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Intensive Italian for Academic Purposes

Posted on April 17, 2011 by admin

Language and Culture Ivan Tassi

The Intensive Course of Italian Language and Culture is the first step of your university experience in Italy. It is mandatory, starts soon after your arrival in Bologna and ends when the E.C.Co. and the UniBo courses start. The Intensive Course lasts three weeks.

This course gives you the opportunity to get to know the city of Bologna through a total language and cultural immersion. The topics – the Middle Ages, Italian Opera and the Bologna Resistance – are introduced in their historical, artistic, and linguistic contexts both in class and during guided tours. The course also includes a review and practice of grammar structures.… Continue reading

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The Disobedient, the Abnormal and the Criminal in Italian Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century

Posted on September 2, 2021 by admin

Italian Literature Syllabus Giacomo Mannironi

The course focuses on the theme of disobedience from the second half of the 18^th century to the opening decades of the twentieth. Observing how literature, science and the press approach acts of disobedience to societal norms allows to us to understand by way of contrast how the ideal rules of behaviour for men and women—”the good Italian”—in the pre-and post-unification periods were defined. The texts studied in the course illustrate the birth of an ideology that sets out to establish in ever more definitive and sharp terms that which is normal and acceptable by concentrating on that which is abnormal and unacceptable.

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History of Science in Italy from the Late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment

Posted on June 6, 2017 by admin

History of Science Syllabus Gian Mario Cao

This course traces the history of Western science from the late Middle Ages to the scientific revolution from an Italian perspective. It aims to account for the transformations of scientific discourse over nearly six centuries by integrating the traditional narrative of epoch-making discoveries and advances with an exploration of the contexts within which science was not only practiced and disseminated, but also criticized and opposed.… Continue reading

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Italy and the Mediterranean between Europe, Africa and the Middle East

Posted on June 27, 2022 by admin

Mediterranean Studies Syllabus Giulia Crippa

The aim of the course is to give students tools to study the cultural processes that have characterized the Mediterranean area over the centuries. Students will be introduced to important theories and methodologies that will help them understand the various dynamics and key terms necessary to study the role played by Italy and other European and Mediterranean nations from the past to the present. A central concept of the course is coloniality. Through the study of the cultural processes that have marked the western model of coloniality, students will be able to have a fuller understanding of the postcolonial variants of these processes as they have developed from the second half of the twentieth century on.… Continue reading

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Renaissance and Early Baroque Art in Bologna: From Vitale da Bologna to Domenichino and Guido Reni

Posted on January 14, 2016 by admin

History of Art Syllabus Elisabetta Cunsolo

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The rich artistic patrimony of Bologna is a powerful testament to the city’s great cultural importance over the centuries. Due to its favorable location, as well as to the presence of its ancient and distinguished university, Bologna has always been recognized for its great geo-political importance as a place from which many new ideas were diffused throughout the Apennine peninsula and beyond. Often threatened from the outside and occasionally conquered, the city distinguished itself by its desire to remain autonomous and by the development of a unique artistic school indebted to the various north Italian models.… Continue reading

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Chiara Fiorelli

Posted on November 30, 2021 by admin

Chiara Fiorelli is currently a Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Rome, La Sapienza where she teaches a course on Political Parties, Leadership and Democratic Processes. She is also Adjunct professor and Research Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna. In 2017, she was awarded a Ph.D in Political Science by the Centre for the Study of Political Change at the University of Siena. Her field of expertise is the financing of political parties.… Continue reading

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Giacomo Mannironi

Posted on September 2, 2021 by admin

Dr. Giacomo Mannironi graduated from the University of Bologna in 2005 and did a PhD in Literary Genres (Comparative Literature) at the University of L’Aquila (2006–2009) where he worked on the relationship between crime and novel in Italian, French and English Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century novels, and a PhD in Italian Studies at the University of Warwick (UK) (2011-2015). This research was focused on the Eighteenth Century Venetian novel, its market and its readership. He has been Early Career Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Warwick University (2015-16). Since 2008 Dr. Mannironi collaborated with E.C.Co program, teaching several Intensive Italian for Academic Purposes courses both in Bologna and Lecce.… Continue reading

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Intensive Course in Lecce

Posted on November 25, 2018 by admin

The Intensive Course in Lecce is the first part of the academic path you are going to complete in Bologna during the fall semester. It is mandatory for all the students and it starts immediately after your arrival in Lecce in August. This course lasts in three weeks and includes 3 hours of lesson from Monday to Friday. This course offers the opportunity to explore the city of Lecce through language and cultural immersion. We cover the topics – the Baroque and the Risorgimento – in their historical, artistic, politic and linguistic context both in class and in guided tours. In this course you will review, practice and expand the language skills and grammatical structures.… Continue reading

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Bologna La Dotta (The Learned)

Posted on November 11, 2018 by admin

One of the three famous names for Bologna is “the Learned.” Easy to guess why! Founded around 1088, Bologna is home to the oldest university in the Western world. Its history is one of great thinkers in the sciences and the humanities, making it an indispensable point of reference in the panorama of European culture. Noteworthy students present at the university in centuries past included Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, Thomas Becket, Pope Nicholas V, Erasmus of Rotterdam, and Copernicus. With its five campuses in five cities of Emilia Romagna (Bologna, Rimini, Forlì, Cesena and Ravenna), UniBo today counts close to 100,000 students.… Continue reading

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Bologna La Rossa (The Red)

Posted on November 11, 2018 by admin

Bologna owes the name “la Rossa” to its famed red buildings and to the fact that it is the birthplace and the home of Italy’s political left. With streets like embroidered cloth threaded with arches of continuous colonnades, now a UNESCO world heritage site, the heart of Bologna is a giant cloister. Above and behind its porticoes, Bologna is a rose-red city of unique churches and undiscovered palaces. The E.C.Co. program’s aim is its students’ cultural and linguistic immersion in the Bolognese and Italian social environment. We encourage students to explore the city, travel to other cities and towns around Bologna and take full advantage of everything the region has to offer!… Continue reading

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Bologna La Grassa (The Fat)

Posted on November 11, 2018 by admin

Bologna is renowned for its cuisine. Tortellini, tagliatelle, ragù and many other traditional dishes draw visitors to Bologna from every corner of the world. The E.C.Co. program helps students experience this delicious aspect of the local culture by offering an unforgettable cooking course with the chef Rita Mattioli. The students meet with Rita for three lessons and learn to prepare traditional (but also non-conventional) dishes. After each cooking session, there is a dinner for all participants, where students taste excellent wines and share their views on food, diet and well being in general. Rita Mattioli’s cooking course has always been one of the highlights of the E.C.Co.… Continue reading

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The Italian Political System

Posted on November 30, 2021 by admin

Political Science Syllabus Chiara Fiorelli

Focusing its attention on the Italian political system, the course introduces students to the basic concepts of political science. Despite its (brief) history, Republican Italy (1946 +) represents a peculiar case study insofar as its political system has undergone several institutional changes. The course aims to offer a reconstruction of the institutional structures and political actors who have played and still play a role in the Italian system. Political parties of the present and the past will be examined and discussed to show the organizational and historical transformations they have experienced. Active in-class participation on the part of students will be facilitated through readings and collective discussion led by the instructor.… Continue reading

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Gian Mario Cao

Posted on June 6, 2017 by admin

Gian Mario Cao is an intellectual historian whose interests lie at the intersection of the history of ideas and the history of the classical tradition.

His publications focus on the recovery and dissemination of Greek doxography and philosophy in early modern times (‘The prehistory of modern Scepticism: Sextus Empiricus in 15th-century Italy’, in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 2001; ‘Diogenes Laertius‘, in The Classical Tradition, edited by A. Grafton, G. W. Most and S. Settis, Harvard UP 2010); Italian Renaissance humanism (‘Tra politica fiorentina e filosofia ellenistica: il dibattito sulla ricchezza nelle Commentationes di Francesco Filelfo’, in Archivio Storico Italiano, 1997; ‘Pico della Mirandola goes to Germany’, in Annali dell’Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico in Trento, 2004); freethinking and its critics in early eighteenth-century England (‘Freethinking, New Testament textual criticism and censorship: Anthony Collins, Richard Bentley, and the Index Librorum Prohibitorum’, in The Marriage of Philology and Scepticism.… Continue reading

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Giulia Crippa

Posted on June 27, 2022 by admin

Professor Giulia Crippa was Full Professor at the University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto Campus, in the Information and Documentation Sciences course. She is an accredited doctoral and masters lecturer in the postgraduate programme in Information Sciences at ECA-USP.
She is head of the research group of the CNPq Directory BIBLIOTHECA DISCIPLINATA dedicated to studies in historical bibliography. She is a researcher in the research group of the CNPq PRACTIC – Group for the study of cultural practices and information and communication technologies. She had a post-doctoral internship at CSAC – Centro Studi e Archivio dela Comunicazione (University of Parma, Italy).… Continue reading

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Cinzia Venturoli

Posted on December 1, 2016 by admin

Cinzia Venturoli holds a doctorate in History from the University of Bologna and has worked as a researcher there between 2008 and 2015. She has also served as the Director of the Center for Documentation of Terrorism and is currently an adjunct professor in the Department of Education at UniBo. She is also a staff member of the Center for History, Education, and Politics at UniBo. She is in charge of the curricula of the Archivi per non dimenticare and of the Associazione fra i famigliari delle vittime del due agosto. Her research interests are the history of WWII, the Resistance, the post-war period, local history, women’s history, public history and history of education.… Continue reading

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Inaugura il Bologna Shoah Memorial: “Racconta la storia e scrive il presente”

Posted on January 26, 2016 by admin

Inaugura il Bologna Shoah Memorial: “Racconta la storia e scrive il presente”
Domani ricorre il 71esimo anniversario della liberazione del campo di concentramento di Auschwitz.
Anche Bologna celebra l’evento inaugurando domani, alle ore 17:30, il ‘Bologna Shoah Memorial’ nella nuova piazza di Ponte Matteotti (angolo via Carracci).

Saranno presenti, insieme al Presidente della Comunità Ebraica di Bologna e alle figure politiche della città e della regione, anche l’Arcivescovo di Bologna, il rabbino Capo della Comunità Ebraica bolognese e il Presidente della Comunità religiosa Islamica italiana.
Dall’Olocausto alla Strage di Bologna “la memoria unisce la Comunità civile che diventa Testimone del Tempo”.… Continue reading