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

Academic Year 2020/2021

  • Docente: Carla Faralli
  • Credits: 3
  • SSD: IUS/20
  • Language: Italian

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 practices. 

Course contents

The title of the course on Ethics and Politics 2020/21, A Catalogue of Virtues for Survival and Coexistence in the 21st Century. The paradigm of care, is related to the survival and coexistence of human beings, and in general of animals and plants, on the planet having in our eyes the spread of conflicts on a global level, the massive displacement of populations with the increase of refugee and refugee camps, environmental and climate issues that with increasing urgency knock at our consciences.
The idea of a catalogue of virtues suggests the cruciality of conditions, forms and lifestyles in the positioning of each person in the world and in global historical events in view of the necessary change in the relations between genders, generations, people and the overcoming of inequalities and hierarchies that structure the organization of the production and reproduction of lives in every field and place.

Classes will be held on Monday and Tuesday from 5 to 7 p.m., starting from 5 to 26 October classes will be provided online, from the 27 October to the end classes will be in Room 3 at Convento di Santa Cristina, Piazzetta Morandi 2, in accordance with the procedures, established by the University regarding the COVID-19 emergency, available on this webpage:

https://dsg.unibo.it/it/didattica/progetti-e-metodologie-didattiche/modalita-didattiche-presso-il-dsg-nel-i-semestre-a-a-2020-2021




Readings/Bibliography

News, updates, information on speakers/presenters, supporting literature and teaching materials will be published at the end of the course. 

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. 

Classes Schedule

  1. 5 ottobre 2020. Introduzione al corso delle curatrici. Raffaella Lamberti, il risveglio dell'etica della virtù; Carla Faralli, riflessioni bioetiche al femminile nel contesto attuale.
  2. 6 ottobre 2020. Annamaria Tagliavini, “Piccole virtù “e vita quotidiana secondo Natalia Ginzburg. Giancarla Codrignani. Diplomazia e senso del limite: virtù al femminile?
  3. 12 ottobre 2020. Angela Balzano; Ilaria Santoemma. Donna Haraway; Tecnoscienze e giustizia riproduttiva: una grammatica di genere diversa.
  4. 13 ottobre 2020. Gianna Pomata. Identità di genere: una categoria tra medicina e diritto. Daniela Pomata. Cronache dall’Ospedale Sant’Orsola di Bologna
  5. 20 ottobre 2020. Maria Patrizia Violi. Riflessioni sul trauma. Fernanda Minuz. Riflessioni sui nuovi orientamenti della Commissione Europea verso la salute e l’emigrazione.
  6. 26 ottobre 2020. Elda Guerra. Un approccio femminista e di genere. Tamara Roma. Un nuovo paradigma per il sistema della salute.
  7. 27 ottobre 2020. Gino Rubini, il diritto alla salute al tempo del coronavirus. Giulia Sudano, Stefania Minghini Azzarello. Valentina Bazzarin. La Covid19, un’indagine di genere.
  8. 2 novembre 2020. Sara Gandini. Come nasce e si diffonde un'epidemia. Elisa Murgese. Allevamenti intensivi, inquinamento e COVID19. 
  9. 3 novembre 2020. Marzia Vaccari. Annalisa Pelizza. Le epidemie e pandemie nello schermo di Internet.
  10. 9 novembre 2020. Maria Luisa Vezzali. Raffaella Lamberti. Epidemie e pandemie nella letteratura: Manzoni, Camus, Saramago, Dacia Maraini, Paolo Giordano, Fang Fang.
  11. 10 novembre 2020. Fabrizio Tonello. La produzione dell’ignoranza ai nostri giorni e i rischi per le democrazie. Kaaj Tshikalandand. Razzismo e autoritarismo: a che punto siamo nella società italiana?
  12. 16 novembre 2020. Porpora Marcasciano. Giulia Rodeschini. Omofobia, Lesbofobia, Transfobia.
  13. 17 novembre 2020. Raffaella Baritono. Gli Stati Uniti: i movimenti antirazzisti oggi. Rita Monticelli-Carla Faralli. Pensiero e pratiche di autrici afroamericane.

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.

Teaching tools

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

Office hours

See the website of Carla Faralli

SDGs

Gender equality Reduced inequalities

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.