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LIQUID CANONS. Cultural variation and textual (in)stability from the Bible to the Internet International seminar, University of Roma Tre, 14-15 June, 2010 Facoltą di Lettere e Filosofia, Via Ostiense 234 Seminar supported by the National Research (PRIN) "COntent Organization, Propagation, Evaluation and Reuse through Active REpositories". Resarch unit "Visualization and analysis of digital literary texts", coordinated by Domenico Fiormonte PRIN web site: http://nexos.cisi.unito.it/joomla/cooperare/ Seminar and project web site: http://www.digitalvariants.org/news The "canonical" or formative texts of a culture, from the Bible to the Rigveda, from Homer to Beowulf, exist in time as "texts" in a perpetual dialect between the (relative) stability of their media and the dynamics of culture. But why is stability important? What social, economic, political, ethic and esthetic interests does it represent? Who or what "possesses", from time to time, the keys for unlocking or closing a tradition? The digital edition poses new problems, but above all it forces us to rethink the way in which, up until now, the idea of the canon, understood as a unique, stable, authoritative and accurate text, is composed. The objective of this interdisciplinary seminar is thus to explore the tension between the variation of culture (in its modes of transmission) and the relative stability of texts and to show how variation represents the norm and not the exception in cultural processes. The closing section is reserved for the illustration of projects that represent the fluidity of text in digital form. We don't envisage this seminar as a forum for specialists, but rather as an open space for debate. Attendance is free for students and colleagues, but we suggest to contact the organizers in advance. For more details e-mail [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] TENTATIVE PROGRAMME 14 JUNE 14.30 Welcome by Prof. Francesca Cantł, Dean of the Faculty of Letters, Prof. Ornella Moroni, Chair of the Department of Italian Studies, and Prof. Mario De Nonno, Chair of the Department of Classics. 15. 00 Alessandro Simonicca (Anthropologist, La Sapienza Universitą di Roma), "La variazione nei processi di trasmissione della cultura" 15. 30 Gianluigi Prato (Old Testament scholar, Universitą Roma Tre), "Gli scritti biblici tra utopia del canone fisso e fluiditą del testo storico" 16.00 Francesco Sferra, (Sanskritist, Universitą di Napoli l“Orientale), "La fluiditą testuale nella tradizione antico-indiana" 16.30 Coffee / Tea break 16.45 Giovanni Cerri (Classicist, Universitą Roma Tre), "Omero liquido" 17.15 Mario Ricciardi (Sociologist, Politecnico fi Torino), "La comunicazione: crocevia o disciplina?" 17.45 Discussion 15 JUNE 9.30 Presentation of the PRIN project "Cooperare". 10.00 Marcello Buiatti (Biologist, Universitą di Firenze), "Variabilitą biologica, variabilitą culturale: analogie e divergenze" 10.30 Paolo Mastandrea (Classicist, Universitą di Venezia Ca' Foscari), "Variazioni foniche, memoria insignificante: formularitą e dettato poetico latino" 11.00 Cofee / Tea break 11.30 Giulio Lughi (Sociologist, Universitą di Torino), "Tra generi e stili: forme di (in)stabilitą nei nuovi media" 12.00 Domenico Fiormonte (Linguist, Universitą Roma Tre) and Desmond Schimdt (Computer scientist, University of Queensland, Australia), "La rappresentazione digitale della 'varianza' testuale" 12.30 Discussion