This course questions anthropocentrism and human/nonhuman animal relations through a specialized, ecocritical and ecofeminist analysis of theoretical, 视觉和文学文本. In many European and Judeo-Christian representations, the nonhuman animal is subjected to the human, and 代表 as the carrier of a 'value' or 'message' applicable to the human world. In such cultural texts and artifacts, 非人类的动物往往不被看到, 代表, 平等理解, and/or as members of a completely difference species holding value per se, having abilities and skills not directly exploitable in the anthropocentric world. Recent theory has instead voiced the importance of including analyses of the nonhuman to existing analyses questioning colonialism and exploitations based on religion, 性别, 比赛, 政治思想. 基于这些理论阅读, we will ask: Which discriminatory mechanisms, 哪些权力结构适用, 相似的，甚至相同的, 对非人类和少数民族, 殖民, 歧视团体? How in turn have some minority groups (such as indigenous people) have fought to include land and animal rights in their own battle for full recognition as equal political subjects? We will work actively as a group and individually to identify the cultural discourses enabling domination and exploitation of nonhuman animals, along other subtler instances of anthropocentrism and speciesism. We will then try to leave behind our anthropocentrism and to come up with creative solutions for a more just interspecies world.

Black Italian Cinema and 数字表现 is an introduction to issues of culture, “种族,“身份, and citizenship in contemporary Italy drawing from documentary, 电影, and the new arena of the social media. An entire generation of Black Italians, 特别是艺术家, 企业家, 博主(尤其是千禧一代), have been affirming themselves in Italian culture and society, gaining progressively more visibility starting in the 1990s, thus entering the spotlight of the Global Black Diaspora. In this course we will ask questions such as: Which themes are most discussed among Black Italians? Which art forms do they cite and refer to? In which ways and through which channels do Black Italians engage with the Global Black Diaspora? How is this generation seeking to be included in the history and socio-economic system of a country that still refuses citizenship to children born on the Italian soil? What kind of cultural and artistic production has been emerging from “the new Italians”? Together with 电影-maker and activist Fred Kuwornu, 我们将探讨他自己的作品, and that of emerging artists such as Antonio Dikele Distefano, Ghali, and web-based projects such as “Afroitalian Souls.”

食物可以用作隐喻, 作为政治和经济的工具, as a way to assert dominance and power - and as all of the above combined. Developing a palate for a certain type of food is also intensely affected by cultural, 地理, 社会经济原因. Why is it almost impossible to mention Italian culture without referring to its rich gastronomical tradition? Why has Italy such a great regional diversity in recipes, staple foods, and even eating habits? What it the significance of specific food representations in art, literature, and 电影? 什么是“慢食”?? In this course we will explore a broad history of Italian food in its European context, 同时还要研究(和品尝)!) local case-studies in two Italian regions. 没有先决条件, no knowledge of Italian language required (although at least one block of Italian language is warmly suggested).

This course questions anthropocentrism and human/nonhuman animal relations through a specialized, ecocritical and ecofeminist analysis of theoretical, 视觉和文学文本. In many European and Judeo-Christian representations, the nonhuman animal is subjected to the human, and 代表 as the carrier of a 'value' or 'message' applicable to the human world. In such cultural texts and artifacts, 非人类的动物往往不被看到, 代表, 平等理解, and/or as members of a completely difference species holding value per se, having abilities and skills not directly exploitable in the anthropocentric world. Recent theory has instead voiced the importance of including analyses of the nonhuman to existing analyses questioning colonialism and exploitations based on religion, 性别, 比赛, 政治思想. 基于这些理论阅读, we will ask: Which discriminatory mechanisms, 哪些权力结构适用, 相似的，甚至相同的, 对非人类和少数民族, 殖民, 歧视团体? How in turn have some minority groups (such as indigenous people) have fought to include land and animal rights in their own battle for full recognition as equal political subjects? We will work actively as a group and individually to identify the cultural discourses enabling domination and exploitation of nonhuman animals, along other subtler instances of anthropocentrism and speciesism. We will then try to leave behind our anthropocentrism and to come up with creative solutions for a more just interspecies world.

This course interrogates anthropocentrism and human/nonhuman animal relations through a specialized, eceocritical and ecofeminist analysis of theoretical, 视觉和文学文本. This program will visit the Andean highlands as well as the Galapagos archipelago.

食物可以用作隐喻, 作为政治和经济的工具, as a way to assert dominance and power - and as all of the above combined. Developing a palate for a certain type of food is also intensely affected by cultural, 地理, 社会经济原因. Why is it almost impossible to mention Italian culture without referring to its rich gastronomical tradition? Why has Italy such a great regional diversity in recipes, staple foods, and even eating habits? What it the significance of specific food representations in art, literature, and 电影? 什么是“慢食”?? In this course we will explore a broad history of Italian food in its European context, 同时还要研究(和品尝)!) local case-studies in two Italian regions. 没有先决条件, no knowledge of Italian language required (although at least one block of Italian language is warmly suggested).