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DIPARTIMENTO DI STORIA CULTURE CIVILTÀ

SECOND CYCLE DEGREE PROGRAMME/MASTER

GLOBAL CULTURES AY 2016-2017

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Second cycle degree program in HISTORY AND ORIENTAL STUDIES

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Global Cultures Curriculum is intended as a radically new ap-proach to humanities. Students are invited to positively assume the “shock of the global” that is investing our lives and societies, abandoning the secure shores of traditional Eurocentric and state-centred approaches and methodologies and to navigate in the whirling waters of the most innovative paths of research. Hybridi-zation among methods and research fields, experimentation of new forms of interaction between teachers and students, and a strong emphasis on cross- cultural and transnational connections, are essential element for a new critical perspective in the study of the present and the past.

In line with new research fields such as world and global history or post-colonial studies, Global Cultures wants to give a global out-look in the humanities. For us “global” does not mean only a parti- cular geographical scale, nor a synonymous of “world-wide” or the label of the present as oppo-sed to the past. More radically, it is a process of “displacement” and “disorientation” of the Eu-rocentrism and the “methodological nationalism” still dominant in the study of the present and the past. Thanks to an uncommon cultural and pedagogic interaction among its teachers, it of-fers a truly interdisciplinary dialogue among three main research fields: history, anthropology and critical theory. During the first year students will acquire the fundamental methodological tools of the three fields, and the capacity to critically analyse the current dynamics of the global age. After this strong formative year, students will be able to build individual curricula accor-ding to their main interests along three main research lines: history studies (from ancient to con-temporary), non-Western cultural traditions and political and social thought.

The international character of the programme is also assured by the strong emphasis on the ne-cessity to experiment new tools and methods of teaching, where faculty research could be more directly available to students in the form of seminars, labs, guided individual research, etc., with a special attention for the new opportunities offered by the increasing digitalization of humaniti-es. The Master Degree in Global Cultures is designed for students seeking a career with an in-ternational dimension. Its interdisciplinary focus is particularly adapted for people seeking for careers in international organizations, NGOs, industries and company with a vocation for ex-port, media and communications, museums and cultural institutions. It will also prepare for fur-ther studies at PhD level and academic or professional careers in leading universities or other re-search-oriented organization in public and private sectors.

Global Cultures is a Master degree course entirely taught in English. Students are then required for a minimum standard of English (B2 or equivalent). Selections will be made on the base of applicants’ dossier and interviews. Perspective students are expected to be familiar with catego-ries, instruments and languages of research in the humanities, and the ability to analyse and con-

textualise documents and sources. Possess critical view and insight into the past and be aware of how categories and problems can change according to time and cultural concerns; awareness of processes of change and continuities and familiarity with comparative methods, spatial, chronological and thematic of approaching historiographical research; Ability to communicate orally and in writing, de-monstrating the use of heuristics, reasoning and ap-plication of historiographical methods.

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COURSE STRUCTURE FIRST YEAR ECTS

WORLD HISTORY (Integrated Course):

THEORY AND METHODOLOGY;

EUROPE IN WORLD HISTORY

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OCEANIC STUDIES (Integrated Course):

ATLANTIC AND GLOBAL HISTORY OF MODERN POLITICAL CONCEPTS;

INDIAN OCEAN STUDIES

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HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND EARLY MODERN GLOBALIZATION 6

GLOBALIZATION AND ITS MALCONTENTS (Integrated Course):

CONFLICTS AND INEQUALITIES IN THE NEOLIBERAL ERA;

GLOBAL HEALTH AND SUFFERING

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GEOGRAPHIES OF GLOBAL CHALLENGES 6

SENIOR SEMINAR IN GLOBAL HUMANITIES 6

DIGITAL HUMANITIES: SOURCES AND METHODS 6

SECOND YEAR ECTS

Three elective courses (6 ECTS each) among the following:

– ETHNICITY AND IDENTITY IN THE GREEK WORLD

– ROME AND THE UNIVERSAL

– CROSS-CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD;

– HISTORY OF CULTURAL EXCHANGES IN THE MODERN AGE;

– GLOBAL HISTORY OF THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY;

– HISTORY OF COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL SPACES

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One elective course (6 ECTS) among the following:

– INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL SOUTH ASIA;

– NARRATIVES ON OTHERS AND SELF IN ARAB CULTURE;

– COLONIALISM AND AFRICA;

– POLITICS OF CONTEMPORARY ASIA.

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One elective course (6 ECTS) among the following:

– CHRISTIANITY IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT;

– CRITICAL THEORIES OF CONTEMPORARY CAPITALISM;

– FEMINIST CRITIQUES OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL THOUGHT;

– GEOGRAPHY AND COGNITION OF EUROPEAN TERRITORY.

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ONE ELECTIVE COURSE AMONG THOSE OFFERED AT UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA 6

FINAL EXAM (DISSERTATION) 24

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COURSE UNITS

ATLANTIC AND GLOBAL HISTORY OF MODERN POLITICAL CONCEPTS – Raffaele Laudani Students will acquire the fundamental methodological and theoretical tools of the so-called «Atlantic History», which redefines the spatial limits of Modern politics, considering Europe, Africa and the Americas as part of one and the same global experience. This perspective well developed in North American universities will be extended to the history of political concepts, with a special attention to antagonistic

political cultures and resistance movements, but also to the colonial dimension embedded in the great classics of Modern and contemporary political thought.

COLONIALISM AND AFRICA – Irma Taddia The course focuses on colonialism in Africa and situates it in the framework of the development of European imperialism. It will analyze how colonialism shaped African political institutions and economic systems and how it changed the participation of the continent to the global world. Forms of collaboration and resistance will be used as an analytical tool to look at the agency of African societies in the negotiation of power

relations under colonial rule. At the end of the course, students will reach an understanding of how the global linkages of the African continent were changed and shaped by the development of formal European colonialism and by the establishment of asymmetrical power relations.

CONFLICTS AND INEQUALITIES IN THE NEOLIBERAL ERA – Luca Jourdan Students will develop a critical understanding of neoliberal political-economy and its social impacts in local contexts. Also, they will develop a critical approach to aid industry as a key issue to understand global governance processes. They will create autonomously a bibliography and a research project on the different issues pertaining to the course.

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CHRISTIANITY IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT – Davide Dainese The course will critically examine Christianity as a global religion, both in its long historical context and in the contemporary world and it will also consider the academic, intellectual, theological, and missiological dimensions of Christianity and its global extension. Students will get familiar with different kinds of sources (texts, images, movies) in a diachronic perspective. They will learn how to read them in a historical

framework. Religious and Christian ideas (e.g. confession, ecumenism) and events (e.g. wars of religion, councils and synods), which are relevant for modern and contemporary history in a international environment will be studied under a critical point of view.

CROSS CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD – Irene Bueno The course provides an introduction on ‘global’ and cross cultural approaches to the study of medieval history. With a special focus on the medieval Mediterranean and on the routes to Asia from 1000 to 1500, it will explore patterns of religious, commercial, and intellectual communication among the Latins, the East Christians, the Arabs, and the Mongols. The discussion of phenomena, such as crusades, missions, travel, and

trade, will shed light on the actors and spaces involved and on the meaning of traversing cultural and geographical boundaries in the medieval world.

CRITICAL THEORIES OF CONTEMPORARY CAPITALISM – Sandro Mezzadra Through the critical review of classical theories of capitalism, the course will discuss both fixed and invariant elements in the development of modern capitalism and what makes peculiar its contemporary forms. Special emphasis will be given to some of the most important concepts in present intellectual and political debate, such as globalization, financialization, etc.

DIGITAL HUMANITIES: SOURCES AND METHODS – Carla Salvaterra The course focuses on the profound cultural change that new tools and data bring in the research questions. It also considers the dimension of research infrastructures developed by collaborative platforms and collective research endeavors allowed by the digital environment, from the point of view of the interdisciplinary integration. Special attention is given to the role of the historical dimension within Digital Humanities

projects and infrastructures, both considering the chronological and diachronic approaches covering the main areas of historians’ activity.

ETHNICITY AND IDENTITY IN THE GREEK WORLD Lucia Criscuolo

The aim of this course is to investigate, under the light of the most recent historical research, the political, institutional, and social relationships among ancient peoples and their definition of ethnic and personal

identities. These issues, investigated firstly by the Greeks themselves, represent the conceptual as well as terminological foundation of the current approach to these studies. Within the global frame of the ancient times the evolution of these concepts encourages the use of a specific methodology which allows students to face both ancient sources and contemporary debate through different research approaches

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EUROPE IN WORLD HISTORY – Marica Tolomelli The course will illustrate some specific research paths in order to introduce students to research techniques and methodologies, as well as to a critical use of sources and literature. Case studies and actual research experiences, which will be presented and discussed with students, will range on a wide series of topics drawn from migration history, history of ideas, circulation, material exchange and consumption patterns,

global labour history, social protests, transnational mobilizations processes, power forms and resistance strategies.

GEOGRAPHIES OF GLOBAL CHALLENGES – Elisa Magnani The course aims at offering an analysis of some of the global challenges the population of the planet has been facing since the second half of the 20th century. Among these, the critical relation with the natural resources and with the concept of development and, above all, climate change, the greatest global challenge of our age, with its connections to territorial development, ecological risk and food security, tourism and the

consumption of natural resources. At the end of the course, the student will have acquired the critical tools to analyse the global challenges of our society, through the acquisition of theoretical and empirical knowledge on climate change, environmental and socio-cultural impacts of development and tourism, the promotion and protection of biological and cultural diversity.

GLOBAL HEALTH AND SUFFERING – Ivo Quaranta Students will develop a critical understanding of global health policy as a historical, political and moral assemblage to deal with the consequences of global inequalities. They will also gain an appreciation of illness and suffering as the personal embodiment of broader social processes within local moral worlds embedded in historically deep and geographically broad social dynamics.

GLOBAL HISTORY OF THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY – Ilaria Porciani Students will become familiar with a truly comparative and global approach to the forces that drove global change during the “long nineteenth century.” They will approach constitutional issues, structures and models of education, the construction of nation-states and empires in comparative perspective, as well as the relationships between human beings and nature and gender relations.

HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND EARLY MODERN GLOBALIZATION – Davide Domenici The course focuses on the political, economic, and cultural European expansion in America and the Philippines in the 16th and 17th centuries as one of the key phe-nomena that ignited the process of early modern globalization. The classes will tackle early modern globalization from the perspective of historical anthropology, stressing how the global circulation of goods, people and ideas was combined with unpreceden-

ted processes of cultural hybridization. At the end of the course the student will be able to contextuali-ze the European conquest of America within a global historical and cultural framework, as well as to independently engage in the critical analysis of relevant sources using the methodologies of historical anthropology.

HISTORY OF CULTURAL EXCHANGES IN THE MODERN AGE – Maria Teresa Guerrini

The course focuses on the cultural dimension of Modern economy and society. Special attention will be given to free and forced movements of people in relation to global phenomena such as geographical discoveries, colonialism, and capitalist expansion. At the end of the course students have learned the historical foundations of cultural interactions and conflicts typical of the global age.

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INDIAN OCEAN STUDIES – Karin Pallaver The course focuses on the circulation of people, goods and ideas across the oceanic space as a way to understand the connections and disconnections that created a unified system of cultural and economic exchange. It investigates the indigenous responses to European commercial intrusions that started in the 16th century and explores the impact of the development of formal colonial rule in the 19th century. Students will analyze travel

accounts, novels, historical sources, and scholarly works within the historiographical debates that characterize the Indian Ocean Studies field. They will reach an understanding of the Indian Ocean cultures, economies and societies through a non-Eurocentric approach to processes of globalization INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIA – Saverio Marchignoli

Students will acquire high-level knowledge of intellectual transformations and history of thought in modern and contemporary South Asia, specifically during the colonial and post-colonial period. Students will know in depth the issue of religious and social reforms and recognize the main theoretical positions emerged in the current debate on the historiographical and anthropological representation of the development of South

Asian society. Students are also able to properly communicate in written and oral form what they learned, using appropriate bibliography in view of further original research.

NARRATIVES ON OTHERS AND SELF IN ARAB CULTURE – Giuseppe Cecere The course focuses on critical approach to notions of «identity» and «otherness» inside the Arab World, on the grounds of varied social representations and ideological constructions on ethnicity and «phenotypical» diversity produced by Arab writers in different times and regions. The making and evolutions of the very notion of «Arabicity» across the centuries will thus be analyzed from different

perspectives, relying on a wide set of Arabic sources witnessing to different and often conflicting attitudes on supposed relations between «Arabicity» and language, religion, genealogy, ethnicity. The course aims at providing students with a varied set of tools for proper linguistic analysis, hi-storical contextualisation and critical deconstruction of narratives and representations connected to the issues of «identity» and «otherness» produced within the Arab World.

ROME AND THE UNIVERSAL – Alessandro Cristofori The course aims at examining the conceptual grounds of the Universal claim, which are to be connected to political-military elements as well as to cultural and juridical patterns. The roman idea of a Universal empire will be compared to other contemporary Universal empires, like e.g. Alexander the Great's empire or the Chinese Han dynasty’s Empire, as well as analyzed with a diachronic approach by taking into account how the

notion of universal imperial rule has shaped the idea of international order after the end of Antiquity, from the Middle Ages to the present days. Representations and auto-representations of the roman universal cosmic order will be explored by taking into account different approaches, among which the historiographical perspective and the actual organisational and political patterns will assume specific relevance.

WORLD HISTORY: THEORY AND METHODOLOGY – Paolo Capuzzo Students will face the concept of universal history centred around Europe and Western Civilization as well as with the ways through which this narrative has been deconstructed by means of alternative and peripheral critical stances. Lectures will take advantage of different traditions of critical thought as cultural Marxism, anti-imperialist and Afro-American thought, cultural and postcolonial studies. The

course will provide students with a sound theoretical framework within which specific reearch interests could be developed.

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OTHER COURSE UNITS AVAILABLE FEMINIST CRITIQUES OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL THOUGHT – TBA At the end of the course students will acquire a knowledge of the ways in which women had histo-rically criticized the theoretical justification of their subordination articulated in Western political and social thought. By applying the fundamental tools of feminist and post-colonial theories, the course will provide an historical analysis of political and social concepts – such as authority, freedom, rights, citizenship, society, labor – as the expression of gendered relations of power.

FEMINIST THEORY: BETWEEN DIFFERENCE AND DIVERSITY – Rita Monticelli The course will analyse critical theories and methodologies of gender in dialogue with diverse feminism(s), African American and postcolonial studies and engage in the critical debates on the representation and deconstruction of the notion of gender and “difference” in diverse cultural contexts. The course will also present case studies on the issue of gender, identity, difference, “race”, and politics of the body in which texts (literary and visual) are in dialogue with the theories and methodologies of gender studies previously discussed with specific reference to utopian and dystopian fiction.

GEOGRAPHY AND COGNITION OF EUROPEAN TERRITORY – Franco Farinelli Starting from the history of the idea of Europe, the course aims to explain the nature and the logic of European space and landscapes in their geographical, cultural and cognitive roots. The course brings critical perspectives from humanities and from economics to bear in considering how Europe as a set of new transnational policy spaces is making a difference to Europe as a myriad of lived, experienced, meaningful, crucial places.

HISTORY OF COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL SPACES – TBA The course intends to provide a critical and interdisciplinary analysis of the policy and ideology of European colonial expansion between the opening of the Suez Canal (1869) and the outbreak of the First World War, a period characterized by unprecedented competition for overseas territorial acquisitions and the emergence in colonising countries of doctrines of racial superiority. Students will acquire a top-down and a bottom-up perspective on the process of ‘simplification’ registered in colonial contexts and will be required to adopt a comparative approach that takes on board the Middle East and other geographical contexts directly affected by colonial rule and conflicts, including and particularly African countries and India.

POLITICS OF CONTEMPORARY ASIA – Antonio Fiori The main objective of this course is to provide the necessary tools to critically analyze the most important international issues in Pacific Asia. At the end of the course students will be able to analyze and understand a set of topics related to historical and contemporary patterns of state relations in East Asia, US security alliance in East Asia and the new Asian Pivot, the rise of China, nuclear crisis in the Korean Peninsula, territorial disputes, regional multilateral institutions, East Asian development models and economic integration, environmental challenges, energy security, and other related issues.

SEMIOTICS OF CONFLICTS – Cristina Demaria The course aims at giving the students an understanding of conflict and post-conflict situations as se-miotic and cultural phenomena, with a particular focus on the role of cinema and documentary in the building of cultural and collective memories, post-memories and prosthetic memories of contemporary conflicts. At the end of the course the student will have achieved the necessary tools to critically elaborate the main themes and aspects relating to conflict and post-conflict cultures in a semiotic perspective.

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FACULTY

IRENE BUENO RAFFAELE LAUDANI irene.bueno@unibo.it +39 051 20 9 7808 www.unibo.it/sitoweb/irene.bueno

raffaele.laudani@unibo.it +30 0512097659 www.unibo.it/sitoweb/raffaele.laudani

PAOLO CAPUZZO – Academic coordinator ELISA MAGNANI paolo.capuzzo@unibo.it +39 051 20 9 7641 www.unibo.it/sitoweb/paolo.capuzzo

e.magnani@unibo.it +39 051 20 9 7456 www.unibo.it/sitoweb/e.magnani

GIUSEPPE CECERE SAVERIO MARCHIGNOLI giuseppe.cecere3@unibo.it +39 051 20 9 8473 www.unibo.it/sitoweb/giuseppe.cecere3

saverio.marchignoli@unibo.it +39 051 20 9 8470 www.unibo.it/sitoweb/saverio.marchignoli

LUCIA CRISCUOLO SANDRO MEZZADRA lucia.criscuolo@unibo.it +39 051 20 9 8391 www.unibo.it/sitoweb/lucia.criscuolo

sandro.mezzadra@unibo.it +39 051 20 9 2548 www.unibo.it/sitoweb/sandro.mezzadra

ALESSANDRO CRISTOFORI RITA MONTICELLI alessandro.cristofori@unibo.it +39 051 20 9 8110 www.unibo.it/sitoweb/alessandro.cristofori

rita.monticelli@unibo.it tel +39 051 20 9 7225 https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/rita.monticelli

DAVIDE DAINESE KARIN PALLAVER davide.dainese@unibo.it +39 051 20 9 7653 www.unibo.it/sitoweb/davide.dainese

karin.pallaver@unibo.it +39 051 20 9 8449 www.unibo.it/sitoweb/karin.pallaver

DAVIDE DOMENICI ILARIA PORCIANI davide.domenici@unibo.it +39 051 20 9 8445 www.unibo.it/sitoweb/davide.domenici

ilaria.porciani@unibo.it +39 051 20 9 7660 www.unibo.it/sitoweb/ilaria.porciani

FRANCO FARINELLI IVO QUARANTA franco.farinelli@unibo.it +39 051 20 9 2229 • +39 051 20 9 2215 www.unibo.it/sitoweb/franco.farinelli

ivo.quaranta@unibo.it +39 051 20 9 8446 www.unibo.it/sitoweb/ivo.quaranta

ANTONIO FIORI CARLA SALVATERRA antonio.fiori@unibo.it +39 051 20 9 2555 www.unibo.it/sitoweb/antonio.fiori

carla.salvaterra@unibo.it +39 051 20 9 8361 www.unibo.it/sitoweb/carla.salvaterra

MARIA TERESA GUERRINI IRMA TADDIA mariateresa.guerrini@unibo.it +39 051 20 9 7693 www.unibo.it/sitoweb/mariateresa.guerrini

irma.taddia@unibo.it +39 051 20 9 7674 www.unibo.it/sitoweb/irma.taddia

LUCA JOURDAN MARICA TOLOMELLI luca.jourdan@unibo.it www.unibo.it/sitoweb/luca.jourdan

marica.tolomelli@unibo.it +39 051 20 9 7627 www.unibo.it/sitoweb/marica.tolomelli

DiSCi – Department of History and Cultures School of Arts Humanities and Cultural Heritage Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna

AY 2016-2017

Second cycle degree program/Master in History and Oriental studies

GLOBAL CULTURES – GLOC Academic coordinator: Paolo Capuzzo

Contacts: Antonio Schiavulli

E-mail: antonio.schiavulli@unibo.it Phone: +39 051 209 7666 Skype: globalcultures15