M 9\5 IN-CLASS. 9:15 AM. COURSE PRESENTATION.
M 9\12 IN-CLASS. EXPLANATION OF STREET EXERCISE WITH EXAMPLES
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M 9\26 ON-SITE. THE COMMODIFICATION OF LOCAL CULTURE: A WALK IN TRASTEVERE.
Appointment at 9:15AM in class
In this module we discuss the following question:
1. How does globalization and mass tourism affect the tradition, identity and life style of the neighborhood?
At the end of this module students will be able to:
1. To think at Rome not as a city frozen in time but ever changing like any other city in the world.
2. To understand, discuss and describe in writing and visually the effects of globalization on the urban environment and in the social and economic life of the neighborhood.
Readings:
1. Clough Marinaro, I. and B. Thomassen, 2014:” Into the City: The Changing Faces of Rome,” in Clough Marinaro, I. and B. Thomassen, eds. Global Rome (Indianapolis: Indiana University Press)
2. Thomassen, B., and P. Vereni, 2014: “Diversely Global Rome.” In Clough Marinaro, I. and B. Thomassen, eds. Global Rome (Indianapolis: Indiana University Press)
3. F. Trabalzi: The commodification of culture and the changing identity of a Roman neighborhood (working paper)
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TH 10\3 ON-SITE. HISTORICAL CENTER BETWEEN LOCAL AND GLOBAL FROM CAMPO DI FIORI TO TREVI FOUNTAIN
Appointment: 9:15 AM at Campo di Fiori by the statue of Giordano Bruno.
In this module we discuss the following question:
1. How does globalization and mass tourism affect the tradition, identity and life style of the neighborhood?
At the end of this module students will be able to:
1. To think at Rome not as a city frozen in time but ever changing like any other city in the world.
2. To understand, discuss and describe in writing and visually the effects of globalization on the urban environment and in the social and economic life of the neighborhood.
No Readings
ASSESSMENT: TURN IN STREET EXERCISE.
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M 10\10 IN-CLASS. THE MODERN INVENTION OF ANCIENT ROME
In this module we discuss the following question:
How does ideology shape our understanding of Rome’s past?
At the end of this module students will be able to:
1. To discuss the archaeological landscape of central Rome as the product of modern political objectives and ideologies rather than as the result of ages of history untouched.
2. To understand, discuss and describe, in writing and visually, the effects of ideology and political priorities on the urban landscape and on the life of residents of the historical center from the early 1900s to today.
Readings:
1. F.Trabalzi. The Roman Forum Reinvented (Working paper)
2. D. Watkin, “Archaeologists under the kings of United Italy,” pp. 196-200 and “From Mussolini To Hitler to Holes on the Ground,” pp. 201-222, In The Roman Forum (London: Profile Books, 2011).
3. F. Trabalzi, “Primavalle: Urban Reservation in Rome". In Journal of Architectural Education, 42\3 September 1989: 38-46.
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M 10\17 ON-SITE: THE ROMAN FORUM AND THE INVENTION OF ANCIENT ROME
Appointment: 9:15AM Piazza del Campidoglio
Assessment: Exam 1. Due at 8pm. Opens at 5pm. TURN IN THREAD 1. Due at 10pm
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M 10\24 ON-SITE. THE EX-JEWISH GHETTO: THE PARADOX OF PROTECTING CULTURAL HERITAGE
Appointment: 9:15AM by the statue on the Tiber Island.
In this module we discuss the following questions:
1. How do ideology and political shapes the form of the city and our understanding of it?
2. How do we, as a society, decide which elements of the urban landscape to preserve and which to eliminate?
3. What are the effects of these decisions on our perception of urban history?
At the end of this module students will be able to discuss the paradoxes of cultural identity and urban history.
Readings:
1. F. Trabalzi. The paradox of protecting cultural heritage in Rome (working paper).
ASSESSMENT: EXAM 2; THREAD 2
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TH 10\31 IN-CLASS. SOCIAL MARGINALITY IN CONTEMPORARY ROME
In this module we discuss the following questions:
1. What is the meaning of social, cultural and spatial marginality in theory and how do you understand it in a city like Rome
At the end of this module students will be able to:
1. Discuss and describe the main aspects of the sociological theories of social and spatial marginality;
2. To discuss the above-mentioned points in two main areas of the city: Testaccio and Park of the Aqueducts.
Readings:
1. bell hooks: “Choosing the Margin as a site of Radical Openness,” in Yearning: Race, Gender and Cultural Politics”, Boston: South End Press,1990.
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TH 11\7 ON-SITE. THE AQUEDUCTS: A HISTORY OF SOCIAL MARGINALITY
Appointment: 9:15AM at Metro A station Giulio Agricola. Expected return time to campus around 12:15.
In this module we discuss the following questions:
1. What is the social history of the Aqueducts in the last 100 years?
2. Why such a history can be told as a case of social marginality?
3. What type of marginality such a history is evidence of?
At the end of this module students will be able to:
1. Connect the theory learned in class with a concrete case-study in the city;
2. Discuss and describe the social history of the Aqueduct as a case of marginality.
Readings:
1. F. Trabalzi. The Park of the Aqueducts: A history of social marginality (Working paper).
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M 11\14 ON-SITE. TESTACCIO A NEIGHBORHOOD RADICALLY OPEN
Appointment: 9:15AM bus stop Marmorata-Galvani near PIRAMIDE.
In this module we address the following questions:
1. What is the meaning of marginality as a space of radical openness?
2. Why can Testaccio be considered a case of a neighborhood radically open;
3. What is the Diffuse Museum of Testaccio and how does it differ from the conventional approach to cultural heritage in Rome.
At the end of the module students will be able to discuss and critically analyze:
1. The sociological concepts of marginality as place of radically openness,
2. The meaning of cultural hegemony and of counter-hegemony as manifested in space;
3. Different approaches to multicultural history and identity.
Readings:
1. F. Trabalzi. Testaccio: A neighborhood radically open (Working paper).
ASSESSMENT: EXAM 3; THREAD 3.
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M 11\21 ON-SITE. MULTICULTURALISM IN ROME YESTERDAY AND TODAY: THE ESQUILINO NEIGHBORHOOD
Appointment 9:15AM at Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore in front of the Basilica.
In this module we address the following questions:
1. What is the meaning of multiculturalism today in Rome?
2. What kind of forms multiculturalism has in Rome?
At the end of this module students will be able to discuss and describe with examples cases of multiculturalism in Rome and how it affects the life and identity of all its residents.
Readings:
1. F. Trabalzi. Multiculturalism in Rome: the difficult integration. (working paper)
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M 11\28 ON-SITE GREEN ROME: THE HISTORY OF ROME'S PUBLIC PARKS. THE CASE OF VILLA PAMPHILI.
Appointment at 9:15AM Guarini Lemon Garden.
In this module we address the question of public park in the city of Rome from a historical, cultural and social perspectives:
1. What is a public park in Rome and how does it differ from a public park in the US?
2. What is the history of the most important public parks in Rome?
3. What are the challenges of public spaces such as urban parks in Rome today?
At the end of this module students will be able to compare the history of public parks in Italy and the US.
Readings:
1. F. Trabalzi. The History of Rome Public Parks (working paper)
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M 12\5 FINAL
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