Alan Del Piccolo, Post-doc Fellow 2017-18, Venice
The themes of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice are topical now as they always were. The digital humanities can bring a fresh perspective to frame and disseminate them.
The themes of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice are topical now as they always were. The digital humanities can bring a fresh perspective to frame and disseminate them.
As a sociologist and ethnographer, I observe young people of migrant origin and their artistic productions as actors of social change.
In the conglomeration of ethnicities, destinies, imaginations, words and even colours that form our identities we find our freedom. The humanities are basically this freedom.
Studying religious and ethnic prejudices of the past helps us understand the roots of our current fears, dismantle forms of hatred against the «other» and build a new humanism.
I dream of a society where labour means that every individual is realizing his or her full potential as a human being.