translation’, on 4 November 2020, starting h. 10
PI Jenny Ponzo is participating in the CIRCe (‘Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca sulla Comunicazione’, University of Turin) symposium, entitled Lines of research on Communication. It will take place online on 10 November 2020, h. 8.45.
PI Jenny Ponzo is participating in the course Religion and Communication (Religione e comunicazione) of Prof. Marco Ventura, at the University of Siena.
PI Jenny Ponzo is participating in the retrospective Histoire(s) du Cinéma, organized by the Cinema Museum together with the cinema chairs of the Department of Humanities of University of Turin.
Our member Marco Papasidero is participating in the advanced training course Cultural Manager: esperto in promozione turistica e valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale, with a lesson on the topic Itinerari turistici e insediamenti bizantini in Calabria, focusing on Byzantin religious places and sanctity.
Team member Francesco Galofaro is participating to the 14th International Conference of Iconographic Studies “Iconography and Hagiography: Visualizing Holiness”, that will be held in Rijeka 15 and 16 October 2020.
NeMoSanctI is participating at the webinar Immagini del corpo//Immaginari della salute, that will be held in different sessions, from 13 October to 3 December, 2020.
NeMoSanctI is participating in the XLVIII congress of AISS-Italian Association for Semiotic Studies, Futuro passato (“Future Past”) which will be held online on Google MEET 3, 10, 17, 24 October 2020.
NeMoSanctI team members with the philosopher Gabriele Vissio join Torino Spiritualità festival at Alba (15-30 September 2020), entitled The fragile words (“Le parole fragili”) [...]
NeMoSanctI’s PI Jenny Ponzo will give a lecture inside the course “Critical Semiotics. From Sign to Ideology” of Prof. Massimo Leone, at the University of Shangai.
The lecture, entitled Ideology and the Semiotic Analysis of Literary Characters, will be held online [...]
NeMoSanctI team members Francesco Galofaro, semiotician, and Marco Papasidero, historian of religions, have edited a special issue of Ocula. Semiotic eye on media, entitled Flowers of the soul: The Symbolism of flowers in the religious imagination [...]
Francesco Galofaro joined NeMoSanctI as an expert in semiotic analysis. Within the project, he carries a semiotic study of process of canonization and hagiographic texts issued by the Catholic Church. He is currently focusing on Saint Pio of Pietrelcina...
Our PI Jenny Ponzo, semiotician, is participating at Medical Humanities 2020 “L’umanizzazione delle cure ai tempi del Covid-19” (The humanization of cures in the time of Covid-19).
Our team member Francesco Galofaro, semiotician, is participating the Seminar on the basis of theory of signification (Seminario sui fondamenti di teoria della significazione), organized by Francesco Marsciani, semiotician (University of Bologna, Department of Arts). The seminar will take place online on Friday April 17th 2020.
Heidi A. Campbell teaches media studies on themes related to media theory, global and popular culture and media & religion. Her research focuses on how religion is translated and transformed by digital cultures and the influence of digital and mobile technologies on Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities...
Research team members Gabriele Marino, semiotician, and Marco Papasidero, historian of Christianity, are participating in the permanent seminar I santi internauti, organized by Daniele Solvi, philologist, and Claudia Santi, historian of religions (Università deli studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Dipartimento di Lettere e Beni Culturali)...
Jenny Ponzo is Associate Professor of Semiotics at the University of Turin (Italy). She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC research project NeMoSanctI. She is the Director of the Interdepartmental Research Center on Communication (CIRCe) and the President of the Master’s Degree Program in Communication and Media Cultures of the University of Turin...
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). [...]
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. [...]
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’) .[...]
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. .[...]
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. .[...]
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). .[...]
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 - copy
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’) [...]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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). […]
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“. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
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. […]
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
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...
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 […]
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)...
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’) […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
Our team members Francesco Galofaro and Marco Papasidero are participating in the international congress EUARE 2022 (Bologna, 20-23 June). Two are the panels in which they are involved: On 21 […]
Come si diventa mistici? Per rispondere alla domanda questo libro paragona due casi opposti, eppure legati da molte analogie: quella del filosofo Ludwig Wittgenstein e del frate cappuccino Pio da […]
Magdalena Maria Kubas and Jenny Ponzo are organizing the symposium “Ribaltare, ri-mediare, oltrepassare i modelli: la preghiera nella cultura letteraria italiana”. The event will take place at the University of […]
Our team member Magdalena Maria Kubas is participating at the international conference “Transizioni e variazioni mariane dal Medioevo ai giorni nostri”, that takes place in Turin (Palazzo Nuovo, Room 34) […]
The goal of this course of Semiotics of Religious Cultures is to provide students with an in-depth analysis of the discourse on the relation between the body and experience of […]
Our PI Jenny Ponzo is giving a lecture at ART (Aesthetics Research Torino) Philosophical Seminar on the topic “The accessibility of the sacred body in Catholic art and culture”. The event will […]
Our PI Jenny Ponzo is participating in the new workshop cycle of I santi internauti, organized at the University of Campania by Daniele Solvi, Claudia Santi and Tommaso Caliò, together with AISSCA. […]
Francesco Galofaro is participating in the Seminario sui fondamenti di teoria della significazione (Seminar on the foundations of the theory of signification), linked to the courses of Prof. Francesco Marsciani, […]
NeMoSanctI is participating in the International seminar “De-Polarization in Religion and Ethics”, organized by Bruno Kessler Foundation. Our PI Jenny Ponzo will talk about The Polarization of Religious Values in the Urban Tissue: The Case of the Reuse of Catholic Churches in Italy, on 11 March 2022. Francesco […]
What is NeMoSanctI?
NeMoSanctI is a research project carried out at the University of Turin. It studies how models of sanctity have changed after the Second Vatican Council. To this end, it applies a pioneering methodology based on semiotic theory to a wide corpus of normative, judicial, and narrative texts.
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 757314).
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