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Department of History and Cultures - DISCI

Lecture Meeting with Gianmarco Chiari ("Federico II" University of Naples – Universidad de Cantabria)

14 May 2026

Destroying the Body: Persecutors and Divine Punishments in the Ancient World

Etching by Jan Luyken depicting the persecution under the emperors Diocletian and Maximian in the year 301 (Eeghen 686) – Public domain
  • 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM
  • In person : Aula VI, via Zamboni 38 (piano terra), Bologna
  • Society & Culture In Italian

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Free admission - Seats available: 81

Program

Seminar lecture delivered by an external lecturer, valid for the course 27280 – SEMINARS (G.E.) in Anthropology, Religions, and Oriental Civilizations, Academic Year 2025–2026

Speakers

  • Gianmarco Chiari

    Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - sezione di Scienze Storiche, PhD student Universidad de Cantabria, Ciencias Históricas, Phd student
    Gianmarco Chiari, Enemies of God and Allies of God: Emperors and Deities in the 4th Century CE; supervisor: Prof. Umberto Roberto; co-supervisor: Prof. Mar Marcos (Universidad de Cantabria, also responsible for the issuance of the double degree).

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Event Within the Framework of:

The Grammar of the Body

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The seminar will focus on the theme of the body, understood as a social “product” and, as such, subject to processes and dynamics of historical and cultural construction. The proposed topic will therefore be examined along three lines of inquiry: memory, identity, and culture. Through the analysis of the body as a historical product, the seminar will seek to identify the social function associated with corporeality, conceiving the body as a semiotic medium with high semantic potential, at the center of complex discourses of identity formation (both individual and collective) and the transmission of memory (historical and cultural). Particular attention will be devoted to the role assumed by the body in ritual and performative contexts in the definition of the social self, as well as to the perception of the body in specific historical settings and cultural situations, from classical antiquity to modernity.