Events

23 September 2019

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 […]
20 September 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: […]
18 September 2019

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. […]
5 September 2019

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 […]
4 September 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 […]
3 September 2019

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. […]
17 July 2019

At the International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law 2019

The PI, Jenny Ponzo, Gabriele Marino, and Gabriele Vissio are participating in the “The Reasonable Interpreter”, as a part of the International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law series, which […]
30 June 2019

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, […]
10 June 2019

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 […]
9 June 2019

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 […]

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).