Teaching code

4S001218

Teacher

Sara Lorenzini

Coordinatore

Sara Lorenzini

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-STO/04 - CONTEMPORARY HISTORY

Period

1° semestre Trento dal Sep 19, 2022 al Dec 22, 2022.

Location

TRENTO

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars

Learning objectives

Analysis and understanding of complex historical processes over time (including the analysis of shorter historical times in a long-term perspective) and in space (by linking the national history with the European and international ones), capturing the complexity and articulation of historical events, while being able to identify the most significant causal nodes.

Prerequisites and basic notions

basic knowledge of 20th-century history (after 1945)

Program

The course (a module of a total of 46 hours) is organized as a research course – it will be taught mainly in Italian but with sources in several European languages (English, French, German). 1) Background lectures: reading the history of European integration: the historiographical debates; the History of European Integration through its leaders
2) Methodology classes: introduction to the sources to research on the history of European Integration: online collections, journals and official publications, archival sources (the Historical Archives of the European Union: documents in site and online sources) 3) Archive visit 4) The graduate conference: discussing the draft papers with senior scholars and peers.
Lectures: 1) Introduction – The History of European Integration as a sub-field; 2) Ideas of Europe: Democracy and the idea of European Unity at the Outset of the Cold War. Winston Churchill and the Council of Europe; 3) Ideas of Europe: Peace in Europe and European Construction as a Continental Project. The ECSC, Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman; 4) Ideas of Europe: Peace in Europe as a Transatlantic Project. The EDC and Alcide De Gasperi; 5) Ideas of Europe: Eurafrica. The birth of the EEC as a substitute for empire. Frome Coudenhove-Kalergi to Jacques Ferrandi; 6) A Social-Democratic Europe? Willy Brandt, Roy Jenkins, and Jacques Delors; 7) A Green Europe? Sicco Mansholt and Altiero Spinelli; 8) Europe, the Oil Crisis, and the Global South as a partner. Claude Cheysson; 9) Human Rights. The breakthrough of the 1970s and Simone Veil; 10) Female leadership and the European Union: Angela Merkel

Bibliography

Didactic methods

Classes are organised as seminars, with students who must read in advance and discuss the reading. The archival research part is followed by tutoring on preparing the final paper. Students will present the results of their research at a graduate conference, i.e. a round table in which they receive comments on their draft paper from a classmate and a professor associated with the course. The comments will then be incorporated into the final paper.

Learning assessment procedures

the evaluation takes place on the participation in the seminar (20%), on the research and on the presentation of the research results (40%), on the final paper (40%).

Evaluation criteria

ability to develop a coherent and persuasive argument; oral presentation; argumentative care and formal correctness (expression, bibliographic and archival references) of the final thesis.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

participation in the seminar (20%), research and presentation of the research results (40%), final paper (40%).

Exam language

italiano