Session
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Session Focus
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Reading Assignment
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Other Assignment
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Exam Dates
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WK 1A
Aug 31
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Course introduction, syllabus, goals and expectations, research paper, terminology
Class discussion: images, notions, and misconceptions about the Mezzogiorno
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WK 1B
Sep 2
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Defining and measuring “the South”
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Duggan (A Concise History of Italy), chapter 1
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WK 2A
Sep 7
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Lecture: Introduction to the history of southern Italy
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Riall ("Garibaldi and the South")
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WK 2B
Sep 9
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Introduction to the history of southern Italy (cont.)
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Davis ("The South and the Risorgimento: histories and counter-histories")
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Research topic due
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WK 3A
Sep 14
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Lecture: Unification viewed from the South
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Forgacs and Lumley (Italian Cultural Studies. An Introduction), chapter 4
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WK 3B
Sep 16
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Lecture/discussion: Italy’s "primitives" and “Orientalism”
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Harris ("Photography of the 'primitive' in Italy")
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Bibliography due
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WK 4A
Sep 21
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Lecture/discussion: Gramsci, Banfield and Putnam; the Southern Question during Fascism
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Putnam (Making Democracy Work), Tarrow (review of Putnam), Ginsborg ("Civil society in contemporary Italy: theory, history and practice")
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WK 4B
Sep 23
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Lecture: Mass emigrations from the South; causes and consequences
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WK 4C
Sep 28
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In-class discussion and debate: views, interpretations, stereotypes of the South
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Annotated bibliography and outline due
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WK 5A
Sep 30
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Lecture/discussion: Politics of the South since World War II; Southern Development Fund
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Alacevich ("Postwar development in the Italian Mezzogiorno")
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WK 5B
Oct 5
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Film: T.B.A.
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Cassano ("Southern Thought")
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WK 6A
Oct 7
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Film and discussion
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Reading(s), T.B.A.
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Begin preparing for exam
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WK 6B
Oct 12
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Review for Midterm Exam
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WK 7A
Oct 14
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MIDTERM EXAM
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WK 7B
Oct 19
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Organized crime: Origins of Cosa Nostra (Sicily)
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Dickie (Cosa Nostra, pp. 21-26; 35-67) / Lupo (History of the Mafia, pp. 1-30)
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WK 8A
Oct 21
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Organized crime: Cosa Nostra in post-WWII Sicily
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Research paper rough draft due
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WK 8B
Oct 26
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Organized crime: Origins of the Camorra
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Behan (The Camorra), pp. 1-30
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WK 9A
Oct 28
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Camorra: Causes and the consequences of "Ecomafia"
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Pasotti ("Sorting through the trash: the Waste Management Crisis in Southern Italy"), Saviano (Gomorrah, "Land of Fires"), Collins, review of Saviano
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WK 9B
Nov 2
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Organized crime: 'Ndrangheta
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Paoli (Mafia Brotherhoods, pp. 29-40; 46-52; 67-70), Giap Parini ("The strongest mafia: 'Ndrangheta made in Calabria")
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WK 10A
Nov 4
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Lecture/discussion. "Going it alone": Antimafia and private initiative; possible solutions to organized crime
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Schneider and Schneider (Reversible Destiny, pp. 160-192)
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WK 10B
Nov 9
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Discussion and debate: the effect of organized crime on southern development
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Daniele ("The Burden of Crime on Development and FDI in Southern Italy")
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WK 11A
Nov 11
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Lecture/discussion: Immigrants in southern Italy
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Booth and Cole ("An unsettling integration: immigrant lives and work in Palermo")
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Research paper final draft due
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WK 11B
Nov 16
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Lecture/discussion: Women and the Family in southern Italy
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Carrera ("Women and Work in Italy: the Risk of Discouragement")
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WK 12A
Nov 18
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ISTAT, SVIMEZ, and Confindustria: Current statistical data on the Mezzogiorno
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Trigilia ("North and south in the current crisis")
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WK 12B
Nov 23
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Student research presentations and discussion
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WK 13
Nov 25
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Student research presentations and discussion
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Begin preparing for Final Exam
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WK 14A
Nov 30
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Student research presentations and discussion
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WK 14B
Dec 2
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Course conclusions / Final Exam review
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