Poetics & Christianity Ongoing Seminar

Statistics to the date & a question

(From today, this site for the Ongoing Interdisciplinary Seminar "Poetics & Christianity" is all open, not password-protected as it was until now. I have postdated this june post on some Statistics about the on-line Seminar, in order to give some information to the first-time reader. JJGN)

Start of the P&C site: August 5th, 2003

The Statistics

Total number of hits: 3360
Average per day: 12.22
Today: 11
In the last hour: 6
This week: 107

Total Posts: 36
Total Comments: 88
Total Authors & Readers: 35

Authors who wrote more than two Posts or Comments: 9

To sum up (quantitative): many readers, few writers.
To sum up (qualitative): some very interesting texts.

This is not a competition result.
Just a mere activity account:
As you know, there is a wide range of Posts or Comments: from some few lines to a several pages long, from a kind of salutation to a kind of treatise. And many intelligent questions and answers. At a glance, the amount of written text should go over the 200 pages, plus the attachments.

To the date: Posts with more than two Comments:
-- Armando F. & morale adattamento (4)
-- Alejandro Ll. on René Girard (3)
-- Jack London (4)
-- Parábolas y protestas (10)
-- Programma Seminario 2003/04 (5)
-- Evelyn Waugh (4)
-- Ancora Allegoria-Simbolo-Bibbia (3)
-- La Biblia, entre alegoría y símbolo (4)
-- Razón práctica (15)
-- Plan para Seminario (7)

>> Three main “themes” or “fields” of interest seems to appear: “Parábolas en el NT: alegoría y simbologia” // “Razón práctica - Estética - Etica” // "Estudios sobre escritores".

To the date: Comment's Authors:
-- Paul Dumol (3)
-- M. Castellvi (3)
-- Norberto G. Gaitano (4)
-- I. Yarza (4)
-- A. Mendiz (4)
-- D. Contreras (5)
-- C. Jodar (5)
-- R. Guijarro (5)
-- Carmen S. Brenes (23)
-- JJG Noblejas (25)

To the date: Post's Authors:
-- A. Mendiz (1)
-- A. Malo (1)
-- I. Yarza (1)
-- E.L. Escobar (1)
-- D. Contreras (1)
-- C.S. Brenes (2)
-- C. Jodar (2)
-- J.L. Orihuela (2)
-- JJG Noblejas (26)

The Question

What do you think about to convert this site into an "all open" (no-password) site?

In my view, I think that it will be OK. Maybe with some restrictions (pre-inscription, etc.) It will be very helpful for everybody to know your ideas, suggestions, technical advising, etc.

The Artisthood of the Priest

Barbara Nicolosi is the Executive Director of Act One, Inc., "a comprehensive training and mentorship center created to form the next generation of Christian artists and professionals". Barbara has an MA in Film from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. She has been a director of development, a reader for the Humanitas Prize, and a consultant on many film and television projects. Her feature screenplay, Select Society, is being developed by Reel Life Women Productions, Bel Air. She is on the executive committee of the City of the Angels Film Festival, the board of CIMA and frequently addresses writer's conferences on screenwriting and the arts. [More on her approach to the film industry: how to transfigure the industry, rather than just criticize it.]

In December 2002, she went from LA to Rome, to participate in a Convegno held at the School of Institutional Communication at the USC.

I had notice that she has done in Chicago, several weeks ago, a specific presentation on the artistic formation to people who work in the formation of seminarians. I asked her about and she gave me her notes of the talk and agree for the publication in this P&C website. Being P&C an interdisciplinary Seminar, with people interested in Theology, Philosophy and Communication, some of us working in a Pontifical University, I found interesting to publish here the Barbara Nicolosi point on the "arts and priests". And discuss it, if someone want to ask or comment something about. [I remember you that the following are just "personal notes for a talk" and that maybe some of us are not the intended public of the address]:

THE ARTISTHOOD OF THE PRIEST

I. Intro –

a) Thank you for having me. I very much appreciate the “vision” required to invite Hollywood screenwriter to speak to your assembly. I feel sure I am the only one of the invited presenters whose last published work was a bold attack on Director Sam Rami for failing to significantly advance the theme of Spiderman II from the franchise precursor.