{"id":6898,"date":"2026-11-01T23:07:55","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T22:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ssmlinternazionale.it\/site\/?p=6898"},"modified":"2026-11-01T23:07:55","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T22:07:55","slug":"convegno-internazionale-contagio-narrazioni-letterarie-dalla-peste-al-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssmlinternazionale.it\/site\/convegno-internazionale-contagio-narrazioni-letterarie-dalla-peste-al-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Convegno internazionale “CONTAGIO! Narrazioni letterarie dalla peste al Coronavirus”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Presentazione<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Contagio<\/em><\/strong> (n. m.), dal latino contagium<\/em>: \u201cla trasmissione di una malattia infettiva dalla persona malata ad una sana sia direttamente sia mediante materiali o mezzi inquinati (aria, acqua, alimenti, escrezioni, ecc.), ovvero attraverso insetti o animali trasmettitori dei microrganismi infettivi\u201d (Treccani). Nei secoli la malattia contagiosa \u00e8 stata raccontata da numerosi testi letterari. Il Convegno vuole indagare le modalit\u00e0 di rappresentazione del contagio \u2015 peste, vaiolo, tifo, spagnola, colera, AIDS, SARS, ebola, Coronavirus \u2015 come evento storico o nelle sue proiezioni immaginative.
\nNei testi letterari \u2015 romanzo, racconto, poesia, opera teatrale, saggistica \u2015 le narrazioni del contagio si soffermano su fobie, malattie, mutazioni fisiche e psicologiche, sconvolgimenti etici e religiosi, ristrettezze economiche, difficolt\u00e0 di movimento, fenomeni di controllo sociale o politico. Al centro del discorso vi \u00e8 il racconto sul corpo \u2018malato\u2019, individuale e collettivo, sulle forti emozioni che vengono messe in scena a formare una trama di ansie, di speranze e di nostalgie, di emarginazione e di discriminazione, che comporta una riflessione sulla condizione umana.
\nRaccontare il contagio sollecita l\u2019invenzione di linguaggi che si caricano di significati inquietanti a tracciare vicende e visioni di sopravvivenza e di convivenza con l\u2019epidemia, di incontro con l\u2019altro e di attesa del “day after”, cos\u00ec da riscrivere il rapporto tra l\u2019individuo, la comunit\u00e0 e l\u2019autorit\u00e0.
\nIl Convegno, che vuole essere internazionale e interdisciplinare, si declina nel tempo e nello spazio. Le narrazioni letterarie saranno analizzate secondo varie prospettive critiche e metodologiche, nell\u2019ambito linguistico o didattico, psicanalitico o sociologico, in quello medico o giuridico, o ancora in quello di genere.<\/p>\n

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International Conference <\/strong>CONTAGION! Literary narratives from the plague to Coronavirus<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

Presentation<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Contagion <\/em><\/strong>(n.), late 14c., \u201ca communicable disease; a harmful or corrupting influence,\u201d from Old French\u00a0contagion<\/em>\u00a0and directly from Latin\u00a0contagionem<\/em>\u00a0(nominative\u00a0contagio<\/em>) \u201ca touching, contact,\u201d often in a bad sense, “a contact with something physically or morally unclean, contagion,” from\u00a0contingere<\/em>\u00a0\u201cto touch,\u201d from assimilated form of\u00a0com<\/em>\u00a0\u201cwith, together” +\u00a0tangere<\/em>\u00a0\u201cto touch.\u201d Meaning \u201cinfectious contact or communication\u201d is from 1620s (Online Etymology Dictionary<\/em>). Over the centuries, contagious diseases have been reinterpreted and imagined\u00a0 by a great number of literary texts. The Conference, which is international and interdisciplinary, spanning in space and time, will investigate the modes of representation of contagious diseases such as plague, smallpox, typhus, Spanish flu, Ebola, AIDS, SARS, Coronavirus or of \u2018invented\u2019 ones.
\nIn literary texts \u2015 novels, short stories, poetry, plays, essays \u2015 contagion narratives heavily dwell on phobia, disease, physical and psychological changes, ethical and religious unrest, movement restrictions, procedures of social and political control. At the core of our discourse are the narrations of the \u2018diseased\u2019 body, both individual and collective, the strong feelings and emotions that are staged and triggered by a web of anxiety, of hope and nostalgia, of alienation and discrimination, leading to a speculation on the human condition.
\nThe narration of each specific contagion requires the invention of \u00a0ways of seeing embedded in language which deploys disquieting meanings, outlining a chain of events and visions inherent in survival and cohabitation with the epidemic, the relationship with the Other in the aftermath of the \u2018day after\u2019, in order to rewrite and negotiate the relation linking individual, community and authority.
\nThe literary narratives will be analysed according to different critical and methodological perspectives: linguistics, didactics, anthropology, psychology, sociology, gender, medicine, law.<\/p>\n

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Colloque international <\/strong>Contagion\u00a0! R\u00e9cits litt\u00e9raires de la peste au Coronavirus<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

Pr\u00e9sentation<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Contagion <\/em><\/strong>(n. f.), du latin contagium<\/em> : \u00ab\u00a0transmission d\u2019une maladie d\u2019un sujet malade \u00e0 une personne saine [qui] peut \u00eatre directe, indirecte (par l\u2019interm\u00e9diaire d’un animal ou d’un objet contamin\u00e9) ou, le plus souvent, mixte\u00a0\u00bb (Larousse).
\nAu fil des si\u00e8cles, la maladie contagieuse a \u00e9t\u00e9 racont\u00e9e dans d\u2019innombrables textes litt\u00e9raires. Ce colloque a pour but d\u2019enqu\u00eater sur les modalit\u00e9s de repr\u00e9sentation de la contagion \u2015 peste, variole, typhus, grippe espagnole, chol\u00e9ra, SIDA, SRAS, Ebola, Coronavirus – en tant qu\u2019\u00e9v\u00e9nement historique ou dans ses projections imaginatives.
\nDans les textes litt\u00e9raires \u2015 romans, nouvelles, po\u00e9sie, pi\u00e8ces de th\u00e9\u00e2tre, essais \u2015 les r\u00e9cits de contagion s\u2019attardent sur les phobies, les maladies, les mutations physiques et psychologiques, les bouleversements \u00e9thiques et religieux, les probl\u00e8mes \u00e9conomiques, les difficult\u00e9s de d\u00e9placement, les ph\u00e9nom\u00e8nes de contr\u00f4le social ou politique.
\nAu c\u0153ur du discours figure le r\u00e9cit sur le corps \u00ab\u00a0malade\u00a0\u00bb, individuel et collectif, sur les \u00e9motions fortes qui sont mises en sc\u00e8ne pour former une trame d\u2019angoisses, d\u2019espoirs et de d\u00e9sirs, de marginalisation et de discrimination, ce qui implique une r\u00e9flexion sur la condition humaine.
\nRaconter la contagion sollicite l\u2019invention de langages charg\u00e9s de sens inqui\u00e9tants pour retracer les \u00e9v\u00e9nements et les visions de survie et de coexistence avec l\u2019\u00e9pid\u00e9mie, de rencontre avec l\u2019autre et d\u2019attente du day after<\/em>, afin de r\u00e9\u00e9crire la relation entre l\u2019individu, la communaut\u00e9 et l\u2019autorit\u00e9.
\nLe colloque, qui se veut international et interdisciplinaire, se d\u00e9ploie dans le temps et dans l\u2019espace. Les r\u00e9cits litt\u00e9raires seront analys\u00e9s selon diff\u00e9rentes perspectives critiques et m\u00e9thodologiques, dans le domaine linguistique ou didactique, psychanalytique ou sociologique, m\u00e9dical ou juridique, ou encore dans le domaine des \u00e9tudes de genre.<\/p>\n