New courses held in English at DiSSGeA Master Degrees under the frame of the Mobility & Humanities Project of Excellence, second semester A.Y. 2019–2020

Nell’ambito del Progetto d’eccellenza Mobility & Humanities il DiSSGeA da quest’anno propone tre nuovi insegnamenti, offerti in inglese, per coinvolgere gli studenti in tematiche oggi al centro dell’attenzione quali le migrazioni e le diaspore, i flussi globali, la mobilità della conoscenza, le identità in movimento. Attraverso una prospettiva internazionale, la riflessione sui fenomeni attuali di mobilità si arricchisce attraverso la profondità dello sguardo storico.

The course will deal with the study of early modern diasporas. The chronological period from the 15th to the 18th century is the first moment when forced mobility becomes a major problem in world history. The early modern age conventionally starts with 1492 because that year marks the opening of the Atlantic route…

This course will compare three movements of people critical to the history of the medieval Mediterranean: the barbarian migration of the fifth and sixth centuries, the Arab conquest of the Levant and North Africa in the seventh and eighth centuries (and the Byzantine response), and the Norman conquest and administration of southern Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries…

The course introduces the concept of migration and development from the theoretical, historical and recent perspectives in the age of dynamic globalization processes. Specifically, the course will discusse topics such as migration theories, history of European migration, recent immigration flows to Europe, impacts of economic globalization in past and present, refugees in the world…