Other activities

1-3 CFUs

The computer skills test is a test to be prepared independently. All information on the test schedule and materials to prepare for it can be found at Teams.

Teams code: qinypdm

To book the rehearsal, simply write an email to corrado.fumagalli@unige.it and then log onto the Teams channel at the time of the rehearsal.

The subject line of the email should be "Computer skills test" and the email should contain your first name, last name, first class number, course of study.

max 2 CFUs
(for the basic course, the advanced course or both)

Introduced in the wake of the recognition of the Italian Sign Language (LIS) and the Tactile LIS (LISt) by the Italian State, this course aims to bring those who participate in it closer to the world of LIS and LISt; a world in which communication passes through a different channel from the one we usually associate with (spoken) languages: the visual/tactile/textual channel. 

Lecturer in charge: Danilo Monteverde

The Course of Study recognises a maximum of 2 CFUs for the basic or intermediate level course, i.e. it is possible to apply for recognition in the other activities of one module only  (basic or intermediate  depending on one's starting level).

More information on class schedules and classrooms will be published in due course on the "News" section of this website.

max 1 CFU

The Citizenship Training course is aimed at all students enrolled in the University's undergraduate, master's, single-cycle master's and PhD courses, regardless of the Department offering the course or the course they are enrolled in. The aim of the course is to promote the development of active and responsible citizenship through the acquisition of personal and social, entrepreneurial and digital skills.

The Course of Study recognises in the 3 CFUs of Other Knowledge cod. 73209 only 1 seminar module of 1 CFU to be chosen among the following:

• Marginal and Rights (DAFIST - ref. prof.ssa Langella)
• Multiculturalism and citizenship (DLCM - ref. prof. Pusillo)
• Religions in Public Space (DAFIST - ref. prof.ssa Colagrossi)

PLEASE NOTE: the offer of activated modules may vary from year to year, it is necessary to wait for the annual notice with the list of the modules offered in the current academic year.

1 CFU

Lecturer: Matteo Caponi

Start: the Workshop will be held in November-December 2025.

Meeting schedule:

- 27 October 15.00 - 18.00  classroom 2 - Balbi 2
- 3 November 15.00 - 18.00  classroom 2 - Balbi 2
- 10 November 15.00 - 18.00  classroom 2 - Balbi 2
- 17 November 15.00 - 18.00  classroom 2 - Balbi 2
- 1 December 15.00 - 18.00  lecture room 2 - Balbi 2

Duration: 5 meetings of 3 hours each, for a total of 15 hours, plus the self-study required for the drafting of a final paper. 

For further information and to enrol: send an email to matteo.caponi@unige.it, specifying your course of study and year.

The workshop's web classroom is available at the link: https://2025.aulaweb.unige.it/course/view.php?id=6663

Contents
The aim of the workshop is to provide students with the tools to write their Master's thesis, starting with the main research methodologies and the collection of sources up to the drafting and revision of the text. The following topics will be covered:

1. What is a thesis and what is it for; how to choose a thesis topic; the thesis paper as argumentative text.
2. The use of the vocabulary and argumentative style proper to the discipline of historiography.
3. The retrieval of sources and bibliography (research in archives and libraries; databases and online digital resources).
4. The organisation of a structured text (abstract, subdivision into chapters and paragraphs).
5. The critical apparatus and editorial standards.

Training Objectives
At the end of the course the student will be able to:

• Operate a selection of sources, identifying their typology and hierarchy (documentary; primary printed; secondary; digital);
• Write an abstract of the thesis project and derive keywords from it;
• Create a table of contents, with an indicative division into chapters;
• Apply appropriate editorial criteria (make footnotes correctly and know how to cite sources);
• Edit the bibliography and sitography.

Students are required to attend and actively participate.

Reference texts
Fabio Rossi, How to write a dissertation today. Guida pratica per tesi, tesine e altri elaborati, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2025.

Methods of assessment
Editing a final paper that includes title, abstract, keywords, provisional index and bibliography of the thesis project.

1 CFU

Lecturers: Marco Natalizi

Oraries: 

• Tuesday 04/11/2025 17.00 - 19.00 - Classroom 3 - Balbi 2
• Tuesday 11/11/2025 17.00 - 19.00 - classroom 3 - Balbi 2
• Tuesday 18/11/2025 17.00 - 19.00 - classroom 3 - Balbi 2
• Tuesday 25/11/2025 17.00 - 19.00 - classroom 3 - Balbi 2
• Tuesday 02/12/2025 17.00 - 19.00 - Classroom 3 - Balbi 2

Duration: 5 meetings of 2 hours each are scheduled, in addition to the self-study required for the presentation of a final paper.

For further information and to register: prof. Marco Natalizi marco.natalizi@unige.it

Contents
This workshop is intended to offer students on the three-year History course an in-depth study and seminar on the political and social history of the USSR up to the collapse of the Berlin Wall, in order to refine their critical approach to the various historical sources and to develop a good mastery of the historiographical debate. The focus of the workshop is on the history of the USSR/Russia, but the events of the Soviet regime will be contextualised in a broader framework through the study of the ways in which the Kremlin's international challenges influenced its domestic agenda.
After an extensive introduction reflecting on the idea of 'Greater Russia', the major phases of the Soviet twentieth century will be analysed, with a stronger focus on the years 1928-1953.
The impact of the Stalin regime on the Soviet Union in economic and political terms, but also in social and cultural terms, the real scope and limits of Kruščëv's 'thaw', and finally the main features of the last years of the USSR will be examined.

Methodology
The lectures will combine the analysis of primary sources, which concern crucial aspects of the topic addressed, with an in-depth historiographical discussion.

Bibliography
O. Chlevnjuk, Stalin. Biography of a Dictator, Mondadori, Milan, 2016.
E. Cinnella, 1917. La Russia verso l'abisso, Della Porta Editori, Pisa, 2012.
E. Cinnella, Stalin's Russia: the formation of the totalitarian regime, Pisa, Della Porta Editori, 2021.
S. Fitzpatrick, Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000. 
A. Graziosi, The USSR of Lenin and Stalin. Storia dell'Unione Sovietica, 1914-1915, il Mulino, Bologna, 2007
A. Graziosi, L'URSS dal trionfo al degrado: storia dell'Unione Sovietica, 1945-1991, il Mulino, Bologna, 2007.
R.A. Medvedev, Ascesa e caduta di Nikita Chruščëv, Editori Riuniti, Roma, 1982.
S. Bialer, I successori di Stalin, Milano, Garzanti, 1985.

Documents
The sources to be analysed will be proposed in the course of the workshop.
For a framing of the general issues, A. Graziosi, Archivalist Revolution and Soviet Historiography, in "Contemporanea", 2005, no. 1.

Granted by the Bachelor's Degree Course in Conservation of Cultural Heritage

1 or 2 CFU depending on the type of participation

Lecturers: Anna Maria Stagno, with the support of Drs.ssses Laura Moro, Laura Gago Chorén, Ylenia Paciotti, Eltjana Shkreli and Giorgia Frangioni 

Period: 1st semester

Start: will be announced later

Time: will be agreed with the students

Mode: in presence. To enrol send an email to the mailbox anna.stagno@unige.it starting from 1st September, taking care to indicate as subject "ASTRALAB ENROLLMENT" and to specify first name, surname, matriculation, course of study, curriculum, year of course. A presentation of the Laboratory's activities is planned for September.

At the AstraLab - Laboratory of Archaeology and Rural and Landscape History of DAFIST  it is possible to carry out practical activities related to the research and projects on environmental archaeology and history and rural and landscape archaeology and history underway in the European mountains. Sources and methods of rural and landscape history and archaeology will be explored through educational outings, seminars and workshop activities. The surface reconnaissance (lasting one day) will alternate with workshop activities dedicated to the analysis of current and historical cartography on a GIS platform, re-elaboration of documentation and excavation and reconnaissance data, analysis of finds, consultation of archives of field surveys and private archives held at the LASA and the LASA library.

Participation in 25 hours of workshop activities or 15 hours of workshop activities and the writing of a paper on the work carried out will allow the acquisition of 1 CFU.

1 CFU

Docente: Mariano Martini 

Durata: 16 hours of lectures plus self-study 

Cycles of meetings: 8 meetings are proposed (depending on the availability of the teaching calendar and classrooms) 

For more information and to register: prof. Mariano Martini mariano.martini@unige.it

Training activity envisaged
The workshop aims to strengthen the educational offer of the History degree course and is addressed to students who intend to study in depth some aspects concerning the history of medicine in the period between the 16th and 19th centuries. with particular reference to the history of hygiene and public health. 

The cycle of meetings will be structured as follows: outlines of the history of medicine; history of hygiene and public health; history of epidemiology; biographical profiles of eminent personalities in the field of medical history.  

Manner of teaching and learning assessment
The lectures will be held in person with the projection of slides and other supporting teaching material and classroom discussion of the topics covered. The lecturer will agree with the participants on the preparation of thematic project works on the basis of the topics covered; these works must be discussed at the end of the cycle of meetings with a presentation in the classroom, after delivery of the written text to the lecturer. The preparation of the project work and final discussion will be subject to evaluation by the lecturer. 

Final written work (project work): minimum 20.000 strokes  

Project discussion method: colloquium with PPT presentation 

1 CFU

Lecturers: Paolo Calcagno

Start: 30 March 2026

Meeting schedule:

• 30 March 15-17 aula 7 (Via Balbi 2)
• 13 April 15-17 aula G (Via Balbi 4)
• April 20, 3-5 p.m. classroom 7 (Via Balbi 2)
• April 27, 3-5 p.m. classroom 7 (Via Balbi 2)

Duration: 8 hours of face-to-face lectures plus individual study 

For more information and to register contact the lecturer: paolo.calcagno@unige.it

The workshop, reserved for female students of the three-year History degree, aims to provide the fundamental analytical tools to contextualise the legal, economic and social position of women in the modern age. The course will be divided into four meetings of two hours each, during which the participants will tackle the various themes through the analysis of documentary sources produced above all in the Genoese sphere. 

The topics dealt with will be: the dotal institution, women's work, gender violence, the role of women in the welfare field. 

At the end of the workshop there will be a final test: each participant will be able to choose whether to transcribe and comment on a document provided by the lecturer or to answer three questions in written form.

2 CFUs

Lecturer: Giuseppe Rocca (the professor receives in the office at 2 Via Balbi on the third floor, shared with Davide Arecco and Rebecca Dossche. The phone number is: 01020951430).

Starting: 5 March 2026

Timetable: Thursdays and Fridays from 3pm to 5pm, classroom 4 (Via Balbi 2)

Terms: 36 hours in presence plus 14 hours of autonomous commitment

For further information and to enrol: prof. Giuseppe Rocca giurocca@lingue.unige.it

The following topics are proposed, to be carried out in meetings of two hours each, twice a week (for a total of 30-36 hours, equal to 2 cfu):

1. Basic lexical questions (geographical space, territory, environment, landscape .... )
2. Library sources for the study of the territory
3. Statistical sources: categories, indicators, indices
4. From the instituted parish registers of the Council of Trent to the other statistical sources developed in Europe during the modern age: examples of research based on this source 
5. Population Censuses from the Unification of Italy to the Present
6. The Censuses of Agriculture industry and services from the post World War II period to the present
7. The cartographic sources: categories and methods of use in the chronospatial analysis of the territory
8. Topographical maps produced by the Istituto Geografico Militare in Florence and their use in the analysis of the functional transformations of the territory in Italy: examples of researches based on that source
9. The cadastral sources and their use in the analysis of functional transformations of territory and landscape: examples of research based on such sources
10. Direct observation of the places of historical memory
11. Eventual educational outing in Genoa and/or the Oltregiogo genovese, dedicated to the symbolic places relating to the history of the territory visited and that still today contribute to identifying its identity

A written or oral assessment is scheduled at the end of the workshop.

The assessment of the degree of learning achieved by the student during the final examination is considered:

• lodorous, excellent or very good if the student reveals conceptual mastery, clarity of exposition and demonstrates a thorough understanding of the topics covered in the laboratory hours;
• good or satisfactory, if the student shows correct, but not always appropriate language, revealing a lack of in-depth understanding of the topics covered;
• sufficient, if the student shows expressive modes that are not appropriate and clear, revealing an overall approximate preparation.
   

2 CFUs

Lecturer: Valentina Ruzzin, with the support of Leila Leoni (PhD student)

Start: 6 March 2026

Hours: two meetings per week of 3 hours each, on Mondays 3pm-6pm and Fridays 11am-2pm, in classroom N at Via Balbi 4

Duration: 25 hours in presence plus individual study

For more information and to register: prof.Prof. Valentina Ruzzin valentina.ruzzin@unige.it

Master's Degree Course in Archaeology: Profession and Knowledge (ArcheoPeS)

1 or 2 CFUs depending on the type of participation

Period: 2nd semester

Lecturer: Anna Maria Stagno, with the support of José Abellan Santisteban (post-doctoral fellow), Nathan Brenu (post-doctoral fellow), Lucia Vanacore (post-doctoral fellow)

Start and Times: will be agreed with participants.

Where: at DAFIST

For more information and registration contact the lecturer.

1 or 2 CFUs depending on type of participation

Lecturers: Anna Maria Stagno, Denise Bezzina, Valentina Ruzzin

Starting: 19 January 2026

Timetable: Seminars are normally held every Monday (according to the pre-set schedule) from 14.45 to 16.45. In January and February the seminars are held at UniGe-World in Via Balbi 40, from March in Lecture Hall 1, Via Balbi 6, 3rd floor 

For information and registration write to:
anna.stagno@unige.it, denise.bezzina@unige.it, valentina.ruzzin@unige.it

Attached hereto is the poster with the seminar programme and how to participate.