Master’s degree course – HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ITALY

Italy: from the birth of the democratic republic to today

This course is organised on different levels.
The basic level will focus on the following topics: the origins of the democratic system, the Economic Miracle and the “Great Transformation” (with changes in society and mores) and the long-standing roots of anti-politics and populism, from the Movimento dell’Uomo Qualunque (the Common Man’s Movement) up to the recent ascent of populist movements like the New League and the Five Star Movement.

This part of the course lays the foundation for both Module 1 and 2. Each module will then provide a more in-depth look at some topics.

MODULE 1
In the Module 1 the following topics will be analysed: the large-scale transformations during the sixties and the change in mores, the important changes in women’s conditions, the 1968 protest, the hot autumn of 1969, civil rights movements, the Piazza Fontana bombing and the “Strategy of Tension”, the political-economic crisis, armed struggle and political violence, the Movement of 1977, the “Historic Compromise”, the Case of Aldo Moro, changes in collective ethos, the advent of commercial TV, the emergence of the politics of spectacle, the foundations and development of the eighties.

Within this framework, students may choose to more closely examine one of the following topics:
- Changes in the condition of women and the feminist movement;
- The "strategy of tension" and the parliamentary and extra-parliamentary right;
- The Red Brigades and the kidnapping of Aldo Moro.

MODULE 2
This Module furthers the reflections on populism already developed in Module 1 by picking up where they left off and expanding on them, placing them within the broader context of the events of recent years.
Therefore, we will look more closely at the Movimento dell’Uomo Qualunque (the Common Man’s Movement). Then the following topics will be dealt with: the crisis of the so-called “First Republic”, the collapse of the party system with “Tangentopoli”, Berlusconi’s rise to power and “Berlusconism”, the choice to become part of the Eurozone, the reasons why “Berlusconism” was successful and then why it began to decline between Liberalism and Populism, the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the emergence of the Five Star Movement and the New League.

BASIC TEXTS for both Module 1 and Module 2:

- Emanuele Felice, Ascesa e declino. Storia economica d’Italia, Il Mulino, only chapters V, VI and VII.
- Marco Tarchi, L’Italia populista. Dal Qualunquismo a Beppe Grillo, Il Mulino

Please note: If students feel they need to acquire the foundational knowledge of the history of Italy in the second half of the twentieth century, they may read the chapters on Italy in the contemporary history textbooks for the university (for example: Alberto Mario Banti, L’età Contemporanea. Dalla Grande Guerra a oggi, Laterza, Rome– Bari)

This common foundation is then divided into 2 modules, each worth 6 university credits.

Students who need to earn 6 university credits must do Module 1, in addition to the shared foundation part of the course.

Students who need to earn 12 university credits must do both Module 1 and 2, in addition to the shared foundation part of the course.


MODULE 1 (6 university credits): This module takes a closer look at the large-scale transformations of the sixties and seventies, with their potentials and contradictions.

1) Required reading for all students:
- S. Colarizi, Un paese in movimento. L’Italia negli anni Sessanta e Settanta, Laterza

2) Further study options:
After the required reading, students may choose ONE of the following topics for further study:

a) The condition of women and the women’s movement
- Perry Wilson, Italiane. Biografia del Novecento, Laterza (from Chapter 7 to the end)
- Fiamma Lussana, Il Movimento femminista in Italia, Carocci (whole book)

b) The right and the "Strategy of tension"
- Davide Conti, L’Anima nera della repubblica, Laterza

c) The Red Brigades and the case of Aldo Moro
- Agostino Giovagnoli, Il Caso Moro, Il Mulino


MODULE 2 (6 university credits)

1) Required reading for all students:
- Valerio Coladonato and Andrea Sangiovanni (eds.), Cinema e Populismo. Modelli e immaginari di una categoria politica, monographic issue of the journal Cinema e Storia, Rubbettino
Students need not read the entire book, just the introduction by Coladonato and Sangiovanni as well as the essays by Costanza Salvi, Anna Schober, Agnese Bertolotti and Domanico Guzzo.


2) For further study:
In Module 2, after the required reading, students may choose ONE of the following for further study:

a) Maurizio Cocco, Qualunquismo. Una storia politica e culturale dell’Uomo Qualunque, Le Monnier.

b) Giovanni Orsina, Il Berlusconismo nella storia d’Italia, Marsilio.

This course intends to offer an analysis of Canadian and American histories and to examine the cultural, political, social, and geographical factors that influenced the development of these North American societies. In addition, relations between the two Countries will be examined, focusing on how diplomatic, cultural, economic, and military interactions with other states shaped Canada’s and US’s political and social development.

Readings assigned for lectures and seminars are provided at the beginning of the course.
Some of them are ebooks available electronically on the Ateneo Library system and accessible online; other readings are journal articles that are either available in print form at the Library or online through the University’s electronic journal services.
The required readings are posted by email as WEEKLY SCHEDULE.
All videos or audio screened in class are available on-line.

In recent decades, the theme of local development has assumed a central role in the development debate. The lessons will present the concepts and methods of local development, understood not only as a growth process for an aggregation of local companies, but as a diversified territorial development process based on SELF-ORGANIZING CAPACITY OF LOCAL NETWORKS OF ACTORS and on the sustainable exploitation of tangible and intangible resources available in a certain territory, including the social and cultural spheres.
The high expectations of the early days on the potential of local development has recently been followed by a less optimistic phase. Today's challenge is to avoid the trap of localism and rethink local development even in new terms, to give cities and territories the ability to respond to economic, social and environmental pressures of the globalized world. Special attention will also be given to the "NEW" FORMS OF TOURIST DEVELOPMENT.Some case studies in Italy not only will help to deepen some of the addressed issues.
There will be lectures, eventual seminars and an educational excursion.

1) Lorenzo CIAPETTI, 2010, "Lo sviluppo locale", il Mulino (ALL THE BOOK)

2) Elena DELL'AGNESE, 2018, "Bon voyage, Per una geografia critica del turismo", UTET (only the following chapters: 1, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14).

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

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

Documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, produced by Luc Besson, 2009, «Home» (in english: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU)

The first part of the course is devoted to the changes taking place within the public and political scene and the most important theoretical contributions. In the second part will be considered the main areas of transformation of political communication in relation to the recent history of Italy. In the third part will analyze the role played by television and social media in the popularization of politics. The recent election campaign of the US Presidential Elections will be analyzed and studied.
The course includes the viewing and analysis of audiovisual materials propaganda such television programs, documentaries, commercials, posters. A good knowledge of the Italian contemporary history is preparatory to the course content.

Examination program
- E. Novelli, Le campagne elettorali in Italia, Laterza, Roma 2018.
- G. Mazzoleni, R. Bracciale, La politica pop online, Il Mulino, Bologna 2019.
- C. Lombardo, E. Novelli, C. Ruggiero, (a cura di), La società nelle urne, Franco Angeli, Milano 2019, solo parte seconda pag. 115-285.

For students of the Master's Degree in International Relations of Political Science, for which the examination is worth eight credits, the program also includes one of the following texts:
- C. Lombardo, E. Novelli, C. Ruggiero, (a cura di), La società nelle urne, Franco Angeli, Milano 2019, pag. 11-112.
- Paolo Mancini, Il PostPartito, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2015.
- Ilvo Diamanti, Marc Lazar, Popolocrazia, Laterza, Roma 2018.

The following audiovisual materials supplement the course and their vision is suggested to the students.
– “Mi consenta” La Grande Storia, Rai Tre: http://www.lagrandestoria.rai.it/dl/portali/site/puntata/ContentItem-39b8c91a-4ca4-4ad1-8429-00e11b21b042.html
– “I politici e la tv”, Correva l’anno, Rai Tre, http://www.raiplay.it/video/2016/09/Correva-lanno—I-politici-e-la-tv-del-19092016-bae0add3-4fb2-4730-ad11-fffea112e7de.html
- "70 years of Italian electoral campaigns". 1 part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMYA6nWs594
- "70 years of Italian electoral campaigns". 2 part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__F8kF9ObFA

The communication of the sacred in the West Christianity in the early modern age

The course intends to take into consideration the historical and historiographical theme of the transmission of doctrines and religious experiences in the period of Protestant and Catholic reforms and of the confessional discipline (XVI-XVII century).
We will analyse the different sources through which the diffusion of the religious message took place (biblical texts, catechisms, preaching, religious literature, iconography, music) and the different expressions of devotion and spirituality that testify to their reception, with particular attention to the historiographical debate. on the topics covered.

1) Dossier of documents provided from the teacher (download from personal website).

2) PIETRO STELLA, Il libro religioso, a cura di MARIA LUPI, Roma, Viella, 2008, up to p. 197.

3) A book between:
- MICHELA CATTO, Un panopticon catechistico. L’arciconfraternita della dottrina cristiana a Roma in età moderna, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2003.
- La musica dei semplici, L’altra Controriforma, a cura di STEFANIA NANNI, Roma, Viella, 2012.
- PAOLO PRODI, Arte e pietà nella Chiesa tridentina, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2014.
- Gli Italiani e la Bibbia nella prima età moderna. Leggere, interpretare, riscrivere, a cura di ERMINIA ARDISSINO e ÉLISE BOILLET, Turnhout, Brepols, 2018 (collection Études renaissantes).

Attending students will be provided with other indications during the lessons.

It is recommended to those who have never supported an examination on the early modern history of Christianity to provide a manual, for example: Storia del Cristianesimo. L’età moderna, a cura di G. Filoramo e D. Menozzi, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1995 or another in different language.

In the current historical period characterized by a serious and continuing socio-political and economic crisis and by humanitarian and social emergencies (migratory phenomena, growing poverty, widespread violence against women, hostility towards "differences" or indifference to the needs of others, "dictatorship" of GDP, technology invasiveness, etc.) as well as environmental emergency, we highlight the need to rethink democratic citizenship in the light of a sociological, ethical and an interdisciplinary approach, directing it towards a global Ecosystem characterized by well-being and sustainability through constant interaction between all involved actors who, as in a single large inclusive body, starting from the respect of the peculiarities of each one, collaborate for the common wellbeing and welfare and as much for the planet good.
In particular, the following topics will be analyzed:
- the concept of full and inclusive democracy: human rights, citizenship, "human" citizenship and citizenship of the world, global ecosystem;
-the narrative imagination and its role in the approach to "diversity" and non-Western cultures;
- The role of religion in the construction of culture and of social organization; the need for mutual knowledge and for an interreligious dialogue for overcoming prejudices and conflicts;
- Social inclusion: problems and perspectives with particular regard to political thoughts and practices “different” from dominant models, to the women’s condition from an intersectional perspective and gender violence too, to migratory phenomena and to ethnic and religious minorities;
- Global ecosystem, full democracy and 17 sustainability objectives for 2030.

Furthermore, good practices and experiences, videos and films on the proposed themes will be presented.

Martha Nussbaum, Coltivare l’umanità. I classici, il multiculturalismo, l’educazione compemporanea, Carocci, 2006
Jean Druel, Cercare di capirsi. Avvio al dialogo interreligioso, Queriniana, 2018 or by Francesco (Jorge Mario Bergoglio), Dialogo tra le fedi. Riflessioni sul dialogo interreligioso, Verba volant 2017
UNESCO, Educazione agli obiettivi per lo sviluppo sostenibile, scaricabile da https://unescoblob.blob.core.windows.net/pdf/UploadCKEditor/MANUALE_ITA1.pdf

For Further information
Francesca Brezzi, Giovanna Providenti, a cura di, Spostando mattoni a mani nude. Per pensare le differenze, Franco Angeli, 2003
Seyla Benhabib, Cittadini globali. Cosmopolitismo e democrazia, Il Mulino, 2008
Carmelo Vigna, Stefano Zamagni, a cura di, Multiculturalismo e identità, V&P università, 2002
Marco Dal Corso, Brunetto Salvarani, Molte volte e in diversi modi. Manuale di dialogo interreligioso, Citadella, 2016

Other texts will be recommended during the course or will be proposed by the students

• Le sei mogli di Enrico VIII di A. Korda, 1933
• Un uomo per tutte le stagioni di F. Zinnemann, 1966
• Anna dei mille giorni di C. Jarrott, 1969
• Maria Stuarda, regina di Scozia di C. Jarrott, 1971
• Elizabeth di S. Kapur, 1998
• Elizabeth: the Golden Age di S. Kapur, 2007
• I Tudors, 2007-2010
• L’altra donna del re di J. Chadwick, 2008
• Anonymous di R. Emmerich, 2011
• The White Queen, 2013
• Maria regina di Scozia di Josie Rourke, 2018

Mechanics, astronomy and cosmology; technology and scientific instruments from the Middle Ages to the 18th century.

Besides the texts and articles that will be provided during the classes,

two texts from the following:
A. Koyré, Studi Newtoniani, Einaudi, Torino, 1972
I.B. Cohen, Introduction to Newton's Principia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1978
R.S. Westfall, Newton e la dinamica del XVII secolo, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1982
D. Bertoloni Meli, Thinking with Objects: The Transformation of Mechanics in the Seventeenth Century, Johns Hopkins University Press, London, 2006


Students who cannot attend the classes are requested to contact the teacher.

The course (first semester) is a reading, discussion and research seminar. The topic will be announced in class at the beginning of the course.

Gillian Rose, Visual Culture, Photography and the Urban: An Interpretive Framework, in «Space and Culture, India», vol. 2, n. 3, December 2014, pp. 5-13.
Giovanni Fanelli, Della composizione in fotografia, in «Critica d’Arte», 
a. LXX, n. 37-38, gennaio-giugno 2009, pp. 35-60.
Peter Hamilton, The Street and Everyday Life, in T. Bennett / D. Watson (a cura di), Understanding Everyday Life, Open University and Blackwell, Oxford 2002, pp. 91-138.
Antonello Frongia, Il luogo e la scena: la città come testo fotografico, in R. Valtorta (a cura di), Luogo e identità nella fotografia italiana contemporanea, Einaudi, Torino 2013, pp. 109-192.
Lewis Baltz, Limiti della città (ma è già stata usata questa definizione?) [1992], in Id., Scritti, Johan & Levi, Milano 2014, pp. 70-73.

Employing the methodologies of contemporary visual studies, the course recomposes late-nineteenth and twentieth-century aesthetic theories and orientations with current reflections, focusing attention on the urban forms of artistic experimentation: from avant-garde cinema to the underground, from electronic and digital arts to the web, from the commercial to the music video, up to Vj'ing. The course wants to relate the changes of the urban habitat with those of the contemporary media landscape, investigating the hybridization territories between cinema, video, architecture and visual arts, considering the new perceptive and cognitive, aesthetic and technological forms that have emerged in the current audiovisual system.

G. Ravesi, La città delle immagini, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2011.
A selection of texts edited by the teacher, available at the beginning of the course at the photocopy shop of via G. Rocco 11.

FILMOGRAPHY
SINGLE-CHANNEL MOVIES AND VIDEOS
The Corridor (Norman McLaren, anni '50); Blinkity Blank (Norman McLaren, 1955); N.Y., N.Y. – A Day in New York (Francis Thompson, 1957); Bridges-Go-Round (Shirley Clarke, 1958); Broadway by Light (William Klein, 1958); New York Lightboard (Norman McLaren, 1961); Sulle scale mobili (Bruno Munari e Marcello Piccardo, 1964); Empire (Andy Warhol, 1964); Lights (Marie Menken, 1964-1966);Tre e basta (Luca Maria Patella, 1965); (Back and Forth, 1968) di Michael Snow (1968); Necrology (Roll Call Of The Dead) di Standish D. Lawder (1969); Serene Velocity (Ernie Gehr, 1970); Broadwalk (William Raban, 1971); Synchromy (Norman McLaren, 1971); Shift (Ernie Gehr, 1972-1974); Park Film (Chris Welsby, 1973); Eureka (Ernie Gehr,1974); Nuovo libro (Nowa ksiazka, Zbigniew Rybczynski, 1975); Analogies: Studies in the Movement of Time (Peter Rose, 1977); Mein Fenster (La mia finestra, Zbigniew Rybczynski, 1979); Media (Zbigniew Rybczynski, 1980); Tango (Zbigniew Rybczynski, 1980); Mistaken Memories of Mediaeval Manhattan (Brian Eno, 1981-1982); Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1983); Two Times in One Space (Ivan Ladislav Galeta, 1976-1984); Signal – Germany on the Air (Ernie Gehr, 1985); Steel Cathedrals (Yasuyuki Yamaguchi, David Sylvian, 1985); Le deuxième jour (Robert Cahen, 1988); Hong Kong Song (Robert Cahen, 1989); Appunti di viaggio su moda e città (Wim Wenders, 1989); Surveillance (Jem Cohen, 1995); X-Rays (Jem Cohen, 1995); Lost Book Found (Jem Cohen, 1996); Lucy et le fantôme de Marcushelmons (Valérie Pavia, 1996); Monocodes (Alexander Rutterford, 2000); Naqoyqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 2002); Crossings (H.C. Gilje, 2002); Panorama_Roma (ZimmerFrei, 2004); Crossings (Marina Chernikova, 2004); Exchangeable Cities (Kentaro Taki, 2004); Site specific_Roma 04 (Olivo Barbieri, 2004); Site specific_Las Vegas 05 (Olivo Barbieri, 2005); Tournis (François Vogel, 2006); Reflect (spot Motorola, François Vogel, 2007); Fell It (spot ATP, Luis Nieto, 2007); Empire II (Amos Poe, 2007).

INSTALLATIONS, VIDEOINSTALLATIONS, INTERACTIVE ART
Intervento per lo Scalone, IX Triennale di Milano (Lucio Fontana, 1951); Italia 61 (Soffitto Padiglione, Torino, Lucio Fontana, 1961); Ambienti stroboscopici (Davide Boriani, 1965-1967); Live-taped Video Corridor (Bruce Nauman, 1970); Present Continuous Past (Dan Graham, 1974);
Video Piece for Showcase Windows In Shopping Arcade (Dan Graham, 1976);Video Piece for Two Glass Office Buildings (Dan Graham, 1976); Alteration to a Suburban House (Dan Graham, 1978);
Video Projection Outside Home (Dan Graham, 1978); Titled Arc (Federal Plaza, New York, Richard Serra, 1981);Vedute – quel tale non sta mai fermo (Studio Azzurro, 1985); The Legible City (Jeffrey Shaw, 1988-1991); The Stairs I – Geneva (Peter Greenaway, 1994); The Georgetown Loop (Ken Jacobs, 1996); Périphérie (Miguel Chevalier, 1998);On View (Antoni Muntadas, 1999); Megalopoli (Studio Azzurro, 2000); Naples (piazza Plebiscito, Napoli, Richard Serra, 2000); Exercising Nowheres (1), (2) e (3) (Hans op de Beeck, 2000); CECUT Projection (Omnimax Theater, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico, Krzysztof Wodiczko, 2000); Macchina dell’arcobaleno (Alberto Biasi, 2000); Location (2) (Hans op de Beeck, 2001); WalkAround (Patrick Tuttofuoco , 2002); Metapolis (Miguel Chevalier, 2002); Y (Patrick Tuttofuoco, 2004); T-Mart (Hans op de Beeck, 2004); Location (5) (Hans op de Beeck, 2004); Celestial Subway Lines/ Salvaging Noise (Ken Jacobs, 2004); Revolving Landscape (Patrick Tuttofuoco, 2006); Sleepwalkers (Doug Aitken, 2007); Crossborders (Miguel Chevalier, 2007); Location (6) (Hans op de Beeck, 2008).

MUSIC VIDEO, VISUAL, VJ’ING
Se telefonando (spot Barilla, Piero Gherardi, 1966); Under pressure (music video Queen feat. David Bowie) di David Mallet e Andy Morahan (1982); Imagine (music video John Lennon) di Zbig Rybczynski (1987); La tour de Pisa (music video Jean François Cohen) di Michel Gondry (1992); Big Time Sensuality (music video Björk) di Stéphane Sednaoui (1992); Love is Strong (music video Rolling Stones) di David Fincher (1995); Children (music video Robert Miles) di Elizabeth Bailey (1996); Ray of Light (music video Madonna) di Jonas Âkerlund (1997); Non è mai stato subito (music video Biagio Antonacci) di Stefano Salvati (1998); Brown Paper Bag (music video Roni Size/Reprazent, 1998); The Child (music video dj Alex Gopher) di Antoine Bardou-Jacquet (1999); Strong Enough (music video Cher) di Nigel Dick (1999); Freestyler (music video Bomfunk MC’S, 2000); This strange effect (music video Hooverphonic, 2000); Analyse (music video Cranberries) di Keir McFarlane (2001); Star Guitar (music video The Chemical Brothers) di Michel Gondry (2002); Come Into My World (music video Kylie Minogue) di Michel Gondry (2002); Growing Up (music video Peter Gabriel) di François Vogel (2002); Sit Down. Stand Up (music video Radiohead) di Ed Holdsworth (2003); Woodsroads (Saul Saguatti , 2003-2004); Tension (visual Orbital) di Giles Thacker (2004); I Citizen The Loathsome (visual Plaid) di Bob Jaroc (2006); Colombo (music video Baustelle) di Stefano Poletti (2007); Presunti Accenni (music video IG) di Fabio Massimo Iaquone, Luca Attilii (2007); Se vuoi (music video IG) di Fabio Massimo Iaquone, Luca Attilii (2007); Transit City #2 RomAstratta (Saul Saguatti, 2008)

NET AND SOFTWARE ART
Blinkenlights (2001) Chaos Computer Club; Arcade (2002) Chaos Computer Club; Avatar's Portraits (2006) Eva e Franco Mattes; Stereoscope (2008) Chaos Computer Club.
Films will be shown in full or in part during lessons. Dvd copies will be available at the Biblioteca "Lino Miccichè", via Ostiense 139 together with a lecture note with the audiovisual materials of the lessons (for internal use only).

The course intends to present the main conceptual nodes that innervate the so-called Philosophies of Habit, that is the philosophical reflections on habit from modernity onwards, with particular attention to the development that this theme assumes especially from the nineteenth century, also in correlation with others issues that affect the debate between philosophy and psychology, such as madness and certain developments in neurophysiology, given that the debate on habit has rediscovered its vivacity in contemporary cognitive sciences.
In the course will be read and commented texts by Maine de Biran, Ravaisson and William James and the main interpretations of the scholars on their doctrines will be discussed.

1. Marco Piazza, Creature dell’abitudine. Abito, costume, seconda natura da Aristotele alle scienze cognitive, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018.
2. Denise Vincenti, Abitudine e follia. Studi di storia della filosofia e della psicologia, Milan, Mimesis, 2019
3. William James, Le leggi dell’abitudine, D. Vincenti (ed.), Milan, Mimesis, 2019 (original English text available online at the URL = ).
4. Goodman, Russell, "William James", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = .

A text chosen from:
5.1 Maine de Biran, Introduzione all'Influenza dell'abitudine sulla facoltà di pensare, G. Grasso (ed.), Chieti, Edizioni Solfanelli, 2017
5.2 Félix Ravaisson, L’abitudine, S. Capodivacca (ed.), Turin, Ananke, 2009

Bodypolitics.

From the environmental crisis to the management of migratory flows up to security measures, life and death reappear as crucial problems of thought and political intervention. The modern partition between nature and society, between homo and civis has been replaced by the new intersections identified through the concept of biopolitics and the more recent terms of thanatopolitics and necropolitics. Reference authors will be discussed in order to identify the different conceptions of the body at work in the respective analyses - between passivity and activity, singularity and generalization, agency and representation.

Two essays from the following list:
Due testi a scelta tra i seguenti:
- A. Cavarero, Corpo in figure. Filosofia e politica della corporeità, Feltrinelli, Milano 2005
- M. Foucault, Nascita della biopolitica. Corso al Collège de France (1978-1979), Feltrinelli, Milano 2005
- G. Deleuze, Cosa può un corpo. Lezioni su Spinoza, Ombre Corte, Verona 2010; G. Deleuze, Istinti e istituzioni, Mimesis, Milano 2014
- Donna J. Haraway, Manifesto cyborg. Donne, tecnologie e biopolitiche del corpo, Feltrinelli, Milano 2018
- J. Butler, Corpi che contano. Sui limiti discorsivi del “sesso”, Feltrinelli, Milano 1996
- R. Braidotti, Madri mostri e macchine, manifestolibri, Roma 2005
- R. Esposito, Bios. Biopolitica e filosofia, Einaudi, Torino 2004
- A. Mbembe, Necropolitica, Ombre Corte, Verona 2016

"ITALIAN PHOTOGRAPHY AND IDENTITY: testimony and historical memory" is a laboratory, held by Manuela Fugenzi (photo editor journalist and photo critic) to offer an articulated activity on historical and contemporary photography, aimed at making the students understand the role of photography as witness of civil society and its narrative potential.

Topics and activities of the laboratory lessons:
• Identification of a social-historical theme on which to carry out iconographic research
• Analog photography, digital photography
• The language of the photographic sequence
• Photographic genres and online archives: accesses and research methodologies
• The archive photo card: verification of information and editing of the caption
Online iconographic research carried out by the students
• Selection of images and how to build a photo story in sequence
• Editing of the selected photographs and related captions, editing of texts and photographic credits
• Creation of a digital iconographic insert by PowerPoint program

The laboratory includes the alternation of frontal lessons and exercises to get theoretical knowledge on the evolution of the concept of cultural heritage and skills on digital and IT tools, including GIS, for the analysis and use of geo-historical sources and cultural heritage themself. During the course, students will be invited to carry out research autonomously, individually or in groups, on a subject agreed, around which will have to demonstrate the ability to put into practice the skills acquired and exposing the results produced.
Basic geographic and computer skills are required (for this purpose it is expected an initial test for admission), analytical skills and ability on working individually and in groups. It also requires studying outside the hours of classroom on working papers provided during the course. In -course tests are planned and students will provide of a paper that will be evaluated in a final examination, which is essential for the acquisition of credits.

Working papers provided during the course

Religions and Gender Relations

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

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

The first teaching unit (6 cfu) will deal with the ways in which notions of "human" take shape in the Early modern European context between the beginning of the Sixteenth and the end of the Eighteenth century. The framework within which the path will unfold is open: what do we mean for "Europe" in the Early modern age? To respond, our gaze must necessarily be addressed to the world and to the encounter with the Other in its various forms.

The second teaching unit (6 cfu) intends to address the history of gender and sexuality within a European perspective, keeping a connection with the history of the notion of "human" sketched in the first section of the course.

First teaching unit (6 cfu):

- P. Prodi, Homo europaeus, Bologna, il Mulino, 2015

- S. Gruzinski, La macchina del tempo: quando l'Europa ha iniziato a scrivere la storia del mondo, Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2018

- L. Hunt, La forza dell'empatia. Una storia dei diritti dell'uomo, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2010


Second teaching unit (6 cfu):

M. Foucault, Storia della sessualità, 1: La volontà di sapere, Milano, Feltrinelli (tutte le edizioni)

M.E. Wiesner, Le donne nell’Europa moderna (1500-1750), Introduzione di A. Groppi, Torino, Einaudi 2017 (oppure 2003)

U. Grassi, Sodoma: persecuzioni, affetti, pratiche sociali (secoli V-XVIII), Roma, Carocci, 2019

Main topics covered in the course:
1 Ancient and modern historiographical issues: the modalities of the Spanish conquest.
2 The formation of contemporary Latin America: the abolition of slavery in the nineteenth century.
3 Latin America in the twentieth century: economy, society, institutions, culture.
4 The current geopolitical continental situation.

The exam consists of two parts, a general part and a monographic part.
General part, composed of two texts:
-Nocera, R., Trento, A., America latina, un secolo di storia. Dalla Rivoluzione messicana a oggi, Carocci, 2013;
-Zanatta, L., Storia dell’America latina contemporanea, Roma, Laterza, 2015 (or subsequent editions).

Monographic part. A book chosen from the following:
-Guarnieri Calò Carducci, L., La questione indigena in Perù, Roma, Bulzoni, 2010 (The anthology of texts is an essential part of the book).
-Pompejano, D., Il dio nero degli uomini bianchi, Roma, Carocci, 2015.
-Rojas Mix, M., I cento nomi d’America, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2005.
-Vargas Llosa, A., Libertà per l’America latina. Come porre fine a cinquecento anni di oppressione dello Stato, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2007.

The course examines the historical and political trajectory of the Middle East and North Africa from the Colonial Era until today. The students will be introduced to the debate on Orientalism, its role in the colonial era, and its relevance until today. A particular focus will be on the post-colonial era. Among the topics covered there will be: State formation, the role of ideologies (both secular and religious) in the shaping of the region, the intra-regional and international relations of the Region and the so-called ‘Arab Spring’. Students are expected to actively participate to the course.

All the available teaching materials, the announcements and all that is related to this course will be circulated to the registered students via e-mail, and posted on the lecturer’s departmental webpage (bit.ly/dsu-gervasio)

1. R. Owen, State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, Routledge: London & New York: 2004.
2. J. Chalcraft, The Arab Uprisings of 2011 in Historical Perspective in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History, 2016 (available as a pdf file on the course website).

3. One of the following, except for students enrolled in International Studies, or International Relations (Dept of Political Science), who will choose two:


a. G. Achcar, The People Want. A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising, London: Saqi, 2013.
b. L. Anceschi, G. Gervasio & A. Teti (eds), Informal Power in the Greater Middle East. Hidden Geographies, London: Routledge, 2014 & 2016.
c. A. Bayat, Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2017.
d. F. Cavatorta & L. Storm (eds), Political Parties in the Arab World: Continuity and Change, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
e. S. Cook, False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2017.
f. F. A. Gerges, ISIS: A History, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2017.
g. A. Khalil (ed), Gender, Women and the Arab Spring, London & NY: Routledge, 2015.
h. H. Kraetzschmar & P. Rivetti (eds), Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings: Governance, Pluralisation and Contention, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
i. R. Owen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2014.
j. Ch. Tripp, The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2013.

Students may propose books not included in the list, according to their personal interest.


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

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

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

Please check bit.ly/dsu-gervasio

The course deals with the Bretton Woods currency system and the financial and trading networks of the 20th century; special emphasis is given to the problems of the integration of the underdeveloped countries into the global economy.

I. Cycles and trends in the Second World War
- The conversion of war economies and the rise of mixed economies.
II. The circuits of international trade.
- The Marshall Plan, the birth of the European Union and the Comecon.
- The integration of developing countries and neo 70s.
- The return to free trade in the 80s and the birth of the World Trade Organization.
III. Currency systems
- The Bretton Woods currency system.
- Apogee and decline of the gold-dollar standard exchange rate and flexible regional monetary agreements.

Attending students (only one of the follows):

H. Van der Wee, L’economia mondiale tra crisi e benessere, Milano, Hoepli, 1998, capp. 1-2 e 7-12.
G. Feliu, C. Sudrià, Introduzione alla storia economica mondiale, Padova, CADEM, 2013, capp. 12-18.

Plus:

L. Conte, V. Torreggiani, Istituzioni, capitali e moneta. Storia dei sistemi finanziari contemporanei, Milano, Mondadori, 2017, capp. 4-5 + Epilogo.

Non-attending students (add to above-mentioned books):

Fornasari, La banca, la borsa, lo Stato. Una storia della finanza (secc. XIII-XXI), Torino, Giappichelli, 2017.

The course adopts an international and comparative approach to women’s history in the contemporary age. It will encompass both methodological issues, such as the use of gender as a category, or of biographies, and aspects of the condition of women and the process of their emancipation in Italy and in other western countries. Students will be able to analyze themes of interest to them through discussion and individual or group presentations during classes, and choose most of the texts for the final exam.

Two volumes chosen among the following ones:

Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot, A History of Women in the West, Harvard UP, Cambridge Ma. 1993: 8 essays chosen in the volumes No. 4 and 5 on the 19th and 20th Centuries [available also in other languages]

Tiziana Plebani, Le scritture delle donne in Europa. Pratiche quotidiane e ambizioni letterarie (secoli XIII-XX), Carocci, Roma 2019

Marie Sandell, The Rise of Women’s Transnational Activism, I.B. Tauris, London 2015

Leila J. Rupp, Worlds of Women. The Making of an International Women’s Movement, Princeton University Press, Princeton 1997

Karen Offen, European Feminisms 1700-1950. A Political History, Stanford University Press, Stanford 2000

Daniela Rossini, Donne e propaganda internazionale. Percorsi femminili tra Italia e Stati Uniti nell’età della Grande Guerra, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2015

Alessia Lirosi, Libere di sapere. Il diritto delle donne all’istruzione dal Cinquecento al mondo contemporaneo, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Roma 2015

Elda Guerra, Il dilemma della pace. Femministe e pacifiste sulla scena internazionale, 1914-1939, Viella, Roma 2014

Gisela Bock, Le donne nella storia europea, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003 [available also in English]

Fiamma Lussana, Il movimento femminista in Italia. Esperienze, storie, memorie, Carocci, Roma 2012

Liviana Gazzetta, Orizzonti nuovi. Storia del primo femminismo in Italia (1865-1925), Viella, Roma 2018


and also
the article by Gisela Bock, “Women’s History and Gender History: Aspects of an International Debate”, in Gender and History, vol. 1 N. 1, Spring 1989, pp. 7-30, or the article by Joan W. Scott, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis," American Historical Review 91, No. 5 (December 1986), pp. 1053-75

In this part of the class, will be presented some disciplinary perspective on the study about religion(s); attention will be given to the theme of geography and space as connected to religions from a transdisciplinary perspective. This allows students to observe the religious stratification in a certain territory and theorize its dynamics and strategies. Religious sites are not only places of worship, they are also places where ownership, consuetude, negotiation of interests, creation of symbolic resources, share capital have been challenged. This course provides students with theoretical knowledge of religious space/site, but also with results of some empirical researches about religious sites in cities that are increasingly heterogeneous because of human migration and diaspora phenomena.

For attending students:
1. Notes taken and readings suggested during the course (see uploaded materials)
2. G. Filoramo, M. Giorda, N. Spineto, Manuale di Scienze della religione Morcelliana Brescia 2019
3. C. Russo, A. Saggioro, Roma città plurale, Bulzoni, Roma 2017 oppure M. Burchardt M. Giorda Materializzare la tolleranza: il luoghi multireligiosi, Annali di Trento FBK 2019

Non-attending students have to replace point 1 with the following:
D. Albera, M. Couroucli, I luoghi sacri comuni ai monoteismi. Tra cristianesimo, ebraismo e islam. Brescia, Morcelliana, 2013.

The first part of the course is an introduction to cultural anthropology: basic features of anthropological reasoning, the notions of relativism, culture, ethnic identity, and ethnographic method, the different subjects of anthropological knowledge, and processes of globalization will be introduced in a historical view.
The second part will focus on magic and witchcraft, through the notion of history, power, body and relatedness. In particular lessons will address belief between spirituality and matter, rationalities and systems of belief, the role of historical and colonial aspects.

Fabietti, Malighetti, Matera, Dal tribale al globale. Introduzione all'antropologia, Bruno Mondadori, 2012.
(Students who already passed though an exam in Cultural Anthropology are requested to contact the teacher for a different text)

One of the following books:

Bellagamba, Alice, L'Africa e la stregoneria. Saggio di antropologia storica, Laterza, 2008.
Brivio, Alessandra, Il vodu in Africa, Viella, 2012.
Evans-Pritchard, Edward, Stregoneria, oracoli e magia tra gli Azande, Raffaello Cortina, 2002.
Taussig, Michael T., Il diavolo e il feticismo della merce, Derive Approdi 2017.

Non attending students should add:
Rivière, Claude, Introduzione all'antropologia (cap. V: "antropologia politica" e cap. VI: "antropologia religiosa"), Il Mulino, 1998.

The following topics will be dealt with during the course:

- the archival document and its characteristics;
- developing an archive;
- selection;
- historical archives;
- methods of organization;
- information systems for archives: local, national, international;
- archives and other cultural assets: libraries, museums, collections;
- historical components of archives.

General texts:

1) One to choose:

- G. Bonfiglio Dosio, Primi passi nel mondo degli archivi. Temi e testi per la formazione archivistica di primo livello, Padova, Cleup, 2010

- L. Giuva-M. Guercio, Archivistica. Teorie, metodi, pratiche, Roma, Carocci, 2014 (capp. 1-6, 14, 17)

- F. Valacchi, Diventare archivisti, Milano, Editrice bibliografica, 2015

2) I. Zanni Rosiello, Gli archivi tra passato e presente, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005

3) M. Bloch, Apologia della storia o mestiere di storico, Torino, Einaudi, 2009, pp. 39-103 (capp. 2-3)

Articles on specific topics:

- G. Cencetti, Scritti archivistici, Roma 1970, pp. 38-69 ("Il fondamento teorico della dottrina archivistica"; "Sull'archivio come universitas rerum"; "Inventario bibliografico e inventario archivistico") - provided in digital format

- C. Pavone, Ma è poi tanto pacifico che l'archivio rispecchi l'istituto?, in "Rassegna degli Archivi di Stato", 1970, pp. 145-149 - provided in digital format

- F. Valenti, Riflessioni sulla natura e struttura degli archivi, in "Rassegna degli Archivi di Stato", 1981, pp. 9-37 - provided in digital format

- A. D'Addario, Lineamenti di storia dell'archivistica (secc. XVI-XIX), in "Archivio storico italiano", 1990, pp. 3-35 - provided in digital format

Codicology
The course aims to address the study of the characteristics of manuscripts, Latin and Greek, with particular regard to their value for philological and historical-cultural studies. In this regard, the external characteristics of the manuscript will be examined (material techniques for preparing the book as a physical object, ways and means of production, with regard to the professional figures involved in the production process), as well as the cultural landscape of the times and places of origin of the manuscript books. An in-depth study will be devoted to the methods and problems of description of the late medieval codices. This course will include both the examination of reproductions of manuscripts, in paper and electronic format, 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 lessons and the discussion of one subject which the student will decide to study in depth. In addition students are required to study the following texts:
• M. Maniaci, Archeologia del manoscritto. Metodi, problemi, bibliografia recente, Roma, Viella, 2003;
• M. L. Agati, Il libro manoscritto da Oriente a Occidente. Per una codicologia comparata, L’Erma di Bretschneider, Roma 2009 (a selection of chapters);
• M. Cursi, Le forme del libro. Dalla tavoletta cerata all’e-book, Il Mulino, Bologna 2016, cap. III (pp. 97-160);
• Two articles among those presented during the course.

The course will mainly tackle the following topics: the origins of local diplomatic representation; Italian models; social careers and roles of ambassadors and apostolic nuncios; treaties on the diplomatic profession; critical investigation of diplomatic sources; duties and regulations of the diplomatic profession; the actual practices of diplomacy at work in modern-era historical contexts.

Exam texts
1) S. ANDRETTA, L’arte della prudenza. Teorie e prassi della diplomazia nell’Italia del XVI e XVII secolo, Biblink, Roma 2006.
2)G. ALONGE, Ambasciatori. Diplomazia e politica nella Venezia del Rinascimento, Donzelli, Roma 2019
oppure, E. PLEBANI, E.VALERI, P.VOLPINI, Diplomazie. Linguaggi, negoziati e ambasciatori far XV e XVI secolo, ( a cura di), Franco Angeli, Milano 2017

Non-attending students must study in addition to the texts indicated above:

1) R. SABBATINI, P. VOLPINI ( a cura di), Sulla diplomazia in età moderna. Politica, economia, religione, Franco Angeli, Milano 2011;


Or as an alternative choice of 4 essays taken from the books:

a) S. ANDRETTA, S. PÉQUIGNOT, J.-C.WAQUET ( a cura di), De l’ambassadeur. Les écrits relatifs à l’ambassadeur et à l’art de négocier du Moyen Âge au début du XIXe siècle (L’ambasciatore. Scritti relativi all’ambasciatore e all’arte della negoziazione dal Medioevo all’inizio del XIX secolo), EFR, Roma 2015.
b) S.ANDRETTA, S. PÉQUIGNOT, M.K.SCHAUB,J.-C.WAQUET, C. WINDLER ( a cura di), Paroles de négociateurs. L’entretien dans la pratique diplomatique de la fin du Moyen Ȃge à la fin du XIXe siècle (Parole di negoziatori. Pratiche dell’incontro diplomatico dalla fine del Medioevo alla fine del XIX secolo),EFR, Roma 2010

***2020 timetable Semester II, First Class 2 March: The cultural History of Early Modern Europe, M-STO/02, Mondays and Wednesdays 4pm-6pm***

Lectures are held on Mondays (2 hours) and Seminars are held on Wednesdays (2 hours). Classes are scheduled over 9 weeks of the semester. Site Visits around central Rome are scheduled in the 3 final weeks of the course in the place of Lectures. There is at least one scheduled Independent Reading Week during term time, i.e. no classes in that week.

Taking as its focus the early modern period in Europe (1450–1750), this course is structured around one of the field’s most important areas of research in recent decades, cultural history. Applied in its broadest sense, it will provide not only the lens through which we view the period itself, but also our starting point for a critical analysis of its historiography, with a particular focus on classic studies from the Anglophone world that formed the foundations of the field. Our study will be grouped around three key themes that lend themselves best to a cultural-historical analysis: the so-called Renaissance, Reformations, and Age of Discovery. Case studies, primary documents, site visits in Rome, and critical readings of select secondary studies will help us explore the cultural history of the early-modern past, as well as problematize it through assessing the interpretations that have been the most influential in shaping the discipline.
The course will be relevant, not just to those students who are undertaking studies in the pre-modern period, but also to those who wish to broaden their understanding of key historical approaches and methodologies that underpin historical research in any field, especially from the Anglophone world.

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Readings from a variety of primary and secondary sources are set for this course.

All readings are available at the beginning of the course, or on request. They are downloadable in pdf format. For further details and access to the readings, please contact the Lecturer.

A recommended key text that provides useful background to the period (and serves as required reading in a number of classes), is: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).

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

Environmental History
Unit I – 36 hours - 6 cfu.
Socio-economic changes and environmental alterations from the eighteenth to the new millennium.
- S. Mosley, Storia globale dell’ambiente, il Mulino, Bologna 2013.
- P. Bevilacqua, Tra natura e storia. Ambiente, economia, risorse in Italia, Donzelli, Roma 2000.
- G. Corona, Breve storia dell’ambiente in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2015.
- P. Tino, Le radici della vita. Storia della fertilità della terra nel Mezzogiorno (secoli XIX-XX), Seconda edizione, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2015.
- M. Forti, Malaterra. Come hanno avvelenato l’Italia, Laterza, Bari-Roma 2018.
One of the following books at the choice:
- J. R. McNeill e P. Engelke, La Grande accelerazione. Una storia ambientale dell’Antropocene dopo il 1945, Einaudi, Torino 2018.
- P. Bevilacqua, Il cibo e la terra. Agricoltura, ambiente e salute negli scenari del nuovo millennio, Donzelli, Roma 2018.
- P. Acot, Storia del clima. Dal Big Bang alle catastrofi climatiche, Donzelli, Roma 2004 (especially the Parte seconda and the Parte terza).
- S. Adorno e S. Neri Serneri (a cura di), Industria, ambiente, territorio. Per una storia ambientale delle aree industriali in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2009 (especially the introductive essay of S. Adorno e S. Neri Serneri, Per una storia ambientale delle aree industriali in Italia, and the essays of S. Neri Serneri, R. Tolaini, M. Ruzzenenti, A. Ciuffetti, M. G. Rienzo, S. Ruju, S. Adorno).
- S. Luzzi, Il virus del benessere. Ambiente, salute, sviluppo nell’Italia repubblicana, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009.
- S. Neri Serneri, Incorporare la natura. Storie ambientali del Novecento, Carocci, Roma 2005 (espcially the introductive chapter and the Parte prima).
Additional bibliographical references will be provide during lessons.

The course will cover the history of Television and Radio from its beginnings to the present, aiming to provide students with the essential reference elements for understanding Western society of the 20th and 21th century - a historical phase in which mass media (especially TV and radio) became central.
Media relations with politics, culture, industry and the impact they had on Italy will also be explored.
Alongside a theoretical and historical part, classroom teaching will also make use of video and audio extracts, in order to put the students in direct contact with the subject scrutinized.
Contents covered during classes may constitute part of the exam. Class attendance is therefore strongly recommended.

-Irene Piazzoni, Storia delle televisioni in Italia. Dagli esordi alle web tv (Carocci, 2014)
-extracts from several volumes on radio history, put together by the professor (.pdf file provided during classes)

Complementary part:
One additional volume to be chosen among:
-Giovanni Gozzini, La mutazione individualista. Gli italiani e la televisione 1954-2011 (Laterza, 2011)
-Damiano Garofalo, Storia sociale della televisione in Italia (Marsilio, 2018)
-Leonardo Campus, Non solo canzonette. L'Italia della Ricostruzione e del miracolo attraverso il Festival di Sanremo (Le Monnier, 2015)

150 years after the breach of Porta Pia: Rome capital between the Pontifical State and the Unitary State

Inside a general framework of events and debates, the course intends to analyse the role of Rome as the capital first of the Papal States and then of the Kingdom of Italy, connecting to the more general Roman question seen above all from the observation point represented by the eternal city and its inhabitants. We will start from the Roman Jacobin Republic (1798-1799) to arrive at the crisis of the liberal government in the early twentieth century.
The main historiographic debates related to the role and the importance of the city and the Roman Question in the construction of a united Italy will be recalled and space will be given to reading and commenting on documents, to start the students with a critical approach to literature and sources.

1) Dossier of documents provided from the teacher (download from personal website).
2) MARIO BELARDINELLI, Il Risorgimento e la realizzazione della comunità nazionale, Roma, edizioni Studium, 2011.
3) CATHERINE BRICE, Storia di Roma e dei romani, Roma, Viella, 2009, pp. 9-228.
4) La capitale della nazione. Roma e la sua provincia nella crisi del sistema liberale, a cura di Paolo carusi, Roma, Viella, 2011, pp. 1-94; 123-156.

Attending students will be given further information during the lessons.

Media and Popular Culture (03/03/2020 - 07/05/2020)

Course content:

The consumption of popular culture, on the one hand, and policies aimed at influencing popular culture, on the other, became increasingly salient in 20th century Western societies. Thanks to changes in communications, media, pop music, movies, television programs, advertising, had in fact wider circulation.
Since the beginning of the 20th century, political parties and governments became aware of the importance of controlling and manipulating popular culture, and started developing sophisticated and effective forms of propaganda. Concurrently, popular culture itself became politicised, as protest started to be conveyed in various forms of popular art, especially music. These played an increasingly disruptive role, particularly in countries governed by authoritarian or dictatorial regimes, were they became real counter-propaganda tools.

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

The first part of the course will focus on the analysis of the concepts of "Popular Culture", "Propaganda", "Cultural" and "Public Diplomacy" . The historical processes leading to the emergence of complex propaganda strategies aimed at controlling and directing popular culture will also be examined. Particular attention will be devoted to totalitarian regimes, especially fascism.
The second part of the course will deal with grass-roots forms of "counter-propaganda", focusing in particular on the role of music as a tool of protest in the American continent during the 1970s, paying particular attention to on the Argentine as case studies.

Texbooks and materials:


Beside material provided by the instructor, students attending classes will have to refer to the texbooks suggested by the instructor.


Students not attending classes will have to submit a paper on topic previously approved by the instructor and refer to the following textbooks for the oral exam:

- John Storey, Cultural Theory and Popular Culture. An Introduction, Routledge, 2018, pp. IX-58
- Federico Finchelstein, Transatlantic Fascism: Ideology, Violence, and the Sacred in Argentina and Italy, 1919-1945, Duke University Press, 2010
- Beate Kutschke, Protest Music. Urban Context and Global Perspectives, "International Review of the Aesthetic and Sociology of Music", 46, 2, pp.321-354
- Robert Neustadt, Music as Memory and Torture: Sounds of Repression and Protest in Chile and Argentina,"Chasqui", 33, 1, pp.128-137.

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

1. Andrea Graziosi, L’Unione Sovietica 1914-1991, Bologna, il Mulino, 2011;
2. Andreas Kappeler, La Russia. Storia di un impero multietnico, Roma, Edizioni Lavoro, 2006.

Il corso si svilupperà attraverso nove incontri di 4 ore ciascuno. Verrà esplorato un percorso di scrittura creativa lavorando sulla comunicazione, sulla ricerca del proprio stile e sul tipo di linguaggio che ci appartiene, sulla costruzione dei personaggi da narrare, sul tema e il soggetto del racconto, sull’arco narrativo. Si faranno esercizi guidati di scrittura per sondare le proprie capacità e lavorare sulle eventuali difficoltà. Saranno esplorati vari generi: dalla recensione al resoconto, dal saggio all’articolo giornalistico di cultura alla narrativa,. Verranno inoltre offerti strumenti per realizzare un documentario e per scrivere una sceneggiatura.

Sulla base delle competenze acquisite durante il percorso e delle propensioni individuali verranno creati dei lavori incentrati su un personaggio o un evento storico circoscritto nel tempo. Oltre alla frequenza e al progetto finale è richiesta la scrittura di almeno dieci differenti testi.

reference bibliography:

-Natalie Goldberg, Scrivere zen. Manuale di scrittura creativa, Ubaldini

-Raymond Queneau, Esercizi di stile, Einaudi

-Annamaria Testa, La parola immaginata, Pratiche

-Nadia Tarantini, Laboratorio di scrittura, Franco Angeli

-Nadia Tarantini, Il nostro giornale quotidiano, Pratiche Editrice

-Ersilia Zamponi, I draghi Locopei, Einaudi

-Laura Grimaldi, il giallo e il nero , Pratiche Editrice

-Raymond Carver, Il mestiere di scrivere; Einaudi, Torino 1997.

-Gotham Writers’ Workshop, Lezioni di scrittura Creativa, Dino Audino Editore 2010

-Donna Levin, Scrivere un romanzo, Dino Audino Editore

- -SeymouChatman , Storia e discorso. La struttura narrativa nel romanzo e nel film; Pratiche Editrice, Parma 1981.

-Yves Lavandier, L’ABC della drammaturgia. Vol. 1 e 2; Dino Audino Editore, Roma 2001.

-Vincenzo Cerami, Consigli a un giovane scrittore, Einaudi stile libero

-David Goleman, Lo spirito creativo, Rizzoli

-Patricia Highsmith, Come si scrive un giallo, Minimum Fax

Romanzi storici consigliati:

-Giuliano Capecelatro “Il sole nel labirinto, Il Saggiatore -Rita Charbonnier “La sorella di Mozart” https://www.amazon.it/dp/8856615754/ https://www.mondadoristore.it/La-sorella-di-Mozart-Rita-Charbonnier/eai978885661575/

The course is co-coordinated with professor Gennaro Gervasio (Movimenti e tendenze dell’islam contemporaneo L-OR/10).

During the course tools and methodologies for observing and evaluating the interactions of cultural and religious communities with urban networks of some cities in the Mediterranean area, during the history of longue durée will be offered to students. We will read through texts and direct tracks and sources of involved subjects the characteristics of imbrication and reciprocal consequences among religious, social and political practices.
A particular focus will concern the history of muslim religious places in the space, their relationship with social and political/national, but also international movements in a pedagogical and historical perspective.

Notes from the lessons

M. Bombardieri, M. Giorda, S. Hejazi, Capire l’Islam, Morcelliana Brescia 2019.

F. Ciocca, Musulmani in Italia. Impatti urbani e sociali delle comunità islamiche, Meltemi, Roma, 2018.

The laboratory is an introduction of ethnography as the specific method of anthropological knowledge. Frontal lessons on the history of this methodology will be followed by ethnographic cases, discussions on thematic issue and laboratory proposals to experiment observation, participation, written reports. The laboratory is aimed at acquiring a method and at the same time at fostering an ethnographical sensibility in understanding the social.

Texts to be discussed in class will be given during the course.

Master’s degree course – HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ITALY

Italy: from the birth of the democratic republic to today

This course is organised on different levels.
The basic level will focus on the following topics: the origins of the democratic system, the Economic Miracle and the “Great Transformation” (with changes in society and mores) and the long-standing roots of anti-politics and populism, from the Movimento dell’Uomo Qualunque (the Common Man’s Movement) up to the recent ascent of populist movements like the New League and the Five Star Movement.

This part of the course lays the foundation for both Module 1 and 2. Each module will then provide a more in-depth look at some topics.

MODULE 1
In the Module 1 the following topics will be analysed: the large-scale transformations during the sixties and the change in mores, the important changes in women’s conditions, the 1968 protest, the hot autumn of 1969, civil rights movements, the Piazza Fontana bombing and the “Strategy of Tension”, the political-economic crisis, armed struggle and political violence, the Movement of 1977, the “Historic Compromise”, the Case of Aldo Moro, changes in collective ethos, the advent of commercial TV, the emergence of the politics of spectacle, the foundations and development of the eighties.

Within this framework, students may choose to more closely examine one of the following topics:
- Changes in the condition of women and the feminist movement;
- The "strategy of tension" and the parliamentary and extra-parliamentary right;
- The Red Brigades and the kidnapping of Aldo Moro.

MODULE 2
This Module furthers the reflections on populism already developed in Module 1 by picking up where they left off and expanding on them, placing them within the broader context of the events of recent years.
Therefore, we will look more closely at the Movimento dell’Uomo Qualunque (the Common Man’s Movement). Then the following topics will be dealt with: the crisis of the so-called “First Republic”, the collapse of the party system with “Tangentopoli”, Berlusconi’s rise to power and “Berlusconism”, the choice to become part of the Eurozone, the reasons why “Berlusconism” was successful and then why it began to decline between Liberalism and Populism, the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the emergence of the Five Star Movement and the New League.

BASIC TEXTS for both Module 1 and Module 2:

- Emanuele Felice, Ascesa e declino. Storia economica d’Italia, Il Mulino, only chapters V, VI and VII.
- Marco Tarchi, L’Italia populista. Dal Qualunquismo a Beppe Grillo, Il Mulino

Please note: If students feel they need to acquire the foundational knowledge of the history of Italy in the second half of the twentieth century, they may read the chapters on Italy in the contemporary history textbooks for the university (for example: Alberto Mario Banti, L’età Contemporanea. Dalla Grande Guerra a oggi, Laterza, Rome– Bari)

This common foundation is then divided into 2 modules, each worth 6 university credits.

Students who need to earn 6 university credits must do Module 1, in addition to the shared foundation part of the course.

Students who need to earn 12 university credits must do both Module 1 and 2, in addition to the shared foundation part of the course.


MODULE 1 (6 university credits): This module takes a closer look at the large-scale transformations of the sixties and seventies, with their potentials and contradictions.

1) Required reading for all students:
- S. Colarizi, Un paese in movimento. L’Italia negli anni Sessanta e Settanta, Laterza

2) Further study options:
After the required reading, students may choose ONE of the following topics for further study:

a) The condition of women and the women’s movement
- Perry Wilson, Italiane. Biografia del Novecento, Laterza (from Chapter 7 to the end)
- Fiamma Lussana, Il Movimento femminista in Italia, Carocci (whole book)

b) The right and the "Strategy of tension"
- Davide Conti, L’Anima nera della repubblica, Laterza

c) The Red Brigades and the case of Aldo Moro
- Agostino Giovagnoli, Il Caso Moro, Il Mulino


MODULE 2 (6 university credits)

1) Required reading for all students:
- Valerio Coladonato and Andrea Sangiovanni (eds.), Cinema e Populismo. Modelli e immaginari di una categoria politica, monographic issue of the journal Cinema e Storia, Rubbettino
Students need not read the entire book, just the introduction by Coladonato and Sangiovanni as well as the essays by Costanza Salvi, Anna Schober, Agnese Bertolotti and Domanico Guzzo.


2) For further study:
In Module 2, after the required reading, students may choose ONE of the following for further study:

a) Maurizio Cocco, Qualunquismo. Una storia politica e culturale dell’Uomo Qualunque, Le Monnier.

b) Giovanni Orsina, Il Berlusconismo nella storia d’Italia, Marsilio.

The first teaching unit (6 cfu) will deal with the ways in which notions of "human" take shape in the Early modern European context between the beginning of the Sixteenth and the end of the Eighteenth century. The framework within which the path will unfold is open: what do we mean for "Europe" in the Early modern age? To respond, our gaze must necessarily be addressed to the world and to the encounter with the Other in its various forms.

The second teaching unit (6 cfu) intends to address the history of gender and sexuality within a European perspective, keeping a connection with the history of the notion of "human" sketched in the first section of the course.

First teaching unit (6 cfu):

- P. Prodi, Homo europaeus, Bologna, il Mulino, 2015

- S. Gruzinski, La macchina del tempo: quando l'Europa ha iniziato a scrivere la storia del mondo, Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2018

- L. Hunt, La forza dell'empatia. Una storia dei diritti dell'uomo, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2010


Second teaching unit (6 cfu):

M. Foucault, Storia della sessualità, 1: La volontà di sapere, Milano, Feltrinelli (tutte le edizioni)

M.E. Wiesner, Le donne nell’Europa moderna (1500-1750), Introduzione di A. Groppi, Torino, Einaudi 2017 (oppure 2003)

U. Grassi, Sodoma: persecuzioni, affetti, pratiche sociali (secoli V-XVIII), Roma, Carocci, 2019

This course intends to offer an analysis of Canadian and American histories and to examine the cultural, political, social, and geographical factors that influenced the development of these North American societies. In addition, relations between the two Countries will be examined, focusing on how diplomatic, cultural, economic, and military interactions with other states shaped Canada’s and US’s political and social development.

Readings assigned for lectures and seminars are provided at the beginning of the course.
Some of them are ebooks available electronically on the Ateneo Library system and accessible online; other readings are journal articles that are either available in print form at the Library or online through the University’s electronic journal services.
The required readings are posted by email as WEEKLY SCHEDULE.
All videos or audio screened in class are available on-line.

In recent decades, the theme of local development has assumed a central role in the development debate. The lessons will present the concepts and methods of local development, understood not only as a growth process for an aggregation of local companies, but as a diversified territorial development process based on SELF-ORGANIZING CAPACITY OF LOCAL NETWORKS OF ACTORS and on the sustainable exploitation of tangible and intangible resources available in a certain territory, including the social and cultural spheres.
The high expectations of the early days on the potential of local development has recently been followed by a less optimistic phase. Today's challenge is to avoid the trap of localism and rethink local development even in new terms, to give cities and territories the ability to respond to economic, social and environmental pressures of the globalized world. Special attention will also be given to the "NEW" FORMS OF TOURIST DEVELOPMENT.Some case studies in Italy not only will help to deepen some of the addressed issues.
There will be lectures, eventual seminars and an educational excursion.

1) Lorenzo CIAPETTI, 2010, "Lo sviluppo locale", il Mulino (ALL THE BOOK)

2) Elena DELL'AGNESE, 2018, "Bon voyage, Per una geografia critica del turismo", UTET (only the following chapters: 1, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14).

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

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

Documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, produced by Luc Besson, 2009, «Home» (in english: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU)

The communication of the sacred in the West Christianity in the early modern age

The course intends to take into consideration the historical and historiographical theme of the transmission of doctrines and religious experiences in the period of Protestant and Catholic reforms and of the confessional discipline (XVI-XVII century).
We will analyse the different sources through which the diffusion of the religious message took place (biblical texts, catechisms, preaching, religious literature, iconography, music) and the different expressions of devotion and spirituality that testify to their reception, with particular attention to the historiographical debate. on the topics covered.

1) Dossier of documents provided from the teacher (download from personal website).

2) PIETRO STELLA, Il libro religioso, a cura di MARIA LUPI, Roma, Viella, 2008, up to p. 197.

3) A book between:
- MICHELA CATTO, Un panopticon catechistico. L’arciconfraternita della dottrina cristiana a Roma in età moderna, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2003.
- La musica dei semplici, L’altra Controriforma, a cura di STEFANIA NANNI, Roma, Viella, 2012.
- PAOLO PRODI, Arte e pietà nella Chiesa tridentina, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2014.
- Gli Italiani e la Bibbia nella prima età moderna. Leggere, interpretare, riscrivere, a cura di ERMINIA ARDISSINO e ÉLISE BOILLET, Turnhout, Brepols, 2018 (collection Études renaissantes).

Attending students will be provided with other indications during the lessons.

It is recommended to those who have never supported an examination on the early modern history of Christianity to provide a manual, for example: Storia del Cristianesimo. L’età moderna, a cura di G. Filoramo e D. Menozzi, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1995 or another in different language.

The course is designed to introduce graduate students in foreign languages to the study of contemporary world politics through the analysis of the main analytical frameworks in the discipline of international relations as well as of different regional approaches to the study of world politics

H. Kissinger, World Order (Allen Lane 2014)

O.A. Westad, The Cold War: A World History (Basic Books, 2017)

The course will analyze the evolution of relations between the United States and Europe from the end of the Second World War to the crisis of US global hegemony. More specifically, the course will debate key moments in the origins and evolution of the transatlantic relationship during the Cold War, such as the Atlantic Charter, the Marshall plan, the formation and evolution of NATO, détente and the Vietnam conflict, Germany unification and the end of the East-West division. Th evolution of relations between the United States and Europe after the end of the Cold War will also be presented and debated.

Textbook: G. Lundestad, The United States and Western Europe Since 1945: From "Empire" by Invitation to Transatlantic Drift (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Alongside the textbook students must prepare for the exam on one of the following books:

E. Hallams, L. Ratti, B. Zyla (eds), NATO Beyond 9/11: The Transformation of the Atlantic Alliance, (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2013)

L. Ratti, A Not-So-Special Relationship: The US, The UK and German Unification, 1945-1990 (EUP, 2017)

S. Sloan, Defense of the West. NATO, the European Union and the Transatlantic Bargain (MUP, 2016)

• Le sei mogli di Enrico VIII di A. Korda, 1933
• Un uomo per tutte le stagioni di F. Zinnemann, 1966
• Anna dei mille giorni di C. Jarrott, 1969
• Maria Stuarda, regina di Scozia di C. Jarrott, 1971
• Elizabeth di S. Kapur, 1998
• Elizabeth: the Golden Age di S. Kapur, 2007
• I Tudors, 2007-2010
• L’altra donna del re di J. Chadwick, 2008
• Anonymous di R. Emmerich, 2011
• The White Queen, 2013
• Maria regina di Scozia di Josie Rourke, 2018

Mechanics, astronomy and cosmology; technology and scientific instruments from the Middle Ages to the 18th century.

Besides the texts and articles that will be provided during the classes,

two texts from the following:
A. Koyré, Studi Newtoniani, Einaudi, Torino, 1972
I.B. Cohen, Introduction to Newton's Principia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1978
R.S. Westfall, Newton e la dinamica del XVII secolo, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1982
D. Bertoloni Meli, Thinking with Objects: The Transformation of Mechanics in the Seventeenth Century, Johns Hopkins University Press, London, 2006


Students who cannot attend the classes are requested to contact the teacher.

The teaching of "International Politics and Migration" of the Master's Degree in History and Society of the Department of Humanities Studies at the University of Rome 3 is dedicated - for the academic year 2019-2020 - to the history, policies, characteristics and evolution of the migratory phenomenon in Italy, in an international context of increasing complexity: with particular attention to European situation today and the issues of integration in multicultural societies; as well as increased xenophobic and openly racist reactions, also in relation to the image of this phenomenon proposed by the media and some political groups.

- Immigrazione. Dossier statistico 2019 (chapter to choose), Idos, 2019
- Come un uomo sulla terra (book + Dvd) by Marco Carsetti e Alessandro Triulzi, Infinito Editore 2009
- L’Antenna e il baobab – i dannati del villaggio globale (part III) by Massimo Ghirelli, Ed. SEI, 2005

One among:
- The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis (Engl.) by Patrick Kingsley, Ed. Guardian Faber, 2016
- Accogliamoli tutti. Una ragionevole proposta per salvare l'Italia, gli italiani e gli immigrati, by Luigi Manconi e Valentina Brinis, Ed. Il Saggiatore, 2013
- Tutto quello che non vi hanno mai detto sull'immigrazione, by Stefano Allievi, Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna, Ed. Laterza, 2016

The first part of the course is devoted to the changes taking place within the public and political scene and the most important theoretical contributions. In the second part will be considered the main areas of transformation of political communication in relation to the recent history of Italy. In the third part will analyze the role played by television and social media in the popularization of politics. The recent election campaign of the US Presidential Elections will be analyzed and studied.
The course includes the viewing and analysis of audiovisual materials propaganda such television programs, documentaries, commercials, posters. A good knowledge of the Italian contemporary history is preparatory to the course content.

Examination program
- E. Novelli, Le campagne elettorali in Italia, Laterza, Roma 2018.
- G. Mazzoleni, R. Bracciale, La politica pop online, Il Mulino, Bologna 2019.
- C. Lombardo, E. Novelli, C. Ruggiero, (a cura di), La società nelle urne, Franco Angeli, Milano 2019, solo parte seconda pag. 115-285.

For students of the Master's Degree in International Relations of Political Science, for which the examination is worth eight credits, the program also includes one of the following texts:
- C. Lombardo, E. Novelli, C. Ruggiero, (a cura di), La società nelle urne, Franco Angeli, Milano 2019, pag. 11-112.
- Paolo Mancini, Il PostPartito, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2015.
- Ilvo Diamanti, Marc Lazar, Popolocrazia, Laterza, Roma 2018.

The following audiovisual materials supplement the course and their vision is suggested to the students.
– “Mi consenta” La Grande Storia, Rai Tre: http://www.lagrandestoria.rai.it/dl/portali/site/puntata/ContentItem-39b8c91a-4ca4-4ad1-8429-00e11b21b042.html
– “I politici e la tv”, Correva l’anno, Rai Tre, http://www.raiplay.it/video/2016/09/Correva-lanno—I-politici-e-la-tv-del-19092016-bae0add3-4fb2-4730-ad11-fffea112e7de.html
- "70 years of Italian electoral campaigns". 1 part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMYA6nWs594
- "70 years of Italian electoral campaigns". 2 part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__F8kF9ObFA

In the current historical period characterized by a serious and continuing socio-political and economic crisis and by humanitarian and social emergencies (migratory phenomena, growing poverty, widespread violence against women, hostility towards "differences" or indifference to the needs of others, "dictatorship" of GDP, technology invasiveness, etc.) as well as environmental emergency, we highlight the need to rethink democratic citizenship in the light of a sociological, ethical and an interdisciplinary approach, directing it towards a global Ecosystem characterized by well-being and sustainability through constant interaction between all involved actors who, as in a single large inclusive body, starting from the respect of the peculiarities of each one, collaborate for the common wellbeing and welfare and as much for the planet good.
In particular, the following topics will be analyzed:
- the concept of full and inclusive democracy: human rights, citizenship, "human" citizenship and citizenship of the world, global ecosystem;
-the narrative imagination and its role in the approach to "diversity" and non-Western cultures;
- The role of religion in the construction of culture and of social organization; the need for mutual knowledge and for an interreligious dialogue for overcoming prejudices and conflicts;
- Social inclusion: problems and perspectives with particular regard to political thoughts and practices “different” from dominant models, to the women’s condition from an intersectional perspective and gender violence too, to migratory phenomena and to ethnic and religious minorities;
- Global ecosystem, full democracy and 17 sustainability objectives for 2030.

Furthermore, good practices and experiences, videos and films on the proposed themes will be presented.

Martha Nussbaum, Coltivare l’umanità. I classici, il multiculturalismo, l’educazione compemporanea, Carocci, 2006
Jean Druel, Cercare di capirsi. Avvio al dialogo interreligioso, Queriniana, 2018 or by Francesco (Jorge Mario Bergoglio), Dialogo tra le fedi. Riflessioni sul dialogo interreligioso, Verba volant 2017
UNESCO, Educazione agli obiettivi per lo sviluppo sostenibile, scaricabile da https://unescoblob.blob.core.windows.net/pdf/UploadCKEditor/MANUALE_ITA1.pdf

For Further information
Francesca Brezzi, Giovanna Providenti, a cura di, Spostando mattoni a mani nude. Per pensare le differenze, Franco Angeli, 2003
Seyla Benhabib, Cittadini globali. Cosmopolitismo e democrazia, Il Mulino, 2008
Carmelo Vigna, Stefano Zamagni, a cura di, Multiculturalismo e identità, V&P università, 2002
Marco Dal Corso, Brunetto Salvarani, Molte volte e in diversi modi. Manuale di dialogo interreligioso, Citadella, 2016

Other texts will be recommended during the course or will be proposed by the students

"ITALIAN PHOTOGRAPHY AND IDENTITY: testimony and historical memory" is a laboratory, held by Manuela Fugenzi (photo editor journalist and photo critic) to offer an articulated activity on historical and contemporary photography, aimed at making the students understand the role of photography as witness of civil society and its narrative potential.

Topics and activities of the laboratory lessons:
• Identification of a social-historical theme on which to carry out iconographic research
• Analog photography, digital photography
• The language of the photographic sequence
• Photographic genres and online archives: accesses and research methodologies
• The archive photo card: verification of information and editing of the caption
Online iconographic research carried out by the students
• Selection of images and how to build a photo story in sequence
• Editing of the selected photographs and related captions, editing of texts and photographic credits
• Creation of a digital iconographic insert by PowerPoint program

The laboratory includes the alternation of frontal lessons and exercises to get theoretical knowledge on the evolution of the concept of cultural heritage and skills on digital and IT tools, including GIS, for the analysis and use of geo-historical sources and cultural heritage themself. During the course, students will be invited to carry out research autonomously, individually or in groups, on a subject agreed, around which will have to demonstrate the ability to put into practice the skills acquired and exposing the results produced.
Basic geographic and computer skills are required (for this purpose it is expected an initial test for admission), analytical skills and ability on working individually and in groups. It also requires studying outside the hours of classroom on working papers provided during the course. In -course tests are planned and students will provide of a paper that will be evaluated in a final examination, which is essential for the acquisition of credits.

Working papers provided during the course

Religions and Gender Relations

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

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

Main topics covered in the course:
1 Ancient and modern historiographical issues: the modalities of the Spanish conquest.
2 The formation of contemporary Latin America: the abolition of slavery in the nineteenth century.
3 Latin America in the twentieth century: economy, society, institutions, culture.
4 The current geopolitical continental situation.

The exam consists of two parts, a general part and a monographic part.
General part, composed of two texts:
-Nocera, R., Trento, A., America latina, un secolo di storia. Dalla Rivoluzione messicana a oggi, Carocci, 2013;
-Zanatta, L., Storia dell’America latina contemporanea, Roma, Laterza, 2015 (or subsequent editions).

Monographic part. A book chosen from the following:
-Guarnieri Calò Carducci, L., La questione indigena in Perù, Roma, Bulzoni, 2010 (The anthology of texts is an essential part of the book).
-Pompejano, D., Il dio nero degli uomini bianchi, Roma, Carocci, 2015.
-Rojas Mix, M., I cento nomi d’America, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2005.
-Vargas Llosa, A., Libertà per l’America latina. Come porre fine a cinquecento anni di oppressione dello Stato, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2007.

The course examines the historical and political trajectory of the Middle East and North Africa from the Colonial Era until today. The students will be introduced to the debate on Orientalism, its role in the colonial era, and its relevance until today. A particular focus will be on the post-colonial era. Among the topics covered there will be: State formation, the role of ideologies (both secular and religious) in the shaping of the region, the intra-regional and international relations of the Region and the so-called ‘Arab Spring’. Students are expected to actively participate to the course.

All the available teaching materials, the announcements and all that is related to this course will be circulated to the registered students via e-mail, and posted on the lecturer’s departmental webpage (bit.ly/dsu-gervasio)

1. R. Owen, State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, Routledge: London & New York: 2004.
2. J. Chalcraft, The Arab Uprisings of 2011 in Historical Perspective in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History, 2016 (available as a pdf file on the course website).

3. One of the following, except for students enrolled in International Studies, or International Relations (Dept of Political Science), who will choose two:


a. G. Achcar, The People Want. A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising, London: Saqi, 2013.
b. L. Anceschi, G. Gervasio & A. Teti (eds), Informal Power in the Greater Middle East. Hidden Geographies, London: Routledge, 2014 & 2016.
c. A. Bayat, Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2017.
d. F. Cavatorta & L. Storm (eds), Political Parties in the Arab World: Continuity and Change, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
e. S. Cook, False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2017.
f. F. A. Gerges, ISIS: A History, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2017.
g. A. Khalil (ed), Gender, Women and the Arab Spring, London & NY: Routledge, 2015.
h. H. Kraetzschmar & P. Rivetti (eds), Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings: Governance, Pluralisation and Contention, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
i. R. Owen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2014.
j. Ch. Tripp, The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2013.

Students may propose books not included in the list, according to their personal interest.


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

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

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

Please check bit.ly/dsu-gervasio

The course deals with the Bretton Woods currency system and the financial and trading networks of the 20th century; special emphasis is given to the problems of the integration of the underdeveloped countries into the global economy.

I. Cycles and trends in the Second World War
- The conversion of war economies and the rise of mixed economies.
II. The circuits of international trade.
- The Marshall Plan, the birth of the European Union and the Comecon.
- The integration of developing countries and neo 70s.
- The return to free trade in the 80s and the birth of the World Trade Organization.
III. Currency systems
- The Bretton Woods currency system.
- Apogee and decline of the gold-dollar standard exchange rate and flexible regional monetary agreements.

Attending students (only one of the follows):

H. Van der Wee, L’economia mondiale tra crisi e benessere, Milano, Hoepli, 1998, capp. 1-2 e 7-12.
G. Feliu, C. Sudrià, Introduzione alla storia economica mondiale, Padova, CADEM, 2013, capp. 12-18.

Plus:

L. Conte, V. Torreggiani, Istituzioni, capitali e moneta. Storia dei sistemi finanziari contemporanei, Milano, Mondadori, 2017, capp. 4-5 + Epilogo.

Non-attending students (add to above-mentioned books):

Fornasari, La banca, la borsa, lo Stato. Una storia della finanza (secc. XIII-XXI), Torino, Giappichelli, 2017.

The course adopts an international and comparative approach to women’s history in the contemporary age. It will encompass both methodological issues, such as the use of gender as a category, or of biographies, and aspects of the condition of women and the process of their emancipation in Italy and in other western countries. Students will be able to analyze themes of interest to them through discussion and individual or group presentations during classes, and choose most of the texts for the final exam.

Two volumes chosen among the following ones:

Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot, A History of Women in the West, Harvard UP, Cambridge Ma. 1993: 8 essays chosen in the volumes No. 4 and 5 on the 19th and 20th Centuries [available also in other languages]

Tiziana Plebani, Le scritture delle donne in Europa. Pratiche quotidiane e ambizioni letterarie (secoli XIII-XX), Carocci, Roma 2019

Marie Sandell, The Rise of Women’s Transnational Activism, I.B. Tauris, London 2015

Leila J. Rupp, Worlds of Women. The Making of an International Women’s Movement, Princeton University Press, Princeton 1997

Karen Offen, European Feminisms 1700-1950. A Political History, Stanford University Press, Stanford 2000

Daniela Rossini, Donne e propaganda internazionale. Percorsi femminili tra Italia e Stati Uniti nell’età della Grande Guerra, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2015

Alessia Lirosi, Libere di sapere. Il diritto delle donne all’istruzione dal Cinquecento al mondo contemporaneo, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Roma 2015

Elda Guerra, Il dilemma della pace. Femministe e pacifiste sulla scena internazionale, 1914-1939, Viella, Roma 2014

Gisela Bock, Le donne nella storia europea, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003 [available also in English]

Fiamma Lussana, Il movimento femminista in Italia. Esperienze, storie, memorie, Carocci, Roma 2012

Liviana Gazzetta, Orizzonti nuovi. Storia del primo femminismo in Italia (1865-1925), Viella, Roma 2018


and also
the article by Gisela Bock, “Women’s History and Gender History: Aspects of an International Debate”, in Gender and History, vol. 1 N. 1, Spring 1989, pp. 7-30, or the article by Joan W. Scott, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis," American Historical Review 91, No. 5 (December 1986), pp. 1053-75

In this part of the class, will be presented some disciplinary perspective on the study about religion(s); attention will be given to the theme of geography and space as connected to religions from a transdisciplinary perspective. This allows students to observe the religious stratification in a certain territory and theorize its dynamics and strategies. Religious sites are not only places of worship, they are also places where ownership, consuetude, negotiation of interests, creation of symbolic resources, share capital have been challenged. This course provides students with theoretical knowledge of religious space/site, but also with results of some empirical researches about religious sites in cities that are increasingly heterogeneous because of human migration and diaspora phenomena.

For attending students:
1. Notes taken and readings suggested during the course (see uploaded materials)
2. G. Filoramo, M. Giorda, N. Spineto, Manuale di Scienze della religione Morcelliana Brescia 2019
3. C. Russo, A. Saggioro, Roma città plurale, Bulzoni, Roma 2017 oppure M. Burchardt M. Giorda Materializzare la tolleranza: il luoghi multireligiosi, Annali di Trento FBK 2019

Non-attending students have to replace point 1 with the following:
D. Albera, M. Couroucli, I luoghi sacri comuni ai monoteismi. Tra cristianesimo, ebraismo e islam. Brescia, Morcelliana, 2013.

The first part of the course is an introduction to cultural anthropology: basic features of anthropological reasoning, the notions of relativism, culture, ethnic identity, and ethnographic method, the different subjects of anthropological knowledge, and processes of globalization will be introduced in a historical view.
The second part will focus on magic and witchcraft, through the notion of history, power, body and relatedness. In particular lessons will address belief between spirituality and matter, rationalities and systems of belief, the role of historical and colonial aspects.

Fabietti, Malighetti, Matera, Dal tribale al globale. Introduzione all'antropologia, Bruno Mondadori, 2012.
(Students who already passed though an exam in Cultural Anthropology are requested to contact the teacher for a different text)

One of the following books:

Bellagamba, Alice, L'Africa e la stregoneria. Saggio di antropologia storica, Laterza, 2008.
Brivio, Alessandra, Il vodu in Africa, Viella, 2012.
Evans-Pritchard, Edward, Stregoneria, oracoli e magia tra gli Azande, Raffaello Cortina, 2002.
Taussig, Michael T., Il diavolo e il feticismo della merce, Derive Approdi 2017.

Non attending students should add:
Rivière, Claude, Introduzione all'antropologia (cap. V: "antropologia politica" e cap. VI: "antropologia religiosa"), Il Mulino, 1998.

The course will mainly tackle the following topics: the origins of local diplomatic representation; Italian models; social careers and roles of ambassadors and apostolic nuncios; treaties on the diplomatic profession; critical investigation of diplomatic sources; duties and regulations of the diplomatic profession; the actual practices of diplomacy at work in modern-era historical contexts.

Exam texts
1) S. ANDRETTA, L’arte della prudenza. Teorie e prassi della diplomazia nell’Italia del XVI e XVII secolo, Biblink, Roma 2006.
2)G. ALONGE, Ambasciatori. Diplomazia e politica nella Venezia del Rinascimento, Donzelli, Roma 2019
oppure, E. PLEBANI, E.VALERI, P.VOLPINI, Diplomazie. Linguaggi, negoziati e ambasciatori far XV e XVI secolo, ( a cura di), Franco Angeli, Milano 2017

Non-attending students must study in addition to the texts indicated above:

1) R. SABBATINI, P. VOLPINI ( a cura di), Sulla diplomazia in età moderna. Politica, economia, religione, Franco Angeli, Milano 2011;


Or as an alternative choice of 4 essays taken from the books:

a) S. ANDRETTA, S. PÉQUIGNOT, J.-C.WAQUET ( a cura di), De l’ambassadeur. Les écrits relatifs à l’ambassadeur et à l’art de négocier du Moyen Âge au début du XIXe siècle (L’ambasciatore. Scritti relativi all’ambasciatore e all’arte della negoziazione dal Medioevo all’inizio del XIX secolo), EFR, Roma 2015.
b) S.ANDRETTA, S. PÉQUIGNOT, M.K.SCHAUB,J.-C.WAQUET, C. WINDLER ( a cura di), Paroles de négociateurs. L’entretien dans la pratique diplomatique de la fin du Moyen Ȃge à la fin du XIXe siècle (Parole di negoziatori. Pratiche dell’incontro diplomatico dalla fine del Medioevo alla fine del XIX secolo),EFR, Roma 2010

***2020 timetable Semester II, First Class 2 March: The cultural History of Early Modern Europe, M-STO/02, Mondays and Wednesdays 4pm-6pm***

Lectures are held on Mondays (2 hours) and Seminars are held on Wednesdays (2 hours). Classes are scheduled over 9 weeks of the semester. Site Visits around central Rome are scheduled in the 3 final weeks of the course in the place of Lectures. There is at least one scheduled Independent Reading Week during term time, i.e. no classes in that week.

Taking as its focus the early modern period in Europe (1450–1750), this course is structured around one of the field’s most important areas of research in recent decades, cultural history. Applied in its broadest sense, it will provide not only the lens through which we view the period itself, but also our starting point for a critical analysis of its historiography, with a particular focus on classic studies from the Anglophone world that formed the foundations of the field. Our study will be grouped around three key themes that lend themselves best to a cultural-historical analysis: the so-called Renaissance, Reformations, and Age of Discovery. Case studies, primary documents, site visits in Rome, and critical readings of select secondary studies will help us explore the cultural history of the early-modern past, as well as problematize it through assessing the interpretations that have been the most influential in shaping the discipline.
The course will be relevant, not just to those students who are undertaking studies in the pre-modern period, but also to those who wish to broaden their understanding of key historical approaches and methodologies that underpin historical research in any field, especially from the Anglophone world.

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Readings from a variety of primary and secondary sources are set for this course.

All readings are available at the beginning of the course, or on request. They are downloadable in pdf format. For further details and access to the readings, please contact the Lecturer.

A recommended key text that provides useful background to the period (and serves as required reading in a number of classes), is: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).

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

Environmental History
Unit I – 36 hours - 6 cfu.
Socio-economic changes and environmental alterations from the eighteenth to the new millennium.
- S. Mosley, Storia globale dell’ambiente, il Mulino, Bologna 2013.
- P. Bevilacqua, Tra natura e storia. Ambiente, economia, risorse in Italia, Donzelli, Roma 2000.
- G. Corona, Breve storia dell’ambiente in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2015.
- P. Tino, Le radici della vita. Storia della fertilità della terra nel Mezzogiorno (secoli XIX-XX), Seconda edizione, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2015.
- M. Forti, Malaterra. Come hanno avvelenato l’Italia, Laterza, Bari-Roma 2018.
One of the following books at the choice:
- J. R. McNeill e P. Engelke, La Grande accelerazione. Una storia ambientale dell’Antropocene dopo il 1945, Einaudi, Torino 2018.
- P. Bevilacqua, Il cibo e la terra. Agricoltura, ambiente e salute negli scenari del nuovo millennio, Donzelli, Roma 2018.
- P. Acot, Storia del clima. Dal Big Bang alle catastrofi climatiche, Donzelli, Roma 2004 (especially the Parte seconda and the Parte terza).
- S. Adorno e S. Neri Serneri (a cura di), Industria, ambiente, territorio. Per una storia ambientale delle aree industriali in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2009 (especially the introductive essay of S. Adorno e S. Neri Serneri, Per una storia ambientale delle aree industriali in Italia, and the essays of S. Neri Serneri, R. Tolaini, M. Ruzzenenti, A. Ciuffetti, M. G. Rienzo, S. Ruju, S. Adorno).
- S. Luzzi, Il virus del benessere. Ambiente, salute, sviluppo nell’Italia repubblicana, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009.
- S. Neri Serneri, Incorporare la natura. Storie ambientali del Novecento, Carocci, Roma 2005 (espcially the introductive chapter and the Parte prima).
Additional bibliographical references will be provide during lessons.

The course will cover the history of Television and Radio from its beginnings to the present, aiming to provide students with the essential reference elements for understanding Western society of the 20th and 21th century - a historical phase in which mass media (especially TV and radio) became central.
Media relations with politics, culture, industry and the impact they had on Italy will also be explored.
Alongside a theoretical and historical part, classroom teaching will also make use of video and audio extracts, in order to put the students in direct contact with the subject scrutinized.
Contents covered during classes may constitute part of the exam. Class attendance is therefore strongly recommended.

-Irene Piazzoni, Storia delle televisioni in Italia. Dagli esordi alle web tv (Carocci, 2014)
-extracts from several volumes on radio history, put together by the professor (.pdf file provided during classes)

Complementary part:
One additional volume to be chosen among:
-Giovanni Gozzini, La mutazione individualista. Gli italiani e la televisione 1954-2011 (Laterza, 2011)
-Damiano Garofalo, Storia sociale della televisione in Italia (Marsilio, 2018)
-Leonardo Campus, Non solo canzonette. L'Italia della Ricostruzione e del miracolo attraverso il Festival di Sanremo (Le Monnier, 2015)

150 years after the breach of Porta Pia: Rome capital between the Pontifical State and the Unitary State

Inside a general framework of events and debates, the course intends to analyse the role of Rome as the capital first of the Papal States and then of the Kingdom of Italy, connecting to the more general Roman question seen above all from the observation point represented by the eternal city and its inhabitants. We will start from the Roman Jacobin Republic (1798-1799) to arrive at the crisis of the liberal government in the early twentieth century.
The main historiographic debates related to the role and the importance of the city and the Roman Question in the construction of a united Italy will be recalled and space will be given to reading and commenting on documents, to start the students with a critical approach to literature and sources.

1) Dossier of documents provided from the teacher (download from personal website).
2) MARIO BELARDINELLI, Il Risorgimento e la realizzazione della comunità nazionale, Roma, edizioni Studium, 2011.
3) CATHERINE BRICE, Storia di Roma e dei romani, Roma, Viella, 2009, pp. 9-228.
4) La capitale della nazione. Roma e la sua provincia nella crisi del sistema liberale, a cura di Paolo carusi, Roma, Viella, 2011, pp. 1-94; 123-156.

Attending students will be given further information during the lessons.

Media and Popular Culture (03/03/2020 - 07/05/2020)

Course content:

The consumption of popular culture, on the one hand, and policies aimed at influencing popular culture, on the other, became increasingly salient in 20th century Western societies. Thanks to changes in communications, media, pop music, movies, television programs, advertising, had in fact wider circulation.
Since the beginning of the 20th century, political parties and governments became aware of the importance of controlling and manipulating popular culture, and started developing sophisticated and effective forms of propaganda. Concurrently, popular culture itself became politicised, as protest started to be conveyed in various forms of popular art, especially music. These played an increasingly disruptive role, particularly in countries governed by authoritarian or dictatorial regimes, were they became real counter-propaganda tools.

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

The first part of the course will focus on the analysis of the concepts of "Popular Culture", "Propaganda", "Cultural" and "Public Diplomacy" . The historical processes leading to the emergence of complex propaganda strategies aimed at controlling and directing popular culture will also be examined. Particular attention will be devoted to totalitarian regimes, especially fascism.
The second part of the course will deal with grass-roots forms of "counter-propaganda", focusing in particular on the role of music as a tool of protest in the American continent during the 1970s, paying particular attention to on the Argentine as case studies.

Texbooks and materials:


Beside material provided by the instructor, students attending classes will have to refer to the texbooks suggested by the instructor.


Students not attending classes will have to submit a paper on topic previously approved by the instructor and refer to the following textbooks for the oral exam:

- John Storey, Cultural Theory and Popular Culture. An Introduction, Routledge, 2018, pp. IX-58
- Federico Finchelstein, Transatlantic Fascism: Ideology, Violence, and the Sacred in Argentina and Italy, 1919-1945, Duke University Press, 2010
- Beate Kutschke, Protest Music. Urban Context and Global Perspectives, "International Review of the Aesthetic and Sociology of Music", 46, 2, pp.321-354
- Robert Neustadt, Music as Memory and Torture: Sounds of Repression and Protest in Chile and Argentina,"Chasqui", 33, 1, pp.128-137.

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

1. Andrea Graziosi, L’Unione Sovietica 1914-1991, Bologna, il Mulino, 2011;
2. Andreas Kappeler, La Russia. Storia di un impero multietnico, Roma, Edizioni Lavoro, 2006.

The course will analyse the historical evolution and the sources of Islamic law; the structure and categories of classical Islamic law, its role in modern legal systems of Islamic countries.

Main subjects of the course:
Relation between sharia and qanun
Colonialism and law
The process of codification of law
Sharia in contemporary Islamic countries
Legal reforms in Islamic countries

Legal institutions to be studied:
Family law (personal status)
contracts and obligations
criminal law
public law

Students actively attending the course will prepare the exam on their notes.

Students not attending the course will use the following texts:
F. Castro, Il modello Islamico, Giappichelli, 2007, Chapters I-V
V. Donini - D. Scolart, la Sharia e il mondo contemporaneo, Carocci 2015

Il corso si svilupperà attraverso nove incontri di 4 ore ciascuno. Verrà esplorato un percorso di scrittura creativa lavorando sulla comunicazione, sulla ricerca del proprio stile e sul tipo di linguaggio che ci appartiene, sulla costruzione dei personaggi da narrare, sul tema e il soggetto del racconto, sull’arco narrativo. Si faranno esercizi guidati di scrittura per sondare le proprie capacità e lavorare sulle eventuali difficoltà. Saranno esplorati vari generi: dalla recensione al resoconto, dal saggio all’articolo giornalistico di cultura alla narrativa,. Verranno inoltre offerti strumenti per realizzare un documentario e per scrivere una sceneggiatura.

Sulla base delle competenze acquisite durante il percorso e delle propensioni individuali verranno creati dei lavori incentrati su un personaggio o un evento storico circoscritto nel tempo. Oltre alla frequenza e al progetto finale è richiesta la scrittura di almeno dieci differenti testi.

reference bibliography:

-Natalie Goldberg, Scrivere zen. Manuale di scrittura creativa, Ubaldini

-Raymond Queneau, Esercizi di stile, Einaudi

-Annamaria Testa, La parola immaginata, Pratiche

-Nadia Tarantini, Laboratorio di scrittura, Franco Angeli

-Nadia Tarantini, Il nostro giornale quotidiano, Pratiche Editrice

-Ersilia Zamponi, I draghi Locopei, Einaudi

-Laura Grimaldi, il giallo e il nero , Pratiche Editrice

-Raymond Carver, Il mestiere di scrivere; Einaudi, Torino 1997.

-Gotham Writers’ Workshop, Lezioni di scrittura Creativa, Dino Audino Editore 2010

-Donna Levin, Scrivere un romanzo, Dino Audino Editore

- -SeymouChatman , Storia e discorso. La struttura narrativa nel romanzo e nel film; Pratiche Editrice, Parma 1981.

-Yves Lavandier, L’ABC della drammaturgia. Vol. 1 e 2; Dino Audino Editore, Roma 2001.

-Vincenzo Cerami, Consigli a un giovane scrittore, Einaudi stile libero

-David Goleman, Lo spirito creativo, Rizzoli

-Patricia Highsmith, Come si scrive un giallo, Minimum Fax

Romanzi storici consigliati:

-Giuliano Capecelatro “Il sole nel labirinto, Il Saggiatore -Rita Charbonnier “La sorella di Mozart” https://www.amazon.it/dp/8856615754/ https://www.mondadoristore.it/La-sorella-di-Mozart-Rita-Charbonnier/eai978885661575/

The course is co-coordinated with professor Gennaro Gervasio (Movimenti e tendenze dell’islam contemporaneo L-OR/10).

During the course tools and methodologies for observing and evaluating the interactions of cultural and religious communities with urban networks of some cities in the Mediterranean area, during the history of longue durée will be offered to students. We will read through texts and direct tracks and sources of involved subjects the characteristics of imbrication and reciprocal consequences among religious, social and political practices.
A particular focus will concern the history of muslim religious places in the space, their relationship with social and political/national, but also international movements in a pedagogical and historical perspective.

Notes from the lessons

M. Bombardieri, M. Giorda, S. Hejazi, Capire l’Islam, Morcelliana Brescia 2019.

F. Ciocca, Musulmani in Italia. Impatti urbani e sociali delle comunità islamiche, Meltemi, Roma, 2018.

The laboratory is an introduction of ethnography as the specific method of anthropological knowledge. Frontal lessons on the history of this methodology will be followed by ethnographic cases, discussions on thematic issue and laboratory proposals to experiment observation, participation, written reports. The laboratory is aimed at acquiring a method and at the same time at fostering an ethnographical sensibility in understanding the social.

Texts to be discussed in class will be given during the course.

Master’s degree course – HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ITALY

Italy: from the birth of the democratic republic to today

This course is organised on different levels.
The basic level will focus on the following topics: the origins of the democratic system, the Economic Miracle and the “Great Transformation” (with changes in society and mores) and the long-standing roots of anti-politics and populism, from the Movimento dell’Uomo Qualunque (the Common Man’s Movement) up to the recent ascent of populist movements like the New League and the Five Star Movement.

This part of the course lays the foundation for both Module 1 and 2. Each module will then provide a more in-depth look at some topics.

MODULE 1
In the Module 1 the following topics will be analysed: the large-scale transformations during the sixties and the change in mores, the important changes in women’s conditions, the 1968 protest, the hot autumn of 1969, civil rights movements, the Piazza Fontana bombing and the “Strategy of Tension”, the political-economic crisis, armed struggle and political violence, the Movement of 1977, the “Historic Compromise”, the Case of Aldo Moro, changes in collective ethos, the advent of commercial TV, the emergence of the politics of spectacle, the foundations and development of the eighties.

Within this framework, students may choose to more closely examine one of the following topics:
- Changes in the condition of women and the feminist movement;
- The "strategy of tension" and the parliamentary and extra-parliamentary right;
- The Red Brigades and the kidnapping of Aldo Moro.

MODULE 2
This Module furthers the reflections on populism already developed in Module 1 by picking up where they left off and expanding on them, placing them within the broader context of the events of recent years.
Therefore, we will look more closely at the Movimento dell’Uomo Qualunque (the Common Man’s Movement). Then the following topics will be dealt with: the crisis of the so-called “First Republic”, the collapse of the party system with “Tangentopoli”, Berlusconi’s rise to power and “Berlusconism”, the choice to become part of the Eurozone, the reasons why “Berlusconism” was successful and then why it began to decline between Liberalism and Populism, the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the emergence of the Five Star Movement and the New League.

BASIC TEXTS for both Module 1 and Module 2:

- Emanuele Felice, Ascesa e declino. Storia economica d’Italia, Il Mulino, only chapters V, VI and VII.
- Marco Tarchi, L’Italia populista. Dal Qualunquismo a Beppe Grillo, Il Mulino

Please note: If students feel they need to acquire the foundational knowledge of the history of Italy in the second half of the twentieth century, they may read the chapters on Italy in the contemporary history textbooks for the university (for example: Alberto Mario Banti, L’età Contemporanea. Dalla Grande Guerra a oggi, Laterza, Rome– Bari)

This common foundation is then divided into 2 modules, each worth 6 university credits.

Students who need to earn 6 university credits must do Module 1, in addition to the shared foundation part of the course.

Students who need to earn 12 university credits must do both Module 1 and 2, in addition to the shared foundation part of the course.


MODULE 1 (6 university credits): This module takes a closer look at the large-scale transformations of the sixties and seventies, with their potentials and contradictions.

1) Required reading for all students:
- S. Colarizi, Un paese in movimento. L’Italia negli anni Sessanta e Settanta, Laterza

2) Further study options:
After the required reading, students may choose ONE of the following topics for further study:

a) The condition of women and the women’s movement
- Perry Wilson, Italiane. Biografia del Novecento, Laterza (from Chapter 7 to the end)
- Fiamma Lussana, Il Movimento femminista in Italia, Carocci (whole book)

b) The right and the "Strategy of tension"
- Davide Conti, L’Anima nera della repubblica, Laterza

c) The Red Brigades and the case of Aldo Moro
- Agostino Giovagnoli, Il Caso Moro, Il Mulino


MODULE 2 (6 university credits)

1) Required reading for all students:
- Valerio Coladonato and Andrea Sangiovanni (eds.), Cinema e Populismo. Modelli e immaginari di una categoria politica, monographic issue of the journal Cinema e Storia, Rubbettino
Students need not read the entire book, just the introduction by Coladonato and Sangiovanni as well as the essays by Costanza Salvi, Anna Schober, Agnese Bertolotti and Domanico Guzzo.


2) For further study:
In Module 2, after the required reading, students may choose ONE of the following for further study:

a) Maurizio Cocco, Qualunquismo. Una storia politica e culturale dell’Uomo Qualunque, Le Monnier.

b) Giovanni Orsina, Il Berlusconismo nella storia d’Italia, Marsilio.

The first teaching unit (6 cfu) will deal with the ways in which notions of "human" take shape in the Early modern European context between the beginning of the Sixteenth and the end of the Eighteenth century. The framework within which the path will unfold is open: what do we mean for "Europe" in the Early modern age? To respond, our gaze must necessarily be addressed to the world and to the encounter with the Other in its various forms.

The second teaching unit (6 cfu) intends to address the history of gender and sexuality within a European perspective, keeping a connection with the history of the notion of "human" sketched in the first section of the course.

First teaching unit (6 cfu):

- P. Prodi, Homo europaeus, Bologna, il Mulino, 2015

- S. Gruzinski, La macchina del tempo: quando l'Europa ha iniziato a scrivere la storia del mondo, Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2018

- L. Hunt, La forza dell'empatia. Una storia dei diritti dell'uomo, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2010


Second teaching unit (6 cfu):

M. Foucault, Storia della sessualità, 1: La volontà di sapere, Milano, Feltrinelli (tutte le edizioni)

M.E. Wiesner, Le donne nell’Europa moderna (1500-1750), Introduzione di A. Groppi, Torino, Einaudi 2017 (oppure 2003)

U. Grassi, Sodoma: persecuzioni, affetti, pratiche sociali (secoli V-XVIII), Roma, Carocci, 2019

Main topics covered in the course:
1 Ancient and modern historiographical issues: the modalities of the Spanish conquest.
2 The formation of contemporary Latin America: the abolition of slavery in the nineteenth century.
3 Latin America in the twentieth century: economy, society, institutions, culture.
4 The current geopolitical continental situation.

The exam consists of two parts, a general part and a monographic part.
General part, composed of two texts:
-Nocera, R., Trento, A., America latina, un secolo di storia. Dalla Rivoluzione messicana a oggi, Carocci, 2013;
-Zanatta, L., Storia dell’America latina contemporanea, Roma, Laterza, 2015 (or subsequent editions).

Monographic part. A book chosen from the following:
-Guarnieri Calò Carducci, L., La questione indigena in Perù, Roma, Bulzoni, 2010 (The anthology of texts is an essential part of the book).
-Pompejano, D., Il dio nero degli uomini bianchi, Roma, Carocci, 2015.
-Rojas Mix, M., I cento nomi d’America, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2005.
-Vargas Llosa, A., Libertà per l’America latina. Come porre fine a cinquecento anni di oppressione dello Stato, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2007.

This course intends to offer an analysis of Canadian and American histories and to examine the cultural, political, social, and geographical factors that influenced the development of these North American societies. In addition, relations between the two Countries will be examined, focusing on how diplomatic, cultural, economic, and military interactions with other states shaped Canada’s and US’s political and social development.

Readings assigned for lectures and seminars are provided at the beginning of the course.
Some of them are ebooks available electronically on the Ateneo Library system and accessible online; other readings are journal articles that are either available in print form at the Library or online through the University’s electronic journal services.
The required readings are posted by email as WEEKLY SCHEDULE.
All videos or audio screened in class are available on-line.

The course is designed to introduce graduate students in foreign languages to the study of contemporary world politics through the analysis of the main analytical frameworks in the discipline of international relations as well as of different regional approaches to the study of world politics

H. Kissinger, World Order (Allen Lane 2014)

O.A. Westad, The Cold War: A World History (Basic Books, 2017)

The course will analyze the evolution of relations between the United States and Europe from the end of the Second World War to the crisis of US global hegemony. More specifically, the course will debate key moments in the origins and evolution of the transatlantic relationship during the Cold War, such as the Atlantic Charter, the Marshall plan, the formation and evolution of NATO, détente and the Vietnam conflict, Germany unification and the end of the East-West division. Th evolution of relations between the United States and Europe after the end of the Cold War will also be presented and debated.

Textbook: G. Lundestad, The United States and Western Europe Since 1945: From "Empire" by Invitation to Transatlantic Drift (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Alongside the textbook students must prepare for the exam on one of the following books:

E. Hallams, L. Ratti, B. Zyla (eds), NATO Beyond 9/11: The Transformation of the Atlantic Alliance, (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2013)

L. Ratti, A Not-So-Special Relationship: The US, The UK and German Unification, 1945-1990 (EUP, 2017)

S. Sloan, Defense of the West. NATO, the European Union and the Transatlantic Bargain (MUP, 2016)

In recent decades, the theme of local development has assumed a central role in the development debate. The lessons will present the concepts and methods of local development, understood not only as a growth process for an aggregation of local companies, but as a diversified territorial development process based on SELF-ORGANIZING CAPACITY OF LOCAL NETWORKS OF ACTORS and on the sustainable exploitation of tangible and intangible resources available in a certain territory, including the social and cultural spheres.
The high expectations of the early days on the potential of local development has recently been followed by a less optimistic phase. Today's challenge is to avoid the trap of localism and rethink local development even in new terms, to give cities and territories the ability to respond to economic, social and environmental pressures of the globalized world. Special attention will also be given to the "NEW" FORMS OF TOURIST DEVELOPMENT.Some case studies in Italy not only will help to deepen some of the addressed issues.
There will be lectures, eventual seminars and an educational excursion.

1) Lorenzo CIAPETTI, 2010, "Lo sviluppo locale", il Mulino (ALL THE BOOK)

2) Elena DELL'AGNESE, 2018, "Bon voyage, Per una geografia critica del turismo", UTET (only the following chapters: 1, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14).

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

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

Documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, produced by Luc Besson, 2009, «Home» (in english: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU)

Mechanics, astronomy and cosmology; technology and scientific instruments from the Middle Ages to the 18th century.

Besides the texts and articles that will be provided during the classes,

two texts from the following:
A. Koyré, Studi Newtoniani, Einaudi, Torino, 1972
I.B. Cohen, Introduction to Newton's Principia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1978
R.S. Westfall, Newton e la dinamica del XVII secolo, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1982
D. Bertoloni Meli, Thinking with Objects: The Transformation of Mechanics in the Seventeenth Century, Johns Hopkins University Press, London, 2006


Students who cannot attend the classes are requested to contact the teacher.

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

Attending students:
- slides in ppt, lesson notes and supplementary learning material that will be provided during the course.
Non-Attending Students:
- A.Cantile, Lineamenti di storia della Cartografia, Roma, Geoweb, 2013 (vol. I, Dalle origini al Cinquecento).
- D. Woodward, Cartografia a stampa nell'Italia del Rinascimento: produttori, distributori e destinatari, Bergamo 2002.

Cultural skills (Knowledge of:) the course provides the conceptual basis for understanding (a) the ecological and genetic principles as applied to biodiversity conservation problems (b) the set of problems related to the interaction between human activities and natural environments
Methodological skills (Knowing how to perform:) ability (in theory and in practice) to (a) correctly carry out red listing procedures (according to the IUCN method) and assessment of the conservation status of flora and fauna at risk of extinction and to (b) monitor at-risk species and know about the main conservation techniques (e.g., legal protection, protected areas, reintroductions, etc.).

SYLLABUS

Threats to plant Biodiversity
- Habitat destruction and fragmentation
- Habitat degradation
- Alien species
- Climate change

Threats assessment – IUCN Red Lists
- Red lists (general information), global, European and Italian red lists
- Guidelines for Using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria
- Application of the Guidelines to real cases

In situ conservation
- Legal protection (EU Directive, Natura 2000, Italian national and regional legislation, USA legislation and Australian legislation), Protected areas in the world
- Restoration Ecology conservation translocation (general information, techniques, extreme translocation)
- Monitoring of threatened species (monitoring techniques of species listed in the Directive 92/43/EEC)

Ex situ plant conservation
- Botanical gardens and seed banks

Ex situ cultivation of species extinct in the wild and plant traits measurment (Bromus interruptus and Bromus bromoideus)

For the general topics:
Groom et al., 2012. Principles of Conservation Biology. Third Edition. Sinauer Associates.

For the red listing:
Rossi G., Gentili R., Abeli T., Gargano D., Foggi B., Raimondo F. M., Blasi C., 2008. Flora da conservare. Iniziativa per l’implementazione in Italia delle Categorie e dei Criteri IUCN (2001) per la redazione di nuove Liste Rosse. Informatore Botanico Italiano 40 (1). ISSN-0020-0697.

For conservation translocation:
Rossi G., Amosso C., Orsenigo S., Abeli T., 2013. Linee guida per la traslocazione di specie vegetali spontanee. Quad. Cons. Natura, 28, MATTM – Ist. Sup. Protezione e Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Roma. ISSN 1592-2901.

For species monitoring:
Giacanelli V., Conti F., Bartolucci F., Ercole S., T. Abeli T., Aleffi M., Gargano D., Ravera S. 2016. Le specie vegetali di direttiva in Italia. In: Ercole S., Giacanelli V., Bacchetta G., Fenu G., Genovesi P. (ed.), 2016. Manuali per il monitoraggio di specie e habitat di interesse comunitario (Direttiva 92/43/CEE) in Italia: specie vegetali. ISPRA, Serie Manuali e linee guida, 140/2016.

• Le sei mogli di Enrico VIII di A. Korda, 1933
• Un uomo per tutte le stagioni di F. Zinnemann, 1966
• Anna dei mille giorni di C. Jarrott, 1969
• Maria Stuarda, regina di Scozia di C. Jarrott, 1971
• Elizabeth di S. Kapur, 1998
• Elizabeth: the Golden Age di S. Kapur, 2007
• I Tudors, 2007-2010
• L’altra donna del re di J. Chadwick, 2008
• Anonymous di R. Emmerich, 2011
• The White Queen, 2013
• Maria regina di Scozia di Josie Rourke, 2018

The communication of the sacred in the West Christianity in the early modern age

The course intends to take into consideration the historical and historiographical theme of the transmission of doctrines and religious experiences in the period of Protestant and Catholic reforms and of the confessional discipline (XVI-XVII century).
We will analyse the different sources through which the diffusion of the religious message took place (biblical texts, catechisms, preaching, religious literature, iconography, music) and the different expressions of devotion and spirituality that testify to their reception, with particular attention to the historiographical debate. on the topics covered.

1) Dossier of documents provided from the teacher (download from personal website).

2) PIETRO STELLA, Il libro religioso, a cura di MARIA LUPI, Roma, Viella, 2008, up to p. 197.

3) A book between:
- MICHELA CATTO, Un panopticon catechistico. L’arciconfraternita della dottrina cristiana a Roma in età moderna, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2003.
- La musica dei semplici, L’altra Controriforma, a cura di STEFANIA NANNI, Roma, Viella, 2012.
- PAOLO PRODI, Arte e pietà nella Chiesa tridentina, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2014.
- Gli Italiani e la Bibbia nella prima età moderna. Leggere, interpretare, riscrivere, a cura di ERMINIA ARDISSINO e ÉLISE BOILLET, Turnhout, Brepols, 2018 (collection Études renaissantes).

Attending students will be provided with other indications during the lessons.

It is recommended to those who have never supported an examination on the early modern history of Christianity to provide a manual, for example: Storia del Cristianesimo. L’età moderna, a cura di G. Filoramo e D. Menozzi, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1995 or another in different language.

"ITALIAN PHOTOGRAPHY AND IDENTITY: testimony and historical memory" is a laboratory, held by Manuela Fugenzi (photo editor journalist and photo critic) to offer an articulated activity on historical and contemporary photography, aimed at making the students understand the role of photography as witness of civil society and its narrative potential.

Topics and activities of the laboratory lessons:
• Identification of a social-historical theme on which to carry out iconographic research
• Analog photography, digital photography
• The language of the photographic sequence
• Photographic genres and online archives: accesses and research methodologies
• The archive photo card: verification of information and editing of the caption
Online iconographic research carried out by the students
• Selection of images and how to build a photo story in sequence
• Editing of the selected photographs and related captions, editing of texts and photographic credits
• Creation of a digital iconographic insert by PowerPoint program

The laboratory includes the alternation of frontal lessons and exercises to get theoretical knowledge on the evolution of the concept of cultural heritage and skills on digital and IT tools, including GIS, for the analysis and use of geo-historical sources and cultural heritage themself. During the course, students will be invited to carry out research autonomously, individually or in groups, on a subject agreed, around which will have to demonstrate the ability to put into practice the skills acquired and exposing the results produced.
Basic geographic and computer skills are required (for this purpose it is expected an initial test for admission), analytical skills and ability on working individually and in groups. It also requires studying outside the hours of classroom on working papers provided during the course. In -course tests are planned and students will provide of a paper that will be evaluated in a final examination, which is essential for the acquisition of credits.

Working papers provided during the course

Religions and Gender Relations

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

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

Woods and swamps. Public Estates and Commons in Medieval Italy. Aim of this course is to analyse Public Estates and Commons Management in Medieval Italy, from 8th tu 13th century. We will compare different Case Studies, from Lombard Kingdom to Southern Italy in Norman-Swabian Period.Public Estates in Early Medieval Europe.

V. Loré, Curtis regia e beni dei duchi. Il patrimonio pubblico nel regno longobardo, in Biens publics, biens du roi. Les bases économiques des pouvoirs royaux dans le haut Moyen Âge / Beni pubblici, beni del re. Le basi economiche dei poteri regi nell’alto medioevo, ed. F. Bougard and V. Loré, Turnhout, Brepols, pp. 31-78, and a choice of three others articles in the same volume (almost one necessarily in english, french or spanish); R. Rao, I paesaggi dell'Italia medievale, Roma, Carocci, 2015, pp. 155-174, 221-237; S. Carocci, “Metodo regressivo” e possessi collettivi: i “demani” del Mezzogiorno (sec. XII-XVIII), in D. Boisseuil et al., Ecritures de l'espace social, Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2010 (open access: https://books.openedition.org/psorbonne/11261?lang=it#ftn19); dossier of Medieval Sources or alternatively Rao, I paesaggi dell'Italia medievale (the whoole book).

This class, entitled “Francesco d’Assisi tra mito e storia” (“Francis of Assisi between myth and history”) want to use the character of saint Francis as an occasion to discover and learn the historic method and as a useful case of study to approach other historical subjects. In particular the class will establish a connection between two focuses of the research. The first-one will deal with the success of saint Francis in the present time in which he could be considered as a marker of the great political and social contradictions of our age: from the conflict between capital and work to the alternative between peace and war, from the environmental question to the more recent globalisation. Furthermore, we will analyse the exceptional success of saint Francis as icon who, being able to encroach upon the myth, shows a non-common creative force in the cultural context: from literature to visual arts, from painting to cinema, from music to philosophy until the reflexions of the psychiatric research.
The second focus will try to verify if the medieval character of Francis of Assisi, as we can know through the texts of the XIII century, is the same or not of the one belonged to the modern imagination. The class will analyse matches, frictions and historical projections of the past on the present through seminar lessons conceived as a real historical research to share with the students.

1) Francesco d'Assisi. Storia, arte mito, a cura di Marina Benedetti e Tommaso Supini, Carocci editore 2019

2) André Vauchez, Francesco d'Assisi, Einaudi 2010

3) Lecture notes composed by medieval texts on the life of Francis of Assisi – which will be the subject of historical exegesis during the class – and by some historical essays

4) G. Vitolo, Medioevo. I caratteri originali di un'età di transizione, Sansoni 2000: only for students who have never taken an exam of medieval history

5) The students must develop a subject of medieval history in an essay that must be arranged with the teacher during the class for the attendees, in the teacher’s office for non-attending students.

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

Please check bit.ly/dsu-gervasio

The course examines the historical and political trajectory of the Middle East and North Africa from the Colonial Era until today. The students will be introduced to the debate on Orientalism, its role in the colonial era, and its relevance until today. A particular focus will be on the post-colonial era. Among the topics covered there will be: State formation, the role of ideologies (both secular and religious) in the shaping of the region, the intra-regional and international relations of the Region and the so-called ‘Arab Spring’. Students are expected to actively participate to the course.

All the available teaching materials, the announcements and all that is related to this course will be circulated to the registered students via e-mail, and posted on the lecturer’s departmental webpage (bit.ly/dsu-gervasio)

1. R. Owen, State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, Routledge: London & New York: 2004.
2. J. Chalcraft, The Arab Uprisings of 2011 in Historical Perspective in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History, 2016 (available as a pdf file on the course website).

3. One of the following, except for students enrolled in International Studies, or International Relations (Dept of Political Science), who will choose two:


a. G. Achcar, The People Want. A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising, London: Saqi, 2013.
b. L. Anceschi, G. Gervasio & A. Teti (eds), Informal Power in the Greater Middle East. Hidden Geographies, London: Routledge, 2014 & 2016.
c. A. Bayat, Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2017.
d. F. Cavatorta & L. Storm (eds), Political Parties in the Arab World: Continuity and Change, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
e. S. Cook, False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2017.
f. F. A. Gerges, ISIS: A History, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2017.
g. A. Khalil (ed), Gender, Women and the Arab Spring, London & NY: Routledge, 2015.
h. H. Kraetzschmar & P. Rivetti (eds), Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings: Governance, Pluralisation and Contention, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
i. R. Owen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2014.
j. Ch. Tripp, The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2013.

Students may propose books not included in the list, according to their personal interest.


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

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

The course deals with the Bretton Woods currency system and the financial and trading networks of the 20th century; special emphasis is given to the problems of the integration of the underdeveloped countries into the global economy.

I. Cycles and trends in the Second World War
- The conversion of war economies and the rise of mixed economies.
II. The circuits of international trade.
- The Marshall Plan, the birth of the European Union and the Comecon.
- The integration of developing countries and neo 70s.
- The return to free trade in the 80s and the birth of the World Trade Organization.
III. Currency systems
- The Bretton Woods currency system.
- Apogee and decline of the gold-dollar standard exchange rate and flexible regional monetary agreements.

Attending students (only one of the follows):

H. Van der Wee, L’economia mondiale tra crisi e benessere, Milano, Hoepli, 1998, capp. 1-2 e 7-12.
G. Feliu, C. Sudrià, Introduzione alla storia economica mondiale, Padova, CADEM, 2013, capp. 12-18.

Plus:

L. Conte, V. Torreggiani, Istituzioni, capitali e moneta. Storia dei sistemi finanziari contemporanei, Milano, Mondadori, 2017, capp. 4-5 + Epilogo.

Non-attending students (add to above-mentioned books):

Fornasari, La banca, la borsa, lo Stato. Una storia della finanza (secc. XIII-XXI), Torino, Giappichelli, 2017.

The course adopts an international and comparative approach to women’s history in the contemporary age. It will encompass both methodological issues, such as the use of gender as a category, or of biographies, and aspects of the condition of women and the process of their emancipation in Italy and in other western countries. Students will be able to analyze themes of interest to them through discussion and individual or group presentations during classes, and choose most of the texts for the final exam.

Two volumes chosen among the following ones:

Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot, A History of Women in the West, Harvard UP, Cambridge Ma. 1993: 8 essays chosen in the volumes No. 4 and 5 on the 19th and 20th Centuries [available also in other languages]

Tiziana Plebani, Le scritture delle donne in Europa. Pratiche quotidiane e ambizioni letterarie (secoli XIII-XX), Carocci, Roma 2019

Marie Sandell, The Rise of Women’s Transnational Activism, I.B. Tauris, London 2015

Leila J. Rupp, Worlds of Women. The Making of an International Women’s Movement, Princeton University Press, Princeton 1997

Karen Offen, European Feminisms 1700-1950. A Political History, Stanford University Press, Stanford 2000

Daniela Rossini, Donne e propaganda internazionale. Percorsi femminili tra Italia e Stati Uniti nell’età della Grande Guerra, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2015

Alessia Lirosi, Libere di sapere. Il diritto delle donne all’istruzione dal Cinquecento al mondo contemporaneo, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Roma 2015

Elda Guerra, Il dilemma della pace. Femministe e pacifiste sulla scena internazionale, 1914-1939, Viella, Roma 2014

Gisela Bock, Le donne nella storia europea, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003 [available also in English]

Fiamma Lussana, Il movimento femminista in Italia. Esperienze, storie, memorie, Carocci, Roma 2012

Liviana Gazzetta, Orizzonti nuovi. Storia del primo femminismo in Italia (1865-1925), Viella, Roma 2018


and also
the article by Gisela Bock, “Women’s History and Gender History: Aspects of an International Debate”, in Gender and History, vol. 1 N. 1, Spring 1989, pp. 7-30, or the article by Joan W. Scott, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis," American Historical Review 91, No. 5 (December 1986), pp. 1053-75

The first part of the course is an introduction to cultural anthropology: basic features of anthropological reasoning, the notions of relativism, culture, ethnic identity, and ethnographic method, the different subjects of anthropological knowledge, and processes of globalization will be introduced in a historical view.
The second part will focus on magic and witchcraft, through the notion of history, power, body and relatedness. In particular lessons will address belief between spirituality and matter, rationalities and systems of belief, the role of historical and colonial aspects.

Fabietti, Malighetti, Matera, Dal tribale al globale. Introduzione all'antropologia, Bruno Mondadori, 2012.
(Students who already passed though an exam in Cultural Anthropology are requested to contact the teacher for a different text)

One of the following books:

Bellagamba, Alice, L'Africa e la stregoneria. Saggio di antropologia storica, Laterza, 2008.
Brivio, Alessandra, Il vodu in Africa, Viella, 2012.
Evans-Pritchard, Edward, Stregoneria, oracoli e magia tra gli Azande, Raffaello Cortina, 2002.
Taussig, Michael T., Il diavolo e il feticismo della merce, Derive Approdi 2017.

Non attending students should add:
Rivière, Claude, Introduzione all'antropologia (cap. V: "antropologia politica" e cap. VI: "antropologia religiosa"), Il Mulino, 1998.

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

Not attending

Numa Broc, La Geografia del Rinascimento. Cosmografi, cartografi, viaggiatori, Modena, Franco Cosimo Panini, 2007.

Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Trovare, cercare, scoprire. Le tappe della scoperta, in Il mondo dei vichinghi, Ambiente, storia, cultura ed arte, Genova, SAGEP, 1991, pp. 57-77 (The volume is available at the Petrocchi Library. In case of problems, ask the teacher).

This program will be valid from the summer session (May-June) 2020 (and until that of February 2021), since the course will take place in the second semester.

The course will mainly tackle the following topics: the origins of local diplomatic representation; Italian models; social careers and roles of ambassadors and apostolic nuncios; treaties on the diplomatic profession; critical investigation of diplomatic sources; duties and regulations of the diplomatic profession; the actual practices of diplomacy at work in modern-era historical contexts.

Exam texts
1) S. ANDRETTA, L’arte della prudenza. Teorie e prassi della diplomazia nell’Italia del XVI e XVII secolo, Biblink, Roma 2006.
2)G. ALONGE, Ambasciatori. Diplomazia e politica nella Venezia del Rinascimento, Donzelli, Roma 2019
oppure, E. PLEBANI, E.VALERI, P.VOLPINI, Diplomazie. Linguaggi, negoziati e ambasciatori far XV e XVI secolo, ( a cura di), Franco Angeli, Milano 2017

Non-attending students must study in addition to the texts indicated above:

1) R. SABBATINI, P. VOLPINI ( a cura di), Sulla diplomazia in età moderna. Politica, economia, religione, Franco Angeli, Milano 2011;


Or as an alternative choice of 4 essays taken from the books:

a) S. ANDRETTA, S. PÉQUIGNOT, J.-C.WAQUET ( a cura di), De l’ambassadeur. Les écrits relatifs à l’ambassadeur et à l’art de négocier du Moyen Âge au début du XIXe siècle (L’ambasciatore. Scritti relativi all’ambasciatore e all’arte della negoziazione dal Medioevo all’inizio del XIX secolo), EFR, Roma 2015.
b) S.ANDRETTA, S. PÉQUIGNOT, M.K.SCHAUB,J.-C.WAQUET, C. WINDLER ( a cura di), Paroles de négociateurs. L’entretien dans la pratique diplomatique de la fin du Moyen Ȃge à la fin du XIXe siècle (Parole di negoziatori. Pratiche dell’incontro diplomatico dalla fine del Medioevo alla fine del XIX secolo),EFR, Roma 2010

***2020 timetable Semester II, First Class 2 March: The cultural History of Early Modern Europe, M-STO/02, Mondays and Wednesdays 4pm-6pm***

Lectures are held on Mondays (2 hours) and Seminars are held on Wednesdays (2 hours). Classes are scheduled over 9 weeks of the semester. Site Visits around central Rome are scheduled in the 3 final weeks of the course in the place of Lectures. There is at least one scheduled Independent Reading Week during term time, i.e. no classes in that week.

Taking as its focus the early modern period in Europe (1450–1750), this course is structured around one of the field’s most important areas of research in recent decades, cultural history. Applied in its broadest sense, it will provide not only the lens through which we view the period itself, but also our starting point for a critical analysis of its historiography, with a particular focus on classic studies from the Anglophone world that formed the foundations of the field. Our study will be grouped around three key themes that lend themselves best to a cultural-historical analysis: the so-called Renaissance, Reformations, and Age of Discovery. Case studies, primary documents, site visits in Rome, and critical readings of select secondary studies will help us explore the cultural history of the early-modern past, as well as problematize it through assessing the interpretations that have been the most influential in shaping the discipline.
The course will be relevant, not just to those students who are undertaking studies in the pre-modern period, but also to those who wish to broaden their understanding of key historical approaches and methodologies that underpin historical research in any field, especially from the Anglophone world.

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Readings from a variety of primary and secondary sources are set for this course.

All readings are available at the beginning of the course, or on request. They are downloadable in pdf format. For further details and access to the readings, please contact the Lecturer.

A recommended key text that provides useful background to the period (and serves as required reading in a number of classes), is: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Media and Popular Culture (03/03/2020 - 07/05/2020)

Course content:

The consumption of popular culture, on the one hand, and policies aimed at influencing popular culture, on the other, became increasingly salient in 20th century Western societies. Thanks to changes in communications, media, pop music, movies, television programs, advertising, had in fact wider circulation.
Since the beginning of the 20th century, political parties and governments became aware of the importance of controlling and manipulating popular culture, and started developing sophisticated and effective forms of propaganda. Concurrently, popular culture itself became politicised, as protest started to be conveyed in various forms of popular art, especially music. These played an increasingly disruptive role, particularly in countries governed by authoritarian or dictatorial regimes, were they became real counter-propaganda tools.

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

The first part of the course will focus on the analysis of the concepts of "Popular Culture", "Propaganda", "Cultural" and "Public Diplomacy" . The historical processes leading to the emergence of complex propaganda strategies aimed at controlling and directing popular culture will also be examined. Particular attention will be devoted to totalitarian regimes, especially fascism.
The second part of the course will deal with grass-roots forms of "counter-propaganda", focusing in particular on the role of music as a tool of protest in the American continent during the 1970s, paying particular attention to on the Argentine as case studies.

Texbooks and materials:


Beside material provided by the instructor, students attending classes will have to refer to the texbooks suggested by the instructor.


Students not attending classes will have to submit a paper on topic previously approved by the instructor and refer to the following textbooks for the oral exam:

- John Storey, Cultural Theory and Popular Culture. An Introduction, Routledge, 2018, pp. IX-58
- Federico Finchelstein, Transatlantic Fascism: Ideology, Violence, and the Sacred in Argentina and Italy, 1919-1945, Duke University Press, 2010
- Beate Kutschke, Protest Music. Urban Context and Global Perspectives, "International Review of the Aesthetic and Sociology of Music", 46, 2, pp.321-354
- Robert Neustadt, Music as Memory and Torture: Sounds of Repression and Protest in Chile and Argentina,"Chasqui", 33, 1, pp.128-137.

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

1. Andrea Graziosi, L’Unione Sovietica 1914-1991, Bologna, il Mulino, 2011;
2. Andreas Kappeler, La Russia. Storia di un impero multietnico, Roma, Edizioni Lavoro, 2006.

Il corso si svilupperà attraverso nove incontri di 4 ore ciascuno. Verrà esplorato un percorso di scrittura creativa lavorando sulla comunicazione, sulla ricerca del proprio stile e sul tipo di linguaggio che ci appartiene, sulla costruzione dei personaggi da narrare, sul tema e il soggetto del racconto, sull’arco narrativo. Si faranno esercizi guidati di scrittura per sondare le proprie capacità e lavorare sulle eventuali difficoltà. Saranno esplorati vari generi: dalla recensione al resoconto, dal saggio all’articolo giornalistico di cultura alla narrativa,. Verranno inoltre offerti strumenti per realizzare un documentario e per scrivere una sceneggiatura.

Sulla base delle competenze acquisite durante il percorso e delle propensioni individuali verranno creati dei lavori incentrati su un personaggio o un evento storico circoscritto nel tempo. Oltre alla frequenza e al progetto finale è richiesta la scrittura di almeno dieci differenti testi.

reference bibliography:

-Natalie Goldberg, Scrivere zen. Manuale di scrittura creativa, Ubaldini

-Raymond Queneau, Esercizi di stile, Einaudi

-Annamaria Testa, La parola immaginata, Pratiche

-Nadia Tarantini, Laboratorio di scrittura, Franco Angeli

-Nadia Tarantini, Il nostro giornale quotidiano, Pratiche Editrice

-Ersilia Zamponi, I draghi Locopei, Einaudi

-Laura Grimaldi, il giallo e il nero , Pratiche Editrice

-Raymond Carver, Il mestiere di scrivere; Einaudi, Torino 1997.

-Gotham Writers’ Workshop, Lezioni di scrittura Creativa, Dino Audino Editore 2010

-Donna Levin, Scrivere un romanzo, Dino Audino Editore

- -SeymouChatman , Storia e discorso. La struttura narrativa nel romanzo e nel film; Pratiche Editrice, Parma 1981.

-Yves Lavandier, L’ABC della drammaturgia. Vol. 1 e 2; Dino Audino Editore, Roma 2001.

-Vincenzo Cerami, Consigli a un giovane scrittore, Einaudi stile libero

-David Goleman, Lo spirito creativo, Rizzoli

-Patricia Highsmith, Come si scrive un giallo, Minimum Fax

Romanzi storici consigliati:

-Giuliano Capecelatro “Il sole nel labirinto, Il Saggiatore -Rita Charbonnier “La sorella di Mozart” https://www.amazon.it/dp/8856615754/ https://www.mondadoristore.it/La-sorella-di-Mozart-Rita-Charbonnier/eai978885661575/

The course is co-coordinated with professor Gennaro Gervasio (Movimenti e tendenze dell’islam contemporaneo L-OR/10).

During the course tools and methodologies for observing and evaluating the interactions of cultural and religious communities with urban networks of some cities in the Mediterranean area, during the history of longue durée will be offered to students. We will read through texts and direct tracks and sources of involved subjects the characteristics of imbrication and reciprocal consequences among religious, social and political practices.
A particular focus will concern the history of muslim religious places in the space, their relationship with social and political/national, but also international movements in a pedagogical and historical perspective.

Notes from the lessons

M. Bombardieri, M. Giorda, S. Hejazi, Capire l’Islam, Morcelliana Brescia 2019.

F. Ciocca, Musulmani in Italia. Impatti urbani e sociali delle comunità islamiche, Meltemi, Roma, 2018.

The laboratory is an introduction of ethnography as the specific method of anthropological knowledge. Frontal lessons on the history of this methodology will be followed by ethnographic cases, discussions on thematic issue and laboratory proposals to experiment observation, participation, written reports. The laboratory is aimed at acquiring a method and at the same time at fostering an ethnographical sensibility in understanding the social.

Texts to be discussed in class will be given during the course.

Master’s degree course – HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ITALY

Italy: from the birth of the democratic republic to today

This course is organised on different levels.
The basic level will focus on the following topics: the origins of the democratic system, the Economic Miracle and the “Great Transformation” (with changes in society and mores) and the long-standing roots of anti-politics and populism, from the Movimento dell’Uomo Qualunque (the Common Man’s Movement) up to the recent ascent of populist movements like the New League and the Five Star Movement.

This part of the course lays the foundation for both Module 1 and 2. Each module will then provide a more in-depth look at some topics.

MODULE 1
In the Module 1 the following topics will be analysed: the large-scale transformations during the sixties and the change in mores, the important changes in women’s conditions, the 1968 protest, the hot autumn of 1969, civil rights movements, the Piazza Fontana bombing and the “Strategy of Tension”, the political-economic crisis, armed struggle and political violence, the Movement of 1977, the “Historic Compromise”, the Case of Aldo Moro, changes in collective ethos, the advent of commercial TV, the emergence of the politics of spectacle, the foundations and development of the eighties.

Within this framework, students may choose to more closely examine one of the following topics:
- Changes in the condition of women and the feminist movement;
- The "strategy of tension" and the parliamentary and extra-parliamentary right;
- The Red Brigades and the kidnapping of Aldo Moro.

MODULE 2
This Module furthers the reflections on populism already developed in Module 1 by picking up where they left off and expanding on them, placing them within the broader context of the events of recent years.
Therefore, we will look more closely at the Movimento dell’Uomo Qualunque (the Common Man’s Movement). Then the following topics will be dealt with: the crisis of the so-called “First Republic”, the collapse of the party system with “Tangentopoli”, Berlusconi’s rise to power and “Berlusconism”, the choice to become part of the Eurozone, the reasons why “Berlusconism” was successful and then why it began to decline between Liberalism and Populism, the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the emergence of the Five Star Movement and the New League.

BASIC TEXTS for both Module 1 and Module 2:

- Emanuele Felice, Ascesa e declino. Storia economica d’Italia, Il Mulino, only chapters V, VI and VII.
- Marco Tarchi, L’Italia populista. Dal Qualunquismo a Beppe Grillo, Il Mulino

Please note: If students feel they need to acquire the foundational knowledge of the history of Italy in the second half of the twentieth century, they may read the chapters on Italy in the contemporary history textbooks for the university (for example: Alberto Mario Banti, L’età Contemporanea. Dalla Grande Guerra a oggi, Laterza, Rome– Bari)

This common foundation is then divided into 2 modules, each worth 6 university credits.

Students who need to earn 6 university credits must do Module 1, in addition to the shared foundation part of the course.

Students who need to earn 12 university credits must do both Module 1 and 2, in addition to the shared foundation part of the course.


MODULE 1 (6 university credits): This module takes a closer look at the large-scale transformations of the sixties and seventies, with their potentials and contradictions.

1) Required reading for all students:
- S. Colarizi, Un paese in movimento. L’Italia negli anni Sessanta e Settanta, Laterza

2) Further study options:
After the required reading, students may choose ONE of the following topics for further study:

a) The condition of women and the women’s movement
- Perry Wilson, Italiane. Biografia del Novecento, Laterza (from Chapter 7 to the end)
- Fiamma Lussana, Il Movimento femminista in Italia, Carocci (whole book)

b) The right and the "Strategy of tension"
- Davide Conti, L’Anima nera della repubblica, Laterza

c) The Red Brigades and the case of Aldo Moro
- Agostino Giovagnoli, Il Caso Moro, Il Mulino


MODULE 2 (6 university credits)

1) Required reading for all students:
- Valerio Coladonato and Andrea Sangiovanni (eds.), Cinema e Populismo. Modelli e immaginari di una categoria politica, monographic issue of the journal Cinema e Storia, Rubbettino
Students need not read the entire book, just the introduction by Coladonato and Sangiovanni as well as the essays by Costanza Salvi, Anna Schober, Agnese Bertolotti and Domanico Guzzo.


2) For further study:
In Module 2, after the required reading, students may choose ONE of the following for further study:

a) Maurizio Cocco, Qualunquismo. Una storia politica e culturale dell’Uomo Qualunque, Le Monnier.

b) Giovanni Orsina, Il Berlusconismo nella storia d’Italia, Marsilio.

Main topics covered in the course:
1 Ancient and modern historiographical issues: the modalities of the Spanish conquest.
2 The formation of contemporary Latin America: the abolition of slavery in the nineteenth century.
3 Latin America in the twentieth century: economy, society, institutions, culture.
4 The current geopolitical continental situation.

The exam consists of two parts, a general part and a monographic part.
General part, composed of two texts:
-Nocera, R., Trento, A., America latina, un secolo di storia. Dalla Rivoluzione messicana a oggi, Carocci, 2013;
-Zanatta, L., Storia dell’America latina contemporanea, Roma, Laterza, 2015 (or subsequent editions).

Monographic part. A book chosen from the following:
-Guarnieri Calò Carducci, L., La questione indigena in Perù, Roma, Bulzoni, 2010 (The anthology of texts is an essential part of the book).
-Pompejano, D., Il dio nero degli uomini bianchi, Roma, Carocci, 2015.
-Rojas Mix, M., I cento nomi d’America, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2005.
-Vargas Llosa, A., Libertà per l’America latina. Come porre fine a cinquecento anni di oppressione dello Stato, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2007.

In recent decades, the theme of local development has assumed a central role in the development debate. The lessons will present the concepts and methods of local development, understood not only as a growth process for an aggregation of local companies, but as a diversified territorial development process based on SELF-ORGANIZING CAPACITY OF LOCAL NETWORKS OF ACTORS and on the sustainable exploitation of tangible and intangible resources available in a certain territory, including the social and cultural spheres.
The high expectations of the early days on the potential of local development has recently been followed by a less optimistic phase. Today's challenge is to avoid the trap of localism and rethink local development even in new terms, to give cities and territories the ability to respond to economic, social and environmental pressures of the globalized world. Special attention will also be given to the "NEW" FORMS OF TOURIST DEVELOPMENT.Some case studies in Italy not only will help to deepen some of the addressed issues.
There will be lectures, eventual seminars and an educational excursion.

1) Lorenzo CIAPETTI, 2010, "Lo sviluppo locale", il Mulino (ALL THE BOOK)

2) Elena DELL'AGNESE, 2018, "Bon voyage, Per una geografia critica del turismo", UTET (only the following chapters: 1, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14).

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

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

Documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, produced by Luc Besson, 2009, «Home» (in english: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU)

The course is designed to introduce graduate students in foreign languages to the study of contemporary world politics through the analysis of the main analytical frameworks in the discipline of international relations as well as of different regional approaches to the study of world politics

H. Kissinger, World Order (Allen Lane 2014)

O.A. Westad, The Cold War: A World History (Basic Books, 2017)

The course will analyze the evolution of relations between the United States and Europe from the end of the Second World War to the crisis of US global hegemony. More specifically, the course will debate key moments in the origins and evolution of the transatlantic relationship during the Cold War, such as the Atlantic Charter, the Marshall plan, the formation and evolution of NATO, détente and the Vietnam conflict, Germany unification and the end of the East-West division. Th evolution of relations between the United States and Europe after the end of the Cold War will also be presented and debated.

Textbook: G. Lundestad, The United States and Western Europe Since 1945: From "Empire" by Invitation to Transatlantic Drift (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Alongside the textbook students must prepare for the exam on one of the following books:

E. Hallams, L. Ratti, B. Zyla (eds), NATO Beyond 9/11: The Transformation of the Atlantic Alliance, (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2013)

L. Ratti, A Not-So-Special Relationship: The US, The UK and German Unification, 1945-1990 (EUP, 2017)

S. Sloan, Defense of the West. NATO, the European Union and the Transatlantic Bargain (MUP, 2016)

Cultural skills (Knowledge of:) the course provides the conceptual basis for understanding (a) the ecological and genetic principles as applied to biodiversity conservation problems (b) the set of problems related to the interaction between human activities and natural environments
Methodological skills (Knowing how to perform:) ability (in theory and in practice) to (a) correctly carry out red listing procedures (according to the IUCN method) and assessment of the conservation status of flora and fauna at risk of extinction and to (b) monitor at-risk species and know about the main conservation techniques (e.g., legal protection, protected areas, reintroductions, etc.).

SYLLABUS

Threats to plant Biodiversity
- Habitat destruction and fragmentation
- Habitat degradation
- Alien species
- Climate change

Threats assessment – IUCN Red Lists
- Red lists (general information), global, European and Italian red lists
- Guidelines for Using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria
- Application of the Guidelines to real cases

In situ conservation
- Legal protection (EU Directive, Natura 2000, Italian national and regional legislation, USA legislation and Australian legislation), Protected areas in the world
- Restoration Ecology conservation translocation (general information, techniques, extreme translocation)
- Monitoring of threatened species (monitoring techniques of species listed in the Directive 92/43/EEC)

Ex situ plant conservation
- Botanical gardens and seed banks

Ex situ cultivation of species extinct in the wild and plant traits measurment (Bromus interruptus and Bromus bromoideus)

For the general topics:
Groom et al., 2012. Principles of Conservation Biology. Third Edition. Sinauer Associates.

For the red listing:
Rossi G., Gentili R., Abeli T., Gargano D., Foggi B., Raimondo F. M., Blasi C., 2008. Flora da conservare. Iniziativa per l’implementazione in Italia delle Categorie e dei Criteri IUCN (2001) per la redazione di nuove Liste Rosse. Informatore Botanico Italiano 40 (1). ISSN-0020-0697.

For conservation translocation:
Rossi G., Amosso C., Orsenigo S., Abeli T., 2013. Linee guida per la traslocazione di specie vegetali spontanee. Quad. Cons. Natura, 28, MATTM – Ist. Sup. Protezione e Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Roma. ISSN 1592-2901.

For species monitoring:
Giacanelli V., Conti F., Bartolucci F., Ercole S., T. Abeli T., Aleffi M., Gargano D., Ravera S. 2016. Le specie vegetali di direttiva in Italia. In: Ercole S., Giacanelli V., Bacchetta G., Fenu G., Genovesi P. (ed.), 2016. Manuali per il monitoraggio di specie e habitat di interesse comunitario (Direttiva 92/43/CEE) in Italia: specie vegetali. ISPRA, Serie Manuali e linee guida, 140/2016.

• Le sei mogli di Enrico VIII di A. Korda, 1933
• Un uomo per tutte le stagioni di F. Zinnemann, 1966
• Anna dei mille giorni di C. Jarrott, 1969
• Maria Stuarda, regina di Scozia di C. Jarrott, 1971
• Elizabeth di S. Kapur, 1998
• Elizabeth: the Golden Age di S. Kapur, 2007
• I Tudors, 2007-2010
• L’altra donna del re di J. Chadwick, 2008
• Anonymous di R. Emmerich, 2011
• The White Queen, 2013
• Maria regina di Scozia di Josie Rourke, 2018

The communication of the sacred in the West Christianity in the early modern age

The course intends to take into consideration the historical and historiographical theme of the transmission of doctrines and religious experiences in the period of Protestant and Catholic reforms and of the confessional discipline (XVI-XVII century).
We will analyse the different sources through which the diffusion of the religious message took place (biblical texts, catechisms, preaching, religious literature, iconography, music) and the different expressions of devotion and spirituality that testify to their reception, with particular attention to the historiographical debate. on the topics covered.

1) Dossier of documents provided from the teacher (download from personal website).

2) PIETRO STELLA, Il libro religioso, a cura di MARIA LUPI, Roma, Viella, 2008, up to p. 197.

3) A book between:
- MICHELA CATTO, Un panopticon catechistico. L’arciconfraternita della dottrina cristiana a Roma in età moderna, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2003.
- La musica dei semplici, L’altra Controriforma, a cura di STEFANIA NANNI, Roma, Viella, 2012.
- PAOLO PRODI, Arte e pietà nella Chiesa tridentina, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2014.
- Gli Italiani e la Bibbia nella prima età moderna. Leggere, interpretare, riscrivere, a cura di ERMINIA ARDISSINO e ÉLISE BOILLET, Turnhout, Brepols, 2018 (collection Études renaissantes).

Attending students will be provided with other indications during the lessons.

It is recommended to those who have never supported an examination on the early modern history of Christianity to provide a manual, for example: Storia del Cristianesimo. L’età moderna, a cura di G. Filoramo e D. Menozzi, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1995 or another in different language.

Media and Popular Culture (03/03/2020 - 07/05/2020)

Course content:

The consumption of popular culture, on the one hand, and policies aimed at influencing popular culture, on the other, became increasingly salient in 20th century Western societies. Thanks to changes in communications, media, pop music, movies, television programs, advertising, had in fact wider circulation.
Since the beginning of the 20th century, political parties and governments became aware of the importance of controlling and manipulating popular culture, and started developing sophisticated and effective forms of propaganda. Concurrently, popular culture itself became politicised, as protest started to be conveyed in various forms of popular art, especially music. These played an increasingly disruptive role, particularly in countries governed by authoritarian or dictatorial regimes, were they became real counter-propaganda tools.

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

The first part of the course will focus on the analysis of the concepts of "Popular Culture", "Propaganda", "Cultural" and "Public Diplomacy" . The historical processes leading to the emergence of complex propaganda strategies aimed at controlling and directing popular culture will also be examined. Particular attention will be devoted to totalitarian regimes, especially fascism.
The second part of the course will deal with grass-roots forms of "counter-propaganda", focusing in particular on the role of music as a tool of protest in the American continent during the 1970s, paying particular attention to on the Argentine as case studies.

Texbooks and materials:


Beside material provided by the instructor, students attending classes will have to refer to the texbooks suggested by the instructor.


Students not attending classes will have to submit a paper on topic previously approved by the instructor and refer to the following textbooks for the oral exam:

- John Storey, Cultural Theory and Popular Culture. An Introduction, Routledge, 2018, pp. IX-58
- Federico Finchelstein, Transatlantic Fascism: Ideology, Violence, and the Sacred in Argentina and Italy, 1919-1945, Duke University Press, 2010
- Beate Kutschke, Protest Music. Urban Context and Global Perspectives, "International Review of the Aesthetic and Sociology of Music", 46, 2, pp.321-354
- Robert Neustadt, Music as Memory and Torture: Sounds of Repression and Protest in Chile and Argentina,"Chasqui", 33, 1, pp.128-137.

"ITALIAN PHOTOGRAPHY AND IDENTITY: testimony and historical memory" is a laboratory, held by Manuela Fugenzi (photo editor journalist and photo critic) to offer an articulated activity on historical and contemporary photography, aimed at making the students understand the role of photography as witness of civil society and its narrative potential.

Topics and activities of the laboratory lessons:
• Identification of a social-historical theme on which to carry out iconographic research
• Analog photography, digital photography
• The language of the photographic sequence
• Photographic genres and online archives: accesses and research methodologies
• The archive photo card: verification of information and editing of the caption
Online iconographic research carried out by the students
• Selection of images and how to build a photo story in sequence
• Editing of the selected photographs and related captions, editing of texts and photographic credits
• Creation of a digital iconographic insert by PowerPoint program

Religions and Gender Relations

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

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

Woods and swamps. Public Estates and Commons in Medieval Italy. Aim of this course is to analyse Public Estates and Commons Management in Medieval Italy, from 8th tu 13th century. We will compare different Case Studies, from Lombard Kingdom to Southern Italy in Norman-Swabian Period.Public Estates in Early Medieval Europe.

V. Loré, Curtis regia e beni dei duchi. Il patrimonio pubblico nel regno longobardo, in Biens publics, biens du roi. Les bases économiques des pouvoirs royaux dans le haut Moyen Âge / Beni pubblici, beni del re. Le basi economiche dei poteri regi nell’alto medioevo, ed. F. Bougard and V. Loré, Turnhout, Brepols, pp. 31-78, and a choice of three others articles in the same volume (almost one necessarily in english, french or spanish); R. Rao, I paesaggi dell'Italia medievale, Roma, Carocci, 2015, pp. 155-174, 221-237; S. Carocci, “Metodo regressivo” e possessi collettivi: i “demani” del Mezzogiorno (sec. XII-XVIII), in D. Boisseuil et al., Ecritures de l'espace social, Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2010 (open access: https://books.openedition.org/psorbonne/11261?lang=it#ftn19); dossier of Medieval Sources or alternatively Rao, I paesaggi dell'Italia medievale (the whoole book).

This class, entitled “Francesco d’Assisi tra mito e storia” (“Francis of Assisi between myth and history”) want to use the character of saint Francis as an occasion to discover and learn the historic method and as a useful case of study to approach other historical subjects. In particular the class will establish a connection between two focuses of the research. The first-one will deal with the success of saint Francis in the present time in which he could be considered as a marker of the great political and social contradictions of our age: from the conflict between capital and work to the alternative between peace and war, from the environmental question to the more recent globalisation. Furthermore, we will analyse the exceptional success of saint Francis as icon who, being able to encroach upon the myth, shows a non-common creative force in the cultural context: from literature to visual arts, from painting to cinema, from music to philosophy until the reflexions of the psychiatric research.
The second focus will try to verify if the medieval character of Francis of Assisi, as we can know through the texts of the XIII century, is the same or not of the one belonged to the modern imagination. The class will analyse matches, frictions and historical projections of the past on the present through seminar lessons conceived as a real historical research to share with the students.

1) Francesco d'Assisi. Storia, arte mito, a cura di Marina Benedetti e Tommaso Supini, Carocci editore 2019

2) André Vauchez, Francesco d'Assisi, Einaudi 2010

3) Lecture notes composed by medieval texts on the life of Francis of Assisi – which will be the subject of historical exegesis during the class – and by some historical essays

4) G. Vitolo, Medioevo. I caratteri originali di un'età di transizione, Sansoni 2000: only for students who have never taken an exam of medieval history

5) The students must develop a subject of medieval history in an essay that must be arranged with the teacher during the class for the attendees, in the teacher’s office for non-attending students.

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

Please check bit.ly/dsu-gervasio

The course examines the historical and political trajectory of the Middle East and North Africa from the Colonial Era until today. The students will be introduced to the debate on Orientalism, its role in the colonial era, and its relevance until today. A particular focus will be on the post-colonial era. Among the topics covered there will be: State formation, the role of ideologies (both secular and religious) in the shaping of the region, the intra-regional and international relations of the Region and the so-called ‘Arab Spring’. Students are expected to actively participate to the course.

All the available teaching materials, the announcements and all that is related to this course will be circulated to the registered students via e-mail, and posted on the lecturer’s departmental webpage (bit.ly/dsu-gervasio)

1. R. Owen, State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, Routledge: London & New York: 2004.
2. J. Chalcraft, The Arab Uprisings of 2011 in Historical Perspective in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History, 2016 (available as a pdf file on the course website).

3. One of the following, except for students enrolled in International Studies, or International Relations (Dept of Political Science), who will choose two:


a. G. Achcar, The People Want. A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising, London: Saqi, 2013.
b. L. Anceschi, G. Gervasio & A. Teti (eds), Informal Power in the Greater Middle East. Hidden Geographies, London: Routledge, 2014 & 2016.
c. A. Bayat, Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2017.
d. F. Cavatorta & L. Storm (eds), Political Parties in the Arab World: Continuity and Change, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
e. S. Cook, False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2017.
f. F. A. Gerges, ISIS: A History, Princeton: Princeton UP, 2017.
g. A. Khalil (ed), Gender, Women and the Arab Spring, London & NY: Routledge, 2015.
h. H. Kraetzschmar & P. Rivetti (eds), Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings: Governance, Pluralisation and Contention, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018.
i. R. Owen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2014.
j. Ch. Tripp, The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2013.

Students may propose books not included in the list, according to their personal interest.


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

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

This course intends to offer an analysis of Canadian and American histories and to examine the cultural, political, social, and geographical factors that influenced the development of these North American societies. In addition, relations between the two Countries will be examined, focusing on how diplomatic, cultural, economic, and military interactions with other states shaped Canada’s and US’s political and social development.

Readings assigned for lectures and seminars are provided at the beginning of the course.
Some of them are ebooks available electronically on the Ateneo Library system and accessible online; other readings are journal articles that are either available in print form at the Library or online through the University’s electronic journal services.
The required readings are posted by email as WEEKLY SCHEDULE.
All videos or audio screened in class are available on-line.

The course deals with the Bretton Woods currency system and the financial and trading networks of the 20th century; special emphasis is given to the problems of the integration of the underdeveloped countries into the global economy.

I. Cycles and trends in the Second World War
- The conversion of war economies and the rise of mixed economies.
II. The circuits of international trade.
- The Marshall Plan, the birth of the European Union and the Comecon.
- The integration of developing countries and neo 70s.
- The return to free trade in the 80s and the birth of the World Trade Organization.
III. Currency systems
- The Bretton Woods currency system.
- Apogee and decline of the gold-dollar standard exchange rate and flexible regional monetary agreements.

Attending students (only one of the follows):

H. Van der Wee, L’economia mondiale tra crisi e benessere, Milano, Hoepli, 1998, capp. 1-2 e 7-12.
G. Feliu, C. Sudrià, Introduzione alla storia economica mondiale, Padova, CADEM, 2013, capp. 12-18.

Plus:

L. Conte, V. Torreggiani, Istituzioni, capitali e moneta. Storia dei sistemi finanziari contemporanei, Milano, Mondadori, 2017, capp. 4-5 + Epilogo.

Non-attending students (add to above-mentioned books):

Fornasari, La banca, la borsa, lo Stato. Una storia della finanza (secc. XIII-XXI), Torino, Giappichelli, 2017.

The course adopts an international and comparative approach to women’s history in the contemporary age. It will encompass both methodological issues, such as the use of gender as a category, or of biographies, and aspects of the condition of women and the process of their emancipation in Italy and in other western countries. Students will be able to analyze themes of interest to them through discussion and individual or group presentations during classes, and choose most of the texts for the final exam.

Two volumes chosen among the following ones:

Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot, A History of Women in the West, Harvard UP, Cambridge Ma. 1993: 8 essays chosen in the volumes No. 4 and 5 on the 19th and 20th Centuries [available also in other languages]

Tiziana Plebani, Le scritture delle donne in Europa. Pratiche quotidiane e ambizioni letterarie (secoli XIII-XX), Carocci, Roma 2019

Marie Sandell, The Rise of Women’s Transnational Activism, I.B. Tauris, London 2015

Leila J. Rupp, Worlds of Women. The Making of an International Women’s Movement, Princeton University Press, Princeton 1997

Karen Offen, European Feminisms 1700-1950. A Political History, Stanford University Press, Stanford 2000

Daniela Rossini, Donne e propaganda internazionale. Percorsi femminili tra Italia e Stati Uniti nell’età della Grande Guerra, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2015

Alessia Lirosi, Libere di sapere. Il diritto delle donne all’istruzione dal Cinquecento al mondo contemporaneo, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Roma 2015

Elda Guerra, Il dilemma della pace. Femministe e pacifiste sulla scena internazionale, 1914-1939, Viella, Roma 2014

Gisela Bock, Le donne nella storia europea, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2003 [available also in English]

Fiamma Lussana, Il movimento femminista in Italia. Esperienze, storie, memorie, Carocci, Roma 2012

Liviana Gazzetta, Orizzonti nuovi. Storia del primo femminismo in Italia (1865-1925), Viella, Roma 2018


and also
the article by Gisela Bock, “Women’s History and Gender History: Aspects of an International Debate”, in Gender and History, vol. 1 N. 1, Spring 1989, pp. 7-30, or the article by Joan W. Scott, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis," American Historical Review 91, No. 5 (December 1986), pp. 1053-75

Mechanics, astronomy and cosmology; technology and scientific instruments from the Middle Ages to the 18th century.

Besides the texts and articles that will be provided during the classes,

two texts from the following:
A. Koyré, Studi Newtoniani, Einaudi, Torino, 1972
I.B. Cohen, Introduction to Newton's Principia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1978
R.S. Westfall, Newton e la dinamica del XVII secolo, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1982
D. Bertoloni Meli, Thinking with Objects: The Transformation of Mechanics in the Seventeenth Century, Johns Hopkins University Press, London, 2006


Students who cannot attend the classes are requested to contact the teacher.

In this part of the class, will be presented some disciplinary perspective on the study about religion(s); attention will be given to the theme of geography and space as connected to religions from a transdisciplinary perspective. This allows students to observe the religious stratification in a certain territory and theorize its dynamics and strategies. Religious sites are not only places of worship, they are also places where ownership, consuetude, negotiation of interests, creation of symbolic resources, share capital have been challenged. This course provides students with theoretical knowledge of religious space/site, but also with results of some empirical researches about religious sites in cities that are increasingly heterogeneous because of human migration and diaspora phenomena.

For attending students:
1. Notes taken and readings suggested during the course (see uploaded materials)
2. G. Filoramo, M. Giorda, N. Spineto, Manuale di Scienze della religione Morcelliana Brescia 2019
3. C. Russo, A. Saggioro, Roma città plurale, Bulzoni, Roma 2017 oppure M. Burchardt M. Giorda Materializzare la tolleranza: il luoghi multireligiosi, Annali di Trento FBK 2019

Non-attending students have to replace point 1 with the following:
D. Albera, M. Couroucli, I luoghi sacri comuni ai monoteismi. Tra cristianesimo, ebraismo e islam. Brescia, Morcelliana, 2013.

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

Attending students:
- slides in ppt, lesson notes and supplementary learning material that will be provided during the course.
Non-Attending Students:
- A.Cantile, Lineamenti di storia della Cartografia, Roma, Geoweb, 2013 (vol. I, Dalle origini al Cinquecento).
- D. Woodward, Cartografia a stampa nell'Italia del Rinascimento: produttori, distributori e destinatari, Bergamo 2002.

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

Not attending

Numa Broc, La Geografia del Rinascimento. Cosmografi, cartografi, viaggiatori, Modena, Franco Cosimo Panini, 2007.

Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Trovare, cercare, scoprire. Le tappe della scoperta, in Il mondo dei vichinghi, Ambiente, storia, cultura ed arte, Genova, SAGEP, 1991, pp. 57-77 (The volume is available at the Petrocchi Library. In case of problems, ask the teacher).

This program will be valid from the summer session (May-June) 2020 (and until that of February 2021), since the course will take place in the second semester.

The course will mainly tackle the following topics: the origins of local diplomatic representation; Italian models; social careers and roles of ambassadors and apostolic nuncios; treaties on the diplomatic profession; critical investigation of diplomatic sources; duties and regulations of the diplomatic profession; the actual practices of diplomacy at work in modern-era historical contexts.

Exam texts
1) S. ANDRETTA, L’arte della prudenza. Teorie e prassi della diplomazia nell’Italia del XVI e XVII secolo, Biblink, Roma 2006.
2)G. ALONGE, Ambasciatori. Diplomazia e politica nella Venezia del Rinascimento, Donzelli, Roma 2019
oppure, E. PLEBANI, E.VALERI, P.VOLPINI, Diplomazie. Linguaggi, negoziati e ambasciatori far XV e XVI secolo, ( a cura di), Franco Angeli, Milano 2017

Non-attending students must study in addition to the texts indicated above:

1) R. SABBATINI, P. VOLPINI ( a cura di), Sulla diplomazia in età moderna. Politica, economia, religione, Franco Angeli, Milano 2011;


Or as an alternative choice of 4 essays taken from the books:

a) S. ANDRETTA, S. PÉQUIGNOT, J.-C.WAQUET ( a cura di), De l’ambassadeur. Les écrits relatifs à l’ambassadeur et à l’art de négocier du Moyen Âge au début du XIXe siècle (L’ambasciatore. Scritti relativi all’ambasciatore e all’arte della negoziazione dal Medioevo all’inizio del XIX secolo), EFR, Roma 2015.
b) S.ANDRETTA, S. PÉQUIGNOT, M.K.SCHAUB,J.-C.WAQUET, C. WINDLER ( a cura di), Paroles de négociateurs. L’entretien dans la pratique diplomatique de la fin du Moyen Ȃge à la fin du XIXe siècle (Parole di negoziatori. Pratiche dell’incontro diplomatico dalla fine del Medioevo alla fine del XIX secolo),EFR, Roma 2010

150 years after the breach of Porta Pia: Rome capital between the Pontifical State and the Unitary State

Inside a general framework of events and debates, the course intends to analyse the role of Rome as the capital first of the Papal States and then of the Kingdom of Italy, connecting to the more general Roman question seen above all from the observation point represented by the eternal city and its inhabitants. We will start from the Roman Jacobin Republic (1798-1799) to arrive at the crisis of the liberal government in the early twentieth century.
The main historiographic debates related to the role and the importance of the city and the Roman Question in the construction of a united Italy will be recalled and space will be given to reading and commenting on documents, to start the students with a critical approach to literature and sources.

1) Dossier of documents provided from the teacher (download from personal website).
2) MARIO BELARDINELLI, Il Risorgimento e la realizzazione della comunità nazionale, Roma, edizioni Studium, 2011.
3) CATHERINE BRICE, Storia di Roma e dei romani, Roma, Viella, 2009, pp. 9-228.
4) La capitale della nazione. Roma e la sua provincia nella crisi del sistema liberale, a cura di Paolo carusi, Roma, Viella, 2011, pp. 1-94; 123-156.

Attending students will be given further information during the lessons.

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

Environmental History
Unit I – 36 hours - 6 cfu.
Socio-economic changes and environmental alterations from the eighteenth to the new millennium.
- S. Mosley, Storia globale dell’ambiente, il Mulino, Bologna 2013.
- P. Bevilacqua, Tra natura e storia. Ambiente, economia, risorse in Italia, Donzelli, Roma 2000.
- G. Corona, Breve storia dell’ambiente in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2015.
- P. Tino, Le radici della vita. Storia della fertilità della terra nel Mezzogiorno (secoli XIX-XX), Seconda edizione, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2015.
- M. Forti, Malaterra. Come hanno avvelenato l’Italia, Laterza, Bari-Roma 2018.
One of the following books at the choice:
- J. R. McNeill e P. Engelke, La Grande accelerazione. Una storia ambientale dell’Antropocene dopo il 1945, Einaudi, Torino 2018.
- P. Bevilacqua, Il cibo e la terra. Agricoltura, ambiente e salute negli scenari del nuovo millennio, Donzelli, Roma 2018.
- P. Acot, Storia del clima. Dal Big Bang alle catastrofi climatiche, Donzelli, Roma 2004 (especially the Parte seconda and the Parte terza).
- S. Adorno e S. Neri Serneri (a cura di), Industria, ambiente, territorio. Per una storia ambientale delle aree industriali in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna 2009 (especially the introductive essay of S. Adorno e S. Neri Serneri, Per una storia ambientale delle aree industriali in Italia, and the essays of S. Neri Serneri, R. Tolaini, M. Ruzzenenti, A. Ciuffetti, M. G. Rienzo, S. Ruju, S. Adorno).
- S. Luzzi, Il virus del benessere. Ambiente, salute, sviluppo nell’Italia repubblicana, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009.
- S. Neri Serneri, Incorporare la natura. Storie ambientali del Novecento, Carocci, Roma 2005 (espcially the introductive chapter and the Parte prima).
Additional bibliographical references will be provide during lessons.

The course will analyse the historical evolution and the sources of Islamic law; the structure and categories of classical Islamic law, its role in modern legal systems of Islamic countries.

Main subjects of the course:
Relation between sharia and qanun
Colonialism and law
The process of codification of law
Sharia in contemporary Islamic countries
Legal reforms in Islamic countries

Legal institutions to be studied:
Family law (personal status)
contracts and obligations
criminal law
public law

Students actively attending the course will prepare the exam on their notes.

Students not attending the course will use the following texts:
F. Castro, Il modello Islamico, Giappichelli, 2007, Chapters I-V
V. Donini - D. Scolart, la Sharia e il mondo contemporaneo, Carocci 2015

The course is divided in two.
The first part is a general introduction to the basic concepts of public communication. The topics included are: Forms and Devices of Public Communication, Features of the Public Space in Global Communication Networks, and the Development of Public Opinion.
The second part of the course explores the relationship between public communication and the media. The media will be approached as a space for negotiation between civil society and its institutions. Students can take part in an exercise focused on case studies on how old and new media platforms contribute to the narratives of public and political phenomena.

M. Castells (2017), Comunicazione e potere. UBE Paperback, Milano 2017 (nuova edizione) (Capitoli: Le reti digitali e la cultura dell’autonomia; Il potere nella società in rete; La comunicazione nell'età digitale; Intervenire sulle reti di comunicazione: politica mediatica, politica dello scandalo e crisi della democrazia; Riprogrammare le reti di comunicazione: movimenti sociali, politica insorgente e nuovo spazio pubblico).

***2020 timetable Semester II, First Class 2 March: The cultural History of Early Modern Europe, M-STO/02, Mondays and Wednesdays 4pm-6pm***

Lectures are held on Mondays (2 hours) and Seminars are held on Wednesdays (2 hours). Classes are scheduled over 9 weeks of the semester. Site Visits around central Rome are scheduled in the 3 final weeks of the course in the place of Lectures. There is at least one scheduled Independent Reading Week during term time, i.e. no classes in that week.

Taking as its focus the early modern period in Europe (1450–1750), this course is structured around one of the field’s most important areas of research in recent decades, cultural history. Applied in its broadest sense, it will provide not only the lens through which we view the period itself, but also our starting point for a critical analysis of its historiography, with a particular focus on classic studies from the Anglophone world that formed the foundations of the field. Our study will be grouped around three key themes that lend themselves best to a cultural-historical analysis: the so-called Renaissance, Reformations, and Age of Discovery. Case studies, primary documents, site visits in Rome, and critical readings of select secondary studies will help us explore the cultural history of the early-modern past, as well as problematize it through assessing the interpretations that have been the most influential in shaping the discipline.
The course will be relevant, not just to those students who are undertaking studies in the pre-modern period, but also to those who wish to broaden their understanding of key historical approaches and methodologies that underpin historical research in any field, especially from the Anglophone world.

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Readings from a variety of primary and secondary sources are set for this course.

All readings are available at the beginning of the course, or on request. They are downloadable in pdf format. For further details and access to the readings, please contact the Lecturer.

A recommended key text that provides useful background to the period (and serves as required reading in a number of classes), is: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Media and Popular Culture (03/03/2020 - 07/05/2020)

Course content:

The consumption of popular culture, on the one hand, and policies aimed at influencing popular culture, on the other, became increasingly salient in 20th century Western societies. Thanks to changes in communications, media, pop music, movies, television programs, advertising, had in fact wider circulation.
Since the beginning of the 20th century, political parties and governments became aware of the importance of controlling and manipulating popular culture, and started developing sophisticated and effective forms of propaganda. Concurrently, popular culture itself became politicised, as protest started to be conveyed in various forms of popular art, especially music. These played an increasingly disruptive role, particularly in countries governed by authoritarian or dictatorial regimes, were they became real counter-propaganda tools.

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

The first part of the course will focus on the analysis of the concepts of "Popular Culture", "Propaganda", "Cultural" and "Public Diplomacy" . The historical processes leading to the emergence of complex propaganda strategies aimed at controlling and directing popular culture will also be examined. Particular attention will be devoted to totalitarian regimes, especially fascism.
The second part of the course will deal with grass-roots forms of "counter-propaganda", focusing in particular on the role of music as a tool of protest in the American continent during the 1970s, paying particular attention to on the Argentine as case studies.

Texbooks and materials:


Beside material provided by the instructor, students attending classes will have to refer to the texbooks suggested by the instructor.


Students not attending classes will have to submit a paper on topic previously approved by the instructor and refer to the following textbooks for the oral exam:

- John Storey, Cultural Theory and Popular Culture. An Introduction, Routledge, 2018, pp. IX-58
- Federico Finchelstein, Transatlantic Fascism: Ideology, Violence, and the Sacred in Argentina and Italy, 1919-1945, Duke University Press, 2010
- Beate Kutschke, Protest Music. Urban Context and Global Perspectives, "International Review of the Aesthetic and Sociology of Music", 46, 2, pp.321-354
- Robert Neustadt, Music as Memory and Torture: Sounds of Repression and Protest in Chile and Argentina,"Chasqui", 33, 1, pp.128-137.

The course will cover the history of Television and Radio from its beginnings to the present, aiming to provide students with the essential reference elements for understanding Western society of the 20th and 21th century - a historical phase in which mass media (especially TV and radio) became central.
Media relations with politics, culture, industry and the impact they had on Italy will also be explored.
Alongside a theoretical and historical part, classroom teaching will also make use of video and audio extracts, in order to put the students in direct contact with the subject scrutinized.
Contents covered during classes may constitute part of the exam. Class attendance is therefore strongly recommended.

-Irene Piazzoni, Storia delle televisioni in Italia. Dagli esordi alle web tv (Carocci, 2014)
-extracts from several volumes on radio history, put together by the professor (.pdf file provided during classes)

Complementary part:
One additional volume to be chosen among:
-Giovanni Gozzini, La mutazione individualista. Gli italiani e la televisione 1954-2011 (Laterza, 2011)
-Damiano Garofalo, Storia sociale della televisione in Italia (Marsilio, 2018)
-Leonardo Campus, Non solo canzonette. L'Italia della Ricostruzione e del miracolo attraverso il Festival di Sanremo (Le Monnier, 2015)

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

1. Andrea Graziosi, L’Unione Sovietica 1914-1991, Bologna, il Mulino, 2011;
2. Andreas Kappeler, La Russia. Storia di un impero multietnico, Roma, Edizioni Lavoro, 2006.

Il corso si svilupperà attraverso nove incontri di 4 ore ciascuno. Verrà esplorato un percorso di scrittura creativa lavorando sulla comunicazione, sulla ricerca del proprio stile e sul tipo di linguaggio che ci appartiene, sulla costruzione dei personaggi da narrare, sul tema e il soggetto del racconto, sull’arco narrativo. Si faranno esercizi guidati di scrittura per sondare le proprie capacità e lavorare sulle eventuali difficoltà. Saranno esplorati vari generi: dalla recensione al resoconto, dal saggio all’articolo giornalistico di cultura alla narrativa,. Verranno inoltre offerti strumenti per realizzare un documentario e per scrivere una sceneggiatura.

Sulla base delle competenze acquisite durante il percorso e delle propensioni individuali verranno creati dei lavori incentrati su un personaggio o un evento storico circoscritto nel tempo. Oltre alla frequenza e al progetto finale è richiesta la scrittura di almeno dieci differenti testi.

reference bibliography:

-Natalie Goldberg, Scrivere zen. Manuale di scrittura creativa, Ubaldini

-Raymond Queneau, Esercizi di stile, Einaudi

-Annamaria Testa, La parola immaginata, Pratiche

-Nadia Tarantini, Laboratorio di scrittura, Franco Angeli

-Nadia Tarantini, Il nostro giornale quotidiano, Pratiche Editrice

-Ersilia Zamponi, I draghi Locopei, Einaudi

-Laura Grimaldi, il giallo e il nero , Pratiche Editrice

-Raymond Carver, Il mestiere di scrivere; Einaudi, Torino 1997.

-Gotham Writers’ Workshop, Lezioni di scrittura Creativa, Dino Audino Editore 2010

-Donna Levin, Scrivere un romanzo, Dino Audino Editore

- -SeymouChatman , Storia e discorso. La struttura narrativa nel romanzo e nel film; Pratiche Editrice, Parma 1981.

-Yves Lavandier, L’ABC della drammaturgia. Vol. 1 e 2; Dino Audino Editore, Roma 2001.

-Vincenzo Cerami, Consigli a un giovane scrittore, Einaudi stile libero

-David Goleman, Lo spirito creativo, Rizzoli

-Patricia Highsmith, Come si scrive un giallo, Minimum Fax

Romanzi storici consigliati:

-Giuliano Capecelatro “Il sole nel labirinto, Il Saggiatore -Rita Charbonnier “La sorella di Mozart” https://www.amazon.it/dp/8856615754/ https://www.mondadoristore.it/La-sorella-di-Mozart-Rita-Charbonnier/eai978885661575/

The laboratory includes the alternation of frontal lessons and exercises to get theoretical knowledge on the evolution of the concept of cultural heritage and skills on digital and IT tools, including GIS, for the analysis and use of geo-historical sources and cultural heritage themself. During the course, students will be invited to carry out research autonomously, individually or in groups, on a subject agreed, around which will have to demonstrate the ability to put into practice the skills acquired and exposing the results produced.
Basic geographic and computer skills are required (for this purpose it is expected an initial test for admission), analytical skills and ability on working individually and in groups. It also requires studying outside the hours of classroom on working papers provided during the course. In -course tests are planned and students will provide of a paper that will be evaluated in a final examination, which is essential for the acquisition of credits.

Working papers provided during the course

The course is co-coordinated with professor Gennaro Gervasio (Movimenti e tendenze dell’islam contemporaneo L-OR/10).

During the course tools and methodologies for observing and evaluating the interactions of cultural and religious communities with urban networks of some cities in the Mediterranean area, during the history of longue durée will be offered to students. We will read through texts and direct tracks and sources of involved subjects the characteristics of imbrication and reciprocal consequences among religious, social and political practices.
A particular focus will concern the history of muslim religious places in the space, their relationship with social and political/national, but also international movements in a pedagogical and historical perspective.

Notes from the lessons

M. Bombardieri, M. Giorda, S. Hejazi, Capire l’Islam, Morcelliana Brescia 2019.

F. Ciocca, Musulmani in Italia. Impatti urbani e sociali delle comunità islamiche, Meltemi, Roma, 2018.

The laboratory is an introduction of ethnography as the specific method of anthropological knowledge. Frontal lessons on the history of this methodology will be followed by ethnographic cases, discussions on thematic issue and laboratory proposals to experiment observation, participation, written reports. The laboratory is aimed at acquiring a method and at the same time at fostering an ethnographical sensibility in understanding the social.

Texts to be discussed in class will be given during the course.

The following topics will be dealt with during the course:

- the archival document and its characteristics;
- developing an archive;
- selection;
- historical archives;
- methods of organization;
- information systems for archives: local, national, international;
- archives and other cultural assets: libraries, museums, collections;
- historical components of archives.

General texts:

1) One to choose:

- G. Bonfiglio Dosio, Primi passi nel mondo degli archivi. Temi e testi per la formazione archivistica di primo livello, Padova, Cleup, 2010

- L. Giuva-M. Guercio, Archivistica. Teorie, metodi, pratiche, Roma, Carocci, 2014 (capp. 1-6, 14, 17)

- F. Valacchi, Diventare archivisti, Milano, Editrice bibliografica, 2015

2) I. Zanni Rosiello, Gli archivi tra passato e presente, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005

3) M. Bloch, Apologia della storia o mestiere di storico, Torino, Einaudi, 2009, pp. 39-103 (capp. 2-3)

Articles on specific topics:

- G. Cencetti, Scritti archivistici, Roma 1970, pp. 38-69 ("Il fondamento teorico della dottrina archivistica"; "Sull'archivio come universitas rerum"; "Inventario bibliografico e inventario archivistico") - provided in digital format

- C. Pavone, Ma è poi tanto pacifico che l'archivio rispecchi l'istituto?, in "Rassegna degli Archivi di Stato", 1970, pp. 145-149 - provided in digital format

- F. Valenti, Riflessioni sulla natura e struttura degli archivi, in "Rassegna degli Archivi di Stato", 1981, pp. 9-37 - provided in digital format

- A. D'Addario, Lineamenti di storia dell'archivistica (secc. XVI-XIX), in "Archivio storico italiano", 1990, pp. 3-35 - provided in digital format

Codicology
The course aims to address the study of the characteristics of manuscripts, Latin and Greek, with particular regard to their value for philological and historical-cultural studies. In this regard, the external characteristics of the manuscript will be examined (material techniques for preparing the book as a physical object, ways and means of production, with regard to the professional figures involved in the production process), as well as the cultural landscape of the times and places of origin of the manuscript books. An in-depth study will be devoted to the methods and problems of description of the late medieval codices. This course will include both the examination of reproductions of manuscripts, in paper and electronic format, 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 lessons and the discussion of one subject which the student will decide to study in depth. In addition students are required to study the following texts:
• M. Maniaci, Archeologia del manoscritto. Metodi, problemi, bibliografia recente, Roma, Viella, 2003;
• M. L. Agati, Il libro manoscritto da Oriente a Occidente. Per una codicologia comparata, L’Erma di Bretschneider, Roma 2009 (a selection of chapters);
• M. Cursi, Le forme del libro. Dalla tavoletta cerata all’e-book, Il Mulino, Bologna 2016, cap. III (pp. 97-160);
• Two articles among those presented during the course.