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CANONI LIQUIDI / LIQUID CANONS.
"Cultural variation and textual 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 "true" 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.
We don't envisage this event 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.
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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 Marcello Buiatti (Biologist, Universitą di Firenze),
"Multidimensionalitą e varietą dei linguaggi del vivente"
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 Paolo Mastandrea (Classicist, Universitą di Venezia Ca' Foscari),
"Variazioni foniche, memoria insignificante: formularitą e dettato poetico
latino"
17.15 Monica Storini (Literary theorist, Sapienza Universitą di Roma),
"Resistere alla stabilitą: il canone letterario in un'ottica di
genere"
17.45 Discussion
15 JUNE
9.30 Alessandro Simonicca (Anthropologist, Sapienza Universitą di
Roma), "La variazione nei processi di trasmissione della cultura"
10.00 Giovanni Cerri (Classicist, Universitą Roma Tre), "Omero liquido"
10.30 Domenico Fiormonte (Linguist, Universitą Roma Tre) and Desmond
Schimdt (Computer scientist, University of Queensland, Australia), "La
rappresentazione digitale della 'varianza' testuale"
11.00 Coffee / Tea break
11.30 Giulio Lughi (Sociologist, Universitą di Torino), "Tra generi e
stili: forme di (in)stabilitą nei nuovi media"
12.00 Presentation of the new book by Mario Ricciardi "La
comunicazione. Maestri e paradigmi", Roma-Bari, Laterza. The author
will discuss the volume with a panel of experts coordinated by
Giovanni Ragone and Alberto Abruzzese.
12.30 Concluding remarks
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