2017/2018

2017/2018

DM270

M-STO/04 (CONTEMPORARY HISTORY)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

HISTORY OF EUROPE

Moderno e contemporaneo

1°

(25/09/2017 - 10/01/2018)

6

36 lesson hours

italian

ORAL TEST

SIGNORI ELISA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

This is the second part of the course Contemporary History of Europe and could be applied by all those students who attended section A. Students from other courses can attend it too separately.

The course’s goal is to deepen specific topics and issues of xx century in a comparative approach to European history. Beside scientific literature, during lessons will be analyzed different documents from a wide range of sources and will be elaborated papers based on particular researches.

Human rights, violence and contemporary wars
The course aims to deepen the historical human rights issues, officially defined seventy years ago by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, approved on December 10, 1948, by the United Nations General Assembly. In this perspective, after an historical excursus on previous landmarks in conceptual elaboration of human rights and connected humanitarian experiences, the course will analyzes war crimes and international justice, comparing repressive practices, violence against civilians and terrorist intimidation, genocide projects and practices into the European context of the twentieth century, particularly looking at the two World Wars, at Fascist and Nazi military occupations, but also at crimes of Italian colonial rule in Africa. Finally, the experiences of denunciation, punishment and removal of individual and collective responsibilities will be focused in the post-war context. In this regard, besides different points of views of Italian and international historiography, primary and secondary sources of various typologies will be analyzed too.

Lectures, seminars, debates.

Specific bibliography will be suggested during the course.
For a preliminary approach look up to:
Marcello Flores, Storia dei diritti umani, Bologna, Il Mulino 2008;
Diritti umani : cultura dei diritti e dignità della persona nell'epoca della globalizzazione Dizionario 1. A-G / 2 Dizionario 1. A-G , diretto da Marcello Flores, 2 voll., Torino, UTET, 2007;
E. Aga Rossi, M. T. Giusti, Una guerra a parte : i militari italiani nei Balcani : 1940-1945 Il Mulino, Bologna 2011;
M. Battini, Peccati di memoria: la mancata Norimberga italiana, Roma ,GLF editori Laterza, 2003;
Crimini e memorie di guerra. Violenze contro le popolazioni e politiche del ricordo, a cura di L.Baldissara, P. Pezzino, Napoli, L'ancora del Mediterraneo, 2004;
La politica del terrore : stragi e violenze naziste e fasciste in Emilia Romagna : per un atlante delle stragi naziste in Italia , a cura di L. Casali e D. Gagliani ,Roma,L'ancora, 2008;
Memoria e rimozione. I crimini di guerra del Giappone e dell'Italia, , a cura di G. Contini, F. Focardi, M. Petricioli, Roma, Viella, 2010.

Presentations and paper on specific items.