Università Roma Tre

Global Intellectual History is a recent discipline focusing on the study of the circulation of ideas, concepts, and ideologies in a global context. There is, however, still considerable debate on the object and methodologies used to analyze it. This course addresses the various interpretations of what constitutes global intellectual history, discussing whether some ideas are more global than others, what geographic scale should a global intellectual historian consider, and what actors and case studies he should focus on. Furthermore, it will investigate how ideas travel, and under what conditions, and with what outcome, exploring how societies are transformed by adopting new ideas and how they transform these ideas in turn. This course aims to provide an overview of this developing discipline, and to learn how to look at intellectual developments globally.

Obligatory reading: Global Intellectual History, edited by Samuel Moyn & Andrew Sartori New York: Columbia University Press 2013; Federico Finchelstein, From Fascism to Populism in History, Oakland: University of California press, 2019 Optional reading Sebastian Conrad, What is global history? Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University press, 2016
Optional: Fascism outside Europe: The European impulse against domestic conditions in the diffusion of global fascism, edited by Stein Ugelvik Larsen Boulder: Social Science Monographs, 2001
Type of evaluation: The evaluation will take in account both participation during the seminar and an oral exam at the end of the course.