Rebuilding an urban empty space. The area where the Eretenio Theatre once stood near the River Retrone in Vicenza, Italy

Vicenza is an ancient city located in the Veneto region, not far from Venice, in the north-east corner of Italy. This work specifically refers to the area of the Eretenio theatre on the bank of the River Retrone. The theatre was bombed and destroyed in 1944. Intimately part of the historic center of Vicenza, this abandoned area gradually lost its functional and social identity. The idea of rebuilding that degraded place has long been the object of discussion on the part of local authorities. The Eretenio theatre area is one of the subjects recently investigated by our students at the \u2018Architectural and Urban Composition 2' course taught on the master\u2019s degree in Architectural Engineering at the University of Padua. Students were required to present project hypotheses to reconfigure the lost unity of this symbolic part of the city. The history is considered an indispensable tool to know the deep reasons of the urban structure, which can be used to control the change of functional systems (political, social and economic). The Eretenio theatre area was proposed to our students as an opportunity to suggest new ways to manage the passage from past to future in the shadow of Andrea Palladio\u2019s architecture

Study to regenerate the degraded neighborhood of San Carlo on the northern outskirt of Padua, Italy

The San Carlo neighborhood with the church of San Carlo at its center is a degraded area in the northern outskirts of Padua, a city located near Venice in the Veneto region of north-eastern Italy. Once marked by a distinctive identity, this part of the outskirts of Padua has gradually lost its social and functional character. The idea of restoring this decaying district has long been the subject of discussion by the local authorities. The neighborhood of San Carlo is one of the subjects recently investigated by students studying the \u2018Architectural and Urban Composition 2' course on the Master\u2019s Degree in Architectural Engineering at the University of Padua. Their ideas include a green piazza park, a community center and hall, a library, study rooms for students, additional parking, open space for the weekly market

Photon molecules in atomic gases trapped near photonic crystal waveguides

Realizing systems that support robust, controlled interactions between individual photons is an exciting frontier of nonlinear optics. To this end, one approach that has emerged recently is to leverage atomic interactions to create strong and spatially non-local interactions between photons. In particular, effective interactions have been successfully created via interactions between atoms excited to Rydberg levels. Here, we investigate an alternative approach, in which atomic interactions arise via their common coupling to photonic crystal waveguides. This technique takes advantage of the ability to separately tailor the strength and range of interactions via the dispersion engineering of the structure itself, which can lead to qualitatively new types of phenomena. As an example, we discuss the formation of correlated transparency windows, in which photonic states of a certain number and shape selectively propagate through the system. Through this technique, we show in particular that one can create molecular-like potentials that lead to molecular bound states of photon pairs

Courtly Love, Stars, and Power: The Queens in Third Century Royal Couples, through Poetry and Epigraphic Texts

peer reviewedI discuss the role of women and erōs in court poetry, by focusing on the ruling pair, i.e. the couple par excellence, and arguing that a gentle, reciprocal love within the bonds of marriage is presented as a crucial value, ensuring wealth and social order as well as the continuity of the dynasty itself. Because court life is a fashionable source of models for the elite, the poetic motif of requited love also influences the ideal depiction of love outside the ruling pair. After focusing on how internal patterns of relationship between characters shape the role of the queen in Alexandrian court poetry, I turn to non-literary, epigraphic evidence, in order to show how poetic representations of royal love integrate into a wider ideological program. Although my study mainly concerns Ptolemaic ruling pairs, I discuss some epigraphic parallels from the Seleucid dynasty as well, so that some general observations can be made on early Hellenistic queenship

SigNet: A Digital Platform for Hellenistic Sealings and Archives

peer reviewedThe paper provides an overview of the SigNet Project with special attention to the implementation of a digital agenda fitting the dual purpose of promoting scientific research in the specialized disciplines of sigillography and numismatics and of bridging their gap with the broader field of cultural heritage. Focus is in particular on the role of interdisciplinary, open linked databases of big data and on the promotion of citizen science

Representaciones sobre el aborto

En el presente trabajo se expondrán los avances de un estudio exploratorio de corte cualitativo que estoy realizando con motivo de finalizar mi tesina de grado en la carrera de Lic. Sociología. En dicho estudio me propongo conocer y analizar representaciones acerca del aborto de jóvenes (varones y mujeres) escolarizados de sectores pobres de la ciudad de La Plata durante 2012.\nLa hipótesis de trabajo que orienta el estudio indica que la integración en espacios de socialización tales como la familia, la escuela y el grupo de pares inciden en las tomas de posición de los/las jóvenes frente al aborto durante la juventud, asumiendo posturas más tolerantes aquellos que se encuentran más fuertemente integrados en dichos espacios. La idea de espacios de socialización así como la idea de integración derivan, en mi trabajo, de los aportes de la obra de Pierre Bourdieu (1990; 2007) y sus conceptos de campo y capital, como así también de la lectura de un trabajo de Graciela Climent (2009) en el cual se estudian las representaciones sociales sobre el aborto en adolescentes embarazadas

Análisis de los discursos sobre el aborto en la Argentina actual

En la última década el debate por la despenalización/legalización del aborto lo protagonizan organizaciones con posicionamientos ideológicamente antagónicos: la Campaña Nacional por el Derecho al aborto Legal, Seguro y Gratuito ( la Campaña ) y los denominados grupos Pro-vida .Área: Ciencias Sociales y Humana

Concepts and methodology in the exhibition "Baixa em Tempo Real" Lisbon-Rio de Janeiro

Cadernos de SociomuseologiaO artigo apresenta os conceitos e a metodologia estruturantes da Exposição Baixa em Tempo real organizada pelo Departamento de Museologia da Universidade Lusófona a qual foi apresentada no inicio de 3013 (Março a Junho) na Galeria Millennium em Lisboa e no Museu da República no Rio de Janeiro Exposição orientou-se para um olhar sobre a Baixa que desse conta do seu tempo presente, na sua complexidade. Um tempo presente, de vida renovada pela reapropriação dos espaços por diferentes sectores da sociedade, onde o antigo e o moderno, na memória construída ou no olhar do momento, reencontram um espírito para cada lugar, um valor pessoal e intransmissível, ou simplesmente um lugar de encontros A dimensão tecnológica e as questões de acessibilidade são igualmente tratadas assim como o papel das exposições em contexto universitário mas abertas ao público em geral.The paper presents the concepts and methodology followed in the exhibition “Baixa in Real Time” organized by the Department of Museology - University of Lusofona, which was presented at the beginning of 3013 (March to June) in the Millennium Gallery in Lisbon and the Museum of Republic in Rio de Janeiro The exhibition was oriented towards a look at Baixa which could take into account its present time, in all its complexity. A present time, of renewed life by the repossession of spaces by diverse sectors of society, where the ancient and the modern, within the built memory or the spur of the moment sight, reencounter a spirit for every site, a personal and not transferable value, or simply a place of encounters. The technological dimension and accessibility issues are also addressed as well as the role of exhibitions in the university context but open to the general public