Semiotics of Religion

At the “Excellence Matters” symposium in honor of Ugo Volli

NeMoSanctI is participating in the “Excellence Matters” symposium in honor of Ugo Volli, the dean of Turin semiotics. The PI Jenny Ponzo is participating with a talk – co-presented with…

23 September 2019
At the XLVII congress of AISS-Italian Association for Semiotic Studies

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…

23 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:…

20 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.…

18 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…

5 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…

4 September 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…

9 June 2019
#SemioPills 3: Ugo Volli

Ugo Volli (b. 1948, Trieste) is a prominent Italian intellectual and a leading figure in the fields of semiotics and the philosophy of language. A close friend and collaborator of…

28 April 2019
#SemioPills 2: Jörg Rüpke

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…

7 April 2019
Book – Jenny Ponzo (2019) Religious Narratives in Italian Literature after the Second Vatican Council: A Semiotic Analysis (De Gruyter)

Jenny Ponzo (2019) Religious Narratives in Italian Literature after the Second Vatican Council: A Semiotic Analysis (De Gruyter) The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) diagnosed the impact of secularization on literature…

21 March 2019

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).