n. 15 - january / april 2010
AREAS
Political Theory, Political Science, Religious Studies
Legal Studies
Historical Studies
Area of research: Sub-Saharian Africa, Latin America, Middle East
POLITICAL THEORY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, RELIGIOUS STUDIES
This area includes subjects such as history of political doctrines, political philosophy, moral philosophy, political science, comparative politics, international relations, and covers a rather wide range of areas of research. Scholars' investigations range from history of the concepts to history of the constitution and to issues related to international relations in a wider sense such as individual and collective rights, multiculturalism and globalisation (the elements and consequences that these phenomena have on contemporary society), political and organisational systems, strategic studies.
> Conferences, Seminars, Workshops held by members of the Department of Politics, Institutions and History in other universities
10-12 December 2009
Barcelona
SANDRO MEZZADRA
Paper at the final conference of the European ATACD project: Changing Cultures, Cultures of Change
14 December 2009
Rome
MATTEO BATTISTINI
Paper at the First Italian Graduate Students Forum Official Meeting, Centre for American Studies.
15 December 2009
Paris
SANDRO MEZZADRA
Attended the round table on Translation Stakes Between Asia and Europe with Kuan-Hsing Chen
18 December 2009
Paris
SANDRO MEZZADRA
Conflicts, Claims, Law, and Constitution-Building
Paper at the workshop organised by Maison Suger - Fondation des Sciences de l'Homme
8 January 2010
Reggio Emilia
MARIA LAURA LANZILLO
Freedom today
Speech during the series of meetings on “The words of politics – Mondays at il Mulino”
22 January 2010
San Marino
SANDRO MEZZADRA
Inside the crisis of political modern lexicon.
Lecture at the Altrimenti festival
26 January 2010
Pretoria
ANTONIO FIORI and LORENZO FIORAMONTI
The Changing Roles of Civil Society in Democratization: Evidence from South Africa and South Korea
Seminar at the South African Institute for International Affairs-University of Pretoria
3-4 February 2010
Brussels
SONIA LUCARELLI
Paper at the workshop Traditional and new security issues, as part of the GRASP association (VII PQ)
17-21 February 2010
Washington
SONIA LUCARELLI
Nato Model Event 2010
12 March 2010
Chicago
SANDRO MEZZADRA
Paper at the conference After Europe: Postcolonial Knowledge in the Age of Globalization organised by the University of Chicago
16 April 2010
Paris
MARIA LAURA LANZILLO
Attended the workshop La passion de la peur dans l'idéalisme allemande (Fichte et Hegel). Interpretations en comparaison, at the Ecole Normale Supérieure
22-24 April 2010
Brussels
SONIA LUCARELLI
Speaker at the conference The EU in International Affairs II (Palais der Academiën)
23-24 April 2010
Lausanne
SANDRO MEZZADRA
Migration et mouvements sociaux.
Seminar at the University of Lausanne
> Additional information
MARIA LAURA LANZILLO has been appointed member of the Equal Opportunities Committee of the University of Bologna by the Academic Senate.
LEGAL STUDIES
This area includes public, international and labour law scholars who study public institutions, industrial relations and international organizations.
11 November 2009
CHIARA BOLOGNA
Bologna, Faculty of Law
The US debate on the interpretation of the constitution
Speech at the conference “The language of constitutional law”
HISTORICAL STUDIES
The area of historical studies includes political
history, history of economics and religious history.
Political studies focus mainly on institutions, political parties, modern
and contemporary trends, often using a comparative approach. Scholars of
history of economics are currently investigating governance and welfare
politics in the modern and contemporary age.
> Meetings, Seminars, Workshops held by members of the Department of Politics, Institutions and History in other universities
11 December 2009
Université de Rennes
PAOLO POMBENI
La citoyenneté en Italie
Speech at the conference “La politique à travers ses acteurs”
20-23 December 2009
Cologne
DAVID W. ELLWOOD
Liberation, occupation, modernisation? US armed forces in Europe brought with them the American symbols of modernity as seen in European films of that time and beyond
Speech at the conference “Culture and International History IV”
15-16 January 2010
Modena
PAOLO POMBENI
Lessons of a biography
Speech at the conference “Ermanno Gorrieri. A social catholic in the challenge of the 20th century”
19 January 2010
Rome
FULVIO CAMMARANO
Parliamentary élites in Italy
Speech at the conference “European parliamentary elites in the 19th century (1830-1914)”, organised by LUISS-Guido Carli
25 January 2010
Trento
PAOLO POMBENI
Chiara Lubich in post war Italy
Speech at the conference about Chiara Lubich
25-26 January 2010
Milan
PAOLO POMBENI
Welfare State in Republican Italy
Speech at the conference on the Welfare State in Italy organised by Milan State University
19 March 2010
Mantova
FULVIO CAMMARANO
Presentation of the book by M. Isabella, “Risorgimento in Exile. Italian Emigrés and the Liberal International in the Post-Napoleonic Era” (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009) at the Instiute of Contemporary History of Mantova
20-23 March 2010
Dublin, European Association of American Studies
DAVID W. ELLWOOD
Coping with the Americans: European responses to the American armed forces as vectors of American models of modernity during and after World War II
Speech at the panel organised by Rob Kroes (University of Amsterdam) on “War and New Beginnings”
25 March 2010
Rome
FULVIO CAMMARANO
The political turning point: Cavour and the building of the Italian State
Speech at the conference “The Renaissance and the birth of contemporary Italy”, organised by the G. Feltrinelli Foundation, the Gramsci Institute Foundation and the National Academy of Santa Cecilia
> Additional information
In 2009 MARIO DEL PERO was selected among the best young (under 40) researchers of Bologna University to take part in the project of the inter-university organisation Atomium, aimed to divulge scientific research to a wider European public. The two articles written by Mario Del Pero «The dilemmas of US internationalism» and «Nuclear weapons: less is better» were selected by the Atomium Committee for publication on participating newspapers.
AREA OF RESEARCH: SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, LATIN AMERICA, MIDDLE EAST
The research groups of this area investigate the history,
the politics and economic and social development issues in Sub-Saharan Africa,
Latin America and the Middle East. The groups focus on the transformations
in national and international political relations from the perspective of
contemporary history.
> Meetings, Seminars, Workshops held by members of the Department of Politics, Institutions and History in other universities
9-13 November 2009
Montevideo, Uruguay
Mario Zamponi
The land issue in Sub-Saharan Africa. Land use regime, farming reforms and rural development policies
Seminar at the Universidad de la República as part of the Convention signed with Bologna University
28-30 January 2010
Naples
SOFIA VENTUROLI
“Nosotras las que somos capacitadas”. Pathways to learn political action in a community in the Peruvian Andes.
Speaker at the 5th Conference of the Italian Association of Women Historians at the Federico II University of Naples, with the paper “New Frontiers for gender history”
> Additional information
ARRIGO PALLOTTI and MARIO ZAMPONI are in charge of the Bologna research unit for the Community based system in HIV treatment (CoBaSys) project, sponsored by the European Union through the ACP Science and Technology Programme. The project will last for 36 months. The aims of the project are: 1) strengthening the capacity of local African communities to fight HIV/AIDS through a community-based and participatory approach; 2) contribute to the progress of research on health policies (and in particular on those policies concerned with HIV/AIDS) in developing countries by adopting a multi-disciplinary approach; 3) support local representatives who are in charge of developing policies and programs for the treatment of HIV/AIDS.
The partners of the project are: the Department of Politics, Institutions, History (Centre for African and Middle East History and Politics), Bologna University; Co-operation for Development University Centre, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (project coordinator); Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, UK; Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki, Finland; Department of Economics, University of Malawi; Research for Equity and Community Health Trust, Malawi; Training and Research Support Centre, Zimbabwe; Department of Archaelogy and Anthropology, University Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique; Department of Political Science, University of Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania; Department of Political and Administrative Studies, University of Botswana; Multidisciplinary Research Centre-Social Sciences Division, University of Namibia.
The associated partners to the project are: European AIDS Treatment Group, Belgium; Usokami Health Center, United Republic of Tanzania; Institute of Development Studies, University of Zimbabwe.