italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
Dear all,
There is also the possibility of setting your email receiving options. With most listserv programs, you can choose to receive a digest once a week with most email systems. Perhaps our organizer (or a tech person) could remind us in a few steps the process for doing this, or direct us to a short summary of the steps so that those who prefer to read one message once a week could arrange it so.
There are also ways of turning it off for times you will be away, on the road, or whatever, and do not wish to receive regular messages.
Leslie
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Subject: Re: [I-S] bibliography-tsunami
italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
Dear Colleagues,
Myself, I often find that precious fragments of research emerge from random
e-mail encounters on the Internet. Including the contents of e-mails that
some people may see as spurious and excessive. No problem.
Furthermore, occasional eruptions of communal irritation are a fine
divertimento in the wasteland weeks of intellectual narcosis and nothingness
that surround the Christmas period. Personally, I rather welcome them.
Since we are also in the business of books, I may as well take this
opportunity to signal to the list the publication of my translation of Toni
Negri's "Diario di un' Evasione", now published by Polity Press as "Diary of
an Escape".
Ditto the impending publication of my translation of Negri's "Art et
multitude", forthcoming chez Polity Press, as "Art and Multitude".
Additionally, a scholarly inquiry. In Palermo there is reference to two
churches, S. Michael de Indulciis and S. Leonardo de Indulciis. We are led
to understand that "de Indulciis" is a Latinization of Andalusi, with this
being a reference to a historical quartiere of Andalusians inhabiting
Palermo. If anybody can provide references to the history of this quartiere,
particularly pre-1300, I would be most grateful.
With best regards,
and auguri for a productive New Year,
Ed Emery
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From: "Anna Pegoretti" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 12:48 PM
Subject: [I-S] bibliography-tsunami
> italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
>
> Dear Prof. Ferzoco, dear colleagues,
> I would like to add something to my brief e-mail about the controversy of
> the last few days.
> How many subscribers has this mailing list? I just take 1000 as plausible,
> at least as a reasonable target. If everyone would send just three
> announcements a year of his/her books, essays, reviews, we would receive
> more than eight e-mails a day (Easter and Christmas included), not
counting
> all the others we normally receive.
> This could not be a problem: we subscribed the list and we are expected to
> receive many e-mails. If we don't like it, we could just unsubscribe.
>
> Since "good taste" is something very personal, it does not look like a
very
> good criterion.
> The point is another one: the amount of bibliography is becoming more and
> more difficult to manage.
> The idea that everyone of us should feed on books is certainly right and
> even poetic. Nonetheless, from a strictly professional point of view I
must
> admit that I struggle so much to read not everything, but simply as much
as
> I can in my research field (the Middle Ages), that I must give up all the
> rest.
>
> I personally think that a real challenge we are facing is to develop
> suitable devices to rationalize this huge amount of publications
> (fortunately, some of them already exist, both on line and on paper).
> Moreover, I perfectly understand and share the need to promote everyone's
> own work; I even agree that promotion is essential to everybody to know
what
> the others are doing. But I personally do not think that this mailing-list
> could be the right place to do that.
> For instance, I think that a website such as www.academia.edu could be a
> brilliant and nice solution to this side of the problem.
>
> With my best regards and wishes,
>
> Anna Pegoretti
>
>
>
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