The paper summarizes the first stage of the work for development of a virtual archaeological museum carried under the EU Copernicus ArchTerra project. It describes a new implementation of a database with museum information after the CIDOC standard. The system…

We consider, in some different situations, the problem of the reconstruction of the source term in a parabolic problem in a space-time domain $[0, T]Ê\times I \times \overline \Omega$: this source term is assumed of the form $g(t,x) f(t,x,y)$ ($t \in…

This paper means to show how British Colonialism in India was made possible, and then sustained and strengthened, as much by cultural technologies of rule as it was by the more obvious and brutal modes of conquest. In fact colonialism…

Analysis of resistance groups active in the War on Terror provides case-studies for an examination of Occidentalism. Al-Qaida constructs a West both homogeneously and pejoratively in order to represent the self as a single Islamic nation under attack from a…

Se questo è un uomo di Primo Levi e Una giornata di Ivan Denisovič di Aleksandr Solženicyn sono due “atti letterari” che hanno contribuito in modo significativo alla conoscenza storica del XX secolo: il primo nell’Occidente dei campi di concentramento…

The paper presents the new automatic personalized news-recommendation service provided by the CILEA Supercomputing Portal. The service, by enhancing the user-centered style of the Portal and facilitating supercomputing knowledge delivery, represents a further contribution to the promotion of the supercomputing…

This paper is aimed at reconsidering the concept of Orientalism in a new and multiple perspective, and at proposing a different interpretation of the relationship between culture and power, starting from Edward Said’s theoretical frame of reference. If Said’s representational…

The scope of the study is an analysis of Schachnovelle (The Royal Game) by Stefan Zweig, focusing on the opposition between two topics: (1) cultural x\borders and conflicts and (2) intellectual cosmopolitism. The analysis is based on a semiotic approach,…

Within the collaboration between FAO and CILEA for the realization of the FAO Open Archive, repository of FAO scientific documentation and made with Fedora Commons, a specific development project called ODO has been launched in order to build a full-text…

In this essay we apply Edward Said’s theory of Orientalism to a study of Lebanese culture and identity. The starting point is pedagogical, the intellectual license assumed by western thinkers in constructing, interpreting and articulating the history of the East.…