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

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

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

Second unit: "The Mediterranean: Corsair Wars, slavery, conversions" (6 CFU)

Bibliography:
Giovanna Fiume, Schiavitù mediterranee. Corsari, rinnegati e santi di età moderna, Milano, Mondadori.
Bruno Pomara Saverino, Rifugiati. I moriscos e l'Italia, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2018, free download here: https://www.fupress.com/catalogo/rifugiati/3516

Students who have to take only 6 ECTS are required to prepare on the first teaching unit.

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

C. Texts:

1. M. Campanini, Il pensiero islamico contemporaneo, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2016.
2. M. Bombardieri - M. C. Giorda - S. Hejazi (a cura di), Capire l'islam. Mito o realtà, Brescia: Morcelliana, 2019.
3. One of the following (see teaching mode) :

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

Students can propose books not included above.

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

- L. Declich, L’Islam in 20 parole, Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2016;
- P. G. Donini, Il mondo islamico. Breve storia dal ‘500 ad oggi, Roma-Bari: Laterza, ultima edizione.


or an an introductory textbook to Islam to choose among:

A. Bausani, Islam, Rizzoli, ultima edizione;

or

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

or

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

The course examines the historical and political trajectory of the Middle East and North Africa from the Colonial Era until today. The students will be introduced to the debate on Orientalism, its role in the colonial era, and its relevance until today. A particular focus will be on the post-colonial era. Among the topics covered there will be: State formation, the role of ideologies (both secular and religious) in the shaping of the region, the intra-regional and international relations of the Region and the so-called ‘Arab Spring’. Students are expected to actively participate to the course.
All the available teaching materials, the announcements and all that is related to this course will be posted on the course webpage (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-SU_oOYtEuo5xuBrjJtoSwfxcwUEK7AW).

REQUIRED READINGS:


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

One of the following:


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


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

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

CONTENT:

PART I – Introduction and description of the course

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

PART II

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

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

This course is taught in English.

Letture richieste:

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

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

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

[ONLY for non-attendees] One additional book of your choice from the following:

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

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

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

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

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

Anders Stephanson, Destino manifesto. L'espansionismo americano e l'Impero del Bene, Feltrinelli, Milano, 2004

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A podcast of the classes is available for everybody on

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

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

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

1) "Tempi del diritto. Età medievale, moderna, contemporanea", 3 ed., Torino, Giappichelli, 2022;
2) P. Alvazzi del Frate, "Individuo e comunità. Considerazioni storico-giuridiche sull'individualismo", Torino, Giappichelli, 2020;

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

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

LGBT believers and queer theologies in Christian churches from the 1960s to today

The sexual experience and conjugal life have represented the terrain on which the Christian churches have opposed the greatest resistance to the social and cultural transformations from the late modern age to the most recent processes of secularization. The question of the relationship between Christian faith and homosexuality, especially in the contemporary age, has triggered a lot of short circuits between the official positions of the Churches and those experiences that have favored the visibility and acceptance of LGBT believers signed by a new pastoral sensitivity and a theological thought attentive to accepting the requests coming from the social sciences and from the movements that claim full civil rights for homosexual people. In some Christian churches, at an official level, homosexuality was considered unnatural and out of the norm, an obstacle to the natural function of generation and to marriage. But the agency of LGBT Christian groups certifies the possibility of reconciliation with the institution and comes to the attention of the historian as a new religious subjectivity.
The course of study will address the topic by proposing a three-phase path: a) to offer a historical overview of the positions taken by the Christian Churches in the twentieth century on a global level on the question of homosexuality, in particular the Catholic and Protestant Churches; b) to analyze some pastoral experiences of groups and movements formed by LGBT Christians since the 1960s, especially in the United States, France and Italy, with the support of recent sociological studies; c) to follow the evolution of the so-called "queer theology", starting from the studies on the relationship between faith and homosexuality up to the most recent contributions.

1. Dossier of historical documents and articles proposed by the professor
2. FRANCESCO TORCHIANI, «Il vizio innominabile». Chiesa e omosessualità nel Novecento, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2021

Notices

Non-attending students are invited to agree on the program with the professor.

The course is divided in two parts: the first one is a general introduction on the basic concepts of public communication. The included topics are: the Forms and Devices of Public Communication, the Relationship between Power and Communication, the Features of the Public Space as a space of discussion articulated on Global Communication Networks. The first part will mainly include frontal lessons supported by PowerPoint presentations.
The second part of the course explores the relationship between public communication and the media. The media will be approached as spaces of negotiation between civil society and the institutions, in which public knowledge is created and reproduced. In particular, the role of the ecosystem of digital platforms and social media will be addressed. Interested students can take part in laboratory activities focused on case studies on how old and new media platforms contribute to the narration of public and political phenomena.

Below are the exam texts presented in the suggested order of reading:

1) M. Castells (2017), Comunicazione e potere. UBE Paperback, Milano 2017 (nuova edizione). The following chapters:
- 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 (up to paragraph “L’impatto politico della politica dello scandalo” INCLUDED)
- Riprogrammare le reti di comunicazione: movimenti sociali, politica insorgente e nuovo spazio pubblico (up to paragraph “Scaldarsi per il riscaldamento globale: il movimento ecologista e la nuova cultura della natura INCLUDED).

2) José van Dijck and Thomas Poell (2013), Understanding Social Media Logic, in Media and Communication, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 2–14
3) José van Dijck (2012), Facebook and the engineering of connectivity: A multi-layered approach to social media platforms, in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 19(2), pp. 141-155
4) José Van Dijck, Thomas Poell, Martijn De Waal (2019), Il sistema dell’informazione (capitolo terzo) in “Platform Society. Valori pubblici e società connessa”, Edizione Italiana a cura di Giovanni Boccia Artieri e Alberto Marinelli, Guerini, Milano, pp. 103-142.
5) Thomas Poell, José van Dijck (2018), Social Media and new protest movements. In The SAGE Handbook of Social Media, 546-561, edited by Jean Burgess, Alice Marwick & Thomas Poell, London, Sage.

The course aims to address the study of the characteristics of Latin and Greek manuscripts, with particular regard to their value for philological and historical-cultural studies. In this regard, both the external characteristics of manuscripts will be examined (material techniques for the preparation of the book as a physical object, methods and tools for its preparation, with regard to the professional figures involved in the production process), and the cultural panorama of the times and places of origin of manuscript books. Therefore, each aspect will be illustrated by choosing a reference manuscript witness.
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, Breve storia del libro manoscritto, Roma, Carocci, 2019;
• 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 examines the following topics:
- the concept of the archive and the archival document;
- the archival bond and the relationship between creator and archive;
- archives and other cultural heritage complexes: similarities and differences;
- phases of archive life: current records, semi-current records, historical archives. Characteristics and management tools.
- The public archives of the State in Italy;
- records appraisal for preservation and disposal;
- elements of the history of the archives and of archival science;
- elements of archival legislation.

General texts:

F. Valacchi, Diventare archivisti, Milano, Editrice bibliografica, 2022;

P. Carucci, M. Guercio, Manuale di archivistica (nuova edizione), Roma, Carocci, 2021, pp. 17-97, 187-203, 259-376, 399-458.

Articles on specific topics:

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

C. Pavone, Ma è poi tanto pacifico che l’archivio rispecchi l’istituto?, in “Rassegna degli Archivi di Stato”, XXX (1970), pp. 145-149.

A. D’Addario, Lineamenti di storia dell’archivistica (secc. XVI-XIX), in “Archivio storico italiano”, CXLVIII (1990), pp. 3-35.

FOR STUDENTS NOT ATTENDING CLASSES:

M. Bloch, Apologia della storia o mestiere di storico, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, 2009 (Per gli studenti dei corsi di laurea magistrale. In particolare: Capitolo secondo L'osservazione storica; Capitolo terzo La critica);

L. Giuva, S. Vitali, I. Zanni Rosiello, Il potere degli archivi. Usi del passato e difesa dei diritti nella società contemporanea, pp. 135-202.

From the origins, cinema has been inspired by historical contents and events for its productions. The audience has always shown keen curiosity and interest in historical events narrated on screen. The course aims to show how cinema can be: a source for historical knowledge, an instrument to tell the past and an agent of history. Cinema is a source for the historical knowledge of the present in which the film has been shot and processed: it provides us with information on ideas and values of the producing society.
On the other hand, when we talk about cinema as an instrument to narrate the past, we refer to the public use of history, a field in which historians have to compete with other professional figures.
Finally, cinema can be considered an agent of history when studying its capability to influence and construct behaviours, trends, passions and identities.
Understanding the various languages and representations can be an essential tool for historians working in the field of cultural and social history interested in the transmission of values, ideas and representations of the historical past of different eras.
The course focuses on representation on cinema and television and in particular on the following topic: “Times of crisis. War, violence and society ".
War and violence are phenomena that goes along with human societies throughout their own development, therefore the course questions the specific aspects of representations and imagery linked to different eras. A conspicuous number of films will be examined and each student will be able to identify their own path by selecting from those indicated, ten films of their own interest.

To this end, the following films and products for television will be analysed; students will have to see and analyse 10 of the following films.

The teaching is organised in seminars, the students will work in teams by deepening topics, readings and ideas related to the films indicated and to a bibliography agreed with the teacher.

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

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

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

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

Readings for the exam:

A) Both the books:

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

B) One book of your choice between:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• De Vecchis G., Pasquinelli d'Allegra D & Pesaresi C., Didattica della Geografia, Utet, 2020.
• Giorda C. (a cura di), L’immagine del mondo nella geografia dei bambini. Una ricerca sui materiali scolastici e parascolastici italiani fra Otto e Novecento, Franco Angeli, 2021 (Available in open access: https://series.francoangeli.it/index.php/oa/catalog/book/683)
• Papers suggested by Professor.

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 and eventual workshops/excursion.

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

Supplementary book:
Enrico Giovannini e Donato Speroni, 2019
"Un mondo sostenibile in 100 foto",
Roma, Laterza
This book can be downloaded directly from the Laterza publishing house (free registration).
With regard to the second book ('Un mondo sostenibile in 100 foto'), exam questions can only cover the introduction 'La grande sfida' (pp.2- 19) and the conclusion 'Per rimanere aggiornati' (pp. 235-247). The rest of the book is not to be studied for the exam but is indispensable for one's general education and awareness as a citizen.

The course aims at presenting one of the main nodes of the so-called Philosophies of Habit, that is the reflection on the relationship between crisis and modification of individual and social habits at the heart of several philosophical reflections on habit from modernity onwards, with particular attention to the development that this theme assumes especially from the 19th century, at the crossroads between philosophy, psychology and social sciences. The first didactic unit (3 CFU) will be devoted to an overview of philosophical theories on habits and customs, from antiquity onwards, with particular attention to the twentieth-century theories of Durkheim, Dewey and Bourdieu. The second didactic unit (3 CFU) will focus on the relationship between crisis and interruption of habits, starting from the analysis of some texts of the late nineteenth century (Dumont, Peirce), and extending the attention to traumatic historical-social events such as the Covid-19 pandemic.

U.D.1:
1. Marco Piazza, Creature dell’abitudine. Abito, costume, seconda natura da Aristotele alle scienze cognitive, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018 (limitedly to chapters 1,2,5)
2. Beate Krais, Gunter Gebauer, Habitus, Rome, Armando, 2009.
U.D.2:
3. Léon Dumont, L'abitudine (1876), ed. D. Vincenti, Milan, Mimesis, 2020
4.Charles S. Peirce, Il fissarsi della credenza (1877), in Opere, ed. M.A. Bonfantini, Milan, Bompiani, 2003, pp. 357-371.
5. Charles S. Peirce, Come chiarire le nostre idee (1878), in Opere, ed. M.A. Bonfantini, Milan, Bompiani, 2003, pp. 377-393.
6. Corinna Guerra, Marco Piazza (eds.), Disruption of Habits during the Global Pandemic, Milan, Mimesis International, 2022 (a selection of almost five chapters).

For a humanistic approach to the socio-environmental crisis: the Environmental Humanities
How can we think about humanistic education in an era that is defined as the Anthropocene?
This course addresses the various implications and articulations of an up-to-date humanistic education that is in tune with the issues of the present.

M. Amiero, F. Giardini, D. Angelucci, D. Gentili, D. Balicco, I. Bussoni, Environmental Humanities I. Scienze sociali, politica, ecologia, DeriveApprodi 2021

It is monographic course. We will focus on the historical development of the relation between sociology and the forms of institutional regulation during modernity. The path will develop as follows:
- Socio-institutional regulation during modernity (horizontalism in the nineteenth century; verticalism and golden age of the State; contemporary neo-horizontalism);
- The criss-cross alternation law: forms of regulation and forms of social theory;
- Sociological verticalism in the classics of sociology;
- Horizontalism in twentieth century’s sociology;
- The paradigm delay.

After the long period analysis, in the second part we will focus on the present by examining a recent research about the changing influence of social peripherality on electoral behavior.

1. Romano O., "La libertà verticale. Come affrontare il declino di un modello sociale", Meltemi, Milano 2019.
2. Valbruzzi M. (a cura di), "Come votano le periferie", Il Mulino, Bologna 2021 [Solo la "Parte I: Prospettiva nazionale comparata", pp. 1-112].

Religions and Gender Relations

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

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

STORIA DEI SISTEMI POLITICI EUROPEI

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

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

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

IN COMUNE PER TUTTI:

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

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

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

TEMA: "L'Italia nelle trasformazioni internazionali tra la fine del XX secolo e l'inizio del XXI secolo"
TESTO: "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
- Vol. I, "Fine della guerra fredda e globalizzazione" a cura di Silvio Pons, Adriano Roccucci, Federico Romero
Chi sceglie questo volume deve studiare i saggi di:
- Federico Romero, "L'Italia nelle trasformazioni sociali di fine Novecento", pp. 15-34;
- Silvio Pons, "La bipolarità italiana e la fine della Guerra Fredda", pp. 35-53,
- Valerio Castronovo, "L’Italia nel mercato globale", pp. 71-83;
- Antonio Varsori, "Dalla caduta del Muro di Berlino a Tangentopoli: la dimensione internazionale della crisi della Prima Repubblica”, pp. 209-222;
- Daniela Preda, "Il lungo travaglio istituzionale europeo (1992-2012)", pp. 299-315

TEMA: "Mutamento sociale e cambiamento dei costumi nell'Italia tra la fine del XX e l'inizio del XXI secolo.
TESTO: "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
- Vol. II, "Il mutamento sociale", a cura di Enrica Asquer, Emanuele Bernardi, Carlo Fumian.
Chi sceglie questo volume deve studiare i saggi di:
- Chiara Saraceno, "Famiglie, rapporti di genere e generazioni, politiche sociali", pp. 81-97
- Paolo Capuzzo, "I consumi tra economia e cultura nell’Italia del dopo boom (1973-2008)", pp. 179-197,
- Emanuela Scarpellini, "Consumi e attori sociali: le nuove identità dei consumatori italiani", pp. 199-210,
- Stefano Cavazza, "Consumi, società e politica in Italia (1980-2000)", pp. 211-225
- Giovanni Gozzini, "La televisione tra due repubbliche", pp. 227-242

TEMA: Il Sistema politico degli anni Ottanta, la crisi e il crollo, "Tangentopoli", l'avvento di Berlusconi, il nuovo sistema politico bipolare tra fine XX e inizio XXI secolo
TESTO: "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
- Vol. III, "Istituzioni e politica", a cura di Simona Colarizi, Agostino Giovagnoli, Paolo Pombeni.
Chi sceglie questo volume deve studiare i saggi di:
- Simona Colarizi, "Politica e antipolitica dalla Prima alla Seconda repubblica", pp. 333-347;
- Paolo Segatti, "La nascita della Lega: un capitolo di una storia che ci appartiene", pp. 351-360;
- Filippo Sbrana. Nord non chiama Sud. Genesi e sviluppi della questione settentrionale", pp. 361-381
- Gianfranco Baldini, "Forza Italia: un partito unico", pp. 423-435;
- Andrea Possieri, "Un riformismo incompiuto: il primo governo Prodi", pp. 509-528.

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

TEMA: "L'Italia nelle trasformazioni internazionali tra la fine del XX secolo e l'inizio del XXI secolo"
TESTO: "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
- Vol. I, "Fine della guerra fredda e globalizzazione" a cura di Silvio Pons, Adriano Roccucci, Federico Romero
Chi sceglie questo volume deve studiare i saggi di:
- Federico Romero, "L'Italia nelle trasformazioni sociali di fine Novecento", pp. 15-34;
- Silvio Pons, "La bipolarità italiana e la fine della Guerra Fredda", pp. 35-53,
- Valerio Castronovo, "L’Italia nel mercato globale", pp. 71-83;
- Antonio Varsori, "Dalla caduta del Muro di Berlino a Tangentopoli: la dimensione internazionale della crisi della Prima Repubblica”, pp. 209-222;
- Daniela Preda, "Il lungo travaglio istituzionale europeo (1992-2012)", pp. 299-315

TEMA: "Mutamento sociale e cambiamento dei costumi nell'Italia tra la fine del XX e l'inizio del XXI secolo.
TESTO: "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
- Vol. II, "Il mutamento sociale", a cura di Enrica Asquer, Emanuele Bernardi, Carlo Fumian.
Chi sceglie questo volume deve studiare i saggi di:
- Chiara Saraceno, "Famiglie, rapporti di genere e generazioni, politiche sociali", pp. 81-97
- Paolo Capuzzo, "I consumi tra economia e cultura nell’Italia del dopo boom (1973-2008)", pp. 179-197,
- Emanuela Scarpellini, "Consumi e attori sociali: le nuove identità dei consumatori italiani", pp. 199-210,
- Stefano Cavazza, "Consumi, società e politica in Italia (1980-2000)", pp. 211-225
- Giovanni Gozzini, "La televisione tra due repubbliche", pp. 227-242

TEMA: Il Sistema politico degli anni Ottanta, la crisi e il crollo, "Tangentopoli", l'avvento di Berlusconi, il nuovo sistema politico bipolare tra fine XX e inizio XXI secolo
TESTO: "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
- Vol. III, "Istituzioni e politica", a cura di Simona Colarizi, Agostino Giovagnoli, Paolo Pombeni.
Chi sceglie questo volume deve studiare i saggi di:
- Simona Colarizi, "Politica e antipolitica dalla Prima alla Seconda repubblica", pp. 333-347;
- Paolo Segatti, "La nascita della Lega: un capitolo di una storia che ci appartiene", pp. 351-360;
- Filippo Sbrana. Nord non chiama Sud. Genesi e sviluppi della questione settentrionale", pp. 361-381
- Gianfranco Baldini, "Forza Italia: un partito unico", pp. 423-435;
- Andrea Possieri, "Un riformismo incompiuto: il primo governo Prodi", pp. 509-528.

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

Monder Kilani, L’invenzione dell’Altro. Saggi sul discorso antropologico, Parte prima (Capitoli 1, 2, 3, ,4, 5) e della Seconda parte il capitolo 11.

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

- Tabet, Le dita tagliate, Ediesse, 2014;
- Grilli S., Zanotelli F. (a cura di), Scelte di famiglia. Tendenze della parentela nella società contemporanea, Edizioni ETS, da p.65 a p.164;
- Guillaumin C., 2020, Sesso, Razza e Pratica del Potere. L’idea di Natura, Ombre Corte, solo le seguenti parti: “Pratica del potere”, “Razza e natura. Sistemi di marchi, idea di gruppi naturali”, “’Lo so, ma…’ o gli avatar della nozione di razza”;
- Gribaldo, A., La Natura scomposta. Riproduzione assistita, genere, parentela. Luca Sossella editore, 2005;
- Piasere L., L’antiziganismo, Quodlibet, 2015 abbinato a P. Tabet, La pelle giusta, 1998 (disponibile in ebook)
- Bisogno, Francesco, Ronzon, Flora, (a cura) 2007, Altri generi. Inversioni e variazioni di genere tra culture, Il dito e la luna (volume messo a disposizione dalla docente).

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

* Claude Lévi-Strauss (1984), "Natura e Cultura", in Le strutture elementari della parentela, Feltrinelli, pp. 39-50;
* Clifford Geertz (1998), “L’impatto del concetto di cultura sul concetto di uomo”, in C. Geertz, Interpretazione di culture, Il Mulino, pp. 45-70;
* Nicole-Claude Mathieu, “Sesso e genere”, in Non si nasce donna. Percorsi, testi e contesti del femminismo materialista in Francia, a cura di Garbagnoli Sara e Perilli Vincenza, Alegre, pp. 101-112;
* Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo, 1979, “Lavoro domestico e attività pubblica: sul ruolo sociale dei sessi”, in Miceli Rosaria, Oppressione della donna e ricerca antropologica, Savelli Editore, pp. 27-58;
* Kim TallBear, “Fare l’amore e le relazioni oltre il sesso e la famiglia dei coloni”, in Making Kin. Fare parentele, non popolazioni, Derive Approdi, pp. 163-181.
* Ribeiro Corossacz Valeria, “Brasile: criminalizzazione dell’aborto, razzismo e pratiche politiche delle donne”, in Dai nostri corpi sotto attacco. Aborto e Politica, a cura di Ilaria Boiano e Caterina Botti, Ediesse, 2019, pp. 169- 182.

Students not attending classes will also study Francesco Remotti, Contro Natura. Laterza, 2008, from p.11 to p. 26, and from p. 86 to p.191 (chapters 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11).

Monder Kilani, L’invenzione dell’Altro. Saggi sul discorso antropologico, Parte prima (Capitoli 1, 2, 3, ,4, 5) e della Seconda parte il capitolo 11.

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

- Tabet, Le dita tagliate, Ediesse, 2014;
- Grilli S., Zanotelli F. (a cura di), Scelte di famiglia. Tendenze della parentela nella società contemporanea, Edizioni ETS, da p.65 a p.164;
- Guillaumin C., 2020, Sesso, Razza e Pratica del Potere. L’idea di Natura, Ombre Corte, solo le seguenti parti: “Pratica del potere”, “Razza e natura. Sistemi di marchi, idea di gruppi naturali”, “’Lo so, ma…’ o gli avatar della nozione di razza”;
- Gribaldo, A., La Natura scomposta. Riproduzione assistita, genere, parentela. Luca Sossella editore, 2005;
- Piasere L., L’antiziganismo, Quodlibet, 2015 abbinato a P. Tabet, La pelle giusta, 1998 (disponibile in ebook)
- Bisogno, Francesco, Ronzon, Flora, (a cura) 2007, Altri generi. Inversioni e variazioni di genere tra culture, Il dito e la luna (volume messo a disposizione dalla docente).

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

Dispensa Natura/cultura
* Claude Lévi-Strauss (1984), "Natura e Cultura", in Le strutture elementari della parentela, Feltrinelli, pp. 39-50;
* Clifford Geertz (1998), “L’impatto del concetto di cultura sul concetto di uomo”, in C. Geertz, Interpretazione di culture, Il Mulino, pp. 45-70;
* Nicole-Claude Mathieu, “Sesso e genere”, in Non si nasce donna. Percorsi, testi e contesti del femminismo materialista in Francia, a cura di Garbagnoli Sara e Perilli Vincenza, Alegre, pp. 101-112;
* Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo, 1979, “Lavoro domestico e attività pubblica: sul ruolo sociale dei sessi”, in Miceli Rosaria, Oppressione della donna e ricerca antropologica, Savelli Editore, pp. 27-58;
* Kim TallBear, “Fare l’amore e le relazioni oltre il sesso e la famiglia dei coloni”, in Making Kin. Fare parentele, non popolazioni, Derive Approdi, pp. 163-181.
* Ribeiro Corossacz Valeria, “Brasile: criminalizzazione dell’aborto, razzismo e pratiche politiche delle donne”, in Dai nostri corpi sotto attacco. Aborto e Politica, a cura di Ilaria Boiano e Caterina Botti, Ediesse, 2019, pp. 169- 182.

Students not attending classes will also study Francesco Remotti, Contro Natura. Laterza, 2008, from p.11 to p. 26, and from p. 86 to p.191 (chapters 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11).

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.).

The exam program will be valid from the 2023 summer session.
Not attending
- Guglielmo Scaramellini, La geografia dei viaggiatori. Raffigurazioni individuali e immagini collettive nei resoconti di viaggio, Milano, Unicopli, 1993 o 1998, solo la Parte seconda, pp. 55-111.
- Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Dall’esperienza del viaggio al sapere geografico, in Geotema, n° 8 (1997), Il viaggio come fonte di conoscenze geografiche, pp. 3-12 (https://uniroma3.sharepoint.com/:b:/r/sites/AA2223-GEOGRAFIAELETTERATURADELVIAGGIO-20710063DASCENZO2/Documenti%20condivisi/General/Caraci%20Dall%27esperienza%20del%20viaggio%20al%20sapere%20geografico%20OCR.pdf?csf=1&web=1&e=mpg1f1).
- Annalisa D'Ascenzo, Annalisa D'Ascenzo, Il viaggio prima del viaggio. Credenze, miti e desideri dalle esperienze odeporiche terrestri a quelle extraterrestri, in Annalisa D'Ascenzo (a cura di), I viaggi e la modernità. Dalle grandi esplorazioni geografiche ai mondi extraterrestri, Roma, CISGE – Centro Italiano per gli Studi Storico-Geografici, 2021, https://www.cisge.it/ojs/index.php/Volumi/article/view/1092.

Attending
Materials provided during the lessons.

Through a critical-thinking approach, the course analyzes the emergence of capitalism in the medieval age up to contemporary society by covering the main forms of capitalism (merchant, industrial and financial) and the thought of Smith, Marx, Weber, Schumpeter, Keynes and Hayek.

Attending students

Geoffrey Ingham, Capitalismo, Einaudi, Torino 2010.
Giampaolo Conte, Riformare i vinti. Storia e critica delle riforme liberal-capitaliste, Guerini e Associati, Milano 2022.

Non-attending students (only one of these):

F. Braudel, La dinamica del capitalismo, Il Mulino, Bologna 2016.
J. Kocka, Capitalismo, una breve storia, Carocci, Roma 2017.
P. Bowles, Il capitalismo, Il Mulino, Bologna 2009.
L. Pellicani, La genesi del capitalismo e le origini della modernità, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2013 (NO capitoli 2, 3, 8 e 10).
L. Gallino, Finanzacapitalismo, Einaudi, Torino 2013.
B. Milanovic, Capitalismo contro capitalismo. La sfida che deciderà il nostro futuro, Roma-Bari, Laterza 2020.
G. Claeys, Marx e il marxismo, Einaudi, Torino 2020.

- Vivere l’Etnografia, a cura di Cappelletto, Seid, 2009.

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

- Abu-Lughod, L., Sentimenti velati. Onore e poesia in una società beduina, Bollati Boringhieri, 2004.
- Ribeiro Corossacz V., Bianchezza e mascolinità, Meltemi, 2015;
- Malinowski B., Argonauti del Pacifico Occidentale. Bollati Boringhieri, 2011;
- Ruth Behar e Deborah A. Gordon, editors, 1995, Women writing culture, i seguenti capitoli: Introduction (pp. 1-29), capitolo 8 (pp. 166-185) e capitolo 9 (pp. 186-206);
- Tsing Lowenhaupt, A. Il fungo alla fine del mondo. La possibilità di vivere nelle rovine del capitalismo. Keller, 2021;
- James Clifford, I frutti puri impazziscono, Bollati Boringhieri, 1999, Introduzione e parte Prima
- Wekker Gloria, 2006, The politics of passion: women's sexual culture in the afro-surinamese diaspora, Columbia University Press, solo i seguenti capitoli: capitolo 1 (pp. 1-54) e capitolo 2 (pp. 55-82).

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

* Michela Fusaschi, 2018, “L’etnografia attraversata dal genere. Uno sguardo storico e pratico-politico sulle soggettività”, in Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa, n.2, pp. 387-401;
* Alice Bellagamba, “Antropologia, femminismo e studi di genere. Esperienze straniere e italiane”, in Gli studi delle donne in Italia, a cura di Paola di Cori e Donatella Barazzetti, Carocci, 2001, pp. 97-117;
* Nicole-Claude Mathieu, "Critiche epistemologiche sulla problematica dei sessi nel discorso etno-antropologico", in dwf, numero 10-11, 1989, pp. 8-54.
* Nicole-Claude Mathieu, “Sesso e genere”, in Non si nasce donna. Percorsi, testi e contesti del femminismo materialista in Francia, a cura di Garbagnoli Sara e Perilli Vincenza, Alegre, pp. 101-112;
* Louise Lamphere, “Unofficial Histories: A Vision of Anthropology from the Margins”, American Anthropologist, Vol. 106, No. 1, 2004, pp. 126-139.

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

- Vivere l’Etnografia, a cura di Cappelletto, Seid, 2009.

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

- Abu-Lughod, L., Sentimenti velati. Onore e poesia in una società beduina, Bollati Boringhieri, 2004.
- Ribeiro Corossacz V., Bianchezza e mascolinità, Meltemi, 2015;
- Malinowski B., Argonauti del Pacifico Occidentale. Bollati Boringhieri, 2011;
- Ruth Behar e Deborah A. Gordon, editors, 1995, Women writing culture, i seguenti capitoli: Introduction (pp. 1-29), capitolo 8 (pp. 166-185) e capitolo 9 (pp. 186-206);
- Tsing Lowenhaupt, A. Il fungo alla fine del mondo. La possibilità di vivere nelle rovine del capitalismo. Keller, 2021;
- James Clifford, I frutti puri impazziscono, Bollati Boringhieri, 1999, Introduzione e parte Prima
- Wekker Gloria, 2006, The politics of passion: women's sexual culture in the afro-surinamese diaspora, Columbia University Press, solo i seguenti capitoli: capitolo 1 (pp. 1-54) e capitolo 2 (pp. 55-82).

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

* Michela Fusaschi, 2018, “L’etnografia attraversata dal genere. Uno sguardo storico e pratico-politico sulle soggettività”, in Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa, n.2, pp. 387-401;
* Alice Bellagamba, “Antropologia, femminismo e studi di genere. Esperienze straniere e italiane”, in Gli studi delle donne in Italia, a cura di Paola di Cori e Donatella Barazzetti, Carocci, 2001, pp. 97-117;
* Nicole-Claude Mathieu, "Critiche epistemologiche sulla problematica dei sessi nel discorso etno-antropologico", in dwf, numero 10-11, 1989, pp. 8-54.
* Nicole-Claude Mathieu, “Sesso e genere”, in Non si nasce donna. Percorsi, testi e contesti del femminismo materialista in Francia, a cura di Garbagnoli Sara e Perilli Vincenza, Alegre, pp. 101-112;
* Louise Lamphere, “Unofficial Histories: A Vision of Anthropology from the Margins”, American Anthropologist, Vol. 106, No. 1, 2004, pp. 126-139.

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

This course aims to offer a deep knowledge e about the history of some subjects and approaches about religion and in particular about authors, works and approaches on the study of the relationship between religion and space (form the geography of religion to the geography of religions)

We will discuss competences about theories, concepts, terminology and methodologies in the study of religions places and the localization of the sacred in the space, through materiality and relations of planning

This course provides students with theoretical knowledge of religious space/site, but also with results of some empirical researches about religious sites in spaces that are increasingly heterogeneous because of human migration and diaspora phenomena.
The main case study that will be examined is case of shared religious places, in urban and extra-urban spaces.

Attending students:

1. course notes, materials and handouts
2. G. Filoramo, M. Giorda, N. Spineto, Manuale di scienze della religione, Morcelliana, Brescia 2019.

3. C. Russo, A. Saggioro, Roma città plurale, Bulzoni 2018 Oppure
Geertz Armin W., Approcci cognitivi ed evoluzionistici alla religione Patron 2020 Oppure
M.Giorda, M. Burchardt, Materializzare la tolleranza: luoghi multireligiosi tra conflitto e adattamento. “Annali di Studi Religiosi” 20, 2019 (open access - on line).
G. Lapis, Dopo le “religioni mondiali”, Morcelliana 2022

Non-attending students will replace item 1 with a book of their choice from among

D. Albera, M. Couroucli, I luoghi sacri comuni ai monoteismi. Tra cristianesimo, ebraismo e islam. Brescia, Morcelliana, 2013.
G. Filoramo, Che cosa è la religione, Einaudi, Torino 2004.

The course examines, from a diachronic perspective, the methods of production, conservation and transmission of archives; the functions and competences attributed to archivists within the political, juridical, social and cultural contexts of which they were an expression; the relationship between the history of archives and the history of institutions. There will also be seminars at city archival institutes and the intervention of experts in the sector.

- Isabella Zanni Rosiello, Archivi e memoria storica, Bologna, il Mulino, 1987;

- E. Lodolini, Storia dell'archivistica italiana. Dal mondo antico alla metà del secolo XX, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2013.

Non-attending students will also study the following articles:

- Arnaldo D’Addario, Lineamenti di storia dell’archivistica (secc. XVI-XIX), in «Archivio storico italiano», 148/1 (1990), pp. 3-35;

- Guido Melis, Il deposito della memoria. L'evoluzione degli archivi amministrativi nella storia italiana, in "Rassegna degli Archivi di Stato", LXI (2001), pp. 208-224.

How to get out of war: strategies of negotiation and peacemaking in the Early Modern Age

In the Early Modern Age, the themes of war, peace and negotiation with internal and external actors of the different political communities were particularly important and they extended from the European continent to the non-European worlds. It was a phenomenon that involved the society as a whole and not only diplomats and soldiers. The tools and practices adopted by the societies of the ancien régime constructed a complex web of actions and theories that ranged from the construction of the diplomatic system to private negotiation in and out of the judicial sphere.

The class will explore the issues of negotiation, pacification, and warfare in early modern societies, analysing paths and strategies of bargaining and peacemaking between Europe and the Americas and exploring theories and practices of warfare.

The course will also include a reading of Immanuel Kant's Perpetual Peace (1795) as a summa of the experience gained in previous centuries.

Three books from the following list:

A) Both the following books:
• Arcangeli, Che cos’è la storia culturale, Carocci, Roma 2007
• M. Merluzzi, La pacificazione del regno: Negoziazione e creazione del consenso in Perù (1533-1581), Viella, Roma 2021

B) One book of your choice within the following:
• P. Broggio e M. P. Paoli, «Stringere la pace». Teorie e pratiche della conciliazione nell’Europa moderna (secoli XV-XVIII), 2011
• G. Brunelli, La guerra in età moderna, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2021
• F. Cantù, L’immagine del nemico, Storia, ideologia e rappresentazione tra età moderna e contemporanea, Viella Roma 2009
• V. Favarò, Pratiche negoziali e reti di potere. Carmine Nicola Caracciolo tra Europa e America (1694-1725), Rubettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2020
• V. Lavenia, Dio in uniforme. Cappellani, catechesi cattolica e soldati in età moderna, Il mulino, Bologna 2018
• P. Volpini, Ambasciatori nella prima età moderna tra corti italiane ed europee, Sapienza Università editrice, Roma 2022

Syllabus TBA

Course Content

Presented within the frame of Religion and Society in Global Perspective, this course explores social, historical, and religious change focusing on western Europe in its relationship with the world. Particular attention will be paid to the Renaissance, Religious Reforms, and the Age of Discovery, starting with the late antique and medieval premises for religious and cultural change, and exploring the transformation of religious/magical beliefs and doctrines, systems of power, identity formation and forms of dissent.
The course introduces students to the foundational themes, methods and skills necessary for the study of upper-level religious and cultural history. With a particular focus on the study of primary sources, it enables students to explore for themselves the characteristics of early modern European religious history in global perspective.
The assessment schedule for this course is set out in stages to allow for the incremental development of core skills in the study of history. It is student-centred and involves a written essay about set primary and secondary readings, an oral presentation, and a final oral exam.

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

Reformation and the history of religious toleration

Testi di riferimento

1) L. Felici, La Riforma protestante nell'Europa del Cinquecento, Roma, Carocci
2) D. Cantimori, Eretici italiani del Cinquecento, Torino, Einaudi

3) Un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:
- M. Firpo, Juan de Valdés e la Riforma nell'Italia del Cinquecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza
- L. Addante, Eretici e libertini nel Cinquecento italiano, Roma-Bari, Laterza
- G. Caravale, Il profeta disarmato. L'eresia di Francesco Pucci nell'Europa del Cinquecento, Bologna, il Mulino
- L. Biasiori, L'eresia di un umanista. Celio Secondo Curione nell'Europa del Cinquecento, Roma, Carocci

Texts adopted
• Walter Panciera, Andrea Zannini, Didattica della storia. Manuale per la formazione degli insegnanti, Mondadori/Le Monnier 2013.
• Marc Bloch, Apologia della storia o Mestiere di storico, Einaudi 2009, pp. 3-168.
• Maurizio Ridolfi, Verso la Public History. Fare e raccontare storia nel tempo presente, Pacini, 2017
• Pietro Corrao, Paolo Viola, Introduzione agli studi di storia, Donzelli 2005

Non-attending students must add a text of their choice from the following:
• Joan W. Scott, Genere politica e storia, Viella 2013
• Sebastian Conrad, Storia globale. Un’introduzione, Carocci 2020
• Elena Papadia, La forza dei sentimenti. Anarchici e socialisti in Italia (1870-1900), il Mulino 2019

1) Tommaso Detti (a cura di), Le guerre in un mondo globale, Viella, Roma 2017
2) Joseph S. Nye Junior, Smart power, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2012 (since page 134)
3) Gaetano Castellini Curiel, Soft power e l’arte della diplomazia culturale, Le Lettere, Firenze 2021

A book of your choice:
a) James Sheehan, L’età post-eroica: guerra e pace nell'Europa contemporanea, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009
b) Mario Isnenghi, Le guerre degli italiani. Parole, immagini, ricordi, 1848-1945, il Mulino, Bologna 2015
c) Lorenzo Benadusi, Ufficiale e gentiluomo. Virtù civili e valori militari in Italia, 1896-1918, Feltrinelli, Milano 2015
d) George Mosse, Le guerre mondiali. Dalla tragedia al mito dei caduti, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2018
e) Silvia Salvatici, Nel nome degli altri. Storia dell’umanitarismo internazionale, il Mulino, Bologna 2015
f) Sergio Marelli, ONG: una storia da raccontare. Dal volontariato alle multinazionali della solidarietà, Carocci, Roma 2015
g) Carlo Felice Casula, Liliosa Azara, Unesco 1945-2005. Un’utopia necessaria: scienza, educazione e cultura nel secolo mondo, Città aperta, Troina 2005, p. 302
h) Victoria De Grazia, L’impero irresistibile. La società dei consumi americani alla conquista del mondo, Einaudi, Torino 2020
i) Enzo Traverso, Il secolo armato. Interpretare le violenze del Novecento, Feltrinelli, Milano 2012
j) Jeremy Black, Le guerre nel mondo contemporaneo, il Mulino, Bologna 2006
k) Nicola Sbetti, Giochi diplomatici. Sport e politica estera nell’Italia del secondo dopoguerra, Viella, Roma 2020
l) Michael L. Krenn, The History of United States Cultural Diplomacy: 1770 to the present day, Bloomsbury, London 2017

The course aims to provide the methodical elements for the analysis of the processes of construction of individual and collective memory and for all public (and political) uses of the past.

In particular, we will discuss those historiographical currents which, especially in Italy, constitute the theoretical basis of the discipline: oral history and cultural history.

Finally, some examples of "good practices" of Public History will also be provided.

A cura di P. Bertella Farnetti - L. Bertucelli -A. Botti
Public history. Discussioni e pratiche
ed. Mimesis 2017

The consumption of popular culture and policies aimed at influencing popular culture became increasingly salient in 20th century Western societies. Also Italian political parties and governments became aware of the importance of controlling and manipulating popular culture, and started developing sophisticated and effective forms of propaganda. Concurrently, popular culture itself became politically engaged, as militancy started to be conveyed in various forms of popular art, as writings, drawings, songs, radio and TV broadcasts and movies. The relationship between propaganda from above and popular cultures from below must not be interpreted in terms of a rigid opposition, but rather of a conflictual relationship capable of influencing each other.
The course aims at providing a general overview of the main trends in the history of italian popular culture from the early to the late 20th century, as well as at introducing students to key arguments in historical scientific research on the topic. In this way, students will develop skills to critically read, think, discuss and write about a set of historiographical arguments and a multiplicity of historical evidence.
In this sense, the course will detect how mass communication, literature and the visual arts determined the attitudes, moods and mentality of Italian society during the twentieth century.
The first part of the course will focus on the analysis of the concepts of "Popular Culture", "Propaganda", “Consensus Building” and "Political Religion”, with special references to the so-said “cultural turn”, which changed many perspectives in Contemporary History.
The second part of the course will deal with the role of Italian media as, at one hand, a pillar of ideological consensus and social stability and, to the other, as antidote to social conformism and State power. The connection between Italian Media, Popular Culture and Political History will be stressed through main periods of Italian history, observing continuity and fractures from Liberal Italy to Fascist regime and from the Cold War to the Second Italian Republic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The course will address the study of the interaction between the technological, economic and political dynamics of human development and those of the natural world, from the 'first' industrial revolution to the beginning of the 21st century.
The course will focus in particular on the period 1945-2000, from which the following subjects will be analysed: the birth of associations for the conservation of the environment; the rise of ecological protest, environmentalist movements and animalism; the development of green cultures and parties in Europe; and the unfolding of the scientific and political debate on climate change. The course will focus on the Italian case: both on environmental and health emergencies in the history of the second half of the 20th century, and on the environmentalist movements and parties that arose and their political course.

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

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

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

The course has a monographic character and aims at meeting some reflections on the ecological, anthropological, social, economic and political crisis of the "development era", focusing on the relation North-South. We will explore, specifically, the "alternatives to development" represented by Franco Cassano’s “Southern thought" and the project for degrowth, in the declination elaborated by Serge Latouche.

1. Cassano F., “Tre modi di vedere il Sud”, Il Mulino, Bologna 2009.

2. Cassano F., "Il pensiero meridiano", Laterza, Bari 2021.

3. Latouche S., “La scommessa della decrescita”, Feltrinelli, Milano 2014.

During the workshop, we will work on single types of sources through both theoretical and practical lessons. Students will be invited to actively participate in the lessons, through works that they will carry out in groups but independently at home and that they will present in the classroom, as well as through active interventions during the lessons.
Visits are planned to some museums in Rome.

There are no textbooks.

Reading of one or more emblematic texts of odeporic literature, commentary and group analysis of emerging themes

The group reading text is identified during the lessons of the Geography and Travel Literature course on the basis of annual contingencies (publications of texts, sources and commentary apparatus, celebrations, anniversaries, etc.)

Some issues relating to the use of oral sources for contemporary history will be addressed, retracing the experiences gained in different Italian contexts starting from the fifties and sixties of the twentieth century. Particular attention will be paid to the construction of the interview, its uses for research, archival conservation and intersections with other disciplines, including public history. In agreement with the teacher, each student will record an interview which they will then have to transcribe and discuss in an essay.

- Bruno Bonomo, Voci della memoria. L’uso delle fonti orali nella ricerca storica, Carocci, 2013.
- Alessandro Portelli, Storie orali. Racconto, immaginazione, dialogo, Donzelli, 2007.
- Texts in pdf that will be provided during the course.

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

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

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

Second unit: "The Mediterranean: Corsair Wars, slavery, conversions" (6 CFU)

Bibliography:
Giovanna Fiume, Schiavitù mediterranee. Corsari, rinnegati e santi di età moderna, Milano, Mondadori.
Bruno Pomara Saverino, Rifugiati. I moriscos e l'Italia, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2018, free download here: https://www.fupress.com/catalogo/rifugiati/3516

Students who have to take only 6 ECTS are required to prepare on the first teaching unit.

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

C. Texts:

1. M. Campanini, Il pensiero islamico contemporaneo, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2016.
2. M. Bombardieri - M. C. Giorda - S. Hejazi (a cura di), Capire l'islam. Mito o realtà, Brescia: Morcelliana, 2019.
3. One of the following (see teaching mode) :

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

Students can propose books not included above.

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

- L. Declich, L’Islam in 20 parole, Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2016;
- P. G. Donini, Il mondo islamico. Breve storia dal ‘500 ad oggi, Roma-Bari: Laterza, ultima edizione.


or an an introductory textbook to Islam to choose among:

A. Bausani, Islam, Rizzoli, ultima edizione;

or

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

or

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

The course examines the historical and political trajectory of the Middle East and North Africa from the Colonial Era until today. The students will be introduced to the debate on Orientalism, its role in the colonial era, and its relevance until today. A particular focus will be on the post-colonial era. Among the topics covered there will be: State formation, the role of ideologies (both secular and religious) in the shaping of the region, the intra-regional and international relations of the Region and the so-called ‘Arab Spring’. Students are expected to actively participate to the course.
All the available teaching materials, the announcements and all that is related to this course will be posted on the course webpage (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-SU_oOYtEuo5xuBrjJtoSwfxcwUEK7AW).

REQUIRED READINGS:


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

One of the following:


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


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

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

CONTENT:

PART I – Introduction and description of the course

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

PART II

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

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

This course is taught in English.

Letture richieste:

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

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

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

[ONLY for non-attendees] One additional book of your choice from the following:

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

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

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

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

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

Anders Stephanson, Destino manifesto. L'espansionismo americano e l'Impero del Bene, Feltrinelli, Milano, 2004

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

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

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

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

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

Supplementary book:
Enrico Giovannini e Donato Speroni, 2019
"Un mondo sostenibile in 100 foto",
Roma, Laterza
This book can be downloaded directly from the Laterza publishing house (free registration).
With regard to the second book ('Un mondo sostenibile in 100 foto'), exam questions can only cover the introduction 'La grande sfida' (pp.2- 19) and the conclusion 'Per rimanere aggiornati' (pp. 235-247). The rest of the book is not to be studied for the exam but is indispensable for one's general education and awareness as a citizen.

LGBT believers and queer theologies in Christian churches from the 1960s to today

The sexual experience and conjugal life have represented the terrain on which the Christian churches have opposed the greatest resistance to the social and cultural transformations from the late modern age to the most recent processes of secularization. The question of the relationship between Christian faith and homosexuality, especially in the contemporary age, has triggered a lot of short circuits between the official positions of the Churches and those experiences that have favored the visibility and acceptance of LGBT believers signed by a new pastoral sensitivity and a theological thought attentive to accepting the requests coming from the social sciences and from the movements that claim full civil rights for homosexual people. In some Christian churches, at an official level, homosexuality was considered unnatural and out of the norm, an obstacle to the natural function of generation and to marriage. But the agency of LGBT Christian groups certifies the possibility of reconciliation with the institution and comes to the attention of the historian as a new religious subjectivity.
The course of study will address the topic by proposing a three-phase path: a) to offer a historical overview of the positions taken by the Christian Churches in the twentieth century on a global level on the question of homosexuality, in particular the Catholic and Protestant Churches; b) to analyze some pastoral experiences of groups and movements formed by LGBT Christians since the 1960s, especially in the United States, France and Italy, with the support of recent sociological studies; c) to follow the evolution of the so-called "queer theology", starting from the studies on the relationship between faith and homosexuality up to the most recent contributions.

1. Dossier of historical documents and articles proposed by the professor
2. FRANCESCO TORCHIANI, «Il vizio innominabile». Chiesa e omosessualità nel Novecento, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2021

Notices

Non-attending students are invited to agree on the program with the professor.

We will explore the advent of fossil fuels with the emergence of the age of coal, the shift to hydrocarbons, and the most recent trend towards renewable energy sources. This will be done by analysing great power politics, political and economic debates on energy, the expansion of fordism and consumerism, the role of multinational oil companies, the pressures for decolonization and the emergence of the environmentalist debate from the 1970s up to the more recent debate on the "Anthropocene" and "decarbonization".

Questions and concepts such as “resource curse”, “conservationism”, “Dutch disease”, “limits of growth”, "peak oil", "sustainable development", "extractivism", will be discussed and informed by the relevant literature (and possibly archival material), and with the help images and documentaries.

This course is taught in English.

For everyone (2 texts):

1. Bruce Podobnik, "Global Energy Shifts. Fostering Sustainability in a Turbulent Age"

2. Van De Graaf/Sovacool, "Global Energy Politics", or Per Hogselius, "Energy and Geopolitics"

For the "non frequentanti", in addition to the previous texts also:

3. Leonardo Maugeri, "The Age of Oil", or Giuliano Garavini, "The Rise and Fall of OPEC"

For the "frequentanti" who take the 8CFU exam: one text selected among the reference material
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Reference material

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

Program: The birth of the scientific concept of culture; Nature, culture and society; The cultural differentiation in modern societies; How society affects the culture; How culture influences society; The processes of transformation, transmission and cultural preservation.

MANUAL
L. Sciolla, Sociologia dei processi culturali, Il Mulino, Bologna

The second can be chosen among following books:
A. Caneva, C. Caneva, Cecilia Costa, F. Orlando, L'immaginario contemporaneo. La grande pro-vocazione delle serie Tv, Mimesis, Milano.
C. Caneva, S. Thuruthyil, M. Sinsin, Filosofie in dialogo. Lexikon universale India Africa Europa, Prefazione di Cecilia Costa, Mimesis, Milano (da fare Introduzione, Prefazione, e 6 voci)
D. Bagnaresi, G. Benzi, R.Butera (a cura di) Fellini e il sacro. Studi e testimonianze, LAS, Roma.
E. Tripaldi, L’Etica della ‘cura’ nel Counselling Analitico Transazionale. Spunti di riflessione in Bioetica, Aracne Editore, Roma.
A. Cocozza, L'agire inatteso. Etica, razionalità e competenze, Franco Angeli, Milano.
Stefania Capogna, Tra sociologia del linguaggio e società digitale, Eurolink University Press.

From the origins, cinema has been inspired by historical contents and events for its productions. The audience has always shown keen curiosity and interest in historical events narrated on screen. The course aims to show how cinema can be: a source for historical knowledge, an instrument to tell the past and an agent of history. Cinema is a source for the historical knowledge of the present in which the film has been shot and processed: it provides us with information on ideas and values of the producing society.
On the other hand, when we talk about cinema as an instrument to narrate the past, we refer to the public use of history, a field in which historians have to compete with other professional figures.
Finally, cinema can be considered an agent of history when studying its capability to influence and construct behaviours, trends, passions and identities.
Understanding the various languages and representations can be an essential tool for historians working in the field of cultural and social history interested in the transmission of values, ideas and representations of the historical past of different eras.
The course focuses on representation on cinema and television and in particular on the following topic: “Times of crisis. War, violence and society ".
War and violence are phenomena that goes along with human societies throughout their own development, therefore the course questions the specific aspects of representations and imagery linked to different eras. A conspicuous number of films will be examined and each student will be able to identify their own path by selecting from those indicated, ten films of their own interest.

To this end, the following films and products for television will be analysed; students will have to see and analyse 10 of the following films.

The teaching is organised in seminars, the students will work in teams by deepening topics, readings and ideas related to the films indicated and to a bibliography agreed with the teacher.

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

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

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

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

Readings for the exam:

A) Both the books:

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

B) One book of your choice between:

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

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

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

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

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

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

The course will tackle the analysis of the Risorgimento as a political, cultural and social process, combining the traditional national approach to the unification process with new studies on the nineteenth century, which propose a global reading of the issues concerning nations and empires in the Age of Revolutions. At the same time, the course provides thematic insights that include:
- the spectacularisation and mediatisation of 19th century politics;
- the relationship between criminal identities and political conflict;
- the symbolic and literary forms of Risorgimento and anti-Risorgimento discourse.

Students attending the course will be required to study:
a)
- Alberto Mario Banti, Il Risorgimento italiano, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2004

This book should be combined by one monograph to choose among:
b)
- Arianna Arisi Rota, I piccoli cospiratori. Politica ed emozioni nei primi mazziniani, il Mulino, Bologna 2010
- Roberto Balzani, Memoria e nostalgia nel Risorgimento. Percorsi di lettura, il Mulino, Bologna 2020
- Francesco Benigno, Terrore e terrorismo. Saggio storico sulla violenza politica, Einaudi, Torino 2018
- Alessandro Bonvini, Risorgimento atlantico. I patrioti italiani e la lotta internazionale per le libertà, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2022
- Maurizio Isabella, Risorgimento in esilio. L'internazionale liberale e l'età delle rivoluzioni, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2011
- Carmine Pinto, La guerra per il Mezzogiorno. Italiani, borbonici e briganti. 1860-1870, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2019
- Lucy Riall, Garibaldi. L'invenzione di un eroe, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2007
- Carlotta Sorba, Il melodramma della nazione. Politica e sentimenti nell'età del Risorgimento, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2015
- Giulio Tatasciore, Briganti d'Italia. Storia di un immaginario romantico, Viella, Roma 2022

c) Written activity (compulsory)
- attending students will produce a summary (max. 2 pages) of the text of their choice (sect. b), to be sent to giulio.tatasciore@uniroma3.it

d) recommended further reading (optional)
- Salvatore Lupo, Il passato del nostro presente. Il lungo Ottocento (1776-1913), Laterza, Roma-Bari 2010


Students not attending the course will be required to study:
a)
- Alberto Mario Banti, Il Risorgimento italiano, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2004

This book should be combined by two monographs to choose among:
b)
- Arianna Arisi Rota, I piccoli cospiratori. Politica ed emozioni nei primi mazziniani, il Mulino, Bologna 2010
- Roberto Balzani, Memoria e nostalgia nel Risorgimento. Percorsi di lettura, il Mulino, Bologna 2020
- Francesco Benigno, Terrore e terrorismo. Saggio storico sulla violenza politica, Einaudi, Torino 2018
- Alessandro Bonvini, Risorgimento atlantico. I patrioti italiani e la lotta internazionale per le libertà, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2022
- Maurizio Isabella, Risorgimento in esilio. L'internazionale liberale e l'età delle rivoluzioni, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2011
- Carmine Pinto, La guerra per il Mezzogiorno. Italiani, borbonici e briganti. 1860-1870, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2019
- Lucy Riall, Garibaldi. L'invenzione di un eroe, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2007
- Carlotta Sorba, Il melodramma della nazione. Politica e sentimenti nell'età del Risorgimento, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2015
- Giulio Tatasciore, Briganti d'Italia. Storia di un immaginario romantico, Viella, Roma 2022

c) Written activity (compulsory)
- non attending students will produce a summary (max. 2 pages) of the two texts of their choice (sect. b), to be sent to giulio.tatasciore@uniroma3.it

d) recommended further reading (optional)
- Salvatore Lupo, Il passato del nostro presente. Il lungo Ottocento (1776-1913), Laterza, Roma-Bari 2010

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

Textbook:

Natalino Ronzitti, Diritto internazionale, Torino, Giappichelli, last edition (2019)

In addition, the following monographic essay:

Giuseppe Palmisano, Contributo allo studio giuridico dei metodi diplomatici per la soluzione delle controversie tra Stati, Torino, Giappichelli, 2019

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

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

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

• De Vecchis G., Pasquinelli d'Allegra D & Pesaresi C., Didattica della Geografia, Utet, 2020.
• Giorda C. (a cura di), L’immagine del mondo nella geografia dei bambini. Una ricerca sui materiali scolastici e parascolastici italiani fra Otto e Novecento, Franco Angeli, 2021 (Available in open access: https://series.francoangeli.it/index.php/oa/catalog/book/683)
• Papers suggested by Professor.

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

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

It is monographic course. We will focus on the historical development of the relation between sociology and the forms of institutional regulation during modernity. The path will develop as follows:
- Socio-institutional regulation during modernity (horizontalism in the nineteenth century; verticalism and golden age of the State; contemporary neo-horizontalism);
- The criss-cross alternation law: forms of regulation and forms of social theory;
- Sociological verticalism in the classics of sociology;
- Horizontalism in twentieth century’s sociology;
- The paradigm delay.

After the long period analysis, in the second part we will focus on the present by examining a recent research about the changing influence of social peripherality on electoral behavior.

1. Romano O., "La libertà verticale. Come affrontare il declino di un modello sociale", Meltemi, Milano 2019.
2. Valbruzzi M. (a cura di), "Come votano le periferie", Il Mulino, Bologna 2021 [Solo la "Parte I: Prospettiva nazionale comparata", pp. 1-112].

Religions and Gender Relations

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

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

STORIA DEI SISTEMI POLITICI EUROPEI

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

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

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

IN COMUNE PER TUTTI:

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

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

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

TEMA: "L'Italia nelle trasformazioni internazionali tra la fine del XX secolo e l'inizio del XXI secolo"
TESTO: "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
- Vol. I, "Fine della guerra fredda e globalizzazione" a cura di Silvio Pons, Adriano Roccucci, Federico Romero
Chi sceglie questo volume deve studiare i saggi di:
- Federico Romero, "L'Italia nelle trasformazioni sociali di fine Novecento", pp. 15-34;
- Silvio Pons, "La bipolarità italiana e la fine della Guerra Fredda", pp. 35-53,
- Valerio Castronovo, "L’Italia nel mercato globale", pp. 71-83;
- Antonio Varsori, "Dalla caduta del Muro di Berlino a Tangentopoli: la dimensione internazionale della crisi della Prima Repubblica”, pp. 209-222;
- Daniela Preda, "Il lungo travaglio istituzionale europeo (1992-2012)", pp. 299-315

TEMA: "Mutamento sociale e cambiamento dei costumi nell'Italia tra la fine del XX e l'inizio del XXI secolo.
TESTO: "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
- Vol. II, "Il mutamento sociale", a cura di Enrica Asquer, Emanuele Bernardi, Carlo Fumian.
Chi sceglie questo volume deve studiare i saggi di:
- Chiara Saraceno, "Famiglie, rapporti di genere e generazioni, politiche sociali", pp. 81-97
- Paolo Capuzzo, "I consumi tra economia e cultura nell’Italia del dopo boom (1973-2008)", pp. 179-197,
- Emanuela Scarpellini, "Consumi e attori sociali: le nuove identità dei consumatori italiani", pp. 199-210,
- Stefano Cavazza, "Consumi, società e politica in Italia (1980-2000)", pp. 211-225
- Giovanni Gozzini, "La televisione tra due repubbliche", pp. 227-242

TEMA: Il Sistema politico degli anni Ottanta, la crisi e il crollo, "Tangentopoli", l'avvento di Berlusconi, il nuovo sistema politico bipolare tra fine XX e inizio XXI secolo
TESTO: "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
- Vol. III, "Istituzioni e politica", a cura di Simona Colarizi, Agostino Giovagnoli, Paolo Pombeni.
Chi sceglie questo volume deve studiare i saggi di:
- Simona Colarizi, "Politica e antipolitica dalla Prima alla Seconda repubblica", pp. 333-347;
- Paolo Segatti, "La nascita della Lega: un capitolo di una storia che ci appartiene", pp. 351-360;
- Filippo Sbrana. Nord non chiama Sud. Genesi e sviluppi della questione settentrionale", pp. 361-381
- Gianfranco Baldini, "Forza Italia: un partito unico", pp. 423-435;
- Andrea Possieri, "Un riformismo incompiuto: il primo governo Prodi", pp. 509-528.

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

TEMA: "L'Italia nelle trasformazioni internazionali tra la fine del XX secolo e l'inizio del XXI secolo"
TESTO: "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
- Vol. I, "Fine della guerra fredda e globalizzazione" a cura di Silvio Pons, Adriano Roccucci, Federico Romero
Chi sceglie questo volume deve studiare i saggi di:
- Federico Romero, "L'Italia nelle trasformazioni sociali di fine Novecento", pp. 15-34;
- Silvio Pons, "La bipolarità italiana e la fine della Guerra Fredda", pp. 35-53,
- Valerio Castronovo, "L’Italia nel mercato globale", pp. 71-83;
- Antonio Varsori, "Dalla caduta del Muro di Berlino a Tangentopoli: la dimensione internazionale della crisi della Prima Repubblica”, pp. 209-222;
- Daniela Preda, "Il lungo travaglio istituzionale europeo (1992-2012)", pp. 299-315

TEMA: "Mutamento sociale e cambiamento dei costumi nell'Italia tra la fine del XX e l'inizio del XXI secolo.
TESTO: "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
- Vol. II, "Il mutamento sociale", a cura di Enrica Asquer, Emanuele Bernardi, Carlo Fumian.
Chi sceglie questo volume deve studiare i saggi di:
- Chiara Saraceno, "Famiglie, rapporti di genere e generazioni, politiche sociali", pp. 81-97
- Paolo Capuzzo, "I consumi tra economia e cultura nell’Italia del dopo boom (1973-2008)", pp. 179-197,
- Emanuela Scarpellini, "Consumi e attori sociali: le nuove identità dei consumatori italiani", pp. 199-210,
- Stefano Cavazza, "Consumi, società e politica in Italia (1980-2000)", pp. 211-225
- Giovanni Gozzini, "La televisione tra due repubbliche", pp. 227-242

TEMA: Il Sistema politico degli anni Ottanta, la crisi e il crollo, "Tangentopoli", l'avvento di Berlusconi, il nuovo sistema politico bipolare tra fine XX e inizio XXI secolo
TESTO: "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
- Vol. III, "Istituzioni e politica", a cura di Simona Colarizi, Agostino Giovagnoli, Paolo Pombeni.
Chi sceglie questo volume deve studiare i saggi di:
- Simona Colarizi, "Politica e antipolitica dalla Prima alla Seconda repubblica", pp. 333-347;
- Paolo Segatti, "La nascita della Lega: un capitolo di una storia che ci appartiene", pp. 351-360;
- Filippo Sbrana. Nord non chiama Sud. Genesi e sviluppi della questione settentrionale", pp. 361-381
- Gianfranco Baldini, "Forza Italia: un partito unico", pp. 423-435;
- Andrea Possieri, "Un riformismo incompiuto: il primo governo Prodi", pp. 509-528.

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

- Vivere l’Etnografia, a cura di Cappelletto, Seid, 2009.

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

- Abu-Lughod, L., Sentimenti velati. Onore e poesia in una società beduina, Bollati Boringhieri, 2004.
- Ribeiro Corossacz V., Bianchezza e mascolinità, Meltemi, 2015;
- Malinowski B., Argonauti del Pacifico Occidentale. Bollati Boringhieri, 2011;
- Ruth Behar e Deborah A. Gordon, editors, 1995, Women writing culture, i seguenti capitoli: Introduction (pp. 1-29), capitolo 8 (pp. 166-185) e capitolo 9 (pp. 186-206);
- Tsing Lowenhaupt, A. Il fungo alla fine del mondo. La possibilità di vivere nelle rovine del capitalismo. Keller, 2021;
- James Clifford, I frutti puri impazziscono, Bollati Boringhieri, 1999, Introduzione e parte Prima
- Wekker Gloria, 2006, The politics of passion: women's sexual culture in the afro-surinamese diaspora, Columbia University Press, solo i seguenti capitoli: capitolo 1 (pp. 1-54) e capitolo 2 (pp. 55-82).

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

* Michela Fusaschi, 2018, “L’etnografia attraversata dal genere. Uno sguardo storico e pratico-politico sulle soggettività”, in Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa, n.2, pp. 387-401;
* Alice Bellagamba, “Antropologia, femminismo e studi di genere. Esperienze straniere e italiane”, in Gli studi delle donne in Italia, a cura di Paola di Cori e Donatella Barazzetti, Carocci, 2001, pp. 97-117;
* Nicole-Claude Mathieu, "Critiche epistemologiche sulla problematica dei sessi nel discorso etno-antropologico", in dwf, numero 10-11, 1989, pp. 8-54.
* Nicole-Claude Mathieu, “Sesso e genere”, in Non si nasce donna. Percorsi, testi e contesti del femminismo materialista in Francia, a cura di Garbagnoli Sara e Perilli Vincenza, Alegre, pp. 101-112;
* Louise Lamphere, “Unofficial Histories: A Vision of Anthropology from the Margins”, American Anthropologist, Vol. 106, No. 1, 2004, pp. 126-139.

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

- Vivere l’Etnografia, a cura di Cappelletto, Seid, 2009.

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

- Abu-Lughod, L., Sentimenti velati. Onore e poesia in una società beduina, Bollati Boringhieri, 2004.
- Ribeiro Corossacz V., Bianchezza e mascolinità, Meltemi, 2015;
- Malinowski B., Argonauti del Pacifico Occidentale. Bollati Boringhieri, 2011;
- Ruth Behar e Deborah A. Gordon, editors, 1995, Women writing culture, i seguenti capitoli: Introduction (pp. 1-29), capitolo 8 (pp. 166-185) e capitolo 9 (pp. 186-206);
- Tsing Lowenhaupt, A. Il fungo alla fine del mondo. La possibilità di vivere nelle rovine del capitalismo. Keller, 2021;
- James Clifford, I frutti puri impazziscono, Bollati Boringhieri, 1999, Introduzione e parte Prima
- Wekker Gloria, 2006, The politics of passion: women's sexual culture in the afro-surinamese diaspora, Columbia University Press, solo i seguenti capitoli: capitolo 1 (pp. 1-54) e capitolo 2 (pp. 55-82).

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

* Michela Fusaschi, 2018, “L’etnografia attraversata dal genere. Uno sguardo storico e pratico-politico sulle soggettività”, in Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa, n.2, pp. 387-401;
* Alice Bellagamba, “Antropologia, femminismo e studi di genere. Esperienze straniere e italiane”, in Gli studi delle donne in Italia, a cura di Paola di Cori e Donatella Barazzetti, Carocci, 2001, pp. 97-117;
* Nicole-Claude Mathieu, "Critiche epistemologiche sulla problematica dei sessi nel discorso etno-antropologico", in dwf, numero 10-11, 1989, pp. 8-54.
* Nicole-Claude Mathieu, “Sesso e genere”, in Non si nasce donna. Percorsi, testi e contesti del femminismo materialista in Francia, a cura di Garbagnoli Sara e Perilli Vincenza, Alegre, pp. 101-112;
* Louise Lamphere, “Unofficial Histories: A Vision of Anthropology from the Margins”, American Anthropologist, Vol. 106, No. 1, 2004, pp. 126-139.

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

Monder Kilani, L’invenzione dell’Altro. Saggi sul discorso antropologico, Parte prima (Capitoli 1, 2, 3, ,4, 5) e della Seconda parte il capitolo 11.

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

- Tabet, Le dita tagliate, Ediesse, 2014;
- Grilli S., Zanotelli F. (a cura di), Scelte di famiglia. Tendenze della parentela nella società contemporanea, Edizioni ETS, da p.65 a p.164;
- Guillaumin C., 2020, Sesso, Razza e Pratica del Potere. L’idea di Natura, Ombre Corte, solo le seguenti parti: “Pratica del potere”, “Razza e natura. Sistemi di marchi, idea di gruppi naturali”, “’Lo so, ma…’ o gli avatar della nozione di razza”;
- Gribaldo, A., La Natura scomposta. Riproduzione assistita, genere, parentela. Luca Sossella editore, 2005;
- Piasere L., L’antiziganismo, Quodlibet, 2015 abbinato a P. Tabet, La pelle giusta, 1998 (disponibile in ebook)
- Bisogno, Francesco, Ronzon, Flora, (a cura) 2007, Altri generi. Inversioni e variazioni di genere tra culture, Il dito e la luna (volume messo a disposizione dalla docente).

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

* Claude Lévi-Strauss (1984), "Natura e Cultura", in Le strutture elementari della parentela, Feltrinelli, pp. 39-50;
* Clifford Geertz (1998), “L’impatto del concetto di cultura sul concetto di uomo”, in C. Geertz, Interpretazione di culture, Il Mulino, pp. 45-70;
* Nicole-Claude Mathieu, “Sesso e genere”, in Non si nasce donna. Percorsi, testi e contesti del femminismo materialista in Francia, a cura di Garbagnoli Sara e Perilli Vincenza, Alegre, pp. 101-112;
* Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo, 1979, “Lavoro domestico e attività pubblica: sul ruolo sociale dei sessi”, in Miceli Rosaria, Oppressione della donna e ricerca antropologica, Savelli Editore, pp. 27-58;
* Kim TallBear, “Fare l’amore e le relazioni oltre il sesso e la famiglia dei coloni”, in Making Kin. Fare parentele, non popolazioni, Derive Approdi, pp. 163-181.
* Ribeiro Corossacz Valeria, “Brasile: criminalizzazione dell’aborto, razzismo e pratiche politiche delle donne”, in Dai nostri corpi sotto attacco. Aborto e Politica, a cura di Ilaria Boiano e Caterina Botti, Ediesse, 2019, pp. 169- 182.

Students not attending classes will also study Francesco Remotti, Contro Natura. Laterza, 2008, from p.11 to p. 26, and from p. 86 to p.191 (chapters 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11).

Monder Kilani, L’invenzione dell’Altro. Saggi sul discorso antropologico, Parte prima (Capitoli 1, 2, 3, ,4, 5) e della Seconda parte il capitolo 11.

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

- Tabet, Le dita tagliate, Ediesse, 2014;
- Grilli S., Zanotelli F. (a cura di), Scelte di famiglia. Tendenze della parentela nella società contemporanea, Edizioni ETS, da p.65 a p.164;
- Guillaumin C., 2020, Sesso, Razza e Pratica del Potere. L’idea di Natura, Ombre Corte, solo le seguenti parti: “Pratica del potere”, “Razza e natura. Sistemi di marchi, idea di gruppi naturali”, “’Lo so, ma…’ o gli avatar della nozione di razza”;
- Gribaldo, A., La Natura scomposta. Riproduzione assistita, genere, parentela. Luca Sossella editore, 2005;
- Piasere L., L’antiziganismo, Quodlibet, 2015 abbinato a P. Tabet, La pelle giusta, 1998 (disponibile in ebook)
- Bisogno, Francesco, Ronzon, Flora, (a cura) 2007, Altri generi. Inversioni e variazioni di genere tra culture, Il dito e la luna (volume messo a disposizione dalla docente).

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

Dispensa Natura/cultura
* Claude Lévi-Strauss (1984), "Natura e Cultura", in Le strutture elementari della parentela, Feltrinelli, pp. 39-50;
* Clifford Geertz (1998), “L’impatto del concetto di cultura sul concetto di uomo”, in C. Geertz, Interpretazione di culture, Il Mulino, pp. 45-70;
* Nicole-Claude Mathieu, “Sesso e genere”, in Non si nasce donna. Percorsi, testi e contesti del femminismo materialista in Francia, a cura di Garbagnoli Sara e Perilli Vincenza, Alegre, pp. 101-112;
* Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo, 1979, “Lavoro domestico e attività pubblica: sul ruolo sociale dei sessi”, in Miceli Rosaria, Oppressione della donna e ricerca antropologica, Savelli Editore, pp. 27-58;
* Kim TallBear, “Fare l’amore e le relazioni oltre il sesso e la famiglia dei coloni”, in Making Kin. Fare parentele, non popolazioni, Derive Approdi, pp. 163-181.
* Ribeiro Corossacz Valeria, “Brasile: criminalizzazione dell’aborto, razzismo e pratiche politiche delle donne”, in Dai nostri corpi sotto attacco. Aborto e Politica, a cura di Ilaria Boiano e Caterina Botti, Ediesse, 2019, pp. 169- 182.

Students not attending classes will also study Francesco Remotti, Contro Natura. Laterza, 2008, from p.11 to p. 26, and from p. 86 to p.191 (chapters 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11).

Through a critical-thinking approach, the course analyzes the emergence of capitalism in the medieval age up to contemporary society by covering the main forms of capitalism (merchant, industrial and financial) and the thought of Smith, Marx, Weber, Schumpeter, Keynes and Hayek.

Attending students

Geoffrey Ingham, Capitalismo, Einaudi, Torino 2010.
Giampaolo Conte, Riformare i vinti. Storia e critica delle riforme liberal-capitaliste, Guerini e Associati, Milano 2022.

Non-attending students (only one of these):

F. Braudel, La dinamica del capitalismo, Il Mulino, Bologna 2016.
J. Kocka, Capitalismo, una breve storia, Carocci, Roma 2017.
P. Bowles, Il capitalismo, Il Mulino, Bologna 2009.
L. Pellicani, La genesi del capitalismo e le origini della modernità, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2013 (NO capitoli 2, 3, 8 e 10).
L. Gallino, Finanzacapitalismo, Einaudi, Torino 2013.
B. Milanovic, Capitalismo contro capitalismo. La sfida che deciderà il nostro futuro, Roma-Bari, Laterza 2020.
G. Claeys, Marx e il marxismo, Einaudi, Torino 2020.

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.).

The exam program will be valid from the 2023 summer session.
Not attending
- Guglielmo Scaramellini, La geografia dei viaggiatori. Raffigurazioni individuali e immagini collettive nei resoconti di viaggio, Milano, Unicopli, 1993 o 1998, solo la Parte seconda, pp. 55-111.
- Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Dall’esperienza del viaggio al sapere geografico, in Geotema, n° 8 (1997), Il viaggio come fonte di conoscenze geografiche, pp. 3-12 (https://uniroma3.sharepoint.com/:b:/r/sites/AA2223-GEOGRAFIAELETTERATURADELVIAGGIO-20710063DASCENZO2/Documenti%20condivisi/General/Caraci%20Dall%27esperienza%20del%20viaggio%20al%20sapere%20geografico%20OCR.pdf?csf=1&web=1&e=mpg1f1).
- Annalisa D'Ascenzo, Annalisa D'Ascenzo, Il viaggio prima del viaggio. Credenze, miti e desideri dalle esperienze odeporiche terrestri a quelle extraterrestri, in Annalisa D'Ascenzo (a cura di), I viaggi e la modernità. Dalle grandi esplorazioni geografiche ai mondi extraterrestri, Roma, CISGE – Centro Italiano per gli Studi Storico-Geografici, 2021, https://www.cisge.it/ojs/index.php/Volumi/article/view/1092.

Attending
Materials provided during the lessons.

This course aims to offer a deep knowledge e about the history of some subjects and approaches about religion and in particular about authors, works and approaches on the study of the relationship between religion and space (form the geography of religion to the geography of religions)

We will discuss competences about theories, concepts, terminology and methodologies in the study of religions places and the localization of the sacred in the space, through materiality and relations of planning

This course provides students with theoretical knowledge of religious space/site, but also with results of some empirical researches about religious sites in spaces that are increasingly heterogeneous because of human migration and diaspora phenomena.
The main case study that will be examined is case of shared religious places, in urban and extra-urban spaces.

Attending students:

1. course notes, materials and handouts
2. G. Filoramo, M. Giorda, N. Spineto, Manuale di scienze della religione, Morcelliana, Brescia 2019.

3. C. Russo, A. Saggioro, Roma città plurale, Bulzoni 2018 Oppure
Geertz Armin W., Approcci cognitivi ed evoluzionistici alla religione Patron 2020 Oppure
M.Giorda, M. Burchardt, Materializzare la tolleranza: luoghi multireligiosi tra conflitto e adattamento. “Annali di Studi Religiosi” 20, 2019 (open access - on line).
G. Lapis, Dopo le “religioni mondiali”, Morcelliana 2022

Non-attending students will replace item 1 with a book of their choice from among

D. Albera, M. Couroucli, I luoghi sacri comuni ai monoteismi. Tra cristianesimo, ebraismo e islam. Brescia, Morcelliana, 2013.
G. Filoramo, Che cosa è la religione, Einaudi, Torino 2004.

How to get out of war: strategies of negotiation and peacemaking in the Early Modern Age

In the Early Modern Age, the themes of war, peace and negotiation with internal and external actors of the different political communities were particularly important and they extended from the European continent to the non-European worlds. It was a phenomenon that involved the society as a whole and not only diplomats and soldiers. The tools and practices adopted by the societies of the ancien régime constructed a complex web of actions and theories that ranged from the construction of the diplomatic system to private negotiation in and out of the judicial sphere.

The class will explore the issues of negotiation, pacification, and warfare in early modern societies, analysing paths and strategies of bargaining and peacemaking between Europe and the Americas and exploring theories and practices of warfare.

The course will also include a reading of Immanuel Kant's Perpetual Peace (1795) as a summa of the experience gained in previous centuries.

Three books from the following list:

A) Both the following books:
• Arcangeli, Che cos’è la storia culturale, Carocci, Roma 2007
• M. Merluzzi, La pacificazione del regno: Negoziazione e creazione del consenso in Perù (1533-1581), Viella, Roma 2021

B) One book of your choice within the following:
• P. Broggio e M. P. Paoli, «Stringere la pace». Teorie e pratiche della conciliazione nell’Europa moderna (secoli XV-XVIII), 2011
• G. Brunelli, La guerra in età moderna, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2021
• F. Cantù, L’immagine del nemico, Storia, ideologia e rappresentazione tra età moderna e contemporanea, Viella Roma 2009
• V. Favarò, Pratiche negoziali e reti di potere. Carmine Nicola Caracciolo tra Europa e America (1694-1725), Rubettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2020
• V. Lavenia, Dio in uniforme. Cappellani, catechesi cattolica e soldati in età moderna, Il mulino, Bologna 2018
• P. Volpini, Ambasciatori nella prima età moderna tra corti italiane ed europee, Sapienza Università editrice, Roma 2022

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

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

Syllabus TBA

Course Content

Presented within the frame of Religion and Society in Global Perspective, this course explores social, historical, and religious change focusing on western Europe in its relationship with the world. Particular attention will be paid to the Renaissance, Religious Reforms, and the Age of Discovery, starting with the late antique and medieval premises for religious and cultural change, and exploring the transformation of religious/magical beliefs and doctrines, systems of power, identity formation and forms of dissent.
The course introduces students to the foundational themes, methods and skills necessary for the study of upper-level religious and cultural history. With a particular focus on the study of primary sources, it enables students to explore for themselves the characteristics of early modern European religious history in global perspective.
The assessment schedule for this course is set out in stages to allow for the incremental development of core skills in the study of history. It is student-centred and involves a written essay about set primary and secondary readings, an oral presentation, and a final oral exam.

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

Texts adopted
• Walter Panciera, Andrea Zannini, Didattica della storia. Manuale per la formazione degli insegnanti, Mondadori/Le Monnier 2013.
• Marc Bloch, Apologia della storia o Mestiere di storico, Einaudi 2009, pp. 3-168.
• Maurizio Ridolfi, Verso la Public History. Fare e raccontare storia nel tempo presente, Pacini, 2017
• Pietro Corrao, Paolo Viola, Introduzione agli studi di storia, Donzelli 2005

Non-attending students must add a text of their choice from the following:
• Joan W. Scott, Genere politica e storia, Viella 2013
• Sebastian Conrad, Storia globale. Un’introduzione, Carocci 2020
• Elena Papadia, La forza dei sentimenti. Anarchici e socialisti in Italia (1870-1900), il Mulino 2019

1) Tommaso Detti (a cura di), Le guerre in un mondo globale, Viella, Roma 2017
2) Joseph S. Nye Junior, Smart power, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2012 (since page 134)
3) Gaetano Castellini Curiel, Soft power e l’arte della diplomazia culturale, Le Lettere, Firenze 2021

A book of your choice:
a) James Sheehan, L’età post-eroica: guerra e pace nell'Europa contemporanea, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009
b) Mario Isnenghi, Le guerre degli italiani. Parole, immagini, ricordi, 1848-1945, il Mulino, Bologna 2015
c) Lorenzo Benadusi, Ufficiale e gentiluomo. Virtù civili e valori militari in Italia, 1896-1918, Feltrinelli, Milano 2015
d) George Mosse, Le guerre mondiali. Dalla tragedia al mito dei caduti, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2018
e) Silvia Salvatici, Nel nome degli altri. Storia dell’umanitarismo internazionale, il Mulino, Bologna 2015
f) Sergio Marelli, ONG: una storia da raccontare. Dal volontariato alle multinazionali della solidarietà, Carocci, Roma 2015
g) Carlo Felice Casula, Liliosa Azara, Unesco 1945-2005. Un’utopia necessaria: scienza, educazione e cultura nel secolo mondo, Città aperta, Troina 2005, p. 302
h) Victoria De Grazia, L’impero irresistibile. La società dei consumi americani alla conquista del mondo, Einaudi, Torino 2020
i) Enzo Traverso, Il secolo armato. Interpretare le violenze del Novecento, Feltrinelli, Milano 2012
j) Jeremy Black, Le guerre nel mondo contemporaneo, il Mulino, Bologna 2006
k) Nicola Sbetti, Giochi diplomatici. Sport e politica estera nell’Italia del secondo dopoguerra, Viella, Roma 2020
l) Michael L. Krenn, The History of United States Cultural Diplomacy: 1770 to the present day, Bloomsbury, London 2017

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

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

The consumption of popular culture and policies aimed at influencing popular culture became increasingly salient in 20th century Western societies. Also Italian political parties and governments became aware of the importance of controlling and manipulating popular culture, and started developing sophisticated and effective forms of propaganda. Concurrently, popular culture itself became politically engaged, as militancy started to be conveyed in various forms of popular art, as writings, drawings, songs, radio and TV broadcasts and movies. The relationship between propaganda from above and popular cultures from below must not be interpreted in terms of a rigid opposition, but rather of a conflictual relationship capable of influencing each other.
The course aims at providing a general overview of the main trends in the history of italian popular culture from the early to the late 20th century, as well as at introducing students to key arguments in historical scientific research on the topic. In this way, students will develop skills to critically read, think, discuss and write about a set of historiographical arguments and a multiplicity of historical evidence.
In this sense, the course will detect how mass communication, literature and the visual arts determined the attitudes, moods and mentality of Italian society during the twentieth century.
The first part of the course will focus on the analysis of the concepts of "Popular Culture", "Propaganda", “Consensus Building” and "Political Religion”, with special references to the so-said “cultural turn”, which changed many perspectives in Contemporary History.
The second part of the course will deal with the role of Italian media as, at one hand, a pillar of ideological consensus and social stability and, to the other, as antidote to social conformism and State power. The connection between Italian Media, Popular Culture and Political History will be stressed through main periods of Italian history, observing continuity and fractures from Liberal Italy to Fascist regime and from the Cold War to the Second Italian Republic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The course aims to provide the methodical elements for the analysis of the processes of construction of individual and collective memory and for all public (and political) uses of the past.

In particular, we will discuss those historiographical currents which, especially in Italy, constitute the theoretical basis of the discipline: oral history and cultural history.

Finally, some examples of "good practices" of Public History will also be provided.

A cura di P. Bertella Farnetti - L. Bertucelli -A. Botti
Public history. Discussioni e pratiche
ed. Mimesis 2017

The course will address the study of the interaction between the technological, economic and political dynamics of human development and those of the natural world, from the 'first' industrial revolution to the beginning of the 21st century.
The course will focus in particular on the period 1945-2000, from which the following subjects will be analysed: the birth of associations for the conservation of the environment; the rise of ecological protest, environmentalist movements and animalism; the development of green cultures and parties in Europe; and the unfolding of the scientific and political debate on climate change. The course will focus on the Italian case: both on environmental and health emergencies in the history of the second half of the 20th century, and on the environmentalist movements and parties that arose and their political course.

The course has a monographic character and aims at meeting some reflections on the ecological, anthropological, social, economic and political crisis of the "development era", focusing on the relation North-South. We will explore, specifically, the "alternatives to development" represented by Franco Cassano’s “Southern thought" and the project for degrowth, in the declination elaborated by Serge Latouche.

1. Cassano F., “Tre modi di vedere il Sud”, Il Mulino, Bologna 2009.

2. Cassano F., "Il pensiero meridiano", Laterza, Bari 2021.

3. Latouche S., “La scommessa della decrescita”, Feltrinelli, Milano 2014.

During the workshop, we will work on single types of sources through both theoretical and practical lessons. Students will be invited to actively participate in the lessons, through works that they will carry out in groups but independently at home and that they will present in the classroom, as well as through active interventions during the lessons.
Visits are planned to some museums in Rome.

There are no textbooks.

Some issues relating to the use of oral sources for contemporary history will be addressed, retracing the experiences gained in different Italian contexts starting from the fifties and sixties of the twentieth century. Particular attention will be paid to the construction of the interview, its uses for research, archival conservation and intersections with other disciplines, including public history. In agreement with the teacher, each student will record an interview which they will then have to transcribe and discuss in an essay.

- Bruno Bonomo, Voci della memoria. L’uso delle fonti orali nella ricerca storica, Carocci, 2013.
- Alessandro Portelli, Storie orali. Racconto, immaginazione, dialogo, Donzelli, 2007.
- Texts in pdf that will be provided during the course.

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

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

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

Second unit: "The Mediterranean: Corsair Wars, slavery, conversions" (6 CFU)

Bibliography:
Giovanna Fiume, Schiavitù mediterranee. Corsari, rinnegati e santi di età moderna, Milano, Mondadori.
Bruno Pomara Saverino, Rifugiati. I moriscos e l'Italia, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2018, free download here: https://www.fupress.com/catalogo/rifugiati/3516

Students who have to take only 6 ECTS are required to prepare on the first teaching unit.

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

C. Texts:

1. M. Campanini, Il pensiero islamico contemporaneo, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2016.
2. M. Bombardieri - M. C. Giorda - S. Hejazi (a cura di), Capire l'islam. Mito o realtà, Brescia: Morcelliana, 2019.
3. One of the following (see teaching mode) :

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

Students can propose books not included above.

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

- L. Declich, L’Islam in 20 parole, Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2016;
- P. G. Donini, Il mondo islamico. Breve storia dal ‘500 ad oggi, Roma-Bari: Laterza, ultima edizione.


or an an introductory textbook to Islam to choose among:

A. Bausani, Islam, Rizzoli, ultima edizione;

or

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

or

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

The course examines the historical and political trajectory of the Middle East and North Africa from the Colonial Era until today. The students will be introduced to the debate on Orientalism, its role in the colonial era, and its relevance until today. A particular focus will be on the post-colonial era. Among the topics covered there will be: State formation, the role of ideologies (both secular and religious) in the shaping of the region, the intra-regional and international relations of the Region and the so-called ‘Arab Spring’. Students are expected to actively participate to the course.
All the available teaching materials, the announcements and all that is related to this course will be posted on the course webpage (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-SU_oOYtEuo5xuBrjJtoSwfxcwUEK7AW).

REQUIRED READINGS:


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

One of the following:


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


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

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

CONTENT:

PART I – Introduction and description of the course

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

PART II

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

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

This course is taught in English.

Letture richieste:

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

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

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

[ONLY for non-attendees] One additional book of your choice from the following:

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

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

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

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

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

Anders Stephanson, Destino manifesto. L'espansionismo americano e l'Impero del Bene, Feltrinelli, Milano, 2004

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

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

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

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

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

Supplementary book:
Enrico Giovannini e Donato Speroni, 2019
"Un mondo sostenibile in 100 foto",
Roma, Laterza
This book can be downloaded directly from the Laterza publishing house (free registration).
With regard to the second book ('Un mondo sostenibile in 100 foto'), exam questions can only cover the introduction 'La grande sfida' (pp.2- 19) and the conclusion 'Per rimanere aggiornati' (pp. 235-247). The rest of the book is not to be studied for the exam but is indispensable for one's general education and awareness as a citizen.

We will explore the advent of fossil fuels with the emergence of the age of coal, the shift to hydrocarbons, and the most recent trend towards renewable energy sources. This will be done by analysing great power politics, political and economic debates on energy, the expansion of fordism and consumerism, the role of multinational oil companies, the pressures for decolonization and the emergence of the environmentalist debate from the 1970s up to the more recent debate on the "Anthropocene" and "decarbonization".

Questions and concepts such as “resource curse”, “conservationism”, “Dutch disease”, “limits of growth”, "peak oil", "sustainable development", "extractivism", will be discussed and informed by the relevant literature (and possibly archival material), and with the help images and documentaries.

This course is taught in English.

For everyone (2 texts):

1. Bruce Podobnik, "Global Energy Shifts. Fostering Sustainability in a Turbulent Age"

2. Van De Graaf/Sovacool, "Global Energy Politics", or Per Hogselius, "Energy and Geopolitics"

For the "non frequentanti", in addition to the previous texts also:

3. Leonardo Maugeri, "The Age of Oil", or Giuliano Garavini, "The Rise and Fall of OPEC"

For the "frequentanti" who take the 8CFU exam: one text selected among the reference material
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Reference material

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

The first part of the course is dedicated to the transformations taking place within the modern public and political scene and to the most relevant theoretical contributions in political communication. The main areas of transformation of Italian political communication and its actors and the evolution of electoral campaigns will be examined.
The second part, dedicated to visual politics, analyzes the history and evolution of political graphics and aesthetic codes of Italian political propaganda from 1945 to today and the contacts and influences with the main artistic currents. This part includes the analysis and study of new aesthetics related to the spread of digital communication and the use of social networks.
An integral part of the course is the viewing and analysis of a wide range of original audiovisual propaganda materials such as films, commercials, television programs, posters, and web cards, which constitute teaching materials and the subject of examination.
In the case of electoral campaigns during the teaching period, it is possible to activate their monitoring by involving the students actively and directly.

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

Participation in the "Laboratory for the design and analysis of platforms and digital archives", if not registered in the curriculum as "external activities" (equivalent to 3 CFU), exempts from Gerbaudo's book.

* The following websites and Tv programmes contain materials and documents illustrated in class and have to be considered audiovisual supports of the course:
–www.archivispotpolitici.it
– www.politicaltalkshow.it
– “Mi consenta” La Grande Storia, Rai Tre: https://www.raiplay.it/video/2010/07/Mi-consenta---I-politici-e-la-Tv---La-Grande-Storia-7ed9b459-9b06-41c5-8fd4-0bd9a3f997f3.html

The course examines the following topics:
- the concept of the archive and the archival document;
- the archival bond and the relationship between creator and archive;
- archives and other cultural heritage complexes: similarities and differences;
- phases of archive life: current records, semi-current records, historical archives. Characteristics and management tools.
- The public archives of the State in Italy;
- records appraisal for preservation and disposal;
- elements of the history of the archives and of archival science;
- elements of archival legislation.

General texts:

F. Valacchi, Diventare archivisti, Milano, Editrice bibliografica, 2022;

P. Carucci, M. Guercio, Manuale di archivistica (nuova edizione), Roma, Carocci, 2021, pp. 17-97, 187-203, 259-376, 399-458.

Articles on specific topics:

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

C. Pavone, Ma è poi tanto pacifico che l’archivio rispecchi l’istituto?, in “Rassegna degli Archivi di Stato”, XXX (1970), pp. 145-149.

A. D’Addario, Lineamenti di storia dell’archivistica (secc. XVI-XIX), in “Archivio storico italiano”, CXLVIII (1990), pp. 3-35.

FOR STUDENTS NOT ATTENDING CLASSES:

M. Bloch, Apologia della storia o mestiere di storico, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, 2009 (Per gli studenti dei corsi di laurea magistrale. In particolare: Capitolo secondo L'osservazione storica; Capitolo terzo La critica);

L. Giuva, S. Vitali, I. Zanni Rosiello, Il potere degli archivi. Usi del passato e difesa dei diritti nella società contemporanea, pp. 135-202.

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

Textbook:

Natalino Ronzitti, Diritto internazionale, Torino, Giappichelli, last edition (2019)

In addition, the following monographic essay:

Giuseppe Palmisano, Contributo allo studio giuridico dei metodi diplomatici per la soluzione delle controversie tra Stati, Torino, Giappichelli, 2019

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

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

From the origins, cinema has been inspired by historical contents and events for its productions. The audience has always shown keen curiosity and interest in historical events narrated on screen. The course aims to show how cinema can be: a source for historical knowledge, an instrument to tell the past and an agent of history. Cinema is a source for the historical knowledge of the present in which the film has been shot and processed: it provides us with information on ideas and values of the producing society.
On the other hand, when we talk about cinema as an instrument to narrate the past, we refer to the public use of history, a field in which historians have to compete with other professional figures.
Finally, cinema can be considered an agent of history when studying its capability to influence and construct behaviours, trends, passions and identities.
Understanding the various languages and representations can be an essential tool for historians working in the field of cultural and social history interested in the transmission of values, ideas and representations of the historical past of different eras.
The course focuses on representation on cinema and television and in particular on the following topic: “Times of crisis. War, violence and society ".
War and violence are phenomena that goes along with human societies throughout their own development, therefore the course questions the specific aspects of representations and imagery linked to different eras. A conspicuous number of films will be examined and each student will be able to identify their own path by selecting from those indicated, ten films of their own interest.

To this end, the following films and products for television will be analysed; students will have to see and analyse 10 of the following films.

The teaching is organised in seminars, the students will work in teams by deepening topics, readings and ideas related to the films indicated and to a bibliography agreed with the teacher.

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

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

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

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

Readings for the exam:

A) Both the books:

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

B) One book of your choice between:

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

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

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

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

LGBT believers and queer theologies in Christian churches from the 1960s to today

The sexual experience and conjugal life have represented the terrain on which the Christian churches have opposed the greatest resistance to the social and cultural transformations from the late modern age to the most recent processes of secularization. The question of the relationship between Christian faith and homosexuality, especially in the contemporary age, has triggered a lot of short circuits between the official positions of the Churches and those experiences that have favored the visibility and acceptance of LGBT believers signed by a new pastoral sensitivity and a theological thought attentive to accepting the requests coming from the social sciences and from the movements that claim full civil rights for homosexual people. In some Christian churches, at an official level, homosexuality was considered unnatural and out of the norm, an obstacle to the natural function of generation and to marriage. But the agency of LGBT Christian groups certifies the possibility of reconciliation with the institution and comes to the attention of the historian as a new religious subjectivity.
The course of study will address the topic by proposing a three-phase path: a) to offer a historical overview of the positions taken by the Christian Churches in the twentieth century on a global level on the question of homosexuality, in particular the Catholic and Protestant Churches; b) to analyze some pastoral experiences of groups and movements formed by LGBT Christians since the 1960s, especially in the United States, France and Italy, with the support of recent sociological studies; c) to follow the evolution of the so-called "queer theology", starting from the studies on the relationship between faith and homosexuality up to the most recent contributions.

1. Dossier of historical documents and articles proposed by the professor
2. FRANCESCO TORCHIANI, «Il vizio innominabile». Chiesa e omosessualità nel Novecento, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2021

Notices

Non-attending students are invited to agree on the program with the professor.

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

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

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

• De Vecchis G., Pasquinelli d'Allegra D & Pesaresi C., Didattica della Geografia, Utet, 2020.
• Giorda C. (a cura di), L’immagine del mondo nella geografia dei bambini. Una ricerca sui materiali scolastici e parascolastici italiani fra Otto e Novecento, Franco Angeli, 2021 (Available in open access: https://series.francoangeli.it/index.php/oa/catalog/book/683)
• Papers suggested by Professor.

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

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

Religions and Gender Relations

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

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

STORIA DEI SISTEMI POLITICI EUROPEI

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

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

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

IN COMUNE PER TUTTI:

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

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

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

TEMA: "L'Italia nelle trasformazioni internazionali tra la fine del XX secolo e l'inizio del XXI secolo"
TESTO: "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
- Vol. I, "Fine della guerra fredda e globalizzazione" a cura di Silvio Pons, Adriano Roccucci, Federico Romero
Chi sceglie questo volume deve studiare i saggi di:
- Federico Romero, "L'Italia nelle trasformazioni sociali di fine Novecento", pp. 15-34;
- Silvio Pons, "La bipolarità italiana e la fine della Guerra Fredda", pp. 35-53,
- Valerio Castronovo, "L’Italia nel mercato globale", pp. 71-83;
- Antonio Varsori, "Dalla caduta del Muro di Berlino a Tangentopoli: la dimensione internazionale della crisi della Prima Repubblica”, pp. 209-222;
- Daniela Preda, "Il lungo travaglio istituzionale europeo (1992-2012)", pp. 299-315

TEMA: "Mutamento sociale e cambiamento dei costumi nell'Italia tra la fine del XX e l'inizio del XXI secolo.
TESTO: "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
- Vol. II, "Il mutamento sociale", a cura di Enrica Asquer, Emanuele Bernardi, Carlo Fumian.
Chi sceglie questo volume deve studiare i saggi di:
- Chiara Saraceno, "Famiglie, rapporti di genere e generazioni, politiche sociali", pp. 81-97
- Paolo Capuzzo, "I consumi tra economia e cultura nell’Italia del dopo boom (1973-2008)", pp. 179-197,
- Emanuela Scarpellini, "Consumi e attori sociali: le nuove identità dei consumatori italiani", pp. 199-210,
- Stefano Cavazza, "Consumi, società e politica in Italia (1980-2000)", pp. 211-225
- Giovanni Gozzini, "La televisione tra due repubbliche", pp. 227-242

TEMA: Il Sistema politico degli anni Ottanta, la crisi e il crollo, "Tangentopoli", l'avvento di Berlusconi, il nuovo sistema politico bipolare tra fine XX e inizio XXI secolo
TESTO: "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
- Vol. III, "Istituzioni e politica", a cura di Simona Colarizi, Agostino Giovagnoli, Paolo Pombeni.
Chi sceglie questo volume deve studiare i saggi di:
- Simona Colarizi, "Politica e antipolitica dalla Prima alla Seconda repubblica", pp. 333-347;
- Paolo Segatti, "La nascita della Lega: un capitolo di una storia che ci appartiene", pp. 351-360;
- Filippo Sbrana. Nord non chiama Sud. Genesi e sviluppi della questione settentrionale", pp. 361-381
- Gianfranco Baldini, "Forza Italia: un partito unico", pp. 423-435;
- Andrea Possieri, "Un riformismo incompiuto: il primo governo Prodi", pp. 509-528.

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

TEMA: "L'Italia nelle trasformazioni internazionali tra la fine del XX secolo e l'inizio del XXI secolo"
TESTO: "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
- Vol. I, "Fine della guerra fredda e globalizzazione" a cura di Silvio Pons, Adriano Roccucci, Federico Romero
Chi sceglie questo volume deve studiare i saggi di:
- Federico Romero, "L'Italia nelle trasformazioni sociali di fine Novecento", pp. 15-34;
- Silvio Pons, "La bipolarità italiana e la fine della Guerra Fredda", pp. 35-53,
- Valerio Castronovo, "L’Italia nel mercato globale", pp. 71-83;
- Antonio Varsori, "Dalla caduta del Muro di Berlino a Tangentopoli: la dimensione internazionale della crisi della Prima Repubblica”, pp. 209-222;
- Daniela Preda, "Il lungo travaglio istituzionale europeo (1992-2012)", pp. 299-315

TEMA: "Mutamento sociale e cambiamento dei costumi nell'Italia tra la fine del XX e l'inizio del XXI secolo.
TESTO: "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
- Vol. II, "Il mutamento sociale", a cura di Enrica Asquer, Emanuele Bernardi, Carlo Fumian.
Chi sceglie questo volume deve studiare i saggi di:
- Chiara Saraceno, "Famiglie, rapporti di genere e generazioni, politiche sociali", pp. 81-97
- Paolo Capuzzo, "I consumi tra economia e cultura nell’Italia del dopo boom (1973-2008)", pp. 179-197,
- Emanuela Scarpellini, "Consumi e attori sociali: le nuove identità dei consumatori italiani", pp. 199-210,
- Stefano Cavazza, "Consumi, società e politica in Italia (1980-2000)", pp. 211-225
- Giovanni Gozzini, "La televisione tra due repubbliche", pp. 227-242

TEMA: Il Sistema politico degli anni Ottanta, la crisi e il crollo, "Tangentopoli", l'avvento di Berlusconi, il nuovo sistema politico bipolare tra fine XX e inizio XXI secolo
TESTO: "L’Italia contemporanea dagli anni Ottanta a oggi", Carocci, Roma, 2015
- Vol. III, "Istituzioni e politica", a cura di Simona Colarizi, Agostino Giovagnoli, Paolo Pombeni.
Chi sceglie questo volume deve studiare i saggi di:
- Simona Colarizi, "Politica e antipolitica dalla Prima alla Seconda repubblica", pp. 333-347;
- Paolo Segatti, "La nascita della Lega: un capitolo di una storia che ci appartiene", pp. 351-360;
- Filippo Sbrana. Nord non chiama Sud. Genesi e sviluppi della questione settentrionale", pp. 361-381
- Gianfranco Baldini, "Forza Italia: un partito unico", pp. 423-435;
- Andrea Possieri, "Un riformismo incompiuto: il primo governo Prodi", pp. 509-528.

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

Monder Kilani, L’invenzione dell’Altro. Saggi sul discorso antropologico, Parte prima (Capitoli 1, 2, 3, ,4, 5) e della Seconda parte il capitolo 11.

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

- Tabet, Le dita tagliate, Ediesse, 2014;
- Grilli S., Zanotelli F. (a cura di), Scelte di famiglia. Tendenze della parentela nella società contemporanea, Edizioni ETS, da p.65 a p.164;
- Guillaumin C., 2020, Sesso, Razza e Pratica del Potere. L’idea di Natura, Ombre Corte, solo le seguenti parti: “Pratica del potere”, “Razza e natura. Sistemi di marchi, idea di gruppi naturali”, “’Lo so, ma…’ o gli avatar della nozione di razza”;
- Gribaldo, A., La Natura scomposta. Riproduzione assistita, genere, parentela. Luca Sossella editore, 2005;
- Piasere L., L’antiziganismo, Quodlibet, 2015 abbinato a P. Tabet, La pelle giusta, 1998 (disponibile in ebook)
- Bisogno, Francesco, Ronzon, Flora, (a cura) 2007, Altri generi. Inversioni e variazioni di genere tra culture, Il dito e la luna (volume messo a disposizione dalla docente).

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

* Claude Lévi-Strauss (1984), "Natura e Cultura", in Le strutture elementari della parentela, Feltrinelli, pp. 39-50;
* Clifford Geertz (1998), “L’impatto del concetto di cultura sul concetto di uomo”, in C. Geertz, Interpretazione di culture, Il Mulino, pp. 45-70;
* Nicole-Claude Mathieu, “Sesso e genere”, in Non si nasce donna. Percorsi, testi e contesti del femminismo materialista in Francia, a cura di Garbagnoli Sara e Perilli Vincenza, Alegre, pp. 101-112;
* Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo, 1979, “Lavoro domestico e attività pubblica: sul ruolo sociale dei sessi”, in Miceli Rosaria, Oppressione della donna e ricerca antropologica, Savelli Editore, pp. 27-58;
* Kim TallBear, “Fare l’amore e le relazioni oltre il sesso e la famiglia dei coloni”, in Making Kin. Fare parentele, non popolazioni, Derive Approdi, pp. 163-181.
* Ribeiro Corossacz Valeria, “Brasile: criminalizzazione dell’aborto, razzismo e pratiche politiche delle donne”, in Dai nostri corpi sotto attacco. Aborto e Politica, a cura di Ilaria Boiano e Caterina Botti, Ediesse, 2019, pp. 169- 182.

Students not attending classes will also study Francesco Remotti, Contro Natura. Laterza, 2008, from p.11 to p. 26, and from p. 86 to p.191 (chapters 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11).

Monder Kilani, L’invenzione dell’Altro. Saggi sul discorso antropologico, Parte prima (Capitoli 1, 2, 3, ,4, 5) e della Seconda parte il capitolo 11.

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

- Tabet, Le dita tagliate, Ediesse, 2014;
- Grilli S., Zanotelli F. (a cura di), Scelte di famiglia. Tendenze della parentela nella società contemporanea, Edizioni ETS, da p.65 a p.164;
- Guillaumin C., 2020, Sesso, Razza e Pratica del Potere. L’idea di Natura, Ombre Corte, solo le seguenti parti: “Pratica del potere”, “Razza e natura. Sistemi di marchi, idea di gruppi naturali”, “’Lo so, ma…’ o gli avatar della nozione di razza”;
- Gribaldo, A., La Natura scomposta. Riproduzione assistita, genere, parentela. Luca Sossella editore, 2005;
- Piasere L., L’antiziganismo, Quodlibet, 2015 abbinato a P. Tabet, La pelle giusta, 1998 (disponibile in ebook)
- Bisogno, Francesco, Ronzon, Flora, (a cura) 2007, Altri generi. Inversioni e variazioni di genere tra culture, Il dito e la luna (volume messo a disposizione dalla docente).

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

Dispensa Natura/cultura
* Claude Lévi-Strauss (1984), "Natura e Cultura", in Le strutture elementari della parentela, Feltrinelli, pp. 39-50;
* Clifford Geertz (1998), “L’impatto del concetto di cultura sul concetto di uomo”, in C. Geertz, Interpretazione di culture, Il Mulino, pp. 45-70;
* Nicole-Claude Mathieu, “Sesso e genere”, in Non si nasce donna. Percorsi, testi e contesti del femminismo materialista in Francia, a cura di Garbagnoli Sara e Perilli Vincenza, Alegre, pp. 101-112;
* Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo, 1979, “Lavoro domestico e attività pubblica: sul ruolo sociale dei sessi”, in Miceli Rosaria, Oppressione della donna e ricerca antropologica, Savelli Editore, pp. 27-58;
* Kim TallBear, “Fare l’amore e le relazioni oltre il sesso e la famiglia dei coloni”, in Making Kin. Fare parentele, non popolazioni, Derive Approdi, pp. 163-181.
* Ribeiro Corossacz Valeria, “Brasile: criminalizzazione dell’aborto, razzismo e pratiche politiche delle donne”, in Dai nostri corpi sotto attacco. Aborto e Politica, a cura di Ilaria Boiano e Caterina Botti, Ediesse, 2019, pp. 169- 182.

Students not attending classes will also study Francesco Remotti, Contro Natura. Laterza, 2008, from p.11 to p. 26, and from p. 86 to p.191 (chapters 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11).

Through a critical-thinking approach, the course analyzes the emergence of capitalism in the medieval age up to contemporary society by covering the main forms of capitalism (merchant, industrial and financial) and the thought of Smith, Marx, Weber, Schumpeter, Keynes and Hayek.

Attending students

Geoffrey Ingham, Capitalismo, Einaudi, Torino 2010.
Giampaolo Conte, Riformare i vinti. Storia e critica delle riforme liberal-capitaliste, Guerini e Associati, Milano 2022.

Non-attending students (only one of these):

F. Braudel, La dinamica del capitalismo, Il Mulino, Bologna 2016.
J. Kocka, Capitalismo, una breve storia, Carocci, Roma 2017.
P. Bowles, Il capitalismo, Il Mulino, Bologna 2009.
L. Pellicani, La genesi del capitalismo e le origini della modernità, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2013 (NO capitoli 2, 3, 8 e 10).
L. Gallino, Finanzacapitalismo, Einaudi, Torino 2013.
B. Milanovic, Capitalismo contro capitalismo. La sfida che deciderà il nostro futuro, Roma-Bari, Laterza 2020.
G. Claeys, Marx e il marxismo, Einaudi, Torino 2020.

- Vivere l’Etnografia, a cura di Cappelletto, Seid, 2009.

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

- Abu-Lughod, L., Sentimenti velati. Onore e poesia in una società beduina, Bollati Boringhieri, 2004.
- Ribeiro Corossacz V., Bianchezza e mascolinità, Meltemi, 2015;
- Malinowski B., Argonauti del Pacifico Occidentale. Bollati Boringhieri, 2011;
- Ruth Behar e Deborah A. Gordon, editors, 1995, Women writing culture, i seguenti capitoli: Introduction (pp. 1-29), capitolo 8 (pp. 166-185) e capitolo 9 (pp. 186-206);
- Tsing Lowenhaupt, A. Il fungo alla fine del mondo. La possibilità di vivere nelle rovine del capitalismo. Keller, 2021;
- James Clifford, I frutti puri impazziscono, Bollati Boringhieri, 1999, Introduzione e parte Prima
- Wekker Gloria, 2006, The politics of passion: women's sexual culture in the afro-surinamese diaspora, Columbia University Press, solo i seguenti capitoli: capitolo 1 (pp. 1-54) e capitolo 2 (pp. 55-82).

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

* Michela Fusaschi, 2018, “L’etnografia attraversata dal genere. Uno sguardo storico e pratico-politico sulle soggettività”, in Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa, n.2, pp. 387-401;
* Alice Bellagamba, “Antropologia, femminismo e studi di genere. Esperienze straniere e italiane”, in Gli studi delle donne in Italia, a cura di Paola di Cori e Donatella Barazzetti, Carocci, 2001, pp. 97-117;
* Nicole-Claude Mathieu, "Critiche epistemologiche sulla problematica dei sessi nel discorso etno-antropologico", in dwf, numero 10-11, 1989, pp. 8-54.
* Nicole-Claude Mathieu, “Sesso e genere”, in Non si nasce donna. Percorsi, testi e contesti del femminismo materialista in Francia, a cura di Garbagnoli Sara e Perilli Vincenza, Alegre, pp. 101-112;
* Louise Lamphere, “Unofficial Histories: A Vision of Anthropology from the Margins”, American Anthropologist, Vol. 106, No. 1, 2004, pp. 126-139.

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

- Vivere l’Etnografia, a cura di Cappelletto, Seid, 2009.

Più un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:

- Abu-Lughod, L., Sentimenti velati. Onore e poesia in una società beduina, Bollati Boringhieri, 2004.
- Ribeiro Corossacz V., Bianchezza e mascolinità, Meltemi, 2015;
- Malinowski B., Argonauti del Pacifico Occidentale. Bollati Boringhieri, 2011;
- Ruth Behar e Deborah A. Gordon, editors, 1995, Women writing culture, i seguenti capitoli: Introduction (pp. 1-29), capitolo 8 (pp. 166-185) e capitolo 9 (pp. 186-206);
- Tsing Lowenhaupt, A. Il fungo alla fine del mondo. La possibilità di vivere nelle rovine del capitalismo. Keller, 2021;
- James Clifford, I frutti puri impazziscono, Bollati Boringhieri, 1999, Introduzione e parte Prima
- Wekker Gloria, 2006, The politics of passion: women's sexual culture in the afro-surinamese diaspora, Columbia University Press, solo i seguenti capitoli: capitolo 1 (pp. 1-54) e capitolo 2 (pp. 55-82).

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

* Michela Fusaschi, 2018, “L’etnografia attraversata dal genere. Uno sguardo storico e pratico-politico sulle soggettività”, in Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa, n.2, pp. 387-401;
* Alice Bellagamba, “Antropologia, femminismo e studi di genere. Esperienze straniere e italiane”, in Gli studi delle donne in Italia, a cura di Paola di Cori e Donatella Barazzetti, Carocci, 2001, pp. 97-117;
* Nicole-Claude Mathieu, "Critiche epistemologiche sulla problematica dei sessi nel discorso etno-antropologico", in dwf, numero 10-11, 1989, pp. 8-54.
* Nicole-Claude Mathieu, “Sesso e genere”, in Non si nasce donna. Percorsi, testi e contesti del femminismo materialista in Francia, a cura di Garbagnoli Sara e Perilli Vincenza, Alegre, pp. 101-112;
* Louise Lamphere, “Unofficial Histories: A Vision of Anthropology from the Margins”, American Anthropologist, Vol. 106, No. 1, 2004, pp. 126-139.

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

The course examines, from a diachronic perspective, the methods of production, conservation and transmission of archives; the functions and competences attributed to archivists within the political, juridical, social and cultural contexts of which they were an expression; the relationship between the history of archives and the history of institutions. There will also be seminars at city archival institutes and the intervention of experts in the sector.

- Isabella Zanni Rosiello, Archivi e memoria storica, Bologna, il Mulino, 1987;

- E. Lodolini, Storia dell'archivistica italiana. Dal mondo antico alla metà del secolo XX, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2013.

Non-attending students will also study the following articles:

- Arnaldo D’Addario, Lineamenti di storia dell’archivistica (secc. XVI-XIX), in «Archivio storico italiano», 148/1 (1990), pp. 3-35;

- Guido Melis, Il deposito della memoria. L'evoluzione degli archivi amministrativi nella storia italiana, in "Rassegna degli Archivi di Stato", LXI (2001), pp. 208-224.

Syllabus TBA

Course Content

Presented within the frame of Religion and Society in Global Perspective, this course explores social, historical, and religious change focusing on western Europe in its relationship with the world. Particular attention will be paid to the Renaissance, Religious Reforms, and the Age of Discovery, starting with the late antique and medieval premises for religious and cultural change, and exploring the transformation of religious/magical beliefs and doctrines, systems of power, identity formation and forms of dissent.
The course introduces students to the foundational themes, methods and skills necessary for the study of upper-level religious and cultural history. With a particular focus on the study of primary sources, it enables students to explore for themselves the characteristics of early modern European religious history in global perspective.
The assessment schedule for this course is set out in stages to allow for the incremental development of core skills in the study of history. It is student-centred and involves a written essay about set primary and secondary readings, an oral presentation, and a final oral exam.

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

How to get out of war: strategies of negotiation and peacemaking in the Early Modern Age

In the Early Modern Age, the themes of war, peace and negotiation with internal and external actors of the different political communities were particularly important and they extended from the European continent to the non-European worlds. It was a phenomenon that involved the society as a whole and not only diplomats and soldiers. The tools and practices adopted by the societies of the ancien régime constructed a complex web of actions and theories that ranged from the construction of the diplomatic system to private negotiation in and out of the judicial sphere.

The class will explore the issues of negotiation, pacification, and warfare in early modern societies, analysing paths and strategies of bargaining and peacemaking between Europe and the Americas and exploring theories and practices of warfare.

The course will also include a reading of Immanuel Kant's Perpetual Peace (1795) as a summa of the experience gained in previous centuries.

Three books from the following list:

A) Both the following books:
• Arcangeli, Che cos’è la storia culturale, Carocci, Roma 2007
• M. Merluzzi, La pacificazione del regno: Negoziazione e creazione del consenso in Perù (1533-1581), Viella, Roma 2021

B) One book of your choice within the following:
• P. Broggio e M. P. Paoli, «Stringere la pace». Teorie e pratiche della conciliazione nell’Europa moderna (secoli XV-XVIII), 2011
• G. Brunelli, La guerra in età moderna, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2021
• F. Cantù, L’immagine del nemico, Storia, ideologia e rappresentazione tra età moderna e contemporanea, Viella Roma 2009
• V. Favarò, Pratiche negoziali e reti di potere. Carmine Nicola Caracciolo tra Europa e America (1694-1725), Rubettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2020
• V. Lavenia, Dio in uniforme. Cappellani, catechesi cattolica e soldati in età moderna, Il mulino, Bologna 2018
• P. Volpini, Ambasciatori nella prima età moderna tra corti italiane ed europee, Sapienza Università editrice, Roma 2022

1) Tommaso Detti (a cura di), Le guerre in un mondo globale, Viella, Roma 2017
2) Joseph S. Nye Junior, Smart power, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2012 (since page 134)
3) Gaetano Castellini Curiel, Soft power e l’arte della diplomazia culturale, Le Lettere, Firenze 2021

A book of your choice:
a) James Sheehan, L’età post-eroica: guerra e pace nell'Europa contemporanea, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009
b) Mario Isnenghi, Le guerre degli italiani. Parole, immagini, ricordi, 1848-1945, il Mulino, Bologna 2015
c) Lorenzo Benadusi, Ufficiale e gentiluomo. Virtù civili e valori militari in Italia, 1896-1918, Feltrinelli, Milano 2015
d) George Mosse, Le guerre mondiali. Dalla tragedia al mito dei caduti, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2018
e) Silvia Salvatici, Nel nome degli altri. Storia dell’umanitarismo internazionale, il Mulino, Bologna 2015
f) Sergio Marelli, ONG: una storia da raccontare. Dal volontariato alle multinazionali della solidarietà, Carocci, Roma 2015
g) Carlo Felice Casula, Liliosa Azara, Unesco 1945-2005. Un’utopia necessaria: scienza, educazione e cultura nel secolo mondo, Città aperta, Troina 2005, p. 302
h) Victoria De Grazia, L’impero irresistibile. La società dei consumi americani alla conquista del mondo, Einaudi, Torino 2020
i) Enzo Traverso, Il secolo armato. Interpretare le violenze del Novecento, Feltrinelli, Milano 2012
j) Jeremy Black, Le guerre nel mondo contemporaneo, il Mulino, Bologna 2006
k) Nicola Sbetti, Giochi diplomatici. Sport e politica estera nell’Italia del secondo dopoguerra, Viella, Roma 2020
l) Michael L. Krenn, The History of United States Cultural Diplomacy: 1770 to the present day, Bloomsbury, London 2017

The course aims to provide the methodical elements for the analysis of the processes of construction of individual and collective memory and for all public (and political) uses of the past.

In particular, we will discuss those historiographical currents which, especially in Italy, constitute the theoretical basis of the discipline: oral history and cultural history.

Finally, some examples of "good practices" of Public History will also be provided.

A cura di P. Bertella Farnetti - L. Bertucelli -A. Botti
Public history. Discussioni e pratiche
ed. Mimesis 2017

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

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

This course aims to offer a deep knowledge e about the history of some subjects and approaches about religion and in particular about authors, works and approaches on the study of the relationship between religion and space (form the geography of religion to the geography of religions)

We will discuss competences about theories, concepts, terminology and methodologies in the study of religions places and the localization of the sacred in the space, through materiality and relations of planning

This course provides students with theoretical knowledge of religious space/site, but also with results of some empirical researches about religious sites in spaces that are increasingly heterogeneous because of human migration and diaspora phenomena.
The main case study that will be examined is case of shared religious places, in urban and extra-urban spaces.

Attending students:

1. course notes, materials and handouts
2. G. Filoramo, M. Giorda, N. Spineto, Manuale di scienze della religione, Morcelliana, Brescia 2019.

3. C. Russo, A. Saggioro, Roma città plurale, Bulzoni 2018 Oppure
Geertz Armin W., Approcci cognitivi ed evoluzionistici alla religione Patron 2020 Oppure
M.Giorda, M. Burchardt, Materializzare la tolleranza: luoghi multireligiosi tra conflitto e adattamento. “Annali di Studi Religiosi” 20, 2019 (open access - on line).
G. Lapis, Dopo le “religioni mondiali”, Morcelliana 2022

Non-attending students will replace item 1 with a book of their choice from among

D. Albera, M. Couroucli, I luoghi sacri comuni ai monoteismi. Tra cristianesimo, ebraismo e islam. Brescia, Morcelliana, 2013.
G. Filoramo, Che cosa è la religione, Einaudi, Torino 2004.

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.).

The exam program will be valid from the 2023 summer session.
Not attending
- Guglielmo Scaramellini, La geografia dei viaggiatori. Raffigurazioni individuali e immagini collettive nei resoconti di viaggio, Milano, Unicopli, 1993 o 1998, solo la Parte seconda, pp. 55-111.
- Ilaria Luzzana Caraci, Dall’esperienza del viaggio al sapere geografico, in Geotema, n° 8 (1997), Il viaggio come fonte di conoscenze geografiche, pp. 3-12 (https://uniroma3.sharepoint.com/:b:/r/sites/AA2223-GEOGRAFIAELETTERATURADELVIAGGIO-20710063DASCENZO2/Documenti%20condivisi/General/Caraci%20Dall%27esperienza%20del%20viaggio%20al%20sapere%20geografico%20OCR.pdf?csf=1&web=1&e=mpg1f1).
- Annalisa D'Ascenzo, Annalisa D'Ascenzo, Il viaggio prima del viaggio. Credenze, miti e desideri dalle esperienze odeporiche terrestri a quelle extraterrestri, in Annalisa D'Ascenzo (a cura di), I viaggi e la modernità. Dalle grandi esplorazioni geografiche ai mondi extraterrestri, Roma, CISGE – Centro Italiano per gli Studi Storico-Geografici, 2021, https://www.cisge.it/ojs/index.php/Volumi/article/view/1092.

Attending
Materials provided during the lessons.

The consumption of popular culture and policies aimed at influencing popular culture became increasingly salient in 20th century Western societies. Also Italian political parties and governments became aware of the importance of controlling and manipulating popular culture, and started developing sophisticated and effective forms of propaganda. Concurrently, popular culture itself became politically engaged, as militancy started to be conveyed in various forms of popular art, as writings, drawings, songs, radio and TV broadcasts and movies. The relationship between propaganda from above and popular cultures from below must not be interpreted in terms of a rigid opposition, but rather of a conflictual relationship capable of influencing each other.
The course aims at providing a general overview of the main trends in the history of italian popular culture from the early to the late 20th century, as well as at introducing students to key arguments in historical scientific research on the topic. In this way, students will develop skills to critically read, think, discuss and write about a set of historiographical arguments and a multiplicity of historical evidence.
In this sense, the course will detect how mass communication, literature and the visual arts determined the attitudes, moods and mentality of Italian society during the twentieth century.
The first part of the course will focus on the analysis of the concepts of "Popular Culture", "Propaganda", “Consensus Building” and "Political Religion”, with special references to the so-said “cultural turn”, which changed many perspectives in Contemporary History.
The second part of the course will deal with the role of Italian media as, at one hand, a pillar of ideological consensus and social stability and, to the other, as antidote to social conformism and State power. The connection between Italian Media, Popular Culture and Political History will be stressed through main periods of Italian history, observing continuity and fractures from Liberal Italy to Fascist regime and from the Cold War to the Second Italian Republic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Texts adopted
• Walter Panciera, Andrea Zannini, Didattica della storia. Manuale per la formazione degli insegnanti, Mondadori/Le Monnier 2013.
• Marc Bloch, Apologia della storia o Mestiere di storico, Einaudi 2009, pp. 3-168.
• Maurizio Ridolfi, Verso la Public History. Fare e raccontare storia nel tempo presente, Pacini, 2017
• Pietro Corrao, Paolo Viola, Introduzione agli studi di storia, Donzelli 2005

Non-attending students must add a text of their choice from the following:
• Joan W. Scott, Genere politica e storia, Viella 2013
• Sebastian Conrad, Storia globale. Un’introduzione, Carocci 2020
• Elena Papadia, La forza dei sentimenti. Anarchici e socialisti in Italia (1870-1900), il Mulino 2019

Reformation and the history of religious toleration

Testi di riferimento

1) L. Felici, La Riforma protestante nell'Europa del Cinquecento, Roma, Carocci
2) D. Cantimori, Eretici italiani del Cinquecento, Torino, Einaudi

3) Un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:
- M. Firpo, Juan de Valdés e la Riforma nell'Italia del Cinquecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza
- L. Addante, Eretici e libertini nel Cinquecento italiano, Roma-Bari, Laterza
- G. Caravale, Il profeta disarmato. L'eresia di Francesco Pucci nell'Europa del Cinquecento, Bologna, il Mulino
- L. Biasiori, L'eresia di un umanista. Celio Secondo Curione nell'Europa del Cinquecento, Roma, Carocci

The course will address the study of the interaction between the technological, economic and political dynamics of human development and those of the natural world, from the 'first' industrial revolution to the beginning of the 21st century.
The course will focus in particular on the period 1945-2000, from which the following subjects will be analysed: the birth of associations for the conservation of the environment; the rise of ecological protest, environmentalist movements and animalism; the development of green cultures and parties in Europe; and the unfolding of the scientific and political debate on climate change. The course will focus on the Italian case: both on environmental and health emergencies in the history of the second half of the 20th century, and on the environmentalist movements and parties that arose and their political course.

During the workshop, we will work on single types of sources through both theoretical and practical lessons. Students will be invited to actively participate in the lessons, through works that they will carry out in groups but independently at home and that they will present in the classroom, as well as through active interventions during the lessons.
Visits are planned to some museums in Rome.

There are no textbooks.

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

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

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

Second unit: "The Mediterranean: Corsair Wars, slavery, conversions" (6 CFU)

Bibliography:
Giovanna Fiume, Schiavitù mediterranee. Corsari, rinnegati e santi di età moderna, Milano, Mondadori.
Bruno Pomara Saverino, Rifugiati. I moriscos e l'Italia, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2018, free download here: https://www.fupress.com/catalogo/rifugiati/3516

Students who have to take only 6 ECTS are required to prepare on the first teaching unit.

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

C. Texts:

1. M. Campanini, Il pensiero islamico contemporaneo, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2016.
2. M. Bombardieri - M. C. Giorda - S. Hejazi (a cura di), Capire l'islam. Mito o realtà, Brescia: Morcelliana, 2019.
3. One of the following (see teaching mode) :

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

Students can propose books not included above.

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

- L. Declich, L’Islam in 20 parole, Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2016;
- P. G. Donini, Il mondo islamico. Breve storia dal ‘500 ad oggi, Roma-Bari: Laterza, ultima edizione.


or an an introductory textbook to Islam to choose among:

A. Bausani, Islam, Rizzoli, ultima edizione;

or

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

or

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

The course examines the historical and political trajectory of the Middle East and North Africa from the Colonial Era until today. The students will be introduced to the debate on Orientalism, its role in the colonial era, and its relevance until today. A particular focus will be on the post-colonial era. Among the topics covered there will be: State formation, the role of ideologies (both secular and religious) in the shaping of the region, the intra-regional and international relations of the Region and the so-called ‘Arab Spring’. Students are expected to actively participate to the course.
All the available teaching materials, the announcements and all that is related to this course will be posted on the course webpage (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-SU_oOYtEuo5xuBrjJtoSwfxcwUEK7AW).

REQUIRED READINGS:


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

One of the following:


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


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

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

CONTENT:

PART I – Introduction and description of the course

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

PART II

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

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

This course is taught in English.

Letture richieste:

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

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

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

[ONLY for non-attendees] One additional book of your choice from the following:

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

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

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

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

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

Anders Stephanson, Destino manifesto. L'espansionismo americano e l'Impero del Bene, Feltrinelli, Milano, 2004

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

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

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

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

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

Supplementary book:
Enrico Giovannini e Donato Speroni, 2019
"Un mondo sostenibile in 100 foto",
Roma, Laterza
This book can be downloaded directly from the Laterza publishing house (free registration).
With regard to the second book ('Un mondo sostenibile in 100 foto'), exam questions can only cover the introduction 'La grande sfida' (pp.2- 19) and the conclusion 'Per rimanere aggiornati' (pp. 235-247). The rest of the book is not to be studied for the exam but is indispensable for one's general education and awareness as a citizen.

We will explore the advent of fossil fuels with the emergence of the age of coal, the shift to hydrocarbons, and the most recent trend towards renewable energy sources. This will be done by analysing great power politics, political and economic debates on energy, the expansion of fordism and consumerism, the role of multinational oil companies, the pressures for decolonization and the emergence of the environmentalist debate from the 1970s up to the more recent debate on the "Anthropocene" and "decarbonization".

Questions and concepts such as “resource curse”, “conservationism”, “Dutch disease”, “limits of growth”, "peak oil", "sustainable development", "extractivism", will be discussed and informed by the relevant literature (and possibly archival material), and with the help images and documentaries.

This course is taught in English.

For everyone (2 texts):

1. Bruce Podobnik, "Global Energy Shifts. Fostering Sustainability in a Turbulent Age"

2. Van De Graaf/Sovacool, "Global Energy Politics", or Per Hogselius, "Energy and Geopolitics"

For the "non frequentanti", in addition to the previous texts also:

3. Leonardo Maugeri, "The Age of Oil", or Giuliano Garavini, "The Rise and Fall of OPEC"

For the "frequentanti" who take the 8CFU exam: one text selected among the reference material
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Reference material

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