27280 - Seminars (1) (G.E)

Course contents

The seminar is organized in two parts. The first part (18 hours, from November 2012 to April 2013) concerns the Global History of Social and Political Concepts; in the second part (12 hours, 29-31 May 2013) the conferences organized in cooperation by the Department of Dipartimento di Discipline storiche, Antropologiche e Geografiche and «Le Monde Diplomatique» will take place. Students must communicate their participation to dr. Paola Rudan (paola.rudan@unibo.it).

In order to obtain the CFU, students have two options:

1) The attendance of the whole seminar (both part 1 and 2, 30 hours)

2) The attendance of the second part and the elaboration of a paper

PART I

Global History of Social and Political Concepts

(To participate and for more information write to dott. Paola Rudan: paola.rudan@unibo.it)

The first part of the seminar offers to the students the opportunity of discussing the transformations which affect the fundamental concepts of political modernity under the pressure of globalization. Following the path defined by Reinarth Koselleck, it is assumed that modern political concepts express a specific temporality, which consist into an articulation of the relationship between the past and the future connected to the idea of a progressive expansion and democratization of concepts such as liberty, equality, State. In different ways, this conception of history was questioned during the 20th century: beside those who declared the end of history, i.e. the definitive accomplishment of capitalist and democratic order (Fukuyama), there are those who pointed out not the end of history as such, but of its progressive understanding (Foucault, Lyotard) and those who questioned its homogeneity and emancipatory capacity moving from the reconstruction of histories of domination and oppression, resistance and liberation, within colonial and postcolonial contexts (Chakrabarty). By involving well known scholars from different disciplines - modern and contemporary history, history of institutions and political doctrines - the seminar will develop the following question: what happens to political and social concepts in an epoch like the present one, when history is conceived as something already accomplished, both because it ended or because its inclusive power and the progressive capacity of modern political order are over? Moving from this question, during the seminar it will be discussed the possibility of a global history of social and political concepts; global because it aims at pointing out the simultaneous action into the present of different historical experiences that took place in several political spaces and times, and that can be therefore understood only by overcoming traditional disciplinary fields.

ProgramGlobal History of Social and Political Concepts

Mercoledì 21 novembre 2012, ore 10-12

Aula Gambi, San Giovanni in Monte

Introduzione al seminario a cura della dott.ssa Paola Rudan

Prof. Carlo Galli

Spazi politici e guerra globale

Giovedì 6 dicembre 2012, ore 15-17

Aula 2, San Giovanni in Monte

Prof. Luca Scuccimarra

Università Roma - La Sapienza

Storia dei concetti e post-histoire

Giovedì 17 gennaio 2013, ore 15-17

Aula Fumagalli, San Giovanni in Monte

Prof. Paolo Capuzzo

Centro e periferia

Giovedì 24 gennaio 2013, ore 15-17

Aula 2, San Giovanni in Monte

Prof. Sandro Mezzadra

Confine. Lineamenti di storia di un concetto globale

Giovedì 14 febbraio 2013, ore 15-17

Aula 2, San Giovanni in Monte

Prof.ssa Angela De Benedictis

Verifiche concettuali dall'inizio del XXI secolo:

rivolta, ribellione, rivoluzione (XIV-XVIII secolo).

Giovedì 28 febbraio 2013, ore 15-17

Aula 2, San Giovanni in Monte

Prof.ssa Raffaella Baritono

Sorellanza/Sorellanze

Martedì 12 marzo 2013, ore 15-17

Aula 2, San Giovanni in Monte

Prof. Maurizio Ricciardi

Dallo Stato moderno allo Stato Globale

Martedì 2 aprile 2013, ore 15-17

Aula 2, San Giovanni in Monte

Dott. Luca Cobbe – Dott.ssa Paola Rudan

Società, Opinione, Costituzione

Martedì 2 aprile , ore 15-17

Aula 2, San Giovanni in Monte

Dott. Matteo Battistini – Dott. Giorgio Grappi

Stato e amministrazione negli Stati Uniti d'America

Stato postcoloniale in India

PART II

I seminari di Le Monde diplomatique Edizione 2013
coordinator: Dr. Raffaele Laudani

Aula Prodi, 29, 30, 31 of May 2013

Philip Golub
Graduate School of Global Studies, American University of Paris

Power, Authority, Identity: The Uncertain Role of the United States in the World

I. The internal scenery: crisis and change

May 29, h. 11-13 Hard Times: Anatomy of an Historical Crisis
May 29, h.14-16 A Divided Country: Long Lasting Effects of the "Conservative Revolution"
May 30, h.11-13 Towards a Post-European Society: Transnational Migrations and American Identity

II. The Role of the United States in World Politics

May 30, h 14-16 The US Egemonic Period: 1945-2008 ?
May 31, h. 11-13 Structures and Agents of Power
May 31, 14-16 The Diffusion of Power in a Plural World

Readings/Bibliography

A file of the texts suggested in this section (Global History of Social and Political Concepts) will be available at the Library of the Dipartimento di Discipline Storiche. The following list could be partly modified.

- C. Galli,Spazi politici. L'età moderna e l'età globale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2001.

- L. Scuccimarra,Storicità e senso del tempo. Per una storia della «fine della storia», in «Novecento», 2004, n. 11, pp. 45-61.

- L. Scuccimarra,Presentazione, in R. Koselleck,Il vocabolario della modernità, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2009.

- S. Mezzadra,Metamorfosi di un solco. Terra e confini, in «Parolechiave», 2010, n. 2, pp. 9-27.

- R. Morgan,IntroduzioneaSisterhood is Powerful, New York, Vintage books, 1970.

-Manifesto di rivolta femminile, in Carla Lonzi,Sputiamo su Hegel. La donna clitoridea e la donna vaginale e altri scritti,Milano,Scritti diRivolta femminile,1970,pp. 11-18.

- R. Morgan,IntroduzioneaSisterhood is Forever, New York, Washington Square Press, 2003.

- C.T. Mohanty,Sorellanza, coalizione e la politica dell'esperienza, in C.T. Mohanty,Femminismo senza frontiere. Teoria, differenze, conflitti, Verona, ombre corte, 2012, pp. 115-136.

-M. Ricciardi,Otto Hintze,lo Stato e il problema della pratica storica, in «Contemporanea», 2010, XIII, pp. 163-171.

- M. Ricciardi,La società senza fine. Storia, sociologia e potere della società contemporanea, in «Sociologia. Rivista Quadrimestrale di Scienze Storiche e Sociali», 2011, n. 1, pp.67-79.

- P. Rudan,Constitution, in corso di pubblicazione presso la casa editrice Blackwell.

- L. Cobbe,Nation, sympathy, opinion.Hume e i prolegomeni per una scienza sociale, in L. Scuccimarra, G. Ruocco (a cura di),Il governo del popolo. Rappresentanza, partecipazione, esclusione alle origini della democrazia moderna, Vol. I Dall'antico regime alla Rivoluzione, Roma, Viella, 2011, pp. 203-236.

- M. Battistini,«Let Trade be as Free as Air»: the «Liberal» American Revolution and the Early State-BuildinginTranslating America. The Circulation of Narratives, Commodities, and Ideas between Italy, Europe, and the United States, Bern, Peter Lang, 2011, pp. 285-300.

- P. Chatterjee,Popolazioni e società politica, inOltre la cittadinanza.La politica dei governati, Roma, Meltemi, 2006.

- G. Grappi,Acqua e logistica politica nello Stato (post)coloniale indiano, in "Scienza & Politica", 2011, n. 45, pp. 25-43.

Teaching methods

The course consists in frontal lessons and a discussion during the last part of each lesson.

Assessment methods

In order to obtain the CFU, the students have two options:

1) The attendance of the whole seminar (both part 1 and 2, 30 hours)

2) The attendance of the second part and the elaboration of a paper

Office hours

See the website of Carlo Galli