Florence Summer 2014 Philosophy of Italian Culture

Unit: Unification and Divisions: the Risorgimento

Monday May 19, 2014

• Introductions and essential questions of inquiry

Tuesday May 20, 2014

• Discussion/contextualization of GIC 1814 Vienna Congress - Italy's 7 states;
• Watch Girlfriend in a Coma (GIC) at home (answer questions for in-class discussion)
• Read “Six Things Wrong With Italy” http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/20/six-things-wrong-with-italy

Wednesday May 21, 2014

• Mazzini's Giovine italia (1831); Garibaldi in Sicily;” questions of liberty
• Wood and Farell, Other Voices (131- beginning of 133; the mafia 134-137)
• D'Epiro and Pinchowish, Giuseppe Garibaldi: A united Italy Emerges.

Thursday May 22, 2014

• A failed revolutions: “the southern question
• Gramsci, "_The Southern Question,_" A Gramsci Reader(171-185).
• Mazzini: Introduction, Duties towards Humanity, Liberty and Conclusion in The Duties of Man (81-84; 88-92; 96-99; 105-107)

Monday May 26, 2014

• WWI and political contestation; Fascism; the Resistance
• Gentile, "The Fascist Anthropological Revolution"
• Croce A Reply to the Manifesto of Fascist Intellectuals (p. 154-156)

Tuesday May 27, 2014

• Gramsci: Popular culture, in A Gramsci Reader (363-374)
• Wilson Chapter 23-24 (pp 236-254)

Wednesday May 28, 2014

• Geertz, "Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture" (1973)

Unit: Resistance, popular culture and Cultural critique

Thursday, May 29, 2014

• di Bella, Maria-Pia, "Name, blood and miracles: the claims to renown in traditional Sicily"
• Wood and Farrell, "Other Voices" (137-139)
• Fo, Dario, Accidental Death, Commentary(xxxii-xxxix), London: Methuen, 1970.

Unit: State Sponsored Terrorism

Monday June 2, 2014

• Holiday

Tuesday June 3, 2014

• Fo, Dario, Accidental Death, Commentary, xxxix-xliv.

Wednesday June 4, 2014

• Fo, Dario, Accidental Death, Commentary (xliv-li) and Act1, Scene One.

Thursday June 5, 2014

• Fo, Dario, Accidental Death, Commentary (li-lix) Act 1, Scene Two and Act 2.

Monday June 9, 2014

• Giordana, Marco Tullio. Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (Romanzo di una strage) 2012 (answer questions for in-class discussion)

Unit: Berlusconismo, media and resistance

• The Rise of Berlusconi's Empire
• Stille, Alexander, The Sack of Rome, Chapter 3
• Capernich, The Changing Face of the Media (in Resisting the tide).

Wednesday June 11, 2014

• Satire as Protest
• Sabina Guzzanti: Draquila, italia che trema (2010)
• Monica Boria, Sabina Guzzanti from TV satire to political documentary

Thursday June 12, 2014

• Servitude and Liberty
• Viroli, Maurizio. The Liberty of Servants: Berlusconi's Italy, 2010. Ch. 1 & 2 Including footnotes.

Week 5

Monday June 16, 2014

• Servitude and Liberty
• Viroli, Maurizio. The Liberty of Servants: Berlusconi's Italy, 2010. Ch. 3 & 4. Including footnotes.

Tuesday June 17, 2014

• Servitude and Liberty
• Viroli, Maurizio. The Liberty of Servants: Berlusconi's Italy, 2010. Ch. 5 Including footnotes.

Wendnesday June 18, 2014

• Media images, and women's movements
• Zanardo, Lorella, and Marco Malfi Chinderini. "Il corpo delle donne (Womens' Bodies)." 2009. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JtyvOeMSHY)
• Wood and Farell, _Other Voices_ (141-49);

Thursday June 19, 2014

• Feminist thought and activism
• Muraro _"Towards an Ethics_ of Sexual Difference" (211-226)

Week Six

Monday June 23, 2014

• Bettiga-Boukerbout, "Crimes of honor_ in the Italian Penal Code" (230-244)
• Gilmore, David, _Introduction: The Shame of Dishonour

Tuesday June 24, 2014

• Holiday

Wednesday June 25, 2014

• Femminicidio - a state of emergency
• Fronteddu, Carla. "Wounded to Death. Femicide in Italy" http://timeforequality.org/news/wounded-to-death-femicide-in-italy/._

Thursday June 26, 2014

• Here and now
• Review