The Second Half of the Twentieth Century, a story to tell
Teaching module for senior secondary school students 7 – March 21 2024
In The Short Twentieth Century, historian Eric Hobsbawm argues no one can fully know the history of the 20th century, even only that produced in any of the major languages of culture. From this analysis, which appears to suggest silence arising from the din of a century not amenable to synthesis, comes the need to talk about and study at school, a period still not included in formal education but that is increasingly indispensable for building a critical awareness of the present among the new generations
In collaboration with Istituto Storico Parri
The Cold War
- Thursday 7 March 2024 at 10:00 - 12:00
The transition from the first fifty years of the 20th century, full of conflict and death, to the second: from Yalta to Berlin, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, from the conquest of space to Chernobyl, the world is bipolar.
The multipolar world and globalisation
- Thursday 14 March 2024 at 10:00 - 12:00
In contrast to one-track thinking, the uniformity of the Global West and ethnocentric thinking, the idea of humanity as comprising different contexts corresponding to many civilisations, each endowed with its particular value system, is gaining ground.
History in seven generations
- Thursday 21 March 2024 at 10:00 - 12:00
Today, individuals from seven generations are alive for the first time in human history. Greatest Generation (1922-1927), Silent Generation (1928-1945), Boomers (1946-1964), Generation X (1965-1980), Millennials (1981-1995), Generation Z (1995-2010), and Generation Alpha (2010-2020) face each other on a planet in tumultuous transformation.
