I Part: Introduction to medieval history

Teaching plan: I semester: 6 CFU

Description
I Part

The class will deal with, firstly, the crisis of the Roman empire and the characteristics of the “late antiquity”, in particular the birth of Christian churches and the claim of Christianism as religion of the empire. It will continue reflecting on “barbarian invasions” and on their effects on the construction of new political and religious assets up to IX century. It questions the characteristics and impact of Islam between East and West. Then, it will focus on the political and religious dimension before the Carolingian and, then, Ottonian empire. It will analyse also the rise, starting from XI century, of new social classes and new needs of leadership of Italian and European cities studying its effects on the construction of political systems, on the economic changes, on the religious and ecclesiastic life. Furthermore, it will question the birth, after the Gregorian reform, of new religious movements which would become religious Orders (in particular the Order of Friars Minor of Francis of Assisi and the Order of Friars Preacher of Domenic of Caleruega) or would be rejected by the Church as heretical movements. The class will follow, also, the birth of the national monarchies and the progressive decline of the role of the Empire and of the papacy until the transfer of the Roman Curia in Avignon at the beginning of the XIV century. It will define also the political-territorial constructions of the XV century and the importance of Humanism for the religious and cultural life of the Quattrocento.

During the class some time will be dedicated to the reading of some written testimonies which can help the comprehension of the medieval cultures and mentalities.

II Part: Religious history in Middle Ages: Approaches, sources and historiography

Teaching plan: I semester: 6 CFU

It deepens the subjects of the first module focusing on the ones less analysed.

Between the subjects which could be chosen we can list: the role of monachism in the process of Christianisation; the eremitic experiences, the feminine Religiosity, the protagonism of lay people, heresies and inquisitions, the role of the cult of saints and of the miracles, the XIII century Religious Orders, the ways of predications and the role of the prophets and of the prophetical texts in the organisation of the historical present.
If the number of students allows is it possible working in small study groups.

For the first part (6 CFU)

1) M. Bloch, Apologia della storia o Mestiere di storico, Einaudi, 2009 (several editions)
2) G. Vitolo, Il medioevo. I caratteri originali di un’età di transizione, Sansoni (with introduction)


To have 12 CFU the students must study ALSO:
1) Marina Benedetti (a cura di), Storia del cristianesimo II. L’età medievale (secoli VIII-XV), Carocci Editore, capp. I, II, III, V, VIII, IX, X, XII, XIV

It is recommended, but non mandatory, that non-attending students go to the teacher’s office to know useful information for their study.

This lecture class offers an introduction to the history of photographic languages, practices, and cultures from the medium’s birth to WWI. Lectures will focus on the close reading of different types of photographic texts (including individual images, series, photo-texts, books, and exhibitions) and will discuss case studies associated with the crucial moments in the medium's affirmation as an intellectual and artistic field.

Regular students

For the final exam, students are responsible for the following text, including all photographs and artworks reproduced therein:
► A. Gunthert, M. Poivert (a cura di), Storia della fotografia dalle origini ai giorni nostri, Electa, Milano, 2009, pp. 1–355.


Distant learning

For the final exam, certified "distant learning students" are required to study the following texts, including all photographs and artworks reproduced therein:
► A. Gunthert, M. Poivert eds, Storia della fotografia dalle origini ai giorni nostri, Milan: Electa, 2009, pp. 1-355;
► W. Guadagnini, ed., La fotografia. Le origini 1839-1890, Geneve-Milan: Skira, 2011, pp. 34-111, 144-199, 200-225, 226-277;
► M. Mozzo, "Note sulla documentazione fotografica in Italia nella seconda metà dell’Ottocento, tra tutela, restauro e catalogazione", in Arti e storia nel Medioevo, vol. IV, Il Medioevo al passato e al presente, ed. by E. Castelnuovo and G. Sergi, Turin: Einaudi, 2004, pp. 847-870.
► 
D. Levi, "Da Cavalcaselle a Venturi. La documentazione fotografica della pittura tra connoisseurship e tutela", in Gli archivi fotografici delle Soprintendenze. Tutela e storia. Territori veneti e limitrofi, ed. by A. M. Spiazzi, L. Majoli, C. Giudici, Crocetta di Montello: Terraferma, 2010, pp. 23-33.

The course, starting from the beginning of 20th century, will follow the development of Italian literary history on both the lyrical and narrative side. Each author will be studied in its historical and geographical context, by some examples of reading and textual analysis of his major works, also through the constant reference to the contemporary context.

For students attending the course are required to read and analyze 1 poetic collection and 1 narrative work of their choice among the listed authors, also the exam book (see general bibliography).
For students who do not attend the course in addition to the examination texts, the full reading of 2 poetic collections and 2 narrative works of listed authors is required, also the exam book (see general bibliography); for Erasmus students the full reading of 1 poetic collection and 1 narrative work of listed authors (see general bibliography).

General Bibliography:
The history of Italian literature from 1900 to the 1970s is to be prepared on a manual of Italian literature (we recommend: M. Tortora, Letteratura italiana contemporanea. Narrativa e poesia dal Novecento a oggi, Carocci, 2022). A good knowledge of the following authors, is required: Pirandello, Aleramo, Svevo, Tozzi, Gadda, Moravia, Pavese, Vittorini, Fenoglio, Calvino, Primo Levi, Pasolini, Elsa Morante, Ortese. It also requires a profile of the 20th century, as well as a good knowledge of the following authors: d’Annunzio, Saba, Ungaretti, Montale, Quasimodo, Luzi, Caproni, Sereni, Pasolini, Rosselli.

Exam Book:
L. Pirandello, Novelle per un anno, vol. 1, edizione diretta da S. Costa, Scialle nero, La vita nuda, La rallegrata, a cura di M. Venturini, F. Tomassini, F. Miliucci, Mondadori, Oscar Moderni, 2021; or L. Pirandello, Novelle per un anno, vol. 3, Tutt’e tre, Dal naso al cielo, Donna Mimma, Il vecchio Dio, edizione diretta da S. Costa, a cura di M. Venturini, F. Tomassini, F. Miliucci, Mondadori, Oscar Moderni, 2021.

"Le Temps Revient": the Italian literary tradition of the early centuries and culture at the court of Lorenzo the Magnificent.
The course aims to deepen knowledge of Italian literary history from the Origins to the sixteenth century, with a focus on major genres and authors. In addition, in the second part of the course, a more comprehensive survey of 15th-century Tuscan culture and in particular that at the court of Lorenzo the Magnificent will be offered.

Bibliography:

Required Text Books (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7)

1) Primary Works: Lorenzo de’ Medici, Opere, ed. by T. Zanato, Milan, Mondadori, 2023;
2) Primary Works: *Texts selected by the teacher.

3) Criticism: G. Alfano, C. Gigante, E. Russo, Il Rinascimento. Un’introduzione al Cinquecento letterario italiano, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2016;
4) Criticism: *A. Decaria, Il lauro folgorato. La congiura dei Pazzi, le ‘Stanze per la giostra’, il ‘Morgante’, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2023; free book: https://bitesonline.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Bites019_Decaria_Lauro.pdf 6)
5) Criticism: * M. Martelli, Firenze, in Letteratura italiana Einaudi. Storia e geografia. II/1, L’età moderna, Torino, Einaudi, 1988 pp. 25-201;
6) Criticism: *E. Pasquini, Il «secolo senza poesia» e il crocevia di Burchiello, in Id., Le botteghe della poesia. Studi sul Tre-Quattrocento italiano, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1991, pp. 25-86.
7) Textbook of italian literature: G. Alfano – P. Italia – E. Russo – F. Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Dalle Origini a metà Cinquecento. Manuale per studi universitari, Milano, Mondadori, 2018, vol. 1


Additional readings for non-attending students (one of the following books):

1. G.M. Anselmi, Letteratura e civiltà tra Medioevo e Umanesimo, Roma, Carocci, 2011;
2. D. Canfora, Prima di Machiavelli. Politica e cultura in età umanistica, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2005
3. M. Martelli, Letteratura fiorentina del Quattrocento. Il filtro degli anni Sessanta, Firenze, Le Lettere, 1996;
4. R. Bruscagli, Il Quattrocento e il Cinquecento, Bologna, il Mulino, 2005;
5. A. Quondam, Rinascimento e classicismi. Forme e metamorfosi della modernità, Bologna, il Mulino, 2013;
6. M. Villoresi, La letteratura cavalleresca. Dai cicli medievali all’Ariosto, Roma, Carocci, 2015.

Items 2, 4, 5, and 6 will be provided by the teacher.

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.

For those who attend the lectures: notes made available both at the library and at 4Appunti shop in front of the Dep.t. For those who cannot attend the lectures, please add J.M. Keynes's General Theory (1936), whatever edition.

The first part of the course introduces the most relevant theories of communication, with a specific focus on interpersonal communication. The following topics are considered: verbal and non-verbal communication, interaction rituals, framing practices, rules of conversation, the relation between communication and social identities, pathological forms of communicative interaction.
The second part of the course provides students with the tools for studying media, referring to media reception and theoretical perspectives in the sociology of media. A focus will be on forms of symbolic pollution and, in particular, on media images and soundscapes. Finally, the social changes led by digital media in the contemporary society and the medial representations of identities will be considered.

a) Anna Lisa Tota, 2020, Ecologia della Parola. Il piacere della Conversazione, Einaudi, Torino.
b) Anna Lisa Tota, 2023, Ecologia del pensiero. Conversazioni con una mente inquinata, Einaudi, Torino.
c) Moreover, the following readings:

1) José Van Dijck, Thomas Poell, Martijn de Waal (2019), Platform Society. Valori pubblici e società connessa, edizione italiana a cura di G. Boccia Artieri e A. Marinelli (only the introduction, “Per un’economia politica delle piattaforme” and the first chapter, “Platform Society: un concetto controverso”), Guerini, Milano, pp. 9-21 e 35-74.
2) Giovanni Boccia Artieri, Fausto Colombo, Guido Gili (2022), Comunicare. Persone, relazioni, media (only the chapter 5, “Dall’intelligenza artificiale al papiro (e ritorno)”), Laterza, Roma-Bari, pp. 132-163.
3) Stuart Hall (1980), “Codifica e decodifica”, in Tele-visioni, a cura di A. Marinelli e G. Fatelli (2000), Meltemi, Roma, pp. 66-83.

In the Historian Lab: topic, issues, methods
The course aims to make students reflect critically on the characteristics of historical knowledge, on its hermeneutic values, on the different types of sources and their use, on the relationship between history and other human and social sciences, on the various methods and concepts of historical research, showing a wide range of works that are significant for historiography.
In the first part of the course focus on a critical reflection on the forms of historical knowledge and the organisation of work in the historian's laboratory: time, the relationship between history and memory, the historical dimension of human existence, the space of historical knowledge, the sources, the new historiographic studies between hermeneutics and social sciences.

a) Two books of your choice:
• J. Topolski, Narrare la storia, Bruno Mondadori, Milano, 1997
• M. Bloch, Apologia della storia, Einaudi, Torino, 2009
• S. Rogari, La scienza storica, UTET, Torino, 2013
• S. Morgan, K. Jenkins, A. Munslow, Manifestos for History, Routledge, New York-London, 2007
• Munslow, Narrative and History, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, 2007

b) One book of your choice:
• P. Bevilacqua, Sull'utilità Della Storia, Donzelli, Roma, 2000
• P. Burke, La storia culturale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006
• H. White, Forme di storia. Dalla realtà alla narrazione, Roma, Carocci, 2006
• B. Bonomo, Voci della memoria, Roma, Carocci, 2013
• M. Ridolfi, Verso la public history. Fare e raccontare storia nel tempo presente, Pacini, Pisa, 2017
• S. Gruzinski, Abbiamo ancora bisogno della storia? Il senso del passato nel mondo globalizzato, Raffaello Cortina, Milano, 2016

The study of the following text is also compulsory for students on the degree course in Languages: :
F. Benigno, L'età moderna. Dalla scoperta dell'America alla Restaurazione, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2005

a) Two books in the following list:
• J. Topolski, Narrare la storia, Bruno Mondadori, Milano, 1997
• M. Bloch, Apologia della storia, Einaudi, Torino, 2009
• S. Rogari, La scienza storica, UTET, Torino, 2013
• S. Morgan, K. Jenkins, A. Munslow, Manifestos for History, Routledge, New York-London, 2007
• Munslow, Narrative and History, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, 2007

b) One book in the following list:
• P. Bevilacqua, Sull'utilità Della Storia, Donzelli, Roma, 2000
• P. Burke, La storia culturale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006
• H. White, Forme di storia. Dalla realtà alla narrazione, Roma, Carocci, 2006
• B. Bonomo, Voci della memoria, Roma, Carocci, 2013
• M. Ridolfi, Verso la public history. Fare e raccontare storia nel tempo presente, Pacini, Pisa, 2017
• S. Gruzinski, Abbiamo ancora bisogno della storia? Il senso del passato nel mondo globalizzato, Raffaello Cortina, Milano, 2016

The history of Italian political movements and parties from 1861 to 1994

P. Carusi, I partiti politici italiani dall'Unità ad oggi, ed. Studium 2015
P. Carusi, Mario Segni e la crisi della cultura politica democristiana (1976-1993), ed. Viella 2023

Nature and Subject in the Leibniz’s and Kant’s Philosophy
The course aims to examine the concepts of nature and subject in Leibniz's Monadology and in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, by keeping in view some guiding notions declined in different ways in the twoo philosophies: body/mind, sensibility/intellect, quantity/quality,discrete/continuous, mechanism/teleology.

G.W. Leibniz, The Monadology, and Other Philosophical Writings; with an introduction and notes by Robert Latta, New York; Garland
Kant's Critique of pure reason : background source materials, edited and translated by Eric Waktins, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
Anthony Savile, Leibniz and the Monadology, London, Routledge

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.

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 (chapters: 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 (Chapters: 2, 3, 4, 10, 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 (chapters: 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 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 (the full book).
4) 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 course will illustrate the content of cartography as a document and testimony of different ages, cultures, people and technologies, with particular attention to territorial and environmental applications. Practical exercises, short theses, field lessons and educational excursions are planned. Lessons topics: general mapping elements; spatial and non-spatial representations: charts and diagrams; the map: subject, object and instrument; organization and content of national cartography; thematic cartography; presentation of GIS or SIT.

Attending students:
- slides, ppt, lesson notes and supplementary learning material that will be provided during the course.
Non-Attending Students:
-E. LAVAGNA e G. LOCARNO, Geocartografia. Guida alla lettura delle carte geotopografiche, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2007
- five examples of choice from: U. SAURO - M. MENEGHEL e ALTRI, Dalla carta topografica al paesaggio. Atlante ragionato, Vicenza, ZetaBeta, 2005.In the event of difficulty in finding the volume, please contact the teacher carla.masetti@uniroma3.it.

- Montecchi, G. & Venuda, F. (2022). Nuovo manuale di biblioteconomia. Editrice Bibliografica
- Santoro, M. (2012). Lezioni di bibliografia. Editrice Bibliografica
- Parigi, P. (2014). Contro la lettura. Per una pedagogia del semianalfabetismo. Bietti.

1 chose between:
- Pennac, D. (any edition). Come un romanzo.
- Crepaldi, D. (2020). Neuropsicologia della lettura. Carocci.
- Chambers, A. (2015). Il lettore infinito. Educare alla lettura tra ragioni ed emozioni. Equilibri.
- Eleuteri, B. (2023). Educare e motivare alla lettura nella biblioteca scolastica. Uno strumento per docenti e bibliotecari. Editrice Bibliografica.

The course aims to present the main characteristics of documents in the Western legal tradition, with particular regard to their value for historical studies. In this regard, the external and internal characteristics of the document will be examined, as well as the cultural landscape of the times and places of production of the main types of documents, linking them to the legal and cultural traditions of Western history. In this way diplomacy is understood as a historical science capable of acting as a fundamental critical support to historical disciplines, which find in manuscript documentation an important part of their primary sources of study. In particular, attention will be paid to the illustration of documentation of medieval Latin origin, which is particularly complex in its evaluation as a historical document; there will also be an in-depth study of the medieval documentary system of the city of Rome.
The course will include both the examination of reproductions of documents and the direct examination of manuscripts and writing materials through visits to archives and libraries.

The final exam will include the knowledge of the material provided during the course. Students are required to add the study ofthe following texts:
- Alessandro Pratesi, Genesi e forme del documento medievale, III edizione, Roma, Jouvence, 1999 (Guide, 3);
- Two essays among those distributed during the course

Rome's great seventeenth- and eighteenth-century collections: formation and dispersion.

The course will examine the major seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art collections, from the Borghese to the Colonna, from the Rospigliosi to the Doria Pamphilj, and follow their development and eventual dispersal patterns.

To pass the exam, the student must demonstrate that he or she has critically studied the following texts:

(a) M.T. Fiorio, Il museo nella storia. Dallo “studiolo” alla raccolta pubblica, Milan, Mondadori, 2011, or A. MacGregor., Curiosity and Enlightenment. Collectors and Collections from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2007.
(b) a selection of texts that will be communicated during the course (and updated here by December 2024), such as F. Haskell, La dispersione e la conservazione del patrimonio artistico, in Storia dell'arte italiana, Parte terza, vol. III, Einaudi, Torino, 1981, pp. 5-35.
(c) teaching materials (ppt and selection of primary and secondary sources).

The texts will be indicated during the meetings

This workshop aims to be an introduction to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and will be structured in two parts, one more theoretical and one more applied.
The first part will give a general presentation of the 2030 Agenda, its origins, signatory and non-signatory countries (etc.) but above all the 17 Sustainable Development Goals commonly known as the SDGs of the 2030 Agenda will be examined. Ample space will be devoted to the critical discussion of the structure of the Agenda and of the links between its various objectives, both in terms of complementarity and in terms of possible contradictions.
The second part will then explore some of the Agenda's objectives, with a particular focus on the revitalization of marginal areas. Depending on the specific interests and/or the chosen study plans, questions will be asked about the "dimensions" of the marginality of people and geographical areas and about the various forms of exploitation that can arise from them. This analysis can be conducted both in Italy and in other European countries or on other continents.
At the same time, those who follow the workshop will be guided in the collective creation of audiovisual products, to promote the dissemination of the research carried out.

Identification of material during the laboratory.
Main reference:
https://asvis.it/agenda-2030/

Programme of the module 1 (for those who must acquire only 6 CFU/ECTS and for those who must acquire 12 CFU/ECTS)

Basic principles in geographical systemic reading, with particular reference to the concepts of environment, ecosystem, territory, region, landscape, with reference to the cultural organization of space - population, migration, settlement, languages, religions, economic exploitation, development, scale, trans-scalarity etc.
It is essential for all the systematic use of an updated school atlas.


Programme of the module 2 (+ 6 CFU/ECTS: for those who must acquire 12 CFU/ECTS)

Application of the principles of geocultural analysis to the production and reading of literary, film and artistic representations in general, both educated and popular. Identification of geocultural elements in the forms of the anthropic landscape, in the symbolic valorisation of the territory, in the toponomastics etc.

In the absence of a basic knowledge in geography, the study of a school textbook of general geography and geography of the States of the world is strongly recommended.
The systematic use of an updated school atlas is essential for all students.

Texts for the module 1 (6 CFU/ECTS)
1) A.L. GREINER, G. DEMATTEIS, C.LANZA, Geografia umana. Un approccio visuale, Torino, UTET, 2023
2) G. DEMATTEIS, Geografia come immaginazione. Tra piacere della scoperta e ricerca di futuri possibili, Roma, Donzelli, 2021
3) M. d’ERAMO, Il selfie del mondo. Indagine sull’età del turismo, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2022




Texts for the module 2 (+6 CFU/ECTS: for those who must acquire 12 CFU/ECTS)
1) B. CHATWIN, Le vie dei canti, Milano, Adelphi, 1995 (o altra edizione)
2) I. CALVINO, Le città invisibili, Torino, Einaudi, 1972 (o altra edizione)
3) I. CALVINO, Palomar, Torino, Einaudi, 1983 (o altra edizione)

Title: The narrative tradition and the circulation of the novel in literary history.

The course aims to deepen the knowledge of literary history, with particular attention to the narrative tradition in Italy, from the Tasso's poem of Gerusalemme Liberata to the phenomenon of the prose novel of the 17th century up to its affirmation in the 19th century. Furthermore, in the second part of the course, it will be possible a more careful reading of Foscolo, Manzoni and Nievo through the analysis of the issues raised and the solutions offered by their novels.

Bibliography:

1. Texts:

- U. Foscolo, Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis, a cura di A.M. Terzoli, Roma, Carocci, 2012
- A. Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi. Storia della Colonna infame, dir. F. De Cristofaro, Milano, Rizzoli, 2014
- I. Nievo, Le Confessioni d’un italiano, a cura di S. Romagnoli, Venezia Marsilio, 1998

2. Critical studies:

- S. S. Nigro, la funesta docilità, Palermo, Sellerio, 2018
- R. Colombi, La verità della finzione, Storia e romanzo da Manzoni a Nievo, Roma, Carocci, 2022


3. Literary history:

- G. Alfano – P. Italia – E. Russo – F. Tomasi, Letteratura italiana. Da Tasso a fine Ottocento. Manuale per studi universitari, Milano, Mondadori, 2018, Vol. 2

Gli studenti NON frequentanti aggiungeranno, ai punti 1, 2 e 3

- Manzoni, a cura di Paola Italia, Roma, Carocci, 2020

The course will offer an introduction to cultural anthropology using both historical and ethnographic perspectives. In the first part of the course, we will refer to specific examples from the history of anthropology to introduce some of the most important notions in anthropology and ethnography (culture, ethnic identity and classification, sex, gender, race). Discussions will be developed in order to understand how anthropological analysis and ethnographic experience deconstruct notions, classifications and identities considered as natural and inborn. The second part of the course will introduce students to the gender anthropological production and provide them with their specific theoretical skills to research on gender relations in different fields: family, reproduction, sexuality, sexual division of labor, gender difference.

- Fabietti, Ugo, Elementi di Antropologia Culturale, Mondadori, 2015, (disponibile anche in versione digitale), le seguenti parti: Prima (Genesi e natura dell’antropologia culturale), Quarta (Sistemi di pensiero), Settima (Esperienza religiosa, pratica rituale), Nona (Risorse e potere), più il seguente saggio messo a disposizione dalla docente:
- Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz, “Sesso e genere, oltre natura e cultura”, in Tempo, persona, valore. Saggi in omaggio a Pier Giorgio Solinas, a cura di A. Cutolo, S. Grilli, F. Viti, Argo, 2015, pp. 127-144;

A text chosen from the following:

- Mila Busoni, Genere, sesso, cultura. Uno sguardo antropologico, Carocci, 2000.
- Paola Tabet, La grande beffa, Rubbettino, 2004*.
- Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz, Il corpo della nazione, Roma, Cisu, 2004.
- Leonardo Piasere, L’antiziganismo, Quodlibet, 2015 abbinato a Paola Tabet, La pelle giusta, 1998 (available also in ebook).
- Ugo Fabietti, L’identità etnica, Carocci, 2013.
- René Gallissot, Mondher Kilani, Annamaria Rivera, L'imbroglio etnico, in quattordici parole-chiave, Dedalo, 2001, solo i seguenti capitoli: L’ideologia dell’esclusione; Cittadinanza; Cultura; Etnia-etnicità; Idee razziste; Immigrati; Nazionalismo e razzismo.
- Chiara Quagliariello, L’isola dove non si nasce. Lampedusa tra esperienze procreative, genere e migrazioni, Unicopli, 2021, all the text except chapters I and II.
- Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic. L’identità nera tra modernità e doppia coscienza, Meltemi, 2003, chapters 1, 3 e 6.

* https://www.store.rubbettinoeditore.it/la-grande-beffa.html
ebook: https://books.google.it/books/about/La_grande_beffa.html?id=8fuf4k9Qce0C&redir_esc=y

For those attending, it is possible to replace the text of your choice with the following 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:

Dispensa Antropologia culturale:
- Sylvia Yanagisako e Jane Collier, “Genere sessuale e parentela: verso un’analisi unificata”, in L’antropologia culturale oggi, a cura di Robert Borofsky, Meltemi, 2000, pp. 236-247.
- Tabet P., ““Un elefante su cui farli viaggiare’. Il razzismo come ideologia insegnata e appresa”, in Tabet Paola e Di Bella Silvana (a cura di), Io non sono razzista, ma…. Strumenti per disimparare il razzismo, 1998, Anicia, pp.15-36.
- Simonetta Grilli, “Scelte di filiazione e nuove relazionalità. Riflessioni a margine di una ricerca sull'omogenitorialità in Italia”, in Voci. Annuale di Scienze umane, 2014, 9, pp. 24-42.
- Simona Taliani, “Non esistono culture innocenti. Gli antropologi, le famiglie spossessate e i bambini adottabili”, in L’Uomo, n. 2, 2014, pp. 45-65.
- Abu-Lughod Lila, 2002 “Le donne musulmane hanno veramente bisogno di essere salvate? Riflessioni antropologiche sul relativismo culturale e i suoi altri”, pubblicato in ACHAB - Rivista di Antropologia, 2008.

Students not attending classes will also study Fabietti, Malighetti, Matera, Dal tribale al globale. Introduzione all'antropologia, Pearson, 2020, First and Second parts up to p. 119.

MICROECONOMICS
Equilibrium supply and demand
Consumers and incentives
Firms and incentives
The labour market
Perfect competition
Monopoly
Labour economics
Strategic play and game theory

MACROECONOMICS
The wealth of nations, macroeconomic aggregates, and aggregate income
Employment and unemployment
The good market
The financial market
IS-LM in a closed and open economy
Monetary and fiscal policies
Mundell-Fleming

Principi di Economia Politica: Teoria ed evidenza empirica. Terza edizione (2024). Acemoglu, Laibson, John A. List [ALL]
Macroeconomia, Mc Graw-Hill, XI Edizione 2024 [DFS]
Additional material on Moodle

The course will focus on the basic theoretical and conceptual frameworks of sociology, observed in their historical development and in relation to social changes. The exploration will be structured around the main paradigms adopted by the discipline:
- Methodological holism (Durkheim, functionalism, structuralism, social systems theory).
- Methodological individualism (Weber, Pareto, phenomenological sociology).
- Formal sociology (Simmel, symbolic interactionism, sociology of emotions).
- Marxism (Marx, critical theory).
The path will lead to the main interpreters of contemporary society.
Finally, we will focus on the social construction of youth identity in neoliberal society, by the study of an empirical research on entrepreneurial activation policies and on their recipients.

The fundamental bibliographic reference is the handbook by Franco Crespi and Massimo Cerulo "Il pensiero sociologico" (Il Mulino, Bologna 2022, second edition). It is possible to choose another handbook with the teacher's consent.
For the final monographic section, we will adopt the essay by Paolo Inno "Creativi per forza. Identità valori e strategie di vita del giovane impresa di sé" (Meltemi, Milan 2022).

The first attribute of the prince's power is jurisdiction, which is the authority to apply and enforce the laws. But has the administration of justice always remained the same throughout history? Is there a judicial modernity that has replaced archaic and "irrational" customs? And if it exists, did its advent coincide with what we commonly call the Modern Age? According to what criteria did the European states of the early modern period intend not only to repress crime but also to control social conflict? From the perspective of social actors, were there alternative routes to the courts for seeking justice in case of conflict? Did the penal regimes target only the bodies of the condemned, or also their personal and family memory? What was the role of communities and kinship in the mechanisms of sanctioning deviance? What was the influence of religious beliefs? The course aims to provide analytical tools for understanding phenomena of fundamental importance for the development of Western Europe.

Students will need to study:

Marco Bellabarba, La giustizia nell’Italia moderna, Rome-Bari, Laterza, 2021.

Additionally, one book of their choice from the following:

Paolo Broggio, Governare l’odio. Pace e giustizia criminale nell’Italia moderna (secoli XVI-XVII), Rome, Viella, 2021.

Guido Dall’Olio, Nella valle di Giosafat. Giustizia di Dio e giustizia degli uomini nella prima età moderna, Rome, Carocci, 2021.

Marco Albertoni, Storia delle colonne infami: giustizia e memoria in età moderna, Naples, Bibliopolis, 2023.

Adriano Prosperi, Giustizia bendata. Percorsi storici di un’immagine, Turin, Einaudi, 2008.

N.B. The course will take place in the second semester. It will be possible to take the exam with this program starting from the summer session (June-July 2025).

Historiography between revision and tradition. Feuds and vassals in the 8th-12th centuries.
The course aims to review recent historiography on fiefs and vassals, comparing it with traditional theses, starting with the direct reading of a selection of sources.

François Louis Ganshof, Che cos'è il feudalesimo?, Torino, Einaudi, 2003.
Giuseppe Albertoni, Vassalli, feudi, feudalesimo, Roma, Carocci, 2015.

From Cartesian grammar to the pragmatics of language

This course aims to address one of the classic themes in the philosophy of language: the debate between models that are inspired by the Cartesian-rationalist tradition and theoretical perspectives that, by referring to the actual contexts of language use, promote a view based on the pragmatic aspects of human communication. The aim of the course is to show how this debate has important repercussions on the issue of human nature.

- Chomsky N. (1988) Linguaggio e problemi della conoscenza. Bologna: Il Mulino
- Tomasello M. (2014) Unicamente Umano: storia naturale del pensiero. Bologna: Il Mulino
- Ferretti F. (2015) La facoltà di linguaggio. Roma: Carocci.

In our society religion and religious issues have an important space, which can be recognized in different forms of belief.
This class offers an introduction to the principle themes and theories which emerge in the history of the studies about religion/religions. We will try to tackle the difficult question "What is religion? What are religions?". In particular, we will discuss different theories about religion, its essence, its function in the society, up to the last approaches which underline the imbrication of religion with cultures, politics and societies.
Key words and topics (body, gender, violence, space) will be discussed in a comparative and historical approach.
The history of religious studies is taught through a multidisciplinary perspective, which allows students to focus on different approaches such as history, anthropology, sociology, cognitive sciences. The historical study of tools and approaches in religious studies are as follows:
What is religion? Different definitions
Religious diversity in Italy
Issues and questions
Histories of religions

Attending students
1. Appunti del corso e letture indicate nel percorso (vedi materiali didattici on line e l’ulteriore materiale che verrà distribuito dal docente durante le lezioni)

a book among:
N. Spineto, La festa, Laterza, Roma Bari, 2015 oppure
C. Ghidini, P. Scarpi, La Scelta Vegetariana, Ponte alle Grazie, Firenze 2019 oppure
G. Filoramo, Manuale di storia delle religioni, Laterza, Roma Bari, 2005 oppure
N. Spineto, Manuale di storia delle religioni Le Monnier, 2023
O un libro da concordarsi con la Professoressa.

Attending students will change n.1 with
G. Filoramo, Manuale di storia delle religioni, Laterza, Roma Bari, 2005 oppure
N. Spineto, Manuale di storia delle religioni 2023

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:

- Lectures' Notes.
- 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 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/122G5xn30mQ13pp4l2xlMA3ShjkbQgbAR, 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.

1) Giorgetta Bonfiglio Dosio, Primi passi nel mondo degli archivi. Temi e testi per la formazione archivistica di primo livello, Padova, CLUEP 2023 (5^ edizione)
2) Paola Carucci - Maria Guercio, Manuale di Archivistica. Nuova edizione, Roma, Carocci 2021 (solo i capitoli 12-16).
3) Il web e gli studi storici. Guida critica all’uso della rete, a cura di Rolando Minuti, Roma, Carocci, 2017 (solo i capitoli 1-2).

Students not attending classes will also study the following texts: S. Vitali, Le convergenze parallele. Archivi e biblioteche negli istituti culturali, in «Rassegna degli Archivi di Stato», LIX, 1999, pp. 36-60; and the entire volume entitled Il web e gli studi storici. Guida critica all’uso della rete.

The course aims to address the study of Latin and Greek scripts of ancient, late antique, medieval and early modern times, with particular regard to their value for historical and philological studies. In this regard, both book and document scripts will be examined, illustrating the genesis and historical events of all the main Greek and Latin scripts (also in their use in vernacular manuscripts). The module aims to provide an advanced preparation in the analysis of scripts, accompanied by historical and cultural knowledge useful for the correct interpretation of manuscript testimonies.
This course includes both the examination of reproductions of codices and documents and the direct examination of manuscripts through visits to archives and libraries. Knowledge of classical languages is recommended, but not mandatory. An appointment with the lecturer is necessary for any special cases.

The examination will include knowledge of the materials distributed during the lectures (in printed and electronic format) and exercises. The study of:

• D. Bianconi-E. Crisci-P. Degni (a c. di), Paleografia greca, Roma, Carocci, 2021 (due capitoli: I e II oppure III + IV);
• P. Cherubini, La scrittura latina: storia, forme, usi, Roma, Carocci, 2019;
P. Cherubini - A. Pratesi, Paleografia latina. L'avventura grafica del mondo occidentale, Città del Vaticano 2010 (capitoli indicati a lezione);
• A. Petrucci, Prima lezione di paleografia, Roma – Bari, Laterza, 2002 (Universale, 811).

Sailing to Byzantium. Introduction to the Byzantine civilisation (“And therefore I have sailed the seas and come / To the holy city of Byzantium”, William Butler Yeats)
Byzantine Civilisation for the Bachelor of Arts degree is intended for students of Literature, Archaeology, Art History and History, Territory, and Global Society, and aims first and foremost to answer the question, "what is Byzantium?"? What is the importance of studying Byzantium? why Is it pertinent not only for those interested in Byzantium itself, but also to those pursuing courses in classical philology, Christianity, archaeology, art history - ancient, medieval, modern - and of course history tout court - ancient, medieval, modern, contemporary - as well as the history of religion and philosophical thought?
Following a few lectures that provide the essential geographic and diachronic coordinates of the Byzantine world, the course will focus on the main cornerstones of the eventual history of the Eastern Empire. Specifically, two fundamental elements will be highlighted: (1) the role by which Byzantium perpetuated the forms of literature, art, study, and thought that now constitute the Western European civilisation in which we live; (2) the city of Constantinople, situated at the boundary of Europe and Asia, between the "warm seas" and the "cold seas", served as a center of irradiation, convergence, encounter, and exchange between civilisations.
There will also be a number of lectures of a monographic nature, focusing on the most recent research themes developed by the chair of Byzantine Studies at Roma Tre. As part of this course, some lectures will focus on a framing of Platonism's role within the Byzantine paideia, emphasizing the personages of Hypatia of Alexandria and Synesius of Cyrene, as well as their Nachleben, as traceable through very heterogeneous sources, ranging from hagiographic works composed in the first centuries (6th-7th centuries) to exegesis and scholarly miscellany dating back to the Palaeologan period (14th century). Several lectures will focus on the phenomenon of iconoclasm, the role of images in Byzantium, and the philosophical underpinnings of the theology of the Byzantine icon and its dissemination into other cultures, particularly in Slavic cultures. A few lectures will be devoted to the Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453, the culminating event in the history of the millennial empire.
For the conclusion of the course, students will have the opportunity to attend an educational trip to the Peloponnese, in particular to the archaeological site of Mystras (Unesco heritage site since 1989), organized in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Athens and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Lakonia. The main purpose of the event will be to present on site to the participants various elements illustrated during the course of the lectures.

Some reviews (in alphabetical order):
• Bizantinistica (Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Slavi)
• Bollettino della Badia Greca di Grottaferrata
• Byzantina Symmeikta
• Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
• Byzantine Review
• Byzantinische Zeitschrift
• Byzantinoslavica
• Byzantion
• Byzantion Nea Hellás
• Dumbarton Oaks Papers
• Estudios Bizantinos
• Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies
• Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik
• Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies
• Medioevo Greco
• Nea Rhome
• Orientalia Christiana Periodica
• Parekbolai
• Revue des Études Byzantines
• Rivista di Letteratura Comparata Italiana, Bizantina e Neoellenica
• Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Neollenici
• Scandinavian Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
• Vizantijskij Vremennik
• Zbornik radova Vizantološkog instituta

Some links:
• www.academia.edu
• https://aiebnet.gr/fr/page-daccueil/
• https://biblioteca.orientale.it/
• http://www.byzantium1200.com/
• http://www.doaks.org/
• https://istanbulcitywalls.ku.edu.tr/en/
• http://pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/
• http://www.scuolavaticanapaleografia.va/content/scuolavaticanapaleografia/it/didattica/corso-annuale-di-paleografia-greca-.html
• http://www.studibizantini.it/

MANDATORY TEXTS
- S. Ronchey, Lo Stato Bizantino, Torino, Einaudi Tascabili, 2002
- S. Ronchey, Bisanzio fino alla quarta crociata, in A. Barbero e S. Carocci (a cura di), Storia d'Europa e del Mediterraneo, vol. VIII, Roma, Salerno, 2006, pp. 215-255

Title of the course: Transformations of culture at the beginning of the Middle Ages

Description of the course: The course has institutional character, and aims to outline the main linguistic features, the personalities and the most significant literary forms which mark the passage between Late Antiquity and Middle Ages in the Latin West. The course involves practic exercises meant to verify the knowledge and the usage of the main bibliographical and informatic tools for the study of Latin authors, with a special attention to lexicography.

Bibliography:

1. D. NORBERG, Manuale di latino medievale, a cura di M. Oldoni. Bibliografia aggiornata a cura di P. Garbini, Avagliano Ed., Cava de’ Tirreni 1999. - In alternative to the second part of the handbook (“Testi scelti”), students attending the course can choose to study the textes provided and analysed during the course.

2. One of the following books:
- P. STOTZ, Il latino nel Medioevo. Guida allo studio di un'identità linguistica europea, a cura di Luigi G. G. Ricci, Ed. SISMEL, Firenze 2013.
- A. DE PRISCO, Il latino tardoantico e altomedievale, Ed. Jouvence, Roma 1991.
- E. AUERBACH, Lingua letteraria e pubblico nella tarda antichità latina e nel Medioevo, trad. it., Ed. Feltrinelli, Milano 2007.

3. An handbook of literary history chosen between the following:
- M. SIMONETTI, Romani e Barbari. Le lettere latine alle origini dell’Europa (secoli V-VIII), Ed. Carocci, Roma 2006.
- G. POLARA, Letteratura latina tardoantica e altomedievale, Jouvence Ed., Roma 1987.

The course will follow a chronological path through the history of documentary film through some keywords. The historiographical path structured in a chronological way will be articulated through some thematic articulations concerning above all the ethical questions (representability or irrapresentability of some aspects of the real) in relation to the starting reality and the social actor, the performative and authorial issue of documentary cinema and the question of spectator reception. The chosen filmography follows an exemplary path both from the historical and thematic point of view. The second part of the course will be monographic and will be dedicated to the representation of the wild nature in the cinema of the Italian and international documentary.
The course also includes meetings with professionals in the documentary industry in order to put students directly in contact with the professions of cinema.

Marco Bertozzi-Ivelise Perniola (a cura di). Storia del cinema documentario, Roma, Carocci, 2025 (in corso di pubblicazione).
Dispense a cura della docente.

Dispense a cura della docente caricate su Moodle all’inizio del corso.

FILMOGRAFIA OBBLIGATORIA: La filmografia è suscettibile di variazioni.

Robert Flaherty, Nanook of the North (1922)
Joris Ivens, Regen (1929)
Luis Bunûel, Las Hurdes (1936)
Joris Ivens, Terra di Spagna (1937)
Luciano Emmer, Racconto da un affresco (1938)
McAllister-Jannings, Listen to Britain (1942)
Vittorio De Seta, Lu tempu de li pisci spata (1954)
id. Parabola d'oro (1955)
id. Un giorno in Barbagia (1958)
Cecilia Mangini, Stendalì (1959)
id. Essere donne (1965)
Gian Franco Mingozzi, La Taranta (1962)
id. Li mali mestieri (1963)
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Appunti per un'Orestiade Africana (1970)
Chris Marker, Sans Soleil (1982)
Pietro Marcello, La bocca del lupo (2009)
Alina Marazzi, Un'ora sola ti vorrei (2012)

THE COURSE WILL ILLUSTRATE THE EVOLUTION OF THE MAIN GENRES AND FORMS OF ORCHESTRAL MUSIC FROM THE CLASSICAL TRADITION, WITH ATTENTION TO FORMAL AND AESTHETIC PRINCIPLES THAT ARE THE BASIS OF THE CATEGORIES OF ABSOLUTE MUSIC AND PROGRAM MUSIC. IN PARTICULAR, THE SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE BY H. BERLIOZ WILL BE ANALYZED.

The course will address the history of the "long nineteenth century" (1789-1914), framing the study of the process of Italian unification in the broader international context which proposes, thanks to new studies on the nineteenth century, a global reading of the events concerning nations and empires in the 'Age of Revolutions. Seminars curated by the students are planned which, starting from the texts in the program and materials distributed by the teacher, will focus on:
- communication channels of the nineteenth-century "new politics": press and use of the image;
- the Roman Republic of 1849 as a "global case";
- Cavour, Garibaldi, Mazzini and Vittorio Emanuele II: reality and myth of the "Fathers of the Italian Fatherland".

Second semester.
Hours: 4 hours/week.
Beginning of the course: March 2025.
Also available online, in synchronous and recorded mode.

The course examines the main data of ancient Christian literary production, from the first to the fifth century, of which will be highlighted both the peculiarities, as well as the relationship with Jewish, Greek and Latin literatures. Main topics: Proto-Christian literature (letters, evangelical literature, apocalypses), formation of the New Testament canon, writings from the sub-apostolic period, Greek apologists, "heretical" and heresiological literature, martyrial literature, Tertullian, Cyprian, exegetical literature, Origen, historiography, authors from Cappadocia, ancient literature, Hilarius, Ambrose, Jerome, Rufin, hagiographic literature, Augustine.

M. Simonetti - E. Prinzivalli, Letteratura cristiana antica, Casale Monferrato: PiemmeReligio, 2003 (selected textes).
The texts commented in the classroom not present in the anthology will be provided by the teacher.

The Laboratory aims to offer theoretical and practical knowledge on the tools for the recognition, enhancement and capitalization of cultural heritage, through the acquisition of technical and IT skills. In particular, each student will be introduced to the use of GIS software for the creation of a geodatabase for the census and geolocation of the assets under study, which also takes into account the territorialization processes that have taken place over time in the geographical context investigated.

Grava Massimiliano, Camillo Berti, Nicola Gabellieri e Arturo Gallia (2020), Historical GIS. Strumenti digitali per la geografia storica in Italia. Trieste, EUT. Disponibile al seguente link: https://www.openstarts.units.it/entities/publication/1c8649d3-39ae-42d1-af8d-0ce53f40c69d/details

I Part: Introduction to medieval history

Teaching plan: I semester: 6 CFU

Description
I Part

The class will deal with, firstly, the crisis of the Roman empire and the characteristics of the “late antiquity”, in particular the birth of Christian churches and the claim of Christianism as religion of the empire. It will continue reflecting on “barbarian invasions” and on their effects on the construction of new political and religious assets up to IX century. It questions the characteristics and impact of Islam between East and West. Then, it will focus on the political and religious dimension before the Carolingian and, then, Ottonian empire. It will analyse also the rise, starting from XI century, of new social classes and new needs of leadership of Italian and European cities studying its effects on the construction of political systems, on the economic changes, on the religious and ecclesiastic life. Furthermore, it will question the birth, after the Gregorian reform, of new religious movements which would become religious Orders (in particular the Order of Friars Minor of Francis of Assisi and the Order of Friars Preacher of Domenic of Caleruega) or would be rejected by the Church as heretical movements. The class will follow, also, the birth of the national monarchies and the progressive decline of the role of the Empire and of the papacy until the transfer of the Roman Curia in Avignon at the beginning of the XIV century. It will define also the political-territorial constructions of the XV century and the importance of Humanism for the religious and cultural life of the Quattrocento.

During the class some time will be dedicated to the reading of some written testimonies which can help the comprehension of the medieval cultures and mentalities.

II Part: Religious history in Middle Ages: Approaches, sources and historiography

Teaching plan: I semester: 6 CFU

It deepens the subjects of the first module focusing on the ones less analysed.

Between the subjects which could be chosen we can list: the role of monachism in the process of Christianisation; the eremitic experiences, the feminine Religiosity, the protagonism of lay people, heresies and inquisitions, the role of the cult of saints and of the miracles, the XIII century Religious Orders, the ways of predications and the role of the prophets and of the prophetical texts in the organisation of the historical present.
If the number of students allows is it possible working in small study groups.

For the first part (6 CFU)

1) M. Bloch, Apologia della storia o Mestiere di storico, Einaudi, 2009 (several editions)
2) G. Vitolo, Il medioevo. I caratteri originali di un’età di transizione, Sansoni (with introduction)


To have 12 CFU the students must study ALSO:
1) Marina Benedetti (a cura di), Storia del cristianesimo II. L’età medievale (secoli VIII-XV), Carocci Editore, capp. I, II, III, V, VIII, IX, X, XII, XIV

It is recommended, but non mandatory, that non-attending students go to the teacher’s office to know useful information for their study.

The course, starting from the beginning of 20th century, will follow the development of Italian literary history on both the lyrical and narrative side. Each author will be studied in its historical and geographical context, by some examples of reading and textual analysis of his major works, also through the constant reference to the contemporary context.

For students attending the course are required to read and analyze 1 poetic collection and 1 narrative work of their choice among the listed authors, also the exam book (see general bibliography).
For students who do not attend the course in addition to the examination texts, the full reading of 2 poetic collections and 2 narrative works of listed authors is required, also the exam book (see general bibliography); for Erasmus students the full reading of 1 poetic collection and 1 narrative work of listed authors (see general bibliography).

General Bibliography:
The history of Italian literature from 1900 to the 1970s is to be prepared on a manual of Italian literature (we recommend: M. Tortora, Letteratura italiana contemporanea. Narrativa e poesia dal Novecento a oggi, Carocci, 2022). A good knowledge of the following authors, is required: Pirandello, Aleramo, Svevo, Tozzi, Gadda, Moravia, Pavese, Vittorini, Fenoglio, Calvino, Primo Levi, Pasolini, Elsa Morante, Ortese. It also requires a profile of the 20th century, as well as a good knowledge of the following authors: d’Annunzio, Saba, Ungaretti, Montale, Quasimodo, Luzi, Caproni, Sereni, Pasolini, Rosselli.

Exam Book:
L. Pirandello, Novelle per un anno, vol. 1, edizione diretta da S. Costa, Scialle nero, La vita nuda, La rallegrata, a cura di M. Venturini, F. Tomassini, F. Miliucci, Mondadori, Oscar Moderni, 2021; or L. Pirandello, Novelle per un anno, vol. 3, Tutt’e tre, Dal naso al cielo, Donna Mimma, Il vecchio Dio, edizione diretta da S. Costa, a cura di M. Venturini, F. Tomassini, F. Miliucci, Mondadori, Oscar Moderni, 2021.

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.

For those who attend the lectures: notes made available both at the library and at 4Appunti shop in front of the Dep.t. For those who cannot attend the lectures, please add J.M. Keynes's General Theory (1936), whatever edition.

In the Historian Lab: topic, issues, methods
The course aims to make students reflect critically on the characteristics of historical knowledge, on its hermeneutic values, on the different types of sources and their use, on the relationship between history and other human and social sciences, on the various methods and concepts of historical research, showing a wide range of works that are significant for historiography.
In the first part of the course focus on a critical reflection on the forms of historical knowledge and the organisation of work in the historian's laboratory: time, the relationship between history and memory, the historical dimension of human existence, the space of historical knowledge, the sources, the new historiographic studies between hermeneutics and social sciences.

a) Two books of your choice:
• J. Topolski, Narrare la storia, Bruno Mondadori, Milano, 1997
• M. Bloch, Apologia della storia, Einaudi, Torino, 2009
• S. Rogari, La scienza storica, UTET, Torino, 2013
• S. Morgan, K. Jenkins, A. Munslow, Manifestos for History, Routledge, New York-London, 2007
• Munslow, Narrative and History, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, 2007

b) One book of your choice:
• P. Bevilacqua, Sull'utilità Della Storia, Donzelli, Roma, 2000
• P. Burke, La storia culturale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006
• H. White, Forme di storia. Dalla realtà alla narrazione, Roma, Carocci, 2006
• B. Bonomo, Voci della memoria, Roma, Carocci, 2013
• M. Ridolfi, Verso la public history. Fare e raccontare storia nel tempo presente, Pacini, Pisa, 2017
• S. Gruzinski, Abbiamo ancora bisogno della storia? Il senso del passato nel mondo globalizzato, Raffaello Cortina, Milano, 2016

The study of the following text is also compulsory for students on the degree course in Languages: :
F. Benigno, L'età moderna. Dalla scoperta dell'America alla Restaurazione, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2005

a) Two books in the following list:
• J. Topolski, Narrare la storia, Bruno Mondadori, Milano, 1997
• M. Bloch, Apologia della storia, Einaudi, Torino, 2009
• S. Rogari, La scienza storica, UTET, Torino, 2013
• S. Morgan, K. Jenkins, A. Munslow, Manifestos for History, Routledge, New York-London, 2007
• Munslow, Narrative and History, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, 2007

b) One book in the following list:
• P. Bevilacqua, Sull'utilità Della Storia, Donzelli, Roma, 2000
• P. Burke, La storia culturale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006
• H. White, Forme di storia. Dalla realtà alla narrazione, Roma, Carocci, 2006
• B. Bonomo, Voci della memoria, Roma, Carocci, 2013
• M. Ridolfi, Verso la public history. Fare e raccontare storia nel tempo presente, Pacini, Pisa, 2017
• S. Gruzinski, Abbiamo ancora bisogno della storia? Il senso del passato nel mondo globalizzato, Raffaello Cortina, Milano, 2016

The history of Italian political movements and parties from 1861 to 1994

P. Carusi, I partiti politici italiani dall'Unità ad oggi, ed. Studium 2015
P. Carusi, Mario Segni e la crisi della cultura politica democristiana (1976-1993), ed. Viella 2023

Nature and Subject in the Leibniz’s and Kant’s Philosophy
The course aims to examine the concepts of nature and subject in Leibniz's Monadology and in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, by keeping in view some guiding notions declined in different ways in the twoo philosophies: body/mind, sensibility/intellect, quantity/quality,discrete/continuous, mechanism/teleology.

G.W. Leibniz, The Monadology, and Other Philosophical Writings; with an introduction and notes by Robert Latta, New York; Garland
Kant's Critique of pure reason : background source materials, edited and translated by Eric Waktins, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
Anthony Savile, Leibniz and the Monadology, London, Routledge

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.

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 (chapters: 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 (Chapters: 2, 3, 4, 10, 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 (chapters: 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 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 (the full book).
4) 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.

Looking at nature through different perspectives: ecological principles from ecosystems to populations, origin and development of ecology as a science. Ecology as a group of subdisciplines.
Ecosystem ecology: factors related to distribution of biomes. The main terrestrial biomes. Biomes and climate change. Ecology of ecosystems. Energy in ecosystems. Thermodynamic aspects of energy flows. Trophic structure. Production and productivity. Primary and secondary production. Methods for measuring primary productivity. Ecological pyramids. Biogeochemical cycles. Main biogeochemical cycles. Changes to biogeochemical cycles related to anthropic activities.
Community ecology: Community structure. Community analysis methods. Community dynamics. Ecological successions. Methods for studying succession. Diversity. Meaning and calculation of diversity. The factors that regulate diversity. Diversity in different ecosystems. Threats to biodiversity. Red lists of endangered species. The exotic species. Examples in Italian flora and fauna. Bioindicators.
Population ecology. Population structure and dynamics. Selection r and k. Inter-specific relationship interactions. Interspecific competition and ecological niche. Physical environment and organism-environment relations. Ecological factors. Response of organisms to environmental factors. Stress-Disturbance. The C-S-R strategies.
Ecosystems conservation and management. Biodiversity Conservation. Introduction to conservation ecology. Protected areas.
Introduction to landscape ecology. Landscape structure and landscape dynamics, landscape and ecosystem management.
Introduction to urban ecology. Major features of urban ecosystems.

SMITH, T. & SMITH, R. 2017. ELEMENTI DI ECOLOGIA. PEARSON-B. CUMMINGS
CAIN, M. BOWMAN, W. & HACKER, S. 2017. ECOLOGIA. PICCIN
The material will be indicated by the teacher during the lessons

The course will illustrate the content of cartography as a document and testimony of different ages, cultures, people and technologies, with particular attention to territorial and environmental applications. Practical exercises, short theses, field lessons and educational excursions are planned. Lessons topics: general mapping elements; spatial and non-spatial representations: charts and diagrams; the map: subject, object and instrument; organization and content of national cartography; thematic cartography; presentation of GIS or SIT.

Attending students:
- slides, ppt, lesson notes and supplementary learning material that will be provided during the course.
Non-Attending Students:
-E. LAVAGNA e G. LOCARNO, Geocartografia. Guida alla lettura delle carte geotopografiche, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2007
- five examples of choice from: U. SAURO - M. MENEGHEL e ALTRI, Dalla carta topografica al paesaggio. Atlante ragionato, Vicenza, ZetaBeta, 2005.In the event of difficulty in finding the volume, please contact the teacher carla.masetti@uniroma3.it.

Introduction to Physical Geography; the composition, the subdivision of the atmosphere; the radiative balance of the Sun / Earth / atmosphere system; the air temperature; atmospheric pressure and winds; the general circulation of the atmosphere; air humidity and precipitation; atmospheric pertubation; meteorological weather and climate; the classification of climates and their distribution; the climate in Italy; climatic variations over time; the hydrological cycle; the sea; the physical-chemical characteristics of seawater; the movements of the sea (waves, currents, tides); Introduction to climate change; general introduction on maps and their construction; the scale of the map; the shape of the Earth (ellipsoid and geoid); the geographical reference system; the concept of latitude and longitude; geographic projections; hints of triangulation; the UTM system; cartographic symbology; reading and interpretation of topographic maps; Italian cartographic production; practical exercises on topographic maps at different scales of detail concerning: the calculation of the geographical and metric coordinates (UTM and Gauss-Boaga), the construction of the topographic profile, the delimitation of the river basin, the calculation of the percentage and angular slope, the altitude of a point, the planimetric and real distances and the magnetic declination for a correct orientation of the map.

MCKNIGHT T.H. & HESS D.H., GEOGRAFIA FISICA. COMPRENDERE IL PAESAGGIO. PICCIN, PADOVA

LUPIA PALMIERI E. & PAROTTO M., IL GLOBO TERRESTRE E LA SUA EVOLUZIONE, ZANICHELLI, BOLOGNA

SAURO U., MENEGHEL M., BONDESAN A. & CASTIGLIONI B. – DALLA CARTA TOPOGRAFICA AL PAESAGGIO. ATLANTE RAGIONATO. – ZETABETA EDITRICE SRL, VICENZA

MORI A. – LE CARTE GEOGRAFICHE E LA LORO LETTURA E INTERPRETAZIONE. – LIBRERIA GOLIARDICA, PISA

- Montecchi, G. & Venuda, F. (2022). Nuovo manuale di biblioteconomia. Editrice Bibliografica
- Santoro, M. (2012). Lezioni di bibliografia. Editrice Bibliografica
- Parigi, P. (2014). Contro la lettura. Per una pedagogia del semianalfabetismo. Bietti.

1 chose between:
- Pennac, D. (any edition). Come un romanzo.
- Crepaldi, D. (2020). Neuropsicologia della lettura. Carocci.
- Chambers, A. (2015). Il lettore infinito. Educare alla lettura tra ragioni ed emozioni. Equilibri.
- Eleuteri, B. (2023). Educare e motivare alla lettura nella biblioteca scolastica. Uno strumento per docenti e bibliotecari. Editrice Bibliografica.

Rome's great seventeenth- and eighteenth-century collections: formation and dispersion.

The course will examine the major seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art collections, from the Borghese to the Colonna, from the Rospigliosi to the Doria Pamphilj, and follow their development and eventual dispersal patterns.

To pass the exam, the student must demonstrate that he or she has critically studied the following texts:

(a) M.T. Fiorio, Il museo nella storia. Dallo “studiolo” alla raccolta pubblica, Milan, Mondadori, 2011, or A. MacGregor., Curiosity and Enlightenment. Collectors and Collections from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2007.
(b) a selection of texts that will be communicated during the course (and updated here by December 2024), such as F. Haskell, La dispersione e la conservazione del patrimonio artistico, in Storia dell'arte italiana, Parte terza, vol. III, Einaudi, Torino, 1981, pp. 5-35.
(c) teaching materials (ppt and selection of primary and secondary sources).

The course aims to present the main characteristics of documents in the Western legal tradition, with particular regard to their value for historical studies. In this regard, the external and internal characteristics of the document will be examined, as well as the cultural landscape of the times and places of production of the main types of documents, linking them to the legal and cultural traditions of Western history. In this way diplomacy is understood as a historical science capable of acting as a fundamental critical support to historical disciplines, which find in manuscript documentation an important part of their primary sources of study. In particular, attention will be paid to the illustration of documentation of medieval Latin origin, which is particularly complex in its evaluation as a historical document; there will also be an in-depth study of the medieval documentary system of the city of Rome.
The course will include both the examination of reproductions of documents and the direct examination of manuscripts and writing materials through visits to archives and libraries.

The final exam will include the knowledge of the material provided during the course. Students are required to add the study ofthe following texts:
- Alessandro Pratesi, Genesi e forme del documento medievale, III edizione, Roma, Jouvence, 1999 (Guide, 3);
- Two essays among those distributed during the course

The texts will be indicated during the meetings

This workshop aims to be an introduction to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and will be structured in two parts, one more theoretical and one more applied.
The first part will give a general presentation of the 2030 Agenda, its origins, signatory and non-signatory countries (etc.) but above all the 17 Sustainable Development Goals commonly known as the SDGs of the 2030 Agenda will be examined. Ample space will be devoted to the critical discussion of the structure of the Agenda and of the links between its various objectives, both in terms of complementarity and in terms of possible contradictions.
The second part will then explore some of the Agenda's objectives, with a particular focus on the revitalization of marginal areas. Depending on the specific interests and/or the chosen study plans, questions will be asked about the "dimensions" of the marginality of people and geographical areas and about the various forms of exploitation that can arise from them. This analysis can be conducted both in Italy and in other European countries or on other continents.
At the same time, those who follow the workshop will be guided in the collective creation of audiovisual products, to promote the dissemination of the research carried out.

Identification of material during the laboratory.
Main reference:
https://asvis.it/agenda-2030/

Programme of the module 1 (for those who must acquire only 6 CFU/ECTS and for those who must acquire 12 CFU/ECTS)

Basic principles in geographical systemic reading, with particular reference to the concepts of environment, ecosystem, territory, region, landscape, with reference to the cultural organization of space - population, migration, settlement, languages, religions, economic exploitation, development, scale, trans-scalarity etc.
It is essential for all the systematic use of an updated school atlas.


Programme of the module 2 (+ 6 CFU/ECTS: for those who must acquire 12 CFU/ECTS)

Application of the principles of geocultural analysis to the production and reading of literary, film and artistic representations in general, both educated and popular. Identification of geocultural elements in the forms of the anthropic landscape, in the symbolic valorisation of the territory, in the toponomastics etc.

In the absence of a basic knowledge in geography, the study of a school textbook of general geography and geography of the States of the world is strongly recommended.
The systematic use of an updated school atlas is essential for all students.

Texts for the module 1 (6 CFU/ECTS)
1) A.L. GREINER, G. DEMATTEIS, C.LANZA, Geografia umana. Un approccio visuale, Torino, UTET, 2023
2) G. DEMATTEIS, Geografia come immaginazione. Tra piacere della scoperta e ricerca di futuri possibili, Roma, Donzelli, 2021
3) M. d’ERAMO, Il selfie del mondo. Indagine sull’età del turismo, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2022




Texts for the module 2 (+6 CFU/ECTS: for those who must acquire 12 CFU/ECTS)
1) B. CHATWIN, Le vie dei canti, Milano, Adelphi, 1995 (o altra edizione)
2) I. CALVINO, Le città invisibili, Torino, Einaudi, 1972 (o altra edizione)
3) I. CALVINO, Palomar, Torino, Einaudi, 1983 (o altra edizione)

MICROECONOMICS
Equilibrium supply and demand
Consumers and incentives
Firms and incentives
The labour market
Perfect competition
Monopoly
Labour economics
Strategic play and game theory

MACROECONOMICS
The wealth of nations, macroeconomic aggregates, and aggregate income
Employment and unemployment
The good market
The financial market
IS-LM in a closed and open economy
Monetary and fiscal policies
Mundell-Fleming

Principi di Economia Politica: Teoria ed evidenza empirica. Terza edizione (2024). Acemoglu, Laibson, John A. List [ALL]
Macroeconomia, Mc Graw-Hill, XI Edizione 2024 [DFS]
Additional material on Moodle

The course will focus on the basic theoretical and conceptual frameworks of sociology, observed in their historical development and in relation to social changes. The exploration will be structured around the main paradigms adopted by the discipline:
- Methodological holism (Durkheim, functionalism, structuralism, social systems theory).
- Methodological individualism (Weber, Pareto, phenomenological sociology).
- Formal sociology (Simmel, symbolic interactionism, sociology of emotions).
- Marxism (Marx, critical theory).
The path will lead to the main interpreters of contemporary society.
Finally, we will focus on the social construction of youth identity in neoliberal society, by the study of an empirical research on entrepreneurial activation policies and on their recipients.

The fundamental bibliographic reference is the handbook by Franco Crespi and Massimo Cerulo "Il pensiero sociologico" (Il Mulino, Bologna 2022, second edition). It is possible to choose another handbook with the teacher's consent.
For the final monographic section, we will adopt the essay by Paolo Inno "Creativi per forza. Identità valori e strategie di vita del giovane impresa di sé" (Meltemi, Milan 2022).

The first attribute of the prince's power is jurisdiction, which is the authority to apply and enforce the laws. But has the administration of justice always remained the same throughout history? Is there a judicial modernity that has replaced archaic and "irrational" customs? And if it exists, did its advent coincide with what we commonly call the Modern Age? According to what criteria did the European states of the early modern period intend not only to repress crime but also to control social conflict? From the perspective of social actors, were there alternative routes to the courts for seeking justice in case of conflict? Did the penal regimes target only the bodies of the condemned, or also their personal and family memory? What was the role of communities and kinship in the mechanisms of sanctioning deviance? What was the influence of religious beliefs? The course aims to provide analytical tools for understanding phenomena of fundamental importance for the development of Western Europe.

Students will need to study:

Marco Bellabarba, La giustizia nell’Italia moderna, Rome-Bari, Laterza, 2021.

Additionally, one book of their choice from the following:

Paolo Broggio, Governare l’odio. Pace e giustizia criminale nell’Italia moderna (secoli XVI-XVII), Rome, Viella, 2021.

Guido Dall’Olio, Nella valle di Giosafat. Giustizia di Dio e giustizia degli uomini nella prima età moderna, Rome, Carocci, 2021.

Marco Albertoni, Storia delle colonne infami: giustizia e memoria in età moderna, Naples, Bibliopolis, 2023.

Adriano Prosperi, Giustizia bendata. Percorsi storici di un’immagine, Turin, Einaudi, 2008.

N.B. The course will take place in the second semester. It will be possible to take the exam with this program starting from the summer session (June-July 2025).

In our society religion and religious issues have an important space, which can be recognized in different forms of belief.
This class offers an introduction to the principle themes and theories which emerge in the history of the studies about religion/religions. We will try to tackle the difficult question "What is religion? What are religions?". In particular, we will discuss different theories about religion, its essence, its function in the society, up to the last approaches which underline the imbrication of religion with cultures, politics and societies.
Key words and topics (body, gender, violence, space) will be discussed in a comparative and historical approach.
The history of religious studies is taught through a multidisciplinary perspective, which allows students to focus on different approaches such as history, anthropology, sociology, cognitive sciences. The historical study of tools and approaches in religious studies are as follows:
What is religion? Different definitions
Religious diversity in Italy
Issues and questions
Histories of religions

Attending students
1. Appunti del corso e letture indicate nel percorso (vedi materiali didattici on line e l’ulteriore materiale che verrà distribuito dal docente durante le lezioni)

a book among:
N. Spineto, La festa, Laterza, Roma Bari, 2015 oppure
C. Ghidini, P. Scarpi, La Scelta Vegetariana, Ponte alle Grazie, Firenze 2019 oppure
G. Filoramo, Manuale di storia delle religioni, Laterza, Roma Bari, 2005 oppure
N. Spineto, Manuale di storia delle religioni Le Monnier, 2023
O un libro da concordarsi con la Professoressa.

Attending students will change n.1 with
G. Filoramo, Manuale di storia delle religioni, Laterza, Roma Bari, 2005 oppure
N. Spineto, Manuale di storia delle religioni 2023

The course will offer an introduction to cultural anthropology using both historical and ethnographic perspectives. In the first part of the course, we will refer to specific examples from the history of anthropology to introduce some of the most important notions in anthropology and ethnography (culture, ethnic identity and classification, sex, gender, race). Discussions will be developed in order to understand how anthropological analysis and ethnographic experience deconstruct notions, classifications and identities considered as natural and inborn. The second part of the course will introduce students to the gender anthropological production and provide them with their specific theoretical skills to research on gender relations in different fields: family, reproduction, sexuality, sexual division of labor, gender difference.

- Fabietti, Ugo, Elementi di Antropologia Culturale, Mondadori, 2015, (disponibile anche in versione digitale), le seguenti parti: Prima (Genesi e natura dell’antropologia culturale), Quarta (Sistemi di pensiero), Settima (Esperienza religiosa, pratica rituale), Nona (Risorse e potere), più il seguente saggio messo a disposizione dalla docente:
- Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz, “Sesso e genere, oltre natura e cultura”, in Tempo, persona, valore. Saggi in omaggio a Pier Giorgio Solinas, a cura di A. Cutolo, S. Grilli, F. Viti, Argo, 2015, pp. 127-144;

A text chosen from the following:

- Mila Busoni, Genere, sesso, cultura. Uno sguardo antropologico, Carocci, 2000.
- Paola Tabet, La grande beffa, Rubbettino, 2004*.
- Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz, Il corpo della nazione, Roma, Cisu, 2004.
- Leonardo Piasere, L’antiziganismo, Quodlibet, 2015 abbinato a Paola Tabet, La pelle giusta, 1998 (available also in ebook).
- Ugo Fabietti, L’identità etnica, Carocci, 2013.
- René Gallissot, Mondher Kilani, Annamaria Rivera, L'imbroglio etnico, in quattordici parole-chiave, Dedalo, 2001, solo i seguenti capitoli: L’ideologia dell’esclusione; Cittadinanza; Cultura; Etnia-etnicità; Idee razziste; Immigrati; Nazionalismo e razzismo.
- Chiara Quagliariello, L’isola dove non si nasce. Lampedusa tra esperienze procreative, genere e migrazioni, Unicopli, 2021, all the text except chapters I and II.
- Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic. L’identità nera tra modernità e doppia coscienza, Meltemi, 2003, chapters 1, 3 e 6.

* https://www.store.rubbettinoeditore.it/la-grande-beffa.html
ebook: https://books.google.it/books/about/La_grande_beffa.html?id=8fuf4k9Qce0C&redir_esc=y

For those attending, it is possible to replace the text of your choice with the following 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:

Dispensa Antropologia culturale:
- Sylvia Yanagisako e Jane Collier, “Genere sessuale e parentela: verso un’analisi unificata”, in L’antropologia culturale oggi, a cura di Robert Borofsky, Meltemi, 2000, pp. 236-247.
- Tabet P., ““Un elefante su cui farli viaggiare’. Il razzismo come ideologia insegnata e appresa”, in Tabet Paola e Di Bella Silvana (a cura di), Io non sono razzista, ma…. Strumenti per disimparare il razzismo, 1998, Anicia, pp.15-36.
- Simonetta Grilli, “Scelte di filiazione e nuove relazionalità. Riflessioni a margine di una ricerca sull'omogenitorialità in Italia”, in Voci. Annuale di Scienze umane, 2014, 9, pp. 24-42.
- Simona Taliani, “Non esistono culture innocenti. Gli antropologi, le famiglie spossessate e i bambini adottabili”, in L’Uomo, n. 2, 2014, pp. 45-65.
- Abu-Lughod Lila, 2002 “Le donne musulmane hanno veramente bisogno di essere salvate? Riflessioni antropologiche sul relativismo culturale e i suoi altri”, pubblicato in ACHAB - Rivista di Antropologia, 2008.

Students not attending classes will also study Fabietti, Malighetti, Matera, Dal tribale al globale. Introduzione all'antropologia, Pearson, 2020, First and Second parts up to p. 119.

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:

- Lectures' Notes.
- 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 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/122G5xn30mQ13pp4l2xlMA3ShjkbQgbAR, 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.

1) Giorgetta Bonfiglio Dosio, Primi passi nel mondo degli archivi. Temi e testi per la formazione archivistica di primo livello, Padova, CLUEP 2023 (5^ edizione)
2) Paola Carucci - Maria Guercio, Manuale di Archivistica. Nuova edizione, Roma, Carocci 2021 (solo i capitoli 12-16).
3) Il web e gli studi storici. Guida critica all’uso della rete, a cura di Rolando Minuti, Roma, Carocci, 2017 (solo i capitoli 1-2).

Students not attending classes will also study the following texts: S. Vitali, Le convergenze parallele. Archivi e biblioteche negli istituti culturali, in «Rassegna degli Archivi di Stato», LIX, 1999, pp. 36-60; and the entire volume entitled Il web e gli studi storici. Guida critica all’uso della rete.

The course aims to address the study of Latin and Greek scripts of ancient, late antique, medieval and early modern times, with particular regard to their value for historical and philological studies. In this regard, both book and document scripts will be examined, illustrating the genesis and historical events of all the main Greek and Latin scripts (also in their use in vernacular manuscripts). The module aims to provide an advanced preparation in the analysis of scripts, accompanied by historical and cultural knowledge useful for the correct interpretation of manuscript testimonies.
This course includes both the examination of reproductions of codices and documents and the direct examination of manuscripts through visits to archives and libraries. Knowledge of classical languages is recommended, but not mandatory. An appointment with the lecturer is necessary for any special cases.

The examination will include knowledge of the materials distributed during the lectures (in printed and electronic format) and exercises. The study of:

• D. Bianconi-E. Crisci-P. Degni (a c. di), Paleografia greca, Roma, Carocci, 2021 (due capitoli: I e II oppure III + IV);
• P. Cherubini, La scrittura latina: storia, forme, usi, Roma, Carocci, 2019;
P. Cherubini - A. Pratesi, Paleografia latina. L'avventura grafica del mondo occidentale, Città del Vaticano 2010 (capitoli indicati a lezione);
• A. Petrucci, Prima lezione di paleografia, Roma – Bari, Laterza, 2002 (Universale, 811).

The course outlines the formation and development of the main capitalistic economies both in Europe and out of Europe between 19th and 20th centuries.

I. The first and second industrial revolution
- The preconditions for capitalist development in modern Eastern Atlantic, Centuries 17-18th.
- Expanded commercial agricultural revolution and industrial revolution in Britain in the eighteenth century.
- The process of capitalist concentration in the nineteenth century and the second industrial revolution.
II. Economic development in the 20th century
- Industry, trade networks, financial markets on the eve of the First World War.
- The economic cycles in the post-war period
- The crisis of 1929 and national policies in the '30s.

Attending students:

Michel Beaud, A History of Capitalism, 1500-2000, Monthly Review Press, New York 2002.

plus a further book:

Fernand Braudel, Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism, Johns Hopkins Univiversity Press, Baltimora 1979.

The Laboratory aims to offer theoretical and practical knowledge on the tools for the recognition, enhancement and capitalization of cultural heritage, through the acquisition of technical and IT skills. In particular, each student will be introduced to the use of GIS software for the creation of a geodatabase for the census and geolocation of the assets under study, which also takes into account the territorialization processes that have taken place over time in the geographical context investigated.

Grava Massimiliano, Camillo Berti, Nicola Gabellieri e Arturo Gallia (2020), Historical GIS. Strumenti digitali per la geografia storica in Italia. Trieste, EUT. Disponibile al seguente link: https://www.openstarts.units.it/entities/publication/1c8649d3-39ae-42d1-af8d-0ce53f40c69d/details

I Part: Introduction to medieval history

Teaching plan: I semester: 6 CFU

Description
I Part

The class will deal with, firstly, the crisis of the Roman empire and the characteristics of the “late antiquity”, in particular the birth of Christian churches and the claim of Christianism as religion of the empire. It will continue reflecting on “barbarian invasions” and on their effects on the construction of new political and religious assets up to IX century. It questions the characteristics and impact of Islam between East and West. Then, it will focus on the political and religious dimension before the Carolingian and, then, Ottonian empire. It will analyse also the rise, starting from XI century, of new social classes and new needs of leadership of Italian and European cities studying its effects on the construction of political systems, on the economic changes, on the religious and ecclesiastic life. Furthermore, it will question the birth, after the Gregorian reform, of new religious movements which would become religious Orders (in particular the Order of Friars Minor of Francis of Assisi and the Order of Friars Preacher of Domenic of Caleruega) or would be rejected by the Church as heretical movements. The class will follow, also, the birth of the national monarchies and the progressive decline of the role of the Empire and of the papacy until the transfer of the Roman Curia in Avignon at the beginning of the XIV century. It will define also the political-territorial constructions of the XV century and the importance of Humanism for the religious and cultural life of the Quattrocento.

During the class some time will be dedicated to the reading of some written testimonies which can help the comprehension of the medieval cultures and mentalities.

II Part: Religious history in Middle Ages: Approaches, sources and historiography

Teaching plan: I semester: 6 CFU

It deepens the subjects of the first module focusing on the ones less analysed.

Between the subjects which could be chosen we can list: the role of monachism in the process of Christianisation; the eremitic experiences, the feminine Religiosity, the protagonism of lay people, heresies and inquisitions, the role of the cult of saints and of the miracles, the XIII century Religious Orders, the ways of predications and the role of the prophets and of the prophetical texts in the organisation of the historical present.
If the number of students allows is it possible working in small study groups.

For the first part (6 CFU)

1) M. Bloch, Apologia della storia o Mestiere di storico, Einaudi, 2009 (several editions)
2) G. Vitolo, Il medioevo. I caratteri originali di un’età di transizione, Sansoni (with introduction)


To have 12 CFU the students must study ALSO:
1) Marina Benedetti (a cura di), Storia del cristianesimo II. L’età medievale (secoli VIII-XV), Carocci Editore, capp. I, II, III, V, VIII, IX, X, XII, XIV

It is recommended, but non mandatory, that non-attending students go to the teacher’s office to know useful information for their study.

The course, starting from the beginning of 20th century, will follow the development of Italian literary history on both the lyrical and narrative side. Each author will be studied in its historical and geographical context, by some examples of reading and textual analysis of his major works, also through the constant reference to the contemporary context.

For students attending the course are required to read and analyze 1 poetic collection and 1 narrative work of their choice among the listed authors, also the exam book (see general bibliography).
For students who do not attend the course in addition to the examination texts, the full reading of 2 poetic collections and 2 narrative works of listed authors is required, also the exam book (see general bibliography); for Erasmus students the full reading of 1 poetic collection and 1 narrative work of listed authors (see general bibliography).

General Bibliography:
The history of Italian literature from 1900 to the 1970s is to be prepared on a manual of Italian literature (we recommend: M. Tortora, Letteratura italiana contemporanea. Narrativa e poesia dal Novecento a oggi, Carocci, 2022). A good knowledge of the following authors, is required: Pirandello, Aleramo, Svevo, Tozzi, Gadda, Moravia, Pavese, Vittorini, Fenoglio, Calvino, Primo Levi, Pasolini, Elsa Morante, Ortese. It also requires a profile of the 20th century, as well as a good knowledge of the following authors: d’Annunzio, Saba, Ungaretti, Montale, Quasimodo, Luzi, Caproni, Sereni, Pasolini, Rosselli.

Exam Book:
L. Pirandello, Novelle per un anno, vol. 1, edizione diretta da S. Costa, Scialle nero, La vita nuda, La rallegrata, a cura di M. Venturini, F. Tomassini, F. Miliucci, Mondadori, Oscar Moderni, 2021; or L. Pirandello, Novelle per un anno, vol. 3, Tutt’e tre, Dal naso al cielo, Donna Mimma, Il vecchio Dio, edizione diretta da S. Costa, a cura di M. Venturini, F. Tomassini, F. Miliucci, Mondadori, Oscar Moderni, 2021.

This lecture class offers an introduction to the history of photographic languages, practices, and cultures from the medium’s birth to WWI. Lectures will focus on the close reading of different types of photographic texts (including individual images, series, photo-texts, books, and exhibitions) and will discuss case studies associated with the crucial moments in the medium's affirmation as an intellectual and artistic field.

Regular students

For the final exam, students are responsible for the following text, including all photographs and artworks reproduced therein:
► A. Gunthert, M. Poivert (a cura di), Storia della fotografia dalle origini ai giorni nostri, Electa, Milano, 2009, pp. 1–355.


Distant learning

For the final exam, certified "distant learning students" are required to study the following texts, including all photographs and artworks reproduced therein:
► A. Gunthert, M. Poivert eds, Storia della fotografia dalle origini ai giorni nostri, Milan: Electa, 2009, pp. 1-355;
► W. Guadagnini, ed., La fotografia. Le origini 1839-1890, Geneve-Milan: Skira, 2011, pp. 34-111, 144-199, 200-225, 226-277;
► M. Mozzo, "Note sulla documentazione fotografica in Italia nella seconda metà dell’Ottocento, tra tutela, restauro e catalogazione", in Arti e storia nel Medioevo, vol. IV, Il Medioevo al passato e al presente, ed. by E. Castelnuovo and G. Sergi, Turin: Einaudi, 2004, pp. 847-870.
► 
D. Levi, "Da Cavalcaselle a Venturi. La documentazione fotografica della pittura tra connoisseurship e tutela", in Gli archivi fotografici delle Soprintendenze. Tutela e storia. Territori veneti e limitrofi, ed. by A. M. Spiazzi, L. Majoli, C. Giudici, Crocetta di Montello: Terraferma, 2010, pp. 23-33.

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.

For those who attend the lectures: notes made available both at the library and at 4Appunti shop in front of the Dep.t. For those who cannot attend the lectures, please add J.M. Keynes's General Theory (1936), whatever edition.

In the Historian Lab: topic, issues, methods
The course aims to make students reflect critically on the characteristics of historical knowledge, on its hermeneutic values, on the different types of sources and their use, on the relationship between history and other human and social sciences, on the various methods and concepts of historical research, showing a wide range of works that are significant for historiography.
In the first part of the course focus on a critical reflection on the forms of historical knowledge and the organisation of work in the historian's laboratory: time, the relationship between history and memory, the historical dimension of human existence, the space of historical knowledge, the sources, the new historiographic studies between hermeneutics and social sciences.

a) Two books of your choice:
• J. Topolski, Narrare la storia, Bruno Mondadori, Milano, 1997
• M. Bloch, Apologia della storia, Einaudi, Torino, 2009
• S. Rogari, La scienza storica, UTET, Torino, 2013
• S. Morgan, K. Jenkins, A. Munslow, Manifestos for History, Routledge, New York-London, 2007
• Munslow, Narrative and History, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, 2007

b) One book of your choice:
• P. Bevilacqua, Sull'utilità Della Storia, Donzelli, Roma, 2000
• P. Burke, La storia culturale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006
• H. White, Forme di storia. Dalla realtà alla narrazione, Roma, Carocci, 2006
• B. Bonomo, Voci della memoria, Roma, Carocci, 2013
• M. Ridolfi, Verso la public history. Fare e raccontare storia nel tempo presente, Pacini, Pisa, 2017
• S. Gruzinski, Abbiamo ancora bisogno della storia? Il senso del passato nel mondo globalizzato, Raffaello Cortina, Milano, 2016

The study of the following text is also compulsory for students on the degree course in Languages: :
F. Benigno, L'età moderna. Dalla scoperta dell'America alla Restaurazione, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2005

a) Two books in the following list:
• J. Topolski, Narrare la storia, Bruno Mondadori, Milano, 1997
• M. Bloch, Apologia della storia, Einaudi, Torino, 2009
• S. Rogari, La scienza storica, UTET, Torino, 2013
• S. Morgan, K. Jenkins, A. Munslow, Manifestos for History, Routledge, New York-London, 2007
• Munslow, Narrative and History, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, 2007

b) One book in the following list:
• P. Bevilacqua, Sull'utilità Della Storia, Donzelli, Roma, 2000
• P. Burke, La storia culturale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006
• H. White, Forme di storia. Dalla realtà alla narrazione, Roma, Carocci, 2006
• B. Bonomo, Voci della memoria, Roma, Carocci, 2013
• M. Ridolfi, Verso la public history. Fare e raccontare storia nel tempo presente, Pacini, Pisa, 2017
• S. Gruzinski, Abbiamo ancora bisogno della storia? Il senso del passato nel mondo globalizzato, Raffaello Cortina, Milano, 2016

The history of Italian political movements and parties from 1861 to 1994

P. Carusi, I partiti politici italiani dall'Unità ad oggi, ed. Studium 2015
P. Carusi, Mario Segni e la crisi della cultura politica democristiana (1976-1993), ed. Viella 2023

Nature and Subject in the Leibniz’s and Kant’s Philosophy
The course aims to examine the concepts of nature and subject in Leibniz's Monadology and in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, by keeping in view some guiding notions declined in different ways in the twoo philosophies: body/mind, sensibility/intellect, quantity/quality,discrete/continuous, mechanism/teleology.

G.W. Leibniz, The Monadology, and Other Philosophical Writings; with an introduction and notes by Robert Latta, New York; Garland
Kant's Critique of pure reason : background source materials, edited and translated by Eric Waktins, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
Anthony Savile, Leibniz and the Monadology, London, Routledge

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.

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 (chapters: 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 (Chapters: 2, 3, 4, 10, 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 (chapters: 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 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 (the full book).
4) 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 course outlines the formation and development of the main capitalistic economies both in Europe and out of Europe between 19th and 20th centuries.

I. The first and second industrial revolution
- The preconditions for capitalist development in modern Eastern Atlantic, Centuries 17-18th.
- Expanded commercial agricultural revolution and industrial revolution in Britain in the eighteenth century.
- The process of capitalist concentration in the nineteenth century and the second industrial revolution.
II. Economic development in the 20th century
- Industry, trade networks, financial markets on the eve of the First World War.
- The economic cycles in the post-war period
- The crisis of 1929 and national policies in the '30s.

Attending students:

Michel Beaud, A History of Capitalism, 1500-2000, Monthly Review Press, New York 2002.

plus a further book:

Fernand Braudel, Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism, Johns Hopkins Univiversity Press, Baltimora 1979.

The course is an introduction to central themes and problems in philosophy of science and theory of knowledge, such as scientific explanation, the nature of reasoning and hypotheses in the sciences, the cognitive content of theories, seen also in the light of key episodes in the history of science, and the demarcation between science, philosophy, religion and ethics. While in the first part of the course we will present these general issues using Okasha's text, in the second part we will make direct reference to texts and authors, reading and commenting on texts and articles by three important 20th century philosophers of science: Karl Popper Karl Hempel and Rudolf Carnap. The fundamental problem addressed by the course is the objectivity of scientific knowledge and thus an attempt to respond to Kant's question: what can we know?

Okasha S. Philosophy of science: a very short introduction
K. Popper Science and Philosophy
C. Hempel Philosophy of the natural sciences , some chapters available online on the professor's website
R. Carnap Philosophical foundations of physics available online on the professor's website

For physicists 3 CUF.
Okasha Il mio primo libro di filosofia della scienza, Einaudi
Carnap I fondamenti filosofici della fisica, Il saggiatore (capitoli disponibili sul sito del docente)

The Course is aimed at analysing the global and regional IOs phenomenon along the lines of their institutional and operative features in the perspective of the inter-governmental cooperation as well as the human rights protection. The last topic has a proper cross-cutting impact in both universal and regional institutional systems. The substantial notions are fundamental for accessing the diplomatic or IOs official carrier or to work in public and private institutions as well as EU and international NGOs.
The Course is developed into two main sections, devoted respectively to the institutional and operative features of global and regional IOs, and to the promotion and protection of human rights within the universal and regional institutional systems and related monitoring mechanisms (e.g. UN, CoE, EU, OSCE, OAS, African Union) and frameworks (Latin America, Middle East, Asia), as well as some thematic case-studies (e.g. LGBTI rights, counter-terrorism).

For students who attend the Course:
- Anja Mihr, Mark Gibney (eds.), SAGE Handbook of Human Rights, SAGE Publications Ltd, 2014
- Jacob Katz Cogan, Ian Hurd, and Ian Johnstone (eds.), Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Oxford University Press, 2017
The books are available at the Library of the Department; e-books are partially available accessing to the Library Platform of the Department (sba.uniroma3.it) and on the Moodle Platform of Professor Carletti. The Professor will give more details about their study during the lectures as well as information about ALTERNATIVE books for the Part II of the programme.
For students not attending the Course: the programme is the same provided for students attending the Course.

The course will illustrate the content of cartography as a document and testimony of different ages, cultures, people and technologies, with particular attention to territorial and environmental applications. Practical exercises, short theses, field lessons and educational excursions are planned. Lessons topics: general mapping elements; spatial and non-spatial representations: charts and diagrams; the map: subject, object and instrument; organization and content of national cartography; thematic cartography; presentation of GIS or SIT.

Attending students:
- slides, ppt, lesson notes and supplementary learning material that will be provided during the course.
Non-Attending Students:
-E. LAVAGNA e G. LOCARNO, Geocartografia. Guida alla lettura delle carte geotopografiche, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2007
- five examples of choice from: U. SAURO - M. MENEGHEL e ALTRI, Dalla carta topografica al paesaggio. Atlante ragionato, Vicenza, ZetaBeta, 2005.In the event of difficulty in finding the volume, please contact the teacher carla.masetti@uniroma3.it.

The texts will be indicated during the meetings

This workshop aims to be an introduction to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and will be structured in two parts, one more theoretical and one more applied.
The first part will give a general presentation of the 2030 Agenda, its origins, signatory and non-signatory countries (etc.) but above all the 17 Sustainable Development Goals commonly known as the SDGs of the 2030 Agenda will be examined. Ample space will be devoted to the critical discussion of the structure of the Agenda and of the links between its various objectives, both in terms of complementarity and in terms of possible contradictions.
The second part will then explore some of the Agenda's objectives, with a particular focus on the revitalization of marginal areas. Depending on the specific interests and/or the chosen study plans, questions will be asked about the "dimensions" of the marginality of people and geographical areas and about the various forms of exploitation that can arise from them. This analysis can be conducted both in Italy and in other European countries or on other continents.
At the same time, those who follow the workshop will be guided in the collective creation of audiovisual products, to promote the dissemination of the research carried out.

Identification of material during the laboratory.
Main reference:
https://asvis.it/agenda-2030/

The course will address the main turning points, issues and processes in contemporary history, from 1860 to 2001. With respect to the themes present in the texts, the following issues will be selected and dealt with:
Europe after the war of 1870: development of political systems and international relations. Italian unification. Imperialism. The birth of a power: the United States. The “second” industrial revolution. The advent of mass society and mass politics: political parties. The labour movement and Marxism. Nationalism.
The Great War: contingent and long-term causes, effects. The revolution in Russia. The advent of fascism in Italy and its institutionalisation. The Great Crisis of 1929 and F. D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The advent of Nazism and the Third Reich. Stalinism. Totalitarianism and democracy. The Second World War and the Shoah.
The Cold War: origins and developments. Decolonisation: overview and basic features. The development of European integration. Communisms: the People's Republic of China and “destalinisation” in the Soviet Union. The “affluent society”: new kinds of consumption and customs. The United States as a world power: from Eisenhower to Kennedy’s New Frontier to the war in Vietnam. The new youth culture and 1968; the movements of the 1960s and 1970s; terrorism, feminism, environmentalism. International détente. The 1973 oil crisis and the so-called “neo-liberal” turn of the 1980s. The crisis of communism and the end of the Cold War. “Globalisation” and the 1990s. Terrorism and the Twin towers attack.

G. Sabbatucci-V. Vidotto, Storia contemporanea, Laterza, 2018 e 2019
vol. I: L’Ottocento (capp. 11-18)
vol. II: Dalla Grande Guerra ad oggi (capp. 1-20)

or (same text):
G. Sabbatucci-V. Vidotto, Il mondo contemporaneo, Laterza, 2019 (capp. 2-29)

Support text (optional):
A. Brancati, T. Pagliarani, Dialoghi fra storia e futuro, vol. III: Novecento e Duemila, La Nuova Italia, 2023

All students are requested to subscribe to the Moodle channel of their academic year's course: informations about lectures, programmes, exams, etc. are given through Moodle. The lecturer does NOT use the course Teams groups.

Programme of the module 1 (for those who must acquire only 6 CFU/ECTS and for those who must acquire 12 CFU/ECTS)

Basic principles in geographical systemic reading, with particular reference to the concepts of environment, ecosystem, territory, region, landscape, with reference to the cultural organization of space - population, migration, settlement, languages, religions, economic exploitation, development, scale, trans-scalarity etc.
It is essential for all the systematic use of an updated school atlas.


Programme of the module 2 (+ 6 CFU/ECTS: for those who must acquire 12 CFU/ECTS)

Application of the principles of geocultural analysis to the production and reading of literary, film and artistic representations in general, both educated and popular. Identification of geocultural elements in the forms of the anthropic landscape, in the symbolic valorisation of the territory, in the toponomastics etc.

In the absence of a basic knowledge in geography, the study of a school textbook of general geography and geography of the States of the world is strongly recommended.
The systematic use of an updated school atlas is essential for all students.

Texts for the module 1 (6 CFU/ECTS)
1) A.L. GREINER, G. DEMATTEIS, C.LANZA, Geografia umana. Un approccio visuale, Torino, UTET, 2023
2) G. DEMATTEIS, Geografia come immaginazione. Tra piacere della scoperta e ricerca di futuri possibili, Roma, Donzelli, 2021
3) M. d’ERAMO, Il selfie del mondo. Indagine sull’età del turismo, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2022




Texts for the module 2 (+6 CFU/ECTS: for those who must acquire 12 CFU/ECTS)
1) B. CHATWIN, Le vie dei canti, Milano, Adelphi, 1995 (o altra edizione)
2) I. CALVINO, Le città invisibili, Torino, Einaudi, 1972 (o altra edizione)
3) I. CALVINO, Palomar, Torino, Einaudi, 1983 (o altra edizione)

The course will offer an introduction to cultural anthropology using both historical and ethnographic perspectives. In the first part of the course, we will refer to specific examples from the history of anthropology to introduce some of the most important notions in anthropology and ethnography (culture, ethnic identity and classification, sex, gender, race). Discussions will be developed in order to understand how anthropological analysis and ethnographic experience deconstruct notions, classifications and identities considered as natural and inborn. The second part of the course will introduce students to the gender anthropological production and provide them with their specific theoretical skills to research on gender relations in different fields: family, reproduction, sexuality, sexual division of labor, gender difference.

- Fabietti, Ugo, Elementi di Antropologia Culturale, Mondadori, 2015, (disponibile anche in versione digitale), le seguenti parti: Prima (Genesi e natura dell’antropologia culturale), Quarta (Sistemi di pensiero), Settima (Esperienza religiosa, pratica rituale), Nona (Risorse e potere), più il seguente saggio messo a disposizione dalla docente:
- Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz, “Sesso e genere, oltre natura e cultura”, in Tempo, persona, valore. Saggi in omaggio a Pier Giorgio Solinas, a cura di A. Cutolo, S. Grilli, F. Viti, Argo, 2015, pp. 127-144;

A text chosen from the following:

- Mila Busoni, Genere, sesso, cultura. Uno sguardo antropologico, Carocci, 2000.
- Paola Tabet, La grande beffa, Rubbettino, 2004*.
- Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz, Il corpo della nazione, Roma, Cisu, 2004.
- Leonardo Piasere, L’antiziganismo, Quodlibet, 2015 abbinato a Paola Tabet, La pelle giusta, 1998 (available also in ebook).
- Ugo Fabietti, L’identità etnica, Carocci, 2013.
- René Gallissot, Mondher Kilani, Annamaria Rivera, L'imbroglio etnico, in quattordici parole-chiave, Dedalo, 2001, solo i seguenti capitoli: L’ideologia dell’esclusione; Cittadinanza; Cultura; Etnia-etnicità; Idee razziste; Immigrati; Nazionalismo e razzismo.
- Chiara Quagliariello, L’isola dove non si nasce. Lampedusa tra esperienze procreative, genere e migrazioni, Unicopli, 2021, all the text except chapters I and II.
- Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic. L’identità nera tra modernità e doppia coscienza, Meltemi, 2003, chapters 1, 3 e 6.

* https://www.store.rubbettinoeditore.it/la-grande-beffa.html
ebook: https://books.google.it/books/about/La_grande_beffa.html?id=8fuf4k9Qce0C&redir_esc=y

For those attending, it is possible to replace the text of your choice with the following 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:

Dispensa Antropologia culturale:
- Sylvia Yanagisako e Jane Collier, “Genere sessuale e parentela: verso un’analisi unificata”, in L’antropologia culturale oggi, a cura di Robert Borofsky, Meltemi, 2000, pp. 236-247.
- Tabet P., ““Un elefante su cui farli viaggiare’. Il razzismo come ideologia insegnata e appresa”, in Tabet Paola e Di Bella Silvana (a cura di), Io non sono razzista, ma…. Strumenti per disimparare il razzismo, 1998, Anicia, pp.15-36.
- Simonetta Grilli, “Scelte di filiazione e nuove relazionalità. Riflessioni a margine di una ricerca sull'omogenitorialità in Italia”, in Voci. Annuale di Scienze umane, 2014, 9, pp. 24-42.
- Simona Taliani, “Non esistono culture innocenti. Gli antropologi, le famiglie spossessate e i bambini adottabili”, in L’Uomo, n. 2, 2014, pp. 45-65.
- Abu-Lughod Lila, 2002 “Le donne musulmane hanno veramente bisogno di essere salvate? Riflessioni antropologiche sul relativismo culturale e i suoi altri”, pubblicato in ACHAB - Rivista di Antropologia, 2008.

Students not attending classes will also study Fabietti, Malighetti, Matera, Dal tribale al globale. Introduzione all'antropologia, Pearson, 2020, First and Second parts up to p. 119.

The course will focus on the basic theoretical and conceptual frameworks of sociology, observed in their historical development and in relation to social changes. The exploration will be structured around the main paradigms adopted by the discipline:
- Methodological holism (Durkheim, functionalism, structuralism, social systems theory).
- Methodological individualism (Weber, Pareto, phenomenological sociology).
- Formal sociology (Simmel, symbolic interactionism, sociology of emotions).
- Marxism (Marx, critical theory).
The path will lead to the main interpreters of contemporary society.
Finally, we will focus on the social construction of youth identity in neoliberal society, by the study of an empirical research on entrepreneurial activation policies and on their recipients.

The fundamental bibliographic reference is the handbook by Franco Crespi and Massimo Cerulo "Il pensiero sociologico" (Il Mulino, Bologna 2022, second edition). It is possible to choose another handbook with the teacher's consent.
For the final monographic section, we will adopt the essay by Paolo Inno "Creativi per forza. Identità valori e strategie di vita del giovane impresa di sé" (Meltemi, Milan 2022).

MICROECONOMICS
Equilibrium supply and demand
Consumers and incentives
Firms and incentives
The labour market
Perfect competition
Monopoly
Labour economics
Strategic play and game theory

MACROECONOMICS
The wealth of nations, macroeconomic aggregates, and aggregate income
Employment and unemployment
The good market
The financial market
IS-LM in a closed and open economy
Monetary and fiscal policies
Mundell-Fleming

Principi di Economia Politica: Teoria ed evidenza empirica. Terza edizione (2024). Acemoglu, Laibson, John A. List [ALL]
Macroeconomia, Mc Graw-Hill, XI Edizione 2024 [DFS]
Additional material on Moodle

The history of Italian political movements and parties from 1861 to 1994

P. Carusi, I partiti politici italiani dall'Unità ad oggi, ed. Studium 2015
P. Carusi, Mario Segni e la crisi della cultura politica democristiana (1976-1993), ed. Viella 2023

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) The imperial dimension of Central-Eastern Europe between XVIII and XX centuries; 2) The Balkans and the Ottoman Conquest; 3) The Transformations of Russia up to the First World War; 4) National Revival in the Balkans; 5) Nationalism and Multiethnic Realities in Central Europe; 6) What Modernisation? Social, economic and national issues in Eastern Europe between World War I and World War II; 7) The Bolshevik Revolution; 8) Stalinism and the Soviet State; 9) World War II and the birth of a new limes in Europe; 10) The communist system and the Cold War; 11) Crisis and end of communism; 12) From the Urals to Trieste: an endless transition?; 13) The challenges of the new Russia and the present world.

Giulia 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.

Stefano Bottoni, Un altro Novecento. L'Europa orientale dal 1919 a oggi, Roma, Carocci, 2021.

The course will address the history of the "long nineteenth century" (1789-1914), framing the study of the process of Italian unification in the broader international context which proposes, thanks to new studies on the nineteenth century, a global reading of the events concerning nations and empires in the 'Age of Revolutions. Seminars curated by the students are planned which, starting from the texts in the program and materials distributed by the teacher, will focus on:
- communication channels of the nineteenth-century "new politics": press and use of the image;
- the Roman Republic of 1849 as a "global case";
- Cavour, Garibaldi, Mazzini and Vittorio Emanuele II: reality and myth of the "Fathers of the Italian Fatherland".

In our society religion and religious issues have an important space, which can be recognized in different forms of belief.
This class offers an introduction to the principle themes and theories which emerge in the history of the studies about religion/religions. We will try to tackle the difficult question "What is religion? What are religions?". In particular, we will discuss different theories about religion, its essence, its function in the society, up to the last approaches which underline the imbrication of religion with cultures, politics and societies.
Key words and topics (body, gender, violence, space) will be discussed in a comparative and historical approach.
The history of religious studies is taught through a multidisciplinary perspective, which allows students to focus on different approaches such as history, anthropology, sociology, cognitive sciences. The historical study of tools and approaches in religious studies are as follows:
What is religion? Different definitions
Religious diversity in Italy
Issues and questions
Histories of religions

Attending students
1. Appunti del corso e letture indicate nel percorso (vedi materiali didattici on line e l’ulteriore materiale che verrà distribuito dal docente durante le lezioni)

a book among:
N. Spineto, La festa, Laterza, Roma Bari, 2015 oppure
C. Ghidini, P. Scarpi, La Scelta Vegetariana, Ponte alle Grazie, Firenze 2019 oppure
G. Filoramo, Manuale di storia delle religioni, Laterza, Roma Bari, 2005 oppure
N. Spineto, Manuale di storia delle religioni Le Monnier, 2023
O un libro da concordarsi con la Professoressa.

Attending students will change n.1 with
G. Filoramo, Manuale di storia delle religioni, Laterza, Roma Bari, 2005 oppure
N. Spineto, Manuale di storia delle religioni 2023

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:

- Lectures' Notes.
- 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 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/122G5xn30mQ13pp4l2xlMA3ShjkbQgbAR, 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.

Historiography between revision and tradition. Feuds and vassals in the 8th-12th centuries.
The course aims to review recent historiography on fiefs and vassals, comparing it with traditional theses, starting with the direct reading of a selection of sources.

François Louis Ganshof, Che cos'è il feudalesimo?, Torino, Einaudi, 2003.
Giuseppe Albertoni, Vassalli, feudi, feudalesimo, Roma, Carocci, 2015.

The first attribute of the prince's power is jurisdiction, which is the authority to apply and enforce the laws. But has the administration of justice always remained the same throughout history? Is there a judicial modernity that has replaced archaic and "irrational" customs? And if it exists, did its advent coincide with what we commonly call the Modern Age? According to what criteria did the European states of the early modern period intend not only to repress crime but also to control social conflict? From the perspective of social actors, were there alternative routes to the courts for seeking justice in case of conflict? Did the penal regimes target only the bodies of the condemned, or also their personal and family memory? What was the role of communities and kinship in the mechanisms of sanctioning deviance? What was the influence of religious beliefs? The course aims to provide analytical tools for understanding phenomena of fundamental importance for the development of Western Europe.

Students will need to study:

Marco Bellabarba, La giustizia nell’Italia moderna, Rome-Bari, Laterza, 2021.

Additionally, one book of their choice from the following:

Paolo Broggio, Governare l’odio. Pace e giustizia criminale nell’Italia moderna (secoli XVI-XVII), Rome, Viella, 2021.

Guido Dall’Olio, Nella valle di Giosafat. Giustizia di Dio e giustizia degli uomini nella prima età moderna, Rome, Carocci, 2021.

Marco Albertoni, Storia delle colonne infami: giustizia e memoria in età moderna, Naples, Bibliopolis, 2023.

Adriano Prosperi, Giustizia bendata. Percorsi storici di un’immagine, Turin, Einaudi, 2008.

N.B. The course will take place in the second semester. It will be possible to take the exam with this program starting from the summer session (June-July 2025).

1) Giorgetta Bonfiglio Dosio, Primi passi nel mondo degli archivi. Temi e testi per la formazione archivistica di primo livello, Padova, CLUEP 2023 (5^ edizione)
2) Paola Carucci - Maria Guercio, Manuale di Archivistica. Nuova edizione, Roma, Carocci 2021 (solo i capitoli 12-16).
3) Il web e gli studi storici. Guida critica all’uso della rete, a cura di Rolando Minuti, Roma, Carocci, 2017 (solo i capitoli 1-2).

Students not attending classes will also study the following texts: S. Vitali, Le convergenze parallele. Archivi e biblioteche negli istituti culturali, in «Rassegna degli Archivi di Stato», LIX, 1999, pp. 36-60; and the entire volume entitled Il web e gli studi storici. Guida critica all’uso della rete.

The Laboratory aims to offer theoretical and practical knowledge on the tools for the recognition, enhancement and capitalization of cultural heritage, through the acquisition of technical and IT skills. In particular, each student will be introduced to the use of GIS software for the creation of a geodatabase for the census and geolocation of the assets under study, which also takes into account the territorialization processes that have taken place over time in the geographical context investigated.

Grava Massimiliano, Camillo Berti, Nicola Gabellieri e Arturo Gallia (2020), Historical GIS. Strumenti digitali per la geografia storica in Italia. Trieste, EUT. Disponibile al seguente link: https://www.openstarts.units.it/entities/publication/1c8649d3-39ae-42d1-af8d-0ce53f40c69d/details