New Models of Sanctity in Italy (1960s-2000s) — A Semiotic Analysis of Norms, Causes of Saints, Hagiography, and Narratives
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 [...]
NeMoSanctI research team joins the Corona Virus Global Response cause.
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). [...]
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’) .[...]
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.[...]
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’) [...]
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. […]
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. […]
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...
Venerdì 24 maggio 2019, ore 16:00 — 18:00
Aula Magna dell’Orto Botanico, viale Mattioli 25,10125 Torino
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)...
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 […]
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NeMoSanctI team members with the philosopher Gabriele Vissio joined Torino Spiritualità festival at Alba (15-30 September 2020), entitled The fragile words (“Le parole fragili”). They held a speech on the […]
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 […]
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 […]
PI Jenny Ponzo has been interviewed by CNA (Catholic News Agency) on the “offering of life”. The full article is available at the following link: The Catholic Church’s new path […]
Francesco Marsciani, philosopher, is Associate professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna. He is the Founder and the director of CUBE (Centro Universitario Bolognese di Etnosemiotica) He collaborated with […]
Our team member Marco Papasidero is part of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference “Sant’Angelo carmelitano tra storia, agiografia e iconografia nell’Ottavo Centenario del suo martirio” (St. Angel Carmelite […]
Our team members, Francesco Galofaro, semiotician, and Marco Papasidero, historian of Christianism, have been interviewed by Frida, the online research forum of the University of Turin. The article is available here.
NeMoSanctI collaborated to the organization of the seminar Tecnologie della visibilità. Dall’immagine antica all’immagine ipermoderna, organized by the Department of “Humanisme Numérique” at the Collège des Bernardins in Paris and […]
NeMoSanctI research team joins the Corona Virus Global Response cause. Here you can find the questions to which we have responded: Why you joined the global efforts against Coronavirus? Why […]
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. […]
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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