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At the International Conference “Iconography and Hagiography: Visualizing Holiness” in Rijeka

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.…

7 October 2020
At the webinar “Immagini del corpo//Immaginari della salute”

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. PI Jenny Ponzo will have a speech entitled Ex voto e memoria della guarigione…

5 October 2020
At the XLVIII congress of AISS-Italian Association for Semiotic Studies

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. The team…

1 October 2020
At Torino Spiritualità 2020

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…

21 September 2020
At the “Critical Semiotics” course of Prof. Massimo Leone

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…

9 September 2020
NeMoSanctI special issue of Ocula, journal of Semiotics: “Flowers of the soul”

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…

1 September 2020
On Catholic News Agency

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…

27 August 2020
#SemioPills 9: Francesco Marsciani

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…

27 July 2020
In the Scientific Committee of the International Conference about St. Angel Carmelite

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…

10 July 2020
Francesco Galofaro and Marco Papasidero interviewed on Frida

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.

9 July 2020

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).

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).