BERGAMO
Dati Generali
Periodo di attività
Syllabus
Obiettivi Formativi
At the end the student is able to understand, especially from the philosophical (and the anthropological) point of view, the interrelations among contemporary migratory dynamics, plural cultural contexts and social conflicts: the student understands the complexity of the cultural and social transformations in relation to the migratory mobility and to its impact inside the social and educational contexts, with the aim of developing a critical thought able to activate resources and networks in the perspective of an ecology of the interpersonal relations.
Considering contemporary art and anthropology in terms of fieldwork practice, the student is able to understand how artists and anthropologists share a set of common practices that raise similar ethical issues within the context of migratory mobility. Encouraging artists, migrant artists, anthropologists, philosophers and pedagogists to learn from each other’s practices “in the field”, the student understands what artistic creations and ethnographical practices propose as a corpus of living experiences and issues tied to transnational migrations and able to be re-invented and experimented in educational contexts, schools and cultural institutions. The student gains knowledge and competences in order to analyse and manage complex contexts within the cultural and educational services addressed to the person and his/her network of proximity, with a special attention to the plurality and the unavoidable conflicts related to it. Focusing on exiles, diasporas and strangers and on the role of estrangement and displacement in the contemporary cultural and educational contexts as well as in the story of contemporary art, the student gains knowledge of the main critical issues in relation to transnational migrations, conflicts and pluralism, by means of a deepening of the philosophical, anthropological and pedagogical conceptual frame in which these issues need to be read. The student understands the main theoretical and epistemological frameworks of the studies about complexity with a special attention to the multiple professional profiles who operate in the contemporary society in relation to migrations, within schools and cultural contexts and outside, aiming to take into consideration the nexus between theories and praxis of the cultural and educational action within social complex contexts, with an inter-professional and cross-cultural approach, able to promote an original conversation among artistic, pedagogical and anthropological practices, built on an in-depth philosophical framework. The student will reach a rich knowleldge of the living experiences within migratory dynamics of the society also by means of the multiple narratives proposed by artistic creations. He /she will be able to analyse the pedagogical implications of that within a historical and anthropological frame. He/she will be able to comprehend in depth the complexity of migrations and the delicate links among culture, race and power. All that with the aim of understanding the practices of discrimination and exclusion spread in the society. He/she will be able to understand the links among conflicts, wars, natural disasters and forced migrations, especially in war times and with special attention to some case-studies (among others, in the Middle East). He/she will be able to read complex cultural and educational realities, entering in them with adequate projects including artistic languages and practices, but also promoting the collaboration with migrants' families and services.He/she will also be able to observe the complexification of the social and educational contexts, understanding the risk of the rising of social inequalities and discriminatory practices and the necessity of creating, locally, projects able to promote consciousness and to experiment, also by means of arts, unforeseen practices of cohabitation in the name of the plurality and the conviviality.
Prerequisiti
None
Metodi didattici
The didactics includes frontal lectures, aiming to promote the student’s participation and interaction, wit the aim of continual debate and exchange with them. The lectures will also include films projections, use of documentary films and other audiovisual documents, music, performances, artistic creations, use of diaries, personal stories, biographies and autobiographies, etc. Workshops about a critical lecture of audiovisual documents will be proposed as well as seminars of some experts and researchers debating some of the main issues of the course.
(Optional: workshops concerning a first approach to the research methodologies and the achievement of a fieldwork on migrations and migrants will be proposed in addition.)
In some of the seminars experts and researchers are invited to present their contribution on special issues concerning contemporary migrations and educational experimentations in the filed of educational actions open to unforeseen and creativity, exploring both educational and artistic practices.
In other seminars the main issues of the course will be debated by contemporary philosophers of the international panorama very much specialized in the field of migrations and by anthropologists devoting their fieldwork to contemporary mobility.
Verifica Apprendimento
The final examination wil be an oral one. The exam consists of the test of the knowledge and the competences by means of several modalities of evaluation:1) testing and evaluating the abilities of critically analizying the items of the course and motivate the acquired knowledge by debating the theoretical references, the eventual research works and case studies; 2) testing and evalutating the acquired knowledge by an oral discussion of the theoretical and methodological national and international references;3)evaluating the degree of participation and personal engagement and original contribution in the debate and activities during the course; 4)evaluating the ability of realizing connections at a multidisciplinary level and the competence of comprehending the specific items and methodological approaches connected to the course within the wider pedagogical context and within the methodological and scientific debate concerning the contemporary pedagogy in a conversation with philosophy, anthropology and arts. The oral examination consists of a discussion and critical analysis of the items and it includes the optional possibility of presenting and debating the issues of the course by means of original use of multimedia, audiovisual supports, authentical documents, artistic languages, etc.Whenever the student wishes to achieve an optional qualitative research activity or a fieldwork he/she might discuss and plan aims and modalities with the professor.
Contenuti
The course analyses the meaning of mobility in cultural and educational contexts, in a philosophical perspective, within the frame of daily practices and relations. The student develops a capacity of operating within the ecology of the relations and the networks of proximity, considering the non-violent transformation of the conflicts, the cohabitation as an inclusive dynamic taking into account differences as results of processes of “creolization”, developing a hospitality in the perspective of a “poetics of the relation”. The course proposes the epistemological frames to analyse the pluralism by means of migration studies, diaspora/ border studies, in relation first of all to philosophy, the to anthropology and experimental pedagogy: it debates critically the international scientific literature, with the aim of understanding the contexts, choosing transdisciplinary approaches, evaluating the social impact, exploring innovative technics of socio-cultural and pedagogical intervention. It debates the idea of “transnational” and “cosmopolitan”, analysing migrants’ lives as practices of resistance and border-crossing. It proposes dialogues among educational(anthropological) practices and artistic practices, with the aim of acting by unforeseen and creative educational experimental projects.A special attention is devoted to new diasporic experiences in the pandemic era and war times ( with special attention to the actual case studies such as the Middle East and the extreme case of Gaza). Bare life, precarious lives, necropolitics are key theoretical frameworks to understand contemporary mobility. We choose, in cultural and educational contexts, qualitative research practices,in arts and in ethnography, able to investigate even the disorientation and the loss, and the new mobility, trying to observe even the logics of ambiguity and contradiction, together with the logic of responsibility. We consider the potential of art to engage with and even re-define the social/political sphere and to inspire creative responses to key pedagogical debates concerning plurality, hospitality and conviviality. Film and theatre makers, photographers, creators of immersive installations and other artists are more and more engaging with mobility of bodies, imaginary, memories. We focus on artists whose works address issues such as migrations, conflicts, knowledge (violation of human rights), using radical techniques to communicate their ideas or to offer alternative narratives to the mainstream ones. How can we use these works to rethink the reality and to increase the imaginary especially in cultural and educational contexts? Grounding in individual works and artists, we propose a dialogic, exilic, ex-centric, errant perspective to bear on the migratory routes and cross cultural entanglements through which the contemporary emerges.Investigating “migrant art” we open dialogues between migrations studies and art history: such a trajectory investigates the contexts and complexities of diasporic aesthetics, remapping the nuanced terrain from which it originates. (Moreover, exploring pop art and vernacular cultures we question the categories of folk, nation, society, bringing a cross cultural perspective on the aesthetics and politics of pop). Building an insight of visual cultures, performing arts and de-colonial approaches, we explore a new narrative today told from different points of view. Finally, we examine the ways artists reinvented the documentary practices in their representation of mobile lives (also stateless, politically dispossessed). Some works depict the often ignored effects of migratory politics and social cohabitation and they connect us with the living experiences of people on the move and of migrant’s children in cultural and educational contexts. We pay attention to these works as multi-layered artistic gestures that, with ethnography, have the capacity to renew a political and cultural imagination.
Altre informazioni
Notes for the ERASMUS students: Erasmus students are very welcomed and they are invited to personally communicate to the professor in order to eventually choose with her a peculiar bibliography in relation to their profile and linguistic competences. Specific and optative bibliographies in addition to the main published bibliography are at the disposal of the students.
The teacher is at disposal of the students to check the course program with them and eventually propose an individualized and facilitated one for each Erasmus' student, in order to guarantee the full reconnaissance of the credits CFU according to the individual background of the student and to her/his competences in languages and in pedagogy.