- Docente: Paolo Capuzzo
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-STO/04
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in History and Oriental Studies (cod. 8845)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, students will acquire basic elements for the understanding of the historical research methods. There will be a discussion of different kind of sources, writtens, visual and orals in order to enlarge the scope of historical research towards material cultures and environmental issues. Students will be aware of how to deal with specific research issue connecting research purposes and critical examination of sources. They will be able to communicate in oral and written form the methodological aspects and the results of their research activity.
Course contents
"Consumption History and advertisement: approaches and methodologies"
In the first week of the course, there will be some lectures on the main historiographical approaches to the history of consumption, advertisement, and on the theories of consumer.
From the second week onwards, students will participate to a seminar activity on consumption and advertisement history. They will develop a specific individual research activity which will be presented and discussed in class with a particular focus on the methodological aspects.
Students will be asked to read texts in English.
Readings/Bibliography
The main reference text will be:
Frank Trentmann (a cura di), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012
It is suggested to read di A. Arvidsson, Marketing Modernity, Routledge, 2003
A detailed bibliography will be suggested during the course according to the individual research project choosen by the students.
Teaching methods
There will be some initial lectures followed by a seminar with presentations and discussions.
Assessment methods
Attending students will be asked to:
to carry out weekly readings and do presentations in class;
write a brief summary (300 words - 2000 carachters) of weekly readings;
write a brief final paper.
Attending students are expected to attend all lectures and seminars and to be punctual in delivering the weekly written summaries.
Not attending students will have to pass an oral exam for which they have to read 2 volumes of list A and 1 of the list B.
Volumes in the list be are examples of historical research and have to analysed focussing on the following aspects:- specific features of sources used by authors
- historiographical framework within which the research is located
- relationship between general frameworks and case staudies
- structure of the volume
Lista A
Claudio Pavone, Prima lezione di storia contemporanea, Laterza 2009 [2007]
Sergio Luzzatto (a cura di), Prima lezione di metodo storico, Laterza 2010
Peter Burke, Una rivoluzione storiografica. La scuola delle «Annales» 1929-1989, Laterza 2014
Stefano Vitali, Passato digitale: le fonti dello storico nell'era del computer, B. Mondadori 2004
Lista B
Claudio Pavone, Una guerra civile. Saggio storico sulla moralità nella Resistenza, Bollati Boringhieri 2006 [1991]
Luca Baldissara, Paolo Pezzino, Il massacro. Guerra ai civili a Monte Sole, Il Mulino, Bologna 2009
Sven Reichardt, Camicie nere, camicie brune. Milizie fasciste in Italia e in Germania, Il mulino, Bologna 2009
Christopher Duggan, Il popolo del Duce. Storia emotiva dell’Italia fascista, Laterza 2013
Teaching tools
Projector for images and multimedia sources.
Office hours
See the website of Paolo Capuzzo