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.
Only an interdisciplinary work on the humanities can shed light on the growth of religious extremism across the world.
A cross-methodological approach is crucial to properly investigate the spreading of misinformation and its social dynamics.
As a sociologist and ethnographer, I observe young people of migrant origin and their artistic productions as actors of social change.
The study of East Asian religions can broaden our horizons and foster critical self-reflection. I find great challenges and potential in religious and intercultural education.
How do contemporary arts-based practices expand or call into question the geoscientific methods and regimes of visuality that characterize the Anthropocene? Are there multiple articulations of the Anthropocene thesis, or radical challenges to it, coming from the visual arts and arts-based research?
How do we relate to coastal regions through the foods we eat and the stories we tell about them? After all, eating is one of the most direct ways we interact with environments – both near and afar – by literally digesting them.
How do art and literature from France and Italy during the last 150 years help us to engage with feelings about heavy industry’s environmental and medical impacts?
Sustained interdisciplinary research and practice is necessary to develop the critical tools that can uncover the violence and exploitation concealed within the structures and environments so readily accepted as natural.
How can collective media practices from the past and present lay the groundwork for the sustainment of life in the future?