Visual Representation and Medialization of History

3 ECTS – course offered in the Fall semester

• Urban planning for international cooperation 

Instructor: Prof. Giovanna Potestà

Topics: Understanding the Urban; difference between city and settlements; physical urban spaces and social rilevance of public space; different interpretations of cities in different contexts and historical periods (early settlements and ancient cities; Greek, Roman, Medieval cities; the metropolis of the 19th century; the Modernist city). Geography and international cooperation: the Global South and urban theory.

• Human rights: The Catholic perspective 

Instructor: Prof. Maria Paiano

Topics: The Catholic Church in the face of the Declaration of human rights and of the “modern freedoms”: intransigentism and liberal Catholicism; attempts of conciliation by the papal magisterium; Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903), the age of Totalitarianism, the Vatican II Council and developments in the post-conciliar era.