News

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • #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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • At the “Tecnologie della visibilità. Dall’immagine antica all’immagine ipermoderna” seminar

    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 […]

  • Our response to Coronavirus Global emergency

    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 […]

  • #SemioPills 8: Francesco Galofaro

    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).