Minority Cultures (PhD)

Period of duration of course
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Course info
Number of course hours
28
Number of hours of lecturers of reference
20
Number of hours of supplementary teaching
8
CFU 3
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Modalità esame

A concise and critical review of a book in max. 15,000 characters (including spaces).

Note modalità di esame

Grade of maximum 30 with the possibility of "honours".

Lecturer

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Prerequisiti

No prerequisites (other than a good understanding of English), open to all years.

Programma

Through a series of 10 lessons of 2 hours each, the topic will be addressed in a transversal and interdisciplinary way. History, art history and archaeology, classics, linguistics, literature, philology and philosophy will help shed light on minority cultures. Whether it is ethnic, religious, social minorities, or any other type, we will try to understand how some groups are integrated, marginalized or made invisible. What cultural expressions do they build to exist? How are minority cultures put into circulation and how do they interact with dominant cultures? What forms of mediation exist and what kind of evidence gives access to them? Attention will be paid to the forms of cultural hybridization, self-fashioning, power of minority cultures and intersectionality between different forms of "subordination". This first transversal Seminar of the Class of Humanities is also conceived as an interdisciplinary laboratory where methods, concepts and tools can dialogue. All the seminars will be held in English.

Obiettivi formativi

The main objective of the Seminar, in addition to the contents inherent to each lesson, is to promote the transversal and interdisciplinary approach of the chosen time.

Riferimenti bibliografici

A specific bibliography will be provided for each lesson. Here is a first partial and general orientation.


Aluffi, Roberta et Zincone, Giovanna (dir.), The Legal Treatment Of Islamic Minorities In Europe, London, Peeters, 2004.

Bastian, Jean-Pierre et Messner, Francis (dir.), Minorités religieuses dans l’espace européen. Approches sociologiques et juridiques, Paris, PUF, 2007.

Ilardi M. (a cura di), Il potere delle minoranze. Immaginari, culture, mentalità all'assalto del mondo, Milano, Mimesis, 2019.

Kymlicka, Will (dir.), The Rights of Minority Cultures, Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, 1995.

Kirkham, David M. (dir.), State Responses to Minority Religions, London, Ashgate, « Ashgate Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements », 2013.

Sharf, Andrew, Jews and Other Minorities in Byzantium, Jerusalem, Bar-Ilan University Press, 1995.

Taylor, C., Multiculturalism and the politics of recognition: an essay, Princeton, N.J., 1992 (tr. it.: Multiculturalismo. La politica del riconoscimento, Milano 1993).

Yinger, J.M., Countercultures: the promise and the peril of a world turned upside down, New York-London 1982.

Moduli

Modulo Ore CFU Docenti
Culture di minoranza 20 3 Corinne Bonnet
Supplementary Teaching 8 0 Giuseppina Marano