Senior seminar in Global Humanities – 2023/2024

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 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 on one of the short intensive courses attended, starting from the end of May 2024.

Students must email their paper on one of the courses attended in the AY 2023/2024 to disci.gloc@unibo.it from May 30, 2024 to March 31, 2025. Please send your paper in the following format: .docx or .odt or .rtf. No registration on AlmaEsami is needed. 

CONTACTS: disci.gloc@unibo.it

• Philipp Ther (University of Vienna)
  HOW THE WEST LOST THE PEACE: THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION SINCE THE COLD WAR
  GLOC Opening Lecture 
  October 3, 2023 • 5:00-6:45 pm • Aula Prodi

• Elizabeth Faue (Wayne State University)
  GENDER AND LABOR ACTIVISM IN THE UNITED STATES
  October 24-27, 2023 • 5:00-6:45 pm • Aula Specola

• Ketevan Kakitelashvili (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University)
  GEORGIA IN THE 1990S: MEMORY OF TRAUMA AND VICTORY
  November 13-16, 2023 • 5:00-6:45 pm • Aula Specola

• Kornelia Kończal (University of Bielefeld)
  DECOLONISING EASTERN EUROPE: KEY DEBATES AND NEW APPROACHES
  November 28-December 1, 2023 • 5:00-6:45 pm • Aula Specola

• Daniel Bender (University of Toronto)
  FOOD MOBILITIES: FROM FARM TO TABLE
  December 4-7, 2023 • 5:00-6:45 pm • Aula Specola

• Bitopi Dutta (School of Liberal Studies, UPES)
  GENDER, SEXUALITY AND DISPLACEMENT
  IN THE PERIPHERIES OF INDIA: THE LANGUAGE OF RIGHTS
  December 11-14, 2023 • 5:00-6:45 pm • Aula Specola

• Gerardo Serra (University of Manchester)
  AFRICA AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: A POLITICAL HISTORY
  February 5-8, 2024 • 5:00-6:45 pm • Aula Specola

• Federico Romero (University of Florence)
  THE COLD WAR AND THE GLOBAL: MUTUAL INFLUENCES
  February 27-March 1, 2024 • 5:00-6:45 pm • Aula Specola

• Matilde Cazzola (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory)
  THE CURIOUS CASE OF LUIGI GIUSTINIANI (1790s-1855): AN EXPLORATION IN GLOBAL MICRO-HISTORY
  April 16-19, 2024 • 5:00-6:45 pm • Aula Specola

• Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (Simon Fraser University)
  HOW ARE YOU? SENTIMENT, SURVEILLANCE AND ANTI-ASIAN RACISM
  GLOC Closing Lecture 
  April 22, 2024 • 4:45-6:45 pm • Aula Prodi