The Italian Cultural Institute of Montréal will hold a conference: “Violenza e guerra nella Sicilia antica: fenomenologia di una società multi-etnica” by Prof. Claudia Antonetti.
November 8, 2017; 6pm
Istituto Italiano di Cultura
1200 Dr. Penfield
Free Admission – Conference in Italian
The lecture addresses the issues of the relationship between local history and “great” history, the interplay between local, regional, and universal violence, and highlights the specificity of Sicilian war events, characterized by mass deportations, mercenaries, multiethnic influences, and the tendency to create territorial states.
Claudia Antonetti (Master and PhD in the Universities of Padua and Bologna), followed a research training in France (PhD at Lyon II), Greece (scholarship at the KERA) and Germany (AvH research fellow); she is full professor of Greek history at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, and directs the Laboratory of Greek Epigraphy. Her main research interests include Greek epigraphy as a prime source for the study of socio-cultural contexts, the religious and colonial history (Corinth, Megara, and Sicily), and the historical survey on peripheral Greece, primarily on North-Western Greece. She has published, in addition to about eighty essays, Sigle epigrafiche greche di Tauromenio (Venice 1985), Les Étoliens: image et religion (Besançon-Paris 1990), various volumes on colonial history, and she has inaugurated with Lo spazio ionico e le comunità della Grecia nord-occidentale. Territorio, società, istituzioni (Pisa 2010, ETS) the editorial series Diabaseis, specifically dedicated to the interrelations between Western Greeks and West Greece.
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