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B029115 - SEMINARS/THEMATIC WORKSHOPS
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Course Content
Suggested readings
Learning Objectives
Prerequisites
Teaching Methods
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Type of Assessment
Course program
Sustainable Development Goals 2030
Academic Year 2023-24
Course year
First year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Political and Social Sciences (DSPS)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
-
Credits
3
Teaching Hours
21
Teaching Term
19/02/2024 ⇒ 24/05/2024
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Giudizio Finale
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Lectureship
- Part A SORRENTINO CARLO
- Part B GUETTO RAFFAELE
- Part B PIRANI ELENA
- Part C BISANTI MATTEO
- Part C BRUNORI PAOLO
- Part D FEDERICO VERONICA
- Part E TONINI ALBERTO
- Part F NERI SERNERI SIMONE
- Part G ROGNONI MARIA STELLA
- Part H CASALINI BRUNELLA
- Part I NACCI MICHELA
- Part L TONARELLI ANNALISA
- Part L TONINI ALBERTO
- Part M CERRETANO VALERIO
- Part N SALVATICI SILVIA
- Part O PATRIZII VINCENZINO
Teaching Language - Part B
Italiano
Teaching Language - Part D
Italian
Teaching Language - Part F
Italiano
Teaching Language - Part G
Italian and English
Teaching Language - Part H
Italian
Teaching Language - Part I
Italian
Teaching Language - Part L
Italian
Teaching Language - Part M
ITALIAN
Teaching Language - Part N
Italian
Teaching Language - Part O
Italian
Course Content - Part B
Costruire e leggere correttamente una tabella o un grafico, partendo da dati appropriati, è un passaggio fondamentale per chiunque voglia sintetizzare, capire, e interpretare criticamente i principali fenomeni demografici, sociali e politici. In questo seminario verranno sviluppate le competenze per il reperimento di fonti di dati, la valutazione della tipologia e della qualità del dato, e l’organizzazione dei dati per la successiva analisi.
Course Content - Part D
Can the law contribute to saving the Planet? Do the global North and South compete or collaborate in addressing environmental and climate challenges? Does environmental protection limit development? How are the environment and conflict connected? Does the law have anything to say about this?
Starting from these questions, the workshop will guide students in exploring some aspects of environmental challenges in Africa and Europe through the lens of ecological law.
Starting from these questions, the workshop will guide students in exploring some aspects of environmental challenges in Africa and Europe through the lens of ecological law.
Course Content - Part G
Protecting the environment and creatively addressing environmental issues are now inescapable goals. However, the ways in which they are pursued are very different. Bringing together European and African experiences, the workshop encourages students to acquire critical skills and propose concrete solutions through open discussion and the use of techniques such as comics to "make sense of and responsibly inhabit a more than human world".
Course Content - Part H
Title: Politics of carelessness and care.
Contents: through readings and documentaries we will talk, using the lens of the "capitalocene", about waste and what it tells about ourselves and our relationship with objects and our environment. We will see how "capitalocene" works through frontiers, differentially distributing vulnerability and care between the North and the South of the world, between rich and poor.
Contents: through readings and documentaries we will talk, using the lens of the "capitalocene", about waste and what it tells about ourselves and our relationship with objects and our environment. We will see how "capitalocene" works through frontiers, differentially distributing vulnerability and care between the North and the South of the world, between rich and poor.
Course Content - Part I
Costruire e leggere correttamente una tabella o un grafico, partendo da dati appropriati, è un passaggio fondamentale per chiunque voglia sintetizzare, capire, e interpretare criticamente i principali fenomeni demografici, sociali e politici. In questo seminario verranno sviluppate le competenze per il reperimento di fonti di dati, la valutazione della tipologia e della qualità del dato, e l’organizzazione dei dati per la successiva analisi.
Course Content - Part L
The seminar will address issues related to writing
and the definition of the writing personality of each
of the participants. Writing will be presented as a
tool of self-expression and organization of
thought, and the
skills specific to argumentative writing.
and the definition of the writing personality of each
of the participants. Writing will be presented as a
tool of self-expression and organization of
thought, and the
skills specific to argumentative writing.
Course Content - Part M
The course analyses some essential features of the global economy's evolution since 1980 and is organised in four sessions. Particular attention will be granted here to the following themes: Asian industrialisation; the evolution of the global trading system; the evolution of the global financial system; the economic crisis of 2007-9 and subsequent 'slowbalisation'.
Course Content - Part N
The suffering of others. International humanitarianism in the 20th century
The sea rescues of migrants, the recent health emergency, the reception of refugees from Ukraine, all these recent events have been accompanied by an intense public debate on the reasons, legitimacy, and effects of international aid. The issues being debated today actually have roots that go back to the long history of the contemporary humanitarian regime.
The sea rescues of migrants, the recent health emergency, the reception of refugees from Ukraine, all these recent events have been accompanied by an intense public debate on the reasons, legitimacy, and effects of international aid. The issues being debated today actually have roots that go back to the long history of the contemporary humanitarian regime.
Course Content - Part O
Artificial intelligence: effects on the economy and on economic theory
Suggested readings - Part B (Search our library's catalogue)
materiale fornito dal docente
Suggested readings - Part D (Search our library's catalogue)
Some in-depth readings will be suggested during the workshop
Suggested readings - Part H (Search our library's catalogue)
Armiero Marco, Wasteocene: Stories from the Global Dump (2022).
All the material can be found in the moodle class of the workshop.
All the material can be found in the moodle class of the workshop.
Suggested readings - Part I (Search our library's catalogue)
materiale fornito dal docente
Suggested readings - Part L (Search our library's catalogue)
Texts and other sources will be pointed out and made available to students during in seminar
Suggested readings - Part M (Search our library's catalogue)
Luciano Segreto, L’economia mondiale dopo la guerra fredda (Bologna, 2018)
Suggested readings - Part N (Search our library's catalogue)
S. Salvatici, A history of international humanitarianism: in the name of others, Manchester University Press, 2019
Suggested readings - Part O (Search our library's catalogue)
Boden (2018) Artificial Intelligence_ a very short introduction-Oxford University Press
Learning Objectives - Part B
- saper reperire dati nelle principali fonti ufficiali italiane
- rappresentare tali dati in tabelle e grafici
- costruire indicatori di sintesi
- interpretare trend temporali e variazioni territoriali nell'andamento dei dati.
Al termine del corso lo studente sarà in grado di reperire dati appropriati e di svolgere semplici analisi di statistica descrittiva. Inoltre, sarà in grado di leggere criticamente i dati a sua disposizione, per capire e interpretare il fenomeno oggetto di studio.
- rappresentare tali dati in tabelle e grafici
- costruire indicatori di sintesi
- interpretare trend temporali e variazioni territoriali nell'andamento dei dati.
Al termine del corso lo studente sarà in grado di reperire dati appropriati e di svolgere semplici analisi di statistica descrittiva. Inoltre, sarà in grado di leggere criticamente i dati a sua disposizione, per capire e interpretare il fenomeno oggetto di studio.
Learning Objectives - Part D
The workshop aims to develop knowledge of the conceptual foundations of environmental law in a logic of mutual exchange between European and African challenges, in search of a common ground of shared experiences and values.
Through the cartoon, students are encouraged to think about environmental issues using legal concepts, to critically and independently evaluate them and to express structured opinions in this regard.
Through the cartoon, students are encouraged to think about environmental issues using legal concepts, to critically and independently evaluate them and to express structured opinions in this regard.
Learning Objectives - Part G
Designed as a moment of dialogue and comparison between the visions and approaches developed over time in Africa and Europe, the workshop encourages students to acquire critical skills and propose concrete solutions for consciously inhabiting a "more than human world".
Learning Objectives - Part H
Developing critical and argumentative skills.
Being able to read complex contemporary social phenomena with the theoretical lens of political philosophy.
Being able to read complex contemporary social phenomena with the theoretical lens of political philosophy.
Learning Objectives - Part I
Stimolare le capacità di analisi critica e di interpretazione dei dati.
Learning Objectives - Part L
The seminar aims to familiarize participants with respect to the following topics:
The different genres of writing
Writing and identity
Individual and collective writing
The revision and rereading of texts
Writing in college
Bibliographic research and editing of academic texts
The different genres of writing
Writing and identity
Individual and collective writing
The revision and rereading of texts
Writing in college
Bibliographic research and editing of academic texts
Learning Objectives - Part M
The course aims to help the students to:
1. critically analyse the evolution of the global economic system since the 1980s
2. critically evaluate the importance of technological advance in the second globalisation wave.
3. develop additional analytical tools to be used in the gathering and analysis of informations (statistical data sets and tables)
4. to work together in group in the analysis of information and statistical data sets.
Learning Objectives - Part N
The seminar aims to provide students with the necessary tools to critically read the contemporary humanitarian regime and its connections to the political and social context
Learning Objectives - Part O
The workshop aims at providing the basic knowledge for developing a critical assessment of artificial intelligence’s effects on the economy and on the method of economic analysis of private and collective decision making
Prerequisites - Part B
Nessuno
Prerequisites - Part D
NONE: Drawing skills are not necessary to participate in the workshop!
Prerequisites - Part H
None.
Prerequisites - Part I
Nessuno
Prerequisites - Part M
None
Prerequisites - Part N
None
Prerequisites - Part O
The workshop is meant to be accessible to all students even to those with just a bare economic background
Teaching Methods - Part B
Seminari interattivi con gli studenti. Presentazione argomenti ed esercitazioni in classe.
Teaching Methods - Part D
The workshop will be organized into five sessions, each lasting four hours, and will also include participation from external scholars. A professional cartoonist will guide the students in constructing the stories. In each lesson, there will be a dedicated session for group work.
In the last meeting, there will be the AWARD CEREMONY for the best story
In the last meeting, there will be the AWARD CEREMONY for the best story
Teaching Methods - Part G
Lectures; workshops with the adoption of the comic strip technique as a form of story-telling and understanding and restitution of the concepts discussed.
Teaching Methods - Part H
Documentary screening, readings and discussion of proposed materials in small groups and return the work in plenary.
Students will be asked to write a diary with personal summaries and consideration on the issues discussed during each encounter. The teacher will correct the diaries and offer to each student suggestions on how to improve their writing skills.
Students will be asked to write a diary with personal summaries and consideration on the issues discussed during each encounter. The teacher will correct the diaries and offer to each student suggestions on how to improve their writing skills.
Teaching Methods - Part I
Seminari interattivi con gli studenti. Presentazione argomenti ed esercitazioni in classe.
Teaching Methods - Part L
The working method adopted will be based on
active participation and individual and
group: writing games, analysis of texts, experiences of
writing techniques of various kinds and research activities in the
library.
Meetings will be organized (by video or in
presence) with people who professionally use the
written word.
active participation and individual and
group: writing games, analysis of texts, experiences of
writing techniques of various kinds and research activities in the
library.
Meetings will be organized (by video or in
presence) with people who professionally use the
written word.
Teaching Methods - Part M
The course is organised into four sessions of four hours (the last one will last five hours), each of which will envisage two hours of lectures and two hours of group work and presentations by the students.
Teaching Methods - Part N
Seminar will have an interactive character, ample space will be allocated to discussion with the participants, who will be urged to intervene on the issues addressed, also starting from specific documents (images, newspaper articles, films). If possible, the concluding meetings will be real seminars in which the participants will be asked to present the contents of the readings previously agreed upon with the lecturer.
Teaching Methods - Part O
Front line lectures (50%), and open discussion (50%).
Further information - Part D
The workshop is part of the Jean Monnet module "Eve - Exploring Visions of the Environment: EU-Africa mutual learning experiences" (Grant Agreement 101085541) co-financed by the European Union for the years 2022-2025.
To view the works of students from the previous year:
https://www.eve-modules.eu/teaching-modules/
To view the works of students from the previous year:
https://www.eve-modules.eu/teaching-modules/
Further information - Part O
Students are invited to enroll by accessing the E-Moodle platform
Type of Assessment - Part B
FREQUENTANTI: Gli studenti dovranno lavorare in piccoli gruppi per preparare e poi presentare alla classe un breve report di ricerca.
NON FREQUENTANTI: Gli studenti dovranno preparare una relazione (6-7 pagine) proponendo una breve analisi su un argomento a carattere demo-sociale concordato con la docente.
NON FREQUENTANTI: Gli studenti dovranno preparare una relazione (6-7 pagine) proponendo una breve analisi su un argomento a carattere demo-sociale concordato con la docente.
Type of Assessment - Part D
Group creation of a story, through the use of cartoons, illustrating European and African environmental challenges
Type of Assessment - Part H
Active participation during the seminars.
Oral presentations of the work done in small groups during each encounter.
Writing a short diary of each encounter.
Oral presentations of the work done in small groups during each encounter.
Writing a short diary of each encounter.
Type of Assessment - Part I
Gli studenti (individualmente o a gruppi) dovranno preparare e presentare un breve report di ricerca.
Type of Assessment - Part L
Through the practical activities carried out during the seminar
Type of Assessment - Part M
Oral examination for those not attending the course or for those missing more than one class. For those attending the all course a certificate (idoneità) worth three credits will be provided
Type of Assessment - Part N
Active participation in seminar meetings is a means of evaluation
Type of Assessment - Part O
Students will be required to provide their own point of view on one of the topics dealt with.
This holds whether or not the student attends the course
This holds whether or not the student attends the course
Course program - Part B
- La statistica: cos’è e a cosa serve. Brevi note introduttive ed esempi.
- Dati, fonti e misure per gli studi demografici, sociali e politici. Open Data: che cosa sono, come trovarli e come analizzarli.
- Sintetizzare e rappresentare le informazioni: frequenze uni- e bivariate, percentuali, rappresentazioni grafiche
- Il calcolo di indicatori di sintesi in xls.
- Dati, fonti e misure per gli studi demografici, sociali e politici. Open Data: che cosa sono, come trovarli e come analizzarli.
- Sintetizzare e rappresentare le informazioni: frequenze uni- e bivariate, percentuali, rappresentazioni grafiche
- Il calcolo di indicatori di sintesi in xls.
Course program - Part D
The program will be discussed in the first meeting
Course program - Part G
The protection of the environment and the creative management of environmental issues are practices and goals that are now inescapable for humanity. However, the ways in which they are pursued are very different, shaped as they are by different historical experiences, geographical spaces, political choices and economic, social and cultural conditions.
Designed as a moment of dialogue and comparison between the visions and approaches developed over time in Africa and Europe, the workshop encourages students to acquire critical skills and propose concrete solutions to "make sense of and responsibly inhabit a more than human world".
Organised in five sessions of four hours each, the workshop will use the comic strip technique to analyse a sample of European and African good practices with methodologies from the humanities and social sciences, in search of a common ground of shared experiences and values. The illustration of the case studies will be partly in English, in collaboration with lecturers from African and European universities.
A professional cartoonist will participate in the workshop and be available to guide students in learning the basic techniques of cartooning. You do not need to know how to draw to participate!
Designed as a moment of dialogue and comparison between the visions and approaches developed over time in Africa and Europe, the workshop encourages students to acquire critical skills and propose concrete solutions to "make sense of and responsibly inhabit a more than human world".
Organised in five sessions of four hours each, the workshop will use the comic strip technique to analyse a sample of European and African good practices with methodologies from the humanities and social sciences, in search of a common ground of shared experiences and values. The illustration of the case studies will be partly in English, in collaboration with lecturers from African and European universities.
A professional cartoonist will participate in the workshop and be available to guide students in learning the basic techniques of cartooning. You do not need to know how to draw to participate!
Course program - Part H
What does waste say about us, and about our society? What does it say about our relationship with objects? What is the difference between things and objects? When does an object become waste? What happens to our waste? How many and what types of waste are there and what is the lifespan of a waste? Can all waste be included in a circular economy? What lies behind the rhetoric of recycling? What is involved in the maintenance, care and repair of objects? What is the difference between care, maintenance and repair? Why has the contemporary era been called the wasteocene era?
The seminar aims to analyse through the lens of the capitalocene the ways in which we relate to ourselves, objects and the environment. In particular, we will focus on how the construction of borders, the delimitation of space and time, is put to work in modern capitalist society in order to differentially distribute (between North and South, between gender, race and class) vulnerability and care. Why are those who perform care and care work today also those who come from the poorest and most marginalised social groups? Why are the essential jobs of care and maintenance often also the worst paid, most invisible and stigmatised jobs?
The seminar aims to analyse through the lens of the capitalocene the ways in which we relate to ourselves, objects and the environment. In particular, we will focus on how the construction of borders, the delimitation of space and time, is put to work in modern capitalist society in order to differentially distribute (between North and South, between gender, race and class) vulnerability and care. Why are those who perform care and care work today also those who come from the poorest and most marginalised social groups? Why are the essential jobs of care and maintenance often also the worst paid, most invisible and stigmatised jobs?
Course program - Part I
- La statistica: cos’è e a cosa serve. Brevi note introduttive ed esempi.
- Dati, fonti e misure per gli studi demografici, sociali e politici.
-Rappresentare le informazioni: grafici e tabelle; come leggere e interpretare i dati; come presentare i risultati
- Open Data: che cosa sono, come trovarli e come analizzarli. Indicazioni per il calcolo di media, varianza, correlazione in Excel
- Dati, fonti e misure per gli studi demografici, sociali e politici.
-Rappresentare le informazioni: grafici e tabelle; come leggere e interpretare i dati; come presentare i risultati
- Open Data: che cosa sono, come trovarli e come analizzarli. Indicazioni per il calcolo di media, varianza, correlazione in Excel
Course program - Part L
The seminar will address issues related to writing
and the definition of the writing personality of each
of the participants. Writing will be presented as a
tool of self-expression and organization of
thought, and the
skills specific to argumentative writing.
The working method adopted will be based on
active participation and individual and
group: writing games, analysis of texts, experience of
writing techniques of various kinds and research activities in the
library.
Meetings will be organized (by video or in
presence) with people who professionally use the
written word.
Topics covered:
Different genres of writing
Writing and identity
Individual and collective writing
The revision and rereading of texts
Writing in college
Bibliographic research and editing of academic texts
and the definition of the writing personality of each
of the participants. Writing will be presented as a
tool of self-expression and organization of
thought, and the
skills specific to argumentative writing.
The working method adopted will be based on
active participation and individual and
group: writing games, analysis of texts, experience of
writing techniques of various kinds and research activities in the
library.
Meetings will be organized (by video or in
presence) with people who professionally use the
written word.
Topics covered:
Different genres of writing
Writing and identity
Individual and collective writing
The revision and rereading of texts
Writing in college
Bibliographic research and editing of academic texts
Course program - Part M
The course is organised in four sessions, of four or five hours (the last one). One hypothesis pursued here is that gloabalisation has experienced phases of acceleration or deceleration and that the last wave of globalisation began in 1980 circa. The other inference, against a widely held view, is that the protagonists of globalisation were the East Asian countries more than the West and that the historical force behind it came from the industrialisation of those countries. Those hypothese explains the organisation of the course according to four themes, each of which will be the object of one session: the industrialisation of East Asia; the evolution of the global trading system; the evolution of the global financial system; the economic crisis of 2007-9 and 'slowbalisation'.
Course program - Part N
The suffering of others. International humanitarianism in the 20th century
The 'refugee crisis', the sea rescues of migrants, the recent health emergency, the reception of refugees from Ukraine, all these recent events have been accompanied by an intense, sometimes heated, public debate on the reasons, legitimacy, and effects of international aid. The issues debated today actually have roots in the past and hark back to the long history of the contemporary humanitarian regime. The seminar will focus precisely on this path, and will devote specific attention to the different actors of humanitarian actions (national governments, intergovernmental agencies, non-governmental organisations, aid-recipient societies) and their interaction.
The meetings will have an interactive character, ample space will be allocated to discussion with the participants, who will be invited to intervene on the issues addressed, also starting from specific documents (images, newspaper articles, films). If possible, the concluding meetings will be real seminars in which the participants will be asked to present the contents of the readings previously agreed upon with the lecturer.
Topics of the meetings
What is meant by humanitarianism? What does it mean to study its history? What are the links between the issues of the present and those of the past? The introductory meeting will start from these questions.
The first post-war period, the League of Nations and international aid as instruments for the transition to the new post-war order
The inter-war years and the emergence of an international refugee regime
The post-World War II period and the birth of the United Nations: can we really speak of the 're-foundation' of contemporary humanitarianism?
The post-colonial order and international aid, the case of the Nigerian civil war (1967-1970)
"Do they know it's Christmas": international mobilisation for the Ethiopian famine.
The humanitarian regime in the post-bipolar world.
The 'refugee crisis', the sea rescues of migrants, the recent health emergency, the reception of refugees from Ukraine, all these recent events have been accompanied by an intense, sometimes heated, public debate on the reasons, legitimacy, and effects of international aid. The issues debated today actually have roots in the past and hark back to the long history of the contemporary humanitarian regime. The seminar will focus precisely on this path, and will devote specific attention to the different actors of humanitarian actions (national governments, intergovernmental agencies, non-governmental organisations, aid-recipient societies) and their interaction.
The meetings will have an interactive character, ample space will be allocated to discussion with the participants, who will be invited to intervene on the issues addressed, also starting from specific documents (images, newspaper articles, films). If possible, the concluding meetings will be real seminars in which the participants will be asked to present the contents of the readings previously agreed upon with the lecturer.
Topics of the meetings
What is meant by humanitarianism? What does it mean to study its history? What are the links between the issues of the present and those of the past? The introductory meeting will start from these questions.
The first post-war period, the League of Nations and international aid as instruments for the transition to the new post-war order
The inter-war years and the emergence of an international refugee regime
The post-World War II period and the birth of the United Nations: can we really speak of the 're-foundation' of contemporary humanitarianism?
The post-colonial order and international aid, the case of the Nigerian civil war (1967-1970)
"Do they know it's Christmas": international mobilisation for the Ethiopian famine.
The humanitarian regime in the post-bipolar world.
Course program - Part O
- Short history of artificial intelligence
- Artificial intelligence vs computing power
- Quantitative effects on the economic systems: actual vs feared
- On the confusion between technical progress and artificial intelligence
- Artificial intelligence and economic theory
- Artificial intelligence vs computing power
- Quantitative effects on the economic systems: actual vs feared
- On the confusion between technical progress and artificial intelligence
- Artificial intelligence and economic theory
Sustainable Development Goals 2030 - Part H
yes
Sustainable Development Goals 2030 - Part M
The module is informed by goals 8 and 9 of the Agenda insofar as it deals with development, industrialization and innovation, showing the shortfalls and implications of policy in relation to financial globalisation and economic development.
Sustainable Development Goals 2030 - Part O
8, 9