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Weekly readings:
Part 1: Global Intellectual History
Week 1: Introduction
1 March: Introduction to the course
Week 2: Introduction to Global Intellectual History
7 March: Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori, “Approaches to Global Intellectual History,” pp. 3-30 and Frederick Cooper “How Global do we want our Intellectual History to Be?” in Global Intellectual History pp. 283-294
8 March: Samuel Moyn, “On the Nonglobalization of Ideas,” and Duncan Bell, “Making and Taking Worlds” in Global Intellectual History, Moyn and Sartori eds, pp.187–204 and 254-273.
Week 3: On the Global Circulation of Ideas
14 March: Kapil Raj, “Beyond Postcolonialism ... and Postpositivism: Circulation and the Global History of Science,” Isis 104 (2013), 337-347 and Vanessa Smith: “Joseph Banks’s Intermediaries: Rethinking Global Cultural Exchange” in Global Intellectual History, Moyn and Sartori eds. pp. 91-105.
15 March: Christopher L. Hill, “Conceptual Universalization in the Transnational Nineteenth Century,” and in Global Intellectual History, Moyn and Sartori eds. pp.134-158
Week 4: On the Global Circulation of Ideas: Translation and Temporalities
21 March: Christopher L. Hill, “Nana in the World: Novel, Gender, and Transnational Form,” Modern Language Quarterly 72 (2011), 75-105 and Sheldon Pollock, Cosmopolitanism, Vernacularism, and Premodernity, in Global Intellectual History, Moyn and Sartori eds, pp. 59-79.
22 March: Siep Stuurman, “Common Humanity and Cultural Difference on the Sedentary– Nomadic Frontier. Herodotus, Sima Qian, and Ibn Khaldun,” and Mamadou Diouf and Jinny Prais “Casting the Badge of Inferiority Beneath Black Peoples' Feet: Archiving and Reading the African Past, Present, and Future in World History,” in Global Intellectual History, Moyn and Sartori eds, pp. 33-54 and and 205-222.
Part 2: Global Intellectual History: the case study of Global Fascism
Week 5: Defining Fascism
28 March: Federico Finchelstein, From Fascism to Populism in History, pp.31-98.
29 March: Stanley Payne, A History of Fascism, 1914-1945 pp. 441-471.
Week 6: The Transnational Turn in the Historiography of Fascism
4 April: Angel Alcade “The Transnational Consensus: Fascism and Nazism in Current Research Published” Contemporary European History (2020), pp. 1-10 and, Samuel Huston Goodfellow, “Fascism as a Transnational Movement: The Case of Inter-War Alsace Contemporary European History” 22, 1.
5 April: Arnd Bauerkämper, “Transnational Fascism: Cross-Border Relations between Regimes and Movements in Europe, 1922-1939” in East Central Europe vol. 37 iss. 2-3 pp.214-246 and Roger Eatwell, Universal Fascism? Approaches and Definitions, in Fascism Outside Europe: the European Impulse Against Domestic Conditions in the Diffusion of Global Fascism, Stein Ugelvik Larsen eds. pp. 15-45.
Week 7: European Fascism: 1922-1945
11 April: Albrecht Hagemann, “The Diffusion of German Nazism, and “I Fasci italiani all’estero, the Foreign Policy of the Fascist Party,” in Fascism Outside Europe, pp.71-95 and 95-116.
12 April: Giulia Albanese, “In the Mirror of Fascism: Portugal and the Italian Experience,” in Conservatives and Right Radicals in Interwar Europe, Marco Bresciani eds., pp. 278-300.
Week 8: Fascism and the World: 1922-1945
19 April: Federico Finchelstein, “Ideology, Violence and the Sacred in Argentina and Italy, 1919-1945,” pp. 163-177 and Haggai Erlich, “Periphery and Youth: Fascist Italy and the Middle East” in in Fascism Outside Europe, pp. 323-426.
26 April: Stein Ugelvik Larsen, “Was there Fascism outside Europe? Diffusion from Europe and domestic impulses” in Fascism Outside Europe, 705-818 and WilliamC. Kirby, “Images and Realities of Chinese fascism,” in Fascism Outside Europe, pp. 233-268.
Week 9: Fascism from 1945 to the current day.
2 May: Roger Griffin, “Caught in its own Net: Post-war fascism outside Europe,” in Fascism Outside Europe, pp. 46-70.
3 May: Andrea Mammone, Emmanuel Godin and Brian Jenkins, “Mapping the right of the mainstream right in contemporary Europe” pp. 1-5 and 317-334 and Andrea Mammone, “The Transnational Reaction to 1968: Neo-fascist Fronts and Political Cultures in France and Italy,” pp. 213-235.
Week 10:
9 May: Patrik Hermansson, David Lawrence, Joe Mulhall and Simon Murdoch “The International Alt Right, Fascism for the 21st Century?” pp. 9-81.
For those who cannot attend the course:
Obligatory reading:
Global Intellectual History, edited by Samuel Moyn & Andrew Sartori New York : Columbia University Press, 2013
Fascism outside Europe: the European impulse against domestic conditions in the diffusion of global fascism, edited by Stein Ugelvik Larsen Boulder: Social Science Monographs, 2001
Federico Finchelstein, From Fascism to Populism in History, Oakland: University of California press, 2019
Optional reading
Sebastian Conrad, What is global history? Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University press, 2016
Core Documentation
Weekly readings:
Part 1: Global Intellectual History
Week 1: Introduction
1 March: Introduction to the course
Week 2: Introduction to Global Intellectual History
7 March: Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori, “Approaches to Global Intellectual History,” pp. 3-30 and Frederick Cooper “How Global do we want our Intellectual History to Be?” in Global Intellectual History pp. 283-294
8 March: Samuel Moyn, “On the Nonglobalization of Ideas,” and Duncan Bell, “Making and Taking Worlds” in Global Intellectual History, Moyn and Sartori eds, pp.187–204 and 254-273.
Week 3: On the Global Circulation of Ideas
14 March: Kapil Raj, “Beyond Postcolonialism ... and Postpositivism: Circulation and the Global History of Science,” Isis 104 (2013), 337-347 and Vanessa Smith: “Joseph Banks’s Intermediaries: Rethinking Global Cultural Exchange” in Global Intellectual History, Moyn and Sartori eds. pp. 91-105.
15 March: Christopher L. Hill, “Conceptual Universalization in the Transnational Nineteenth Century,” and in Global Intellectual History, Moyn and Sartori eds. pp.134-158
Week 4: On the Global Circulation of Ideas: Translation and Temporalities
21 March: Christopher L. Hill, “Nana in the World: Novel, Gender, and Transnational Form,” Modern Language Quarterly 72 (2011), 75-105 and Sheldon Pollock, Cosmopolitanism, Vernacularism, and Premodernity, in Global Intellectual History, Moyn and Sartori eds, pp. 59-79.
22 March: Siep Stuurman, “Common Humanity and Cultural Difference on the Sedentary– Nomadic Frontier. Herodotus, Sima Qian, and Ibn Khaldun,” and Mamadou Diouf and Jinny Prais “Casting the Badge of Inferiority Beneath Black Peoples' Feet: Archiving and Reading the African Past, Present, and Future in World History,” in Global Intellectual History, Moyn and Sartori eds, pp. 33-54 and and 205-222.
Part 2: Global Intellectual History: the case study of Global Fascism
Week 5: Defining Fascism
28 March: Federico Finchelstein, From Fascism to Populism in History, pp.31-98.
29 March: Stanley Payne, A History of Fascism, 1914-1945 pp. 441-471.
Week 6: The Transnational Turn in the Historiography of Fascism
4 April: Angel Alcade “The Transnational Consensus: Fascism and Nazism in Current Research Published” Contemporary European History (2020), pp. 1-10 and, Samuel Huston Goodfellow, “Fascism as a Transnational Movement: The Case of Inter-War Alsace Contemporary European History” 22, 1.
5 April: Arnd Bauerkämper, “Transnational Fascism: Cross-Border Relations between Regimes and Movements in Europe, 1922-1939” in East Central Europe vol. 37 iss. 2-3 pp.214-246 and Roger Eatwell, Universal Fascism? Approaches and Definitions, in Fascism Outside Europe: the European Impulse Against Domestic Conditions in the Diffusion of Global Fascism, Stein Ugelvik Larsen eds. pp. 15-45.
Week 7: European Fascism: 1922-1945
11 April: Albrecht Hagemann, “The Diffusion of German Nazism, and “I Fasci italiani all’estero, the Foreign Policy of the Fascist Party,” in Fascism Outside Europe, pp.71-95 and 95-116.
12 April: Giulia Albanese, “In the Mirror of Fascism: Portugal and the Italian Experience,” in Conservatives and Right Radicals in Interwar Europe, Marco Bresciani eds., pp. 278-300.
Week 8: Fascism and the World: 1922-1945
19 April: Federico Finchelstein, “Ideology, Violence and the Sacred in Argentina and Italy, 1919-1945,” pp. 163-177 and Haggai Erlich, “Periphery and Youth: Fascist Italy and the Middle East” in in Fascism Outside Europe, pp. 323-426.
26 April: Stein Ugelvik Larsen, “Was there Fascism outside Europe? Diffusion from Europe and domestic impulses” in Fascism Outside Europe, 705-818 and WilliamC. Kirby, “Images and Realities of Chinese fascism,” in Fascism Outside Europe, pp. 233-268.
Week 9: Fascism from 1945 to the current day.
2 May: Roger Griffin, “Caught in its own Net: Post-war fascism outside Europe,” in Fascism Outside Europe, pp. 46-70.
3 May: Andrea Mammone, Emmanuel Godin and Brian Jenkins, “Mapping the right of the mainstream right in contemporary Europe” pp. 1-5 and 317-334 and Andrea Mammone, “The Transnational Reaction to 1968: Neo-fascist Fronts and Political Cultures in France and Italy,” pp. 213-235.
Week 10:
9 May: Patrik Hermansson, David Lawrence, Joe Mulhall and Simon Murdoch “The International Alt Right, Fascism for the 21st Century?” pp. 9-81.
For those who cannot attend the course:
Obligatory reading:
Global Intellectual History, edited by Samuel Moyn & Andrew Sartori New York : Columbia University Press, 2013
Fascism outside Europe: the European impulse against domestic conditions in the diffusion of global fascism, edited by Stein Ugelvik Larsen Boulder: Social Science Monographs, 2001
Federico Finchelstein, From Fascism to Populism in History, Oakland: University of California press, 2019
Optional reading
Sebastian Conrad, What is global history? Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University press, 2016
Type of evaluation
The evaluation will take in account both partecipation during the seminar and an oral exam at the end of the course.