- Docente: Paolo Capuzzo
- Crediti formativi: 6
- SSD: M-STO/04
- Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese
- Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Laurea Magistrale in
Scienze storiche e orientalistiche (cod. 8845)
Valido anche per Laurea Magistrale in Filologia, letteratura e tradizione classica (cod. 0970)
Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire
At the end of the course unit students will have acquired awareness of the concept of universal history centred around Europe and Western Civilization as well as with the ways through which this narrative has been deconstructed by means of alternative and peripheral critical stances. Students will be able to understand the relevance of different traditions of critical thought as cultural Marxism, anti-imperialist and Afro-American thought, cultural and postcolonial studies. At the end of the course students will demonstrate a sound theoretical framework within which specific research interests could be developed.
Contenuti
The course will be divided into two main parts.
The first part will be devoted to the critical analysis of narratives of the world history since antiquities:
- Narratives of Universal History: classic, medieval, and early modern patterns
- From the Enlightenment philosophy of history to the 19th century imperial history
- The crisis of the western image of world history
The second part will focus on communist internationalism as an actor and network of 20th century world history and will particularly focus on the first phase, the years of Comintern (1919-1943).
The following will be the main topics of the second part of the course.
- The First and the Second Internationals: revolutionary strategies and visions of the world
- First World War, Soviet Revolution and the birth of the Comintern in 1919
- Revolutionary perspectives in the peripheries
- Space, time, culture rethinking the socialist traf transition in Gramsci, Mariátegui, Benjamin
- Race, language, translation and socialist transition
- Communism in China
- Towards the Second World War and beyond: communism as an actor of 20th century globalisation
Attending students will write a brief paper (500 words) on the following texts. In this paper they to single out the main points of the chapter/article.
Students are expected to do class presentation of the texts they have read and actively participate to the discussion on them.
Texts have to be read and papers delivered according to the following schedule.
3rd October
Students will choose one of the following texts:
- Arnaldo Momigliano, The Origins of Universal History, in On Pagans, Jews, and Christians, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, 1987
- Arno Borst, Barbaren, Ketzer und Artisten. Welten des Mittelalters, Piper, München, 1988 (translated Medieval worlds. Barbarians, heretics and artists in the Middle Ages. Polity Press, Cambridge 1991) chapter 4
- Siep Stuurman, Common Humanity and Cultural Difference on the Sedentary–Nomadic Frontier. Herodotus, Sima Qian, and Ibn Khaldun, in Samuel Moyn & Andrew Sartori, Global Intellectual History, Columbia University Press, New York, 2013
9th October
Students will choose one of the following texts:
- R. Koselleck, Vergangene Zukunft. Zur Semantik geschichtlicher Zeiten. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1979 (translated Futures past. On the semantics of historical time, New York, Columbia University Press, 2004) – chapter 2 – Historia Magistra Vitae
- C.L. Hill, National Histories and World Systems. Writing Japan, France and the United States, in Q.E. Wang and G.G. Iggers (eds.), Turning Points in Historiography: A Cross-cultural Perspective, Boydell and Brewer, 2002, pp. 163-84
- Arnaldo Momigliano, Two Types of Universal History: The Cases of E. A. Freeman and Max Weber, in The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 58, No. 1 (Mar., 1986), pp. 235-246 - This text is available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1881571.pdf
- John Robert Seeley, The expansion of England, 1883, chapters: 3-4-5 (you can find the 1914 edition: online)
15th October
Students will choose one of the following texts:
- E. Said, Introduction to Culture and imperialism
- Walter Mignolo, The Idea of Latin America, chapter 1
- Dipesh Chakrabarty Introduction to Provincializing Europe
23rd October
Students will choose one of the following texts:
Congress of the People of the East (Baku, 1920). Proceedings, New Park, 1977 - Fifth Session pp. 89-119
https://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/baku/cpe-baku-pearce.pdf
A. Gramsci, Some Aspects of The Southern Question, 1926 (http://blogs.uoregon.edu/j610drstabile/files/2014/03/gramsci-southern-question1926-2jf8c5x.pdf)
J. Mariategui, Siete ensayos de interpretación de la realidad peruana, Barcelona, 2009 - chapters 1 and 2 (there several editions, in Spanish and English)
30th October
Students will choose one of the following texts:
B. Studer, The transnational World of the Cominenternians, Palgrave, 2015, chapter 1
W. McLellan, Africans and Black Americans in the Comintern schools, 1925-1934. International Journal of African Historical Studies. 26, 1993, pp. 371-390
Hakkim Adi, Pan-Africanism and communism: the Comintern, the ‘Negro Question’ and the First International Conference of Negro Workers, Hamburg 1930, in "African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal" Volume 1, 2008 - Issue 2
Metodi didattici
The course is articulated through lectues and seminars discussions. Students are expected to participate actively by reading in due time the texts which are in the programme, writing papers as well as participating in class discussions.
Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento
Attending students are required to participate actively to all classes and must regularly write short papers (500 words) on the reading texts listed in the class programm in due time; they will further write a 4000 words final paper on one of the following areas:
- History of international communism in the 20th century (Capuzzo)
- Europe's changing place in the long 20th century (Tolomelli)
Students are required to choose a specific subject within one of this two areas with the advise of one of the two professors (Paolo Capuzzo and Marica Tolomelli).
Deadline for the submission of the final paper is 30th January.
The mark assigned to the paper will be based on the selection of the topic, its critical analysis based on bibliography and sources, clarity in structuring the paper, language proficiency.
Not attending students are required to pass a written text and a brief oral exam. This concerns this module (6CFU), look at the programme of Prof. Tolomelli for the second module.
The written test (60 minutes) requires to answer to three questions on the following bibliography. An accurate studying of the following books is necessary in order to pass the written exam.
The mark assigned to the paper will be based on the precision in anwering the question, the capacity to develop a critical analyis using an adequate scientific language.
The following chapters of Jerry J. Bentley, The Oxford Handbook of World History:
Chapters 1-7; 10-12; 15-21
Part I: Concepts
1: Michael Bentley: Theories of World History since the Enlightenment
2: Martin W. Lewis: Geographies
3: Luiji Cajani: Periodization
4: Matthew Lauzon: Modernity
5: Jürgen Osterhammel: Globalization
6: Patrick Manning: Epistemology
Part II: Themes
7: David Christian: World Environmental History
10: Charles Tilly: States, State Formation, and War
11: Marnie Hughes-Warrington: Genders
12: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite: Religions and World History
Part III: Processes
15: Dirk Hoerder: Migrations
16: James D. Tracy: Trade across Eurasia to about 1750
17: Patrick Karl O'Brien: Industrialization
18: J. R. McNeill: Biological Exchanges in World History
19: Jerry H. Bentley: Cultural Exchanges
20: Thomas T. Allsen: Premodern Empires
21: Prasenjit Duara: Modern Imperialism
After having passed the written test non-attending students have to pass:
A brief oral exam with Prof. Capuzzo on one of the following books:
Victoria de Grazia, Irresistible empire. Americas advance through twentieth-century Europe, Cambridge (Mass.) ; London : The Belknap press of Harvard university press, 2005
Ranajit Guha, Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India, Duke University Press, 1999
D. Chakrabarty, Rethinking Working-class History, 2000 (1989)
Brigitte Studer, The transnational world of the Cominternians, Basingstoke - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
Edward W. Said, Culture and imperialism, London : Chatto & Windus, 1993
Orario di ricevimento
Consulta il sito web di Paolo Capuzzo