3 June 2025
The next meeting in the seminar series of the Center for Research and Practice in Cultural Continuity: “Neapolitan, a universal heritage at risk. Between homologation and decolonization”- Massimiliano Verde, June 4, 2025
will take place on
June 4, 2025
at 16:45 CET
in Room 9, Dobra 72
Neapolitan is recognized by UNESCO as a language with an ISO code (nap), this is not in Italy, since it is not taught by the national or regional school system. Neapolitan is a language spoken and transmitted as a mother tongue, in its local variations in a large part of the central-southern Italy (without considering the Neapolitan communities in the northern Italy and those abroad).
The Neapolitan language can in fact be considered as a tree with different branches, it has been evolving since ancient times, with cultural contributions also by pre-Latin languages, for about 3000 years. Neapolitan has influenced thanks music, art, theater, cinema (it has a literature of about 1000 years) not only Italian but also international culture.
Currently, however, Neapolitans, especially the new generations of Neapolitans, have not the right to learn their language cause the lack of public-school programs. Hybridization, criminalization and homologation, paternalism and commercialization do the rest. On the contrary, and in favor of a real process of decolonization we present the work of the Accademia Napoletana and the first Neapolitan spelling book: ‘O Casciunciello.
To join the seminar online, please register before 3 PM
on the seminar day at crp@al.uw.edu.pl
