Objectives
The course aims to offer to the students the conceptual and methodological tools for a critical knowledge of the past and its complex and changing relationships with the present time.
The general goal of the course is to transfer to the student the ability to problematize and contextualize, in a long-term framework, the analysis of the political-institutional, social and cultural processes of the contemporary age, stimulating a constant and close comparison between the historical method and the disciplines that concur to widen its visual angle and to enrich its analytical-conceptual instrumentation: mainly the sciences of the social and cultural processes, political and juridical-institutional sciences, social psychology, political philosophy, anthropology, sciences of language.
A more specific objective of the course is to provide students, within the framework of the more general knowledge and the multidisciplinary vision described above, an adequate basic knowledge of the history of information systems and of the cultural industry in the age of the 'public' and 'global networks', with particular attention to the political, social and cultural dimension of the relationship between communication and power.
At the end of the learning process the student will have to demonstrate knowledge and ability to understand history as a study of long-term change, in order to develop adequate and discerning skills in the analysis of social, political and cultural contexts, to raise awareness look at the diversity of the points of view on social reality, to develop a complex and problematic approach to the increasingly global and interconnected society of our time.
The student will then have to demonstrate his ability to face complex issues in the field of contemporary history, mainly in its international, political-institutional, socio-cultural dimensions, and, more specifically, in the social history of the media and the relationship between power and communication, with the support of advanced textbooks, seminar meetings, multimedia resources.
The student must also demonstrate that he is able to apply the acquired knowledge in a competent and reflective way, both to conceive and support arguments, and to solve problems in his field of study. It will therefore have to show itself capable of gathering and systematizing data, as well as selecting, cross-checking and analyzing information sources, organizing them in a congruent manner, establishing links and logical links to support his own reasoning skills and a more mature individual critical sense.
The study of contemporary history is consequently indispensable also in order to acquire, in line with the educational objectives of the degree course in Public and business communication, both general and specific communication and expressive abilities, in the face of the student's more general need to be endowed with that cultural sensitivity essential to dialectical confrontation, to relational activity in public and private organizations and institutions, in problem solving activities.
Channels
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ANDREA GUISO Teacher profile
Programme
Part one.
The birth of the modern world:
1. The Me liberated;
2. The political and juridicial space;
3. Citizens;
4. Real and imaginary: the nation in the public discourse of the 17th-19th century;
5. War and peace: international relations from the modern age to the crisis of 1914
Second part
The Deluge. World War I and the making of a new global order.
1. The Great War
2. The origins of the American century
3. War and revolution
4. Democracy and international cooperation
5. Anti-democracy
Part three.
Global crisis and war
1. 1929. The transformation of the state and the economy
2. The order of the race
3. The night of democracies
4. Again war
5. 1941. Turnaround and ambiguity of the conflict
Part four
The divided world
1. The emergence of the spheres of influence
2. Atlantism and Europeanism
3. The two Europe
4. A global cold war
Part five.
New issues in a divided world
1. The atomic question and the meaning of politics
2. Regions on fire. Middle East and Southeast Asia
3. North and South of the world. Decolonization
4. The end of bipolar legitimacy
5. The years of student protest
Part six.
The age of the fracture
1. The end of the Bretton Woods system and the energy crisis
2. Detente and its limits
3. Neoliberalism
4. The second cold war
Seventh part
The end of the cold war and postbipolar disorder
1. The collapse of the Wall
2. Europe of the single currency
3. Financial globalization
4. Beyond the state: the idea of governance
5. Nation and globalization
6. Post-politics and post-democracy
Adopted texts
Raffaele Romanelli, Ottocento. Lezioni di storia contemporanea, Laterza
Raffaele Romanelli, Novecento. Lezioni di storia contemporanea, Laterza
Prerequisites
Requirements are not expected
Exam modes
Written test
Exam reservation date start | Exam reservation date end | Exam date |
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14/01/2021 | 24/01/2021 | 28/01/2021 |
14/01/2021 | 24/01/2021 | 28/01/2021 |
29/01/2021 | 07/02/2021 | 11/02/2021 |
29/01/2021 | 07/02/2021 | 11/02/2021 |
14/03/2021 | 10/04/2021 | 14/04/2021 |
14/03/2021 | 10/04/2021 | 14/04/2021 |
13/05/2021 | 25/05/2021 | 09/06/2021 |
13/05/2021 | 25/05/2021 | 09/06/2021 |
23/05/2021 | 10/06/2021 | 25/06/2021 |
23/05/2021 | 10/06/2021 | 25/06/2021 |
11/06/2021 | 29/06/2021 | 12/07/2021 |
11/06/2021 | 29/06/2021 | 12/07/2021 |
20/07/2021 | 23/08/2021 | 08/09/2021 |
20/07/2021 | 23/08/2021 | 08/09/2021 |
25/10/2021 | 05/11/2021 | 08/11/2021 |
25/10/2021 | 05/11/2021 | 08/11/2021 |
20/12/2021 | 07/01/2022 | 11/01/2022 |
20/12/2021 | 07/01/2022 | 11/01/2022 |
12/01/2022 | 23/01/2022 | 25/01/2022 |
12/01/2022 | 23/01/2022 | 25/01/2022 |
SARA TROVALUSCI Teacher profile
Exam reservation date start | Exam reservation date end | Exam date |
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05/12/2020 | 05/02/2021 | 11/02/2021 |
11/02/2021 | 05/04/2021 | 14/04/2021 |
01/05/2021 | 04/06/2021 | 09/06/2021 |
19/05/2021 | 19/06/2021 | 25/06/2021 |
05/06/2021 | 07/07/2021 | 12/07/2021 |
05/07/2021 | 05/09/2021 | 08/09/2021 |
03/10/2021 | 03/11/2021 | 08/11/2021 |
10/12/2021 | 05/01/2022 | 11/01/2022 |
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ELENA PAPADIA Teacher profile
Programme
The revolutions of the late eighteenth century. Two political cultures: liberalism and democracy in the XIXth century.1848 in Italy and Europe. The democratic caesarism of Napoleon III. State-builiding, nation-building: the Italian and German cases. Socialism: Marx, Bakunin, the I and II International. The Italian case, from I International to PSI. Empires. World War I. The new hegemonic role of the United States. Building a mass consumer society. New Deal. The Bolshevik revolution and the birth of the USSR. Europe between two wars. The advent of fascism and the construction of the regime. Nazism. Stalinism. World War II. The structure of Europe in the post-war period. The cold war. Decolonization. The Italian case: from the second post-war period to the economic boom. New subjects, new rights: women and Afro-Americans. Italy in the Sixties. The Seventies in Italy and Europe. Perestroika. Reagan, Thatcher and the neoliberal phase. The Craxi years. The end of a world: 1989-1991.
Adopted texts
Riguardo alla bibliografia del corso, NON SONO PREVISTE DISTINZIONI TRA FREQUENTANTI E NON FREQUENTANTI.
Il manuale consigliato, il cui studio è obbligatorio per tutti, è:
S. Lupo, A. Ventrone, L'età contemporanea, Le Monnier 2016; in alternativa: T. Detti, G. Gozzini, Storia contemporanea. Vol. I, L'Ottocento; vol. II, Il Novecento (fino al capitolo 18 compreso).
Al manuale dovrà essere affiancato lo studio di un libro a scelta, compreso in questa lista:
Arisi Rota, Arianna, Il Risorgimento. Un viaggio politico e sentimentale, Bologna, il Mulino 2019
Benigno, Francesco, Terrore e terrorismo. Saggio storico sulla violenza politica, Torino, Einaudi, 2018
Del Pero, Mario, Libertà e impero. Gli Stati Uniti e il mondo, 1776-2007, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2008 (solo II e III parte)
Forgacs, David, Margini d’Italia. L’esclusione sociale dall’Unità a oggi, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2015
Gelvin, J.L., Il conflitto israelo-palestinese. Cent’anni di guerra, Torino, Einaudi, 2006
Gentiloni, Umberto, Storia dell’Italia contemporanea. 1943-2019, Bologna, il Mulino, 2019
Papadia, Elena, La forza dei sentimenti. Anarchici e socialisti in Italia, 1870-1900, Bologna, il Mulino, 2019
Prosperi, Adriano, Un volgo disperso. Contadini d’Italia nell’Ottocento, Torino, Einaudi, 2018
Scarpellini, Emanuela, L’Italia dei consumi. Dalle Belle époque al nuovo millennio, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2016. A quest'ultimo volume dovrà aggiungersi lo studio del saggio di E. Papadia, Il mondo della distribuzione, in "Storia d'Italia", Annale 27, I consumi, Torino, Einaudi, 2018, pp. 409-433. (il pdf si trova nella web cattedra, alla sezione "Materiali del corso").
Bibliography
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Prerequisites
Not required.
Frequency modes
Class attendance is optional.
Exam modes
The exam will consist of a two-hour written test. Since the test is divided into open questions, the students will be evalueted not only for the knowledge acquired, but also for their linguistic skills.
Exam reservation date start | Exam reservation date end | Exam date |
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13/11/2020 | 08/02/2021 | 11/02/2021 |
31/03/2021 | 13/04/2021 | 14/04/2021 |
13/11/2020 | 05/06/2021 | 09/06/2021 |
13/11/2020 | 22/06/2021 | 24/06/2021 |
13/11/2020 | 09/07/2021 | 12/07/2021 |
13/11/2020 | 01/09/2021 | 08/09/2021 |
10/09/2021 | 30/10/2021 | 03/11/2021 |
27/10/2021 | 31/12/2021 | 10/01/2022 |
27/10/2021 | 15/01/2022 | 25/01/2022 |
SARA TROVALUSCI Teacher profile
Exam reservation date start | Exam reservation date end | Exam date |
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05/12/2020 | 05/02/2021 | 11/02/2021 |
11/02/2021 | 05/04/2021 | 14/04/2021 |
01/05/2021 | 04/06/2021 | 09/06/2021 |
19/05/2021 | 19/06/2021 | 25/06/2021 |
05/06/2021 | 07/07/2021 | 12/07/2021 |
05/07/2021 | 05/09/2021 | 08/09/2021 |
03/10/2021 | 03/11/2021 | 08/11/2021 |
10/12/2021 | 05/01/2022 | 11/01/2022 |
- Academic year: 2020/2021
- Curriculum: Curriculum unico
- Year: First year
- Semester: Second semester
- SSD: M-STO/04
- CFU: 9
- Attività formative di base
- Ambito disciplinare: Discipline sociali e mediologiche
- Lecture (Hours): 72
- CFU: 9
- SSD: M-STO/04