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 study plan for the computer skills test.
The subject 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.

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Two of the four credits reserved for other knowledge must be compulsorily achieved by passing a B2-level foreign language test chosen from English, French, Spanish and German.

In A.Y. 2022/2023, the English language course is taught by Prof. Justin Rainey (go to teaching tab).

Students who intend to take the B2 level test in a language other than English (choice of French, Spanish and German) are invited to contact the Teaching Office: didatticadafist@unige.it

N.B. The CdS recognizes certifications of the same level or higher. If you have a valid certification attesting to your foreign language proficiency, you can submit it to the Committee for the Recognition of 'Other' credits.

1 CFU

Lecturers: Enrica Asquer (lecturer in Contemporary History and DAFIST delegate to 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 untangled in its various components, paving the way for a more refined and adherent analysis of 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.), History of Women in Contemporary Italy, Carocci, Rome 2022, pp. 259-284.
• Maya De Leo, Queer. Cultural history of the LGBT+ community, Einaudi, Turin 2021.
• 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.
• Cirus Rinaldi, Sex, Self and Society. Per una sociologia della sessualità, Mondadori Education, Milan 2016.
• Laura Schettini, Il gioco delle parti. 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.

1-2 CFUs

Doctors: 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 at a distance). To enrol send an email to the mailbox anna.stagno@unige.it from September 2024, taking care to indicate "SEMPER ENROLLMENT" as the subject line and to specify your first name, surname, matriculation number, course of study, curriculum, year of course.

Participation in 4 meetings, with the drafting of the same 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 enables you 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. It aims to offer an opportunity for dialogue around objects of common interest that characterise the work of those who today carry out historical investigations, starting from documentary sources as well as from the field.   The seminars are usually held on Mondays according to a set 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 or 15 hours of workshop activities and the writing of a paper on the work carried out allow the acquisition 1 CFU.

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, L'identità sessuale dai Greci a 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;
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• Sonya O. Rose, Limited Livelihoods. Gender and Class in Nineteenth-Century England, University of California Press, Berkeley-Los Angeles 1991;
• Silvia Salvatici, Storia delle donne nell'Italia contemporanea, Carocci, Roma 2023;
• 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.

2 CFUs

Lecturer: Giuseppe Rocca

Start and Hours: to be determined

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

For more 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 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 in the Renaissance period 
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 day 
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 the Ligurian Region in its internal diversities and affinities, analysed through bibliographic, statistical and cartographic, iconic and literary 
sources
12. Educational outings centred on the direct observation of places and landscapes developed in the late Middle Ages and in the modern age, whose connotations still contribute today to identifying the identity of a micro-region: the Oltregiogo and/or the Lunigiana 

At the end of the workshop a written or oral examination is scheduled. 

1 CFU

Lecturer: Matteo Caponi

Start and Times: to be determined

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

For further information and to enrol: prof. Matteo Caponi matteo.caponi@edu.unige.it

Contenuti 
The workshop aims to provide students with the tools to produce a 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 an argumentative text. 
2. The use of the lexicon and argumentative style proper to the discipline of historiography. 
3. Source retrieval and bibliography (research in archives and libraries; databases and online digital resources). 
4. The organisation of a structured text (abstracts, chapter and paragraph structure). 
5. The critical apparatus and editorial standards. 

Obiettivi formativi 
At the end of the course the student will be able to: 

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• 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; 
• Create a table of contents, with an indicative division into chapters; 
• Compare critically with a primary source; 
• Set up historiographical reasoning based on secondary literature; 
• Apply appropriate editorial criteria (make footnotes correctly and know how to cite sources); 
• Edit bibliography and sitography; 

Students are required 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 

Assessment methods 
Drafting of a final paper including title, abstract, keywords, provisional table of contents and bibliography of the thesis project.