02935 - Laboratory (Lab11)

Academic Year 2018/2019

Learning outcomes

The seminar is intended to introduce students to the analysis of case studies and research topics.
By the end of the seminar the student will:
1) be able to read and discuss scientific essays in comparative Politics and History
2) be able to interact appropriately in a seminar situation

Course contents

Language of instruction: English

Course content: Topics  in european, history, politics and culture after 1945

The seminar will take place in the second semester and will be conduct by visiting professors  of the University of Trier, Dresden, Humboldt Berlin, Potsdam and Sciences Po Lyon. The seminar will be divided in 5 units. Each unit will take place during a single week ( 6 hours + 2 hours for the intermediate test). Students are required to attend classes.

At the beginning of the secodn semester will be publisched the course's timetable

During the first lesson, seminar's coordinator will explain the organisation of the seminar and the course content of each teaching units.

Introductory Lecture: Friday 1 march  9 -11 am  aula Leydi, via barberia 4.

All lectures will take place in via Barberia 4

Unit 1 Prof. Manfred Görtemaker (University of Potsdam)
Course content:
History of European integration

- Tuesday 26 march ore 17-19 aula Ferrero 

- Wednesday 27 march ore 17-19 aula Ferrero

- Friday 29 march ore 9-11 aula Leydi

Unit 2 Prof. Marc Frangi (Sciences Po Lyon)
Course content: to be defined

- Tuesday 9 april ore 17-19 aula Ferrero
- Wednesday 10 april ore 17-19 aula Ferrero
- Friday 12 april ore 9-11 aula Leydi

 

Unit 3 Prof. Hans Vorländer (TU Dresden)
Course content:
Populism and Modern Democracy
-Tuesday 30 april 17-19 aula Ferrero
-Thursday 2 mai 17-19 aula Ferrero
- Friday 3 mai 9-11 aula Ferrero

Prof. Manuel Fröhlich ( Uni Trier)
Course content: to be defined
- Tuesday 7 mai 17-19 aula Ferrero
- Wedn. 8 mai 17-19 aula Ferrero
- Friday 10 mai 9-11 aula Ferrero

Unit 5 Prof. Tilman Siebeneichner ( Humboldt University Berlin)
Course content: Militant Anti-Communism in the Age of Extremes

-Tuesday  14 mai 17-19 aula Ferrero
1. „Anti-Bolshevism and Order. The Establishment of the Weimar Republic

--Wednesday15 mai 17-19 aula Ferrero
2. Anti-Communism and Its Proxy Wars in Africa. Mercenaries and the Decolonization, 1960-1980

- Friday 17 mai 9-11 aula Ferrero
3 The ‚Strategy of Tension‘, 1960-1980. Anti-Communist Violence in Italy, Germany, Spain


Readings/Bibliography

The reading list will be published before the beginning of the seminar

Teaching methods

Seminar

Assessment methods

Students will deliver a paper ( 10.000 characters) on on of the topics discussed during the seminar. 

The paper will be discussed during an oral examination

During the first lesson the seminar's coordinator will explain how to write the paper

Teaching tools

Beamer

Links to further information

https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/stefano.cavazza/

Office hours

See the website of Stefano Cavazza