97946 - States, Empires, Nations

Learning outcomes

In order to launch a reflection enabling us to present history as an instrument for problematization, some skills and knowledge are to be acquired:

1. Understanding of the nature and quality of sources

2. Capacity of analysing texts and reading sources critically

3. Contextualising the texts

4. Perception of chronology

5. Knowledge of the events necessary to contextualisation

6. Awareness of the historiographical debate within the analysis is to be placed

Course contents

All classes will take place from 19 september 2025 to 12 december 2025 and will be held every Friday from 3 pm to 5 pm at Department of Biological Science, via Francesco Selmi 3 (except that of Prof. De Luna).

“History is a shared commonwealth. The knowledge of is a principle of democracy and equality between citizens. It is a critical, inhomogeneous knowledge, which refuses conformism and thrives in dialogue. Historians have their own political opinions but have to submits them to the evidence of documents and debate, comparing them to others’ ideas and committing to their dissemination.” (Giardina, Camilleri, Segre, Appello. La storia è un bene comune). Above all, history is not merely just one discipline amongst many, which explains the meaning of this project, whose intention is to introduce history in those courses that do not provide it in their curricula, as a way to understand the present, the world we live in, by critically comparing it to our past. It is necessary to be aware that all subjects taught in university are rooted, without exception, in a historical flow without which they would no doubt still be able to allow students the acquisition of competence in the field, but not to enable the latter to acquire a critical understanding of the transformation of knowledge and the societies that express it. It is not always clear to all that history has nothing to do with an antiquarian approach to the past, with the learning of by now bygone events, but it is directly linked to understanding the present, to building a mindful citizenship, to acquiring a critical knowledge, a training ground to ‘practice’ dealing with the complexity of social and political dynamics otherwise destined to merely shoot before our eyes like mysterious meteors. Further to this point, the strengthening of social and civic competences, which are typical of historical studies, would represent the indispensable, and furthermore winning element of transversality across all specialist fields, within a formative itinerary aiming at both a high professionalization and its cognizant practice.

Structure of the course:

Venerdì 19 settembre 2025 MARIA ELENA DE LUNA

La città nel mondo greco e le sue dinamiche interne

ORE 15-17

AULA TIBILETTI, via Zamboni 38 - Bologna

 

Venerdì 26 settembre 2025 TIZIANA LAZZARI

ORE 15-17

AULETTA ANATOMIA COMPARATA (Accesso da via Selmi, 3) Piano Secondo Edificio in Bo - via F. Selmi 3 Via Selmi, 3 – Bologna

Venerdì 3 ottobre 2025 FRANCESCA CENERINI

La società patriarcale in età romana e la violenza sulle donne romane

ORE 15-17

AULETTA ANATOMIA COMPARATA (Accesso da via Selmi, 3) Piano Secondo Edificio in Bo - via F. Selmi 3 Via Selmi, 3 – Bologna

Venerdì 10 ottobre 2025 FRANCESCA ROVERSI MONACO

La costruzione della nazione: miti medievali delle origini. La storia come strumento di legittimazione identitaria

ORE 15-17

AULETTA ANATOMIA COMPARATA (Accesso da via Selmi, 3) Piano Secondo Edificio in Bo - via F. Selmi 3 Via Selmi, 3 – Bologna

Venerdì 17 ottobre 2025 FRANCESCA SOFIA

L'Antico regime. Nascita postuma di categoria interpretativa

ORE 15-17

AULETTA ANATOMIA COMPARATA (Accesso da via Selmi, 3) Piano Secondo Edificio in Bo - via F. Selmi 3 Via Selmi, 3 – Bologna

Venerdì 24 ottobre 2025 FERNANDA ALFIERI

Genere, sessualità e cittadinanza in età moderna

ORE 15-17

AULETTA ANATOMIA COMPARATA (Accesso da via Selmi, 3) Piano Secondo

Edificio in Bo - via F. Selmi 3 Via Selmi, 3 – Bologna

Venerdì 7 novembre 2025 VINCENZO LAVENIA

Guerra e legittimazione degli imperi nella prima età moderna

ORE 15-17

AULETTA ANATOMIA COMPARATA (Accesso da via Selmi, 3) Piano Secondo Edificio in Bo - via F. Selmi 3 Via Selmi, 3 – Bologna

Venerdì 14 novembre 2025 BERARDO PIO

La verità alternativa: la donazione di Costantino e il massacro di Katyn

ORE 15-17

AULETTA ANATOMIA COMPARATA (Accesso da via Selmi, 3) Piano Secondo Edificio in Bo - via F. Selmi 3 Via Selmi, 3 – Bologna

Venerdì 21 novembre 2025 MARIA PIA CASALENA

Modelli di costruzione dello Stato nazione fra Europa, America e Asia

ORE 15-17

AULETTA ANATOMIA COMPARATA (Accesso da via Selmi, 3) Piano Secondo Edificio in Bo - via F. Selmi 3 Via Selmi, 3 – Bologna

Venerdì 28 novembre 2025 MARICA TOLOMELLI

Sovranità nazionale e diritti di cittadinanza nel secondo Novecento

ORE 15-17

AULETTA ANATOMIA COMPARATA (Accesso da via Selmi, 3) Piano Secondo Edificio in Bo - via F. Selmi 3 Via Selmi, 3 – Bologna

Venerdì 5 dicembre 2025 NICOLA SBETTI

Sport e Storia

ORE 15-17

AULETTA ANATOMIA COMPARATA (Accesso da via Selmi, 3) Piano Secondo Edificio in Bo - via F. Selmi 3 Via Selmi, 3 – Bologna

Venerdì 12 dicembre 2025 CECILIA MOLESINI

Le emozioni e la storia: il caso della Germania nel secondo dopoguerra

ORE 15-17

AULETTA ANATOMIA COMPARATA (Accesso da via Selmi, 3) Piano Secondo Edificio in Bo - via F. Selmi 3 Via Selmi, 3 – Bologna

Students with SLD or temporary or permanent disabilities:

It is suggested that they get in touch as soon as possible with the relevant University office (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en) and with the lecturer in order to seek together the most effective strategies for following the lessons and/or preparing for the examination.

Readings/Bibliography

Suggested reading:

Marc Bloch, Apologia della storia, Einaudi, 2009

Teaching methods

Lectures

The course will be last 24 hours, equalling 3 CFU (Course Credits)

Attendance is mandatory

Assessment methods

Oral examination focus on course work contents.

Type of assessment: Mark out of thirty.

Students with SLD or temporary or permanent disabilities:

It is necessary to contact the relevant University office (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en) with ample time in advance: the office will propose some adjustments, which must in any case be submitted 15 days in advance to the lecturer, who will assess the appropriateness of these in relation to the teaching objectives.

Teaching tools

Slide

Office hours

See the website of Fulvio Cammarano