LAW & CINEMA
The workshop discusses relevant topics concerning the law in its multiple dimensions through the vision of movies on different social phenomena (LGBTI people's rights, media freedom, social integration in multicultural societies, fair trial and the judiciary). In each session of the workshop there will be the presentation of a movie, followed by a discussion, framed in legal terms. External experts will be invited.
Course Content - Part D
The workshop aims to analyze the paths, tools and strategy of integration in the multicultural societies, in light of some paradigmatic experiences.
Course Content - Part H
From literature to feminist political philosophy.
Through the analysis of five literary works we will discuss some of the central themes of feminist contemporary philosophy.
Course Content - Part I
Urban spaces and public sphere
Introduction to the interdisciplinary debate on the decline of the traditional urban spaces as places of construction of public sphere an civicness; corresponding exercises through case studies.
The readings will be presented in the first session of the workshop. Students that do not attend the workshop shall contact the lecturer for the readings.
1) Mary Wollstonecraft, The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria (1798);
2) Virginia Woolf, A Room of one's own, 1929;
3) Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye, 1970;
4) Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time: A Novel, 1976;
5) Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, 1985.
The workshop is designed to provide students the basic knowledge of a number of social phenomena in a legal perspective and to encourage them to critically discuss those phenomena and to be able to express structured and informed opinions. The movies will provide inputs to start mastering the fundamentals of legal reasoning in a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective.
Learning Objectives - Part D
Knowledge:
- The tools, strategy and path of integration
- The main models of citizenships
Other abilities:
- Ability to tackle interdisciplinary problems arising from the current evolution of the multicultural societies
Learning Objectives - Part H
The aim of the course is the development of the student's analytical and interpretative skills.
Learning Objectives - Part I
Train to the dialogue between disciplines on clasical themes of sociology, political science, urban planning and architecture.
Train to the construction of research design based on on desk documents analysis
Train to the collective production of little research reports.
Prerequisites - Part C
None
Prerequisites - Part H
None.
Prerequisites - Part I
No one
Teaching Methods - Part C
In each session of the workshop there will be the presentation of a movie, followed by a discussion, framed in legal terms. External experts will be invited.
Teaching Methods - Part D
Seminars, simulations, class presentations, practical exercises on case studies.
Teaching Methods - Part H
After a short introduction to the authors and the texts, the space will be left open to the analysis and discussion of the texts. All the material for the workshop will be uploaded on moodle.
Teaching Methods - Part I
Lectures, conferences and workshop activities
Type of Assessment - Part C
IF YOU ATTEND THE CLASSES:
-group-based class presentation on a topic previously discussed and agreed upon with the lecturer
IF YOU DO NOT ATTEND THE CLASSES:
-a 3000 word paper analysing a movie – to be discussed and agreed upon with the lecturer during office hours (recommended) or by email
Type of Assessment - Part D
Attending student: class presentation
Non-attending students: paper
Type of Assessment - Part H
Position paper on one of the literary works that will be discussed during the workshop.
Type of Assessment - Part I
The evalutation will be based on:
- the team reports (50%)
- the oral, individual, presentation of the reserach developed (50%)
Course program - Part C
The detailed syllabus for students attending the course will be provided during the first classes or via email (upon request)
Course program - Part D
The models of integration: an introduction
Simulation coordinated by the Territorial Council of Florence
language and civic courses
Class presentations
Conclusions
Course program - Part H
From literature to feminist political philosophy.
Through the analysis of five literary works we will discuss some of the central themes of feminist contemporary philosophy.
Course program - Part I
Which role may conserve the traditional places of deliberation (the piazza in first instance) in a cultural and social context dominated by the social, the mass media, the different forms of distance communication? Which relation is to be found tody between material and immaterial public space (the urban spaces of universal access, the public sphere)? In various disciplines is growing the questioning on urban open public space. Ones denounce the physical decay of the most traditional open urban spaces, publicly owned, abandoned to the excluded population, more and more often perceived as dangerous. Other observe the invading presence of new efficient and imaginative alternative spaces, privately owned, desiogend for consumption and leisure, not fit, tehy suggest, su encourage the debate on the public realm and to stimulate civicness. The urban public space disappearance would indicate the decline of public life, is associated to the volontary or suffered ghettoization as entral dynamic of the contemporary city.
In the workshop this questioning will be assessed, in its different disciplinary declinations. Students will be trained to the use of documents for an ananalysis of the functions and values of open urban spaces in some case-cities.