The seasons of movements
Teaching module for senior secondary school students 06 – 20 March 2025
The second half of the 20th century, on a global level, was marked by the bi-polar division imposed by the Cold War and the access of Afro-Asian nations to independence in the process of decolonisation. The second half of the last century, however, was also traversed by various forms of protest that saw the emergence of new or renewed movements with the aim of revolutionising the pre-existing reality and with the generation born after the end of the Second World War as the main protagonist.
In collaboration with the Istituto Storico Parri
1968: the year of the students
- Thursday 6 March 2025 at 10:00 - 12:00
We revisit 1968 as a global event: from Berkley to Cairo, from Mexico City to Tokyo, from Prague to Paris, the universities became the theatre of the protest of a generation that set out to revolutionise first the education system, and then society as a whole.
Black Lives Matter: the African-American issue in the United States
- Thursday 13 March 2025 at 10:00 - 12:00
We reconstruct the narrative of a struggle that passes through the civil disobedience of the 1950s, the great demonstrations of the 'civil rights movement' led by Martin Luther King and the ideas and actions of Malcolm X and the Black panthers party.
From the 1970s to today: three waves of feminism
- Thursday 20 March 2025 at 10:00 - 12:00
By the end of the 1960s, a number of feminist self-awareness groups were already forming in the United States and then in many other countries, tackling hitherto ignored aspects of medicine and public discourse. The revolutionary aim was to change society by exploiting new, and until then taboo, topics: a raging river that swept through much of the society of the time.
