Unit CULTURAL HISTORY IN THE CONTEMPORARY EUROPE
- Course
- Italian, classical studies and european history
- Study-unit Code
- GP005254
- Curriculum
- Storia europea
- Teacher
- Luca La Rovere
- Teachers
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- Luca La Rovere
- Hours
- 36 ore - Luca La Rovere
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2024
- Offered
- 2024/25
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline storiche, filosofiche, antropologiche e sociologiche
- Academic discipline
- M-STO/04
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Fascism/fascisms. A comparative and transnational perspective
- Reference texts
- Attending students:
E. Gentile, Il fascismo. Storia e interpretazione, Laterza, 2003.
Non-attending students:
E. Gentile, Il fascismo. Storia e interpretazione, Laterza, 2003.
Plus a book of your choice from the following:
R. De Felice, Le interpretazioni del fascismo, Laterza, varie edizioni.
A. De Bernardi, Una dittatura moderna. Il fascismo come problema storico, Bruno Mondadori, 2001.
S. Payne, Il Fascismo. Origini, storia e declino delle dittature che si sono imposte tra le due guerre, Newton & Compton, 1995: Introduzione; cap. 6, 8, 11 (i primi 5 paragrafi), 13, 14,15.
A. Campi (a cura di), Che cos'è il fascismo. Interpretazioni e prospettive di ricerca, Ideazione editrice, 2003 (Introduzione, pp. 3-36; 97-124; 189-212, 251-374
E. Gentile, Il culto del littorio. La sacralizzazione della politica nell'Italia fascista, Laterza (edizioni varie).
M. Tarchi, Fascismo. Teorie, interpretazioni e modelli, Laterza, 2003.
G.L. Mosse, La nazionalizzazione delle masse, Il Mulino, (edizioni varie)
E. Gentile, Totalitarismo 100. Ritorno alla storia, Salerno Editrice, 2023.
E. Gentile, Storia del fascismo, Laterza, 2022 (cinque capitoli a scelta)
M. Flores, G. Gozzini, Perché il fascismo è nato in Italia, Laterza, 2022.
A. De Bernardi, Perché il fascismo ha vinto
M. Franzinelli, L’insurrezione fascista. Storia e mito della marcia su Roma,
M. Canali, Clemente Volpini, Gli uomini della marcia su Roma
P. Corner, Mussolini e il fascismo. Storia, memoria, amnesia, Viella, 2022
Specific information about the course and teaching materials will be available on the Unistudium platform: https://www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/login/index.php to the page dedicated to the course of Contemporary History (Lettere ).
Students with disabilities and/or SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for the compensatory tools provided for by the legislation (e.g. textbooks in digital format; teaching materials in accessible formats: presentations, handouts, exercises, provided if necessary in advance of the lessons), for which see page https:// www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa. For the request, the student is invited to contact the teacher, who will put him/her in contact with the Referent for disability and/or SLD of the Department (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it). - Educational objectives
- Students will achieve a specialized knowledge of the topics covered by the course. In particular, they will have to achieve the following knowledge:
1) knowledge of contemporary history, in its various political, institutional, social and cultural aspects, necessary to understand and contextualize the question of fascism;
2) know the reference bibliography on European fascism between the two wars;
3) know the main interpretative strands of the fascist phenomenon and the debate that developed between them, in a period ranging from its first appearance to the present day.
4) know the methodology and sources used by historiography and social sciences that have dealt with the theme of fascism.
The aim of the course is to contribute to the development of students' communication skills and the application of their knowledge:
1) Use of an appropriate vocabulary and concepts necessary to describe historical phenomena, with reference to the topics covered by the course.
2) Ability to critically reflect on the complexity and plurality of factors that led to the rise of fascism;
3) acquire the ability to compare and discuss the main historiographical interpretation and to critically evaluate sources, documents and testimonials;
4) acquire skills in the search for documentary and bibliographic sources, also in the original language.
5) develop the ability to publicly communicate the results of their in-depth study;
6) participate in a collective discussion on the topics under study using arguments based on facts, quotations and sources. - Prerequisites
- Students should have a good knowledge of general history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular reference to the history of the fascist movements and regimes established between the two world wars and, possibly, having taken the exam of Contemporary history during the three-year degree.
- Teaching methods
- The course is divided into two parts: in the first part (about 18 hours) the teacher will illustrate, in the form of frontal lessons, the main aspects of the topic covered by the course, will present sources and documents, also with the help of audiovisuals (ppt slides, images, documentaries, films). In the second part (approx. 18 hours) The activity will take place in seminar form, with the oral presentation by the students of a brief presentation (20/25 minute) on a topic agreed with the teacher, which will be the subject of collective discussion. The students are invited to use notes and/or multimedia supports for the their presentation (PowerPoint, video, photos, ets.)
Students with disabilities and/or SLD, after consultation with the teacher, can request any teaching materials in accessible formats (presentations, handouts, workbooks), provided in advance of the lessons, as well as the use of other technological facilitation tools in the study phase. For general information, please consult the University Services on page https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Contact Person for the Department (prof.ssa A. Di Pilla).
For the 2023/2024 academic year, the University of Perugia has admitted 11 categories of students to distance learning. Students who may be interested are invited to check the possibility of attending lectures in DAD on the website Procedura DAD - Università degli Studi di Perugia (unipg.it) - Other information
- Students are warmly invited to register to the course’s page on Unstudium (https://www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/) to receive every information about the course and keep in conctact with the teacher. They will also find on the same digital platform the materials and sources
presented by the teacher during the lectures.
Students with disabilities and/or DSA: for any information on the University's services, please visit https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Departmental Contact Person (Prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it). - Learning verification modality
- The evaluation of the student takes place in itinere: participation in the exercises, the oral presentation of a topic agreed with the lecturer, the interventions on the topics debated from time to time constitute as many activities that contribute to the final students’ evaluation. For those who have attended at least 75% of the lessons, participating in the seminar activity, the final oral exam will focus exclusively on a text indicated by the teacher. For non-attending students, the evaluation will take place through an oral exam on the texts indicated in the program. Overall, the evaluation (ongoing and final) aims to ascertain the student's ability to achieve the learning objective of the course.
Students with disabilities and/or DSA, who have been duly recognised by the SOL and have obtained access to the University's services, may, for the purpose of taking exams, make use of the compensatory aids, assistive devices and inclusive technologies provided for by the regulations, to be requested and agreed with the teacher well in advance of the exams. For further information, please visit https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Departmental Officer for Disability and DSA (Prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it). - Extended program
- The question of fascism has been much debated and controversial since its inception and up to the present day. Does the threat of fascism still exist today? What are the links between fascism, ultranationalism, sovereignty movements and populism that in recent years have they returned to represent one of the most dangerous challenges for democracy? To answer these questions and to clear the field of the many misunderstandings generated by a polemical use of the term, the course aims to focus on the notion of fascism with the tools of historiographic analysis. Fascism represented a new form of political movement and regime, based on militarization of politics, an anti-ideologic ideology, the cult of the leader, the exaltation of violence as a tool for destroying the old liberal-bourgeois order, the permanent mobilization of the masses. Even if not all the would be fascist movements went to power, in the interwar period various forms of fascism rooted in Europe. The course aims to give an account of the history of fascisms, reconsider the interpretations of fascist phenomenon (both coeval and subsequent), identify, in the light of the most recent theories, a general definition of fascism. Moving from the Italian experience, the field of observation will be enlarged to include the varieties of European fascism (Nazism, Spanish Falange, Austrian Heimwehr, Romanian Iron guard, ecc.)
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