Pricey silence! Are The EU values at stake in the Southern Neighbourhood?

Sala del Capitolo (Badia) + on zoom European University Insitute, Florence, Italy

Joint event organised by STG Fellows WHO? Abbas Sibai, Policy Leader Fellow Louis Blin, Visiting Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre Nicholas Milanese, Visiting Fellow, Florence School of Transnational Governance Elena Asciutti, Coordinator for External Relations, European University Institute WHAT? This talk will discuss the EU’s approach to the Southern Neighborhood, focusing on Lebanon and Gaza, where […]

Sinking Europe, Thinking migration: the law in theory and practice

Sala Triaria (Villa Schifanoia) + on zoom Florence, Italy

WHO? Martina Flamini (Ufficio del Massimario in Corte di Cassazione), Chiara Favilli (UniFi), Françoise Blum (Navire Avenir), Romain Lanneau (Statewatch), SOS Méditerranée (Name tbc), Tineke Strik (European Parliament) WHAT? The European Union seems to be determined to contain migration at any cost, including the high chance of being complicit in the death at sea of […]

Palestine & Academia: protecting academic freedom & exploring the power dynamics, logistics and obstacles faced by Palestinian scholars at risk

Sala Triaria (Villa Schifanoia) + on zoom Florence, Italy

WHO? Arees Bishara (Tel Aviv University), Maria Chiara Rioli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Federica Stagni (Scuola Normale Superiore & SESAMO), Jairo Flores-Funez (Texas Tech University), Anna Younes (Graduate Institute), Malaka Shaikh (University of St Andrews) WHAT? The EUI Working Group on Palestine and the Legal and Political Theory WG present a joint two-part […]

Political humanitarianism, the Black Mediterranean and border violence

Sala Triaria (Villa Schifanoia) + on zoom Florence, Italy

WHO? Beppe Caccia (Mediterranea), David Yambio (Alliance for the Refugees in Libya), Ida Danewid (University of Sussex), Vivian Gerrand (Deakin University) and others! WHAT? This unconference panel is an ‘egalitarian exchange of questions’, which aims to bring humanitarian organisations into dialogue with university-based activists working for the rights and dignity of migrant people within and […]

Intimately Material: Collective Reflexion on the Material Conditions of Academia

Sala del Capitolo (Badia) + on zoom European University Insitute, Florence, Italy

Joint event organised in collaboration with the EUI Queer and Feminist Working Group WHAT? The workshop is part of the conference “Intimately Material: Violence, Social Reproduction, & Queerness in Transition”, organised by the EUI Queer and Feminist Working Group at the EUI. In the workshop, we will interrogate the place of academia and the participants’ […]

It’s (still) capitalism, stupid!

Sala del Consiglio (Villa Salviati) + on zoom European University Insitute, Florence, Italy

WHO? Daniela Chironi (Scuola Normale Superiore) Eraldo Souza Dos Santos (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne) Jessica Whyte (University of New South Wales) Lorenzo Zamponi (Scuola Normale Superiore) Lorenzo Cini (University College Cork) Veronika Zablotsky (Freie Universität Berlin) WHAT? In 2013, the Collettivo Prezzemolo, a group of politically engaged PhD researchers and PostDocs at the EUI, organised the “Festival […]