36666 - Seminar: Ethics and Politics: a Gender Studies Perspective

Learning outcomes

The Seminar, organized in collaboration with the Orlando Association, is aimed to provide a critical gender perspective on some current cultural, philosophical, legal and socio-political issues.

Course contents

Starting from the feminist point of view and the feminist thought, we continue the seminar that took place the past year, named La cura del mondo. Convivenza e responsabilità in tempi di guerra. 

The lessons will be held at Classroom 3 DAR-Department of Arts, Santa Cristina complex, Piazzetta Morandi 2, from 5 to 7 p.m. The lessons will include professors or experts in the field, as well as witnesses.

• October 10, 2023
Presentazione, Carla Faralli e Raffaella Lamberti
Tempi e spazi di una storia globale: i movimenti delle donne, Elda Guerra

• October 11, 2023
Vicenda e prospettive del femminismo italiano, Lea Melandri

• October 17, 2023
Genere e Diritto, Carla Faralli

• October 18, 2023
“Gli Stati Uniti e la ‘guerra più lunga”, Raffaella Baritono
Guerra fredda 2.0: l’Intelligenza Artificiale, Marzia Vaccari

• October 24, 2023
Palestina. Femminismi e resistenza. L'esperienza delle donne palestinesi nel contesto mediorientale, Cecilia Dalla Negra
La Palestina e Israele, Alessandra Mecozzi

• October 25, 2023
Luoghi difficili e relazioni tra donne: Orlando in Medio Oriente, nei Balcani, in Ucraina, Fernanda Minuz e Raffaella Lamberti

• October 31, 2023
Iran: la lotta delle donne per la libertà e la dignità femminile, Rita Alicchio e Zahra Tofigh

• November 7, 2023
Uno sguardo sulla Cina nel contesto contemporaneo Ilaria Maria Sala e Gaia Perini

• November 8, 2023
Letteratura e utopia nell’isola delle madri, Maria Rosa Cutrufelli
Guerra ai corpi, guerra alle soggettività Tamara Roma

• November 14, 2023
Russia: tra autoritarismo aggressivo e ideologia conservatrice. Una prospettiva di genere Gabriella Imposti
Esperienze di resistenza indigena al degrado ambientale: lotta ecofemminista in America Latina, Ludovica Bargellini e Giorgia Pane

• November 15, 2023
Femminismo intersezionale: la creatività teorico-pratica del black feminism Rita Monticelli
Marito giudice e legislatore: analisi del matrimonio, del divorzio e dei diritti di genere nel diritto tradizionale e nel Code de la famille senegalese", Ndack Mbaye

• November 21, 2023
Lo stato del mondo e l’Europa, Nadia Urbinati

• November 22, 2023
Women's resistance in Afghanistan, Milena Schiavina and guest to be announced

If in the previous edition the euro-mediterranean area was the main focus, this year we will deal with emblematic situations of war, countries that risk to fall into a war scenario, peace attempts, successful or failed. The general context, with the environmental disasters linked with the climate crisis, the increase of the violence against women and LGBTQIA+ people, the wars between countries, such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine, more in general the wars between opposite parties, where the group rapes are systematic, needs a global reflection. Thus, we will pay attention to a non-violent approach to the conflicts, based on the ethics of care and relationship, of which the “Gender Caravan”, organized by Orlando and MIT, that brought medicines and medical products for the sexual and reproductive health in Ukraine, is an example.
Local wars and internal conflicts run along the “longest war” of the countries in competition for the global dominance. The international order highlights the rivalry between USA and China and the Russian imperialism, mindful of a past of greatness. The competitions USA/China on the Artificial Intelligence does not explain sufficiently the multipolar world where we live.
What is the role of the women, particularly the young ones? In the seminar we will take in account the struggles and proposals made by women in several contexts: the spread of the feminist slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom” by Iranian women and the gesture of cutting their hair; less recently the Argentinian movement Ni Una Menos; the new ways of resistance of the young women in Palestine, Afghanistan, in comparison with Europe and Italy. We will discuss the possibilities of a renewed UN organisation and new transnational institutions to govern the multipolarity of which individual as well as collective subjects, looking for new ways of coexistence and cohabitation.

 

Readings/Bibliography

News, updates, information on speakers/presenters, supporting literature and teaching materials will be given during the Seminar.

The readings for the course are available- on loan or for consultation- at the Women's Library, located in the Convento di Santa Cristina, which can be accessed from either Via del Piombo 5 or the Cloister of Santa Cristina.

Teaching methods

The course consists in lectures, supported by multimedia tools on Virtuale platform. This is a first-semester course, consisting in a series of lectures delivered in class. Students are encouraged to consult www.giuri.unibo.it for class times/locations and the "notices" section of both this page and the tutor's unibo page.

Seminar curators Professors Carla Faralli. Tutor Dr. Tamara Roma, [mailto:tamara.roma2@unibo.it] 

The Seminar will begin on October 10. Classes will be held on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 5 to 7 p.m. at the ex Santa Cristina Convent, DAR Department, Morandi Square 2.

More information about the lessons will be published by the end of September. 

Assessment methods

The final exam can be either written or oral, depending on the student's choice: students will thus be asked to select a topic from the syllabus and either hand in a paper or make a presentation on that topic. In either case, the examination will be geared toward assessing the student's ability to engage critically with the current issues.

The written paper (min. 10 pp.) must be submitted via email, to prof. Faralli and the tutor Tamara Roma [mailto:tamara.roma2@unibo.it], at least one week before the exam call in which the student is enrolle.

Teaching tools

All information about the course and any notice, as well as any supplementary material, will be made available online at https://virtuale.unibo.it/ or at https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/carla.faralli

Links to further information

https://orlando.women.it

Office hours

See the website of Carla Faralli