249 research outputs found
HERStory Makers 2022: Letizia Leonardi
No full textLetizia Leonardi is a PhD candidate at the University of Aberdeen conducting translation studies. She took part in HERStory Makers 2022.What is HERStory Makers?HERStory Makers is a social media competition for female-identifying early career researchers to share their research, their career journeys, and to inspire the next generation. Winners are selected by public vote. HERStory Makers is also part of EXPLORATHON, Scotland's contribution to European Researchers' Night.In 2022-23, EXPLORATHON was supported by the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council [grant number EP/X020894/1].Author contributions to contentLetizia Leonardi conceived, planned, and recorded the video content. Kirsty Ross edited the video content to insert HERStory Maker credits, add subtitles, and maintain video length below Twitter/X limit of 2 mins and 20 secs, prior to scheduling the social media posts.</p
Perdersi per ritrovarsi. Smarrimento identitario e funzione demiurgica del Cinema all'origine della creazione di un nuovo Sé
No full textQuesto lavoro, che si innesta nel filone della ricerca qualitativa, si incentra sulle dinamiche identitarie nella postmodernità. Più specificamente, si è scelto di indagare il punto di intersezione tra la condizione di smarrimento tipica dell’attore sociale nella postmodernità e la fruizione di narrazioni cinematografiche, ipotizzando un ruolo cruciale del cinema - in quanto importante fattore di resilienza - nella ricomposizione del tessuto socio-biografico lacerato dalle criticità insite in quest’epoca così complessa e controversa.
La postmodernità si contraddistingue infatti come un’epoca che presenta elevati fattori di rischio a livello ambientale, sociale, individuale. L’individuo sperimenta molto frequentemente lacerazioni traumatiche e crisi ed è costretto a vivere se stesso sempre più come compito, impegnato in una continua opera di ridefinizione di sé entro il tessuto sociale e culturale entro il quale vive e si muove. Superare una crisi implica però lo sviluppo di capacità di resilienza: tali capacità, in realtà innate nell’individuo, se opportunamente sollecitate e sviluppate, possono consentirgli di ricomporre le fratture del proprio vissuto, ricostruendo se stesso e la propria vita. Nel costruirsi persona, l’individuo utilizza, in modo consapevole o inconsapevole, ciò che sa della propria reale identità e ciò che fantastica come propria identità possibile. In tale processo, un ruolo cruciale è svolto dalle narrazioni cinematografiche, che possono essere considerate, a buon diritto, matrici di identità. Il cinema ha infatti una valenza modellizzante: offre temi di grande rilevanza identificativa, modelli di comportamento ed è fondamentale nella definizione dei fenomeni di costruzione e rappresentazione delle identità personali e sociali. Il mito del Demiurgo ben si presta a sottolineare la capacità creatrice e (ri)generatrice del cinema e la sua natura di arte alchemica, che consente di dare alla luce se stessi, figurandosi come via dell'individuazione che conduce all’attuazione del proprio Sé.
Sulla base di tali premesse, il lavoro di ricerca si è focalizzato sull’esplorazione in profondità dell’esperienza di fruizione cinematografica di spettatori/fruitori non sporadici di cinema, con l’obiettivo di comprendere se il cinema possa effettivamente concorrere a sviluppare le capacità di resilienza innate in ogni individuo, promuovendo cambiamenti positivi nei soggetti. Si è inteso dunque rilevare e approfondire la natura del legame tra cinema e resilienza, cercando di disvelare le modalità in cui il cinema riesca a sollecitare l’attivazione di differenti percorsi di resilienza, configurandosi come importante fattore di resilienza. Nell’ indagare la personale esperienza di fruizione cinematografica dei soggetti, si è scelto di utilizzare, quale strumento di indagine, per le sue peculiarità, l’intervista focalizzata. Questo particolare tipo di intervista qualitativa ci ha permesso di ottenere una notevole ricchezza di informazioni in merito all’esperienza squisitamente soggettiva di ogni intervistato e alla sua sfera intima. L’ accesso a quella preziosa fonte di informazioni che è costituita dal mondo emozionale degli intervistati ci ha dato modo di ricostruire sia i loro percorsi di fruizione cinematografica sia la loro risposta emotiva e cognitiva alla visione dei film sottoposti alla loro attenzione, consentendoci di elaborare, nella fase conclusiva del nostro lavoro di ricerca, una tipologia in grado di illustrare le principali declinazioni della relazione esistente tra l’esperienza di fruizione cinematografica e l’attivazione dei percorsi di resilienza
Teatranti di razza. Intervista a Pamela Villoresi
No full textUna delle più importanti attrici del teatro italiano,
Pamela Villoresi, racconta il suo rapporto con Eleonora Duse, dialogando con Maria Letizia Compatangelo, autrice del monologo La musica dell’anima. Ritratto di Eleonora Duse, che da alcuni anni interpreta con successo in teatro. Dalla giovanile attrazione istintiva verso il “personaggio Duse” alla comprensione matura del valore delle sue innovazioni
nel campo della recitazione. Confronti, eredità, insegnamenti: due epoche diverse, ma lo stesso impegno
totalizzante verso il teatro.One of the most important actresses of the Italian
theatre, Pamela Villoresi, talks about her relationship with Eleonora Duse. She is in conversation with
Maria Letizia Compatangelo, author of the monologue La musica dell’anima. Ritratto di Eleonora
Duse, successfully interpreted for some years. Villoresi’s talk is from her youthful instinctive attraction to the “Duse character”, to her mature understanding of the value of her innovations in the field
of acting. Comparisons, legacies, teachings: two different periods, but the same all-encompassing commitment to the theatre
Curia athletarum, iera xystike synodos e organizzazione delle terme a Roma
No full textThe author studies several aspects of the roman branch of this association of athletes: the location of its headquarters in the city, its history and its administration. The synodos was somehow connected with the sympas xystos, headed by xystarchai and epi balaneion Sebastou or Sebaston. The author studies the functions of these magistrates in connection with the organization of the Imperial Bath in Rome. The author argues that the xystarchai, appointed by the Emperor, may have been in charge of the athletes, while the epi balaneion were responsible for the place where athletics were performed
Gli agoni alla greca nelle regioni occidentali dell'Impero. La Gallia Narbonensis
No full textThe paper collects and studies the (mainly epigraphical, but also literary and archaeological) evidence concerning Greek agonistic festivals celebrated in three cities of Gallia Narbonensis: Massalia, Nemausus and Vienne.The latter two were not Greek foundations, but they were throughly hellenized under the influence of Massalia. In three catalogues, the author presents texts, with bibliography and commentary of 28 inscriptions (the inscriptions still extant have been seen and photographed). Most of them date to the end of the 2nd century A.D., which leads to the hypothesis that the Capitolia, instituted by Domitian in 86 A.D., were a major stimulus to the diffusion of Greek contests in Gaul. The author points to the relations between these festivals and the imperial cult and to the important role of local élites in the organisation of both
Centri storici tra specificità e processi di mutamento
No full textHistorical centres between specificity and changing process
The Italian debate on historical centers, characterized for a long time by a karst trend,
has often been lacking both in terms of recognizing their specificity and in terms of a process analysis of their characteristics. The starting point is to recognize them as integral parts
of the city but, at the same time, as parts characterized by completely peculiar features.
Sometimes historical centers are considered a resource for the city in terms of social and
economic development, other times an issue that requires intervention strategies. The author
proposes a reflection that moves from the peculiarities of each reality, to connect them to a
typological proposal focused on the change processes affecting historic centers. This perspective of analysis allows and paves the way for planning interventions of urban regeneration policie
The right to oncological oblivion: a legislative response to cancer survivor discrimination in Italy
No full textDespite the increasing efficacy of modern medicine in diagnosing and treating cancer, survivors often face discrimination in employment, economics, insurance, and society. Law no. 193/2023, also known as the “Oncological Oblivion Law”, aims to provide an initial legislative response to discrimination against cancer survivors in Italy. After defining oncological oblivion in Article 1, the Law provides, in Articles 2, 3, and 4, directives to prevent discrimination against cancer survivors in the area of access to banking and insurance services, adoption procedures and access to or retention in employment. The aim of this work is to illustrate the content and the critical aspects of the recent Law 193/2023 in the landscape of European directives. The legislative process at the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Italian Republic has been retraced through the consultation of preparatory works and bills registered on institutional databases. Law 193/2023 represents the first initiative in Italy aimed at the recognition of the right to oncological oblivion, not only in access to banking and insurance services as in other countries, but also in adoption, employment, and re-employment. Our opinion piece highlights the need for further clarification and expansion to prevent discrimination and protect the social–work–relational rights of people who have been affected by oncological diseases
Towards a Framework for Developing Mobile Agents for Managing Distributed Information Resources
No full textDistributed information management tools allow users to author, disseminate, discover and manage information within large-scale networked environments, such as the Internet. Agent technology provides the flexibility and scalability necessary to develop such distributed information management applications. We present a layered organisation that is shared by the specific applications that we build. Within this organisation we describe an architecture where mobile agents can move across distributed environments, integrate with local resources and other mobile agents, and communicate their results back to the user
Il lavoro nelle miniere di carbone tra Ottocento e Novecento: un profilo tra sociologia e letteratura
No full textThe author outlines the role that coal has played from the expansive phase of industrial development to the present days. Coal is still the most abundant and widespread fossil fuel, whose consumption is driven by the impetuous growth of China and India and the recent increase in production in the United States. Thus, the mining proletariat still exists: there are operative coal mines on all continents and coal miners are more than those who worked in the English coal mines at the time of the industrial revolution; in some countries their working conditions are not very different from those of two centuries ago, whereas Trade Unions are weaker or non-existent. This gives an unexpected topicality to the study of the work of miners between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which the author also performs through the contribution of literature, starting from the characteristics of an unnatural and hostile work environment, which the industrial hunger of fossil and metal-mining resources has prevented (and still prevents) from considering a denial of human condition
Taking advantage of inheritance to specify parallel object behavior
No full textThe author authors describe how the PO (parallel object) method takes advantage of inheritance to specify PO behavior at two different levels of abstraction: by programming intraobject scheduling and by expressing constraints. Low-level mechanisms that implement intraobject concurrent strategies in terms of variables and methods of scheduling are presented. Scheduling methods are subject to classification and inheritance; their combination forms the scheduler of objects. The predefined constraints available in PO method are described. The application of constraints to classes of objects related by inheritance produces constraint composition that is automatically translated into low-level specifications
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