Geographical exploration
The slave trade
Some case studies of African nations: Ashanti, Ethiopia, Zulu
Colonial expansion
Panafricanism
The struggle for indipendence

- J.D. Fage, A History of Africa, 1978, Chap.III & IV

- L. Goglia - F. Grassi, Il colonialismo italiano da Adua all'impero, Laterza, chap. II.

This course focuses on the contemporary history of international relations in East Asia. Particular attention will be devoted to the positions occupied by Japan and China during the Cold War years, as well as to their interactions both with the other regional actors, the two Superpowers and Europe. The analysis of the factors generated by the bipolar order will facilitate the identification of continuity and discontinuity lines in the broader context of globalization.
A seminar will address the issue of the construction of the political identity in China through the Communist Party rhetoric in the post-Maoist period.

The syllabus for attending students is the following:

1) Best, Hanhimaki, Maiolo, Schulze, Storia delle relazioni internazionali. Il mondo nel XX secolo e oltre, UTET 2014 (capitoli: 8, 9, 10, 12, 14 e 15).
2) O. Frattolillo, Il Giappone tra Est e Ovest, FrancoAngeli 2014.
3) F. Mazzei & V. Volpi, Asia al centro, EGEA 2014, second edition (capitoli: 2, 3, 4, 10 e 12).


The syllabus for non-attending students is the following:

1) Best, Hanhimaki, Maiolo, Schulze, Storia delle relazioni internazionali. Il mondo nel XX secolo e oltre, UTET 2014 (capitoli: 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14 e 15).
2) Frattolillo, Il Giappone tra Est e Ovest, FrancoAngeli 2014.
3) Mazzei, Volpi, Asia al centro, EGEA 2014, seconda edizione (per intero).
4) R. Lim, Geopolitics of East Asia, Routledge 2005.
5) One of the following books (free choice):
- Frattolillo, Diplomacy in Japan-EU Relations, Routledge 2013;
- Frattolillo, Interwar Japan beyond the West, Cambridge SP 2012;
- Frattolillo, L’etica dell’interessere, Mimesis 2013.

The Italian legal system. Constitution and Constitutional Acts. Legislation and legislative power of Government. Regional Acts. Constitutional uses and conventions. The influence of EU law on the Italian legal system.

R. Bin - Pitruzzella, Le fonti del diritto, Torino, Giappichelli, 2019, III ed.
M. Siclari (ed.), La Costituzione della Repubblica italiana nel testo vigente, Roma, Aracne, 2021, VI ed.

1. Introduction to comparative law
Origins, nature and functions of comparative law - variety of positive laws - classification of legal families - Standardization, harmonization and globalization of law (methods and significant examples) - The European multilevel legal system.

2. The Western Legal Tradition
Roman and Canon Law – Ius Commune europeo – Superior courts before Codification era – Age of Codifications – Age of Constitutions – The Common Law – Equity system – Inns of Court, Bench & Bar – Reports and binding precedent – The Rule of Law – Civil Law and Common Law convergence – The European legal culture – USA legal system – South-American legal systems - North European legal tradition.

3. Other legal traditions
Chines legal system – Indian legal system – Japanese legal system - Sharia – African legal systems.

1. Introduction to comparative law
V. Varano – V. Barsotti, La tradizione giuridica occidentale, 2021, Giappichelli, limitatamente al capitolo I (Introduzione al diritto comparato).

2. The Western legal tradition
V. Varano – V. Barsotti, La tradizione giuridica occidentale, 2021, Giappichelli, limitatamente ai capitoli II (La tradizione di civil law), III (La tradizione di common law) e IV (La tradizione giuridica dei paesi nordici).

3. Others legal tradition and western legal tradition
V. Varano – V. Barsotti, La tradizione giuridica occidentale, 2018, Giappichelli, limitatamente al capitolo V (Incontri della tradizione giuridica occidentale)
Federico Roberto Antonelli, Il diritto cinese dall'antica alla nuova via della seta. Padova, Libreria Universitaria.it edizioni, 2021.

Part One. Basic concepts. The European System of Economic Accounts (ESA). ESA 2010 innovations. Aggregate accounts (current accounts, accumulation accounts, balance sheets). Statistical measures of production’ factors (capital and labour). Production function and productivity.

Part Two. Index Numbers: definition, methods and properties, consumer price index . Dynamic and static spatial analysis of economic-productive phenomena. Definitions and measures of inequality and poverty. The measurement of well-being.

Cesare Piacentino, Elementi di Statistica Economica e Contabilità Nazionale, Aracne, Roma, 2009:
cap. 1, 2 cap. 5 § 5.1 § 5.2 § 5.5, cap. 3, 6

Schemi e appunti di contabilità nazionale secondo il nuovo sistema europeo, a cura di Mazziotta C., Di Palma F., De Castris M., 2006.
“La rilevazione dello stock di capitale” a cura di Mazziotta C., Magazzino C., 2005.
“I coefficienti tecnici nella tavola input-output”, a cura di Mazziotta C. e De Castris M., 2007.
“Le principali novità del Sec 2010”, a cura di De Castris M., 2016.
Parte seconda.
Cesare Piacentino, Elementi di Statistica Economica e Contabilità Nazionale, Aracne, Roma, 2009:
cap. 3, 6
Renato GUARINI e Franco TASSINARI, Statistica Economica, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2000:
cap. 12, § 6
Dispensa esercizi per la prova scritta:
Esercizi e soluzioni relativi alla seconda parte, a cura di Mazziotta C. e De Castris M., 2007.
Dispense integrative relative alle lezioni della parte seconda:
L’analisi della povertà: concetti e metodi, a cura di De Castris M., 2016.
Analisi statistica dei dati territoriali, a cura di De Castris M., 2016.
N.B. Le dispense integrative sono disponibili presso 4Appunti, via Chiabrera, 174, tel. 06.59605579.

The course aims at providing an outline of the evolution of economic theorizing from Antiquity to the most recent developments. A special attention will be devoted to the works of F. Quesnay, A. Smith, D. Ricardo, T. R. Malthus, K. Marx, A. Marshall, V. Pareto, J. M. Keynes. As concerns the most recent developments of economic theory a particular attention will be devoted to theories concerning money, business cycle, unemployment, financial crises. The course further aims at providing a critical awareness on the relationships among economic theory and its practical implementation in terms of public policies.

To be agreed upon with the Professor.

Il corso mira a far comprendere agli studenti e alle studentesse i problemi principali del percorso storico dell’America Latina dall’età precolombiana alla fine del Novecento. A conclusione dell’insegnamento studenti e studentesse dovranno conoscere in modo approfondito i problemi e gli eventi trattati durante le lezioni ed essere in grado di contestualizzarli adeguatamente lungo l’arco cronologico considerato.

I principali temi affrontati saranno:

- Le civiltà precolombiane
- "Scoperta" e conquista dell'America
- La colonizzazione spagnola e portoghese
- Società, cultura ed economia coloniale
- Le riforme borboniche e il processo di indipendenza
- La costruzione degli Stati nazionali e l'affermazione del modello primario-esportatore
- La presenza inglese e nordamericana
- La crisi dello Stato liberale
- I rapporti con l’Europa e gli Stati Uniti negli anni Venti e Trenta
- L’emergere dello Stato populista
- La “grande trasformazione” dell’America Latina
- La guerra fredda latinoamericana
- La rivoluzione cubana
- Gli anni Sessanta: crisi, riforme, rivoluzioni
- Il ciclo controrivoluzionario. La Dottrina della Sicurezza Nazionale, le dittature militari e lo Stato neoliberista
- Il Plan Condor e le violazioni dei Diritti Umani nel Cono Sud
- La cultura popular nel XX secolo: la musica come strumento di protesta e resistenza nei regimi autoritari
- Transizioni democratiche nel Cono Sud
- Conflitti armati interni e processi di pace in America Centrale e in Colombia
- La questione femminile in America Latina
- Processi di integrazione regionale
- Il passaggio di secolo

Gli studenti frequentanti dovranno consultare, oltre ai materiali forniti dalla docente durante il corso, il testo:

- Loris Zanatta, Storia dell’America Latina contemporanea, Laterza, 2017



Gli studenti non frequentanti dovranno studiare i seguenti testi:

- D. Pompejano, Storia dell'America Latina, Mondadori, 2012

- Loris Zanatta, Storia dell’America Latina contemporanea, Laterza, 2017

- Raffaele Nocera, Stati Uniti e America Latina dal 1823 ad oggi, Carocci

Week I
Introduction and description of the course. The Revolutionary era and the independence. Focus on the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights with discussions in class and readings from the original texts. The US political system and its evolution over time.

Week II
The American Civil War and its effect on American society and culture. Focus on 13th, 14th and 15th amendments. The end of the XIX century, industrialization, populism and the “Gilded Age”. American imperialism and the progressive era. The first World War and the US international role.
Week III
The post war period and the roaring twenties. The Great Depression, Roosevelt’s presidency and the New Deal. The Second World War. The origins of the Cold War and the new dimension in foreign politics
Week IV:
The booming economy and the affluent society. The rise of the American middle-class. Social and cultural revolutions in the 1950s and 1960s. Civil Rights movement and the New Frontier, the Great Society and the war in Vietnam. Counterculture and feminisms.

Week V:
The 1970s, Nixon and the “crisis of confidence”. Reagan and the conservative turn in American politics. The rise of a New Right. The end of the Cold War.

Week VI:
The US from the end of the Cold War to 9/11. Clinton and Bush Jr., 9/11 and its effect on politics and culture.

Eric Foner, Storia della libertà americana, Donzelli, 2009

Fabrizio Tonello, La costituzione degli stati uniti, Mondadori, 2010


Another additional book of your choice from the following:

a cura di Daniele Fiorentino, Il pluralismo culturale. Un dibattito americano (1915-1916), Viella, 2021

Tiziano Bonazzi, Abraham Lincoln. Un dramma americano, il Mulino, 2016

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

Arnaldo Testi Trionfo e declino dei partiti politici negli Stati Uniti, 1860-1930, Otto, 2000

The course aims at exploring the History of the Islamic world in its genesis with a special focus on it historical origin, in order to provide the students with:

a. A methodological introduction to the history of Islam and the Muslim majority countries, aiming at a critical approach, aware of the dangers of prejudices and misrepresentations. Hence, students will be introduced to the question of Orientalism, and its persistence until today, then the question of periodization of History from an Islamic viewpoint, looking in a diachronic way, at eras of the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Region where Islam was born and developed in the first instance.
b. Basic elements of Islamic studies: creed, texts, pillars, umma, jihad, Law (shari'ah). Moreover, students will study the notions of: authority, Shi'a and Sunna, Caliphate and Imamate; Dhimma; Everyday Islam.
c. Outline of politico-institutional History of Islam from the Unity of the Caliphate until the fragmentation and the Ottoman Empire, highlighting the plurality of experiences of the Islamic States.
d. An Introduction to the basic themes of Modern and Contemporary History of Muslim Majority Countries, with a special focus on Middle East and North Africa.

For those attending the course:

- Appunti delle lezioni
- Lorenzo Declich, Islam in 20 parole, Bari-Roma: Laterza 2016.
- Pier Giovanni Donini, Il mondo islamico. Breve storia dal Cinquecento a oggi, Bari-Roma: Economica Laterza, 2015 (o altre edizioni).
- Short articles available in pdf from http://bit.ly/dsu-gervasio, including:
- Anna Bozzo, L’Islàm questo sconosciuto.
- EW Said, Orientalismo, “Introduzione”.
- G. Endress, Introduzione alla storia del mondo musulmano, Capp. 1-3-6.

Those non attending must read one of the following:

- Carole Hillenbrand, Islam. Una nuova introduzione storica, Torino: Einaudi, 2016.
- G. Filoramo (a cura di), Islam, Roma-Bari: Laterza, ultima edizione.

We will also consult this translation of the Qur'an:
Il Corano, traduzione e cura di A. Bausani, Milano, BUR.

The course aims to provide an adequate overview of the main issues of political, economic and social history that affected Russia and Central and Eastern Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries.

1) Tsarist Autocracy and the Disappearance of the Nation in Central Europe 2) The Balkans and the Ottoman Conquest 3) The Transformations of Russia up to the First World War 3) National Revival in the Balkans 3) Nationalism and Multiethnic Realities in Central Europe 4) What Modernisation? Social, economic and national issues in Eastern Europe between World War I and World War II 5) The Bolshevik Revolution. the birth of a new world 6) Stalinism and the Soviet state 7) World War II and the birth of a new limes in Europe 8) The communist system and the Cold War 9) Crisis and end of communism 10) From the Urals to Trieste... an endless transition? 11) The challenges of the new Russia and the present world.

G. Lami, Storia dell'Europa orientale. Da Napoleone alla prima guerra mondiale, Firenze, Le Monnier Università, 2019

Giovanna Cigliano, La Russia contemporanea. Un profilo storico, Roma, Carocci, 2013

First module - Focus on English Grammar

The first module deals with some of the main grammar and morpho-syntactic structures of the English language.

Second module - American Short Stories

The second module is an introduction to the diversity of American culture through short stories and their writers. The module is divided in three sections: a) 19th Century American Short Stories; b) 20th Century American Short Stories (Part 1); c) 20th Century American Short Stories (Part 2). At the end of the module, students will be able to: analyze the chronological and historical development of the American short story through its most representative authors; become familiar with the act of analyzing and interpreting short stories through appropriate theoretical and methodological frameworks, acknowledging alternative interpretations and developing critical thinking; experience how literary and cultural texts can transform one’s perception and understanding of self, other and communities.

Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843)
Kate Chopin, “Desiree’s Baby” (1893)
Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (1890)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892)
Susan Glaspell, “A Jury of Her Peers” (1917)
Ernest Hemingway, “The Killers” (1927)
Ralph Ellison, “Battle Royal” (1947)
Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery” (1948)
Ray Bradbury, “There Will Come Soft Rains” (1950)
Joyce Carol Oates, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” (1966)
Alice Walker, “Everyday Use” (1973)
Raymond Carver, “Cathedral” (1983)
Louise Erdrich, “The Red Convertible” (1984)
Tim O’Brien, “The Things They Carried” (1990)

The short stories listed above may be read in any edition in English.

First module: English grammar: Learning the Language
The first module deals with some of the main grammar and morpho-syntactic structures of the English language. The language skills acquired by the students will be assessed at the end of the course.

Second module: Twentieth-century African-American voices
The second module focuses on the literary and critical contribution by twentieth-century African-American writers. In an interdisciplinary framework, the analysis of the formal features of these texts will be instrumental to connect literary and socio-cultural issues. By promoting active participation in class, the adopted teaching method envisages the improvement of language skills and the ability to engage in open discussion.The reference material includes works of fiction, critical essays and audiovisual material.

For all students:

- Adriano Elia, Serena I. Volpi, Heading South with Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, Padova, Libreriauniversitaria.it, 2021.
- Adriano Elia, W.E.B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes - Two Remarkable Men, Novalogos, 2020.
- Adriano Elia, La Cometa di W.E.B. Du Bois, Roma, RomaTrE-Press, 2015.

Further reference material will be given during the course.

The course is offered to all students.

It will focus on: “Literature, economy and society in France after the Revolution of 1848”.

The course will tackle these topics through the analysis of Émile Zola's novel “L’Assommoir” (1877).

1) Zola, “L’Assommoir”, introduction, notes et commentaires de Jacques Dubois, Paris, Le Livre de Poche, 1996 (or any other paperback French edition)

2) Zola, “Le roman expérimental”, dans Le roman expérimental, présentation par François-Marie Mourad, Paris, Flammarion, 2006 (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

3) “Il romanzo francese dell’Ottocento”, Anna Maria Scaiola, ed., Bari, Laterza, 2008, chapter V (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

4) “Les Constitutions de la France depuis 1789”, présentation par Jacques Godechot, édition corrigée et mise à jour par Hervé Faupin, Paris, Flammarion, coll. GF, 2006, chapters IX, X, XI (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

5) Jacques Dubois, "Émile Zola", in "Les romanciers du réel", Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 2000 (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

Grammar Texts (optional):
1) Michèle Boulares, Jean-Louis Frerot, “Grammaire progressive du français” (niveau avancé), Paris, Clé International, 2012
Or
2) Dominique Berger, Anne Charlotte Signoret, Nerina Spicacci, “Savoir-dire, savoir-faire” (niveaux B1/B2), Bologna, Zanichelli 2008
Or
3) Françoise Bidaud, Marie-Christine Grange, “Manuel de français intermédiaire. Corso di lingua francese (B1/B1+)”, Hoepli, 2017

Module I: Language
Grammar contents:
Revision de los tiempos de pasado del indicative
Revision de los tiempos del imperativo
Conectores del discurso
Pretérito Perfecto de Subjuntivo, Pretérito Imperfecto de Subjuntivo, Pretérito
Pluscuamperfecto de Subjuntivo: Morfología y usos
Repaso del Condicional Simple
Condicional Compuesto. Morphology and usos
Los relativos adverbiales
Por y para
Oraciones independientes: contraste indicative / subjunctive
Oraciones relativas: indicative / subjunctive contraste
Oraciones sustantivas: verbos de percepción, pensamiento, verbos de sentimiento, deseo, voluntad, verbos de mandate, ruego, prohibición ...
Ser, estar, parecer + que: contraste indicative / subjunctive
Oraciones adversativas
Oraciones causales
Consecutive Oraciones
Oraciones finales
Oraciones condicionales
Oraciones concesivas
Oraciones temporales
Oraciones de way
Oraciones de lugar
Comparative Oraciones
Verbos de change
Note: the language module concerns the grammatical and morphosyntactic contents that students will have to study in order to pass the written test (B1+) intended for all students. We recommend the following manual:

Maria Vittoria Calvi, ¡ENHORABUENA! Curso y gramática de español para italófonos. Niveles B1 B2, Second edition, Zanichelli, Bologna, 2020.
Module II: Phraseology and Paremiology
Theoretical contents:
Historia del nacimiento del estudio de las unidades phraseológicas y paremiológicas
Máximos exponentes
Definición de las UF
Characteristics of the UF (idiomaticidad, fijación, sentido figurado, brevedad, presencia de arcaísmos ...
Classification of the UF
Las locuciones
Las colocaciones
Las paremias
Los enunciados phraseológicos
Contrastive análisis
Ejemplos y practical application

TEXT FOR THE PREPARATION FOR THE EXAM:
Luisa A. Messina Fajardo, Apuntes de phraseología, paremiología, traducción y didáctica del español, Avant editorial, Barcelona, ​​2017.
Alessia A. S. Ruggeri, Who says woman. . . says it all! Aprende a conocer a la mujer a través de las unidades phraseológicas italianas y del léxico común, Editorial Académica Española, Riga, 2020.
Introducción
First part: phraseology, paremiology and didáctica
Chapter 1: phraseology and culture in the didáctica del español
1.1. Introducción
1.2. ¿Por qué se ought to study the phraseology?
1.3. Lexicultura y frasecultura
Conclusiones
Chapter 2: traducción de las unidades phraseológicas
2.1. introducción
2.2. las unidades phraseológicas como pretextos del acto de habla
2.3. traducción de las unidades phraseológicas
Conclusiones
Chapter 3: the metáfora en las unidades phraseológicas
3.1. Introducción
3.2. Phraseología y metáfora
3.3. Metáforas de la vida cotidiana
3.5. Las paremias en los diálogos de la vida cotidiana
Conclusiones
Chapter 4: the archaism and the recreation of the paremias
4.1. Introducción
4.2. El refrán y el arcaísmo
4.3. The paremiológic creation
Conclusiones

Chapter 5: the brevedad en las paremias and el microrrelato
5.1. Introducción
5.2. Definición de brevedad
5.3. La brevedad en las paremias
Conclusiones

Fifth part: phraseología y lenguajes especiales
Chapter 16: los lenguajes especiales: el lenguaje político
16.1. Introducción
16.2. Los lenguajes especiales: características
16.3. El lenguaje político
16.4. Characteristics of the political lenguaje
16.4.1. the sintaxis
16.4.2. el léxico
16.4.3. the metaphor
16.5. Otros rasgos del lenguaje político
16.5.1. el contexto
Conclusiones finales
Module III Culture
The module focuses on the study of special languages ​​and political language. The characteristics and analysis of the political discourse.
REFERENCE TEXT:
Messina Fajardo, L. A., El lenguaje político. Características y análisis del discurso político, Maggioli editore / Apogeo education, Milan, 2016.

THE MANDATORY PARTS ARE:
Introducción
El discurso político: herramientas de análisis
CHAPTER 1 LOS LENGUAJES ESPECIALES. EL LENGUAJE POLITICO
1.1. Los lenguajes especiales: características
1.2 El lenguaje político
1.3 características del lenguaje político
1.3.1 The sintaxis
1.3.2 El léxico
1.3.3 The metaphor
1.3.4 Otros rasgos del lenguaje político
1.3.5 El contexto
CHAPTER 2 UNIDADES DIDÁCTICAS
Unidad 1. Fernando Lugo. El lenguaje político. Definición (1)
Unidad 2. José Mujica. El lenguaje político. Definición (2)
Unidad 3. Rafael Correa. El discurso político. The persuasión
Unidad 4. Nicolás Maduro. The clasificación del lenguaje político
Unidad 5. Álvaro Uribe. El discurso de investidura
Unidad 6. Pablo Iglesia. Análisis textual y el discurso político
Unidad 7. Hugo Chávez. El insulto y la descalificación
Unidad 8. José Luis Zapatero. Phraseología y discurso político
Unidad 9. Fidel Castro. Paremias y discurso político. El eslogan político
Unidad 10. Salvador Allende. Análisis retórico de un discurso de Salvador Allende

Maria Vittoria Calvi, ¡ENHORABUENA! Curso y gramática de español para italófonos. Niveles B1 B2, Seconda edizione, Zanichelli, Bologna, 2020.
Alessia A. S. Ruggeri, Chi dice donna. . . dice tutto! Aprende a conocer a la mujer a través de las unidades fraseológicas italianas y del léxico común, Editorial Académica Española, Riga, 2020.
Luisa A. Messina Fajardo, El lenguaje político. Características y análisis del discurso político, Maggioli editore / Apogeo education, Milano, 2016. (vedere sopra le parti obbligatorie).

The course consists of two parts: German grammar and German Regional Studies (Landeskunde).
1. German Grammar and its structure and syntax. Course materials consist of extensive vocabulary-building exercises and texts that address a broad range of cultural topics.
2. The coursebook “Zur Orientierung” covers the political, social and cultural history of Germany from the Nazi “Third Reich” to the present. Among the themes that we explore are the radical transformations of the country after the Berlin Wall.

H. DREYER , R. SCHMITT, Lehr- und Übungsbuch der deutschen Grammatik. Die Gelbe Aktuell, Verlag für Deutsch
Zur Orientierung, Basiswissen Deutschland, Hueber Verlag

In the first part of the course students will be introduced to the main paradigms, methodologies and works of the sociology and history of media. We will read and discuss passages from the manual written by Mario Ricciardi, “Communico. Linguaggi, immagini, algoritimi" (TAB edizioni, 2021). Students will have to write weekly reading responses on the assigned readings and engage in both online and offline discussions guided by the instructor.
In the second part of the course, these prevalently Western theories and authors will be reexamined and criticized in the light of completely different approaches. We will introduce the concept of “nonviolent communication”, elaborated and practiced, between others, by the Mahatma Gandhi. Writers, intellectuals, social and political activists like Danilo Dolci, Aldo Capitini, Paulo Freire, Frantz Fanon, Houria Bouteldja, Marshall B. Rosenberg, Lanza Del Vasto, Vandana Shiva and others will be the starting point for analyzing and finally deconstructing the aggressive and manipulative Western communication forms and techniques that dominate the present media scenario.
The third part of the course will be a practical hands-on session. Students will be asked to analyze their own online interactions, as to identify implicit and explicit "violent codes" (i.e. culturally inappropriate expressions or biases, etc.) in their online language and posts. Finally, they will have to create and experiment with nonviolent forms of communication that could be presented or delivered both orally and online.

Required readings (for all students)

1) Mario Ricciardi, “Communico. Linguaggi, immagini, algoritmi”, TAB, Roma, 2021.
2) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule, 1909.
(Available free of charge from: https://www.mkgandhi.org/ebks/hind_swaraj.pdf)
3) Marshall B. Rosenberg, “Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life”, Puddle Dancer Press, 2015.
4) Aldo Capitini, "Le ragioni della nonviolenza. Antologia degli scritti", Pisa, ETS.

The course focuses on the main themes of early modern history and modern history (from XV century to XIX century), with particular attention to the historiographic categories, the use of sources and the interpretative approaches of the historians. The different political, cultural, social, economic and religious aspects of the modern age will be studied from a local and global outlook, with a certain regard to the relations between the Italian peninsula, the European continent and extra-European realities.

Books for the exam:

A) G. Dall'Olio, Storia moderna. I temi e le fonti, Roma, Carocci
(students have to study the section introductions and read the source materials)

B) Students also have to study one of the following textbooks:
C. Capra, Storia moderna (1492-1848), Firenze, Le Monnier
R. Ago - V. Vidotto, Storia moderna, Roma - Bari, Laterza
L. Mascilli Migliorini. L’età moderna. Una storia globale, Roma - Bari, Laterza

The course has a twofold objective: to provide a basic historical background on the complex processes of internationalization that, in the centuries of the modern age (c. 1450-1800), contributed to determine the first stable forms of geopolitical interconnection, economic interdependence and cross-cultural interaction between different parts of the world; to introduce students to the historiographical debate on globalization and global history, stimulating - through the comparison of different interpretations, proposals for periodization and methodologies - the adoption of a critical and conscious approach to history, its narratives and its problems.

Charles H. Parker, Relazioni globali nell'età moderna 1400-1800, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012
S. Conrad, Storia globale. Un'introduzione, Roma, Carocci, 2015
J. Osterhammel, N.P. Petersson, Storia della globalizzazione, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005