Other activities

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3 CFUs

The Language Skills Development Sector (CLAT) offers the opportunity to attend a free English course to obtain level B2 certification.

After taking the course, in self-study, you can take the test and obtain, following an application to the CLAT, the certificate of proficiency. More info here: https://clat.unige.it/TestENB2

The course is made available on the Aulaweb portal every year, around mid-October. Interested students should request the access password by writing to didattica.diraas@unige.it

Please note that in order to obtain the recognition of credits, the certificate of eligibility issued by CLAT must be forwarded to the Commission, and then the final test must be taken and passed.

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As an alternative to the self-study course provided by the Language Skills Development Department, you can take the English Language B2 course code 108657. In order to obtain recognition of credits, you will have to request from the course instructor a certificate of passing the final exam, which you will have to forward to the Commission other credits. 

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 CFU of the Other activities only 1 seminar module of 1 CFU to be chosen from the following:

• Marginals and Rights (DAFIST - ref. prof. Langella)
• Multiculturalism and Citizenship (DLCM - ref. prof. Pusillo)
• Religions in Public Space (DAFIST - ref. prof. Colagrossi)
• RAISE courses (one of your choice among all those offered by the University: https://unige.it/corsi-raise-cittadinanza)

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

2 CFUs

Introduced on the wave of the recognition of the Italian Sign Language (LIS) by the Italian State, these workshops aim to bring those who participate closer to the world of LIS; a world in which communication passes through a different channel from the one we usually associate with (spoken) languages: the visual-gestural channel.

Lecturer responsible: Danilo Monteverde

The Course of Study recognises 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 (basic or intermediate depending on your starting level).

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

1 CFU

Lecturer: M. Stella Acerno

Period of performance: second semester starting in February 2026 and finishing by May 2026.

Educational methods:The seminar will be held in presence and online for a total of 26 hours divided into 12 lectures, unless otherwise arranged by the teaching structures. With the use of
slides, videos and materials made available by the lecturer
. The classrosroom methodology is envisaged; including workshop activities on education for individual and global awareness: of oneself, of others and of the planet with interactive participation
of students.

For registration and information: info.cedu@libero.it

PRESENTATION
The seminar deals with and explores human rights issues in their various aspects and disciplinary areas.
Starting with definitions of the concept of human rights, the origins, development and contemporary trends concerning civil and political, social, economic and cultural rights are analysed. In-depth studies are devoted to education and the relationship between literature, film and human rights.

FORMATIONAL OBJECTIVES AND LEARNING OUTCOMES
The objective of the seminar is to provide students with tools of understanding for the analysis and study of human rights from a historical and social, legal and cultural point of view.
Broaden knowledge about contemporary trends and the debate on the protection of rights on a global scale, acquire skills on human rights education. Deepen the relationship between different cultures and the universalism of human rights.

MODE OF ASSESSMENT
At the end of the seminar there will be an oral interview or the writing of a short written paper on the topics analysed.

PROGRAMME
The seminar explores aspects related to the following content:

- Definitions and foundations of human rights.
- The view of the equality of human beings in history.
- The three revolutions and their historical and legal implications.
- Human rights in the new contemporary society.
- Subjects of law in the international community from 1600 to 1900.
- The Four Freedoms Speech of F. Delano Roosevelt.
- From the League of Nations to the UN.
- The Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials.
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- International human rights instruments.
- The main human rights NGOs. The work of Amnesty International.
- The European Union and the protection of human rights.
- Human rights education.
- Cinema, literature and human rights.
- The new paradigm in education.
- The GAIA Project for individual and global awareness education.

To be arranged: meetings with teachers, experts and/or members of human rights NGOs.

DOCENT
M. Stella Acerno, president of CEDU Centro per l'Educazione ai Diritti Umani (Centre for Human Rights Education), a non-profit organisation registered in the regional Single National Register of the Third Sector. Former teacher of literary subjects and history
at State Institutes of Higher Education. Press and communications contact person for Amnesty International Italy, Liguria Constituency.

Recommended readings for further study:
Norberto Bobbio: The Age of Rights Giulio Einaudi Editore. 1990 - 2014
Giuseppe Giliberti Historical introduction to human rights G. Giappichelli Editore. 2012
Stella Acerno (ed.) But what rights? What we know and what we don't want to know about human rights Fratelli Frilli Editori 2013
Stella Acerno The in-security of the sustainable society - Genoa University Press 2022

Participation in the Permanent Theatrical Workshop organised at the Falcone Interdepartmental Centre entitles you to the recognition of 2 CFU.

A schedule of the workshop activities is attached, for a total of 96 hours of teaching:

1 CFU

Proposing Lecturer: Alessandro Ferraro

Genova, Palazzo Ducale, 8-9 November 2024

The Pride of words is back, an opportunity to talk about issues dear to the lgbtqia+ community, and not only, thanks to some books of the last few years and the voice of those who wrote them.

Those wishing to take the cfu will have to:

1. Register by sending an email to alessandro.ferraro@unige.it no later than Monday 4 November 2024 (the subject of the email must be "Place reservation for the Pride of Words" and the text must include basic information, i.e. first name, surname, matriculation number and course of study).

Attend the Pride of Words.

2. Come to the Pride of Words on both days, by signing the attendance list, which will be available at the Ducal Palace, both at the beginning and at the end of the two events.
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3. Submit, also to alessandro.ferraro@unige.it, no later than Friday 20 December 2024, a three-page report, the instructions for which can be found below.

Further information and instructions for the final report can be found in the flyer:

1 CFU

To obtain the award, students must attend at least five meetings, read two collections of their choice from those presented and write a review of one of them (to be sent by 30 June 2025). Write to poetrpc@gmail.com

The calendar of meetings includes eight appointments:

1. 18 October 2024, Pietro Cardelli, Tu devi prendere il potere, Interlinea, 2023
2. 13 November 2024, Ida Travi, I Tolki, il Saggiatore, 2024
3. 13 December 2024, Marko Miladinovic, Maximum Book of Poetry, Agency X, 2024
4. 17 January 2025, Luca Rizzatello, Leaprosaria, Prufrock, 2024
5. 21 February 2025, Tommaso Ottonieri, Cinema of spells, The happy life, 2024
6. 28 March 2025, Sabrina Ragucci, Miss G, Tic, 2024
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7. 11 April 2025, Chiara Serani, Dialogues of the Chair, Anterem, 2024
8. 9 May 2025, Damiano Sinfonico, Le spente lingue, Vydia, 2024

, poet. - is a collective founded in 2019 with the intention of observing, studying and making known the many faces of contemporary poetry. Currently of , poet. - includes Simone Biundo, Ilaria Crotti, Paola Fossa, Valentina Mele, Sara Sorrentino.


The meetings take place at the Circolo U.S San Bernardo (Via delle Grazie 40r, 16128, Genoa), the entrance is free but it is necessary to have the ARCI membership card; it is possible to join directly at the club, at the price
of 15 euros, reserved for students of the University. The membership card is valid from 1 October to 30 September of the following year, is national and allows access to all the clubs in Italy.

Each meeting starts at 6 p.m. and lasts about an hour; afterwards there will be space to get together, share opinions, and participate in evenings organised by the club. The meeting on 13 November with Ida Travi will be held at the Society for Scientific Readings and Conversations.

The meeting on 13 November with Ida Travi will be held at the Society for Scientific Readings and Conversations.

1 CFU

To gain recognition students must attend at least five of the seven/eight meetings scheduled in the Zhemao (November-December 2024) and Paradigms. Transversal gazes and rewritings of the artistic/literary/political/linguistic canon (February-March 2025) organised by Dr Ilaria Crotti at Palazzo Ducale. Writing at eventifalsodemetrio@gmail.com

In addition to attending the five meetings of their choice, students will have to write a final report.

- Four meetings of the Zhemao cycle:

For its second edition, Zhemao continues its dialogue with writers today. The aim remains to give literature a voice and investigate how it takes shape, what themes it pursues, how much dedication it requires. The publishing aspect is also brought into focus: what does it mean to publish today? what difficulties are encountered? how does the contemporary Italian publishing system work; and, on reflection, is it so different from the past?

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1. 6 November DARIO VOLTOLINI | Invernale, Nave di Teseo, 2024
   The following spoke: Dario Voltolini and Ilaria Crotti
   The father splits animals, enters their guts, separates muscles from membranes, removes organs and bones. The father sells pieces of animals. The father dives into the biological chasm and pulls steaks out of it. Meat cuts are his trade and his art. The father is a butcher. The father's task is to go into the dead flesh and come out of it by handing it to the living, so that life can continue its voracious chain. He is a ferryman between the two sides of the meat, between viande and chair, between meat and flesh. At the market stall, he serves the fearful who do not face the bodies they eat, who do not want to know, delegating the dirty work to the butchers. One day something goes wrong in the perfect choreography of the blades and a crooked cut almost takes off a thumb. It is the beginning of another descent into flesh, this time his own. At work, a bacterium has contaminated him. It starts with an infection, continues with exhaustion, a feral diagnosis, medical protocols, trips to clinics abroad. His 20-year-old son Dario plunges his gaze into his father's deteriorating flesh, and into the melancholy of his departure. A strong intimacy envelops them, as happens almost only in the relationship between daughters and mothers. We enter into the son's gaze, prehensile and exact, as he sees his father keel over. Precision is the form his devotion and suffering take.
   Reading Dario Voltolini one is led to think that one can do without the world: his words are enough, his descriptions sparkling, capable of grasping things and arousing them like no one else.
   Tiziano Scarpa
2. 13 November IDA TRAVI | I Tolki, il Saggiatore, 2024
   The following spoke: Ida Travi and the Poet.-,
   collective. Chandra Livia Candiani called it "a magical work", Mariangela Gualtieri brought it to the theatre and cinema trying to transpose "its unique extraordinary music": for the first time Ida Travi's ten-year-long work, the Tolki saga, is collected in a single volume. Over time Ida Travi has inhabited the boundaries of publishing and literature, although she has always magically managed to track down those who love words and their mystery, of which these beings called Tolki are the embodiment. Silhouetted figures, remnants of a thousand-year-old family, relatives to come, or antediluvians: these are the Tolki, as Ida Travi describes them. Sacred and miserable, mysterious and simple, ghosts from each person's life, a life that fears to be uttered. They use a poor language, harsh as guilt, light as deliverance. They approach their readers with circumspection, not knowing whether to trust them, whether to confide their secrets, to reveal where they come from, what animates them, where they go. If they did, however, their readers would discover where the words come from, what animates them and where they go: they would know the future of the world.
They would know the future of the world.
3. 20 November (forthcoming)
4. 4 December MARIA GRAZIA CALANDRONE | Magnifico e tremendo stava l'amore, Einaudi, 2024
   With Maria Grazia Calandrone and Ilaria Crotti
   After the success of Dove non mi hai portata, Maria Grazia Calandrone investigates the lives of the protagonists of a real event, with the eyes of an investigator and the sensitivity of a poet. And she gives us back an affair in which the chiaroscuros are so many and so intertwined as to prevent us from a single reading.
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- Four encounters of the Paradigms cycle (third edition) at Palazzo Ducale Sala Camino - transversal gazes and rewritings of the artistic/literary/political/linguistic canon:

1. Chiara Mercuri, The Birth of Medieval Feminism, Einaudi 2024 - February 2025
2. Benedetta Tobagi, book coming out at the end of November, on women's resistance - 12 March 2025
3. A.a. Vv., _Stories of Women Athletes Who Changed the Game,_66thand2nd, 2024 -February 2025
4. (a meeting to be announced)- March 2025
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project organised by the Teatro della Tosse in collaboration with DIRAAS teachers

1 CFU

In addition to attending the preparatory meetings, students will be required to participate in the public reading scheduled at the Feltrinelli Bookshop.