Other activities

The computer skills test is a testto be prepared independently. Find all the information about test dates and materials to prepare on Teams.

Teams code: ec1icx9

To book the test, simply write an email to daniele.porello@unige.it with the subject line "Computer Skills Test" and then log onto the Teams channel at the time of the test.

Normally one trial per month is organized; dates are announced on Teams at the beginning of each month. If you have special needs, please contact the instructor.

Trial Instructions

The test is conducted indistance mode on Teams. The test has a maximum total duration of two hours (one and a half hours for the first level, half an hour for the second) in which you are required to solve some short exercises with your computer.

On the Teams channel, find a sample of the proposed exercises to prepare you for the test.

At the end of the test, you will send the result of the exercises (i.e., some files that you will have processed) in a compressed folder via email to daniele.porello@unige.it or to the same teacher via Teams chat, specifying: last name, first name, freshman number, number of credits of the test, code of "other activities" required by your curriculum for the computer skills test.
The subject line of the email should be: "Computer Skills Test-Surname-Name".
It is important that you specify all the information requested, because you will need it to produce the certificate for credit.

Program

The two levels are independent, and can be taken separately.

Discover the program

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1 CFU

Lecturer: Stefano Gardini 

Start and Times: to be determined

Duration: 15 hours in presence plus 10 hours of autonomous, individual or group commitment 

Methods: in-presence (15 hours in-presence, 10 hours of autonomous, individual or group commitment). To enrol send an email to the email address stefano.gardini@unige.it starting from 1 September, taking care to indicate "LABORATORY ENROLLMENT" in the subject line and to specify your first name, surname, matriculation number, course of study, curriculum, course year.

Content and programme

The workshop presents, with a practical and applicative slant, tools and technological resources for the effective management of archival information by users in order to improve the quality of access, implement good digitisation practices in-house and develop reliable methodologies in the processing of consultation data. Those enrolling must have attended the lectures or taken the Documentation and Archival Science exam and be equipped with a PC.

3 CFUs

Lecturers: Elena Cimarosti and Ruth Pliego (lecturer in 'Arqueología de la Moneda' at the Universidad de Sevilla)

Start and Times: to be determined

Duration: 20 hours of lectures with a short final written exercise (for a total of 25 hours of seminar activity)  plus 50 hours of autonomous activity.

For further information and to enrol: prof.ssa Elena Cimarosti elena.cimarosti@unige.it. 

Scopo 
The project aims to ensure the achievement of 3 of the CFUs required for "Other knowledge" within the framework of the educational activities for students of the History degree course, through participation in a laboratory for the introduction to the study of Roman Numismatics and Latin Epigraphy, at the end of which there will be a filing work aimed at the concrete updating of two international databases: for the numismatic part "Numisdata-dédalo", for the epigraphic part the EDR database - Epigraphic Database Roma. 

Characteristics and methods 
. Students must follow the entire series of seminars organised as part of the teaching of Roman History 65329, with participation in the lectures on Roman Numismatics and Latin Epigraphy (held by Prof. Cimarosti, holder of the teaching of Roman History 65329, and Prof. R. Pliego, lecturer in "Arqueología de la Moneda" at the Universidad de Sevilla), amounting to a total of 20 hours of lectures in frontal teaching, including a short written exercise aimed at verifying the expected learning; attendance at all the seminars is equivalent to a total of 25 hours. At the end of the seminar activity, participants will have to independently update 25 documentary records: 15 numismatic records relating to "las monedas del tesoro de Tomares", a large Roman treasure of around 50,000 coins dating back to the Tetrarchy period discovered near Sevilla in 2016, the filing and registration of which is carried out through the use of an application, "Numisdata", based on international digital management software (dedalo.dev), and 10 epigraphic cards relating to Latin inscriptions of cities in Roman Liguria (IX regio), updating what is present in the EDR database - Epigraphic database Roma, an epigraphic database for international use, a constituent part of the international federation "Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy" (www. edr-edr.it). The lecturers follow the exercise at various stages, reviewing the overall work and discussing the results. 

The overall commitment is quantifiable at 50 hours. The workshop activity "in toto" foresees the acquisition of 3 CFU, equal to 75 hours. 

Partecipazione 
Participation is free, but with a signature requirement. It may be worthwhile to sign up for the activity after taking the Roman History exam. At the end, the student is issued, upon his/her request, with a single declaration of participation in the Workshop.

1 CFU

Lecturers: Enrica Asquer (Lecturer in Contemporary History and DAFIST delegate for Gender Equality) and Luisa Stagi (Lecturer in Sociology at DAFIST and member of the University Equal Opportunities Committee)

Start and Timetable: to be defined

Duration: 4 meetings of 3 hours each are scheduled (for a total of 12 hours).

For further information and to register: prof.ssa Enrica Asquer enrica.asquer@unige.it

Contents
"Sex is never just sex" (Rinaldi, 2016), it incorporates - as we act it out - broader social processes that have bodily, sensory, physiological, emotional, social and political, cultural and ideological components. A central element of the sphere we now perceive as intimate, sex is socially, and therefore, historically, constructed: the ways in which it has been imagined, thought, experienced, theorised, governed, have in fact changed over time. Cultures, practices, sexual politics are crucial elements of history and, in particular, that of the 18th-20th centuries (Herzog, 2011). It is, in fact, around the 18th century that we see an explosion of interest in sexuality: in correspondence with the political revolutions that open the contemporary age, the conception of the body is rearranged around a dualistic (dimorphist) scheme, which replaces the monosexual model of the Galenic matrix with the idea of two matrices, two distinct substances, the male and the female (Laqueur, 1990). The nineteenth century will be marked by a growing politicisation of sex that will go hand in hand with a revisitation of the nature-culture relationship: biology will be increasingly placed at the foundation of the functioning of individual and collective bodies, and the role of medical knowledge will be decisive, presiding over the relative dynamics of defining the norm (dimorphist, heterosexual) and deviance. The twentieth century will then be, as many define it, the "century of sex", the one in which sexual liberation and the rights to the full expression of sexual and gender subjectivities will try to make their way through resistance and ambivalence, both old and new.
Today we are faced with a crucial and ambivalent transition, in which we are witnessing on the one hand a growing diffusion in the public debate of new awareness and demands for recognition (coming above all from the younger generations), and on the other hand the emergence of perceptions of fear, confusion, and difficulty in finding one's way around, trivially even only in the terminology that has become increasingly articulate and plural in the area of gender and sexuality issues. In this context, in particular, the sociological perspective becomes essential to examine, without denying the materiality of bodies, the ways in which we become sexual within a social context. Sexology, for its part, when analysing aspects of sexuality in its various expressions and phases, is driven by the need to consider both the biological components and the psychological dynamics and social and cultural influences (Baldaro Verde, in Abbatecola, Stagi, Todella, 2008). According to this approach, sexual identity is understood as a set of several factors that can combine with each other in different ways. These are: gender identity, gender and social roles, sexual orientation, acted sexuality (Abbatecola, Stagi, Todella, 2008). In other words, what, in the eighteenth-nineteenth-century conceptualisation, constituted a single and indistinct skein, which created a univocal and normative correspondence between biological sex, sexual orientation and gender identity and roles, can now be disentangled into its various components, opening the way to a more refined analysis that adheres to the different ways in which the sexual identity of subjects is expressed.
By bringing together multiple disciplinary perspectives, from history to sociology to sexology, the workshop aims to provide the first basic notions to orient oneself in this complex debate.

Bibliography

• Emanuela Abbatecola, Luisa Stagi, Roberto Todella, edited by, Identity without Boundaries. Soggettività di genere e identità sessuale tra natura e cultura, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2008;
• Emmanuel Betta, Gender Identification: Bodies and Cultures of Sexuality, in Silvia Salvatici (ed.), Storia delle donne nell'Italia contemporanea, Carocci, Rome 2022, pp. 259-284.
• Maya De Leo, Queer. Cultural history of the LGBT+ community, Einaudi, Turin 2021.
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• Dagmar Herzog, Sexuality in Europe. A Twentieth-Century History, Cambridge U.P., Cambridge 2011.
• Thomas Laqueur, Making Sex. Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud, Harvard U.P., Cambridge 1990.
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• Cirus Rinaldi, Sex, Self and Society. For a sociology of sexuality, Mondadori Education, Milan 2016.
• Laura Schettini, The play of parts. Disguises and social fears between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Le Monnier, Florence 2011.
• Joan W. Scott, Gender, Politics, History, edited by Ida Fazio, Viella, Rome 2013.

for the Penitentiary University Pole - PUP (with particular reference to students enrolled in the Bachelor's Degree Course in History and Master's Degree Course in Historical Sciences)

2 CFU

Lecturer: Enrica Asquer (lecturer in Contemporary History, delegate for Gender Equality DAFIST Department)

Duration: There are 4 meetings of 2 hours each (for a total of 8 hours), plus the self-study required for the presentation of a final paper. 

Contents
The workshop aims to provide an introduction to the study of contemporary history from a perspective aware of the innovations brought about by the history of gender and sexuality. After recalling how gender history emerged between the 1960s and 1980s, the course will focus on the question of citizenship, from a political and social perspective. In particular, the following themes will be examined:
- The French Revolution and the limits of liberal universalism
- The construction of the nation and its gendered nature
- The industrial revolution and the consumer revolution: gender and modern capitalism

Bibliography

• Reading material provided during the course
• Alberto Banti, The Honour of the Nation. Sexual Identity and Violence in European Nationalism from the Eighteenth Century to the Great War, Einaudi, Turin 2005;
• Gabriella Bonacchi and Angela Groppi (eds.), The dilemma of citizenship. Diritti e doveri delle donne, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1993;
• Vinzia Fiorino, Il genere della cittadinanza. Civil and Political Rights of Women in France (1789-1915), Viella, Roma 2020;
• Thomas Laqueur, The Sexual Identity from the Greeks to Freud, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1992 (ed. or. Harvard U.P., Cambridge 1990);
• Karen Offen, European Feminism 1700-1950. A political history, Stanford University Press, Stanford 2000;
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• Alessandra Pescarolo, Women's work in contemporary Italy, Viella, Rome 2019;
• Sonya O. Rose, Limited Livelihoods. Gender and Class in Nineteenth-Century England, University of California Press, Berkeley-Los Angeles 1991;
• Silvia Salvatici, History of Women in Contemporary Italy, Carocci, Rome 2023;
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• Joan W. Scott, Gender, Politics, History, edited by Ida Fazio, Viella, Rome 2013;
• Joan W. Scott, Only Paradoxes to Offer. French Feminists and the Rights of Man, Harvard U.P., Cambridge (MA) and London 1996.
• John Tosh, A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England, Yale University Press, New Haven (Conn) 1999.
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1-2 CFUs

Lecturers: Anna Maria Stagno, Denise Bezzina, Valentina Ruzzin, with the support of Matteo Tacca (post-doctoral fellow), Adele Repetto (PhD student), Giulia Bizzarri (PhD student)

Start: annual seminar cycle, tentative start November 2024

Timetable: seminars normally take place on Mondays according to an established schedule, published in the second half of October.

Methods: In-person (and distance). To enrol send an email to the mailbox anna.stagno@unige.it starting from September 2024, taking care to indicate as subject "SEMPER ENROLLMENT" and to specify surname, matriculation number, course of study, curriculum, course year.

Participation in 4 meetings, with the preparation of an equal number of reading sheets on the proposed bibliography, allows you to acquire 1 CFU (for a total of 25 hours). Participation in 10 meetings and the writing of the final paper corresponds to a total of 50 hours and makes it possible to acquire 2 CFUs.

The Permanent Seminar of Local History is a well-established experience (started in 1992-1993) that has the explicit aim of integrating teaching and research activities with a strong focus on the dimension of local analysis, wants to propose an opportunity for dialogue around objects of common interest that characterise the work of those practising historical investigations today, starting from documentary and field sources.   The seminars normally take place on Mondays according to an established schedule, published in the second half of October. The cycle of meetings also includes the possibility for participants to carry out individual research exercises. By the end of February, students engaged in this exercise will prepare a personal study proposal, which will be articulated with a summary and bibliographical apparatus (also from source and topic proposals provided by the lecturers). Starting in February, part of the meetings will be devoted to the discussion of these individual research paths. The seminar is open to students and PhD students from the Universities of Genoa and Eastern Piedmont, and is organised by the Environmental History strands of the PhD programmes of the University of Genoa and the Historical Sciences curriculum of the PhD programme in Ecology of Cultural and Institutional Systems of the University of Eastern Piedmont, with the collaboration of the research group of the Laboratory of Archaeology and Environmental History (LASA- Unige) and the G. Casalis Inter-University Centre for Territorial History (Uniupo-Unige-Unito). 

Each year the seminar focuses on a specific theme.  
The theme for the 2024/2025 academic year will be defined in the last meetings of the 2023-2024 cycle. 

1 CFU

Lecturers: Anna Maria Stagno, with the support of Adele Repetto (PhD student), Giulia Bizzarri (PhD student), Caterina Piu (PhD student) 

Start: 1st semester 15 October 2024; 2nd semester 20 February 2025

Timetable: Subsequent meeting times will be agreed with the students.

Methods: in presence. To enrol send an email to the mailbox anna.stagno@unige.it starting from September 1st, taking care to indicate as subject "ASTRALAB ENROLLMENT" and to specify surname, matriculation, course of study, curriculum, year of course. A presentation of the Lab'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 ongoing research and projects on environmental and rural archaeology and history and landscape 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 in 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 allow the acquisition of 1 CFU.

1 CFU

Docente: Mariano Martini 

Duration: 16 hours of lectures plus individual study 

Cycles of meetings:8 meetings are proposed (subject to availability of teaching calendar and classrooms) 

For further information and to register: Prof. Mariano Martini mariano.martini@unige.it

Training Activities Planned
The workshop aims to reinforce the educational offer of the History degree course and is aimed at students who wish to study in depth certain aspects of 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 conducting teaching activities and learning assessments
. 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 dealt with; these works will have to 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 assessed by the lecturer. 

Final written work (project work): minimum 20,000 characters  

Project work discussion method: colloquium with PPT presentation 

1 CFU

Lecturers: Paolo Calcagno, with the support of Francesca Ferrando (research fellow)

Start Time and Hours: every Monday between 17 March and 7 April, 3pm-5pm, Room 3, Via Balbi 2.

Duration:8 hours of lectures plus 17 hours of individual study 

For more information and to enrol: prof.ssa Francesca Ferrando 3110977@studenti.unige.it 

The workshop, reserved for female students of the three-year degree in History, 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 covered will be: the dotal institution, female labour, gender violence, the role of women in the welfare field. 

A final test will be held at the end of the workshop: each participant will have the choice of transcribing and commenting on a document provided by the lecturer or answering three questions in written form.

1 CFU

Lecturer: Matteo Caponi

Commencement: The Workshop will be held in April-May 2025. Dates will be announced as soon as possible.

Meeting schedule: from 15.00 to 18.00 on the following dates

4  APRIL- lecture hall F Balbi 4
11 APRIL - lecture hall E Balbi 4
24 APRIL - classroom Q Balbi 6
9 MAY - classroom E Balbi 4
16 MAY - lecture hall F Balbi 4

Duration: 5 meetings of 3 hours each, for a total of 15 hours, in addition to the self-study required for the writing 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 of study.

Contents 
The workshop aims to provide students with the tools to write their 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: 

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1. What a dissertation is and what it is for; how to choose a dissertation topic; the dissertation paper as an argumentative text. 
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2. The use of the lexicon and the argumentative style proper to the historiographical discipline. 
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); 
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• Write an abstract of the thesis project and derive its keywords; 
• Create a table of contents, with an indicative division into chapters; 
• Compare critically with a primary source; 
• Apply historiographical reasoning on the basis of secondary literature; 
• Apply appropriate editorial criteria (make footnotes correctly and know how to cite sources); 
• Edit the bibliography and sitography; 

Students are expected to attend and actively participate. 

Reference texts 
Monica Centanni - Alessandra Pedersoli, Shape is Content. Instructions for a thesis, a term paper, a paper, Venice, Engramma, 2019 

Methods of assessment 
Drafting of a final paper including title, abstract, keywords, provisional index and bibliography of the thesis project. 

2 CFUs

Lecturer: Giuseppe Rocca

Start: 27 February 2025

Time:Thursdays and Fridays 3pm-5pm, Classroom 2, Via Balbi 2.

Duration: 36 hours in attendance plus 14 hours of independent commitment

For further information and to register: Prof. Giuseppe Rocca giurocca@lingue.unige.it

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

1. The general concept of 'region' and its adjectives
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2. The literature on the 'region' in classical antiquity
3. The literature on the 'region' in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
4. The scientific analysis of the 'region' and 'regionalisation' in the second half of the 18th century
5. The scientific analysis of the 'region' and 'regionalisation' in the 20th century
6. Regionalism in its various modes throughout history
7. Political-administrative regionalism, with particular regard to Italy from the Risorgimento to the present
8. A recent form of regionalism: economic regionalism
9. Political-administrative regionalisation in Roman times and the early Middle Ages
10. Symbolic and functional regional analysis: long-term urbanisation processes in Europe
11. Chrono-spatial reading of Liguria in its internal diversities and affinities, analysed through bibliographic, statistical and cartographic, iconic and literary sources
12. Eventual didactic outing focused on direct observation of the landscapes and places that developed in the late Middle Ages and in the modern age, which still today contribute to identifying the identity of a historical region, as in the case of Oltregiogo

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

The degree of learning achieved by the student during the final examination is considered to be:
- praiseworthy, excellent or very good if the student reveals conceptual mastery, clarity of presentation and demonstrates a thorough understanding of the topics covered in the workshop;
- good or satisfactory, if the student shows correct but not always appropriate language, revealing a lack of understanding of the topics covered;
- sufficient, if the student demonstrates modes of expression that are not appropriate and clear, revealing an overall approximate preparation.