Learning objectives
- acquiring a critical knowledge about the ways through which the images can help the definition of a memory and of an individual or collective identity.
- providing students with the tools necessary for understanding the relationship between historiographical memory and historical image.
Prerequisites
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Course unit content
The workshop aims at pointing out the characters, the set of problems and the hystoriographic perspective through which an image (a photograph, a picture, a stereotype, a city or a natural landscape) can build up and define the individual and collective memory. Two historical periods will be considered: the medieval and the modern age (since 1789). In regard to the medieval age (prof. M. Gazzini) the workshop engages students in understanding the formation of a portion of an urban territory of medieval origins, the so-called Oltretorrente of Parma, through a direct and mediated contact: in the first case through site visits, in the second thorugh images and historical texts.
The section dedicated to the modern age (prof. P. Genovesi) will focus on: the names of the streets as a way of observing the town; historical films and films about history; photographs: from evidences to "footprints"; the stereotypes of the war propaganda.
Full programme
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Bibliography
medieval section:
Andare oltretorrente. Archeologia e storia a Parma, a cura di S. Gelichi e R. Greci, Parma, MUP, 2013.
contemporary section:
P. Genovesi, Laboratorio di storia, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2012.
Teaching methods
medieval section:
- lectures, classroom exercises, external inspections.
contemporary section:
- workshop activity and guided visits.
Assessment methods and criteria
medieval section:
- checks in classroom.
contemporary section:
- the attendance to the workshop (regularity and interaction);
- the exposition in class of an individual composition.
Other information
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