B5233 - Laboratory (1) (LM) (G.C)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the workshop, students will be able to organise and collect complex information in a coherent way and use the tools acquired to develop project ideas relevant to the disciplines studied. They will possess digital skills and able to process, catalogue and make available sources, metadata and the results of scientific research relevant to the disciplines studied, in accordance with the principles of open science, and will be able to promote historical memory, taking into account the specificities of the various means of communication, dissemination and didactics. They will be familiar with didactic tools, including digital ones, and will develop publishing skills. They will be able to update their knowledge and research methods through opportunities for comparison and learning according to their abilities and inclinations and through the tools developed by the scientific community, using analogue and digital resources and independently consulting historiographical texts in original languages other than Italian.

Course contents

Evolution and transformation of memory studies

The workshop has the aim to reconstruct the process through which historical memory studies were formed and developed during the 20th century, always taking into account that they have relationships with memory studies by other disciplines in both research and teaching.

Main activities:

1) reading of some foundational texts in historical memory studies in order to pool lexicon and basic concepts;

2) reading of major texts in other disciplines with the aim of facilitating orientation within the field where similarities and differences meet and clash;

3) reading of major works which, in the last decades of the twentieth century, have modified the "classical" framework in order to determine their problematic impact.

Particular attention will be brought to the concept of "cultural memory", its practices and achievements.

Students are kindly asked to contact the lecturer via e-mail (antonella.salomoni@unibo.it) if they include this course in the study plan.

Readings/Bibliography

Teaching and learning materials will be communicated prior to the start of the course.

Recommended reading list:

• Aleida Assmann, Ricordare. Forme e mutamenti della memoria culturale, Bologna, il Mulino, 2015;

• Aleida Assmann, Sette modi di dimenticare, Bologna, il mulino, 2019;

• Felice Cimatti, La fabbrica del ricordo, Bologna, il Mulino, 2020;

• Paul Connerton, Come le società ricordano, Roma, Armando, 1999;

• Paul Connerton, Come la modernità dimentica, Torino, Einaudi, 2010;

• Jacques Le Goff, Storia e memoria, Torino, Einaudi, 1988;

• Harald Weinrich, Lete. Arte e critica dell’oblio, Bologna, il Mulino, 1999;

• Eviatar Zerubavel, Mappe del tempo: memoria collettiva e costruzione sociale del passato, Bologna, il Mulino, 2005.

Teaching methods

Lectures, discussions and group work, case studies, targeted literature research.

The group work will be geared toward the construction of a lemmary for a modern Lexicon of remembrance and oblivion, also making use of the most recent and innovative repertories produced in the field of memory studies.

Assessment methods

The student will be asked to write a paper (also co-authored) and presenting it in the last module of the course. The paper will focus on the definition of one or more lemmas for a Lexicon of remembrance and oblivion.

The following criteria will be used for assessment:

1) a clear understanding of the phases for developing a Lexicon;

2) the ability to critically analyze the various factors involved in the constant re-elaboration of Lexicon;

3) the ability to identify, organize and collect information for individual or group work.

Active participation in lectures will be taken into account in the assessment.

Non-attending students.

The course structure is designed for classroom work and active participation. Attendance is therefore strongly recommended. Students who attend at least 75% of the lectures will be considered as attending.

Those who are unable to attend the course are asked to contact the teacher before the start of the course, in order to agree on an alternative and equivalent paper, which will be assessed by means of an oral interview.

During the academic year, oral exam sessions are scheduled in the following months:

January (students with pending exams), March (students with pending exams), May (all students), July (all students), September (all students), November (all students).

Teaching tools

Repertoires and manuals on memory studies in print or digital form, video projector, PowerPoint, computer laboratory.

Students with learning disorders and/or temporary or permanent disabilities: please, contact the office responsible (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en/for-students ) as soon as possible so that they can propose acceptable adjustments. The request for adaptation must be submitted in advance (15 days before the exam date) to the lecturer, who will assess the appropriateness of the adjustments, taking into account the teaching objectives.

Office hours

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