Global history and governance (GHG)

Daniela Luigia Caglioti

Professor of Modern and Contemporary History 
Department of Humanities 
University of Naples Federico II

Marjorie Carvalho de Souza (35° ciclo)

(MA in Global History, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis – Brazil)

PhD Dissertation: Contracting Freedom: The Making of Law of Labor in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

Advisors: prof. Cristina Vano (U. Napoli Federico II), prof. Carlos Petit (U. de Huelva)

Jury: Giovanni Cazzetta (U. Firenze), Paolo Passaniti (U. Siena), Cristina Vano (U. Napoli Federico II), Carlos Petit (U. Huelva), Antonio Ojeda (U. Sevilla), Luis Velasco (U. Valladolid)

Awarded: 9 May 2024 (cum laude)

Cristiano La Lumia (35° ciclo)

(MA History, U. Pisa; Diploma licenza SNS, Pisa)

PhD Dissertation: The War against Germans. Economic Nationalism, Property Rights, and Citizenship of German Ex-Enemy Aliens (1918-1933)

Advisor: prof. Daniela Luigia Caglioti (U. Napoli Federico II)

Jury: Prof. Frank Caestecker (Ghent U.), Prof. Ilaria Pavan (IMT, Lucca), Prof. Matthew Stibbe (Sheffield Hallam U.)

The coursework is concentrated in the first year of the program. In the following
three years, the students are engaged in conducting the research and reporting
periodically on its progress both in one-to-one meetings and in group seminars.
The coursework is divided into mandatory courses with final verification, seminar
activities during which students can discuss specific aspects of their doctoral work
with faculty and workshops held by invited scholars.

The first year’s coursework is divided into two terms: November-February and
March-June and is organized as follows:

First year:
– 6 courses (about 10 meetings of two hours each);
– 6-8 workshops (3 consecutive meetings);
– active participation in the research workshop, the conferences, and the seminars
organized by the PhD program;
– participation in conferences on topics related to the dissertation organized by
other universities and research institutions;
– preparation of a detailed research project containing an expanded state-of-the-art for the transition to the 2nd year of the program.

Second year:
– active participation in conferences and workshops organized by the doctorate or
other university and research institutions;
– participation in the annual doctoral workshop (2-3 days of presentation of the
progress of the research in the presence of the supervisor(s) and the board);
– research work on the thesis and preparation and presentation of a commented
table of contents and at least one chapter.

Third year:
– Seminars presenting the current research in the presence of the supervisor(s)
and the board and active participation in conferences and workshops;
– research work on the dissertation and preparation of at least one chapter;

Fourth year:
– completion of the dissertation.

2024-205

Courses and seminars 2024-2025 – Overview

Seminars PhD I semester 2024-25

2023-2024

Courses and seminars, 2023-2024 – Overview

Calendar 2023-2024

2022-2023

Courses and seminars 2022-2023 – Overview

2021-2022

Courses and seminars 2021-2022 – Overview

2020-2021

Courses and seminars 2020-2021 – Overview

2019-2020

Courses and seminars 2019-2020 – Overview

Reading lists, pdfs, and sources can be found in the GHG shared folder on Google drive: Global History and Governance – syllabi and materials.

2024-2025

Methods and Sources for Historical Research

1st Term

Daniela Luigia Caglioti (U. Napoli Federico II), Minorities and minority rights in Europe from Vienna to the European Convention on Human Rights

Ettore Costa (SSM), Global agents of internationalism: transnational activism through institutional and informal means

Angela Ferrari-Zumbini (U. Napoli Federico II), Artificial Intelligence Regulation: Problems and Perspectives

2nd Term

TBD, History of Asia

TBD, TBD

Giacinto della Cananea, (Bocconi, Milano), International Courts and Tribunals

2023-2024

1st Term

Mauro Bussani-Marta Infantino (U. Trieste), Introduction to Global Law

Daniela Luigia Caglioti (U. Napoli Federico II), Citizenship in wartime

Olindo De Napoli (U. Napoli Federico II), Seminar on Sources 2023-2024

Thaïs Gendry (SSM), Africa and Africans in Global History

Suzanne Levin (SSM), History of Natural Rights

2nd Term

Noureddine Amara (SSM), Migration, empires, and belonging to the State

Ettore Costa (SSM), Global Agents Within and Without Global Institutions: Internationalism as an Ideal and a Practice in the Twentieth Century

Giacinto della Cananea (U. Bocconi), Justice Beyond the State

Daniel MacArthur Seal (SSM), The opium trade

Aymeric Xu (SSM), Christianity in East Asia

2022-2023

1st Term

Mauro Bussani-Marta Infantino (U. Trieste), I Term, Introduction to Global Law

Aymeric Xu (SSM), I term, History of East Asia

Elyssa Gage (SSM)-Suzanne Levin (SSM), I Term Age of Revolution(s)

Orçun Okan (SSM), I  Term 2022-2023_Aftermaths of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans and the Middle East (1878–1939)

2nd Term

Giacinto della Cananea (U. Bocconi, Milano), II Term 2022-2023_Public Law and Globalization: Retrospective and Perspective

Andrea Graziosi (U. Napoli Federico II), II Term 2022-2023_Peoples, Nations, Classes, Races, Ethnies, Languages etc. Human Classification, Social Analysis, and Political Action from Herder to Gumilëv

Olindo De Napoli (U. Federico II) et al., I-II Terms 2022-2023_Historical Research and the Problem of Sources

Mohamed-Ali Adraoui (SSM) et al., Doing Research in Global History

Each doctoral student carries out the research for the dissertation under the
supervision of an advisor chosen from among the members of the Scientific Board.
The dissertation advisor is normally assisted by a second advisor chosen either from within or outside the Scientific board.

The promotion from the first to the second year and the approval of the dissertation topic are decided on the basis of the presentation of a detailed research project including a state of the art and a three-year work plan discussed with the Scientific board at the end of the first year. In addition to the discussion of the project itself and of the papers they have prepared for the seminar courses attended, the board may also ask the doctoral students to read and present a bibliography relevant to their future research.
The promotion from the second to the third year will take place on the basis of the report of the advisor(s), the discussion and approval of a detailed outline of the entire dissertation and a chapter.
The promotion from the third to the fourth year will take place on the basis of the report of the advisor(s), the presentation and discussion, and then approval by the director(s) of the thesis, of a further chapter, and a detailed table of contents.

The dissertation is expected to be delivered at the end of the fourth year (see section on submission’s guidelines).

Every PhD candidate in the Global History and Governance Program of the Scuola Superiore Meridionale and the Università di Napoli Federico II must complete and submit a dissertation to qualify for degree conferral.

This document provides information on submitting the dissertation for the final exam, formatting requirements and making the dissertation publicly available via the university repository. 

Guidelines for the submission of the dissertation for the final exam and the conferral of the degree

Zurich meets Naples, April 4-5, 2024

Doctoral workshop, Naples April 2-3, 2024 (third and fourth-year students)

Natural Rights and Politics in the Early Modern Period – Naples, 2-3 November 2023

Ideare, progettare, realizzare. L’organizzazione del progetto scientifico nelle aree umanistiche, 20-23 maggio 2023

Doctoral Workshop – Aprile 12-13, 2023

Recasting subjects and subjectivities in the writing of history: strategies, spaces and conflicts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – June 22-24, 2022

Nationality and Citizenship in Occupied Istanbul (1918-23) – June 10, 2022

From January to May, graduate students, postdocs and faculty meet every Tuesday
in a seminar in which they present the progress of their research

2023-2024_GHG Research Workshop

2022-2023_GHG Research Workshop

2021-2022_GHG Research Workshop

2020-2021_GHG Research workshop

Each year, the doctorate organizes short courses and seminars to train doctoral
students in the critical use of digital resources and familiarize students with
reference managers, databases, GIS, etc. It also organizes courses on how to write,
submit, and manage a paper, an article or a research project, and on funding
opportunities.
Valorization of research results and intellectual property: The School organizes
meetings on the study of the regulations for the valorization and dissemination of
scientific research, the protection of research results and authors, the protection of
intellectual property and patenting methods in the national and international field.

Soft skills – Schedule – 2023-2024

The Global History and Governance area participates in the organization of a monthly seminar in collaboration with historians from the Departments of Social Sciences and Humanities of the University of Naples Federico II and the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Naples L’Orientale

16th Naples Modern and Contemporary History Seminar – Programma 2022-2023

15th Naples Modern and Contemporary History Seminar – Programma 2021-2022

14th Naples Modern and Contemporary History Seminar – Programma 2020-2021

2022-2023

Seminar Series: 16th Naples Modern and Contemporary History Seminar Series

Doctoral students spend periods of study abroad and are offered the
possibility of carrying out their thesis through co-supervision agreements.

Course duration: 4 years
Scholarship: € 19,000 (annually). 

The scholarship is tax-exempt. Students must enroll in the Italian pension fund and pay their contribution). Additional funds for research activities in Italy and abroad supplement each scholarship (10% of the scholarship in the first year and 20% in subsequent years).

For information on the PhD program, you may contact the following address: ghg@ssmeridionale.it

The program publishes a weekly newsletter with all its activities. Those who wish to receive the newsletter may ask to be added by writing to ghg@ssmeridionale.it