Unit CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
- Course
- Philosophy and psychological science and techniques
- Study-unit Code
- GP003495
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Paolo Raspadori
- Teachers
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- Paolo Raspadori
- Hours
- 36 ore - Paolo Raspadori
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline letterarie, linguistiche e storiche
- Academic discipline
- M-STO/04
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course focuses on some fundamental phenomena and processes that have determined the breakages and continuities of historical becoming, from the second half of the nineteenth century onward. The relationship between empires and nationalisms, the nexus of democracy and violence, the dynamics of disintegration, transition and reconstruction in the two postwar periods, the rise and crisis phases of European and transatlantic orders, migration flows and the role of international bodies, the relationship between Europe and the world in colonial and postcolonial experiences, and the environmental changes of the Anthropocene will be analyzed. The emergence of illiberal nationalisms in Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall will also be investigated as a more specific part of the course.
- Reference texts
- L'età contemporanea. Prospettive di storia europea e globale, edited by Marco Bresciani and Fulvio Conti, Rome, Carocci, 2023; Guido Crainz, Ombre d'Europa. Nazionalismi, memorie, usi politici della storia, Rome, Donzelli, 2022.
Students with disabilities and/or SLD, in consultation with the teacher, may request any teaching materials in accessible formats (presentations, lecture notes, workbooks), provided if necessary in advance of the lessons, as well as the use of other technological tools to facilitate study. For general information, please refer to the University Services at https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa. - Educational objectives
- It is expected that students, on one hand, learn to critically interpret the main events occurred during two last centuries in the West and are able to detect the historical roots of political, cultural and social contemporary processes. On the other hand, it is expected that students are able how to thoroughly question the nationalist rifts and tensions that took shape at the turn of 1989 in the difficult transition of former communist countries and beyond.
- Prerequisites
- To be able to sufficiently understand the contents of the course, students must know the time partition among medieval, modern and contemporary history. Furthermore, students must have learnt, during the years of high school, the basic knowledge of the major historical events and processes occurred in the West in the nineteenth and the twentieth century.
- Teaching methods
- The course consists of lectures regarding issues of contents described above. They will be enriched by audiovisual and film screenings and by the illustration of graphs, photos, charts and maps presented in Power Point format.
- Other information
- To prepare the exam the attendance of lessons is strongly recommended. Students with disabilities and/or SLD: for any information on University services, contact the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator.
- Learning verification modality
- To pass the exam, students must undergo an oral examination, of variable duration depending on the course of the examination itself. The interview aims to verify the levels of knowledge and understanding reached by students with regard to the themes covered during the course and, at the same time, their capability to communicate with an appropriate language what they have learnt by the lessons and the reading of the recommended text. Students with disabilities and/or with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for compensatory tools, dispensatory measures and inclusive technologies ensured by law, to be requested and agreed with the teacher well in advance of tests and exams. For general information, consult the page https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Disability and/or SLD Department Coordinator
- Extended program
- The course focuses on some fundamental phenomena and processes that have determined the breakages and continuities of historical becoming, from the second half of the nineteenth century onward. The relationship between empires and nationalisms, the nexus of democracy and violence, the dynamics of disintegration, transition and reconstruction in the two postwar periods, the rise and crisis phases of European and transatlantic orders, migration flows and the role of international bodies, the relationship between Europe and the world in colonial and postcolonial experiences, and the environmental changes of the Anthropocene will be analyzed. The emergence of illiberal nationalisms in Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall will also be investigated as a more specific part of the course. Nationalisms that resort to a massive and warped "political use" of history that begins as early as the schoolhouse.
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