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• 30 jui 2019

  Monopoli

  Summer School - Language

  Pathos. Forms and fortunes of literary emotions

  The goal of this summer school is to explore the role of emotions in literature, namely with respect to the excess of pathos in different forms and times. Pathos has been a fundamental aspect of literature in every epoch. Great poetry has always foregrounded its ability to represent feelings, evoke intense and vivid moods, and elicit readers’ emotions and empathy. On the other hand, the novel – the genre dominating literary modernity – has been o!en accused of indulging in sentimental excess, giving too much space to melodramatic expression. Indeed, in Western cultures, there is a widespread suspicion towards pathos, which has o!en been identified as a shortcoming of literature. Great books – according to a common implicit assumption – can prompt reflection and laughter, but not tears: pathos only concerns lowbrow production. The summer school is an opportunity to engage in a reflection on issues related to pathos in literature in the last few centuries. Different perspectives will be taken into account: specific literary works, reader response theory, cognitive narratology, transmedia adaptation, and publishing history.

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• 20 oct 2014

  21 oct 2014

  22 oct 2014

  Nantes

  Conference, symposium - History

  Minorities and religious cohabitation from the Middle Ages to the present day

  La diversité religieuse en Europe s'enracine dans les pratiques des sociétés médiévales. Les dirigeants du Moyen Âge, chrétiens et musulmans, accordèrent des statuts protégés et inférieurs à certaines minorités religieuses. L'étude des sources juridiques montre que les sociétés médiévales, comme la nôtre, ont subi des changements constants en matière religieuse et que la cohabitation, certes pas toujours pacifique, a été la règle plutôt que l'exception dans l'histoire européenne. Le programme de recherche RELMIN, qui travaille depuis 2010 sur l’étude sur le statut légal des minorités religieuses dans les sociétés médiévales, dresse le bilan d’une recherche scientifique approfondi et livre, à l’occasion de ce colloque international, ses observations pour une meilleure compréhension de l’héritage multi-religieux européen.

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• 31 déc 2013

  Call for papers - History

  Dizionario di eretici, dissidenti e inquisitori

  Ereticopedia

  Ereticopedia si fonda sull'idea-base è di costruire un dizionario on line di personaggi e movimenti che si sono opposti alla "norma", rivendicando il diritto alla libertà personale, di pensiero, di espressione, di azione, il diritto al dissenso e il primato della coscienza individuale su regole, dottrine e rituali di comportamento imposti dall'alto ovvero comunemente accettati dalle società in cui ebbero la sorte di vivere. Cioè che hanno scelto di esercitare (con coraggio e spesso al prezzo della propria vita) diritti che dovrebbero costituire la base della nostra attuale società, che spesso si proclama figlia dei valori illuministici, ma appartenenti anche alla più autentica tradizione cristiana, di tolleranza e rispetto della dignità della persona. 

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