Internships
INSTRUCTORS
Chiara Renzo, Cristiano Giometti, Nipesh Palat Narayanan, Nura Abdelmohsen, Lorenzo Venuti, Tiziana Serena, Francesca Tacchi
COURSE DESCRIPTION
1) Dr. Chiara Renzo
Date: September 23th
Title: Foundation “Museum and Documentation Centre of deportation and Resistance – Memorial sites on Tuscany” (Prato)
Topics: Guides visitto the Museum and intership in collaboration with the local staff. The Foundation collects and preserves witness accounts on deportation and on the people’s resistance to Nazism and Fascism, in order to promote the remembrance of historical events and to foster a culture of peace and solidarity among peoples against all kinds of intolerance, racism, discrimination and totalitarianism.
2) prof. Cristiano Giometti
Date: October 11th
Title: Between Art and Documents: Exhibition in Florence between the 19th and 20th centuries
Topics: History of art exhibition in Florence and their political meanings as instruments of civil values and propaganda. Guided visit to Palazzo Fenzi, historical Sagas headquarter.
3) prof. Cristiano Giometti
Date: October 13th
Title: Opera Duomo Museum
Topics: Guided Visit to the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo of Florence. Discussion about the sculture decorations of Santa Maria del Fiore: Arnolfo di Cambio, Andrea Pisano, Donatello.
4) Dr. Chiara Renzo
Date: October 20th
Title: State Archive of Florence
Topics: After a discussion of the reading by C.S. Capogreco, Mussolini’s Camps. Civilian Internment in Fascist Italy (1940-1943), Routledge, 2019, pp. 48-96, guided visit of the State Archive of Florence in collaboration with Archive’s staff (Dr. Andrea Tanturli and Dr. Francesca Fiore) and analysis of some primary sources held by the Archive on the civilian internment in Tuscany during WWII.
5) Dr. Nipesh Palat Narayanan
Date: November 2nd
Title: Understanding the urban
Topics: What and where is the Global South? Discussion on the colonial construction of the Global south and how contemporary knowledge is built around this construct.
6) Dr. Nipesh Palat Narayanan
Date: November 3rd
Title: Understanding the urban
Topics: Intellectual imperialism and the urban. This lecture read southern urban theory by engaging with the work of Connell, Alatas, and Guevara. It deconstructed the western notion of urban developed using racial categorizations.
7) Dr. Chiara Renzo
Date: November 4th
Title: International humanitarianism and the refugee problem I: WWII and the Jewish refugees
Topics: Internship linked to the core course class (4th November, morning). Refugee Crisis and Humanitarianism in the first half of 1900s with a focus on the Jewish refugees escaping Nazi territories and the role of Italy, the persecution of the Jews in Italy. Discussion with the students about S. Klein, Italy’s Jews form Emancipation to Fascism, CUP, 2018, pp. 85-130.
8) Dr. Chiara Renzo
Date: November 5th
Title: International humanitarianism and the refugee problem II: Jewish displaced persons after 1945.
Topics: Internship linked to the core course class (5th November, morning). Refugee Crisis after WWII with a focus on the problem of the Jewish displaced persons (DPs) after the Holocaust; Jewish DPs in refugee camps in postwar Italy; Jewish DPs’ clandestine departures from Italy to Palestine. Analysis with the students of oral testimonies from the Archives of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and of primary sources from the Bad Arolsen Archives (International Tracing Service).
9) Dr. Nipesh Palat Narayanan
Date: November 9th
Title: Understanding the urban
Topics: Different conceptions of the society and the city – reading Ibn Khaldun, Al Afghani, and Ambedkar. This lecture took three key thinkers from Africa, western Asia, and south east Asia to present how the urban and city life has been conceptualized outside of Eurocentric theorizations.
Attended by: Jefferson Mendez
10) Dr. Nura Abdelmohsen
Date: November 15th
Title: The Auschwitz Memorial (Florence)
Topics: Guided visit, in collaboration with the Memorial staff, together with some students of the BA course “History of Contemporary Europe”.
11) Dr. Nipesh Palat Narayanan
Date: December 8th
Title: Group Presentation. Groups of 4 students were created to engage on a policy relevant topic and suggestions based on the lectures.
Jefferson Mendez prepared a presentation with others in the class, which was well appreciated.
12) Dr. Lorenzo Venuti-prof. Francesca Tacchi
Date: November 22th
Title: Building memories. The Coverciano’s Museum of soccer
Topics: Guided visit to the museum (typical of an “old” conception of museum), in collaboration wuth the Museum staff. Class together with students of the MA course “History of Sport” (Tacchi)..
13) proff. Tiziana Serena-Francesca Tacchi
Date: December 13th
Title: Photograhic paths: Old and new Florence
Topics: A stroll through Florence, in search of some sites photographed at the beginning of the XX century (available with a mobile APP), compared to the present. Focus on Duomo and Palazzo della Signoria.