Silvia Forni
Biographic Data
| ID | 190141 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Silvia Forni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Silvia |
| FAMILY NAME | Forni |
| SIGNATURE | FORNI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Ontario Museum |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0925-0212 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Dialogic Participatory Model Between Professionals and Patients for the Co‐Creation of Transitioning Care Management Programmes in Rare Bone Diseases
Early Warning Systems for Emerging Profiles of Antimicrobial Resistance in Italy: A National Survey
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) national surveillance systems in Italy lack alert systems for timely detection of emerging profiles of AMR with potential relevance to public health. Furthermore, the existence of early warning systems (EWS) at subnational level is unclear. This study aims at mapping and characterizing EWS for microbiological threats available at regional level in Italy, focusing on emerging AMR, and at outlining potential barriers …
Indirect impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and its containment measures on social inequalities in hospital utilisation in Italy
BACKGROUND: The pandemic may undermine the equity of access to and utilisation of health services for conditions other than COVID-19. The objective of the study is to evaluate the indirect impact of COVID-19 and lockdown measures on sociodemographic inequalities in healthcare utilisation in seven Italian areas. METHODS: In this multicentre retrospective study, we evaluated whether COVID-19 modified the association between educational level or dep…
An Unwavering Passion: Doran Ross's Scholarship on Asafo Flags
As many of the contributors to this issue have amply demonstrated, Doran Ross was a man of broad and diverse interests and intense loyalties. While he spent many decades researching the arts of Ghana, with a particular focus on the arts of the Akan-speaking peoples, he undoubtedly had a particular soft spot for the egalitarian and community-based art forms associated with the asafo companies of the Fante peoples of Southern Ghana. Asafo companies…
Remembering a Great Man: A Conversation with Kwame Akoto of Almighty God Art Works
On a Sunday afternoon in April 2021, I met virtually with painter Kwame Akoto, proprietor of the Almighty God Art Works studio located off the Suame Roundabout in Kumasi. The last time we had met in person was 2018, when I stopped by his studio to see his latest production and to bring Doran's greetings. Akoto had learned of Doran's passing in September 2020 from LA gallerist Ernie Wolfe, a mutual friend, who had called him immediately to share t…
Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Tuscany Region, Italy, 2016–2017: Integrating Multiple Data Sources to Investigate Underreporting
Invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) is a vaccine-preventable disease characterized by the presence of Streptococcus pneumoniae in normally sterile sites. Since 2007, Italy has implemented an IPD national surveillance system (IPD-NSS). This system suffers from high rates of underreporting. To estimate the level of underreporting of IPD in 2016-2017 in Tuscany (Italy), we integrated data from IPD-NSS and two other regional data sources, i.e., Tusca…
Knowledge, Ethics, and Power: Publishing African Objects Without Clear African Provenance
October 01 2020 Knowledge, Ethics, and Power: Publishing African Objects Without Clear African Provenance Lisa Homann, Lisa Homann Guest Dialogue Editor; Associate Professor, Department of Art & Art History, UNC Charlotte; UNC Editorial Board Member, African Arts Consortium Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar UCLA Editorial Board, UCLA Editorial Board Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Schola…
Village Matters, City Works: Ideas, Technologies, and Dialogues in the Work of HervÉ Youmbi
Rural and urban spaces in Africa, art historians are increasingly finding, are bound to one another by webs of complex relationships, resulting in a blurring of boundaries long held to be structurally fundamental by the scholarly community. Among contemporary artists, such relationships and the blurring in which they result are a matter of growing interest. Hervé Youmbi is a case in point. His ongoing series Visages de masques highlights problems…
Engaging Dialogues
This article outlines some recent museological initiatives aimed at responding to the important issues raised by the famous protest against the exhibition Into the Heart of Africa, organized by the Royal Ontario Museum in 1989. Despite the significant temporal hiatus from the historical protest, many of the questions raised in that context continue to be relevant in thinking of ways to engage and present African collections in a mainstream encycl…
Narrating objects, collecting stories
"Narrating objects, collecting stories." International Journal of Heritage Studies, 23(6), pp. 604–605
Masks on the Move: Defying Genres, Styles, and Traditions in the Cameroonian Grassfields
In the realm of African art, masks are some of the most exemplary and iconic artworks. Whether displayed to be admired for their shape, form, and volumes, or presented in dialogue with ethnographic information and contextual images, masks are omnipresent in collections and displays of African art. As aesthetic and ethnographic objects, masks are used as gateways to the understanding and appreciation of “cultural styles” as well as the formal and …
Museums, Heritage, and Politics in the Cameroonian Grassfields
By looking at the numerous small palace museums founded in the Cameroonian Grassfields since the early 2000s, this article interrogates the meaning and function of displays of objects and narratives in the shifting social, political, and economic landscape of contemporary Cameroon. Museums in postcolonial Africa stem from very specific colonial premises, which are still relevant to the understanding of national narratives and displays. However, p…
Magic Squares: The Patterned Imagination of Muslim Africa in Contemporary Culture . Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, May 18–November 20, 2011
The pot king. The body and technologies of power by Warnier, Jean-Pierre
Containers of Life: Pottery and Social Relations in the Grassfields (Cameroon)
March 01 2007 Containers of Life: Pottery and Social Relations in the Grassfields (Cameroon) Silvia Forni Silvia Forni Silvia Forni teaches Anthropology of Art and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Turin, Italy. She has conducted research on pottery in the Cameroon Grassfi elds between 1998 and 2001. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Silvia Forni Silvia…
Africa: Capolavori da un continente
Containers of Life: Pottery and Social Relations in the Grassfields (Cameroon)
March 01 2007 Containers of Life: Pottery and Social Relations in the Grassfields (Cameroon) Silvia Forni Silvia Forni Silvia Forni teaches Anthropology of Art and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Turin, Italy. She has conducted research on pottery in the Cameroon Grassfi elds between 1998 and 2001. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Silvia Forni Silvia…
Village Matters, City Works: Ideas, Technologies, and Dialogues in the Work of HervÉ Youmbi
Rural and urban spaces in Africa, art historians are increasingly finding, are bound to one another by webs of complex relationships, resulting in a blurring of boundaries long held to be structurally fundamental by the scholarly community. Among contemporary artists, such relationships and the blurring in which they result are a matter of growing interest. Hervé Youmbi is a case in point. His ongoing series Visages de masques highlights problems…
Masks on the Move: Defying Genres, Styles, and Traditions in the Cameroonian Grassfields
In the realm of African art, masks are some of the most exemplary and iconic artworks. Whether displayed to be admired for their shape, form, and volumes, or presented in dialogue with ethnographic information and contextual images, masks are omnipresent in collections and displays of African art. As aesthetic and ethnographic objects, masks are used as gateways to the understanding and appreciation of “cultural styles” as well as the formal and …
Knowledge, Ethics, and Power: Publishing African Objects Without Clear African Provenance
October 01 2020 Knowledge, Ethics, and Power: Publishing African Objects Without Clear African Provenance Lisa Homann, Lisa Homann Guest Dialogue Editor; Associate Professor, Department of Art & Art History, UNC Charlotte; UNC Editorial Board Member, African Arts Consortium Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar UCLA Editorial Board, UCLA Editorial Board Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Schola…
Museums, Heritage, and Politics in the Cameroonian Grassfields
By looking at the numerous small palace museums founded in the Cameroonian Grassfields since the early 2000s, this article interrogates the meaning and function of displays of objects and narratives in the shifting social, political, and economic landscape of contemporary Cameroon. Museums in postcolonial Africa stem from very specific colonial premises, which are still relevant to the understanding of national narratives and displays. However, p…
The pot king. The body and technologies of power by Warnier, Jean-Pierre
Africa: Capolavori da un continente
Containers of Life: Pottery and Social Relations in the Grassfields (Cameroon)
March 01 2007 Containers of Life: Pottery and Social Relations in the Grassfields (Cameroon) Silvia Forni Silvia Forni Silvia Forni teaches Anthropology of Art and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Turin, Italy. She has conducted research on pottery in the Cameroon Grassfi elds between 1998 and 2001. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Silvia Forni Silvia…
The pot king. The body and technologies of power by Warnier, Jean-Pierre
Magic Squares: The Patterned Imagination of Muslim Africa in Contemporary Culture . Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, May 18–November 20, 2011
Museums, Heritage, and Politics in the Cameroonian Grassfields
By looking at the numerous small palace museums founded in the Cameroonian Grassfields since the early 2000s, this article interrogates the meaning and function of displays of objects and narratives in the shifting social, political, and economic landscape of contemporary Cameroon. Museums in postcolonial Africa stem from very specific colonial premises, which are still relevant to the understanding of national narratives and displays. However, p…
Masks on the Move: Defying Genres, Styles, and Traditions in the Cameroonian Grassfields
In the realm of African art, masks are some of the most exemplary and iconic artworks. Whether displayed to be admired for their shape, form, and volumes, or presented in dialogue with ethnographic information and contextual images, masks are omnipresent in collections and displays of African art. As aesthetic and ethnographic objects, masks are used as gateways to the understanding and appreciation of “cultural styles” as well as the formal and …
Engaging Dialogues
This article outlines some recent museological initiatives aimed at responding to the important issues raised by the famous protest against the exhibition Into the Heart of Africa, organized by the Royal Ontario Museum in 1989. Despite the significant temporal hiatus from the historical protest, many of the questions raised in that context continue to be relevant in thinking of ways to engage and present African collections in a mainstream encycl…
Narrating objects, collecting stories
"Narrating objects, collecting stories." International Journal of Heritage Studies, 23(6), pp. 604–605
Village Matters, City Works: Ideas, Technologies, and Dialogues in the Work of HervÉ Youmbi
Rural and urban spaces in Africa, art historians are increasingly finding, are bound to one another by webs of complex relationships, resulting in a blurring of boundaries long held to be structurally fundamental by the scholarly community. Among contemporary artists, such relationships and the blurring in which they result are a matter of growing interest. Hervé Youmbi is a case in point. His ongoing series Visages de masques highlights problems…
Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Tuscany Region, Italy, 2016–2017: Integrating Multiple Data Sources to Investigate Underreporting
Invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) is a vaccine-preventable disease characterized by the presence of Streptococcus pneumoniae in normally sterile sites. Since 2007, Italy has implemented an IPD national surveillance system (IPD-NSS). This system suffers from high rates of underreporting. To estimate the level of underreporting of IPD in 2016-2017 in Tuscany (Italy), we integrated data from IPD-NSS and two other regional data sources, i.e., Tusca…
Knowledge, Ethics, and Power: Publishing African Objects Without Clear African Provenance
October 01 2020 Knowledge, Ethics, and Power: Publishing African Objects Without Clear African Provenance Lisa Homann, Lisa Homann Guest Dialogue Editor; Associate Professor, Department of Art & Art History, UNC Charlotte; UNC Editorial Board Member, African Arts Consortium Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar UCLA Editorial Board, UCLA Editorial Board Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Schola…
Indirect impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and its containment measures on social inequalities in hospital utilisation in Italy
BACKGROUND: The pandemic may undermine the equity of access to and utilisation of health services for conditions other than COVID-19. The objective of the study is to evaluate the indirect impact of COVID-19 and lockdown measures on sociodemographic inequalities in healthcare utilisation in seven Italian areas. METHODS: In this multicentre retrospective study, we evaluated whether COVID-19 modified the association between educational level or dep…
An Unwavering Passion: Doran Ross's Scholarship on Asafo Flags
As many of the contributors to this issue have amply demonstrated, Doran Ross was a man of broad and diverse interests and intense loyalties. While he spent many decades researching the arts of Ghana, with a particular focus on the arts of the Akan-speaking peoples, he undoubtedly had a particular soft spot for the egalitarian and community-based art forms associated with the asafo companies of the Fante peoples of Southern Ghana. Asafo companies…
Remembering a Great Man: A Conversation with Kwame Akoto of Almighty God Art Works
On a Sunday afternoon in April 2021, I met virtually with painter Kwame Akoto, proprietor of the Almighty God Art Works studio located off the Suame Roundabout in Kumasi. The last time we had met in person was 2018, when I stopped by his studio to see his latest production and to bring Doran's greetings. Akoto had learned of Doran's passing in September 2020 from LA gallerist Ernie Wolfe, a mutual friend, who had called him immediately to share t…
Early Warning Systems for Emerging Profiles of Antimicrobial Resistance in Italy: A National Survey
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) national surveillance systems in Italy lack alert systems for timely detection of emerging profiles of AMR with potential relevance to public health. Furthermore, the existence of early warning systems (EWS) at subnational level is unclear. This study aims at mapping and characterizing EWS for microbiological threats available at regional level in Italy, focusing on emerging AMR, and at outlining potential barriers …
A Dialogic Participatory Model Between Professionals and Patients for the Co‐Creation of Transitioning Care Management Programmes in Rare Bone Diseases
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