The course aims to present an updated and comprehensive picture of medieval culture (fifth-fifteenth century), framing Italy within a broader Euro-Mediterranean context. Taking into account the most recent historiographical debates and acquisitions, lessons will try to bring students closer to different aspects concerning cultural phenomena, starting from definitions and categories such as "culture", "written culture" and "intellectual" to analyze then school practices, literacy, production and circulation of texts in their relations with society, politics, economics and religion. More precisely, the lessons will focus on the following aspects: "culture" as a historiographic problem between theoretical debates and research; written sources: qualitative and quantitative aspects; the problem of literacy and school in the early Middle Ages; book culture in the early Middle Ages; documentary culture in the early Middle Ages; the eleventh and twelfth centuries between juridical renaissance, textual discoveries and school transformations; book culture of the late Middle Ages; documentary culture of the late Middle Ages; language: Latin and vernacular in the late Middle Ages; the fourteenth century and the relationship between crisis and cultural production; Humanism. Lessons will alternate between frontal explanations and direct exercises on the sources or on specific bibliography.

Program for non attending students:
- Ronald Witt, "L’eccezione italiana. L’intellettuale laico nel Medioevo e l’origine del Rinascimento", italian translation by Anna Carocci, Roma, Viella, 2017 (original edition Cambridge 2012)

Program for attending students:
- Lectures notes, articles and sources discussed during the lesson.

Never as in recent years has Europe been at the center of public debate: for some the only lifeline against nationalisms and wars, for others the ultimate cause of all our problems and malaises, especially from an economic point of view. In the political discourse Europe is automatically identified with the community bodies; nevertheless, it is a concept which possesses an extraordinary historical depth, the knowledge of which imposes itself as an essential necessity in order to correctly insert the events of our continent in the framework of world history and also in order to avoid falling into clichés and generalizations deriving from the flattening of the perspective solely on the events of the last seventy years. The course aims to analyze the evolution of the notion of "Europe" over the very long period, by deepening on the one hand its role in global history (colonialism, decolonization, etc.), on the other the conceptualization of its internal articulations, and in particular the Mediterranean sector, traditional and fundamental area of ​​contact, communication and clash with the Arab and Ottoman world.

First unit: "History of Europe, World History" (6 ECTS)

Books:
Lucien Febvre, L’Europa. Storia di una civiltà, Roma, Donzelli.
Federico Chabod, Storia dell’Idea d’Europa, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Serge Gruzinski, La macchina del tempo. Quando l’Europa ha iniziato a scrivere la storia del mondo, Milano, Raffaello Cortina Editore.

Second unit: "The Mediterranean: corsair wars, slavery, religious conversions"

Books:
Salvatore Bono, Guerre corsare nel Mediterraneo. Una storia di incursioni, arrembaggi, razzie, Bologna, Il Mulino.
Giovanna Fiume, Schiavitù mediterranee. Corsari, rinnegati e santi di età moderna, Milano, Mondadori.

Students not attending the course will have to study, for this unit, the following additional book:
Bruno Pomara Saverino, Rifugiati. I moriscos e l'Italia, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2018 (Open Access, free download: https://www.fupress.com/catalogo/rifugiati/3516)

STORIA DEI SISTEMI POLITICI EUROPEI

Obiettivo del corso è analizzare la storia dei sistemi europei nella seconda metà del XX secolo dall’angolo di visuale dell’Italia, evidenziando sfide comuni e specificità nazionali.

Per ragioni burocratico-amministrative il corso è diviso in due moduli da 6 CFU ciascuno. Nonostante questa suddivisione burocratica, le lezioni seguiranno un andamento tematico comune a entrambi i moduli. La frequenza è quindi consigliata a tutti per l’intera durata del corso.

Per il MODULO UNO vanno portati i seguenti temi coi seguenti testi.

IN COMUNE PER TUTTI:

TEMA:
L’Europa nella seconda metà del XX secolo e l’emergere dei movimenti populisti
TESTI:
Leonardo Rapone, L’Europa del novecento, Carocci, 2020, da pag. 149 a pag. 436
Marco Tarchi, L’Italia populista, Il Mulino, 2015

In più, A SCELTA, UNO dei seguenti temi, con relativi testi

1) TEMA: la destra politica e sociale, la cosiddetta “Strategia della tensione” e le sue connessioni internazionali.
TESTI: su questo argomento non è disponibile un unico volume che comprenda il tema nelle sue articolazioni, per cui vengono qui proposti alcuni saggi, pubblicati in riviste specializzate o come capitoli di libri. Lo studente che sceglie questo tema deve portare tutti i saggi indicati:
- Mario Del Pero, "Cia e Covert Operation nella politica estera americana del secondo dopoguerra", in “Italia Contemporanea”, dicembre 1996, pp. 691-712
- Giacomo Pacini, "Le origini dell’operazione Stay Behind. 1943-1956", in “Contemporanea”, Ottobre 2007, pp. 581-606
- Elena Cavalieri, "I piani di liquidazione del Centro-sinistra nel 1964", in “Passato e Presente”, n. 79 2010, pp. 59-82
- Francesco Biscione, "La lotta politica extraistituzionale dagli anni Sessanta alla P2", capitolo III in "Il sommerso della repubblica", Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 2003, pp. 70-143.
- Benedetta Tobagi, "Quale giustizia? I processi per Piazza Fontana tra Roma, Milano, Catanzaro", e Mirco Dondi, "Dalle stragi di provocazione alle stragi di intimidazione", entrambi in “Dimensioni e Problemi della Ricerca Storica”, Luglio 2020, rispettivamente pp. 17-41 e 133-156

Tutte le riviste o i volumi da cui sono estratti i saggi sono disponibili presso la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, la Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea di Via Caetani (nonché le biblioteche dei principali istituti culturali), la cui collocazione è immediatamente rilevabile sul sito del sistema bibliotecario Nazionale, SBN.

2) TEMA: Le Brigate Rosse e il Caso Moro
TESTO. Agostino Giovagnoli, "Il Caso Moro", Il Mulino, Bologna, 2005

3) TEMA: Gli anni Settanta, i cambiamenti che caratterizzarono la politica, la società e la cultura nel decennio in una prospettiva nazionale e internazionale:
TESTO: Fiammetta Balestracci, Catia Papa (a cura di), "L’Italia degli anni Settanta. Narrazioni e interpretazioni a confronto", Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2019.

4) TEMA: L’Italia nei decenni tra la fine del XX e l’inizio del XXI secolo: gli anni Ottanta, i cambiamenti sociali, politici e culturali, il crollo del sistema politico con Tangentopoli, l’ingresso nell’Euro, la crisi del 2008-2009.
Su questo argomento vengono proposti alcuni saggi tratti da un’opera in tre volumi sulla storia d’Italia dagli anni Ottanta a oggi.
L’opera si intitola "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
Vol. I, "Fine della guerra fredda e globalizzazione" a cura di Silvio Pons, Adriano Roccucci, Federico Romero; in questo volume occorre studiare i saggi di Silvio Pons, "La bipolarità italiana e la fine della Guerra Fredda", pp. 35-53, Valerio Castronovo, "L’Italia nel mercato globale", pp. 71-83 e Antonio Varsori, "Dalla caduta del Muro di Berlino a Tangentopoli: la dimensione internazionale della crisi della Prima Repubblica”, pp. 209-222;
Vol. II, "Il mutamento sociale", a cura di Enrica Asquer, Emanuele Bernardi, Carlo Fumian; in questo volume occorre studiare i saggi di Paolo Capuzzo, "I consumi tra economia e cultura nell’Italia del dopo boom (1973-2008)", pp. 179-197, Emanuela Scarpellini, "Consumi e attori sociali: le nuove identità dei consumatori italiani", pp. 199-210, Giovanni Gozzini, "La televisione tra due repubbliche", pp. 227-242;
Vol. III, "Istituzioni e politica", a cura di Simona Colarizi, Agostino Giovagnoli, Paolo Pombeni; in questo volume occorre studiare i saggi di Simona Colarizi, "Politica e antipolitica dalla Prima alla Seconda repubblica", pp. 333-347, Paolo Segatti, "La nascita della Lega: un capitolo di una storia che ci appartiene", pp. 351-360, Andrea Possieri, "Un riformismo incompiuto: il primo governo Prodi", pp. 509-528.

I tre volumi da cui sono estratti i saggi, oltre ad essere acquistabili nelle librerie, sono disponibili presso la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, la Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea di Via Caetani, nonché le biblioteche dei principali istituti culturali, la cui collocazione è immediatamente rilevabile sul sito del sistema bibliotecario Nazionale, SBN.
In più, ne è stata fatta richiesta di acquisizione presso il Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneo di Roma Tre.


Per il MODULO DUE, vanno studiati i seguenti temi, coi relativi testi

1) Il “Berlusconismo”, come fenomeno sociale e politico in una prospettiva comparativa internazionale
TESTO: Giovanni Orsina, "Il Berlusconismo nella storia d‘Italia", Marsilio, Venezia, 2013

2) Un approfondimento sulla storia politico sociale di uno dei principali paesi europei.
TESTI: portare UNO A SCELTA fra i seguenti testi:
Riccardo Brizzi, Michele Marchi, "Storia politica della Francia repubblicana", Le Monnier, 2011, dal cap. 5 alla fine;
Giulia Guazzaloca, "Storia della Gran Bretagna 1832-2014", Le Monnier, 2015, dal cap. 9 alla fine;
Gustavo Corni, "Storia della Germania", Il Saggiatore, Milano, 2017, dal cap. 8 alla fine;
Carmelo Adagio, Alfonso Botti, “Storia della Spagna democratica”, Bruno Mondadori, 2006

STORIA DEI SISTEMI POLITICI EUROPEI

Obiettivo del corso è analizzare la storia dei sistemi europei nella seconda metà del XX secolo dall’angolo di visuale dell’Italia, evidenziando sfide comuni e specificità nazionali.

Per ragioni burocratico-amministrative il corso è diviso in due moduli da 6 CFU ciascuno. Nonostante questa suddivisione burocratica, le lezioni seguiranno un andamento tematico comune a entrambi i moduli. La frequenza è quindi consigliata a tutti per l’intera durata del corso.

Per il MODULO UNO vanno portati i seguenti temi coi seguenti testi.

IN COMUNE PER TUTTI:

TEMA:
L’Europa nella seconda metà del XX secolo e l’emergere dei movimenti populisti
TESTI:
Leonardo Rapone, L’Europa del novecento, Carocci, 2020, da pag. 149 a pag. 436
Marco Tarchi, L’Italia populista, Il Mulino, 2015

In più, A SCELTA, UNO dei seguenti temi, con relativi testi

1) TEMA: la destra politica e sociale, la cosiddetta “Strategia della tensione” e le sue connessioni internazionali.
TESTI: su questo argomento non è disponibile un unico volume che comprenda il tema nelle sue articolazioni, per cui vengono qui proposti alcuni saggi, pubblicati in riviste specializzate o come capitoli di libri. Lo studente che sceglie questo tema deve portare tutti i saggi indicati:
- Mario Del Pero, "Cia e Covert Operation nella politica estera americana del secondo dopoguerra", in “Italia Contemporanea”, dicembre 1996, pp. 691-712
- Giacomo Pacini, "Le origini dell’operazione Stay Behind. 1943-1956", in “Contemporanea”, Ottobre 2007, pp. 581-606
- Elena Cavalieri, "I piani di liquidazione del Centro-sinistra nel 1964", in “Passato e Presente”, n. 79 2010, pp. 59-82
- Francesco Biscione, "La lotta politica extraistituzionale dagli anni Sessanta alla P2", capitolo III in "Il sommerso della repubblica", Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 2003, pp. 70-143.
- Benedetta Tobagi, "Quale giustizia? I processi per Piazza Fontana tra Roma, Milano, Catanzaro", e Mirco Dondi, "Dalle stragi di provocazione alle stragi di intimidazione", entrambi in “Dimensioni e Problemi della Ricerca Storica”, Luglio 2020, rispettivamente pp. 17-41 e 133-156

Tutte le riviste o i volumi da cui sono estratti i saggi sono disponibili presso la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, la Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea di Via Caetani (nonché le biblioteche dei principali istituti culturali), la cui collocazione è immediatamente rilevabile sul sito del sistema bibliotecario Nazionale, SBN.

2) TEMA: Le Brigate Rosse e il Caso Moro
TESTO. Agostino Giovagnoli, "Il Caso Moro", Il Mulino, Bologna, 2005

3) TEMA: Gli anni Settanta, i cambiamenti che caratterizzarono la politica, la società e la cultura nel decennio in una prospettiva nazionale e internazionale:
TESTO: Fiammetta Balestracci, Catia Papa (a cura di), "L’Italia degli anni Settanta. Narrazioni e interpretazioni a confronto", Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2019.

4) TEMA: L’Italia nei decenni tra la fine del XX e l’inizio del XXI secolo: gli anni Ottanta, i cambiamenti sociali, politici e culturali, il crollo del sistema politico con Tangentopoli, l’ingresso nell’Euro, la crisi del 2008-2009.
Su questo argomento vengono proposti alcuni saggi tratti da un’opera in tre volumi sulla storia d’Italia dagli anni Ottanta a oggi.
L’opera si intitola "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
Vol. I, "Fine della guerra fredda e globalizzazione" a cura di Silvio Pons, Adriano Roccucci, Federico Romero; in questo volume occorre studiare i saggi di Silvio Pons, "La bipolarità italiana e la fine della Guerra Fredda", pp. 35-53, Valerio Castronovo, "L’Italia nel mercato globale", pp. 71-83 e Antonio Varsori, "Dalla caduta del Muro di Berlino a Tangentopoli: la dimensione internazionale della crisi della Prima Repubblica”, pp. 209-222;
Vol. II, "Il mutamento sociale", a cura di Enrica Asquer, Emanuele Bernardi, Carlo Fumian; in questo volume occorre studiare i saggi di Paolo Capuzzo, "I consumi tra economia e cultura nell’Italia del dopo boom (1973-2008)", pp. 179-197, Emanuela Scarpellini, "Consumi e attori sociali: le nuove identità dei consumatori italiani", pp. 199-210, Giovanni Gozzini, "La televisione tra due repubbliche", pp. 227-242;
Vol. III, "Istituzioni e politica", a cura di Simona Colarizi, Agostino Giovagnoli, Paolo Pombeni; in questo volume occorre studiare i saggi di Simona Colarizi, "Politica e antipolitica dalla Prima alla Seconda repubblica", pp. 333-347, Paolo Segatti, "La nascita della Lega: un capitolo di una storia che ci appartiene", pp. 351-360, Andrea Possieri, "Un riformismo incompiuto: il primo governo Prodi", pp. 509-528.

I tre volumi da cui sono estratti i saggi, oltre ad essere acquistabili nelle librerie, sono disponibili presso la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, la Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea di Via Caetani, nonché le biblioteche dei principali istituti culturali, la cui collocazione è immediatamente rilevabile sul sito del sistema bibliotecario Nazionale, SBN.
In più, ne è stata fatta richiesta di acquisizione presso il Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneo di Roma Tre.


Per il MODULO DUE, vanno studiati i seguenti temi, coi relativi testi

1) Il “Berlusconismo”, come fenomeno sociale e politico in una prospettiva comparativa internazionale
TESTO: Giovanni Orsina, "Il Berlusconismo nella storia d‘Italia", Marsilio, Venezia, 2013

2) Un approfondimento sulla storia politico sociale di uno dei principali paesi europei.
TESTI: portare UNO A SCELTA fra i seguenti testi:
Riccardo Brizzi, Michele Marchi, "Storia politica della Francia repubblicana", Le Monnier, 2011, dal cap. 5 alla fine
Giulia Guazzaloca, "Storia della Gran Bretagna 1832-2014", Le Monnier, 2015, dal cap. 9 alla fine
Gustavo Corni, "Storia della Germania", Il Saggiatore, Milano, 2017, dal cap. 8 alla fine
Carmelo Adagio, Alfonso Botti, “Storia della Spagna democratica”, Bruno Mondadori, 2006

CONTENT:

PART I – Introduction and description of the course

1) Introduction : East Asia as a regional entity (geopolitics and culture)
2) Historical overview : The pre-war order in East Asia (the Sino-centric order and the Japanese particularism) – Part I
3) Japan and China facing the first great challenge (Modernity)
4) Japan and China facing the second great challenge (Globalization)
5) Seminar : the construction of the Chinese political identity through the CCP rhetoric in the post-Maoist era
6) Revision
7) Mid-term.

PART II

1) Security, identity and stability in East Asia
2) China and the Japan-U.S. alliance - The security dilemma in East Asia
3) Ambiguous Japan: Japan’s national identity at century’s end
4) Power and purpose in Pacific East Asia
5) Revision
6) Final Exam

Students are expected to write a 2.500 words, theoretically informed, research paper on a topic of their choice which has been previously discussed with the instructor.

This course is taught in English.

REQUIRED READINGS:

1) John Welfield, An Empire in Eclipse. Japan in the Postwar American Alliance System, Bloomsbury.
Chi-Kwan Mark, China and the World Since 1945. An International History, Routledge.
2) Rémy Davison, “Asia’s ‘Great Game’”, in M. Connors, R. Davison & J. Dosch, The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific. Conflict and Cooperation in the Asian Century, Routledge.
3) M.K. Connors, “Between a doctrine and a hard place. Japan’s emerging role”, in M. Connors, R. Davison & J. Dosch, The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific. Conflict and Cooperation in the Asian Century, Routledge.
4) Rémy Davison, “The Chinese century?”, in M. Connors, R. Davison & J. Dosch, The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific. Conflict and Cooperation in the Asian Century, Routledge.

Week I - Introduction and course description. The origins of U.S. foreign policy. The American exceptionalism. Isolationism or non-isolationism?
Week II - The Civil War as an international conflict. The end of the XIX century and the early Imperial phase.
Week III - The American Century: from the Spanish-American War to the end of the Cold War. The rise of the United States to global power. Wilsonianism or anti-Wilsonianism?
Week IV - The Global Empire. The Cold War between containment, détente, and consensus.
Week V - The post-Cold War debate over the new global role of the U.S. From Bush Sr.'s new world order to Clinton's Democratic enlargment.
Week VI - American Foreign Policy after 9/11. New challenges, new approaches, and new interpretations of the U.S. role in the world.

Mario Del Pero, Libertà e impero. Gli Stati Uniti e il mondo, 1776-2016, Laterza, 2017


One additional book of your choice from the following:

Chalmers Johnson, Le lacrime dell'impero. L'apparato militare industriale, i servizi segreti e la fine del sogno americano, Garzanti, 2005

Elisabetta Vezzosi, Raffaella Baritono, Oltre il secolo americano? Gli Stati Uniti prima e dopo l'11 settembre, Carocci, 2011

Francis Fukuyama, La fine della storia e l'ultimo uomo, UTET, 2020

Joseph Nye, Fine del secolo americano? Il Mulino, 2016

Mario Del Pero, Henry Kissinger e l'ascesa dei neoconservatori alle origini della politica estera americana, Laterza, 2006

The first part of he course focuses on the historical question of African history and the history sources for this continent. Particular reference is made to oral sources and methodology. The course will then move on to the fundamental aspects.
The course aims to provide basic background knowledge of the history of the continent and its modern day problems, this in the light of a historical understanding of different cultures.
Subjects covered:
Aspects of African culture (Clans and ancestry, totemism, theism, social structures)
The impact of colonialism
The Africanisation of the colonialistic western culture

- Bernardo Bernardi, Africa. Tradizione e Modernità, Carocci, 2001

- Catherine Coquery Vidrovitch, Breve storia dell'Africa, Il Mulino, 2012 (French original edition)

Environmental policy and sustainability. The course presents a brief overview of the main schools of thought in environmental matters, following their development especially in recent decades. The course discusses then about methods and tools of environmental policy, illustrates the geography of environmental resources and examines the role of the actors in environmental policy at different geographical scales, from global to local. The problems are also analyzed through some case studies related to different parts of the world. There will be lectures, an excursion and eventual workshops.

MADAU Caterina, 2014,
«Entro i limiti del nostro pianeta Teorie e politiche della questione ambientale»
Bologna, PÀTRON

Documentary by Nicolas Dall’Olio, «Il suolo minacciato (full)» (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3-1l1I28cY)

Life sciences from Descartes to Buffon

Antonio Clericuzio, Uomo e natura, Roma, Carocci, 2021 (forthcoming)


Charles Webster, The Great Instauration, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2002

Evoluzionismo e creazionismo: il dibattito da Linneo a Darwin. Antologia di testi, a cura di A. Ottaviani, Roma, Carocci, 2017

John C. Greene, The Death of Adam: Evolution and Its Impact on Western Thought, Iowa UP, 1983

We will explore the advent of fossil fuels with the emergence of the age of coal, the shift to hydrocarbons, and the most recent trend towards renewable energy sources. This will be done by analysing great power politics, political and economic debates on energy, the expansion of fordism and consumerism, the role of multinational oil companies, the pressures for decolonization and the emergence of the environmentalist debate from the 1970s up to the more recent debate on the "Anthropocene".
Questions and concepts such as “resource curse”, “conservationism”, “Dutch disease”, “limits of growth”, "peak oil", "sustainable development", "extractivism", will be discussed and informed by the relevant literature (and possibly archival material), and with the help images and documentaries.

This course is taught in English.

For each student:
- Bruce Podobnik, "Global Energy Shifts. Fostering Sustainability in a Turbulent Age" (the complete book)

For "non frequentanti" (in addition to Podobnik):
- Leonardo Maugeri, "The Age of Oil: The Mythology, History, and Future of the World's Most Controversial Resources" (the complete book)

For 8 credits (in addition to Pobonik):
- A choice of one text among the "reference books"

Reference books:

Ervand Abrahamian, "Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup d'Etat"
Kate Aronoff, "Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet - and How We can Fight Back"
Basosi/Garavini/Trentin, "Counter-Shock: the Oil Counter-Revolution of the 1980s"
Giuliano Garavini, "The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century"
Nicholas Georgescu-Rogan, "Energy and Economc Myths"
Amitav Ghosh, "The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable"
Thane Gustafson, "The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe"
Michael Herb, "The Wages of Oil. Parliaments and Economic Development in Kuwait and the UAE"
Jason Hickel, "Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World"
Per Hogselius, "Red Gas"
William Stanley Jevons, "The Coal Question"
Daniel Yergin, "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power"
Daneil Yergin, "the New Map"
Naomi Klein, "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate"
Paasha Mahdavi, "Power Grab. Political Survival through Extractive Resource Nationalization"
Andreas Malm, "Fossil Capital. The Rise of the Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming"
Victor McFarland, "Oil Powers: A History of the US-Saudi Alliance"
Bernard Mommer, "Global Oil and the Nation State"
Bethany McLean, "The Smartest Guys in the Room. The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron"
John McNeill and Peter Engelke, "The Great Acceleration. An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945"
Timothy Mitchell, "Carbon Democracy. Political Power in the Age of Oil"
Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo, "The Oil Pentagon"
Simon Pirani, "Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuels Consumption"
Luigi Piccioni, La cronologia di "altronovecento" dell'ambiente e dell'ambientalismo 1853-2000
Thea Riofrancos, "Resource Radical. From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador"
Myrna Santiago, "The Ecology of Oil. Environment, Labour and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938"
Vaclav Smil, "Energy and Civilization: A History"
Ven De Graaf/ Sovacoool, "Global Enegy Politics"
Robert Vitalis, "Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt US Energy Policy"
Tyler Volk, "CO2 Raising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge"

Ecology legislation (Dr. Alfonso Contaldo)

Module 1 (6 hours)
The profession of biologist. The law establishing the Order of Biologists: main aspects; the reform of registers and competences with the regulatory intervention of 2001; Main skills of the freelance biologist (exclusive and in competition with other professional figures); The skills of the Biologist registered in the special list and the limitations to ultracontractual activities; The limited competences of the cd. Junior biologist and his eventual registration on the Special List; The deontological code of the profession of the Biologist approved in 2019; The sanctioning procedures for violations of professional obligations and the sanctions provided for by biologists also enrolled in the special lists and any repercussions on the employment relationship established with their public and / or private employer.

2nd module (8 hours)
The UN, its specialized agencies, and international conventions on the environment (in general and differences between UN legislation and international treaty legislation between states); The European Union and the sources of law (difference between Directive and Regulation); The State (the system of national sources, difference between constitutional, legislative and regulatory norms) and the competences of the Ministries regarding the environment; territorial public bodies (Regions, Municipalities, Metropolitan Cities) and non-territorial bodies (research bodies in the sector) with environmental competences; the value of the legal rule and the territorial scope of validity; the technical rule and its impact on the legal rule.

Module 3 °: (8 hours)
Environmental protection in the international context: a) The Agreement between States, officially the Convention on Wetlands of Importance, signed in Ramsar (Iran, 1971); b) The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (convened by resolution of the UN General Assembly of 1968) in Stockholm (Sweden, 1972); c) The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (convened by UN resolution of 1991) in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil, 1992); d)
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, cd. UNFCCC, defined in New York (1992, USA) and the subsequent Kyoto Protocol (1997, Japan); e) The Word Summit on Sustainable Development (convened by UN resolution) in Johannesburg (South Africa, 2002); f) The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development cd. Rio + 20 of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil, 2011); g) The United Nations Summit on Sustainable Development (convened by the Rio + 20 Conference) held in New York (2015, USA) and Agenda XXI or the Program of Action for People, the Planet and Prosperity which encompasses sustainable development; h) United Nations Conference on “Climate Change” held in Paris (2015, France).


4th module (16 hours)
The Italian environmental regulations: a) constitutional protection; b) the institutional set-up for environmental protection in a multilevel governance system and command and control tools (Ministry of the Environment, regional environmental departments and regional ARPA), economic and voluntary membership; c) the Environmental Code (Legislative Decree no. 152/2006); d) the discipline of the so-called protected areas; e) the protection of the marine environment; f) the protection of the hydrogeological structure; g) water protection and management; g) waste management; h) protection from noise pollution, atmospheric and electromagnetic pollution; i) the control of greenhouse gas emissions; l) strategic environmental assessment (SEA), environmental impact assessment (VIA), impact assessment (VINCA); m) the integrated environmental authorization (AIA) and the single environmental authorization (AUA); n) the cd. environmental damage and the remediation of polluted sites: administrative, civil and criminal safeguards.

Reference text: G. Rossi (ed.), Diritto dell’ambiente, V ed. Torino, Giappichelli, 2020
(in the parts relating to the above program) and material of the teacher

The course will reconstruct the historical evolution of cartography, retracing the modes of representation from antiquity to the eighteenth-century geodetic revolution, up to the creation of the Military Geographic Institute. Particular emphasis will be given to the deconstruction of geocartographic materials, to their use in geo-historical research for the study of landscape transformations.

Attending students:
- The exam will focus on the topics covered in class, on slides in ppt and supplementary learning material provided during the course.
Non-Attending Students:
- E. Boria, Storia della cartografia in Italia dall’Unità a oggi. Tra scienza, società e progetti di potere, Milano, Utet, 2020 (pp.XI-299)

Poverty, mission and development cooperation in contemporary Christianity

Since the post–World War II, the Christian churches have begun to consider the "social question" as a global question, as a result of the decolonization, of a new theological regard of poverty and of the international climate of the Cold War. Issues such as poverty, work, peace and development have gradually become part of the public discourse of the churches with an impact on the traditional exercise of charity: from paternalistic welfarism to the NGOs came out of associations and religious institutes, this evolution is a trace of a dynamic and conflictual confrontation with the affirmation of civil rights in liberal societies and with the secularization. Through the study of the historical documents, reconstructing the main debates in Christian churches, the course will deal in particular with the following topics: the relationship between missions, decolonization and Third-Worldism; the "church of the poor" and the Second Vatican Council; peace and development of peoples.

1. Dossier of historical documents proposed by the professor
2. Two books to be chosen from following:
a. MASSIMO DE GIUSEPPE, L’altra America: i cattolici italiani e l’America latina. Da Medellín a Francesco, Morcelliana, Brescia 2017
b. MATTEO MENNINI, La Chiesa dei poveri. Dal Vaticano II a papa Francesco, Guerini e Associati, Milano 2017.
c. MAURO FORNO, La cultura degli altri. Il mondo delle missioni e la decolonizzazione, Carocci, Roma 2017.

Attending students will be provided with other indications during the lessons

The acquisition of tools for understanding the women’s conditions and the gender relations will be carried out through a programme divided in two parts.
In the first one the analysis of the steps that marked the development of the European women’s identity and the struggle to achieve the objectives of freedom and democracy will be carried out. In the second part the same topics will be analysed in relation to men and to some historical junctions, like the economic and cultural crisis and the wars.

Gisela Bock, The Women in the European History. From Middle Age to the Contemporary Time, Laterza editore
Sandro Bellassai, The Invention of Virility. Politics and male imagery in Contemporary Italy, Carocci editore

Religions and Gender Relations

The theme of religious influence on gender relations will be addressed starting from the analysis of various sources according to different methodologies and perspectives (historical, historical-religious, historical-artistic, anthropological, sociological, philosophical)

The teaching material will be provided in the course of the workshop

The PHOTOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL HISTORY laboratory, held by Manuela Fugenzi, journalist, photo editor and photographic critic, is an articulated activity on historical and contemporary photography, aimed to understanding its role as witness of civil society as well as its narrative potential. By showing and contextualizing the most significant examples of italian and international photography -from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day- on topics of strong social value, students will be guided in a simulation of photo research online in archives of institutions and photo agencies, as well as in their family albums. This year the subject will be: MIGRANT PEOPLES.

Topics and activities of the workshop-lessons:
• References to history of photography and major themes of social history
• The photographic language; analog photography, digital photography
• Photographic genres and online archives: accesses and research methods
• The archive card: checking the information and drafting the caption
• Selection of images in a sequence
• Final editing of the photographs and drafting of the related captions and photo credits
• Creation of a portfolio using PowerPoint

After a short historical and methodological introduction, students will be introduced to the most relevant themes and trends of the Islamic debate from the end of the 19th century until today. Topics covered include: Islam and modernity; the Reformist Movement (salafiyya); Islam and Nationalism; Political Islam in its declinations; Islamic Feminism. Part of the course will be dedicated to the Orientalist Representations and Distorsions of Contemporary Islam and Muslims.
Eventually, students will be invited to read primary texts, among those available, according to their languages knowledge.

C. Texts:

1. M. Campanini, Il pensiero islamico contemporaneo, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2016.
2. EW Said, Covering Islam. Come i media e gli esperti determinano la nostra visione del resto del mondo, Massa: Transeuropa, 2012.
3. One of the following (see teaching mode) :

- Sayyid Qutb, La battaglia tra Islam e capitalismo, Venezia: Marcianum Press, 2016;
- Sayyid Qutb, Milestones, disponibile a https://www.kalamullah.com/Books/Milestones%20Special%20Edition.pdf
- Sadik al-Azm, La tragedia del diavolo. Fede, ragione e potere nel mondo arabo, Roma: LUISS Press, 2016,
- Ruhollah Khomeyni, Il governo islamico, Il cerchio, 2006.
- Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, Islam e storia, Torino: Bollati Boringhieri
- Tariq Ramadan, Islam e libertà , Torino: Einaudi, 2008
- T. Ramadan, Essere musulmano europeo, Troina (EN): Città Aperta, 2002
- T. Ramadan, Il riformismo islamico. Un secolo di rinnovamento musulmano, Troina (EN): Città Aperta, 2004.
- T. Ramadan, Islam and the Arab Awakening, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Hasan Hanafi, La teologia islamica della liberazione, Milano: Jaca Book, 2018.
- Abdou Filali-Ansary, Reformer l'Islam, Paris: La Découverte, 2004
- Mehran Kamrava (ed), The New Voices of Islam, London: IB Tauris, 2006,
- Mohammed ‘Abid El-Jabri, La ragione araba, Milano: Feltrinelli, 1995,
- Fatema Mernissi, Islam e democrazia, Firenze: Giunti, 2002
- F. Mernissi, L’harem e l’Occidente, Firenze: Giunti, 2006
- F. Mernissi, Le donne del profeta. La condizione femminile nell'Islam, Genova: ECIG, 1992.
- Amina Wadud, Il Corano e la donna. Rileggere il testo sacro da una prospettiva di genere, Cantalupa (TO): Effata’, 2012
- Amina Wadud, Inside the Gender Jihad. Women’s Reform In Islam, Oxford: Oneworld, 2006.
- ‘Ali ‘Abd el-Raziq, Islam and the Foundations of Political Power, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2012 (1925). Disponibile a: http://ecommons.aku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=uk_ismc_series_intranslation
- Muhammad ‘Abduh, Trattato sull’unicità divina, Bologna: il ponte, 2003.
- Asef Bayat, Making Islam Democratic, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2007
- Khaled Abou El-Fadl, Islam and the Challenge of Democracy, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2004
- Khaled Abou El-Fadl, The Great Theft, NY: Harper, 2007
- Farid Esack, Qur’an: Liberation and Pluralism, Oxford: Oneworld, 1996;
- Mohammad A. Lahbabi, Il personalismo musulmano, Milano: Jaca Book, 2017.
- Hamid Dabashi, Islamic Liberation Theology: Resisting the Empire, London & NY: Rouledge, 2008.
- Jawdat Said, Vie islamiche alla nonviolenza, Zikkaron, 2017

Students can propose books not included above.

IMPORTANT: Students without prior knowledge of Islam, MUST read also:

- L. Declich, L’Islam in 20 parole, Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2016;
- P. G. Donini, Il mondo islamico. Breve storia dal ‘500 ad oggi, Roma-Bari: Laterza, ultima edizione.
- Anna Bozzo, L’Islam questo sconosciuto, dispensa didattica (disponibile in pdf);
- C. Endress, Introduzione alla storia del mondo musulmano, Capp. 1-3-6 (dispensa disponibile in pdf).

or an an introductory textbook to Islam to choose among:

A. Bausani, Islam, Rizzoli, ultima edizione;

or

- G. Filoramo (a cura di), Islam, Laterza, ultima edizione.

or

- Carole Hillenbrand, Islam. Una nuova introduzione storica, Torino: Einaudi, 2016.

Main topics covered in the course:
Ancient and modern historiographical issues: the modalities of the Spanish conquest.
The formation of contemporary Latin America: the abolition of slavery in the nineteenth century.
Latin America in the twentieth century: economy, society, institutions, culture.
The current geopolitical continental situation.
Debate on economic development. Environment and access to resources. The indigenous minorities.

The examination is composed by two part: general part; monographic part.
General Part. One of the following books:
-De Giuseppe M., La Bella G., Storia dell’America Latina contemporanea, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019;
-Zanatta, L., Storia dell’America latina contemporanea, Roma, Laterza, 2015 (or new edition).

Monographic part. One of the following books:
-Carmagnani, M., Le connessioni mondiali e l’Atlantico 1450-1850, Torino, Einaudi, 2018.
-Guarnieri Calò Carducci, L., La questione indigena in Perù, Roma, Bulzoni, 2010 (L’antologia di testi è parte essenziale del libro).
-Rojas Mix, M., I cento nomi d’America, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2005.
-Vangelista C., Scatti sugli indios. Ricerche di storia visiva, Aracne, Collana “America e Americhe. Storia, relazioni, immagini”, Roma, 2018.
-Vargas Llosa, A., Libertà per l’America latina. Come porre fine a cinquecento anni di oppressione dello Stato, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2007.
-Nocera R., Wulzer, P., L'America Latina nella politica internazionale. Dalla fine del sistema bipolare alla crisi dell'ordine liberale, Roma, Carocci, 2020

The course examines the historical and political trajectory of the Middle East and North Africa from the Colonial Era until today. The students will be introduced to the debate on Orientalism, its role in the colonial era, and its relevance until today. A particular focus will be on the post-colonial era. Among the topics covered there will be: State formation, the role of ideologies (both secular and religious) in the shaping of the region, the intra-regional and international relations of the Region and the so-called ‘Arab Spring’. Students are expected to actively participate to the course.
All the available teaching materials, the announcements and all that is related to this course will be posted on the lecturer’s departmental teaching webpage (bit.ly/dsu-gervasio).

REQUIRED READINGS:


R. Owen, State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, Routledge: London & New York: 2004.
J. Chalcraft, “The Arab Uprisings of 2011 in Historical Perspective” in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History, 2016 (available as a pdf file on the course website).
G. Achcar, “The Seasons after the Arab Spring”, Le Monde Diplomatique, June 2019 (available as a pdf file on the course website).

One of the following:


G. Achcar, The People Want. A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising, London: Saqi, 2013.
G. Achcar, Morbid Symptoms. Relapse in the Arab Uprisings, London: Saqi, 2016.
L. Anceschi, G. Gervasio & A. Teti (eds), Informal Power in the Greater Middle East. Hidden Geographies, London: Routledge, 2014 & 2016.
M. Aouragh & H. Hamouchene (eds), The Arab Uprisings. A Decade of Struggles, TNI & RLS, 2021, available online at: https://longreads.tni.org/arab-uprisings
A. Bayat, Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2017.
A. Bayat, Revolutionary Life. The Everyday of the Arab Spring, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2021
F. Cavatorta & L. Storm (eds), Political Parties in the Arab World: Continuity and Change, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
S. Cook, False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2017.
F. A. Gerges, ISIS: A History, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2017.
A. Khalil (ed), Gender, Women and the Arab Spring, London & NY: Routledge, 2015.
H. Kraetzschmar & P. Rivetti (eds), Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings: Governance, Pluralisation and Contention, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
R. Owen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2014.
J. Saab (ed.), A region in revolt: Mapping the recent uprisings in North Africa and West Asia, Ottawa: Daraja Press, 2020.
R. Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad (eds), Women Rising: In and Beyond the Arab Spring: New York, New York University Press, 2020.
I. Szmolka (ed.), Political Change in the Middle East and North Africa: After the Arab Spring, Edinburgh, Edinburgh UP, 2017.
Ch. Tripp, The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013.


IMPORTANT! Students without any prior knowledge of the History of the MENA, must read one of the following textbooks:

W. Cleveland & M. Bunton, A History of the Modern Middle East, Boulder: Westview Press, 2016,
Betty Anderson, A History of the Modern Middle East, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2016.

After briefly introducing the different objects of anthropological knowledge from a historical perspective, the course will focus on the themes of the supernatural, magic and witchcraft between history, power, body, disease and society. In particular, the lessons will focus on rationality and belief systems, on the role of the historical and colonial dimension, on the symbolic, on power relations, on the notion of contagion in its social and cultural implications.

Testi d’esame (gli studenti che hanno già sostenuto un esame di antropologia culturale possono concordare con la docente un testo alternativo):

Fabietti, Malighetti, Matera, Dal tribale al globale. Introduzione all'antropologia, Bruno Mondadori, 2012 (disponibile anche in versione digitale).

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

Bellagamba, Alice, L'Africa e la stregoneria. Saggio di antropologia storica, Laterza, 2008.
Evans-Pritchard, Edward, Stregoneria, oracoli e magia tra gli Azande, Raffaello Cortina, 2002.
Douglas, Mary, Purezza e pericolo, Il Mulino, 1996.
Kitta, A. The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore, Utah State University Press, 2019.
Quaranta, I. Corpo, potere e malattia. Antropologia e Aids nei Grassfields del Camerun, Meltemi, 2006.
Taussig, Michael T., Il diavolo e il feticismo della merce, Derive Approdi 2017.

For those attending, it is possible to replace the text of your choice with 4 essays (which the teacher will make available to the students during the course) of which one or two will be chosen and presented by the attending student and discussed collegially in class.

Non attending students will add:
Fabietti, Ugo, Elementi di antropologia culturale, Mondadori, 2015: parte quarta (sistemi di pensiero) e parte settima (dimensione religiosa, esperienza rituale).

The teaching is an introduction to ethnography as a practice and theory of the description of social and cultural phenomena. The first part will focus on field research through a historical examination of the methods and reflection on them: from the expeditions season, to participatory observation, to the most recent and innovative forms. A second part will focus on ethnography as a space for reflection on the narrative strategies put in place in the human and social sciences, thus providing critical awareness around discursive rhetoric and ethnographic writing. Particular attention will be paid to the construction of the research question, the identification of the object of analysis, its empirical development, the role and relationship with the informants, the questions that ethnography formulates and the answers it provides, through its specific modalities. Classroom readings and presentations of classical and more recent anthropological ethnographies will provide an overview of the potential of the approach.

Testi d’esame:
Piasere, L., L'etnografo imperfetto. Esperienza e cognizione in antropologia, Laterza 2002.

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:
Abu-Lughod, L., Sentimenti velati. Onore e poesia in una società beduina, Bollati Boringhieri, 2004.
Bourgois, P., Cercando rispetto. Drug economy e cultura di strada, Derive Approdi, 2005.
Crapanzano V., Tuhami. Ritratto di un uomo del Marocco, Meltemi, 1995.
Griaule, M., Dio d’acqua. Incontri con Ogotemmeli, Bollati Boringhieri 2002.
Malinowski, B. Argonauti del Pacifico Occidentale. Bollati Boringhieri, 2011.
Mead M., L’adolescenza a Samoa, Giunti, 2007.
Shostack, M., Nisa. La vita e le parole di una donna!Kung, Meltemi, 2017.
Tsing Lowenhaupt, A. Il fungo alla fine del mondo. La possibilità di vivere nelle rovine del capitalismo. Keller, 2021.

For those attending, it is possible to replace the text of your choice with 4 essays (which the teacher will make available to the students during the course) of which one or two will be chosen and presented by the attending student and discussed collegially in class, from the following texts (see "bibliografia di riferimento").

Non attending students will add 2 chapters from:
Fabietti, U. (a cura di), Etnografia e culture. Antropologi, informatori e politiche dell’identità, Carocci, 2001.

1. Introduction to environmental economics
1.1 The origins of the problem
1.2 Interdependency economy-environment
1.3 GDP growth and welfare measure
1.4 Sustainability
1.5 Pollution extension and types
1.6 Natural resources

2. Ethics and economics
2.1 Natural philosophy
2.2 Libertarian philosophy
2.3 Utilitarianism
2.4 Critique to utilitarianism

3. Social welfare and environmental sustainability
3.1 Pareto efficiency
3.2 Social welfare function
3.3 Kaldor- Hicks-Scitovsky compensation tests
3.4 Market failures
3.5 Second-best theorem

4. Environmental policy
4.1 Public goods
4.2 Externalities
4.3 Environmental pollution models
4.4 Flow and stock of polluting emissions
4.5 Emission efficiency in static models
4.6 Emission efficiency in dynamic models

5 Environmental policy: instruments
5.1 Tax and subsidy
5.2 Command-and-control
5.3 Permits

6 Monetary valuation
6.1 Contingent valuation method
6.2 Hedonic price method
6.3 Cost-Benefit analysis

Title: Natural Resources and Environmental Economics. 4th Edition, 2011
Authors: Perman Roger, Ma Yue, Common Micheal, Maddison David, McGilvray James.
Editor: Pearson
Given the actual Covid-19 emergency lecture notes in substitution of the main text are available on Moodle.

Course Learning Objectives and Skill Acquisition
This course consists in two modules. The first deals with basic concepts in Energy Economics as the distribution of sources and consumption patterns at the geographical level, the analysis of demand and supply of different energy sources and the use of energy by sectors. World energy outlook scenarios are deeply investigated. The second part of the course allows students gathering main analytical tools to consider jointly energy issues and climate change impacts. The economic analysis of policy impacts over the long term and burden sharing issues in the international bargaining process are also analyzed. At the end of the course students will be able to understand global energy and climate reports, conduct their own impact analysis and be familiar with main simulation models.

Assessment
The course assessment will be based on two small dissertations that the students will write and present after the end of each part of the course, one on Energy Economics and one on Climate Policy issues, and on a final written exam formed by 5 open questions.

Course general schedule
Part I: Energy Economics
1. World Energy Outlook
2. Energy security and energy poverty
2. Fossil fuels economics
3. Energy price mechanisms
4. Alternative energy sources and clean energy technologies
Part II: Climate Change Policy
5. The science of climate change
6. Climate change impacts
7. Vulnerability and adaptation
8. Mitigation policies
7. The European low-carbon strategy

Detailed Teaching Agenda
Lecture #1: Introduction, practical information, data collection of participants
Part I: Energy Economics
Lecture #2: Introduction to the energy markets, composition of the energy mix
Lecture #3: Demand and supply, peculiarities of the energy markets
Lecture #4: How to read an energy balance: dimensions, sectors, sources
Lecture #5: Global energy markets and scenario building
Lecture #6: Energy price mechanisms: substitution elasticities
Lecture #7: Energy price mechanisms: the rebound effect
Lecture #8: Energy security and energy poverty
Lecture #9: Renewable sources: introduction and taxonomy
Lecture #10: Renewable sources: technological innovation and policy support
Lecture #11: The biofuels case: pros and cons of an eco-innovation
Lecture #12: Energy efficiency and policy support
Lecture #13: The EU Energy strategy: targets and policy instruments
Lecture #14: Dissertation on Energy Economics (Part I of the course, intermediate assessment)
Lecture #15: Dissertation on Energy Economics (Part I of the course, intermediate assessment)
Part II: Climate Change Policy
Lecture #16: The science of climate change
Lecture #17: Climate change impacts and economic damage
Lecture #18: Vulnerability and adaptation concepts
Lecture #19: The international institutional architecture for climate change
Lecture #20: Political bargaining at the international and level
Lecture #21: Mitigation actions and policy instruments
Lecture #22: The Emission Trading System and the EU experience
Lecture #23: The linkages between mitigation and economic performance
Lecture #24: Flexible mechanisms and developing countries
Lecture #25: The EU long-term low-carbon strategy
Lecture #26: Scenario building and policy impact evaluation
Lecture #27: The case of the EU long-term low-carbon strategy
Lecture #28: The case of the Green Climate Fund
Lecture #29: Dissertation on Climate Change Policy (Part II of the course, intermediate assessment)
Lecture #30: Dissertation on Climate Change Policy (Part II of the course, intermediate assessment)

Teaching material will be available to students in a dedicated Dropbox folder.
Textbooks (available in the corresponding folders for Lecture number)
Bhattacharyya S.C. (2011), Energy Economics: Concepts, Issues, Markets and Governance, UK: Springer-Verlag. Chapters: 1, 2, 3 (pp. 41-61), 4 (pp.77-81), 5 (sect. 5.1.1-5.1.5), 6 (excl. 6.5), 7 (Appendix excluded for all chapters).
IEA (International Energy Agency) (2017), World Energy Outlook 2017. Chapters: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7.
IEA (International Energy Agency) (2016), Energy Efficiency Indicators. (pages 5-10).
IPCC (2014), Climate Change 2014 – Synthesis Report. (pages 1-31).
IPCC (2014), Climate Change 2014 – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability Part A. (pages 1-32).
IPCC (2014), Climate Change 2014 – Mitigation of Climate Change (pages 41-107).
Tol R.S.J. (2014), Climate Economics: Economic Analysis of Climate, Climate Change and Climate Policy, Edward Elgar Publ. Chapters: 1,2,3,4,5,6.

The course deal with the birth of capitalism from the Middle Ages up to the contemporary age. It analyses the three main forms of capitalism: merchant, industrial and financial.

Attending students (all of them):

F. Braudel, Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimora 1977.
J. Kocka, Capitalism: A Short History, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2016.
P. Bowles, Capitalism, Routledge, London-New York 2014

Non-attending students (plus one of the two below):

L. Pellicani, La genesi del capitalismo e le origini della modernità, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2013 (no the chapters 2, 3, 8 e 10).
L. Gallino, Finanzacapitalismo, Einaudi, Turin 2013.
G. Claeys, Marx and Marxism, Pelican Books, London 2018.
B. Milanovic, Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World, Harvard University Press, New York 2019.
G. Conte, Il credito di una nazione. Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2021.

(a) Introductive elements.
What is Biogeography: This Science which considers synthetically information from Geography, Palaeogeography, Geology, Ecology, Palaeoecology, Phylogenetic Systematics, Faunistic, Floristic, Population Genetics, Evolutionary Biology. Summary of principles of Evolutionary Biology (micro and macro-evolution), Systematics (Phenetist, Evolutionary and Cladistic schools), ecosystem and population Ecology. Speciation models, radiation. Natural and anthropic causes of extinction. Biogeography and Conservation of Nature.
Story of Biogeography: The founders of the Science: Buffon, de Candolle, von Humboldt, Lyell, Hooker, Sclater, Darwin, Wallace, Haeckel, Merriam, Simpson, Darlington, Holdaus, Gridelli, De Lattin, Furon, La Greca, Croizat, Wilson e MacArthur, Rozen e Platnick, Morrone, Avise, Hewitt.
Biogeographic schools of the XX century: Historical Biogeography, bridges, filters, dispersal and dispersion; Croizat and Panbiogeography; Cladistic Biogeography; Ecological Biogeography; Statistic Biogeography; Molecular Biogeography and Phylogeography. The Italian School of Biogeography: Gridelli, La Greca, Baccetti, Ruffo, Vigna Taglianti, Poldini; the Italian Society of Biogeography.
(b) Historical Biogeography
Land and marine Biogeography: History of life on the Earth: Tectonic of terrestrial plates and the Continental drift Theory; macro-plates and micro-plates; evolution and displacement of terrestrial masses and seas; evolution of terrestrial ecosystems. Climatic and biogeographic effects of plates tectonic. Effects of Pliocene-Pleistocene glaciations; Pleistocene glacial refugia; megafauna extinction; expansion and contraction of biomes. Effects of glaciations on lands and seas in temperate and tropical regions.
The terrestrial biogeographic regions: Floristic realms and Zoogeographic Regions. Causes of floras and faunas differentiation of Biogeographic regions. Regions and sub-regions. Marine Biogeographic Regions. Palaearctic Region (boundaries; sub-regions; distinctive elements). Nearctic Region (boundaries; sub-regions; distinctive elements). Oriental (Indo-Malayan) Region (boundaries; sub-regions; distinctive elements). Afrotropical Region (boundaries; sub-regions; distinctive elements). Neotropical Region (boundaries; sub-regions; distinctive elements). Australian-Oceanic (Australasian) Region (boundaries; sub-regions; distinctive elements)). Antarctic (boundaries; sub-regions; distinctive elements). Transitional Biogeographic Regions: Saharo-Sindian; Chinese; Indo-Australian (Wallacea); Meso-American. Regionalization of floras and faunas.
Biomes and Biogeographic Regions: Effects of climate and climatic cycles. Characteristics and geological origin in the Biogeographic regions. Effects of water circulation and of the sea depth on the marine regions. Biomes, and their distribution on the lands; dynamics of biomes. Marine biomes. Differences between biomes and biogeographic regions. Biomes and ecosystems. Anthropic transformation of biomes.
Biogeography of the Mediterranean area and the Europe: Tethys and Paratethys and Mediterranean origin. Shift, migration and positioning of microplates. Biogeography of Cenozoic: Messianian salinity crisis; Pliocene-Pleistocene effects of glaciations and refugia.
Range: specific and over-specific ranges; continuous, fragmented, disjunct ranges; historical and ecological causes of ranges; shape of ranges; terrestrial and marine ranges. Primary and Secondary ranges. Physical, ecological and palaeogeographic factors affecting limits of ranges: present barriers and limiting factors. Relicts. Endemism: ranges and conservation.
Generalized distributional models (chorotypes): examples in the Palaearctic and Afrotropical Regions. Examples of distribution of land plants and animals.
Dispersalist Biogeography (Simpson, Mayr). Dispersal and dispersion. Dispersion as biogeographic (range extension), evolutionary (genetic flow and speciation) and ecological process (niche realization). Overall similarity principles. Species-specific process and generalized models. Active and passive dispersal in plants and animals. Types of dispersal: jump dispersal, stepping stones dispersal. Dispersal and range enlargement. Barriers to dispersal (geographic and ecological). Colonization. Effects on biota due to immigrations.
Vicariance Biogeography. Vicariance (allopatric model; collapse of barrier model). Effects on biota. Cladistic Systematics and Vicariance Biogeography. Croizat’, Morrone’, Nelson’ and Platnick’ Vicariance models.
Distribution and abundance of populations. Variation of distribution and time. Range dynamic and conservation. Fossil and present ranges. Local and complete extinction.
Geographic variation in species (morphological and genetic characteristics). Continuous and discrete variation. Evolutionary and biogeographic importance of variation. Geographic variation and conservation. Geography of divergence and regionalization.
(c) Ecological Biogeography
Ecological Biogeography: present causes of species distribution; realized niche; colonization and competition. Distribution and dynamics of communities, ecosystems and biomes.
Island Biogeography: Wilson and Mac Arthur theory; experimental confirmation and problematic examples; Island Biogeography and Conservation Biology. Examples on geographic and ecological islands and on mountain peaks.
(d) New methods of biogeographic analysis
Molecular Biogeography. Phylogeography (mtDNA, nDNA, molecular and statistical methods). Examples on glacial refugia and postglacial spread.
Statistical Biogeography. Analysis of molecular data in Biogeography; dating; direction of dispersal; time of vicariance.
Cartographic representation of the biogeographic diversity: traditional cartography, areograms, georeferenced databases, GIS and remote-sensing systems. Mapping the ranges.

Lomolino M.V., Riddle B.R. & Whittaker R.J., Biogeography. Biological Diversity across Space and Time. Sinauer, Sunderland, USA.
Also useful: Zunino M. & Zullini A., Biogeografia. La dimensione spaziale dell’evoluzione. Ambrosiana, Milano.
The teacher supplies students with specialist literature and additional material.

Travel’s reports of the past are a preferred source for the construction of geographical thought and culture. Particularly between the late Middle Ages and Modern Age, travel’s relations allows to retrace the complex process of widening of Europeans’ geographical horizon. In western society the relationship between geography and travel’s reports has changed over the centuries, to the need to sort and reprocess the information gathered, to create a geographical knowledge built on valid rules, correlations between phenomena and rational criteria for classification. During the course will be analyzed practices of travel, travelers and travel’s reports, in their various types. Will also be considered some examples of travel’s reports that, throughout history, have marked the collective imagination and the construction of the world’s modern image. Testimony of travel’s experiences, travel literature has become ever more an instrument of knowledge of the territory and of human communities, through understanding the other and the elsewhere, but also the culture that looks at the other and at the space, for as this was and still is organized on the basis of many human needs (exploration, knowledge, tourism, etc.).

Not attending
- Guglielmo Scaramellini, La geografia dei viaggiatori. Raffigurazioni individuali e immagini collettive nei resoconti di viaggio, Milano, Unicopli, 1993 o 1998, solo la Parte seconda, pp. 55-111.
- Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Dall’esperienza del viaggio al sapere geografico, in Geotema, n° 8 (1997), Il viaggio come fonte di conoscenze geografiche, pp. 3-12 (https://teams.microsoft.com/l/file/344CE0FA-C16C-4536-84DF-4F0624F5818D?tenantId=ffb4df68-f464-458c-a546-00fb3af66f6a&fileType=pdf&objectUrl=https%3A%2F%2Funiroma3.sharepoint.com%2Fsites%2FAA2021-GEOGRAFIAELETTERATURADELVIAGGIO-20710063DASCENZO%2FMateriale%20del%20corso%2FCaraci%20Geotema.pdf&baseUrl=https%3A%2F%2Funiroma3.sharepoint.com%2Fsites%2FAA2021-GEOGRAFIAELETTERATURADELVIAGGIO-20710063DASCENZO&serviceName=teams&threadId=19:f34be9d0c8a841a7981f2d8b39d7105a@thread.tacv2&groupId=a760e24a-ee11-4d7b-be00-294a107557e1).
- Annalisa D'Ascenzo, Lo schema (immaginare-)trovare-cercare-scoprire applicato alle rappresentazioni del Giappone (metà XIV-metà XVII secolo), in ANNALISA D’ASCENZO (a cura di), Geostoria. Geostorie, Roma, CISGE, 2015, pp. 65-95 (https://www.cisge.it/ojs/index.php/Volumi/article/view/856).

Attending
Materials provided during the lessons.

The course of Didactics of Geography, addressing the main issues concerning the learning / teaching processes of geography, highlights the relationships between research and disciplinary teaching and identifies methodologies and didactic tools capable of promoting in students an appropriate use of vocabulary and categories interpretative of the discipline in order to be able to understand and contextualize the environmental and anthropic characteristics of the territory.
Topics of the course: Geographic knowledge in teaching and research; Developing geographical skills; Geographical education, territorial education; Agenda 2030; Geography teaching in schools and universities; National guidelines and textbooks; Geotechnology and teaching; Simulation of didactic units.

• De Vecchis G., Pasquinelli d'Allegra D & Pesaresi C., Didattica della Geografia, Utet, 2020.
• Giacomo Zanolin, Thomas Gilardi, Rossella De Lucia (a cura di), Geo-didattiche per il futuro. La geografia alla prova delle competenze, FrancoAngeli, 2017 (in Open Access, for free), chapters 3, 15, 16, 17 and 18 excluded.
• Papers suggested by Professor.

Biogeochemical cycles with particular reference to the hydrological cycle and its sustainable management. History on the exploitation of living natural resources: from Gordon's Theory towards HORIZON 2020, through sustainable development, the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment and ecosystem services. Principles of urban ecology and eco-sustainable cities: Green City, Smart Economy and Citizen Science. Biomanipulations: from Frankenstein effect at DAISIE (Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe). Biomanipulation of habitats and bioturpation concept. Verification on local and national socio-economic impact. Principles of naturalistic engineering. Eco-compatible agricultural activities. Traditional and renewable energy sources. Recycling of materials and resources. Biotechnologies. Ecology of disturbance. Nature, origin, diffusion and effects of stressors. Definition and classification of environmental alteration (chronic and point disturbance). DPSIR (determinants, pressures, state, impacts, responses). Study and evaluation and environmental impact. Techniques for the recovery of degraded resources and environments: bioremediation and biorecovery. Ecology applied to spatial planning. Landscape planning. What is a Management Plan. Remote sensing. Cartography. GIS applied to ecology. Community and national regulatory framework. Main national institutions for research and monitoring on the environment. The environmental manager in the world of work.

BATTISTI C., CONIGLIARO M., POETA G., TEOFILI C., 2013. Biodiversità, Disturbi, Minacce – Dall’Ecologia di Base alla Gestione e Conservazione degli Ecosistemi. Forum Editrice Universitaria Udinese, 238 PP.
GALASSI S., FERRARI I., VIAROLI P. 2014. Introduzione alla Ecologia Applicata. Città Studi Edizioni.
PRIMACK R.B. & BOITANI L. 2012. Biologia della Conservazione. Zanichelli Editore

PS. Other materials will be distributed during lessons and exercises.

From the origins, cinema has been inspired by historical contents and events for its productions. The public has always shown keen curiosity and interest in historical events narrated on the screen. The course aims to show how cinema can be: a source for historical knowledge, an instrument to tell the past and an agent of history. Cinema is a source for the historical knowledge of the present in which the film has been shot and processed: it provides us with information on ideas and values of the producing society.

On the other hand, when we talk about cinema as an instrument to narrate the past, we refer to the public use of history, a field in which historians have to compete with other professional figures.
Finally, cinema can be considered an agent of history when studying its capability to influence and construct behaviours, trends, passions and identities.
Understanding the various languages and representations can be an essential tool for historians working in the field of cultural and social history interested in the transmission of values, ideas and representations of the historical past of different eras.

The course focuses on representation on cinema and television and in particular on the following topic: “Times of crisis. War, violence and society ".
War and violence are phenomena that goes along with human societies throughout their own development, therefore the course questions the specific aspects of representations and imagery linked to different eras. A conspicuous number of films will be examined and each student will be able to identify their own path by selecting from those indicated, ten films of their own interest.
To this end, the following films and products for television will be analysed; students will have to see and analyse 10 of the following films.
The teaching is organised in seminars, the students will work in teams by deepening topics, readings and ideas related to the films indicated and to a bibliography agreed with the teacher.

Antiquity
• R. Scott, Gladiator (2000)
• W. Petersen, Troy (2004)
• M. Rovere, The First King (2019)

Middle Age
• M. Gibson, Braveheart (1995)
• R. Scott, Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
• L. Bresson, The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)
• M. Bellocchio, Enrico IV (1984)


Early modern period
• W. Herzog, Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
• S. Kubrick, Barry Lyndon (1975)
• R. Joffé, The Mission (1986)
• R. Emmerich, The Patriot (2000)
• P. Weir, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2004)
• S. McQueen, 12 Years a Slave (2013)
• M. Scorsese, Silence (2016)

Late modern period and Contemporary history
• L. Comencini, Everybody Go Home (1960)
• N. Loy, The Four Days of Naples (1962)
• F. Ford Coppola, Apocalypse now (1979)
• C. Nolan, Dunkirk (2017)
• J. Wright, Darkest Hour (2018)
• S. Mendes, 1917 (2019)

Readings for the exam:

A) Both the books:

• Cortini L. (a cura di), Le fonti audiovisive per la storia e la didattica, Effigi, Arcidosso, 2014, pp. 39-60; 97-118
• A. Scurati, Guerra. Narrazioni e culture nella tradizione occidentale, Donzelli, Roma 2003.

B) One book of your choice between:

• Iaccio P., Cinema e storia. Percorsi, immagini, testimonianze, Liguori, Napoli 2000
• Miro Gori G. (a cura di), La storia al cinema. Ricostruzione del passato e interpretazione del presente, Bulzoni, Roma, 1994
• Ortoleva P., Cinema e storia. Scene dal passato, Loescher, Torino, 1991
• Sorlin P., I figli di Nadar, Einaudi, Torino, 2000
• Munslow A., Narrative and History, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, 2007

For historical contextualization, it is recommended reading one of the following texts (available at public libraries), to which can be added other texts chosen by the student:

• Cicognetti L., Servetti L. (a cura di), Sorlin P. (a cura di), La guerra in televisione. I conflitti moderni tra cronaca e storia, Bologna-Venezia, Istituto storico Parri per l’Emilia Romagna-Marsilio 2003.
• Feci S., Schettini L. (a cura di), La violenza contro le donne nella storia: contesti, linguaggi, politiche del diritto (secoli 15.-21.), Roma, Viella, 2017
• Gozzini G., P. Masciullo (a cura di), La guerra delle immagini nel 21. secolo: cinema, televisione e web, Soveria Mannelli : Rubettino, 2020 (Fa parte di: Cinema e storia : rivista di studi interdisciplinari)
• Gruzinski S., La guerra delle immagini. Da Cristoforo Colombo a Blade Runner, SugarCo, 1991
• Lavenia V., Il catechismo dei soldati: guerra e cura d'anime in età moderna, Bologna, EDB, 2014
• Livi Bacci M., Conquista. La distruzione degli indios americani, Bologna, Società editrice il Mulino, 2005
• Pach C., "The War on Television: TV News, the Johnson Administration, and Vietnam," in A Companion to the Vietnam War, Blackwell Publishers, 2002
• Pellizzari P. (a cura di), Le armi e i cavalieri: la guerra e i suoi simboli dal Medioevo all'età moderna: atti della Giornata di studi, Torino, 12 febbraio 2018, Alessandria, Edizioni dell'Orso, 2018
• Todorov T., La conquista dell'America: il problema dell'altro, Torino, Einaudi, 2014
• Vaccaro L. (a cura di), L' Europa e l'evangelizzazione delle Indie Orientali, Milano, Centro ambrosiano, 2005.


Non-attending students must agree a program with the teacher by sending an email to: didattica.merluzzi@gmail.com

Course Schedule: Thursday 3pm-5pm, aula 9; Friday 11am-1pm, aula 9

Classes start on Thursday, March 3, at 3pm, aula 9


Readings

 All readings will be made available by the professor on Moodle. The Prof.’s lectures as well as class discussion will be based on those readings.


Assignments:

1. Paper (1500/2000 words) (30%)
2. Research outline presentation (10-15 mins) with a ppt (25%)
3. Final exam (30%)
4. Class participation (15%)



Course Syllabus: (days, topics, and readings)

Week 1

TH 3 March - Course Intro: Historical Thinking and Cultural History

- M. C. Lemon, Philosophy of History: A Guide for Students, pp. 290-303 (“The What is History Debate”)
- Alessandro Arcangeli, Cultural History: A Concise Introduction, pp. 1-17 (“In search of a definition”); pp. 30-48 (“Interwoven paths”)


F 4 March – NO CLASS (Make-up Class: 5 May)



Week 2

TH 10 March - Popular Culture?

- Peter Burke, Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe, pp. 3-22 (The Discovery of the People)
- Aron Gurevich, Medieval Popular Culture: Problems of Belief and Perception, pp. 78-103
(Popular Culture in the Mirror of the Penitentials)


F 11 March – Francis Petrarch and Humanism
- Kenneth Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance, pp. XIX-XX; 1-8 (Introduction; Quintilian); pp. 25-34 (Petrarch: Introduction; Letter to Posterity; The Ascent of Mount Ventoux; Letter to the Shade of Cicero)


Week 3

TH 17 March – The Humanist “Revolution” and the Renaissance

- Kenneth Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance, pp. 66-86 (Coluccio Salutati, Letter to Peregrino Zambeccari; Vespasiano da Bisticci: Life of Poggio Bracciolini; Life of Niccolò Niccoli; Lorenzo Valla, The Glory of the Latin Language)
- Lauro Martines, Power and Imagination (Ch."Humanism: A Program for Ruling Classes")


F 18 March - Women of the Renaissance

- Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance, pp. 111-133 (Marriage, the Family, and Women: Intro; Francesco Barbaro; Leon Battista Alberti)
- Carolyn James, “Politics and Domesticity in the Letters of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490 –1519”, Renaissance Quarterly 65 (2012): 321–52



Week 4

TH 24 March The “Universal Man” of The Renaissance

- Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance, pp. 97-104 (Florentine Neoplatonism and Mysticism: Intro; Marsilio Ficino); pp. 104-108 (Giovanni Pico della Mirandola)
- Leonardo da Vinci, Selections from the Notebooks, in The Italian Renaissance Reader, ed. by Bondanella and Musa, pp. 185-195


F 25 March - An Exercise of Critical Thinking: Lorenzo Valla’s Reading of The Donation of Constantine

- Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance, pp. 206-210 (Lorenzo Valla The Principal Arguments from the Forged Donation of Constantine)
- The Donation of Constantine: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/donatconst.asp


Week 5

TH 31 March Political Thought: Niccolò Machiavelli

- Starn, Seeing Culture in a Room for a Renaissance Prince, in Biersack, Aletta, The New Cultural History, pp. 205-232
- Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, in Bondanella and Musa (eds.), The Italian Renaissance Reader, pp. 258-264; 273-274; 291-293


F 1 April - Pope Sixtus IV, Conspiracies, and the Making of the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel

- Joseph H. Lynch and Phillip C. Adamo, The Medieval Church: A Brief History, pp. 318-327 (“Crisis and Calamity”); pp. 329-342 (“The Church in the Fifteenth Century”)
- Marcello Simonetta, The Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissance Mystery Decoded, selected pp.



Week 6

TH 7 April – The Age of Geographical Explorations

- Cristopher Columbus, Journal of the First Voyage, paragraphs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 50-54:
http://eada.lib.umd.edu/text-entries/journal/


F 8 April - Witchcraft: A Renaissance Contradiction?

- Brian Levack, The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, Ch. 2 (The Intellectual Foundations)
- Charles Zika, Images of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe, in Levack, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America



Week 7

TH 14 April – Heinrich Kramer’s Malleus Maleficarum and Related Traditions

- Kors and Peters, Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700, pp. 176-228 (“The Hammer of Witches”)
- Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola, “Strix”, in Witchcraft in Europe, ed. by Alan Charles Kors
and Edward Peters, selected pp.


F 15 April – T 19 April: Spring Break (Make up Class for Friday: 6 May)



Week 8 -- Paper due: Thursday, 21 April at 11:59pm

TH 21 April - Carlo Ginzburg’s Benandanti

- Carlo Ginzburg, The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, selected pp.


F 22 April - Civic Rituals and Popular Cultures: The Case of the Carnival

- Peter Burke, Popular Culture in Early-Modern Europe, pp. 178-204 (The World of Carnival)


Week 9

TH 28 April – Protestant and Catholic Reforms

- Lisa Jardine, Erasmus: Man of Letters, selected pp.
- Martin Luther, Address to the Christian Nobility: https://history.hanover.edu/texts/luthad.html
- Paolo Giustiniani and Pietro Querini, Booklet to Pope Leo X on the Reform of the Church, selected pp.


F 29 April - Science, Theology, and Authority

- The Index of Forbidden Books: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/indexlibrorum.asp
- Giordano Bruno, On the Infinite, the Universe, and the Worlds, selected pp.
- Galileo Galilei's Indictment and Abjuration (1633): https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1630galileo.asp


Week 10 – Make-Up Classes

TH 5 May – Current Cultural Trends

- James Hankins, How Not to Defend the Humanities:
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/11/not-defend-humanities/
- Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, selected pp.



F 6 May - Course Recap and Final Exam Preparation

All readings will be made available by the professor on Moodle. The Prof.’s lectures as well as class discussion will be based on those readings.

The origins of the Theatine order

The course will initially investigate principal questions regarding the political, religious, cultural and social structures that resulted in the breakdown of Christian unity, in the first decades of the sixteenth century. This will be followed by a study of the way in which the Roman church reacted to the Reform movement focusing in particular on the proto-inquisitorial activities of the Theatine order, which was founded in 1524 by Gian Pietro Carafa, the defender of Catholic orthodoxy.

Testi di riferimento:

1) L. Felici, La Riforma protestante nell’Europa del Cinquecento, Roma, Carocci
2) A. Vanni, Gaetano Thiene. Spiritualità, politica, santità, Roma, Viella
3) A. Vanni, Dalla riforma delle ordinazioni sacerdotali alle origini dell’Inquisizione romana. La carriera ecclesiastica di Gian Pietro Carafa, in Europa e America allo specchio. Studi per Francesca Cantù, a cura di P. Broggio, L. Guarnieri Calò Carducci e M. Merluzzi, Roma, Viella, pp. 43-66.


4) Un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

- L. Addante, Eretici e libertini nel Cinquecento italiano, Roma-Bari, Laterza
- E. Bonora, Roma 1564. La congiura contro il papa, Roma-Bari, Laterza
- M. Firpo - F. Biferali, Immagini ed eresie nell'Italia del Cinquecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza
- M. Firpo, Juan de Valdés e la Riforma nell’Italia del Cinquecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza
- G. Fragnito, La Bibbia al rogo. La censura ecclesiastica e i volgarizzamenti della Scrittura (1471-1605), Bologna, il Mulino
- G. Romeo - M. Mancino, Clero criminale. L’onore della Chiesa e i delitti degli ecclesiastici nell’Italia della Controriforma, Roma-Bari, Laterza
- A. Prosperi, Tribunali della coscienza. Inquisitori, confessori, missionari, Torino, Einaudi
- U. Vincenti, Lo studente che sfidò il papa. Inquisizione e supplizio di Pomponio de Algerio, Roma-Bari, Laterza

RUSSIA, AN EMPIRE
The course will focus on empire as a peculiar element of continuity in contemporary Russian history despite the radical changes that the country has undergone. The unique characteristics of Russia’s imperial model will be analyzed in its various forms and manifestations, along with the diverse political strategies of Russian governors between 1800 and 1900s, from the Russian Empire through the USSR to the Russian Federation. The national question, the broader geographical dimension, the forms of government, foreign policies and international geopolitical visions will be studied in depth. The different imperial ideologies will also be examined.

1. Andrea Graziosi, L’Unione Sovietica 1914-1991, Bologna, il Mulino, 2011;
2. Andreas Kappeler, La Russia. Storia di un impero multietnico, Roma, Edizioni Lavoro, 2006.
3. Gian Piero Piretto, Gli occhi di Stalin. La cultura visuale sovietica nell'era staliniana, Milano, Raffello Cortina Editore, 2010

The first part of the course will be dedicated to explore the role of cultural diplomachy as a tool for managing international conflicts. The idea of the war as a clash of civilizations will be analyzed from the nineteenth century up to the present day.
The second part of the course will focus on the period between the two world wars, and in particular on the methods used by fascism for overseas promotion of Italian culture.

1) Tommaso Detti (a cura di), Le guerre in un mondo globale, Viella, Roma 2017, p. 320
2) Gaetano Castellini Curiel, Soft power e l’arte della diplomazia culturale, Le Lettere, Firenze 2021, p. 147

3) A book of your choice between:
a) James Sheehan, L’età post-eroica: guerra e pace nell'Europa contemporanea, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009, p. 330
b) Jeremy Black, Le guerre nel mondo contemporaneo, il Mulino, Bologna 2006, p. 238.
c) Lorenzo Benadusi, Ufficiale e gentiluomo. Virtù civili e valori militari in Italia, 1896-1918, Feltrinelli, Milano 2015, p. 397
d) Frances Stoner Saunders, La guerra fredda culturale. La Cia e il mondo delle lettere e delle arti, Fazi, Roma 2004
e) Fabio Ferrarini, L’«asse spezzato». Fascismo, nazismo e diplomazia culturale nei paesi nordici (1922-1945), Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2021, p. 288
f) Silvia Salvatici, Nel nome degli altri. Storia dell’umanitarismo internazionale, il Mulino, Bologna 2015, p. 332
g) Enzo Traverso, Il secolo armato. Interpretare le violenze del Novecento, Feltrinelli, Milano 2012

An historical perspective on religions must take into consideration their multi-layered presence on the territory and must be able to analyze dynamics and strategies: since 2007 more than a half of the global population lives in urban areas and cities have become the privileged space of contestations, conflicts, negotiation of interests, creation of symbolic and capital resources concerning religions. In cities innovations, waves and tendencies concerning beliefs and religious practices are produced and reproduced. Italian and European cities were the space of creation and elaboration of social fears; in the last decades fear was related to economy, the environment, the pandemic crisis.
The fear, almost touchable in the streets of the cities, is related to religion in a double way; from one side every religion was born from the fear of the loose/impossibility of controlling life, death, illness, pain, the end and often it is an answer to this feeling and to worries
From the other side, religions produce fear, in the case of violence which arises in their name but also due to collective imaginaries which feed clichés, stereotypes, in particular towards minorities.
This course offers some historical examples of religion such as an antidote to fear and religion such as virus of fear, in particular related to the topic of social fear and religious answers, fears which were provoked or sublimated by religious fundamentalisms (on line – at school in prisons and in religious places)

Attending Students
1. Notes, Materials discussed during the course
2. M. Graziano Geopolitica della paura oppure Egea, Bocconi, Milano 2021 oppure
M. Bombardieri, M. Giorda, S. Hejazi, Capire l’Islam, Morcelliana Brescia 2019
3. Sessione monografica di Humanitas 2021 su “Ecologia e religioni” (curato da B. Nuti)

Not Attending Students
1. M. Graziano Geopolitica della paura oppure Egea, Bocconi, 2021
2. M. Bombardieri, M. Giorda, S. Hejazi, Capire l’Islam, Morcelliana Brescia 2019
3. G. Filoramo, R. Parrinello, Guarire dal contagio, Morcelliana Brescia 2020
AND Sessione monografica di Humanitas 2021 su “Ecologia e religioni” (ED. B. Nuti)

Aim of the course is to provide the basic elements of Public History and its practices.
A specific study will be conducted on popular music and the processes of construction of memory.

L. Bertucelli, La Public History in Italia. Metodologie, pratiche, obiettivi, in Public history. Discussioni e pratiche, a cura di P. Bertella Farnetti, L. Berucelli, A. Botti, Mimesis 2017, pp. 75-96

S. Noiret, "“Public history” e “storia pubblica” nella rete, in «Ricerche Storiche» XXXIX, 2009, n. 2-3, pp. 275-327 (Numero speciale dal titolo: Media e storia, a cura di F. Mineccia e L. Tomassini)

P. Carusi, Viva l'Italia. Narrazioni e rappresentazioni della storia repubblicana nei versi dei cantautori "impegnati", Firenze, Le Monnier, 2018

P. Carusi, M. Merluzzi (a cura di), Note tricolori. La storia dell'Italia repubblicana nella popular music, Pisa, Pacini, 2021

This laboratory is the result of the collaboration between the LM courses "Movements and trends in contemporary Islam" (Prof. G. Gervasio) and "Religions and urban spaces" (Prof. M. Giorda). The aim is to introduce students to the history of the representations of different religious traditions. Islamophobic representations, simplifications such as "Buddhism is not a religion", stereotypes about so-called “primitive” religions, clichés linked to key-words of historical-religious language will be the topics of our educational path. In addition to seminar lectures by the two Professors involved, the course will see the participation of external experts - researchers, representatives of local and international civil society, and personalities of Italian and international religious communities. Documentaries and movies will be an important tool for tackling the object of the course.
The calendar of meetings will be provided at the beginning of the courses.

S. Meghnaghi, R. Di Castro, L' ebreo inventato. Luoghi comuni, pregiudizi, stereotipi, Giunti, 2021
G. Burgio, Tra noi e i rom. Identità, conflitti, Intercultura 2015
G. Proglio (a cura di), Islamofobia e Razzismo, Seb27, 2020
G. Lapis, Dopo le “religioni mondiali”, Morcelliana 2022

Never as in recent years has Europe been at the center of public debate: for some the only lifeline against nationalisms and wars, for others the ultimate cause of all our problems and malaises, especially from an economic point of view. In the political discourse Europe is automatically identified with the community bodies; nevertheless, it is a concept which possesses an extraordinary historical depth, the knowledge of which imposes itself as an essential necessity in order to correctly insert the events of our continent in the framework of world history and also in order to avoid falling into clichés and generalizations deriving from the flattening of the perspective solely on the events of the last seventy years. The course aims to analyze the evolution of the notion of "Europe" over the very long period, by deepening on the one hand its role in global history (colonialism, decolonization, etc.), on the other the conceptualization of its internal articulations, and in particular the Mediterranean sector, traditional and fundamental area of ​​contact, communication and clash with the Arab and Ottoman world.

First unit: "History of Europe, World History" (6 ECTS)

Books:
Lucien Febvre, L’Europa. Storia di una civiltà, Roma, Donzelli.
Federico Chabod, Storia dell’Idea d’Europa, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Serge Gruzinski, La macchina del tempo. Quando l’Europa ha iniziato a scrivere la storia del mondo, Milano, Raffaello Cortina Editore.

Second unit: "The Mediterranean: corsair wars, slavery, religious conversions"

Books:
Salvatore Bono, Guerre corsare nel Mediterraneo. Una storia di incursioni, arrembaggi, razzie, Bologna, Il Mulino.
Giovanna Fiume, Schiavitù mediterranee. Corsari, rinnegati e santi di età moderna, Milano, Mondadori.

Students not attending the course will have to study, for this unit, the following additional book:
Bruno Pomara Saverino, Rifugiati. I moriscos e l'Italia, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2018 (Open Access, free download: https://www.fupress.com/catalogo/rifugiati/3516)

STORIA DEI SISTEMI POLITICI EUROPEI

Obiettivo del corso è analizzare la storia dei sistemi europei nella seconda metà del XX secolo dall’angolo di visuale dell’Italia, evidenziando sfide comuni e specificità nazionali.

Per ragioni burocratico-amministrative il corso è diviso in due moduli da 6 CFU ciascuno. Nonostante questa suddivisione burocratica, le lezioni seguiranno un andamento tematico comune a entrambi i moduli. La frequenza è quindi consigliata a tutti per l’intera durata del corso.

Per il MODULO UNO vanno portati i seguenti temi coi seguenti testi.

IN COMUNE PER TUTTI:

TEMA:
L’Europa nella seconda metà del XX secolo e l’emergere dei movimenti populisti
TESTI:
Leonardo Rapone, L’Europa del novecento, Carocci, 2020, da pag. 149 a pag. 436
Marco Tarchi, L’Italia populista, Il Mulino, 2015

In più, A SCELTA, UNO dei seguenti temi, con relativi testi

1) TEMA: la destra politica e sociale, la cosiddetta “Strategia della tensione” e le sue connessioni internazionali.
TESTI: su questo argomento non è disponibile un unico volume che comprenda il tema nelle sue articolazioni, per cui vengono qui proposti alcuni saggi, pubblicati in riviste specializzate o come capitoli di libri. Lo studente che sceglie questo tema deve portare tutti i saggi indicati:
- Mario Del Pero, "Cia e Covert Operation nella politica estera americana del secondo dopoguerra", in “Italia Contemporanea”, dicembre 1996, pp. 691-712
- Giacomo Pacini, "Le origini dell’operazione Stay Behind. 1943-1956", in “Contemporanea”, Ottobre 2007, pp. 581-606
- Elena Cavalieri, "I piani di liquidazione del Centro-sinistra nel 1964", in “Passato e Presente”, n. 79 2010, pp. 59-82
- Francesco Biscione, "La lotta politica extraistituzionale dagli anni Sessanta alla P2", capitolo III in "Il sommerso della repubblica", Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 2003, pp. 70-143.
- Benedetta Tobagi, "Quale giustizia? I processi per Piazza Fontana tra Roma, Milano, Catanzaro", e Mirco Dondi, "Dalle stragi di provocazione alle stragi di intimidazione", entrambi in “Dimensioni e Problemi della Ricerca Storica”, Luglio 2020, rispettivamente pp. 17-41 e 133-156

Tutte le riviste o i volumi da cui sono estratti i saggi sono disponibili presso la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, la Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea di Via Caetani (nonché le biblioteche dei principali istituti culturali), la cui collocazione è immediatamente rilevabile sul sito del sistema bibliotecario Nazionale, SBN.

2) TEMA: Le Brigate Rosse e il Caso Moro
TESTO. Agostino Giovagnoli, "Il Caso Moro", Il Mulino, Bologna, 2005

3) TEMA: Gli anni Settanta, i cambiamenti che caratterizzarono la politica, la società e la cultura nel decennio in una prospettiva nazionale e internazionale:
TESTO: Fiammetta Balestracci, Catia Papa (a cura di), "L’Italia degli anni Settanta. Narrazioni e interpretazioni a confronto", Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2019.

4) TEMA: L’Italia nei decenni tra la fine del XX e l’inizio del XXI secolo: gli anni Ottanta, i cambiamenti sociali, politici e culturali, il crollo del sistema politico con Tangentopoli, l’ingresso nell’Euro, la crisi del 2008-2009.
Su questo argomento vengono proposti alcuni saggi tratti da un’opera in tre volumi sulla storia d’Italia dagli anni Ottanta a oggi.
L’opera si intitola "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
Vol. I, "Fine della guerra fredda e globalizzazione" a cura di Silvio Pons, Adriano Roccucci, Federico Romero; in questo volume occorre studiare i saggi di Silvio Pons, "La bipolarità italiana e la fine della Guerra Fredda", pp. 35-53, Valerio Castronovo, "L’Italia nel mercato globale", pp. 71-83 e Antonio Varsori, "Dalla caduta del Muro di Berlino a Tangentopoli: la dimensione internazionale della crisi della Prima Repubblica”, pp. 209-222;
Vol. II, "Il mutamento sociale", a cura di Enrica Asquer, Emanuele Bernardi, Carlo Fumian; in questo volume occorre studiare i saggi di Paolo Capuzzo, "I consumi tra economia e cultura nell’Italia del dopo boom (1973-2008)", pp. 179-197, Emanuela Scarpellini, "Consumi e attori sociali: le nuove identità dei consumatori italiani", pp. 199-210, Giovanni Gozzini, "La televisione tra due repubbliche", pp. 227-242;
Vol. III, "Istituzioni e politica", a cura di Simona Colarizi, Agostino Giovagnoli, Paolo Pombeni; in questo volume occorre studiare i saggi di Simona Colarizi, "Politica e antipolitica dalla Prima alla Seconda repubblica", pp. 333-347, Paolo Segatti, "La nascita della Lega: un capitolo di una storia che ci appartiene", pp. 351-360, Andrea Possieri, "Un riformismo incompiuto: il primo governo Prodi", pp. 509-528.

I tre volumi da cui sono estratti i saggi, oltre ad essere acquistabili nelle librerie, sono disponibili presso la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, la Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea di Via Caetani, nonché le biblioteche dei principali istituti culturali, la cui collocazione è immediatamente rilevabile sul sito del sistema bibliotecario Nazionale, SBN.
In più, ne è stata fatta richiesta di acquisizione presso il Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneo di Roma Tre.


Per il MODULO DUE, vanno studiati i seguenti temi, coi relativi testi

1) Il “Berlusconismo”, come fenomeno sociale e politico in una prospettiva comparativa internazionale
TESTO: Giovanni Orsina, "Il Berlusconismo nella storia d‘Italia", Marsilio, Venezia, 2013

2) Un approfondimento sulla storia politico sociale di uno dei principali paesi europei.
TESTI: portare UNO A SCELTA fra i seguenti testi:
Riccardo Brizzi, Michele Marchi, "Storia politica della Francia repubblicana", Le Monnier, 2011, dal cap. 5 alla fine;
Giulia Guazzaloca, "Storia della Gran Bretagna 1832-2014", Le Monnier, 2015, dal cap. 9 alla fine;
Gustavo Corni, "Storia della Germania", Il Saggiatore, Milano, 2017, dal cap. 8 alla fine;
Carmelo Adagio, Alfonso Botti, “Storia della Spagna democratica”, Bruno Mondadori, 2006

STORIA DEI SISTEMI POLITICI EUROPEI

Obiettivo del corso è analizzare la storia dei sistemi europei nella seconda metà del XX secolo dall’angolo di visuale dell’Italia, evidenziando sfide comuni e specificità nazionali.

Per ragioni burocratico-amministrative il corso è diviso in due moduli da 6 CFU ciascuno. Nonostante questa suddivisione burocratica, le lezioni seguiranno un andamento tematico comune a entrambi i moduli. La frequenza è quindi consigliata a tutti per l’intera durata del corso.

Per il MODULO UNO vanno portati i seguenti temi coi seguenti testi.

IN COMUNE PER TUTTI:

TEMA:
L’Europa nella seconda metà del XX secolo e l’emergere dei movimenti populisti
TESTI:
Leonardo Rapone, L’Europa del novecento, Carocci, 2020, da pag. 149 a pag. 436
Marco Tarchi, L’Italia populista, Il Mulino, 2015

In più, A SCELTA, UNO dei seguenti temi, con relativi testi

1) TEMA: la destra politica e sociale, la cosiddetta “Strategia della tensione” e le sue connessioni internazionali.
TESTI: su questo argomento non è disponibile un unico volume che comprenda il tema nelle sue articolazioni, per cui vengono qui proposti alcuni saggi, pubblicati in riviste specializzate o come capitoli di libri. Lo studente che sceglie questo tema deve portare tutti i saggi indicati:
- Mario Del Pero, "Cia e Covert Operation nella politica estera americana del secondo dopoguerra", in “Italia Contemporanea”, dicembre 1996, pp. 691-712
- Giacomo Pacini, "Le origini dell’operazione Stay Behind. 1943-1956", in “Contemporanea”, Ottobre 2007, pp. 581-606
- Elena Cavalieri, "I piani di liquidazione del Centro-sinistra nel 1964", in “Passato e Presente”, n. 79 2010, pp. 59-82
- Francesco Biscione, "La lotta politica extraistituzionale dagli anni Sessanta alla P2", capitolo III in "Il sommerso della repubblica", Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 2003, pp. 70-143.
- Benedetta Tobagi, "Quale giustizia? I processi per Piazza Fontana tra Roma, Milano, Catanzaro", e Mirco Dondi, "Dalle stragi di provocazione alle stragi di intimidazione", entrambi in “Dimensioni e Problemi della Ricerca Storica”, Luglio 2020, rispettivamente pp. 17-41 e 133-156

Tutte le riviste o i volumi da cui sono estratti i saggi sono disponibili presso la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, la Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea di Via Caetani (nonché le biblioteche dei principali istituti culturali), la cui collocazione è immediatamente rilevabile sul sito del sistema bibliotecario Nazionale, SBN.

2) TEMA: Le Brigate Rosse e il Caso Moro
TESTO. Agostino Giovagnoli, "Il Caso Moro", Il Mulino, Bologna, 2005

3) TEMA: Gli anni Settanta, i cambiamenti che caratterizzarono la politica, la società e la cultura nel decennio in una prospettiva nazionale e internazionale:
TESTO: Fiammetta Balestracci, Catia Papa (a cura di), "L’Italia degli anni Settanta. Narrazioni e interpretazioni a confronto", Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2019.

4) TEMA: L’Italia nei decenni tra la fine del XX e l’inizio del XXI secolo: gli anni Ottanta, i cambiamenti sociali, politici e culturali, il crollo del sistema politico con Tangentopoli, l’ingresso nell’Euro, la crisi del 2008-2009.
Su questo argomento vengono proposti alcuni saggi tratti da un’opera in tre volumi sulla storia d’Italia dagli anni Ottanta a oggi.
L’opera si intitola "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
Vol. I, "Fine della guerra fredda e globalizzazione" a cura di Silvio Pons, Adriano Roccucci, Federico Romero; in questo volume occorre studiare i saggi di Silvio Pons, "La bipolarità italiana e la fine della Guerra Fredda", pp. 35-53, Valerio Castronovo, "L’Italia nel mercato globale", pp. 71-83 e Antonio Varsori, "Dalla caduta del Muro di Berlino a Tangentopoli: la dimensione internazionale della crisi della Prima Repubblica”, pp. 209-222;
Vol. II, "Il mutamento sociale", a cura di Enrica Asquer, Emanuele Bernardi, Carlo Fumian; in questo volume occorre studiare i saggi di Paolo Capuzzo, "I consumi tra economia e cultura nell’Italia del dopo boom (1973-2008)", pp. 179-197, Emanuela Scarpellini, "Consumi e attori sociali: le nuove identità dei consumatori italiani", pp. 199-210, Giovanni Gozzini, "La televisione tra due repubbliche", pp. 227-242;
Vol. III, "Istituzioni e politica", a cura di Simona Colarizi, Agostino Giovagnoli, Paolo Pombeni; in questo volume occorre studiare i saggi di Simona Colarizi, "Politica e antipolitica dalla Prima alla Seconda repubblica", pp. 333-347, Paolo Segatti, "La nascita della Lega: un capitolo di una storia che ci appartiene", pp. 351-360, Andrea Possieri, "Un riformismo incompiuto: il primo governo Prodi", pp. 509-528.

I tre volumi da cui sono estratti i saggi, oltre ad essere acquistabili nelle librerie, sono disponibili presso la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, la Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea di Via Caetani, nonché le biblioteche dei principali istituti culturali, la cui collocazione è immediatamente rilevabile sul sito del sistema bibliotecario Nazionale, SBN.
In più, ne è stata fatta richiesta di acquisizione presso il Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneo di Roma Tre.


Per il MODULO DUE, vanno studiati i seguenti temi, coi relativi testi

1) Il “Berlusconismo”, come fenomeno sociale e politico in una prospettiva comparativa internazionale
TESTO: Giovanni Orsina, "Il Berlusconismo nella storia d‘Italia", Marsilio, Venezia, 2013

2) Un approfondimento sulla storia politico sociale di uno dei principali paesi europei.
TESTI: portare UNO A SCELTA fra i seguenti testi:
Riccardo Brizzi, Michele Marchi, "Storia politica della Francia repubblicana", Le Monnier, 2011, dal cap. 5 alla fine
Giulia Guazzaloca, "Storia della Gran Bretagna 1832-2014", Le Monnier, 2015, dal cap. 9 alla fine
Gustavo Corni, "Storia della Germania", Il Saggiatore, Milano, 2017, dal cap. 8 alla fine
Carmelo Adagio, Alfonso Botti, “Storia della Spagna democratica”, Bruno Mondadori, 2006

CONTENT:

PART I – Introduction and description of the course

1) Introduction : East Asia as a regional entity (geopolitics and culture)
2) Historical overview : The pre-war order in East Asia (the Sino-centric order and the Japanese particularism) – Part I
3) Japan and China facing the first great challenge (Modernity)
4) Japan and China facing the second great challenge (Globalization)
5) Seminar : the construction of the Chinese political identity through the CCP rhetoric in the post-Maoist era
6) Revision
7) Mid-term.

PART II

1) Security, identity and stability in East Asia
2) China and the Japan-U.S. alliance - The security dilemma in East Asia
3) Ambiguous Japan: Japan’s national identity at century’s end
4) Power and purpose in Pacific East Asia
5) Revision
6) Final Exam

Students are expected to write a 2.500 words, theoretically informed, research paper on a topic of their choice which has been previously discussed with the instructor.

This course is taught in English.

REQUIRED READINGS:

1) John Welfield, An Empire in Eclipse. Japan in the Postwar American Alliance System, Bloomsbury.
Chi-Kwan Mark, China and the World Since 1945. An International History, Routledge.
2) Rémy Davison, “Asia’s ‘Great Game’”, in M. Connors, R. Davison & J. Dosch, The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific. Conflict and Cooperation in the Asian Century, Routledge.
3) M.K. Connors, “Between a doctrine and a hard place. Japan’s emerging role”, in M. Connors, R. Davison & J. Dosch, The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific. Conflict and Cooperation in the Asian Century, Routledge.
4) Rémy Davison, “The Chinese century?”, in M. Connors, R. Davison & J. Dosch, The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific. Conflict and Cooperation in the Asian Century, Routledge.

Week I - Introduction and course description. The origins of U.S. foreign policy. The American exceptionalism. Isolationism or non-isolationism?
Week II - The Civil War as an international conflict. The end of the XIX century and the early Imperial phase.
Week III - The American Century: from the Spanish-American War to the end of the Cold War. The rise of the United States to global power. Wilsonianism or anti-Wilsonianism?
Week IV - The Global Empire. The Cold War between containment, détente, and consensus.
Week V - The post-Cold War debate over the new global role of the U.S. From Bush Sr.'s new world order to Clinton's Democratic enlargment.
Week VI - American Foreign Policy after 9/11. New challenges, new approaches, and new interpretations of the U.S. role in the world.

Mario Del Pero, Libertà e impero. Gli Stati Uniti e il mondo, 1776-2016, Laterza, 2017


One additional book of your choice from the following:

Chalmers Johnson, Le lacrime dell'impero. L'apparato militare industriale, i servizi segreti e la fine del sogno americano, Garzanti, 2005

Elisabetta Vezzosi, Raffaella Baritono, Oltre il secolo americano? Gli Stati Uniti prima e dopo l'11 settembre, Carocci, 2011

Francis Fukuyama, La fine della storia e l'ultimo uomo, UTET, 2020

Joseph Nye, Fine del secolo americano? Il Mulino, 2016

Mario Del Pero, Henry Kissinger e l'ascesa dei neoconservatori alle origini della politica estera americana, Laterza, 2006

The first part of he course focuses on the historical question of African history and the history sources for this continent. Particular reference is made to oral sources and methodology. The course will then move on to the fundamental aspects.
The course aims to provide basic background knowledge of the history of the continent and its modern day problems, this in the light of a historical understanding of different cultures.
Subjects covered:
Aspects of African culture (Clans and ancestry, totemism, theism, social structures)
The impact of colonialism
The Africanisation of the colonialistic western culture

- Bernardo Bernardi, Africa. Tradizione e Modernità, Carocci, 2001

- Catherine Coquery Vidrovitch, Breve storia dell'Africa, Il Mulino, 2012 (French original edition)

The program is divided into three sections: the first goes from the 3rd to the 11th century, and is devoted to the late-antique legal world and to the Roman-Barbaric laws; the second part focus on the classic age of the Ius Commune (12th-16th century) and it is devoted to the principal lines of development of canon and civil law; the third part goes from the beginnings of the 18th until the end of the 19th century and is primarily concerned with the codification in Europe.

Ennio Cortese: Le grandi linee della Storia Giuridica Medievale, Roma, Il Cigno editore, qualsiasi anno di pubblicazione dal 2000 in poi.

A.A.V.V.: Tempi del diritto, Età medievale, moderna, contemporanea, Giappichelli editore.

The course of lectures will focus on the moments of change in the western law and society, illustrating the relationship between legal systems and social, religious and economic changes.
Therefore, it will focus on:
The transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages: the impact of Christianism on legal systems; demographic and economic changes; the new institutions of private law and the new models of sovereignty.
Law in Europe after 1000 aD: geopolitical tensions; economic and ecclesiological transformations; the birth of scholastic thought and the rational trial; the characters of civil and canonical legal science.
The crises of the late Middle Ages and the new European political order between 15th and 16t centuries: new institutions in private and business law; nationalization of legal sciences; religious crisis and nationalization of churches; the new international problems and the birth of human rights.
Enlightenment: doctrines, revolutions, and bourgeois law. The triumph of the rule of law; the new private bourgeois law; the codifications and the sovereign criminal law; the birth of the administration.
The crisis of the bourgeois paradigm.
Go to
https://storiadirittoromatre.blogspot.com/
Where you find summaries and videos of classes.

Ennio Cortese, Le grandi linee della storia giuridica medievale, Roma, Il Cigno, 2000. Le diverse ristampe sono tutte equivalenti.
Lo Stato moderno in Europa. Istituzioni e diritto, a c. di Maurizio Fioravanti, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2002

More on the blog
https://storiadirittoromatre.blogspot.com/

A podcast of the classes is available for everybody on

https://open.spotify.com/show/2xXuMJyBpU7oTjDgJdoc3y

or
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lezioni-di-storia-del-diritto-medievale-e-moderno-e/id1485158489?ign-mpt=uo%3D4

THE COURSE AIMS TO DEFINE THE DEVELOPMENT OF LEGAL HISTORY IN EUROPE FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE 20TH CENTURY.

1) "Tempi del diritto. Età medievale, moderna, contemporanea", 2 ed., Torino, Giappichelli, 2018;
2) P. Alvazzi del Frate, "Individuo e comunità. Considerazioni storico-giuridiche sull'individualismo", Torino, Giappichelli, 2020;
3) P. Alvazzi del Frate, "L'interpretazione autentica nel XVIII secolo", Torino, Giappichelli, 2000.

The course will reconstruct the historical evolution of cartography, retracing the modes of representation from antiquity to the eighteenth-century geodetic revolution, up to the creation of the Military Geographic Institute. Particular emphasis will be given to the deconstruction of geocartographic materials, to their use in geo-historical research for the study of landscape transformations.

Attending students:
- The exam will focus on the topics covered in class, on slides in ppt and supplementary learning material provided during the course.
Non-Attending Students:
- E. Boria, Storia della cartografia in Italia dall’Unità a oggi. Tra scienza, società e progetti di potere, Milano, Utet, 2020 (pp.XI-299)

Poverty, mission and development cooperation in contemporary Christianity

Since the post–World War II, the Christian churches have begun to consider the "social question" as a global question, as a result of the decolonization, of a new theological regard of poverty and of the international climate of the Cold War. Issues such as poverty, work, peace and development have gradually become part of the public discourse of the churches with an impact on the traditional exercise of charity: from paternalistic welfarism to the NGOs came out of associations and religious institutes, this evolution is a trace of a dynamic and conflictual confrontation with the affirmation of civil rights in liberal societies and with the secularization. Through the study of the historical documents, reconstructing the main debates in Christian churches, the course will deal in particular with the following topics: the relationship between missions, decolonization and Third-Worldism; the "church of the poor" and the Second Vatican Council; peace and development of peoples.

1. Dossier of historical documents proposed by the professor
2. Two books to be chosen from following:
a. MASSIMO DE GIUSEPPE, L’altra America: i cattolici italiani e l’America latina. Da Medellín a Francesco, Morcelliana, Brescia 2017
b. MATTEO MENNINI, La Chiesa dei poveri. Dal Vaticano II a papa Francesco, Guerini e Associati, Milano 2017.
c. MAURO FORNO, La cultura degli altri. Il mondo delle missioni e la decolonizzazione, Carocci, Roma 2017.

Attending students will be provided with other indications during the lessons

The first part of the course is dedicated to the transformations taking place within the modern public and political scene and to the most relevant theoretical contributions in political communication. The main areas of transformation of Italian political communication and its actors and the evolution of electoral campaigns will be examined.
The second part, dedicated to visual politics, concerns the history and evolution of political graphics and aesthetic codes of Italian political propaganda from 1945 to today and the contacts and influences with the main artistic currents.
The concomitance with the administrative elections of autumn 2021, currently not yet fixed, will offer the possibility of carrying out monitoring and research in seminar form.

A specific objective of the course is to develop the skills and competencies for the historical, political and artistic analysis of visual and audiovisual propaganda materials, such as posters, films, commercials, that will be showed and commented on during the lessons.

Syllabus
- E. Novelli, Le campagne elettorali in Italia, Laterza, Roma 2018.
- E. Novelli. I Manifesti Politici, Carocci, Roma 2021, forthcoming, available from October 2021
- P. Gribaudo, I partiti digitali, Il Mulino 2020

The course aims to present an updated and comprehensive picture of medieval culture (fifth-fifteenth century), framing Italy within a broader Euro-Mediterranean context. Taking into account the most recent historiographical debates and acquisitions, lessons will try to bring students closer to different aspects concerning cultural phenomena, starting from definitions and categories such as "culture", "written culture" and "intellectual" to analyze then school practices, literacy, production and circulation of texts in their relations with society, politics, economics and religion. More precisely, the lessons will focus on the following aspects: "culture" as a historiographic problem between theoretical debates and research; written sources: qualitative and quantitative aspects; the problem of literacy and school in the early Middle Ages; book culture in the early Middle Ages; documentary culture in the early Middle Ages; the eleventh and twelfth centuries between juridical renaissance, textual discoveries and school transformations; book culture of the late Middle Ages; documentary culture of the late Middle Ages; language: Latin and vernacular in the late Middle Ages; the fourteenth century and the relationship between crisis and cultural production; Humanism. Lessons will alternate between frontal explanations and direct exercises on the sources or on specific bibliography.

Program for non attending students:
- Ronald Witt, "L’eccezione italiana. L’intellettuale laico nel Medioevo e l’origine del Rinascimento", italian translation by Anna Carocci, Roma, Viella, 2017 (original edition Cambridge 2012)

Program for attending students:
- Lectures notes, articles and sources discussed during the lesson.

The aim of the course is to face with the origins and the development of a stable Italian and European diplomacy, from the end of the 15th century until the beginning of the 19th century. A critical approach will be used to study sources and models, considering the connections between the Early Modern Era to the Late Modern World. The topics of the lectures are: the origin of the diplomatic representation, Italian and European models, diplomatic treatises, careers and roles of ambassadors and nuncios, negotiation skills that are typical of the Early Modern Age.

Bibliography:
1) S. Andretta, L’arte della prudenza. Teorie e prassi della diplomazia nell’Italia del XVI e XVII secolo, Roma, Biblink, 2006.
2) Esperienza e diplomazia. Saperi, pratiche culturali e azione diplomatica nell’età moderna (XV-XVIII secc.) / Expérience et diplomatie. Savoirs, pratiques culturelles et action diplomatique à l’époque moderne (XV-XVIIIe siècle), a cura di S. Andretta, L. Bély, A. Koller, G. Poumarède (lo studente dovrà riferire sull’Introduzione e 8 saggi a sua scelta), Roma, Viella, 2020.

Students not attending the course are required to:

3) G. Alonge, Ambasciatori. Diplomazia e politica nella Venezia del Rinascimento, Roma, Donzelli, 2019.
Oppure
Diplomazie. Linguaggi, negoziati e ambasciatori far XV e XVI secolo, a cura di E. Plebani, E. Valeri, P. Volpini, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2017.

The acquisition of tools for understanding the women’s conditions and the gender relations will be carried out through a programme divided in two parts.
In the first one the analysis of the steps that marked the development of the European women’s identity and the struggle to achieve the objectives of freedom and democracy will be carried out. In the second part the same topics will be analysed in relation to men and to some historical junctions, like the economic and cultural crisis and the wars.

Gisela Bock, The Women in the European History. From Middle Age to the Contemporary Time, Laterza editore
Sandro Bellassai, The Invention of Virility. Politics and male imagery in Contemporary Italy, Carocci editore

Life sciences from Descartes to Buffon

Antonio Clericuzio, Uomo e natura, Roma, Carocci, 2021 (forthcoming)


Charles Webster, The Great Instauration, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2002

Evoluzionismo e creazionismo: il dibattito da Linneo a Darwin. Antologia di testi, a cura di A. Ottaviani, Roma, Carocci, 2017

John C. Greene, The Death of Adam: Evolution and Its Impact on Western Thought, Iowa UP, 1983

"Philosophers and poets, that is: on Cavalcanti and Dante"

The course will take into account a foundational relationship in early Italian lyric: the one between Dante and his "first friend" Guido Cavalcanti. The brief collection of rhymes by Cavalcanti will be read in its entirety, alongside the most important and audacious work of the young Dante, his "Vita nova". Moreover, some passages from his "De vulgari eloquentia" and the "Commedia" will be read, where it is possible to trace echoes of the dialogue with his old friend. Specific attention will be devoted to the philosophical content and the intellectualistic character of their poetry, to their different ideas about love and intellectual happiness, and to the reception of their figures among readers.

1. Guido Cavalcanti, Rime, a cura di Roberto Rea e Giorgio Inglese, Roma, Carocci editore, 2011 (e successive ristampe);
2. Enrico Fenzi, La canzone d’amore di Guido Cavalcanti e i suoi antichi commenti, Milano, Ledizioni, 2015, pp. 1-174 [ristampa anastatica dell’edizione originale: Genova, Il melangolo, 1999];
3. **Giacomo da Pistoia, Questio de felicitate, in Irene Zavattero, La «Quaestio de felicitate» di Giacomo da Pistoia: un tentativo di interpretazione alla luce di una nuova lettura critica del testo in Le felicità nel Medioevo, in Le felicità nel Medioevo: atti del convegno della Società italiana per lo studio del pensiero medievale (S.I.S.P.M.), Milano, 12-13 settembre 2003, a c. di Maria Bettetini e Francesco D. Paparella, Louvain-la-Neuve, FIDEM, 2005, pp. 355-409;
4. Dante Alighieri, Vita nova, a cura di Stefano Carrai, 2009 (e successive ristampe);
5. **Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron VI, 9 (testo critico di M. Fiorilla);
6. **Italo Calvino, Leggerezza, in Id., Lezioni americane. Sei proposte per il prossimo millennio, Milano, Mondadori, 1993 [1988].
Texts with ** and others discussed during lectures will be made available online on Moodle, together with didactic materials. The volumes (or selected portions) in programme will be read in their entirety (introductions, essays and editorial notes included).
A critical bibliography will be given by the end of the course.

Students who did not attend lectures will complete their preparation by reading the first two chapters of Natascia Tonelli, Fisiologia della passione. Poesia d'amore e medicina da Cavalcanti a Boccaccio, Firenze, Sismel, 2015.

Environmental policy and sustainability. The course presents a brief overview of the main schools of thought in environmental matters, following their development especially in recent decades. The course discusses then about methods and tools of environmental policy, illustrates the geography of environmental resources and examines the role of the actors in environmental policy at different geographical scales, from global to local. The problems are also analyzed through some case studies related to different parts of the world. There will be lectures, an excursion and eventual workshops.

MADAU Caterina, 2014,
«Entro i limiti del nostro pianeta Teorie e politiche della questione ambientale»
Bologna, PÀTRON

Documentary by Nicolas Dall’Olio, «Il suolo minacciato (full)» (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3-1l1I28cY)

The course intends to present the main conceptual nodes that innervate the so-called Philosophies of Habit, that is the philosophical reflections on habit from modernity onwards, with particular attention to the development that this theme assumes especially from the nineteenth century, also in correlation with others issues that affect the debate between philosophy and psychology, such as madness and certain developments in neurophysiology, given that the debate on habit has rediscovered its vivacity in contemporary cognitive sciences.The first teaching unit (3 CFU) will be reserved for an overview of the philosophies of habit by Aristotle until the middle of the nineteenth century. The second teaching unit (3 CFU) will focus on the following philosophies of habit, with particular attention to the debate of the late nineteenth century, influenced by the evolutionary paradigm, thanks also to the reading and commentary of passages from the texts of Léon Dumont (1876) Victor Egger (1880), and William James (1887) on habit.

Unit 1:
1. Marco Piazza, Creature dell’abitudine. Abito, costume, seconda natura da Aristotele alle scienze cognitive, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018
2. Denise Vincenti, Abitudine e follia. Studi di storia della filosofia e della psicologia, Milan, Mimesis, 2019 (execpt chapter I).
Unit 2:
3. Léon Dumont, L'abitudine, ed. by D. Vincenti, Milan, Mimesis, 2020
4. Victor Egger, La nascita delle abitudini, ed. by S. Sandreschi, Milan, Mimesis, 2021
5. William James, Le leggi dell’abitudine, ed, by D. Vincenti, Milan, Mimesis, 2019 - original English text available online at the URL = https://archive.org/details/popularsciencemo30newy/page/n449
6. Goodman, Russell, "William James", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2017/entries/james/

Contemporary political spaces - the course aims to provide analytical tools to think about the spatial referent of politics, altogether with the need to redefine the scope of politics itself.

S. Sassen, Territorio, autorità, diritti: assemblaggi dal Medioevo all'età globale, Bruno Mondadori 2008

one between the following:
- H. Lefebvre, La produzione dello spazio, Pgreco 2018
- C. Galli, Spazi politici, Il Mulino 2001

Suggested readings:
F. Giardini, "Assemblaggio.Una mappatura", reperibile on line
F. Giardini, "Cosmopolitiche. Ripensare la politica a partire dal chosmos", reperibile on line
F. Giardini, Città stellari, in La Libertà è una Passeggiata. Donne e spazi urbani tra violenza strutturale e autodeterminazione, a c. di C. Belingardi, F. Castelli, S. Olcuire, IAPh Italia, Roma 2019, pp. 55-60 (pdf disponibile on line)

Religions and Gender Relations

The theme of religious influence on gender relations will be addressed starting from the analysis of various sources according to different methodologies and perspectives (historical, historical-religious, historical-artistic, anthropological, sociological, philosophical)

The teaching material will be provided in the course of the workshop

The PHOTOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL HISTORY laboratory, held by Manuela Fugenzi, journalist, photo editor and photographic critic, is an articulated activity on historical and contemporary photography, aimed to understanding its role as witness of civil society as well as its narrative potential. By showing and contextualizing the most significant examples of italian and international photography -from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day- on topics of strong social value, students will be guided in a simulation of photo research online in archives of institutions and photo agencies, as well as in their family albums. This year the subject will be: MIGRANT PEOPLES.

Topics and activities of the workshop-lessons:
• References to history of photography and major themes of social history
• The photographic language; analog photography, digital photography
• Photographic genres and online archives: accesses and research methods
• The archive card: checking the information and drafting the caption
• Selection of images in a sequence
• Final editing of the photographs and drafting of the related captions and photo credits
• Creation of a portfolio using PowerPoint

After a short historical and methodological introduction, students will be introduced to the most relevant themes and trends of the Islamic debate from the end of the 19th century until today. Topics covered include: Islam and modernity; the Reformist Movement (salafiyya); Islam and Nationalism; Political Islam in its declinations; Islamic Feminism. Part of the course will be dedicated to the Orientalist Representations and Distorsions of Contemporary Islam and Muslims.
Eventually, students will be invited to read primary texts, among those available, according to their languages knowledge.

C. Texts:

1. M. Campanini, Il pensiero islamico contemporaneo, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2016.
2. EW Said, Covering Islam. Come i media e gli esperti determinano la nostra visione del resto del mondo, Massa: Transeuropa, 2012.
3. One of the following (see teaching mode) :

- Sayyid Qutb, La battaglia tra Islam e capitalismo, Venezia: Marcianum Press, 2016;
- Sayyid Qutb, Milestones, disponibile a https://www.kalamullah.com/Books/Milestones%20Special%20Edition.pdf
- Sadik al-Azm, La tragedia del diavolo. Fede, ragione e potere nel mondo arabo, Roma: LUISS Press, 2016,
- Ruhollah Khomeyni, Il governo islamico, Il cerchio, 2006.
- Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, Islam e storia, Torino: Bollati Boringhieri
- Tariq Ramadan, Islam e libertà , Torino: Einaudi, 2008
- T. Ramadan, Essere musulmano europeo, Troina (EN): Città Aperta, 2002
- T. Ramadan, Il riformismo islamico. Un secolo di rinnovamento musulmano, Troina (EN): Città Aperta, 2004.
- T. Ramadan, Islam and the Arab Awakening, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Hasan Hanafi, La teologia islamica della liberazione, Milano: Jaca Book, 2018.
- Abdou Filali-Ansary, Reformer l'Islam, Paris: La Découverte, 2004
- Mehran Kamrava (ed), The New Voices of Islam, London: IB Tauris, 2006,
- Mohammed ‘Abid El-Jabri, La ragione araba, Milano: Feltrinelli, 1995,
- Fatema Mernissi, Islam e democrazia, Firenze: Giunti, 2002
- F. Mernissi, L’harem e l’Occidente, Firenze: Giunti, 2006
- F. Mernissi, Le donne del profeta. La condizione femminile nell'Islam, Genova: ECIG, 1992.
- Amina Wadud, Il Corano e la donna. Rileggere il testo sacro da una prospettiva di genere, Cantalupa (TO): Effata’, 2012
- Amina Wadud, Inside the Gender Jihad. Women’s Reform In Islam, Oxford: Oneworld, 2006.
- ‘Ali ‘Abd el-Raziq, Islam and the Foundations of Political Power, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2012 (1925). Disponibile a: http://ecommons.aku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=uk_ismc_series_intranslation
- Muhammad ‘Abduh, Trattato sull’unicità divina, Bologna: il ponte, 2003.
- Asef Bayat, Making Islam Democratic, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2007
- Khaled Abou El-Fadl, Islam and the Challenge of Democracy, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2004
- Khaled Abou El-Fadl, The Great Theft, NY: Harper, 2007
- Farid Esack, Qur’an: Liberation and Pluralism, Oxford: Oneworld, 1996;
- Mohammad A. Lahbabi, Il personalismo musulmano, Milano: Jaca Book, 2017.
- Hamid Dabashi, Islamic Liberation Theology: Resisting the Empire, London & NY: Rouledge, 2008.
- Jawdat Said, Vie islamiche alla nonviolenza, Zikkaron, 2017

Students can propose books not included above.

IMPORTANT: Students without prior knowledge of Islam, MUST read also:

- L. Declich, L’Islam in 20 parole, Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2016;
- P. G. Donini, Il mondo islamico. Breve storia dal ‘500 ad oggi, Roma-Bari: Laterza, ultima edizione.
- Anna Bozzo, L’Islam questo sconosciuto, dispensa didattica (disponibile in pdf);
- C. Endress, Introduzione alla storia del mondo musulmano, Capp. 1-3-6 (dispensa disponibile in pdf).

or an an introductory textbook to Islam to choose among:

A. Bausani, Islam, Rizzoli, ultima edizione;

or

- G. Filoramo (a cura di), Islam, Laterza, ultima edizione.

or

- Carole Hillenbrand, Islam. Una nuova introduzione storica, Torino: Einaudi, 2016.

Main topics covered in the course:
Ancient and modern historiographical issues: the modalities of the Spanish conquest.
The formation of contemporary Latin America: the abolition of slavery in the nineteenth century.
Latin America in the twentieth century: economy, society, institutions, culture.
The current geopolitical continental situation.
Debate on economic development. Environment and access to resources. The indigenous minorities.

The examination is composed by two part: general part; monographic part.
General Part. One of the following books:
-De Giuseppe M., La Bella G., Storia dell’America Latina contemporanea, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019;
-Zanatta, L., Storia dell’America latina contemporanea, Roma, Laterza, 2015 (or new edition).

Monographic part. One of the following books:
-Carmagnani, M., Le connessioni mondiali e l’Atlantico 1450-1850, Torino, Einaudi, 2018.
-Guarnieri Calò Carducci, L., La questione indigena in Perù, Roma, Bulzoni, 2010 (L’antologia di testi è parte essenziale del libro).
-Rojas Mix, M., I cento nomi d’America, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2005.
-Vangelista C., Scatti sugli indios. Ricerche di storia visiva, Aracne, Collana “America e Americhe. Storia, relazioni, immagini”, Roma, 2018.
-Vargas Llosa, A., Libertà per l’America latina. Come porre fine a cinquecento anni di oppressione dello Stato, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2007.
-Nocera R., Wulzer, P., L'America Latina nella politica internazionale. Dalla fine del sistema bipolare alla crisi dell'ordine liberale, Roma, Carocci, 2020

The course examines the historical and political trajectory of the Middle East and North Africa from the Colonial Era until today. The students will be introduced to the debate on Orientalism, its role in the colonial era, and its relevance until today. A particular focus will be on the post-colonial era. Among the topics covered there will be: State formation, the role of ideologies (both secular and religious) in the shaping of the region, the intra-regional and international relations of the Region and the so-called ‘Arab Spring’. Students are expected to actively participate to the course.
All the available teaching materials, the announcements and all that is related to this course will be posted on the lecturer’s departmental teaching webpage (bit.ly/dsu-gervasio).

REQUIRED READINGS:


R. Owen, State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, Routledge: London & New York: 2004.
J. Chalcraft, “The Arab Uprisings of 2011 in Historical Perspective” in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History, 2016 (available as a pdf file on the course website).
G. Achcar, “The Seasons after the Arab Spring”, Le Monde Diplomatique, June 2019 (available as a pdf file on the course website).

One of the following:


G. Achcar, The People Want. A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising, London: Saqi, 2013.
G. Achcar, Morbid Symptoms. Relapse in the Arab Uprisings, London: Saqi, 2016.
L. Anceschi, G. Gervasio & A. Teti (eds), Informal Power in the Greater Middle East. Hidden Geographies, London: Routledge, 2014 & 2016.
M. Aouragh & H. Hamouchene (eds), The Arab Uprisings. A Decade of Struggles, TNI & RLS, 2021, available online at: https://longreads.tni.org/arab-uprisings
A. Bayat, Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2017.
A. Bayat, Revolutionary Life. The Everyday of the Arab Spring, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2021
F. Cavatorta & L. Storm (eds), Political Parties in the Arab World: Continuity and Change, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
S. Cook, False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2017.
F. A. Gerges, ISIS: A History, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2017.
A. Khalil (ed), Gender, Women and the Arab Spring, London & NY: Routledge, 2015.
H. Kraetzschmar & P. Rivetti (eds), Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings: Governance, Pluralisation and Contention, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
R. Owen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2014.
J. Saab (ed.), A region in revolt: Mapping the recent uprisings in North Africa and West Asia, Ottawa: Daraja Press, 2020.
R. Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad (eds), Women Rising: In and Beyond the Arab Spring: New York, New York University Press, 2020.
I. Szmolka (ed.), Political Change in the Middle East and North Africa: After the Arab Spring, Edinburgh, Edinburgh UP, 2017.
Ch. Tripp, The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013.


IMPORTANT! Students without any prior knowledge of the History of the MENA, must read one of the following textbooks:

W. Cleveland & M. Bunton, A History of the Modern Middle East, Boulder: Westview Press, 2016,
Betty Anderson, A History of the Modern Middle East, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2016.

After briefly introducing the different objects of anthropological knowledge from a historical perspective, the course will focus on the themes of the supernatural, magic and witchcraft between history, power, body, disease and society. In particular, the lessons will focus on rationality and belief systems, on the role of the historical and colonial dimension, on the symbolic, on power relations, on the notion of contagion in its social and cultural implications.

Testi d’esame (gli studenti che hanno già sostenuto un esame di antropologia culturale possono concordare con la docente un testo alternativo):

Fabietti, Malighetti, Matera, Dal tribale al globale. Introduzione all'antropologia, Bruno Mondadori, 2012 (disponibile anche in versione digitale).

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

Bellagamba, Alice, L'Africa e la stregoneria. Saggio di antropologia storica, Laterza, 2008.
Evans-Pritchard, Edward, Stregoneria, oracoli e magia tra gli Azande, Raffaello Cortina, 2002.
Douglas, Mary, Purezza e pericolo, Il Mulino, 1996.
Kitta, A. The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore, Utah State University Press, 2019.
Quaranta, I. Corpo, potere e malattia. Antropologia e Aids nei Grassfields del Camerun, Meltemi, 2006.
Taussig, Michael T., Il diavolo e il feticismo della merce, Derive Approdi 2017.

For those attending, it is possible to replace the text of your choice with 4 essays (which the teacher will make available to the students during the course) of which one or two will be chosen and presented by the attending student and discussed collegially in class.

Non attending students will add:
Fabietti, Ugo, Elementi di antropologia culturale, Mondadori, 2015: parte quarta (sistemi di pensiero) e parte settima (dimensione religiosa, esperienza rituale).

Travel’s reports of the past are a preferred source for the construction of geographical thought and culture. Particularly between the late Middle Ages and Modern Age, travel’s relations allows to retrace the complex process of widening of Europeans’ geographical horizon. In western society the relationship between geography and travel’s reports has changed over the centuries, to the need to sort and reprocess the information gathered, to create a geographical knowledge built on valid rules, correlations between phenomena and rational criteria for classification. During the course will be analyzed practices of travel, travelers and travel’s reports, in their various types. Will also be considered some examples of travel’s reports that, throughout history, have marked the collective imagination and the construction of the world’s modern image. Testimony of travel’s experiences, travel literature has become ever more an instrument of knowledge of the territory and of human communities, through understanding the other and the elsewhere, but also the culture that looks at the other and at the space, for as this was and still is organized on the basis of many human needs (exploration, knowledge, tourism, etc.).

Not attending
- Guglielmo Scaramellini, La geografia dei viaggiatori. Raffigurazioni individuali e immagini collettive nei resoconti di viaggio, Milano, Unicopli, 1993 o 1998, solo la Parte seconda, pp. 55-111.
- Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Dall’esperienza del viaggio al sapere geografico, in Geotema, n° 8 (1997), Il viaggio come fonte di conoscenze geografiche, pp. 3-12 (https://teams.microsoft.com/l/file/344CE0FA-C16C-4536-84DF-4F0624F5818D?tenantId=ffb4df68-f464-458c-a546-00fb3af66f6a&fileType=pdf&objectUrl=https%3A%2F%2Funiroma3.sharepoint.com%2Fsites%2FAA2021-GEOGRAFIAELETTERATURADELVIAGGIO-20710063DASCENZO%2FMateriale%20del%20corso%2FCaraci%20Geotema.pdf&baseUrl=https%3A%2F%2Funiroma3.sharepoint.com%2Fsites%2FAA2021-GEOGRAFIAELETTERATURADELVIAGGIO-20710063DASCENZO&serviceName=teams&threadId=19:f34be9d0c8a841a7981f2d8b39d7105a@thread.tacv2&groupId=a760e24a-ee11-4d7b-be00-294a107557e1).
- Annalisa D'Ascenzo, Lo schema (immaginare-)trovare-cercare-scoprire applicato alle rappresentazioni del Giappone (metà XIV-metà XVII secolo), in ANNALISA D’ASCENZO (a cura di), Geostoria. Geostorie, Roma, CISGE, 2015, pp. 65-95 (https://www.cisge.it/ojs/index.php/Volumi/article/view/856).

Attending
Materials provided during the lessons.

An historical perspective on religions must take into consideration their multi-layered presence on the territory and must be able to analyze dynamics and strategies: since 2007 more than a half of the global population lives in urban areas and cities have become the privileged space of contestations, conflicts, negotiation of interests, creation of symbolic and capital resources concerning religions. In cities innovations, waves and tendencies concerning beliefs and religious practices are produced and reproduced. Italian and European cities were the space of creation and elaboration of social fears; in the last decades fear was related to economy, the environment, the pandemic crisis.
The fear, almost touchable in the streets of the cities, is related to religion in a double way; from one side every religion was born from the fear of the loose/impossibility of controlling life, death, illness, pain, the end and often it is an answer to this feeling and to worries
From the other side, religions produce fear, in the case of violence which arises in their name but also due to collective imaginaries which feed clichés, stereotypes, in particular towards minorities.
This course offers some historical examples of religion such as an antidote to fear and religion such as virus of fear, in particular related to the topic of social fear and religious answers, fears which were provoked or sublimated by religious fundamentalisms (on line – at school in prisons and in religious places)

Attending Students
1. Notes, Materials discussed during the course
2. M. Graziano Geopolitica della paura oppure Egea, Bocconi, Milano 2021 oppure
M. Bombardieri, M. Giorda, S. Hejazi, Capire l’Islam, Morcelliana Brescia 2019
3. Sessione monografica di Humanitas 2021 su “Ecologia e religioni” (curato da B. Nuti)

Not Attending Students
1. M. Graziano Geopolitica della paura oppure Egea, Bocconi, 2021
2. M. Bombardieri, M. Giorda, S. Hejazi, Capire l’Islam, Morcelliana Brescia 2019
3. G. Filoramo, R. Parrinello, Guarire dal contagio, Morcelliana Brescia 2020
AND Sessione monografica di Humanitas 2021 su “Ecologia e religioni” (ED. B. Nuti)

The course deal with the birth of capitalism from the Middle Ages up to the contemporary age. It analyses the three main forms of capitalism: merchant, industrial and financial.

Attending students (all of them):

F. Braudel, Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimora 1977.
J. Kocka, Capitalism: A Short History, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2016.
P. Bowles, Capitalism, Routledge, London-New York 2014

Non-attending students (plus one of the two below):

L. Pellicani, La genesi del capitalismo e le origini della modernità, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2013 (no the chapters 2, 3, 8 e 10).
L. Gallino, Finanzacapitalismo, Einaudi, Turin 2013.
G. Claeys, Marx and Marxism, Pelican Books, London 2018.
B. Milanovic, Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World, Harvard University Press, New York 2019.
G. Conte, Il credito di una nazione. Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2021.

The teaching is an introduction to ethnography as a practice and theory of the description of social and cultural phenomena. The first part will focus on field research through a historical examination of the methods and reflection on them: from the expeditions season, to participatory observation, to the most recent and innovative forms. A second part will focus on ethnography as a space for reflection on the narrative strategies put in place in the human and social sciences, thus providing critical awareness around discursive rhetoric and ethnographic writing. Particular attention will be paid to the construction of the research question, the identification of the object of analysis, its empirical development, the role and relationship with the informants, the questions that ethnography formulates and the answers it provides, through its specific modalities. Classroom readings and presentations of classical and more recent anthropological ethnographies will provide an overview of the potential of the approach.

Testi d’esame:
Piasere, L., L'etnografo imperfetto. Esperienza e cognizione in antropologia, Laterza 2002.

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:
Abu-Lughod, L., Sentimenti velati. Onore e poesia in una società beduina, Bollati Boringhieri, 2004.
Bourgois, P., Cercando rispetto. Drug economy e cultura di strada, Derive Approdi, 2005.
Crapanzano V., Tuhami. Ritratto di un uomo del Marocco, Meltemi, 1995.
Griaule, M., Dio d’acqua. Incontri con Ogotemmeli, Bollati Boringhieri 2002.
Malinowski, B. Argonauti del Pacifico Occidentale. Bollati Boringhieri, 2011.
Mead M., L’adolescenza a Samoa, Giunti, 2007.
Shostack, M., Nisa. La vita e le parole di una donna!Kung, Meltemi, 2017.
Tsing Lowenhaupt, A. Il fungo alla fine del mondo. La possibilità di vivere nelle rovine del capitalismo. Keller, 2021.

For those attending, it is possible to replace the text of your choice with 4 essays (which the teacher will make available to the students during the course) of which one or two will be chosen and presented by the attending student and discussed collegially in class, from the following texts (see "bibliografia di riferimento").

Non attending students will add 2 chapters from:
Fabietti, U. (a cura di), Etnografia e culture. Antropologi, informatori e politiche dell’identità, Carocci, 2001.

The course builds knowledge and skills starting from the exegesis of sources for historical research: the impact of digitization on documentation originating in the pre-computer age and that of digital native documents on source critique is its focus.
A second argument will be related to the management of digital documentation from its origin to its becoming as a cultural food and as historical documentation.
The students will acquire knowledge to deal with historical research through the analysis of the document in the context of information systems, dissemination on the web, consultation and its limits. They will therefore be able to tackle a project of study, digitization and enhancement of documentary resources, within the framework of the critical issues related to the conservation and integrity of the digitized and digital document. They will access documentary sources also through the use of digital descriptive resources; will address the question of the interpretation of sources according to a methodology starting from their contextualization in the archives of origin. They will acquire the tools for their full interpretation in independent judgment. They will also know the reordering criteria of the documentation and therefore of their description, fundamental elements of a correct exegesis.
Finally, they will address the issues of historical and archival disclosure, refining communication skills through logical and lexical rigor.

Archivistica. Teorie, metodi, pratiche, a cura di Linda Giuva - Maria Guercio, Roma, Carocci, 2020 (Chapters 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 14, 15)

Stefano Pigliapoco, Progetto Archivio digitale, Lucca, Civita editoriale, 2018.

Two volumes from the following:

Marc Bloch, Apologia della storia o Mestiere di storico, Torino 2009, pp. 3-169
Isabella Zanni Rosiello, Archivi e memoria storica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1987
Isabella Zanni Rosiello, Andare in archivio, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2009
Teresa Numerico - Domenico Fiormonte - Francesca Tomasi, L’umanista digitale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010
Federico Valacchi, Diventare archivisti: competenze tecniche di un mestiere sul confine, Milano 2015

From the origins, cinema has been inspired by historical contents and events for its productions. The public has always shown keen curiosity and interest in historical events narrated on the screen. The course aims to show how cinema can be: a source for historical knowledge, an instrument to tell the past and an agent of history. Cinema is a source for the historical knowledge of the present in which the film has been shot and processed: it provides us with information on ideas and values of the producing society.

On the other hand, when we talk about cinema as an instrument to narrate the past, we refer to the public use of history, a field in which historians have to compete with other professional figures.
Finally, cinema can be considered an agent of history when studying its capability to influence and construct behaviours, trends, passions and identities.
Understanding the various languages and representations can be an essential tool for historians working in the field of cultural and social history interested in the transmission of values, ideas and representations of the historical past of different eras.

The course focuses on representation on cinema and television and in particular on the following topic: “Times of crisis. War, violence and society ".
War and violence are phenomena that goes along with human societies throughout their own development, therefore the course questions the specific aspects of representations and imagery linked to different eras. A conspicuous number of films will be examined and each student will be able to identify their own path by selecting from those indicated, ten films of their own interest.
To this end, the following films and products for television will be analysed; students will have to see and analyse 10 of the following films.
The teaching is organised in seminars, the students will work in teams by deepening topics, readings and ideas related to the films indicated and to a bibliography agreed with the teacher.

Antiquity
• R. Scott, Gladiator (2000)
• W. Petersen, Troy (2004)
• M. Rovere, The First King (2019)

Middle Age
• M. Gibson, Braveheart (1995)
• R. Scott, Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
• L. Bresson, The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)
• M. Bellocchio, Enrico IV (1984)


Early modern period
• W. Herzog, Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
• S. Kubrick, Barry Lyndon (1975)
• R. Joffé, The Mission (1986)
• R. Emmerich, The Patriot (2000)
• P. Weir, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2004)
• S. McQueen, 12 Years a Slave (2013)
• M. Scorsese, Silence (2016)

Late modern period and Contemporary history
• L. Comencini, Everybody Go Home (1960)
• N. Loy, The Four Days of Naples (1962)
• F. Ford Coppola, Apocalypse now (1979)
• C. Nolan, Dunkirk (2017)
• J. Wright, Darkest Hour (2018)
• S. Mendes, 1917 (2019)

Readings for the exam:

A) Both the books:

• Cortini L. (a cura di), Le fonti audiovisive per la storia e la didattica, Effigi, Arcidosso, 2014, pp. 39-60; 97-118
• A. Scurati, Guerra. Narrazioni e culture nella tradizione occidentale, Donzelli, Roma 2003.

B) One book of your choice between:

• Iaccio P., Cinema e storia. Percorsi, immagini, testimonianze, Liguori, Napoli 2000
• Miro Gori G. (a cura di), La storia al cinema. Ricostruzione del passato e interpretazione del presente, Bulzoni, Roma, 1994
• Ortoleva P., Cinema e storia. Scene dal passato, Loescher, Torino, 1991
• Sorlin P., I figli di Nadar, Einaudi, Torino, 2000
• Munslow A., Narrative and History, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, 2007

For historical contextualization, it is recommended reading one of the following texts (available at public libraries), to which can be added other texts chosen by the student:

• Cicognetti L., Servetti L. (a cura di), Sorlin P. (a cura di), La guerra in televisione. I conflitti moderni tra cronaca e storia, Bologna-Venezia, Istituto storico Parri per l’Emilia Romagna-Marsilio 2003.
• Feci S., Schettini L. (a cura di), La violenza contro le donne nella storia: contesti, linguaggi, politiche del diritto (secoli 15.-21.), Roma, Viella, 2017
• Gozzini G., P. Masciullo (a cura di), La guerra delle immagini nel 21. secolo: cinema, televisione e web, Soveria Mannelli : Rubettino, 2020 (Fa parte di: Cinema e storia : rivista di studi interdisciplinari)
• Gruzinski S., La guerra delle immagini. Da Cristoforo Colombo a Blade Runner, SugarCo, 1991
• Lavenia V., Il catechismo dei soldati: guerra e cura d'anime in età moderna, Bologna, EDB, 2014
• Livi Bacci M., Conquista. La distruzione degli indios americani, Bologna, Società editrice il Mulino, 2005
• Pach C., "The War on Television: TV News, the Johnson Administration, and Vietnam," in A Companion to the Vietnam War, Blackwell Publishers, 2002
• Pellizzari P. (a cura di), Le armi e i cavalieri: la guerra e i suoi simboli dal Medioevo all'età moderna: atti della Giornata di studi, Torino, 12 febbraio 2018, Alessandria, Edizioni dell'Orso, 2018
• Todorov T., La conquista dell'America: il problema dell'altro, Torino, Einaudi, 2014
• Vaccaro L. (a cura di), L' Europa e l'evangelizzazione delle Indie Orientali, Milano, Centro ambrosiano, 2005.


Non-attending students must agree a program with the teacher by sending an email to: didattica.merluzzi@gmail.com

Course Schedule: Thursday 3pm-5pm, aula 9; Friday 11am-1pm, aula 9

Classes start on Thursday, March 3, at 3pm, aula 9


Readings

 All readings will be made available by the professor on Moodle. The Prof.’s lectures as well as class discussion will be based on those readings.


Assignments:

1. Paper (1500/2000 words) (30%)
2. Research outline presentation (10-15 mins) with a ppt (25%)
3. Final exam (30%)
4. Class participation (15%)



Course Syllabus: (days, topics, and readings)

Week 1

TH 3 March - Course Intro: Historical Thinking and Cultural History

- M. C. Lemon, Philosophy of History: A Guide for Students, pp. 290-303 (“The What is History Debate”)
- Alessandro Arcangeli, Cultural History: A Concise Introduction, pp. 1-17 (“In search of a definition”); pp. 30-48 (“Interwoven paths”)


F 4 March – NO CLASS (Make-up Class: 5 May)



Week 2

TH 10 March - Popular Culture?

- Peter Burke, Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe, pp. 3-22 (The Discovery of the People)
- Aron Gurevich, Medieval Popular Culture: Problems of Belief and Perception, pp. 78-103
(Popular Culture in the Mirror of the Penitentials)


F 11 March – Francis Petrarch and Humanism
- Kenneth Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance, pp. XIX-XX; 1-8 (Introduction; Quintilian); pp. 25-34 (Petrarch: Introduction; Letter to Posterity; The Ascent of Mount Ventoux; Letter to the Shade of Cicero)


Week 3

TH 17 March – The Humanist “Revolution” and the Renaissance

- Kenneth Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance, pp. 66-86 (Coluccio Salutati, Letter to Peregrino Zambeccari; Vespasiano da Bisticci: Life of Poggio Bracciolini; Life of Niccolò Niccoli; Lorenzo Valla, The Glory of the Latin Language)
- Lauro Martines, Power and Imagination (Ch."Humanism: A Program for Ruling Classes")


F 18 March - Women of the Renaissance

- Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance, pp. 111-133 (Marriage, the Family, and Women: Intro; Francesco Barbaro; Leon Battista Alberti)
- Carolyn James, “Politics and Domesticity in the Letters of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490 –1519”, Renaissance Quarterly 65 (2012): 321–52



Week 4

TH 24 March The “Universal Man” of The Renaissance

- Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance, pp. 97-104 (Florentine Neoplatonism and Mysticism: Intro; Marsilio Ficino); pp. 104-108 (Giovanni Pico della Mirandola)
- Leonardo da Vinci, Selections from the Notebooks, in The Italian Renaissance Reader, ed. by Bondanella and Musa, pp. 185-195


F 25 March - An Exercise of Critical Thinking: Lorenzo Valla’s Reading of The Donation of Constantine

- Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance, pp. 206-210 (Lorenzo Valla The Principal Arguments from the Forged Donation of Constantine)
- The Donation of Constantine: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/donatconst.asp


Week 5

TH 31 March Political Thought: Niccolò Machiavelli

- Starn, Seeing Culture in a Room for a Renaissance Prince, in Biersack, Aletta, The New Cultural History, pp. 205-232
- Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, in Bondanella and Musa (eds.), The Italian Renaissance Reader, pp. 258-264; 273-274; 291-293


F 1 April - Pope Sixtus IV, Conspiracies, and the Making of the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel

- Joseph H. Lynch and Phillip C. Adamo, The Medieval Church: A Brief History, pp. 318-327 (“Crisis and Calamity”); pp. 329-342 (“The Church in the Fifteenth Century”)
- Marcello Simonetta, The Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissance Mystery Decoded, selected pp.



Week 6

TH 7 April – The Age of Geographical Explorations

- Cristopher Columbus, Journal of the First Voyage, paragraphs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 50-54:
http://eada.lib.umd.edu/text-entries/journal/


F 8 April - Witchcraft: A Renaissance Contradiction?

- Brian Levack, The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, Ch. 2 (The Intellectual Foundations)
- Charles Zika, Images of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe, in Levack, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America



Week 7

TH 14 April – Heinrich Kramer’s Malleus Maleficarum and Related Traditions

- Kors and Peters, Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700, pp. 176-228 (“The Hammer of Witches”)
- Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola, “Strix”, in Witchcraft in Europe, ed. by Alan Charles Kors
and Edward Peters, selected pp.


F 15 April – T 19 April: Spring Break (Make up Class for Friday: 6 May)



Week 8 -- Paper due: Thursday, 21 April at 11:59pm

TH 21 April - Carlo Ginzburg’s Benandanti

- Carlo Ginzburg, The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, selected pp.


F 22 April - Civic Rituals and Popular Cultures: The Case of the Carnival

- Peter Burke, Popular Culture in Early-Modern Europe, pp. 178-204 (The World of Carnival)


Week 9

TH 28 April – Protestant and Catholic Reforms

- Lisa Jardine, Erasmus: Man of Letters, selected pp.
- Martin Luther, Address to the Christian Nobility: https://history.hanover.edu/texts/luthad.html
- Paolo Giustiniani and Pietro Querini, Booklet to Pope Leo X on the Reform of the Church, selected pp.


F 29 April - Science, Theology, and Authority

- The Index of Forbidden Books: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/indexlibrorum.asp
- Giordano Bruno, On the Infinite, the Universe, and the Worlds, selected pp.
- Galileo Galilei's Indictment and Abjuration (1633): https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1630galileo.asp


Week 10 – Make-Up Classes

TH 5 May – Current Cultural Trends

- James Hankins, How Not to Defend the Humanities:
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/11/not-defend-humanities/
- Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, selected pp.



F 6 May - Course Recap and Final Exam Preparation

All readings will be made available by the professor on Moodle. The Prof.’s lectures as well as class discussion will be based on those readings.

The origins of the Theatine order

The course will initially investigate principal questions regarding the political, religious, cultural and social structures that resulted in the breakdown of Christian unity, in the first decades of the sixteenth century. This will be followed by a study of the way in which the Roman church reacted to the Reform movement focusing in particular on the proto-inquisitorial activities of the Theatine order, which was founded in 1524 by Gian Pietro Carafa, the defender of Catholic orthodoxy.

Testi di riferimento:

1) L. Felici, La Riforma protestante nell’Europa del Cinquecento, Roma, Carocci
2) A. Vanni, Gaetano Thiene. Spiritualità, politica, santità, Roma, Viella
3) A. Vanni, Dalla riforma delle ordinazioni sacerdotali alle origini dell’Inquisizione romana. La carriera ecclesiastica di Gian Pietro Carafa, in Europa e America allo specchio. Studi per Francesca Cantù, a cura di P. Broggio, L. Guarnieri Calò Carducci e M. Merluzzi, Roma, Viella, pp. 43-66.


4) Un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

- L. Addante, Eretici e libertini nel Cinquecento italiano, Roma-Bari, Laterza
- E. Bonora, Roma 1564. La congiura contro il papa, Roma-Bari, Laterza
- M. Firpo - F. Biferali, Immagini ed eresie nell'Italia del Cinquecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza
- M. Firpo, Juan de Valdés e la Riforma nell’Italia del Cinquecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza
- G. Fragnito, La Bibbia al rogo. La censura ecclesiastica e i volgarizzamenti della Scrittura (1471-1605), Bologna, il Mulino
- G. Romeo - M. Mancino, Clero criminale. L’onore della Chiesa e i delitti degli ecclesiastici nell’Italia della Controriforma, Roma-Bari, Laterza
- A. Prosperi, Tribunali della coscienza. Inquisitori, confessori, missionari, Torino, Einaudi
- U. Vincenti, Lo studente che sfidò il papa. Inquisizione e supplizio di Pomponio de Algerio, Roma-Bari, Laterza

Environmental History
Unit I - 36 hours - 6 cfu.
Socio-economic changes and environmental alterations from the eighteenth century to the new millennium.
The course consists of two parts, perfectly complementary. The first part, introductory, intends to provide an essential framework of environmental history. The second part is much wider and intends to illustrate and analyze the environmental changes that with increasing intensity and importance have marked the history of the last three centuries, in their inseparable relationship with the contemporary socio-economic dynamics and with a particular reference to the Italian experience.

Environmental History
Unit I – 36 hours - 6 cfu.
Socio-economic changes and environmental alterations from the eighteenth century to the new millennium.
- S. Mosley, Storia globale dell’ambiente, il Mulino, Bologna 2013.
- P. Bevilacqua, Tra natura e storia. Ambiente, economia, risorse in Italia, Donzelli, Roma 2000.
- G. Corona, Breve storia dell’ambiente in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2015.
- P. Tino, Le radici della vita. Storia della fertilità della terra nel Mezzogiorno (secoli XIX-XX), Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2015.
- M. Forti, Malaterra. Come hanno avvelenato l’Italia, Laterza, Bari-Roma 2018.
One of the following books at the choice:
- J. R. McNeill e P. Engelke, La Grande accelerazione. Una storia ambientale dell’Antropocene dopo il 1945, Einaudi, Torino 2018.
- P. Bevilacqua, Il cibo e la terra. Agricoltura, ambiente e salute negli scenari del nuovo millennio, Donzelli, Roma 2018.
- P. Acot, Storia del clima. Dal Big Bang alle catastrofi climatiche, Donzelli, Roma 2004 (in particolare la Parte seconda e la Parte terza).
- A. W. Crosby, Lo scambio colombiano. Conseguenze biologiche e culturali del 1492, Einaudi, Torino 1992.
- M. Armiero - S. Barca, Storia dell’ambiente. Una introduzione, Carocci, Roma 2004.
- F. Paolini, Ambiente. Una storia globale (secoli XX-XXI), tab edizioni, Roma 2020 (in particolare i capitoli 1-3 e l' "Appendice").
- S. Adorno e S. Neri Serneri (a cura di), Industria, ambiente, territorio. Per una storia ambientale delle aree industriali in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2009 (in particolare il saggio introduttivo di S. Adorno e S. Neri Serneri, Per una storia ambientale delle aree industriali in Italia, e i saggi di S. Neri Serneri, R. Tolaini, M. Ruzzenenti, A. Ciuffetti, M. G. Rienzo, S. Ruju, S. Adorno).
- S. Luzzi, Il virus del benessere. Ambiente, salute, sviluppo nell’Italia repubblicana, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009.
- S. Neri Serneri, Incorporare la natura. Storie ambientali del Novecento, Carocci, Roma 2005 (in particolare il capitolo introduttivo e la Parte prima).
Additional bibliographical references will be provided during lessons.

The first part of the course will be dedicated to explore the role of cultural diplomachy as a tool for managing international conflicts. The idea of the war as a clash of civilizations will be analyzed from the nineteenth century up to the present day.
The second part of the course will focus on the period between the two world wars, and in particular on the methods used by fascism for overseas promotion of Italian culture.

1) Tommaso Detti (a cura di), Le guerre in un mondo globale, Viella, Roma 2017, p. 320
2) Gaetano Castellini Curiel, Soft power e l’arte della diplomazia culturale, Le Lettere, Firenze 2021, p. 147

3) A book of your choice between:
a) James Sheehan, L’età post-eroica: guerra e pace nell'Europa contemporanea, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009, p. 330
b) Jeremy Black, Le guerre nel mondo contemporaneo, il Mulino, Bologna 2006, p. 238.
c) Lorenzo Benadusi, Ufficiale e gentiluomo. Virtù civili e valori militari in Italia, 1896-1918, Feltrinelli, Milano 2015, p. 397
d) Frances Stoner Saunders, La guerra fredda culturale. La Cia e il mondo delle lettere e delle arti, Fazi, Roma 2004
e) Fabio Ferrarini, L’«asse spezzato». Fascismo, nazismo e diplomazia culturale nei paesi nordici (1922-1945), Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2021, p. 288
f) Silvia Salvatici, Nel nome degli altri. Storia dell’umanitarismo internazionale, il Mulino, Bologna 2015, p. 332
g) Enzo Traverso, Il secolo armato. Interpretare le violenze del Novecento, Feltrinelli, Milano 2012

Aim of the course is to provide the basic elements of Public History and its practices.
A specific study will be conducted on popular music and the processes of construction of memory.

L. Bertucelli, La Public History in Italia. Metodologie, pratiche, obiettivi, in Public history. Discussioni e pratiche, a cura di P. Bertella Farnetti, L. Berucelli, A. Botti, Mimesis 2017, pp. 75-96

S. Noiret, "“Public history” e “storia pubblica” nella rete, in «Ricerche Storiche» XXXIX, 2009, n. 2-3, pp. 275-327 (Numero speciale dal titolo: Media e storia, a cura di F. Mineccia e L. Tomassini)

P. Carusi, Viva l'Italia. Narrazioni e rappresentazioni della storia repubblicana nei versi dei cantautori "impegnati", Firenze, Le Monnier, 2018

P. Carusi, M. Merluzzi (a cura di), Note tricolori. La storia dell'Italia repubblicana nella popular music, Pisa, Pacini, 2021

The consumption of popular culture and policies aimed at influencing popular culture became increasingly salient in 20th century Western societies. Also Italian political parties and governments became aware of the importance of controlling and manipulating popular culture, and started developing sophisticated and effective forms of propaganda. Concurrently, popular culture itself became politically engaged, as militancy started to be conveyed in various forms of popular art, as writings, drawings, songs, radio and TV broadcasts and movies. The relationship between propaganda from above and popular cultures from below must not be interpreted in terms of a rigid opposition, but rather of a conflictual relationship capable of influencing each other.

The course aims at providing a general overview of the main trends in the history of italian popular culture from the early to the late 20th century, as well as at introducing students to key arguments in historical scientific research on the topic. In this way, students will develop skills to critically read, think, discuss and write about a set of historiographical arguments and a multiplicity of historical evidence.

In this sense, the course will detect how mass communication, literature and the visual arts determined the attitudes, moods and mentality of Italian society during the twentieth century.

The first part of the course will focus on the analysis of the concepts of "Popular Culture", "Propaganda", “Consensus Building” and "Political Religion”, with special references to the so-said “cultural turn”, which changed many perspectives in Contemporary History.

The second part of the course will deal with the role of Italian media as, at one hand, a pillar of ideological consensus and social stability and, to the other, as antidote to social conformism and State power. The connection between Italian Media, Popular Culture and Political History will be stressed through main periods of Italian history, observing continuity and fractures from Liberal Italy to Fascist regime and from the Cold War to the Second Italian Republic.

Students attending AND not attenting classes will have to refer to the following essays for the final oral exam:

- R. Moro, Mosse, the Cultural Turn, and the Cruces of Modern Historiography, (in George L. Mosse’s Italy, pp. 131-136)

- Holt N. Parker, Toward a Definition of Popular Culture, in “History and Theory”, May 2011, v. 50, pp. 147-170

- John Storey, Cultural Theory and Popular Culture, Cap. 1, "What is Popular Culture", pp. 1-16

In the oral exam, Students attending classes have to refer also on lessons contents. Students not attending classes must to refer instead to the following textbook:

- Matthew Hibberd, The Media in Italy: Press, Cinema and Broadcasting from Unification to Digital, New York, 2008.

In the last part of the course and before oral exam Students attending classes will have to present a paper on one of the following “blocks”. Students not attending classes will have to choose one of the “blocks” for their oral exams as well, besides essays and textbook suggested above.

Block 1: Poetry and Journalism in Early XX Century
- Pierluigi Allotti, The Style of a Revolutionary Journalist (in Mussolini 1883-1915. Triumph and Transformation of Revolutionary Socialist, pp. 225-256)
- Enrico Serventi Longhi, The Triumph of the Noble People: Gabriele d’Annunzio and Populism between literature and politics (in “Qualestoria”)

Block 2: Totalitarian Radio and Music
- Philip V. Cannistraro, The Radio in Fascist Italy (in “Journal of European Studies, vol. 2, 1972, pp.127-154)
- Marilisa Merolla, Jazz and Fascism: Contradictions and Ambivalences in the Diffusion of Jazz Music under the Italian Fascist Dictatorship (1925-1935) (in Jazz and Totalitarism, pp. 31-44)

Block 3: PostWar Italian Cinema and Glamour
-- Maurizio Zinni, Entertainment, Politics and Colonial Identity in Post-War Italian and British Cinema (1945-1960) (in Images of Colonialism and Decolonisation in Italian Media, pp- 67-80)
- Stephen Gundle, Hollywood Glamour and Mass Consuption in Postwar Italy, (in “Journal of Cold War Studies”, vol. 4 n. 3, 2002, pp. 95-118)

Block 4: Women and 70’s
-Andrea Hayek, A Room of One’s Own. Feminist Intersections between Space, Women’s Writing and Radical Bookselling in Milan (1968-1986) (in “Italian Studies”, vol. 73:1, pp. 81-97)
- Ruth Glynn, Press Representation of Italian Women Terrorist (in Women, Terrorism, and Trauma in Italian Culture pp. 39-72)

Block 5: TV fiction and Popular Culture
- Mauro Resmini, ‘Il senso dell'intreccio’: History, Totality, and Collective Agency in Romanzo criminale (in “The Italianist”, vol. 36(2), pp. 243-265)
- Luca Barra, Massimo Scaglioni, Saints, Cops and Camorristi. Editorial Policies and Production Models of Italian TV Fiction, (in “International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, vo. 1, spring 2015, pp. 65-76)

Block 6: Berlusconi and the Second Republic
- Cinzia Padovani, ‘Berlusconi’s Italy’: the media between structure and agency (in “Modern Italy”, vol. 20:1, pp. 41-57)
- Philip Schlesinger, Berlusconi Phenomenon (in Culture and Conflict in Postwar Italy, pp 270-285)

The Roman Forum in the Middle Ages and its churches (6th-14th centuries)

The course proposes an unprecedented journey through the Roman Forum between the 6th and 14th centuries. We will observe together how the square of the Forum in the course of these centuries changes physiognomy and undergoes a process of resemantization through the progressive Christianization of its monuments and its public spaces. We will enter inside the churches of: S. Maria Antiqua, Ss. Cosma e Damiano e la Rotonda, S. Adriano, S. Francesca Romana, S. Sebastiano al Palatino, S. Cesario in Palatio e S. Pietro in Carcere.
The course will be held in the classroom and in the field with the goal of learning to read the architectural and pictorial palimpsests that characterize these monuments and to visualize how the landscape between the Capitol and the Colosseum changes over the centuries examined.
We will discuss together the following topics: the transformation of the Forum from the Byzantine reconquest (6th-8th centuries) to the Rome of the Popes (8th-14th centuries); the churches of the Forum and their pictorial decoration; the religious and secular patronage; the Roman Forum and the great processions along the Via Sacra.

1) Coates-Stephens 2011 = R. Coates-Stephens, The Forum romanum in the byzantine period, in Marmoribus vestita. Miscellanea in onore di Federico Guidobaldi, a cura di O. Brandt e Ph. Pergola, Città del Vaticano: Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana 2011, pp. 385-408.
2) Serlorenzi 2016 = M. Serlorenzi, All'origine del Medioevo : passeggiando nel Foro romano, in Santa Maria Antiqua tra Roma e Bisanzio, a cura di M. Andaloro, G. Bordi, G. Morganti, Milano 2016, pp. 110-124.
3) Parlato 2000 = E. Parlato, Le icone in processione, in Arte e iconografia a Roma. Da Costantino a Cola di Rienzo, a cura di M. Andaloro, S. Romano, Milano 2000, pp. 69-92.
4) Santa Maria Antiqua
- Bordi 2021 = G. Bordi, The apse wall of Santa Maria Antiqua (IV-IX centuries), in E. Rubery, G. Bordi, J. Osborne, Santa Maria Antiqua. The Sistine Chapel of the Early Middle Ages, London-Turnhout, 2021, pp. 387-422.
- Bordi 2016 = in M. Andaloro, G. Bordi, G. Morganti (a cura di), Santa Maria Antiqua. Tra Roma e Bisanzio (Catalogo della mostra, Roma 17 marzo-11 settembre 2016), Milano, Electa, 2016, pp. 260-277; 278-287; 300-315.
- Andaloro 2016 = M. Andaloro, L’imago antiqua e il ritorno nella sua chiesa, ivi, pp.190-196.
- Bordino 2016 = C. Bordino, Nella cappella dei santi Anargyroi, in Santa Maria Antiqua, ivi, pp. 200-211.
5) Ss. Cosma e Damiano e Rotonda
- Foletti 2015 = I. Foletti, Maranatha: spazio, liturgia e immagini nella basilica dei Santi Cosma e Damiano sul Foro Romano, in Setkávání. Studie o středověkém umění věnované Kláře Benešovské, Jan Chlíbec, Zoe Opacic ed., Praga, Nakladatelství Artefactum 2015, pp. 68-86.
- Bordi, Quadri 2012 = G. Bordi, I. Quadri, 44. I dipinti ai Santi Cosma e Damiano, in S. Romano (a cura di), Il Duecento e la cultura gotica. 1198-1287 ca., Corpus V, Milano 2012, pp. 266-273.
- Bordi 2014 = G. Bordi, Un monumento per due. Memorie di cardinali nella Rotonda dei Santi Cosma e Damiano (XII-XIII secolo), in Il potere dell’arte nel Medioevo. Studi in onore di Mario D’Onofrio, a cura di M. Gianandrea, F. Gangemi, C. Costantini, Roma, Campisano Editore, 2014, pp. 355-366.
6) Bordi 2011 = G. Bordi, Committenza laica nella chiesa di Sant’Adriano al foro romano nell’Altomedioevo, in Medioevo: i committenti, Atti del XIII Convegno Internazionale di Studi (Parma, 21-26 settembre 2010), a cura di C.A. Quintavalle, Bologna 2011, pp. 63-75.
7) S. Maria Nova / S. Francesca Romana
- J. Enckell Juillard, S. Romano, 58. I mosaici dell’abside e dell’arco absidale in Santa Maria Nova, in S. Romano (a cura di), Riforma e tradizione. 1050-1198, Corpus IV, Milano 2006, pp. 335-343.
- J. Enckell Juillard, 59. La decorazione perduta della facciata di Santa Maria Nova, ivi, pp. 344-345
- G. Bordi, Basilica di Santa Maria Nova. Il mosaico dell’abside (1143-1161), in Mosaici medievali a Roma attraverso il restauro dell’ICR 1991-2004, a cura di M. Andaloro e C. D’Angelo, Roma, Gangemi editore international 2017, pp. 327-329.
- K. Queijo, 14. Il volto duecentesco dell’icona di Santa Maria Nova, in S. Romano (a cura di), Il Duecento e la cultura gotica. 1198-1287 ca., Corpus V, Milano 2012, pp. 96-97.
- W. Angelelli, 18. I frammenti della decorazione della parete absidale di Santa Maria Nova, in S. Romano (a cura di), Il Duecento e la cultura gotica. 1198-1287 ca., Corpus V, Milano 2012, pp. 110-112.
8) S. Pietro in Carcere
- Saggi di P. Fortini e G. Bordi in: Carcer-Tullianum. Il carcere mamertino al foro romano, a cura di P. Fortini e A. Russo, Roma-Bristol 2022 (in corso di stampa).

Further insights will be indicated during the course.

The course (second semester) is a reading, discussion and research seminar on the work of a contemporary Italian photographer.
Teaching assistant: Adele Milozzi.

Weekly readings, including essays in Italian and English, will be announced shortly. For both regular and “non attending” students, the readings will be available at the art history library “Luigi Grassi” (Piazza della Repubblica 10) and via Moodle.

Bibliographic research for the final paper is part of the required work and will be evaluated as such.

The course of Didactics of Geography, addressing the main issues concerning the learning / teaching processes of geography, highlights the relationships between research and disciplinary teaching and identifies methodologies and didactic tools capable of promoting in students an appropriate use of vocabulary and categories interpretative of the discipline in order to be able to understand and contextualize the environmental and anthropic characteristics of the territory.
Topics of the course: Geographic knowledge in teaching and research; Developing geographical skills; Geographical education, territorial education; Agenda 2030; Geography teaching in schools and universities; National guidelines and textbooks; Geotechnology and teaching; Simulation of didactic units.

• De Vecchis G., Pasquinelli d'Allegra D & Pesaresi C., Didattica della Geografia, Utet, 2020.
• Giacomo Zanolin, Thomas Gilardi, Rossella De Lucia (a cura di), Geo-didattiche per il futuro. La geografia alla prova delle competenze, FrancoAngeli, 2017 (in Open Access, for free), chapters 3, 15, 16, 17 and 18 excluded.
• Papers suggested by Professor.

This laboratory is the result of the collaboration between the LM courses "Movements and trends in contemporary Islam" (Prof. G. Gervasio) and "Religions and urban spaces" (Prof. M. Giorda). The aim is to introduce students to the history of the representations of different religious traditions. Islamophobic representations, simplifications such as "Buddhism is not a religion", stereotypes about so-called “primitive” religions, clichés linked to key-words of historical-religious language will be the topics of our educational path. In addition to seminar lectures by the two Professors involved, the course will see the participation of external experts - researchers, representatives of local and international civil society, and personalities of Italian and international religious communities. Documentaries and movies will be an important tool for tackling the object of the course.
The calendar of meetings will be provided at the beginning of the courses.

S. Meghnaghi, R. Di Castro, L' ebreo inventato. Luoghi comuni, pregiudizi, stereotipi, Giunti, 2021
G. Burgio, Tra noi e i rom. Identità, conflitti, Intercultura 2015
G. Proglio (a cura di), Islamofobia e Razzismo, Seb27, 2020
G. Lapis, Dopo le “religioni mondiali”, Morcelliana 2022

Never as in recent years has Europe been at the center of public debate: for some the only lifeline against nationalisms and wars, for others the ultimate cause of all our problems and malaises, especially from an economic point of view. In the political discourse Europe is automatically identified with the community bodies; nevertheless, it is a concept which possesses an extraordinary historical depth, the knowledge of which imposes itself as an essential necessity in order to correctly insert the events of our continent in the framework of world history and also in order to avoid falling into clichés and generalizations deriving from the flattening of the perspective solely on the events of the last seventy years. The course aims to analyze the evolution of the notion of "Europe" over the very long period, by deepening on the one hand its role in global history (colonialism, decolonization, etc.), on the other the conceptualization of its internal articulations, and in particular the Mediterranean sector, traditional and fundamental area of ​​contact, communication and clash with the Arab and Ottoman world.

First unit: "History of Europe, World History" (6 ECTS)

Books:
Lucien Febvre, L’Europa. Storia di una civiltà, Roma, Donzelli.
Federico Chabod, Storia dell’Idea d’Europa, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Serge Gruzinski, La macchina del tempo. Quando l’Europa ha iniziato a scrivere la storia del mondo, Milano, Raffaello Cortina Editore.

Second unit: "The Mediterranean: corsair wars, slavery, religious conversions"

Books:
Salvatore Bono, Guerre corsare nel Mediterraneo. Una storia di incursioni, arrembaggi, razzie, Bologna, Il Mulino.
Giovanna Fiume, Schiavitù mediterranee. Corsari, rinnegati e santi di età moderna, Milano, Mondadori.

Students not attending the course will have to study, for this unit, the following additional book:
Bruno Pomara Saverino, Rifugiati. I moriscos e l'Italia, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2018 (Open Access, free download: https://www.fupress.com/catalogo/rifugiati/3516)

STORIA DEI SISTEMI POLITICI EUROPEI

Obiettivo del corso è analizzare la storia dei sistemi europei nella seconda metà del XX secolo dall’angolo di visuale dell’Italia, evidenziando sfide comuni e specificità nazionali.

Per ragioni burocratico-amministrative il corso è diviso in due moduli da 6 CFU ciascuno. Nonostante questa suddivisione burocratica, le lezioni seguiranno un andamento tematico comune a entrambi i moduli. La frequenza è quindi consigliata a tutti per l’intera durata del corso.

Per il MODULO UNO vanno portati i seguenti temi coi seguenti testi.

IN COMUNE PER TUTTI:

TEMA:
L’Europa nella seconda metà del XX secolo e l’emergere dei movimenti populisti
TESTI:
Leonardo Rapone, L’Europa del novecento, Carocci, 2020, da pag. 149 a pag. 436
Marco Tarchi, L’Italia populista, Il Mulino, 2015

In più, A SCELTA, UNO dei seguenti temi, con relativi testi

1) TEMA: la destra politica e sociale, la cosiddetta “Strategia della tensione” e le sue connessioni internazionali.
TESTI: su questo argomento non è disponibile un unico volume che comprenda il tema nelle sue articolazioni, per cui vengono qui proposti alcuni saggi, pubblicati in riviste specializzate o come capitoli di libri. Lo studente che sceglie questo tema deve portare tutti i saggi indicati:
- Mario Del Pero, "Cia e Covert Operation nella politica estera americana del secondo dopoguerra", in “Italia Contemporanea”, dicembre 1996, pp. 691-712
- Giacomo Pacini, "Le origini dell’operazione Stay Behind. 1943-1956", in “Contemporanea”, Ottobre 2007, pp. 581-606
- Elena Cavalieri, "I piani di liquidazione del Centro-sinistra nel 1964", in “Passato e Presente”, n. 79 2010, pp. 59-82
- Francesco Biscione, "La lotta politica extraistituzionale dagli anni Sessanta alla P2", capitolo III in "Il sommerso della repubblica", Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 2003, pp. 70-143.
- Benedetta Tobagi, "Quale giustizia? I processi per Piazza Fontana tra Roma, Milano, Catanzaro", e Mirco Dondi, "Dalle stragi di provocazione alle stragi di intimidazione", entrambi in “Dimensioni e Problemi della Ricerca Storica”, Luglio 2020, rispettivamente pp. 17-41 e 133-156

Tutte le riviste o i volumi da cui sono estratti i saggi sono disponibili presso la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, la Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea di Via Caetani (nonché le biblioteche dei principali istituti culturali), la cui collocazione è immediatamente rilevabile sul sito del sistema bibliotecario Nazionale, SBN.

2) TEMA: Le Brigate Rosse e il Caso Moro
TESTO. Agostino Giovagnoli, "Il Caso Moro", Il Mulino, Bologna, 2005

3) TEMA: Gli anni Settanta, i cambiamenti che caratterizzarono la politica, la società e la cultura nel decennio in una prospettiva nazionale e internazionale:
TESTO: Fiammetta Balestracci, Catia Papa (a cura di), "L’Italia degli anni Settanta. Narrazioni e interpretazioni a confronto", Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2019.

4) TEMA: L’Italia nei decenni tra la fine del XX e l’inizio del XXI secolo: gli anni Ottanta, i cambiamenti sociali, politici e culturali, il crollo del sistema politico con Tangentopoli, l’ingresso nell’Euro, la crisi del 2008-2009.
Su questo argomento vengono proposti alcuni saggi tratti da un’opera in tre volumi sulla storia d’Italia dagli anni Ottanta a oggi.
L’opera si intitola "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
Vol. I, "Fine della guerra fredda e globalizzazione" a cura di Silvio Pons, Adriano Roccucci, Federico Romero; in questo volume occorre studiare i saggi di Silvio Pons, "La bipolarità italiana e la fine della Guerra Fredda", pp. 35-53, Valerio Castronovo, "L’Italia nel mercato globale", pp. 71-83 e Antonio Varsori, "Dalla caduta del Muro di Berlino a Tangentopoli: la dimensione internazionale della crisi della Prima Repubblica”, pp. 209-222;
Vol. II, "Il mutamento sociale", a cura di Enrica Asquer, Emanuele Bernardi, Carlo Fumian; in questo volume occorre studiare i saggi di Paolo Capuzzo, "I consumi tra economia e cultura nell’Italia del dopo boom (1973-2008)", pp. 179-197, Emanuela Scarpellini, "Consumi e attori sociali: le nuove identità dei consumatori italiani", pp. 199-210, Giovanni Gozzini, "La televisione tra due repubbliche", pp. 227-242;
Vol. III, "Istituzioni e politica", a cura di Simona Colarizi, Agostino Giovagnoli, Paolo Pombeni; in questo volume occorre studiare i saggi di Simona Colarizi, "Politica e antipolitica dalla Prima alla Seconda repubblica", pp. 333-347, Paolo Segatti, "La nascita della Lega: un capitolo di una storia che ci appartiene", pp. 351-360, Andrea Possieri, "Un riformismo incompiuto: il primo governo Prodi", pp. 509-528.

I tre volumi da cui sono estratti i saggi, oltre ad essere acquistabili nelle librerie, sono disponibili presso la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, la Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea di Via Caetani, nonché le biblioteche dei principali istituti culturali, la cui collocazione è immediatamente rilevabile sul sito del sistema bibliotecario Nazionale, SBN.
In più, ne è stata fatta richiesta di acquisizione presso il Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneo di Roma Tre.


Per il MODULO DUE, vanno studiati i seguenti temi, coi relativi testi

1) Il “Berlusconismo”, come fenomeno sociale e politico in una prospettiva comparativa internazionale
TESTO: Giovanni Orsina, "Il Berlusconismo nella storia d‘Italia", Marsilio, Venezia, 2013

2) Un approfondimento sulla storia politico sociale di uno dei principali paesi europei.
TESTI: portare UNO A SCELTA fra i seguenti testi:
Riccardo Brizzi, Michele Marchi, "Storia politica della Francia repubblicana", Le Monnier, 2011, dal cap. 5 alla fine;
Giulia Guazzaloca, "Storia della Gran Bretagna 1832-2014", Le Monnier, 2015, dal cap. 9 alla fine;
Gustavo Corni, "Storia della Germania", Il Saggiatore, Milano, 2017, dal cap. 8 alla fine;
Carmelo Adagio, Alfonso Botti, “Storia della Spagna democratica”, Bruno Mondadori, 2006

STORIA DEI SISTEMI POLITICI EUROPEI

Obiettivo del corso è analizzare la storia dei sistemi europei nella seconda metà del XX secolo dall’angolo di visuale dell’Italia, evidenziando sfide comuni e specificità nazionali.

Per ragioni burocratico-amministrative il corso è diviso in due moduli da 6 CFU ciascuno. Nonostante questa suddivisione burocratica, le lezioni seguiranno un andamento tematico comune a entrambi i moduli. La frequenza è quindi consigliata a tutti per l’intera durata del corso.

Per il MODULO UNO vanno portati i seguenti temi coi seguenti testi.

IN COMUNE PER TUTTI:

TEMA:
L’Europa nella seconda metà del XX secolo e l’emergere dei movimenti populisti
TESTI:
Leonardo Rapone, L’Europa del novecento, Carocci, 2020, da pag. 149 a pag. 436
Marco Tarchi, L’Italia populista, Il Mulino, 2015

In più, A SCELTA, UNO dei seguenti temi, con relativi testi

1) TEMA: la destra politica e sociale, la cosiddetta “Strategia della tensione” e le sue connessioni internazionali.
TESTI: su questo argomento non è disponibile un unico volume che comprenda il tema nelle sue articolazioni, per cui vengono qui proposti alcuni saggi, pubblicati in riviste specializzate o come capitoli di libri. Lo studente che sceglie questo tema deve portare tutti i saggi indicati:
- Mario Del Pero, "Cia e Covert Operation nella politica estera americana del secondo dopoguerra", in “Italia Contemporanea”, dicembre 1996, pp. 691-712
- Giacomo Pacini, "Le origini dell’operazione Stay Behind. 1943-1956", in “Contemporanea”, Ottobre 2007, pp. 581-606
- Elena Cavalieri, "I piani di liquidazione del Centro-sinistra nel 1964", in “Passato e Presente”, n. 79 2010, pp. 59-82
- Francesco Biscione, "La lotta politica extraistituzionale dagli anni Sessanta alla P2", capitolo III in "Il sommerso della repubblica", Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 2003, pp. 70-143.
- Benedetta Tobagi, "Quale giustizia? I processi per Piazza Fontana tra Roma, Milano, Catanzaro", e Mirco Dondi, "Dalle stragi di provocazione alle stragi di intimidazione", entrambi in “Dimensioni e Problemi della Ricerca Storica”, Luglio 2020, rispettivamente pp. 17-41 e 133-156

Tutte le riviste o i volumi da cui sono estratti i saggi sono disponibili presso la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, la Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea di Via Caetani (nonché le biblioteche dei principali istituti culturali), la cui collocazione è immediatamente rilevabile sul sito del sistema bibliotecario Nazionale, SBN.

2) TEMA: Le Brigate Rosse e il Caso Moro
TESTO. Agostino Giovagnoli, "Il Caso Moro", Il Mulino, Bologna, 2005

3) TEMA: Gli anni Settanta, i cambiamenti che caratterizzarono la politica, la società e la cultura nel decennio in una prospettiva nazionale e internazionale:
TESTO: Fiammetta Balestracci, Catia Papa (a cura di), "L’Italia degli anni Settanta. Narrazioni e interpretazioni a confronto", Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2019.

4) TEMA: L’Italia nei decenni tra la fine del XX e l’inizio del XXI secolo: gli anni Ottanta, i cambiamenti sociali, politici e culturali, il crollo del sistema politico con Tangentopoli, l’ingresso nell’Euro, la crisi del 2008-2009.
Su questo argomento vengono proposti alcuni saggi tratti da un’opera in tre volumi sulla storia d’Italia dagli anni Ottanta a oggi.
L’opera si intitola "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
Vol. I, "Fine della guerra fredda e globalizzazione" a cura di Silvio Pons, Adriano Roccucci, Federico Romero; in questo volume occorre studiare i saggi di Silvio Pons, "La bipolarità italiana e la fine della Guerra Fredda", pp. 35-53, Valerio Castronovo, "L’Italia nel mercato globale", pp. 71-83 e Antonio Varsori, "Dalla caduta del Muro di Berlino a Tangentopoli: la dimensione internazionale della crisi della Prima Repubblica”, pp. 209-222;
Vol. II, "Il mutamento sociale", a cura di Enrica Asquer, Emanuele Bernardi, Carlo Fumian; in questo volume occorre studiare i saggi di Paolo Capuzzo, "I consumi tra economia e cultura nell’Italia del dopo boom (1973-2008)", pp. 179-197, Emanuela Scarpellini, "Consumi e attori sociali: le nuove identità dei consumatori italiani", pp. 199-210, Giovanni Gozzini, "La televisione tra due repubbliche", pp. 227-242;
Vol. III, "Istituzioni e politica", a cura di Simona Colarizi, Agostino Giovagnoli, Paolo Pombeni; in questo volume occorre studiare i saggi di Simona Colarizi, "Politica e antipolitica dalla Prima alla Seconda repubblica", pp. 333-347, Paolo Segatti, "La nascita della Lega: un capitolo di una storia che ci appartiene", pp. 351-360, Andrea Possieri, "Un riformismo incompiuto: il primo governo Prodi", pp. 509-528.

I tre volumi da cui sono estratti i saggi, oltre ad essere acquistabili nelle librerie, sono disponibili presso la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, la Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea di Via Caetani, nonché le biblioteche dei principali istituti culturali, la cui collocazione è immediatamente rilevabile sul sito del sistema bibliotecario Nazionale, SBN.
In più, ne è stata fatta richiesta di acquisizione presso il Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneo di Roma Tre.


Per il MODULO DUE, vanno studiati i seguenti temi, coi relativi testi

1) Il “Berlusconismo”, come fenomeno sociale e politico in una prospettiva comparativa internazionale
TESTO: Giovanni Orsina, "Il Berlusconismo nella storia d‘Italia", Marsilio, Venezia, 2013

2) Un approfondimento sulla storia politico sociale di uno dei principali paesi europei.
TESTI: portare UNO A SCELTA fra i seguenti testi:
Riccardo Brizzi, Michele Marchi, "Storia politica della Francia repubblicana", Le Monnier, 2011, dal cap. 5 alla fine
Giulia Guazzaloca, "Storia della Gran Bretagna 1832-2014", Le Monnier, 2015, dal cap. 9 alla fine
Gustavo Corni, "Storia della Germania", Il Saggiatore, Milano, 2017, dal cap. 8 alla fine
Carmelo Adagio, Alfonso Botti, “Storia della Spagna democratica”, Bruno Mondadori, 2006

CONTENT:

PART I – Introduction and description of the course

1) Introduction : East Asia as a regional entity (geopolitics and culture)
2) Historical overview : The pre-war order in East Asia (the Sino-centric order and the Japanese particularism) – Part I
3) Japan and China facing the first great challenge (Modernity)
4) Japan and China facing the second great challenge (Globalization)
5) Seminar : the construction of the Chinese political identity through the CCP rhetoric in the post-Maoist era
6) Revision
7) Mid-term.

PART II

1) Security, identity and stability in East Asia
2) China and the Japan-U.S. alliance - The security dilemma in East Asia
3) Ambiguous Japan: Japan’s national identity at century’s end
4) Power and purpose in Pacific East Asia
5) Revision
6) Final Exam

Students are expected to write a 2.500 words, theoretically informed, research paper on a topic of their choice which has been previously discussed with the instructor.

This course is taught in English.

REQUIRED READINGS:

1) John Welfield, An Empire in Eclipse. Japan in the Postwar American Alliance System, Bloomsbury.
Chi-Kwan Mark, China and the World Since 1945. An International History, Routledge.
2) Rémy Davison, “Asia’s ‘Great Game’”, in M. Connors, R. Davison & J. Dosch, The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific. Conflict and Cooperation in the Asian Century, Routledge.
3) M.K. Connors, “Between a doctrine and a hard place. Japan’s emerging role”, in M. Connors, R. Davison & J. Dosch, The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific. Conflict and Cooperation in the Asian Century, Routledge.
4) Rémy Davison, “The Chinese century?”, in M. Connors, R. Davison & J. Dosch, The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific. Conflict and Cooperation in the Asian Century, Routledge.

Week I - Introduction and course description. The origins of U.S. foreign policy. The American exceptionalism. Isolationism or non-isolationism?
Week II - The Civil War as an international conflict. The end of the XIX century and the early Imperial phase.
Week III - The American Century: from the Spanish-American War to the end of the Cold War. The rise of the United States to global power. Wilsonianism or anti-Wilsonianism?
Week IV - The Global Empire. The Cold War between containment, détente, and consensus.
Week V - The post-Cold War debate over the new global role of the U.S. From Bush Sr.'s new world order to Clinton's Democratic enlargment.
Week VI - American Foreign Policy after 9/11. New challenges, new approaches, and new interpretations of the U.S. role in the world.

Mario Del Pero, Libertà e impero. Gli Stati Uniti e il mondo, 1776-2016, Laterza, 2017


One additional book of your choice from the following:

Chalmers Johnson, Le lacrime dell'impero. L'apparato militare industriale, i servizi segreti e la fine del sogno americano, Garzanti, 2005

Elisabetta Vezzosi, Raffaella Baritono, Oltre il secolo americano? Gli Stati Uniti prima e dopo l'11 settembre, Carocci, 2011

Francis Fukuyama, La fine della storia e l'ultimo uomo, UTET, 2020

Joseph Nye, Fine del secolo americano? Il Mulino, 2016

Mario Del Pero, Henry Kissinger e l'ascesa dei neoconservatori alle origini della politica estera americana, Laterza, 2006

The first part of he course focuses on the historical question of African history and the history sources for this continent. Particular reference is made to oral sources and methodology. The course will then move on to the fundamental aspects.
The course aims to provide basic background knowledge of the history of the continent and its modern day problems, this in the light of a historical understanding of different cultures.
Subjects covered:
Aspects of African culture (Clans and ancestry, totemism, theism, social structures)
The impact of colonialism
The Africanisation of the colonialistic western culture

- Bernardo Bernardi, Africa. Tradizione e Modernità, Carocci, 2001

- Catherine Coquery Vidrovitch, Breve storia dell'Africa, Il Mulino, 2012 (French original edition)

Environmental policy and sustainability. The course presents a brief overview of the main schools of thought in environmental matters, following their development especially in recent decades. The course discusses then about methods and tools of environmental policy, illustrates the geography of environmental resources and examines the role of the actors in environmental policy at different geographical scales, from global to local. The problems are also analyzed through some case studies related to different parts of the world. There will be lectures, an excursion and eventual workshops.

MADAU Caterina, 2014,
«Entro i limiti del nostro pianeta Teorie e politiche della questione ambientale»
Bologna, PÀTRON

Documentary by Nicolas Dall’Olio, «Il suolo minacciato (full)» (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3-1l1I28cY)

Poverty, mission and development cooperation in contemporary Christianity

Since the post–World War II, the Christian churches have begun to consider the "social question" as a global question, as a result of the decolonization, of a new theological regard of poverty and of the international climate of the Cold War. Issues such as poverty, work, peace and development have gradually become part of the public discourse of the churches with an impact on the traditional exercise of charity: from paternalistic welfarism to the NGOs came out of associations and religious institutes, this evolution is a trace of a dynamic and conflictual confrontation with the affirmation of civil rights in liberal societies and with the secularization. Through the study of the historical documents, reconstructing the main debates in Christian churches, the course will deal in particular with the following topics: the relationship between missions, decolonization and Third-Worldism; the "church of the poor" and the Second Vatican Council; peace and development of peoples.

1. Dossier of historical documents proposed by the professor
2. Two books to be chosen from following:
a. MASSIMO DE GIUSEPPE, L’altra America: i cattolici italiani e l’America latina. Da Medellín a Francesco, Morcelliana, Brescia 2017
b. MATTEO MENNINI, La Chiesa dei poveri. Dal Vaticano II a papa Francesco, Guerini e Associati, Milano 2017.
c. MAURO FORNO, La cultura degli altri. Il mondo delle missioni e la decolonizzazione, Carocci, Roma 2017.

Attending students will be provided with other indications during the lessons

We will explore the advent of fossil fuels with the emergence of the age of coal, the shift to hydrocarbons, and the most recent trend towards renewable energy sources. This will be done by analysing great power politics, political and economic debates on energy, the expansion of fordism and consumerism, the role of multinational oil companies, the pressures for decolonization and the emergence of the environmentalist debate from the 1970s up to the more recent debate on the "Anthropocene".
Questions and concepts such as “resource curse”, “conservationism”, “Dutch disease”, “limits of growth”, "peak oil", "sustainable development", "extractivism", will be discussed and informed by the relevant literature (and possibly archival material), and with the help images and documentaries.

This course is taught in English.

For each student:
- Bruce Podobnik, "Global Energy Shifts. Fostering Sustainability in a Turbulent Age" (the complete book)

For "non frequentanti" (in addition to Podobnik):
- Leonardo Maugeri, "The Age of Oil: The Mythology, History, and Future of the World's Most Controversial Resources" (the complete book)

For 8 credits (in addition to Pobonik):
- A choice of one text among the "reference books"

Reference books:

Ervand Abrahamian, "Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup d'Etat"
Kate Aronoff, "Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet - and How We can Fight Back"
Basosi/Garavini/Trentin, "Counter-Shock: the Oil Counter-Revolution of the 1980s"
Giuliano Garavini, "The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century"
Nicholas Georgescu-Rogan, "Energy and Economc Myths"
Amitav Ghosh, "The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable"
Thane Gustafson, "The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe"
Michael Herb, "The Wages of Oil. Parliaments and Economic Development in Kuwait and the UAE"
Jason Hickel, "Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World"
Per Hogselius, "Red Gas"
William Stanley Jevons, "The Coal Question"
Daniel Yergin, "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power"
Daneil Yergin, "the New Map"
Naomi Klein, "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate"
Paasha Mahdavi, "Power Grab. Political Survival through Extractive Resource Nationalization"
Andreas Malm, "Fossil Capital. The Rise of the Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming"
Victor McFarland, "Oil Powers: A History of the US-Saudi Alliance"
Bernard Mommer, "Global Oil and the Nation State"
Bethany McLean, "The Smartest Guys in the Room. The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron"
John McNeill and Peter Engelke, "The Great Acceleration. An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945"
Timothy Mitchell, "Carbon Democracy. Political Power in the Age of Oil"
Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo, "The Oil Pentagon"
Simon Pirani, "Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuels Consumption"
Luigi Piccioni, La cronologia di "altronovecento" dell'ambiente e dell'ambientalismo 1853-2000
Thea Riofrancos, "Resource Radical. From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador"
Myrna Santiago, "The Ecology of Oil. Environment, Labour and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938"
Vaclav Smil, "Energy and Civilization: A History"
Ven De Graaf/ Sovacoool, "Global Enegy Politics"
Robert Vitalis, "Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt US Energy Policy"
Tyler Volk, "CO2 Raising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge"

The course aims to present an updated and comprehensive picture of medieval culture (fifth-fifteenth century), framing Italy within a broader Euro-Mediterranean context. Taking into account the most recent historiographical debates and acquisitions, lessons will try to bring students closer to different aspects concerning cultural phenomena, starting from definitions and categories such as "culture", "written culture" and "intellectual" to analyze then school practices, literacy, production and circulation of texts in their relations with society, politics, economics and religion. More precisely, the lessons will focus on the following aspects: "culture" as a historiographic problem between theoretical debates and research; written sources: qualitative and quantitative aspects; the problem of literacy and school in the early Middle Ages; book culture in the early Middle Ages; documentary culture in the early Middle Ages; the eleventh and twelfth centuries between juridical renaissance, textual discoveries and school transformations; book culture of the late Middle Ages; documentary culture of the late Middle Ages; language: Latin and vernacular in the late Middle Ages; the fourteenth century and the relationship between crisis and cultural production; Humanism. Lessons will alternate between frontal explanations and direct exercises on the sources or on specific bibliography.

Program for non attending students:
- Ronald Witt, "L’eccezione italiana. L’intellettuale laico nel Medioevo e l’origine del Rinascimento", italian translation by Anna Carocci, Roma, Viella, 2017 (original edition Cambridge 2012)

Program for attending students:
- Lectures notes, articles and sources discussed during the lesson.

The aim of the course is to face with the origins and the development of a stable Italian and European diplomacy, from the end of the 15th century until the beginning of the 19th century. A critical approach will be used to study sources and models, considering the connections between the Early Modern Era to the Late Modern World. The topics of the lectures are: the origin of the diplomatic representation, Italian and European models, diplomatic treatises, careers and roles of ambassadors and nuncios, negotiation skills that are typical of the Early Modern Age.

Bibliography:
1) S. Andretta, L’arte della prudenza. Teorie e prassi della diplomazia nell’Italia del XVI e XVII secolo, Roma, Biblink, 2006.
2) Esperienza e diplomazia. Saperi, pratiche culturali e azione diplomatica nell’età moderna (XV-XVIII secc.) / Expérience et diplomatie. Savoirs, pratiques culturelles et action diplomatique à l’époque moderne (XV-XVIIIe siècle), a cura di S. Andretta, L. Bély, A. Koller, G. Poumarède (lo studente dovrà riferire sull’Introduzione e 8 saggi a sua scelta), Roma, Viella, 2020.

Students not attending the course are required to:

3) G. Alonge, Ambasciatori. Diplomazia e politica nella Venezia del Rinascimento, Roma, Donzelli, 2019.
Oppure
Diplomazie. Linguaggi, negoziati e ambasciatori far XV e XVI secolo, a cura di E. Plebani, E. Valeri, P. Volpini, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2017.

Life sciences from Descartes to Buffon

Antonio Clericuzio, Uomo e natura, Roma, Carocci, 2021 (forthcoming)


Charles Webster, The Great Instauration, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2002

Evoluzionismo e creazionismo: il dibattito da Linneo a Darwin. Antologia di testi, a cura di A. Ottaviani, Roma, Carocci, 2017

John C. Greene, The Death of Adam: Evolution and Its Impact on Western Thought, Iowa UP, 1983

The acquisition of tools for understanding the women’s conditions and the gender relations will be carried out through a programme divided in two parts.
In the first one the analysis of the steps that marked the development of the European women’s identity and the struggle to achieve the objectives of freedom and democracy will be carried out. In the second part the same topics will be analysed in relation to men and to some historical junctions, like the economic and cultural crisis and the wars.

Gisela Bock, The Women in the European History. From Middle Age to the Contemporary Time, Laterza editore
Sandro Bellassai, The Invention of Virility. Politics and male imagery in Contemporary Italy, Carocci editore

The course covers the major areas of international law:
- The basic features of the so-called international community, intended as a social construct: their relevance from a legal standpoint;
- International legal personality: States and international organisations as subjects of international law; other subjects of international law;
- Sources and rules of international law: customs and general international law; the law of treaties; codification in international law; ius cogens the hierarchy of rules in international law;
- Relationships and interaction between international law and domestic law; reception and execution of international legal rules within national legal orders;
- Internationally wrongful act and State responsibility; the responsibility of international organisations;
- International dispute settlement; international courts and tribunals; diplomatic means of settlement.
In addition, the lectures introduce students to selected special subject areas such as: state territorial sovereignty and its limits (issues of jurisdiction and immunities); human rights; migration law; self-determination of peoples; the prohibition of the use of force and the maintenance of peace and security; international criminal law; the law of the sea.

Textbooks:

At the option of the student,
either
Benedetto Conforti, Diritto internazionale, (Iovane ed.), Napoli, Editoriale scientifica, last edition (2018),
or
Natalino Ronzitti, Introduzione al Diritto internazionale, Torino, Giappichelli, last edition (2019)

In addition, the following monographic essay:

Giuseppe Palmisano, Contributo allo studio giuridico dei metodi diplomatici per la soluzione delle controversie tra Stati, Torino, Giappichelli, 2019 (in corso di stampa)

The content of the course is an in-depth study of the following topics:
- the structural features of the c.d. "International community" relevant from a legal point of view;
- the international subjectivity of States and other recipients of the rules of international law (in particular, international organizations); changes of sovereignty and "identity" of the State in international law.
- the system of sources: customs and general international law, treaties and the law of the treaties, the sources foreseen by agreement, the relations between written law and unwritten law, the process of codification of international law, the so-called non-binding rules;
- the relationships between international law and domestic legal orders and the adaptation of the Italian legal system to international rules;
- wrongful facts in international law and the international responsibility of States and international organizations;
- international dispute settlement and international jurisdictions.
The essential contents and the evolutionary profiles of some sectors governed by international law will also be addressed, including: territorial sovereignty and its limits; the protection of human rights; immigration and the rights of aliens; respect for the self-determination of peoples; the prohibition of the use of force and the maintenance of international peace and security; individuals' international crimes and individual criminal responsibility; the international law of the sea.

Students are requested to study one textbook of international law, namely:
Benedetto Conforti, Diritto internazionale, a cura di Iovane, Napoli, Editoriale scientifica, last edition (2018) or
- Natalino Ronzitti, Introduzione al Diritto internazionale, Torino, Giappichelli, last edition (2016)
Additionally students are requested to study:
Giuseppe Palmisano, Contributo allo studio giuridico dei metodi diplomatici per la soluzione delle controversie tra Stati, Torino, Giappichelli, 2019 (forthcoming)

per l'anno accademico 2021 / 2022 è dedicato alla storia, alle caratteristiche, ai protagonisti, ai temi e paesi di intervento della Cooperazione italiana allo sviluppo, con particolare attenzione al rapporto tra Cooperazione e Migrazioni: attraverso 36 ore di lezioni, di cui 12 ore di Laboratorio sulla progettazione. Al termine del quale gli studenti, organizzati in diversi Gruppi di lavoro, presenteranno in un Seminario un progetto di cooperazione dell'Università, su un tema e un paese da individuare.

Testi di riferimento per l'esame

”Manuale di cooperazione allo sviluppo”, di Antonio Raimondi e Gianluca Antonelli, Sei ed. 2001

"Perle e pirati. Critica della cooperazione allo sviluppo e nuovo multilateralismo", di Luciano Carrino, Ed.Libreria universitaria 2010

“L’antenna e il baobab”, di Massimo Ghirelli, Sei ed. 2005



Testo aggiuntivo per i non frequentanti

Uno a scelta tra:

“La cooperazione allo sviluppo internazionale”, di Maggie Black, Carocci, 2004
"Sviluppo e diritti umani nella cooperazione internazionale. Lezioni sulla cooperazione per lo sviluppo umano", di Spatafora E., Cadin R., Carletti C. (2012).

The course will reconstruct the historical evolution of cartography, retracing the modes of representation from antiquity to the eighteenth-century geodetic revolution, up to the creation of the Military Geographic Institute. Particular emphasis will be given to the deconstruction of geocartographic materials, to their use in geo-historical research for the study of landscape transformations.

Attending students:
- The exam will focus on the topics covered in class, on slides in ppt and supplementary learning material provided during the course.
Non-Attending Students:
- E. Boria, Storia della cartografia in Italia dall’Unità a oggi. Tra scienza, società e progetti di potere, Milano, Utet, 2020 (pp.XI-299)

Contemporary political spaces - the course aims to provide analytical tools to think about the spatial referent of politics, altogether with the need to redefine the scope of politics itself.

S. Sassen, Territorio, autorità, diritti: assemblaggi dal Medioevo all'età globale, Bruno Mondadori 2008

one between the following:
- H. Lefebvre, La produzione dello spazio, Pgreco 2018
- C. Galli, Spazi politici, Il Mulino 2001

Suggested readings:
F. Giardini, "Assemblaggio.Una mappatura", reperibile on line
F. Giardini, "Cosmopolitiche. Ripensare la politica a partire dal chosmos", reperibile on line
F. Giardini, Città stellari, in La Libertà è una Passeggiata. Donne e spazi urbani tra violenza strutturale e autodeterminazione, a c. di C. Belingardi, F. Castelli, S. Olcuire, IAPh Italia, Roma 2019, pp. 55-60 (pdf disponibile on line)

Religions and Gender Relations

The theme of religious influence on gender relations will be addressed starting from the analysis of various sources according to different methodologies and perspectives (historical, historical-religious, historical-artistic, anthropological, sociological, philosophical)

The teaching material will be provided in the course of the workshop

The PHOTOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL HISTORY laboratory, held by Manuela Fugenzi, journalist, photo editor and photographic critic, is an articulated activity on historical and contemporary photography, aimed to understanding its role as witness of civil society as well as its narrative potential. By showing and contextualizing the most significant examples of italian and international photography -from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day- on topics of strong social value, students will be guided in a simulation of photo research online in archives of institutions and photo agencies, as well as in their family albums. This year the subject will be: MIGRANT PEOPLES.

Topics and activities of the workshop-lessons:
• References to history of photography and major themes of social history
• The photographic language; analog photography, digital photography
• Photographic genres and online archives: accesses and research methods
• The archive card: checking the information and drafting the caption
• Selection of images in a sequence
• Final editing of the photographs and drafting of the related captions and photo credits
• Creation of a portfolio using PowerPoint

After a short historical and methodological introduction, students will be introduced to the most relevant themes and trends of the Islamic debate from the end of the 19th century until today. Topics covered include: Islam and modernity; the Reformist Movement (salafiyya); Islam and Nationalism; Political Islam in its declinations; Islamic Feminism. Part of the course will be dedicated to the Orientalist Representations and Distorsions of Contemporary Islam and Muslims.
Eventually, students will be invited to read primary texts, among those available, according to their languages knowledge.

C. Texts:

1. M. Campanini, Il pensiero islamico contemporaneo, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2016.
2. EW Said, Covering Islam. Come i media e gli esperti determinano la nostra visione del resto del mondo, Massa: Transeuropa, 2012.
3. One of the following (see teaching mode) :

- Sayyid Qutb, La battaglia tra Islam e capitalismo, Venezia: Marcianum Press, 2016;
- Sayyid Qutb, Milestones, disponibile a https://www.kalamullah.com/Books/Milestones%20Special%20Edition.pdf
- Sadik al-Azm, La tragedia del diavolo. Fede, ragione e potere nel mondo arabo, Roma: LUISS Press, 2016,
- Ruhollah Khomeyni, Il governo islamico, Il cerchio, 2006.
- Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, Islam e storia, Torino: Bollati Boringhieri
- Tariq Ramadan, Islam e libertà , Torino: Einaudi, 2008
- T. Ramadan, Essere musulmano europeo, Troina (EN): Città Aperta, 2002
- T. Ramadan, Il riformismo islamico. Un secolo di rinnovamento musulmano, Troina (EN): Città Aperta, 2004.
- T. Ramadan, Islam and the Arab Awakening, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Hasan Hanafi, La teologia islamica della liberazione, Milano: Jaca Book, 2018.
- Abdou Filali-Ansary, Reformer l'Islam, Paris: La Découverte, 2004
- Mehran Kamrava (ed), The New Voices of Islam, London: IB Tauris, 2006,
- Mohammed ‘Abid El-Jabri, La ragione araba, Milano: Feltrinelli, 1995,
- Fatema Mernissi, Islam e democrazia, Firenze: Giunti, 2002
- F. Mernissi, L’harem e l’Occidente, Firenze: Giunti, 2006
- F. Mernissi, Le donne del profeta. La condizione femminile nell'Islam, Genova: ECIG, 1992.
- Amina Wadud, Il Corano e la donna. Rileggere il testo sacro da una prospettiva di genere, Cantalupa (TO): Effata’, 2012
- Amina Wadud, Inside the Gender Jihad. Women’s Reform In Islam, Oxford: Oneworld, 2006.
- ‘Ali ‘Abd el-Raziq, Islam and the Foundations of Political Power, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2012 (1925). Disponibile a: http://ecommons.aku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=uk_ismc_series_intranslation
- Muhammad ‘Abduh, Trattato sull’unicità divina, Bologna: il ponte, 2003.
- Asef Bayat, Making Islam Democratic, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2007
- Khaled Abou El-Fadl, Islam and the Challenge of Democracy, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2004
- Khaled Abou El-Fadl, The Great Theft, NY: Harper, 2007
- Farid Esack, Qur’an: Liberation and Pluralism, Oxford: Oneworld, 1996;
- Mohammad A. Lahbabi, Il personalismo musulmano, Milano: Jaca Book, 2017.
- Hamid Dabashi, Islamic Liberation Theology: Resisting the Empire, London & NY: Rouledge, 2008.
- Jawdat Said, Vie islamiche alla nonviolenza, Zikkaron, 2017

Students can propose books not included above.

IMPORTANT: Students without prior knowledge of Islam, MUST read also:

- L. Declich, L’Islam in 20 parole, Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2016;
- P. G. Donini, Il mondo islamico. Breve storia dal ‘500 ad oggi, Roma-Bari: Laterza, ultima edizione.
- Anna Bozzo, L’Islam questo sconosciuto, dispensa didattica (disponibile in pdf);
- C. Endress, Introduzione alla storia del mondo musulmano, Capp. 1-3-6 (dispensa disponibile in pdf).

or an an introductory textbook to Islam to choose among:

A. Bausani, Islam, Rizzoli, ultima edizione;

or

- G. Filoramo (a cura di), Islam, Laterza, ultima edizione.

or

- Carole Hillenbrand, Islam. Una nuova introduzione storica, Torino: Einaudi, 2016.

Main topics covered in the course:
Ancient and modern historiographical issues: the modalities of the Spanish conquest.
The formation of contemporary Latin America: the abolition of slavery in the nineteenth century.
Latin America in the twentieth century: economy, society, institutions, culture.
The current geopolitical continental situation.
Debate on economic development. Environment and access to resources. The indigenous minorities.

The examination is composed by two part: general part; monographic part.
General Part. One of the following books:
-De Giuseppe M., La Bella G., Storia dell’America Latina contemporanea, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019;
-Zanatta, L., Storia dell’America latina contemporanea, Roma, Laterza, 2015 (or new edition).

Monographic part. One of the following books:
-Carmagnani, M., Le connessioni mondiali e l’Atlantico 1450-1850, Torino, Einaudi, 2018.
-Guarnieri Calò Carducci, L., La questione indigena in Perù, Roma, Bulzoni, 2010 (L’antologia di testi è parte essenziale del libro).
-Rojas Mix, M., I cento nomi d’America, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2005.
-Vangelista C., Scatti sugli indios. Ricerche di storia visiva, Aracne, Collana “America e Americhe. Storia, relazioni, immagini”, Roma, 2018.
-Vargas Llosa, A., Libertà per l’America latina. Come porre fine a cinquecento anni di oppressione dello Stato, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2007.
-Nocera R., Wulzer, P., L'America Latina nella politica internazionale. Dalla fine del sistema bipolare alla crisi dell'ordine liberale, Roma, Carocci, 2020

The course examines the historical and political trajectory of the Middle East and North Africa from the Colonial Era until today. The students will be introduced to the debate on Orientalism, its role in the colonial era, and its relevance until today. A particular focus will be on the post-colonial era. Among the topics covered there will be: State formation, the role of ideologies (both secular and religious) in the shaping of the region, the intra-regional and international relations of the Region and the so-called ‘Arab Spring’. Students are expected to actively participate to the course.
All the available teaching materials, the announcements and all that is related to this course will be posted on the lecturer’s departmental teaching webpage (bit.ly/dsu-gervasio).

REQUIRED READINGS:


R. Owen, State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, Routledge: London & New York: 2004.
J. Chalcraft, “The Arab Uprisings of 2011 in Historical Perspective” in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History, 2016 (available as a pdf file on the course website).
G. Achcar, “The Seasons after the Arab Spring”, Le Monde Diplomatique, June 2019 (available as a pdf file on the course website).

One of the following:


G. Achcar, The People Want. A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising, London: Saqi, 2013.
G. Achcar, Morbid Symptoms. Relapse in the Arab Uprisings, London: Saqi, 2016.
L. Anceschi, G. Gervasio & A. Teti (eds), Informal Power in the Greater Middle East. Hidden Geographies, London: Routledge, 2014 & 2016.
M. Aouragh & H. Hamouchene (eds), The Arab Uprisings. A Decade of Struggles, TNI & RLS, 2021, available online at: https://longreads.tni.org/arab-uprisings
A. Bayat, Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2017.
A. Bayat, Revolutionary Life. The Everyday of the Arab Spring, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2021
F. Cavatorta & L. Storm (eds), Political Parties in the Arab World: Continuity and Change, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
S. Cook, False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2017.
F. A. Gerges, ISIS: A History, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2017.
A. Khalil (ed), Gender, Women and the Arab Spring, London & NY: Routledge, 2015.
H. Kraetzschmar & P. Rivetti (eds), Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings: Governance, Pluralisation and Contention, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
R. Owen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2014.
J. Saab (ed.), A region in revolt: Mapping the recent uprisings in North Africa and West Asia, Ottawa: Daraja Press, 2020.
R. Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad (eds), Women Rising: In and Beyond the Arab Spring: New York, New York University Press, 2020.
I. Szmolka (ed.), Political Change in the Middle East and North Africa: After the Arab Spring, Edinburgh, Edinburgh UP, 2017.
Ch. Tripp, The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013.


IMPORTANT! Students without any prior knowledge of the History of the MENA, must read one of the following textbooks:

W. Cleveland & M. Bunton, A History of the Modern Middle East, Boulder: Westview Press, 2016,
Betty Anderson, A History of the Modern Middle East, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2016.

After briefly introducing the different objects of anthropological knowledge from a historical perspective, the course will focus on the themes of the supernatural, magic and witchcraft between history, power, body, disease and society. In particular, the lessons will focus on rationality and belief systems, on the role of the historical and colonial dimension, on the symbolic, on power relations, on the notion of contagion in its social and cultural implications.

Testi d’esame (gli studenti che hanno già sostenuto un esame di antropologia culturale possono concordare con la docente un testo alternativo):

Fabietti, Malighetti, Matera, Dal tribale al globale. Introduzione all'antropologia, Bruno Mondadori, 2012 (disponibile anche in versione digitale).

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

Bellagamba, Alice, L'Africa e la stregoneria. Saggio di antropologia storica, Laterza, 2008.
Evans-Pritchard, Edward, Stregoneria, oracoli e magia tra gli Azande, Raffaello Cortina, 2002.
Douglas, Mary, Purezza e pericolo, Il Mulino, 1996.
Kitta, A. The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore, Utah State University Press, 2019.
Quaranta, I. Corpo, potere e malattia. Antropologia e Aids nei Grassfields del Camerun, Meltemi, 2006.
Taussig, Michael T., Il diavolo e il feticismo della merce, Derive Approdi 2017.

For those attending, it is possible to replace the text of your choice with 4 essays (which the teacher will make available to the students during the course) of which one or two will be chosen and presented by the attending student and discussed collegially in class.

Non attending students will add:
Fabietti, Ugo, Elementi di antropologia culturale, Mondadori, 2015: parte quarta (sistemi di pensiero) e parte settima (dimensione religiosa, esperienza rituale).

Travel’s reports of the past are a preferred source for the construction of geographical thought and culture. Particularly between the late Middle Ages and Modern Age, travel’s relations allows to retrace the complex process of widening of Europeans’ geographical horizon. In western society the relationship between geography and travel’s reports has changed over the centuries, to the need to sort and reprocess the information gathered, to create a geographical knowledge built on valid rules, correlations between phenomena and rational criteria for classification. During the course will be analyzed practices of travel, travelers and travel’s reports, in their various types. Will also be considered some examples of travel’s reports that, throughout history, have marked the collective imagination and the construction of the world’s modern image. Testimony of travel’s experiences, travel literature has become ever more an instrument of knowledge of the territory and of human communities, through understanding the other and the elsewhere, but also the culture that looks at the other and at the space, for as this was and still is organized on the basis of many human needs (exploration, knowledge, tourism, etc.).

Not attending
- Guglielmo Scaramellini, La geografia dei viaggiatori. Raffigurazioni individuali e immagini collettive nei resoconti di viaggio, Milano, Unicopli, 1993 o 1998, solo la Parte seconda, pp. 55-111.
- Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Dall’esperienza del viaggio al sapere geografico, in Geotema, n° 8 (1997), Il viaggio come fonte di conoscenze geografiche, pp. 3-12 (https://teams.microsoft.com/l/file/344CE0FA-C16C-4536-84DF-4F0624F5818D?tenantId=ffb4df68-f464-458c-a546-00fb3af66f6a&fileType=pdf&objectUrl=https%3A%2F%2Funiroma3.sharepoint.com%2Fsites%2FAA2021-GEOGRAFIAELETTERATURADELVIAGGIO-20710063DASCENZO%2FMateriale%20del%20corso%2FCaraci%20Geotema.pdf&baseUrl=https%3A%2F%2Funiroma3.sharepoint.com%2Fsites%2FAA2021-GEOGRAFIAELETTERATURADELVIAGGIO-20710063DASCENZO&serviceName=teams&threadId=19:f34be9d0c8a841a7981f2d8b39d7105a@thread.tacv2&groupId=a760e24a-ee11-4d7b-be00-294a107557e1).
- Annalisa D'Ascenzo, Lo schema (immaginare-)trovare-cercare-scoprire applicato alle rappresentazioni del Giappone (metà XIV-metà XVII secolo), in ANNALISA D’ASCENZO (a cura di), Geostoria. Geostorie, Roma, CISGE, 2015, pp. 65-95 (https://www.cisge.it/ojs/index.php/Volumi/article/view/856).

Attending
Materials provided during the lessons.

An historical perspective on religions must take into consideration their multi-layered presence on the territory and must be able to analyze dynamics and strategies: since 2007 more than a half of the global population lives in urban areas and cities have become the privileged space of contestations, conflicts, negotiation of interests, creation of symbolic and capital resources concerning religions. In cities innovations, waves and tendencies concerning beliefs and religious practices are produced and reproduced. Italian and European cities were the space of creation and elaboration of social fears; in the last decades fear was related to economy, the environment, the pandemic crisis.
The fear, almost touchable in the streets of the cities, is related to religion in a double way; from one side every religion was born from the fear of the loose/impossibility of controlling life, death, illness, pain, the end and often it is an answer to this feeling and to worries
From the other side, religions produce fear, in the case of violence which arises in their name but also due to collective imaginaries which feed clichés, stereotypes, in particular towards minorities.
This course offers some historical examples of religion such as an antidote to fear and religion such as virus of fear, in particular related to the topic of social fear and religious answers, fears which were provoked or sublimated by religious fundamentalisms (on line – at school in prisons and in religious places)

Attending Students
1. Notes, Materials discussed during the course
2. M. Graziano Geopolitica della paura oppure Egea, Bocconi, Milano 2021 oppure
M. Bombardieri, M. Giorda, S. Hejazi, Capire l’Islam, Morcelliana Brescia 2019
3. Sessione monografica di Humanitas 2021 su “Ecologia e religioni” (curato da B. Nuti)

Not Attending Students
1. M. Graziano Geopolitica della paura oppure Egea, Bocconi, 2021
2. M. Bombardieri, M. Giorda, S. Hejazi, Capire l’Islam, Morcelliana Brescia 2019
3. G. Filoramo, R. Parrinello, Guarire dal contagio, Morcelliana Brescia 2020
AND Sessione monografica di Humanitas 2021 su “Ecologia e religioni” (ED. B. Nuti)

Course Learning Objectives and Skill Acquisition
This course consists in two modules. The first deals with basic concepts in Energy Economics as the distribution of sources and consumption patterns at the geographical level, the analysis of demand and supply of different energy sources and the use of energy by sectors. World energy outlook scenarios are deeply investigated. The second part of the course allows students gathering main analytical tools to consider jointly energy issues and climate change impacts. The economic analysis of policy impacts over the long term and burden sharing issues in the international bargaining process are also analyzed. At the end of the course students will be able to understand global energy and climate reports, conduct their own impact analysis and be familiar with main simulation models.

Assessment
The course assessment will be based on two small dissertations that the students will write and present after the end of each part of the course, one on Energy Economics and one on Climate Policy issues, and on a final written exam formed by 5 open questions.

Course general schedule
Part I: Energy Economics
1. World Energy Outlook
2. Energy security and energy poverty
2. Fossil fuels economics
3. Energy price mechanisms
4. Alternative energy sources and clean energy technologies
Part II: Climate Change Policy
5. The science of climate change
6. Climate change impacts
7. Vulnerability and adaptation
8. Mitigation policies
7. The European low-carbon strategy

Detailed Teaching Agenda
Lecture #1: Introduction, practical information, data collection of participants
Part I: Energy Economics
Lecture #2: Introduction to the energy markets, composition of the energy mix
Lecture #3: Demand and supply, peculiarities of the energy markets
Lecture #4: How to read an energy balance: dimensions, sectors, sources
Lecture #5: Global energy markets and scenario building
Lecture #6: Energy price mechanisms: substitution elasticities
Lecture #7: Energy price mechanisms: the rebound effect
Lecture #8: Energy security and energy poverty
Lecture #9: Renewable sources: introduction and taxonomy
Lecture #10: Renewable sources: technological innovation and policy support
Lecture #11: The biofuels case: pros and cons of an eco-innovation
Lecture #12: Energy efficiency and policy support
Lecture #13: The EU Energy strategy: targets and policy instruments
Lecture #14: Dissertation on Energy Economics (Part I of the course, intermediate assessment)
Lecture #15: Dissertation on Energy Economics (Part I of the course, intermediate assessment)
Part II: Climate Change Policy
Lecture #16: The science of climate change
Lecture #17: Climate change impacts and economic damage
Lecture #18: Vulnerability and adaptation concepts
Lecture #19: The international institutional architecture for climate change
Lecture #20: Political bargaining at the international and level
Lecture #21: Mitigation actions and policy instruments
Lecture #22: The Emission Trading System and the EU experience
Lecture #23: The linkages between mitigation and economic performance
Lecture #24: Flexible mechanisms and developing countries
Lecture #25: The EU long-term low-carbon strategy
Lecture #26: Scenario building and policy impact evaluation
Lecture #27: The case of the EU long-term low-carbon strategy
Lecture #28: The case of the Green Climate Fund
Lecture #29: Dissertation on Climate Change Policy (Part II of the course, intermediate assessment)
Lecture #30: Dissertation on Climate Change Policy (Part II of the course, intermediate assessment)

Teaching material will be available to students in a dedicated Dropbox folder.
Textbooks (available in the corresponding folders for Lecture number)
Bhattacharyya S.C. (2011), Energy Economics: Concepts, Issues, Markets and Governance, UK: Springer-Verlag. Chapters: 1, 2, 3 (pp. 41-61), 4 (pp.77-81), 5 (sect. 5.1.1-5.1.5), 6 (excl. 6.5), 7 (Appendix excluded for all chapters).
IEA (International Energy Agency) (2017), World Energy Outlook 2017. Chapters: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7.
IEA (International Energy Agency) (2016), Energy Efficiency Indicators. (pages 5-10).
IPCC (2014), Climate Change 2014 – Synthesis Report. (pages 1-31).
IPCC (2014), Climate Change 2014 – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability Part A. (pages 1-32).
IPCC (2014), Climate Change 2014 – Mitigation of Climate Change (pages 41-107).
Tol R.S.J. (2014), Climate Economics: Economic Analysis of Climate, Climate Change and Climate Policy, Edward Elgar Publ. Chapters: 1,2,3,4,5,6.

The course deal with the birth of capitalism from the Middle Ages up to the contemporary age. It analyses the three main forms of capitalism: merchant, industrial and financial.

Attending students (all of them):

F. Braudel, Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimora 1977.
J. Kocka, Capitalism: A Short History, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2016.
P. Bowles, Capitalism, Routledge, London-New York 2014

Non-attending students (plus one of the two below):

L. Pellicani, La genesi del capitalismo e le origini della modernità, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2013 (no the chapters 2, 3, 8 e 10).
L. Gallino, Finanzacapitalismo, Einaudi, Turin 2013.
G. Claeys, Marx and Marxism, Pelican Books, London 2018.
B. Milanovic, Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World, Harvard University Press, New York 2019.
G. Conte, Il credito di una nazione. Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2021.

The teaching is an introduction to ethnography as a practice and theory of the description of social and cultural phenomena. The first part will focus on field research through a historical examination of the methods and reflection on them: from the expeditions season, to participatory observation, to the most recent and innovative forms. A second part will focus on ethnography as a space for reflection on the narrative strategies put in place in the human and social sciences, thus providing critical awareness around discursive rhetoric and ethnographic writing. Particular attention will be paid to the construction of the research question, the identification of the object of analysis, its empirical development, the role and relationship with the informants, the questions that ethnography formulates and the answers it provides, through its specific modalities. Classroom readings and presentations of classical and more recent anthropological ethnographies will provide an overview of the potential of the approach.

Testi d’esame:
Piasere, L., L'etnografo imperfetto. Esperienza e cognizione in antropologia, Laterza 2002.

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:
Abu-Lughod, L., Sentimenti velati. Onore e poesia in una società beduina, Bollati Boringhieri, 2004.
Bourgois, P., Cercando rispetto. Drug economy e cultura di strada, Derive Approdi, 2005.
Crapanzano V., Tuhami. Ritratto di un uomo del Marocco, Meltemi, 1995.
Griaule, M., Dio d’acqua. Incontri con Ogotemmeli, Bollati Boringhieri 2002.
Malinowski, B. Argonauti del Pacifico Occidentale. Bollati Boringhieri, 2011.
Mead M., L’adolescenza a Samoa, Giunti, 2007.
Shostack, M., Nisa. La vita e le parole di una donna!Kung, Meltemi, 2017.
Tsing Lowenhaupt, A. Il fungo alla fine del mondo. La possibilità di vivere nelle rovine del capitalismo. Keller, 2021.

For those attending, it is possible to replace the text of your choice with 4 essays (which the teacher will make available to the students during the course) of which one or two will be chosen and presented by the attending student and discussed collegially in class, from the following texts (see "bibliografia di riferimento").

Non attending students will add 2 chapters from:
Fabietti, U. (a cura di), Etnografia e culture. Antropologi, informatori e politiche dell’identità, Carocci, 2001.

From the origins, cinema has been inspired by historical contents and events for its productions. The public has always shown keen curiosity and interest in historical events narrated on the screen. The course aims to show how cinema can be: a source for historical knowledge, an instrument to tell the past and an agent of history. Cinema is a source for the historical knowledge of the present in which the film has been shot and processed: it provides us with information on ideas and values of the producing society.

On the other hand, when we talk about cinema as an instrument to narrate the past, we refer to the public use of history, a field in which historians have to compete with other professional figures.
Finally, cinema can be considered an agent of history when studying its capability to influence and construct behaviours, trends, passions and identities.
Understanding the various languages and representations can be an essential tool for historians working in the field of cultural and social history interested in the transmission of values, ideas and representations of the historical past of different eras.

The course focuses on representation on cinema and television and in particular on the following topic: “Times of crisis. War, violence and society ".
War and violence are phenomena that goes along with human societies throughout their own development, therefore the course questions the specific aspects of representations and imagery linked to different eras. A conspicuous number of films will be examined and each student will be able to identify their own path by selecting from those indicated, ten films of their own interest.
To this end, the following films and products for television will be analysed; students will have to see and analyse 10 of the following films.
The teaching is organised in seminars, the students will work in teams by deepening topics, readings and ideas related to the films indicated and to a bibliography agreed with the teacher.

Antiquity
• R. Scott, Gladiator (2000)
• W. Petersen, Troy (2004)
• M. Rovere, The First King (2019)

Middle Age
• M. Gibson, Braveheart (1995)
• R. Scott, Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
• L. Bresson, The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)
• M. Bellocchio, Enrico IV (1984)


Early modern period
• W. Herzog, Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
• S. Kubrick, Barry Lyndon (1975)
• R. Joffé, The Mission (1986)
• R. Emmerich, The Patriot (2000)
• P. Weir, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2004)
• S. McQueen, 12 Years a Slave (2013)
• M. Scorsese, Silence (2016)

Late modern period and Contemporary history
• L. Comencini, Everybody Go Home (1960)
• N. Loy, The Four Days of Naples (1962)
• F. Ford Coppola, Apocalypse now (1979)
• C. Nolan, Dunkirk (2017)
• J. Wright, Darkest Hour (2018)
• S. Mendes, 1917 (2019)

Readings for the exam:

A) Both the books:

• Cortini L. (a cura di), Le fonti audiovisive per la storia e la didattica, Effigi, Arcidosso, 2014, pp. 39-60; 97-118
• A. Scurati, Guerra. Narrazioni e culture nella tradizione occidentale, Donzelli, Roma 2003.

B) One book of your choice between:

• Iaccio P., Cinema e storia. Percorsi, immagini, testimonianze, Liguori, Napoli 2000
• Miro Gori G. (a cura di), La storia al cinema. Ricostruzione del passato e interpretazione del presente, Bulzoni, Roma, 1994
• Ortoleva P., Cinema e storia. Scene dal passato, Loescher, Torino, 1991
• Sorlin P., I figli di Nadar, Einaudi, Torino, 2000
• Munslow A., Narrative and History, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, 2007

For historical contextualization, it is recommended reading one of the following texts (available at public libraries), to which can be added other texts chosen by the student:

• Cicognetti L., Servetti L. (a cura di), Sorlin P. (a cura di), La guerra in televisione. I conflitti moderni tra cronaca e storia, Bologna-Venezia, Istituto storico Parri per l’Emilia Romagna-Marsilio 2003.
• Feci S., Schettini L. (a cura di), La violenza contro le donne nella storia: contesti, linguaggi, politiche del diritto (secoli 15.-21.), Roma, Viella, 2017
• Gozzini G., P. Masciullo (a cura di), La guerra delle immagini nel 21. secolo: cinema, televisione e web, Soveria Mannelli : Rubettino, 2020 (Fa parte di: Cinema e storia : rivista di studi interdisciplinari)
• Gruzinski S., La guerra delle immagini. Da Cristoforo Colombo a Blade Runner, SugarCo, 1991
• Lavenia V., Il catechismo dei soldati: guerra e cura d'anime in età moderna, Bologna, EDB, 2014
• Livi Bacci M., Conquista. La distruzione degli indios americani, Bologna, Società editrice il Mulino, 2005
• Pach C., "The War on Television: TV News, the Johnson Administration, and Vietnam," in A Companion to the Vietnam War, Blackwell Publishers, 2002
• Pellizzari P. (a cura di), Le armi e i cavalieri: la guerra e i suoi simboli dal Medioevo all'età moderna: atti della Giornata di studi, Torino, 12 febbraio 2018, Alessandria, Edizioni dell'Orso, 2018
• Todorov T., La conquista dell'America: il problema dell'altro, Torino, Einaudi, 2014
• Vaccaro L. (a cura di), L' Europa e l'evangelizzazione delle Indie Orientali, Milano, Centro ambrosiano, 2005.


Non-attending students must agree a program with the teacher by sending an email to: didattica.merluzzi@gmail.com

Course Schedule: Thursday 3pm-5pm, aula 9; Friday 11am-1pm, aula 9

Classes start on Thursday, March 3, at 3pm, aula 9


Readings

 All readings will be made available by the professor on Moodle. The Prof.’s lectures as well as class discussion will be based on those readings.


Assignments:

1. Paper (1500/2000 words) (30%)
2. Research outline presentation (10-15 mins) with a ppt (25%)
3. Final exam (30%)
4. Class participation (15%)



Course Syllabus: (days, topics, and readings)

Week 1

TH 3 March - Course Intro: Historical Thinking and Cultural History

- M. C. Lemon, Philosophy of History: A Guide for Students, pp. 290-303 (“The What is History Debate”)
- Alessandro Arcangeli, Cultural History: A Concise Introduction, pp. 1-17 (“In search of a definition”); pp. 30-48 (“Interwoven paths”)


F 4 March – NO CLASS (Make-up Class: 5 May)



Week 2

TH 10 March - Popular Culture?

- Peter Burke, Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe, pp. 3-22 (The Discovery of the People)
- Aron Gurevich, Medieval Popular Culture: Problems of Belief and Perception, pp. 78-103
(Popular Culture in the Mirror of the Penitentials)


F 11 March – Francis Petrarch and Humanism
- Kenneth Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance, pp. XIX-XX; 1-8 (Introduction; Quintilian); pp. 25-34 (Petrarch: Introduction; Letter to Posterity; The Ascent of Mount Ventoux; Letter to the Shade of Cicero)


Week 3

TH 17 March – The Humanist “Revolution” and the Renaissance

- Kenneth Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance, pp. 66-86 (Coluccio Salutati, Letter to Peregrino Zambeccari; Vespasiano da Bisticci: Life of Poggio Bracciolini; Life of Niccolò Niccoli; Lorenzo Valla, The Glory of the Latin Language)
- Lauro Martines, Power and Imagination (Ch."Humanism: A Program for Ruling Classes")


F 18 March - Women of the Renaissance

- Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance, pp. 111-133 (Marriage, the Family, and Women: Intro; Francesco Barbaro; Leon Battista Alberti)
- Carolyn James, “Politics and Domesticity in the Letters of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490 –1519”, Renaissance Quarterly 65 (2012): 321–52



Week 4

TH 24 March The “Universal Man” of The Renaissance

- Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance, pp. 97-104 (Florentine Neoplatonism and Mysticism: Intro; Marsilio Ficino); pp. 104-108 (Giovanni Pico della Mirandola)
- Leonardo da Vinci, Selections from the Notebooks, in The Italian Renaissance Reader, ed. by Bondanella and Musa, pp. 185-195


F 25 March - An Exercise of Critical Thinking: Lorenzo Valla’s Reading of The Donation of Constantine

- Bartelett, The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance, pp. 206-210 (Lorenzo Valla The Principal Arguments from the Forged Donation of Constantine)
- The Donation of Constantine: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/donatconst.asp


Week 5

TH 31 March Political Thought: Niccolò Machiavelli

- Starn, Seeing Culture in a Room for a Renaissance Prince, in Biersack, Aletta, The New Cultural History, pp. 205-232
- Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, in Bondanella and Musa (eds.), The Italian Renaissance Reader, pp. 258-264; 273-274; 291-293


F 1 April - Pope Sixtus IV, Conspiracies, and the Making of the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel

- Joseph H. Lynch and Phillip C. Adamo, The Medieval Church: A Brief History, pp. 318-327 (“Crisis and Calamity”); pp. 329-342 (“The Church in the Fifteenth Century”)
- Marcello Simonetta, The Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissance Mystery Decoded, selected pp.



Week 6

TH 7 April – The Age of Geographical Explorations

- Cristopher Columbus, Journal of the First Voyage, paragraphs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 50-54:
http://eada.lib.umd.edu/text-entries/journal/


F 8 April - Witchcraft: A Renaissance Contradiction?

- Brian Levack, The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, Ch. 2 (The Intellectual Foundations)
- Charles Zika, Images of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe, in Levack, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America



Week 7

TH 14 April – Heinrich Kramer’s Malleus Maleficarum and Related Traditions

- Kors and Peters, Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700, pp. 176-228 (“The Hammer of Witches”)
- Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola, “Strix”, in Witchcraft in Europe, ed. by Alan Charles Kors
and Edward Peters, selected pp.


F 15 April – T 19 April: Spring Break (Make up Class for Friday: 6 May)



Week 8 -- Paper due: Thursday, 21 April at 11:59pm

TH 21 April - Carlo Ginzburg’s Benandanti

- Carlo Ginzburg, The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, selected pp.


F 22 April - Civic Rituals and Popular Cultures: The Case of the Carnival

- Peter Burke, Popular Culture in Early-Modern Europe, pp. 178-204 (The World of Carnival)


Week 9

TH 28 April – Protestant and Catholic Reforms

- Lisa Jardine, Erasmus: Man of Letters, selected pp.
- Martin Luther, Address to the Christian Nobility: https://history.hanover.edu/texts/luthad.html
- Paolo Giustiniani and Pietro Querini, Booklet to Pope Leo X on the Reform of the Church, selected pp.


F 29 April - Science, Theology, and Authority

- The Index of Forbidden Books: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/indexlibrorum.asp
- Giordano Bruno, On the Infinite, the Universe, and the Worlds, selected pp.
- Galileo Galilei's Indictment and Abjuration (1633): https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1630galileo.asp


Week 10 – Make-Up Classes

TH 5 May – Current Cultural Trends

- James Hankins, How Not to Defend the Humanities:
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/11/not-defend-humanities/
- Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, selected pp.



F 6 May - Course Recap and Final Exam Preparation

All readings will be made available by the professor on Moodle. The Prof.’s lectures as well as class discussion will be based on those readings.

This course is designed to introduce students to the methods, theories, and critiques of reconstructing early modern global and world history. It seeks to familiarize students with the major historiographical debates and definitions surrounding the first phase of intensifying global connections that began in the fifteenth century. The course traces the different ways in which various scholars have analyzed the dramatic expansion of cross-cultural interactions and economic exchange in the centuries leading up to the formalization of the modern nation-state.
By the early seventeenth century, European merchants had established maritime trade networks across the Atlantic Ocean and eastward to India and China. These networks allowed them to purchase furs, tea, sugar, spices, and other luxury goods that were in high demand throughout Europe. In the Americas, European colonists began using large numbers of enslaved Africans to grow labor-intensive crops such as sugar cane and tobacco for export to Europe. Portuguese, and later Dutch, merchants acquired many of these slaves from trading posts on the West African coast. Once the slaves had been sold in the Americas, merchants used the proceeds to purchase local goods to sell in Europe. This circular trade pattern dominated the Atlantic economy until the 1800s. European nations carefully controlled their trade networks to protect them from rival states. The Dutch East India Company, for example, owned its own private army and navy, which was used to defend its trade links with India and Southeast Asia.
Global trade changed patterns of production and consumption around the world and led to the rapid growth and development of England and the Netherlands at the expense of the old colonial powers such as Spain and Portugal. In this course we will examine the growth of global trade networks in the 1600s and assess the political, social, and cultural impact of these networks on the peoples of Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Particular attention will be paid to the global circulation of objects and books in the early modern world.

A syllabus with assigned weekly readings will be distributed at the beginning of the course

The first part of the course will be dedicated to explore the role of cultural diplomachy as a tool for managing international conflicts. The idea of the war as a clash of civilizations will be analyzed from the nineteenth century up to the present day.
The second part of the course will focus on the period between the two world wars, and in particular on the methods used by fascism for overseas promotion of Italian culture.

1) Tommaso Detti (a cura di), Le guerre in un mondo globale, Viella, Roma 2017, p. 320
2) Gaetano Castellini Curiel, Soft power e l’arte della diplomazia culturale, Le Lettere, Firenze 2021, p. 147

3) A book of your choice between:
a) James Sheehan, L’età post-eroica: guerra e pace nell'Europa contemporanea, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009, p. 330
b) Jeremy Black, Le guerre nel mondo contemporaneo, il Mulino, Bologna 2006, p. 238.
c) Lorenzo Benadusi, Ufficiale e gentiluomo. Virtù civili e valori militari in Italia, 1896-1918, Feltrinelli, Milano 2015, p. 397
d) Frances Stoner Saunders, La guerra fredda culturale. La Cia e il mondo delle lettere e delle arti, Fazi, Roma 2004
e) Fabio Ferrarini, L’«asse spezzato». Fascismo, nazismo e diplomazia culturale nei paesi nordici (1922-1945), Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2021, p. 288
f) Silvia Salvatici, Nel nome degli altri. Storia dell’umanitarismo internazionale, il Mulino, Bologna 2015, p. 332
g) Enzo Traverso, Il secolo armato. Interpretare le violenze del Novecento, Feltrinelli, Milano 2012

Environmental History
Unit I - 36 hours - 6 cfu.
Socio-economic changes and environmental alterations from the eighteenth century to the new millennium.
The course consists of two parts, perfectly complementary. The first part, introductory, intends to provide an essential framework of environmental history. The second part is much wider and intends to illustrate and analyze the environmental changes that with increasing intensity and importance have marked the history of the last three centuries, in their inseparable relationship with the contemporary socio-economic dynamics and with a particular reference to the Italian experience.

Environmental History
Unit I – 36 hours - 6 cfu.
Socio-economic changes and environmental alterations from the eighteenth century to the new millennium.
- S. Mosley, Storia globale dell’ambiente, il Mulino, Bologna 2013.
- P. Bevilacqua, Tra natura e storia. Ambiente, economia, risorse in Italia, Donzelli, Roma 2000.
- G. Corona, Breve storia dell’ambiente in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2015.
- P. Tino, Le radici della vita. Storia della fertilità della terra nel Mezzogiorno (secoli XIX-XX), Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2015.
- M. Forti, Malaterra. Come hanno avvelenato l’Italia, Laterza, Bari-Roma 2018.
One of the following books at the choice:
- J. R. McNeill e P. Engelke, La Grande accelerazione. Una storia ambientale dell’Antropocene dopo il 1945, Einaudi, Torino 2018.
- P. Bevilacqua, Il cibo e la terra. Agricoltura, ambiente e salute negli scenari del nuovo millennio, Donzelli, Roma 2018.
- P. Acot, Storia del clima. Dal Big Bang alle catastrofi climatiche, Donzelli, Roma 2004 (in particolare la Parte seconda e la Parte terza).
- A. W. Crosby, Lo scambio colombiano. Conseguenze biologiche e culturali del 1492, Einaudi, Torino 1992.
- M. Armiero - S. Barca, Storia dell’ambiente. Una introduzione, Carocci, Roma 2004.
- F. Paolini, Ambiente. Una storia globale (secoli XX-XXI), tab edizioni, Roma 2020 (in particolare i capitoli 1-3 e l' "Appendice").
- S. Adorno e S. Neri Serneri (a cura di), Industria, ambiente, territorio. Per una storia ambientale delle aree industriali in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2009 (in particolare il saggio introduttivo di S. Adorno e S. Neri Serneri, Per una storia ambientale delle aree industriali in Italia, e i saggi di S. Neri Serneri, R. Tolaini, M. Ruzzenenti, A. Ciuffetti, M. G. Rienzo, S. Ruju, S. Adorno).
- S. Luzzi, Il virus del benessere. Ambiente, salute, sviluppo nell’Italia repubblicana, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009.
- S. Neri Serneri, Incorporare la natura. Storie ambientali del Novecento, Carocci, Roma 2005 (in particolare il capitolo introduttivo e la Parte prima).
Additional bibliographical references will be provided during lessons.

RUSSIA, AN EMPIRE
The course will focus on empire as a peculiar element of continuity in contemporary Russian history despite the radical changes that the country has undergone. The unique characteristics of Russia’s imperial model will be analyzed in its various forms and manifestations, along with the diverse political strategies of Russian governors between 1800 and 1900s, from the Russian Empire through the USSR to the Russian Federation. The national question, the broader geographical dimension, the forms of government, foreign policies and international geopolitical visions will be studied in depth. The different imperial ideologies will also be examined.

1. Andrea Graziosi, L’Unione Sovietica 1914-1991, Bologna, il Mulino, 2011;
2. Andreas Kappeler, La Russia. Storia di un impero multietnico, Roma, Edizioni Lavoro, 2006.
3. Gian Piero Piretto, Gli occhi di Stalin. La cultura visuale sovietica nell'era staliniana, Milano, Raffello Cortina Editore, 2010

The consumption of popular culture and policies aimed at influencing popular culture became increasingly salient in 20th century Western societies. Also Italian political parties and governments became aware of the importance of controlling and manipulating popular culture, and started developing sophisticated and effective forms of propaganda. Concurrently, popular culture itself became politically engaged, as militancy started to be conveyed in various forms of popular art, as writings, drawings, songs, radio and TV broadcasts and movies. The relationship between propaganda from above and popular cultures from below must not be interpreted in terms of a rigid opposition, but rather of a conflictual relationship capable of influencing each other.

The course aims at providing a general overview of the main trends in the history of italian popular culture from the early to the late 20th century, as well as at introducing students to key arguments in historical scientific research on the topic. In this way, students will develop skills to critically read, think, discuss and write about a set of historiographical arguments and a multiplicity of historical evidence.

In this sense, the course will detect how mass communication, literature and the visual arts determined the attitudes, moods and mentality of Italian society during the twentieth century.

The first part of the course will focus on the analysis of the concepts of "Popular Culture", "Propaganda", “Consensus Building” and "Political Religion”, with special references to the so-said “cultural turn”, which changed many perspectives in Contemporary History.

The second part of the course will deal with the role of Italian media as, at one hand, a pillar of ideological consensus and social stability and, to the other, as antidote to social conformism and State power. The connection between Italian Media, Popular Culture and Political History will be stressed through main periods of Italian history, observing continuity and fractures from Liberal Italy to Fascist regime and from the Cold War to the Second Italian Republic.

Students attending AND not attenting classes will have to refer to the following essays for the final oral exam:

- R. Moro, Mosse, the Cultural Turn, and the Cruces of Modern Historiography, (in George L. Mosse’s Italy, pp. 131-136)

- Holt N. Parker, Toward a Definition of Popular Culture, in “History and Theory”, May 2011, v. 50, pp. 147-170

- John Storey, Cultural Theory and Popular Culture, Cap. 1, "What is Popular Culture", pp. 1-16

In the oral exam, Students attending classes have to refer also on lessons contents. Students not attending classes must to refer instead to the following textbook:

- Matthew Hibberd, The Media in Italy: Press, Cinema and Broadcasting from Unification to Digital, New York, 2008.

In the last part of the course and before oral exam Students attending classes will have to present a paper on one of the following “blocks”. Students not attending classes will have to choose one of the “blocks” for their oral exams as well, besides essays and textbook suggested above.

Block 1: Poetry and Journalism in Early XX Century
- Pierluigi Allotti, The Style of a Revolutionary Journalist (in Mussolini 1883-1915. Triumph and Transformation of Revolutionary Socialist, pp. 225-256)
- Enrico Serventi Longhi, The Triumph of the Noble People: Gabriele d’Annunzio and Populism between literature and politics (in “Qualestoria”)

Block 2: Totalitarian Radio and Music
- Philip V. Cannistraro, The Radio in Fascist Italy (in “Journal of European Studies, vol. 2, 1972, pp.127-154)
- Marilisa Merolla, Jazz and Fascism: Contradictions and Ambivalences in the Diffusion of Jazz Music under the Italian Fascist Dictatorship (1925-1935) (in Jazz and Totalitarism, pp. 31-44)

Block 3: PostWar Italian Cinema and Glamour
-- Maurizio Zinni, Entertainment, Politics and Colonial Identity in Post-War Italian and British Cinema (1945-1960) (in Images of Colonialism and Decolonisation in Italian Media, pp- 67-80)
- Stephen Gundle, Hollywood Glamour and Mass Consuption in Postwar Italy, (in “Journal of Cold War Studies”, vol. 4 n. 3, 2002, pp. 95-118)

Block 4: Women and 70’s
-Andrea Hayek, A Room of One’s Own. Feminist Intersections between Space, Women’s Writing and Radical Bookselling in Milan (1968-1986) (in “Italian Studies”, vol. 73:1, pp. 81-97)
- Ruth Glynn, Press Representation of Italian Women Terrorist (in Women, Terrorism, and Trauma in Italian Culture pp. 39-72)

Block 5: TV fiction and Popular Culture
- Mauro Resmini, ‘Il senso dell'intreccio’: History, Totality, and Collective Agency in Romanzo criminale (in “The Italianist”, vol. 36(2), pp. 243-265)
- Luca Barra, Massimo Scaglioni, Saints, Cops and Camorristi. Editorial Policies and Production Models of Italian TV Fiction, (in “International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, vo. 1, spring 2015, pp. 65-76)

Block 6: Berlusconi and the Second Republic
- Cinzia Padovani, ‘Berlusconi’s Italy’: the media between structure and agency (in “Modern Italy”, vol. 20:1, pp. 41-57)
- Philip Schlesinger, Berlusconi Phenomenon (in Culture and Conflict in Postwar Italy, pp 270-285)

Aim of the course is to provide the basic elements of Public History and its practices.
A specific study will be conducted on popular music and the processes of construction of memory.

L. Bertucelli, La Public History in Italia. Metodologie, pratiche, obiettivi, in Public history. Discussioni e pratiche, a cura di P. Bertella Farnetti, L. Berucelli, A. Botti, Mimesis 2017, pp. 75-96

S. Noiret, "“Public history” e “storia pubblica” nella rete, in «Ricerche Storiche» XXXIX, 2009, n. 2-3, pp. 275-327 (Numero speciale dal titolo: Media e storia, a cura di F. Mineccia e L. Tomassini)

P. Carusi, Viva l'Italia. Narrazioni e rappresentazioni della storia repubblicana nei versi dei cantautori "impegnati", Firenze, Le Monnier, 2018

P. Carusi, M. Merluzzi (a cura di), Note tricolori. La storia dell'Italia repubblicana nella popular music, Pisa, Pacini, 2021

The course of Didactics of Geography, addressing the main issues concerning the learning / teaching processes of geography, highlights the relationships between research and disciplinary teaching and identifies methodologies and didactic tools capable of promoting in students an appropriate use of vocabulary and categories interpretative of the discipline in order to be able to understand and contextualize the environmental and anthropic characteristics of the territory.
Topics of the course: Geographic knowledge in teaching and research; Developing geographical skills; Geographical education, territorial education; Agenda 2030; Geography teaching in schools and universities; National guidelines and textbooks; Geotechnology and teaching; Simulation of didactic units.

• De Vecchis G., Pasquinelli d'Allegra D & Pesaresi C., Didattica della Geografia, Utet, 2020.
• Giacomo Zanolin, Thomas Gilardi, Rossella De Lucia (a cura di), Geo-didattiche per il futuro. La geografia alla prova delle competenze, FrancoAngeli, 2017 (in Open Access, for free), chapters 3, 15, 16, 17 and 18 excluded.
• Papers suggested by Professor.

The first part of the master's course deals with the conceptual categories of changes and social changes, as well as some tools for reading and analysing them. In a second part, some relevant contemporary phenomena will be addressed, also through specific thematic seminars, such as, for example: poverty and inequalities, changes and transformations in health; social changes and articulation of response systems (organised solidarity and public and private bodies). The aim is to enable students to acquire theoretical and analytical skills which, in an analogical sense, are reflected in practice for a theory of practice.

1. a basic text to choose from:
Ambrosini A., Sciolla L. (2015), Sociologia, Mondadori Education, Milano.
Chirot D. (2010), Sociologia del mutamento. Come cambiano le società, il Mulino, Bologna.

2. a text to choose from:
Berti F., Valzania A. (2020) (a cura di), Precarizzazione delle sfere di vita e disuguaglianze, FrancoAngeli, Milano.
Giancola O., Salmieri L. (2020) (a cura di), Sociologia delle disuguaglianze. Teorie, metodi, ambiti, Carocci, Roma.
Wilkinson R., Pickett K. (2019), L'equilibrio dell'anima. Perchè l'uguaglianza ci farebbe vivere meglio, Feltrinelli, Milano.
Harari Y.N. (2018), Sapiens. Da animali a dèi. Breve storia dell'umanità, Bompiani, Milano.

This laboratory is the result of the collaboration between the LM courses "Movements and trends in contemporary Islam" (Prof. G. Gervasio) and "Religions and urban spaces" (Prof. M. Giorda). The aim is to introduce students to the history of the representations of different religious traditions. Islamophobic representations, simplifications such as "Buddhism is not a religion", stereotypes about so-called “primitive” religions, clichés linked to key-words of historical-religious language will be the topics of our educational path. In addition to seminar lectures by the two Professors involved, the course will see the participation of external experts - researchers, representatives of local and international civil society, and personalities of Italian and international religious communities. Documentaries and movies will be an important tool for tackling the object of the course.
The calendar of meetings will be provided at the beginning of the courses.

S. Meghnaghi, R. Di Castro, L' ebreo inventato. Luoghi comuni, pregiudizi, stereotipi, Giunti, 2021
G. Burgio, Tra noi e i rom. Identità, conflitti, Intercultura 2015
G. Proglio (a cura di), Islamofobia e Razzismo, Seb27, 2020
G. Lapis, Dopo le “religioni mondiali”, Morcelliana 2022

The course aims to present an updated and comprehensive picture of medieval culture (fifth-fifteenth century), framing Italy within a broader Euro-Mediterranean context. Taking into account the most recent historiographical debates and acquisitions, lessons will try to bring students closer to different aspects concerning cultural phenomena, starting from definitions and categories such as "culture", "written culture" and "intellectual" to analyze then school practices, literacy, production and circulation of texts in their relations with society, politics, economics and religion. More precisely, the lessons will focus on the following aspects: "culture" as a historiographic problem between theoretical debates and research; written sources: qualitative and quantitative aspects; the problem of literacy and school in the early Middle Ages; book culture in the early Middle Ages; documentary culture in the early Middle Ages; the eleventh and twelfth centuries between juridical renaissance, textual discoveries and school transformations; book culture of the late Middle Ages; documentary culture of the late Middle Ages; language: Latin and vernacular in the late Middle Ages; the fourteenth century and the relationship between crisis and cultural production; Humanism. Lessons will alternate between frontal explanations and direct exercises on the sources or on specific bibliography.

Program for non attending students:
- Ronald Witt, "L’eccezione italiana. L’intellettuale laico nel Medioevo e l’origine del Rinascimento", italian translation by Anna Carocci, Roma, Viella, 2017 (original edition Cambridge 2012)

Program for attending students:
- Lectures notes, articles and sources discussed during the lesson.

STORIA DEI SISTEMI POLITICI EUROPEI

Obiettivo del corso è analizzare la storia dei sistemi europei nella seconda metà del XX secolo dall’angolo di visuale dell’Italia, evidenziando sfide comuni e specificità nazionali.

Per ragioni burocratico-amministrative il corso è diviso in due moduli da 6 CFU ciascuno. Nonostante questa suddivisione burocratica, le lezioni seguiranno un andamento tematico comune a entrambi i moduli. La frequenza è quindi consigliata a tutti per l’intera durata del corso.

Per il MODULO UNO vanno portati i seguenti temi coi seguenti testi.

IN COMUNE PER TUTTI:

TEMA:
L’Europa nella seconda metà del XX secolo e l’emergere dei movimenti populisti
TESTI:
Leonardo Rapone, L’Europa del novecento, Carocci, 2020, da pag. 149 a pag. 436
Marco Tarchi, L’Italia populista, Il Mulino, 2015

In più, A SCELTA, UNO dei seguenti temi, con relativi testi

1) TEMA: la destra politica e sociale, la cosiddetta “Strategia della tensione” e le sue connessioni internazionali.
TESTI: su questo argomento non è disponibile un unico volume che comprenda il tema nelle sue articolazioni, per cui vengono qui proposti alcuni saggi, pubblicati in riviste specializzate o come capitoli di libri. Lo studente che sceglie questo tema deve portare tutti i saggi indicati:
- Mario Del Pero, "Cia e Covert Operation nella politica estera americana del secondo dopoguerra", in “Italia Contemporanea”, dicembre 1996, pp. 691-712
- Giacomo Pacini, "Le origini dell’operazione Stay Behind. 1943-1956", in “Contemporanea”, Ottobre 2007, pp. 581-606
- Elena Cavalieri, "I piani di liquidazione del Centro-sinistra nel 1964", in “Passato e Presente”, n. 79 2010, pp. 59-82
- Francesco Biscione, "La lotta politica extraistituzionale dagli anni Sessanta alla P2", capitolo III in "Il sommerso della repubblica", Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 2003, pp. 70-143.
- Benedetta Tobagi, "Quale giustizia? I processi per Piazza Fontana tra Roma, Milano, Catanzaro", e Mirco Dondi, "Dalle stragi di provocazione alle stragi di intimidazione", entrambi in “Dimensioni e Problemi della Ricerca Storica”, Luglio 2020, rispettivamente pp. 17-41 e 133-156

Tutte le riviste o i volumi da cui sono estratti i saggi sono disponibili presso la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, la Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea di Via Caetani (nonché le biblioteche dei principali istituti culturali), la cui collocazione è immediatamente rilevabile sul sito del sistema bibliotecario Nazionale, SBN.

2) TEMA: Le Brigate Rosse e il Caso Moro
TESTO. Agostino Giovagnoli, "Il Caso Moro", Il Mulino, Bologna, 2005

3) TEMA: Gli anni Settanta, i cambiamenti che caratterizzarono la politica, la società e la cultura nel decennio in una prospettiva nazionale e internazionale:
TESTO: Fiammetta Balestracci, Catia Papa (a cura di), "L’Italia degli anni Settanta. Narrazioni e interpretazioni a confronto", Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2019.

4) TEMA: L’Italia nei decenni tra la fine del XX e l’inizio del XXI secolo: gli anni Ottanta, i cambiamenti sociali, politici e culturali, il crollo del sistema politico con Tangentopoli, l’ingresso nell’Euro, la crisi del 2008-2009.
Su questo argomento vengono proposti alcuni saggi tratti da un’opera in tre volumi sulla storia d’Italia dagli anni Ottanta a oggi.
L’opera si intitola "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
Vol. I, "Fine della guerra fredda e globalizzazione" a cura di Silvio Pons, Adriano Roccucci, Federico Romero; in questo volume occorre studiare i saggi di Silvio Pons, "La bipolarità italiana e la fine della Guerra Fredda", pp. 35-53, Valerio Castronovo, "L’Italia nel mercato globale", pp. 71-83 e Antonio Varsori, "Dalla caduta del Muro di Berlino a Tangentopoli: la dimensione internazionale della crisi della Prima Repubblica”, pp. 209-222;
Vol. II, "Il mutamento sociale", a cura di Enrica Asquer, Emanuele Bernardi, Carlo Fumian; in questo volume occorre studiare i saggi di Paolo Capuzzo, "I consumi tra economia e cultura nell’Italia del dopo boom (1973-2008)", pp. 179-197, Emanuela Scarpellini, "Consumi e attori sociali: le nuove identità dei consumatori italiani", pp. 199-210, Giovanni Gozzini, "La televisione tra due repubbliche", pp. 227-242;
Vol. III, "Istituzioni e politica", a cura di Simona Colarizi, Agostino Giovagnoli, Paolo Pombeni; in questo volume occorre studiare i saggi di Simona Colarizi, "Politica e antipolitica dalla Prima alla Seconda repubblica", pp. 333-347, Paolo Segatti, "La nascita della Lega: un capitolo di una storia che ci appartiene", pp. 351-360, Andrea Possieri, "Un riformismo incompiuto: il primo governo Prodi", pp. 509-528.

I tre volumi da cui sono estratti i saggi, oltre ad essere acquistabili nelle librerie, sono disponibili presso la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, la Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea di Via Caetani, nonché le biblioteche dei principali istituti culturali, la cui collocazione è immediatamente rilevabile sul sito del sistema bibliotecario Nazionale, SBN.
In più, ne è stata fatta richiesta di acquisizione presso il Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneo di Roma Tre.


Per il MODULO DUE, vanno studiati i seguenti temi, coi relativi testi

1) Il “Berlusconismo”, come fenomeno sociale e politico in una prospettiva comparativa internazionale
TESTO: Giovanni Orsina, "Il Berlusconismo nella storia d‘Italia", Marsilio, Venezia, 2013

2) Un approfondimento sulla storia politico sociale di uno dei principali paesi europei.
TESTI: portare UNO A SCELTA fra i seguenti testi:
Riccardo Brizzi, Michele Marchi, "Storia politica della Francia repubblicana", Le Monnier, 2011, dal cap. 5 alla fine;
Giulia Guazzaloca, "Storia della Gran Bretagna 1832-2014", Le Monnier, 2015, dal cap. 9 alla fine;
Gustavo Corni, "Storia della Germania", Il Saggiatore, Milano, 2017, dal cap. 8 alla fine;
Carmelo Adagio, Alfonso Botti, “Storia della Spagna democratica”, Bruno Mondadori, 2006

STORIA DEI SISTEMI POLITICI EUROPEI

Obiettivo del corso è analizzare la storia dei sistemi europei nella seconda metà del XX secolo dall’angolo di visuale dell’Italia, evidenziando sfide comuni e specificità nazionali.

Per ragioni burocratico-amministrative il corso è diviso in due moduli da 6 CFU ciascuno. Nonostante questa suddivisione burocratica, le lezioni seguiranno un andamento tematico comune a entrambi i moduli. La frequenza è quindi consigliata a tutti per l’intera durata del corso.

Per il MODULO UNO vanno portati i seguenti temi coi seguenti testi.

IN COMUNE PER TUTTI:

TEMA:
L’Europa nella seconda metà del XX secolo e l’emergere dei movimenti populisti
TESTI:
Leonardo Rapone, L’Europa del novecento, Carocci, 2020, da pag. 149 a pag. 436
Marco Tarchi, L’Italia populista, Il Mulino, 2015

In più, A SCELTA, UNO dei seguenti temi, con relativi testi

1) TEMA: la destra politica e sociale, la cosiddetta “Strategia della tensione” e le sue connessioni internazionali.
TESTI: su questo argomento non è disponibile un unico volume che comprenda il tema nelle sue articolazioni, per cui vengono qui proposti alcuni saggi, pubblicati in riviste specializzate o come capitoli di libri. Lo studente che sceglie questo tema deve portare tutti i saggi indicati:
- Mario Del Pero, "Cia e Covert Operation nella politica estera americana del secondo dopoguerra", in “Italia Contemporanea”, dicembre 1996, pp. 691-712
- Giacomo Pacini, "Le origini dell’operazione Stay Behind. 1943-1956", in “Contemporanea”, Ottobre 2007, pp. 581-606
- Elena Cavalieri, "I piani di liquidazione del Centro-sinistra nel 1964", in “Passato e Presente”, n. 79 2010, pp. 59-82
- Francesco Biscione, "La lotta politica extraistituzionale dagli anni Sessanta alla P2", capitolo III in "Il sommerso della repubblica", Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 2003, pp. 70-143.
- Benedetta Tobagi, "Quale giustizia? I processi per Piazza Fontana tra Roma, Milano, Catanzaro", e Mirco Dondi, "Dalle stragi di provocazione alle stragi di intimidazione", entrambi in “Dimensioni e Problemi della Ricerca Storica”, Luglio 2020, rispettivamente pp. 17-41 e 133-156

Tutte le riviste o i volumi da cui sono estratti i saggi sono disponibili presso la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, la Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea di Via Caetani (nonché le biblioteche dei principali istituti culturali), la cui collocazione è immediatamente rilevabile sul sito del sistema bibliotecario Nazionale, SBN.

2) TEMA: Le Brigate Rosse e il Caso Moro
TESTO. Agostino Giovagnoli, "Il Caso Moro", Il Mulino, Bologna, 2005

3) TEMA: Gli anni Settanta, i cambiamenti che caratterizzarono la politica, la società e la cultura nel decennio in una prospettiva nazionale e internazionale:
TESTO: Fiammetta Balestracci, Catia Papa (a cura di), "L’Italia degli anni Settanta. Narrazioni e interpretazioni a confronto", Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2019.

4) TEMA: L’Italia nei decenni tra la fine del XX e l’inizio del XXI secolo: gli anni Ottanta, i cambiamenti sociali, politici e culturali, il crollo del sistema politico con Tangentopoli, l’ingresso nell’Euro, la crisi del 2008-2009.
Su questo argomento vengono proposti alcuni saggi tratti da un’opera in tre volumi sulla storia d’Italia dagli anni Ottanta a oggi.
L’opera si intitola "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
Vol. I, "Fine della guerra fredda e globalizzazione" a cura di Silvio Pons, Adriano Roccucci, Federico Romero; in questo volume occorre studiare i saggi di Silvio Pons, "La bipolarità italiana e la fine della Guerra Fredda", pp. 35-53, Valerio Castronovo, "L’Italia nel mercato globale", pp. 71-83 e Antonio Varsori, "Dalla caduta del Muro di Berlino a Tangentopoli: la dimensione internazionale della crisi della Prima Repubblica”, pp. 209-222;
Vol. II, "Il mutamento sociale", a cura di Enrica Asquer, Emanuele Bernardi, Carlo Fumian; in questo volume occorre studiare i saggi di Paolo Capuzzo, "I consumi tra economia e cultura nell’Italia del dopo boom (1973-2008)", pp. 179-197, Emanuela Scarpellini, "Consumi e attori sociali: le nuove identità dei consumatori italiani", pp. 199-210, Giovanni Gozzini, "La televisione tra due repubbliche", pp. 227-242;
Vol. III, "Istituzioni e politica", a cura di Simona Colarizi, Agostino Giovagnoli, Paolo Pombeni; in questo volume occorre studiare i saggi di Simona Colarizi, "Politica e antipolitica dalla Prima alla Seconda repubblica", pp. 333-347, Paolo Segatti, "La nascita della Lega: un capitolo di una storia che ci appartiene", pp. 351-360, Andrea Possieri, "Un riformismo incompiuto: il primo governo Prodi", pp. 509-528.

I tre volumi da cui sono estratti i saggi, oltre ad essere acquistabili nelle librerie, sono disponibili presso la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, la Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea di Via Caetani, nonché le biblioteche dei principali istituti culturali, la cui collocazione è immediatamente rilevabile sul sito del sistema bibliotecario Nazionale, SBN.
In più, ne è stata fatta richiesta di acquisizione presso il Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneo di Roma Tre.


Per il MODULO DUE, vanno studiati i seguenti temi, coi relativi testi

1) Il “Berlusconismo”, come fenomeno sociale e politico in una prospettiva comparativa internazionale
TESTO: Giovanni Orsina, "Il Berlusconismo nella storia d‘Italia", Marsilio, Venezia, 2013

2) Un approfondimento sulla storia politico sociale di uno dei principali paesi europei.
TESTI: portare UNO A SCELTA fra i seguenti testi:
Riccardo Brizzi, Michele Marchi, "Storia politica della Francia repubblicana", Le Monnier, 2011, dal cap. 5 alla fine
Giulia Guazzaloca, "Storia della Gran Bretagna 1832-2014", Le Monnier, 2015, dal cap. 9 alla fine
Gustavo Corni, "Storia della Germania", Il Saggiatore, Milano, 2017, dal cap. 8 alla fine
Carmelo Adagio, Alfonso Botti, “Storia della Spagna democratica”, Bruno Mondadori, 2006

CONTENT:

PART I – Introduction and description of the course

1) Introduction : East Asia as a regional entity (geopolitics and culture)
2) Historical overview : The pre-war order in East Asia (the Sino-centric order and the Japanese particularism) – Part I
3) Japan and China facing the first great challenge (Modernity)
4) Japan and China facing the second great challenge (Globalization)
5) Seminar : the construction of the Chinese political identity through the CCP rhetoric in the post-Maoist era
6) Revision
7) Mid-term.

PART II

1) Security, identity and stability in East Asia
2) China and the Japan-U.S. alliance - The security dilemma in East Asia
3) Ambiguous Japan: Japan’s national identity at century’s end
4) Power and purpose in Pacific East Asia
5) Revision
6) Final Exam

Students are expected to write a 2.500 words, theoretically informed, research paper on a topic of their choice which has been previously discussed with the instructor.

This course is taught in English.

REQUIRED READINGS:

1) John Welfield, An Empire in Eclipse. Japan in the Postwar American Alliance System, Bloomsbury.
Chi-Kwan Mark, China and the World Since 1945. An International History, Routledge.
2) Rémy Davison, “Asia’s ‘Great Game’”, in M. Connors, R. Davison & J. Dosch, The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific. Conflict and Cooperation in the Asian Century, Routledge.
3) M.K. Connors, “Between a doctrine and a hard place. Japan’s emerging role”, in M. Connors, R. Davison & J. Dosch, The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific. Conflict and Cooperation in the Asian Century, Routledge.
4) Rémy Davison, “The Chinese century?”, in M. Connors, R. Davison & J. Dosch, The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific. Conflict and Cooperation in the Asian Century, Routledge.

Week I - Introduction and course description. The origins of U.S. foreign policy. The American exceptionalism. Isolationism or non-isolationism?
Week II - The Civil War as an international conflict. The end of the XIX century and the early Imperial phase.
Week III - The American Century: from the Spanish-American War to the end of the Cold War. The rise of the United States to global power. Wilsonianism or anti-Wilsonianism?
Week IV - The Global Empire. The Cold War between containment, détente, and consensus.
Week V - The post-Cold War debate over the new global role of the U.S. From Bush Sr.'s new world order to Clinton's Democratic enlargment.
Week VI - American Foreign Policy after 9/11. New challenges, new approaches, and new interpretations of the U.S. role in the world.

Mario Del Pero, Libertà e impero. Gli Stati Uniti e il mondo, 1776-2016, Laterza, 2017


One additional book of your choice from the following:

Chalmers Johnson, Le lacrime dell'impero. L'apparato militare industriale, i servizi segreti e la fine del sogno americano, Garzanti, 2005

Elisabetta Vezzosi, Raffaella Baritono, Oltre il secolo americano? Gli Stati Uniti prima e dopo l'11 settembre, Carocci, 2011

Francis Fukuyama, La fine della storia e l'ultimo uomo, UTET, 2020

Joseph Nye, Fine del secolo americano? Il Mulino, 2016

Mario Del Pero, Henry Kissinger e l'ascesa dei neoconservatori alle origini della politica estera americana, Laterza, 2006

Environmental policy and sustainability. The course presents a brief overview of the main schools of thought in environmental matters, following their development especially in recent decades. The course discusses then about methods and tools of environmental policy, illustrates the geography of environmental resources and examines the role of the actors in environmental policy at different geographical scales, from global to local. The problems are also analyzed through some case studies related to different parts of the world. There will be lectures, an excursion and eventual workshops.

MADAU Caterina, 2014,
«Entro i limiti del nostro pianeta Teorie e politiche della questione ambientale»
Bologna, PÀTRON

Documentary by Nicolas Dall’Olio, «Il suolo minacciato (full)» (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3-1l1I28cY)

Life sciences from Descartes to Buffon

Antonio Clericuzio, Uomo e natura, Roma, Carocci, 2021 (forthcoming)


Charles Webster, The Great Instauration, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2002

Evoluzionismo e creazionismo: il dibattito da Linneo a Darwin. Antologia di testi, a cura di A. Ottaviani, Roma, Carocci, 2017

John C. Greene, The Death of Adam: Evolution and Its Impact on Western Thought, Iowa UP, 1983

We will explore the advent of fossil fuels with the emergence of the age of coal, the shift to hydrocarbons, and the most recent trend towards renewable energy sources. This will be done by analysing great power politics, political and economic debates on energy, the expansion of fordism and consumerism, the role of multinational oil companies, the pressures for decolonization and the emergence of the environmentalist debate from the 1970s up to the more recent debate on the "Anthropocene".
Questions and concepts such as “resource curse”, “conservationism”, “Dutch disease”, “limits of growth”, "peak oil", "sustainable development", "extractivism", will be discussed and informed by the relevant literature (and possibly archival material), and with the help images and documentaries.

This course is taught in English.

For each student:
- Bruce Podobnik, "Global Energy Shifts. Fostering Sustainability in a Turbulent Age" (the complete book)

For "non frequentanti" (in addition to Podobnik):
- Leonardo Maugeri, "The Age of Oil: The Mythology, History, and Future of the World's Most Controversial Resources" (the complete book)

For 8 credits (in addition to Pobonik):
- A choice of one text among the "reference books"

Reference books:

Ervand Abrahamian, "Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup d'Etat"
Kate Aronoff, "Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet - and How We can Fight Back"
Basosi/Garavini/Trentin, "Counter-Shock: the Oil Counter-Revolution of the 1980s"
Giuliano Garavini, "The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century"
Nicholas Georgescu-Rogan, "Energy and Economc Myths"
Amitav Ghosh, "The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable"
Thane Gustafson, "The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe"
Michael Herb, "The Wages of Oil. Parliaments and Economic Development in Kuwait and the UAE"
Jason Hickel, "Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World"
Per Hogselius, "Red Gas"
William Stanley Jevons, "The Coal Question"
Daniel Yergin, "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power"
Daneil Yergin, "the New Map"
Naomi Klein, "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate"
Paasha Mahdavi, "Power Grab. Political Survival through Extractive Resource Nationalization"
Andreas Malm, "Fossil Capital. The Rise of the Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming"
Victor McFarland, "Oil Powers: A History of the US-Saudi Alliance"
Bernard Mommer, "Global Oil and the Nation State"
Bethany McLean, "The Smartest Guys in the Room. The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron"
John McNeill and Peter Engelke, "The Great Acceleration. An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945"
Timothy Mitchell, "Carbon Democracy. Political Power in the Age of Oil"
Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo, "The Oil Pentagon"
Simon Pirani, "Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuels Consumption"
Luigi Piccioni, La cronologia di "altronovecento" dell'ambiente e dell'ambientalismo 1853-2000
Thea Riofrancos, "Resource Radical. From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador"
Myrna Santiago, "The Ecology of Oil. Environment, Labour and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938"
Vaclav Smil, "Energy and Civilization: A History"
Ven De Graaf/ Sovacoool, "Global Enegy Politics"
Robert Vitalis, "Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt US Energy Policy"
Tyler Volk, "CO2 Raising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge"

The first part of the course is dedicated to the transformations taking place within the modern public and political scene and to the most relevant theoretical contributions in political communication. The main areas of transformation of Italian political communication and its actors and the evolution of electoral campaigns will be examined.
The second part, dedicated to visual politics, concerns the history and evolution of political graphics and aesthetic codes of Italian political propaganda from 1945 to today and the contacts and influences with the main artistic currents.
The concomitance with the administrative elections of autumn 2021, currently not yet fixed, will offer the possibility of carrying out monitoring and research in seminar form.

A specific objective of the course is to develop the skills and competencies for the historical, political and artistic analysis of visual and audiovisual propaganda materials, such as posters, films, commercials, that will be showed and commented on during the lessons.

Syllabus
- E. Novelli, Le campagne elettorali in Italia, Laterza, Roma 2018.
- E. Novelli. I Manifesti Politici, Carocci, Roma 2021, forthcoming, available from October 2021
- P. Gribaudo, I partiti digitali, Il Mulino 2020

The course covers the major areas of international law:
- The basic features of the so-called international community, intended as a social construct: their relevance from a legal standpoint;
- International legal personality: States and international organisations as subjects of international law; other subjects of international law;
- Sources and rules of international law: customs and general international law; the law of treaties; codification in international law; ius cogens the hierarchy of rules in international law;
- Relationships and interaction between international law and domestic law; reception and execution of international legal rules within national legal orders;
- Internationally wrongful act and State responsibility; the responsibility of international organisations;
- International dispute settlement; international courts and tribunals; diplomatic means of settlement.
In addition, the lectures introduce students to selected special subject areas such as: state territorial sovereignty and its limits (issues of jurisdiction and immunities); human rights; migration law; self-determination of peoples; the prohibition of the use of force and the maintenance of peace and security; international criminal law; the law of the sea.

Textbooks:

At the option of the student,
either
Benedetto Conforti, Diritto internazionale, (Iovane ed.), Napoli, Editoriale scientifica, last edition (2018),
or
Natalino Ronzitti, Introduzione al Diritto internazionale, Torino, Giappichelli, last edition (2019)

In addition, the following monographic essay:

Giuseppe Palmisano, Contributo allo studio giuridico dei metodi diplomatici per la soluzione delle controversie tra Stati, Torino, Giappichelli, 2019 (in corso di stampa)

The content of the course is an in-depth study of the following topics:
- the structural features of the c.d. "International community" relevant from a legal point of view;
- the international subjectivity of States and other recipients of the rules of international law (in particular, international organizations); changes of sovereignty and "identity" of the State in international law.
- the system of sources: customs and general international law, treaties and the law of the treaties, the sources foreseen by agreement, the relations between written law and unwritten law, the process of codification of international law, the so-called non-binding rules;
- the relationships between international law and domestic legal orders and the adaptation of the Italian legal system to international rules;
- wrongful facts in international law and the international responsibility of States and international organizations;
- international dispute settlement and international jurisdictions.
The essential contents and the evolutionary profiles of some sectors governed by international law will also be addressed, including: territorial sovereignty and its limits; the protection of human rights; immigration and the rights of aliens; respect for the self-determination of peoples; the prohibition of the use of force and the maintenance of international peace and security; individuals' international crimes and individual criminal responsibility; the international law of the sea.

Students are requested to study one textbook of international law, namely:
Benedetto Conforti, Diritto internazionale, a cura di Iovane, Napoli, Editoriale scientifica, last edition (2018) or
- Natalino Ronzitti, Introduzione al Diritto internazionale, Torino, Giappichelli, last edition (2016)
Additionally students are requested to study:
Giuseppe Palmisano, Contributo allo studio giuridico dei metodi diplomatici per la soluzione delle controversie tra Stati, Torino, Giappichelli, 2019 (forthcoming)

per l'anno accademico 2021 / 2022 è dedicato alla storia, alle caratteristiche, ai protagonisti, ai temi e paesi di intervento della Cooperazione italiana allo sviluppo, con particolare attenzione al rapporto tra Cooperazione e Migrazioni: attraverso 36 ore di lezioni, di cui 12 ore di Laboratorio sulla progettazione. Al termine del quale gli studenti, organizzati in diversi Gruppi di lavoro, presenteranno in un Seminario un progetto di cooperazione dell'Università, su un tema e un paese da individuare.

Testi di riferimento per l'esame

”Manuale di cooperazione allo sviluppo”, di Antonio Raimondi e Gianluca Antonelli, Sei ed. 2001

"Perle e pirati. Critica della cooperazione allo sviluppo e nuovo multilateralismo", di Luciano Carrino, Ed.Libreria universitaria 2010

“L’antenna e il baobab”, di Massimo Ghirelli, Sei ed. 2005



Testo aggiuntivo per i non frequentanti

Uno a scelta tra:

“La cooperazione allo sviluppo internazionale”, di Maggie Black, Carocci, 2004
"Sviluppo e diritti umani nella cooperazione internazionale. Lezioni sulla cooperazione per lo sviluppo umano", di Spatafora E., Cadin R., Carletti C. (2012).