Senior seminar 2018/2019

Senior Seminar in Global Humanities is conceived as an interdisciplinary space of discussion around the so called "spatial turn" that is investing all fields of the Humanities (history, anthropology, geography, philosophy, political theory).

Students are expected to attend all lectures and at least four (4) short intensive courses. Senior seminar is a pass/no pass class and, in order to get 6 credits (CFU), students are required to deliver a 3000-word paper at the end of the academic year on one of the short intensive courses attended.

CONTACTS: Prof. Raffaele Laudani

SHORT INTENSIVE COURSES

David Tavarez (Vassar College)
TIME, FAITH, AND THE COSMOS: FROM CONQUEST TO TRANSATLANTIC EXCHANGES
October 15-18, 2018 • 5.00-7.00 pm • Aula SPECOLA

Cecilia Tossounian (Universidad de San Andrés)
GENDER, MODERNITY AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES
November 27-30, 2018 • 5.00-7.00 pm • Aula SPECOLA

Jarrett Zigon (University of Virginia) 
RELATIONAL ETHICS
December 17-20, 2018 • 5.00-7.00 pm • Aula SPECOLA

Lars Berge (Dalarna University)
A MODERN HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA
February 12-15, 2019 • 5.00-7.00 pm • Aula SPECOLA

Andrés Henao-Castro (University of Massachusetts / University of Bologna)
“HEY, YOU THERE!”: THE MIS-INTERPELLATED SUBJECT
February 25-28, 2019 • 5.00-7.00 pm • Aula SPECOLA

Jocelyn Olcott (Duke University)
OVERWORKED AND UNDEREMPLOYED: ACCOUNTING FOR CARE IN THE NEOLIBERAL AGE
March 12-15, 2019 • 5.00-7.00 pm • Aula SPECOLA 

Federico Zaina (University of Bologna)
ENDANGERED CULTURAL HERITAGE: A GLOBAL CHALLENGE
March 25-28, 2019 • 5.00-7.00 pm • Aula SPECOLA

Lorenzo Costaguta (University of Birmingham)
“THE WAGES OF WHITENESS”: RACE AND CLASS THE STUDY OF US HISTORY
April 9-12, 2019 • 5.00-7.00 pm • Aula SPECOLA

LECTURES

Serge Gruzinski (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)
WRITING HISTORY IN THE NEW WORLD: XVI CENTURY
January 31, 2019 • 5.00-7.00 pm • Aula PRODI

Marcus Rediker (University of Pittsburgh) 
THE GLOBAL PROLETARIAT IN THE SEA NOVELS OF HERMAN MELVILLE
May 15, 2019 • 4.30-7.00 pm • Aula GRANDE

Nancy Fraser (The New School for Social Research)
IS CAPITALISM NECESSARILY RACIST?
May 17, 2019 • 4.30-7.00 pm • Aula PRODI