SOCIAL EVENTS AND COMMUNICATIVE PROCESSES
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Oral exam. During the text, the candidate is required to answer four questions. The final mark will be based on the following criteria: 60% accuracy and quality of answer, 30% ability to motivate statements, 10 % ability shown during exam.
The aim of course is to give students the opportunity to identify new elements that are in the communication processes related to particular social events. Selected events, precisely because of the decisive influence of such events on civil society.
The course will be divided in two parts. The first will be on the analysis of the political and social fallout that some historical events on the community and how their narrative contributed to the change of communication processes. Specifically, the communication processes related to:
Res gestae divi Augusti.
The Constitutio Antoniniana.
The Synod of the Corpse.
Clermont Appeal.
Shakespeare's Characters and their realism.
Trial of Galileo.
The taking of the Bastille.
The Killing of Lincoln.
The Libération of Auschwitz.
Hiroshima.
The Killing of JFK.
Jack the Ripper and the Zodiac Killer and their media messages.
Mengele's escape to South America.
Jacobellis vs Ohio 378 U.S. 184 (1964).
The second part will be instead on Damnatio Memoriae
Three texts chosen among the following list:
A. Barbero, Lepanto e la battaglia dei tre imperi
T. Cremisi, Rouen 1431: il processo a Giovanna d'Arco
G. De Sensi, Problemi della Constitutio Antoniniana
J. Godechot, La presa della Bastiglia
G. Nieri, La Damnatio Memoriae di Castruccio Castracani
V. Passeri Pignoni, Scoperta o invenzione dell'America
E. Percivaldi, Fu vero editto ? Costantino e la religione cattolica tra storia e leggenda
A. Roberts, 18 giugno 1815. Waterloo
Brunt, Caduta della repubblica romana
Gibbon, Declino e caduta dell'impero romano
Levack, Caccia alle streghe
Plokhy, Chernobyl. Storia di una catastrofe nucleare
Leatherbarrow, Chernobyl 01.23.40
Shenon, Anatomia di un assassinio
B. O'Reilly, Killing Kennedy. Da Washington a Dallas: la fine del sogno americano
Frontal lessons, with the support of videos
The professor is available to meet with students after each lesson, without any appointment. For any further information related to the examination, contact via email: luca.daris@uninsubria.it