Histories of Inclusion and Exclusion
INSTRUCTORS
Giovanni Tarantino, Monica Pacini, Maria Paiano, Valeria Galimi
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Lesson 1 – prof. Giovanni Tarantino
Date: October 25th
Title: Feelings Matter: Public History and Emotion
Topics: Affective cartography; Emotional grammars of identity/alterity.
Lesson 2 – prof. Giovanni Tarantino
Date: October 26th
Title: (Visually) Labelling the Other: Between History and Memory
Topics: Genealogies of racial and ethnic representations; historical spaces as historical media; (de)commemorations
Lesson 3 – prof. Monica Pacini
Date: November 11th
Title: Going for Gender Balance
Topics: Classes together with the students of the MA course “Gender history”. Women’s representation in political and social decision making in Europe; International agreements, Diversity of settings (national and sectorial), Party gender cultures and electoral laws, good practices. Analysis by the students on gender gap in the Japanese education system (Eri Nishida); gender issues in the Philippines (Jeffersob Mendez); Women’s representation in politics: Portugal from 1911 to today (Catarina Levria).
Lesson 4 – prof. Maria Paiano
Date: November 19th
Title: Human rights from the French Revolution to the present day: The Catholic perspective
Topics: The Catholic Church in the face of the Declaration of human rights and of the “modern freedoms”: intransigentism and liberal Catholicism. Initial attempts of conciliation by the papal magisterium: Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903), the age of Totalitarianism, the Vatican II Council and evelopments in the post-conciliar era. Class development: Nishida absent. Letria and Mendez took part in the lesson very actively, showing interest and critical thinking skills.
Lesson 5 – prof. Valeria Galimi
Date: November 29th
Title: The construction of the “other”. Representations and stereotypes across history
Topics: Gender and race representation in the French Algeria during the 1930s. Discussion about how in French culture, and in particular in the colonial world during the interwar period, the topic of gender and race were used to represent a hierarchical and unequal society. Focus on the diffusion of visual stereotypes in popular culture (cartoons, caricatures).
Reading: Ethan B. Katz, An Imperial Entanglement: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and Colonialism, The American Historical Review, Volume 123, Issue 4, October 2018, pp. 1190–1209.
Lesson 6 – prof. Valeria Galimi
Date: December 1th
Title: Histories of inclusions and exclusions. Representations and stereotypes: three case studies
Topics: Students presented their research included in the general topic of “the construction of the Other” and the representation of visual and cultural stereotypes. Particular attention was paid to the construction of the research object, the methodology and the analysis of the sources.