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A Jean Monnet Module on the History of European Integration, 2014-2017

The Project:

Europe will be forged in crises, and it will be the sum of the solutions adopted for those crises
(Jean Monnet, Memoirs, 1976)

The notion of crisis is central to the study of the evolution of the European integration process. In almost every account, crises are the critical moments that have led to transformations and changes in European institutions, leaders, policies and politics. Crises in and of European integration have hardly been separated from the evolution of the global system over the last 70 years.

For this reason, the School of International Studies of the University of Trento, in association with the Department of Humanities and the Centre of Excellence Jean Monnet, is offering a course on the history of European Integration which takes these two dynamics – crises and external relations – as the central narratives and paradigms in order to examine and study the process of European integration. Covering the period from the end of the Second World War to the present day, the course offers students the opportunity to investigate key problems and issues in the history of Europe in depth, by appraising selected sources, critically examining current historiography and conducting original research at the Historical Archives of the European Union.

The course has a particular structure:

  • It is based on lectures, seminars, archival research and a final workshop; it thus intertwines traditional educational tools, active student participation and intellectual contribution with students’ training-through-experience.
  • Students have ample opportunity to conduct their original research and discuss it with the instructors and guest lecturers.
  • Students will develop multidisciplinary capabilities and skill
  • The course is taught in English and implies a good working knowledge of the following disciplines: law, economics, political science and sociology.

Who is Who

Sara Lorenzini

Sara Lorenzini
Sara Lorenzini is an Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the Department of Humanities and at the School of International Studies (SIS) of the University of Trento, where she teaches courses on International History (post 1945). She is the Erasmus Departmental coordinator for the SIS. She holds an MSc from LSE and a PhD from the University of Florence. In 2012 she was a visiting scholar at the EUI with a project on European Community development aid in the 1970s.

For more information, please visit: https://webapps.unitn.it/du/it/Persona/PER0000845#INFO
e-mail: sara.lorenzini [at] unitn.it

Simone Attilio Bellezza

Simone Attilio Bellezza
Simone Attilio Bellezza is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Humanities and a teaching assistant both at the University of Trento and at the University of Turin. He holds a PhD in European Social History from the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, and one in Historical Studies from the University of San Marino. He collaborates with the Institute for the Study of International Politics of Milan and the Institute for the Central-Eastern and Balkan Europe of Forlì.

For more information, please visit: simone.bellezza [at] unitn.it (https://webapps.unitn.it/du/it/Persona/PER0072708#INFO)
e-mail: simone.bellezza [at] unitn.it

Umberto Tulli

Umberto Tulli
Umberto Tulli is a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of International Studies (SIS) of the University of Trento and a teaching assistant both at the School of Political Science of the University of Macerata and at the Department of Humanities of the University of Trento. He received his PhD in History and International Relations from the Istituto di Scienze Umane in 2011. Before joining the SIS, Umberto received a research fellowship from the Olympic Studies Centre of the IOC (Lausanne, Switzerland) and a postdoctoral fellowship from the University of Bologna.

For more information, please visit: umberto.tulli [at] unitn.it (https://webapps.unitn.it/du/it/Persona/PER0173970#INFO)
e-mail: umberto.tulli [at] unitn.it

Dieter Schlenker

Dieter Schlenker
Dieter Schlenker is Director of the Historical Archives of the European Union at the European University Institute in Florence.  He obtained his doctorate in Modern History from the University of Heidelberg and an Archivist Diploma from the Vatican Secret Archives. Before moving to the Historical Archives of the European Union, he worked as archivist for  the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome; at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in Paris and as Head of Communications and Knowledge Management at its Asian regional branch in Bangkok, Thailand.

For more information, please visit: dieter.schlenker [at] eui.eu (http://www.eui.eu/Research/HistoricalArchivesOfEU/People.aspx)
e-mail: dieter.schlenker [at] eui.eu

 

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This project has been realized within the framework of the Erasmus+ Programme / Jean Monnet Programme

A course offered by the School of International Studies and the Department of Humanities of the University of Trento

Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia Scuola di studi internazionali