BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//AltSOU - ECPv6.3.7//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:AltSOU X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://altsou.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for AltSOU REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Rome BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240522T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240522T130000 DTSTAMP:20260607T024522 CREATED:20240418T171538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240513T172756Z UID:584-1716368400-1716382800@altsou.com SUMMARY:It’s (still) capitalism\, stupid! DESCRIPTION:WHO?\nDaniela Chironi (Scuola Normale Superiore) \nEraldo Souza Dos Santos (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne) \nJessica Whyte (University of New South Wales) \nLorenzo Zamponi (Scuola Normale Superiore) \nLorenzo Cini (University College Cork) \nVeronika Zablotsky (Freie Universität Berlin) \nWHAT?\nIn 2013\, the Collettivo Prezzemolo\, a group of politically engaged PhD researchers and PostDocs at the EUI\, organised the “Festival of the other Europe – It’s capitalism\, stupid!”. This event can be regarded as the precursor to the Alternative State of the Union (un)conference\, which held a pilot event in May last year. Eleven years on from the original “Festival of the other Europe”\, we are inviting alumna members of the Colletivo Prezzemolo\, as well as other activist-academics\, to lead a horizontal discussion entitled “It’s (still) capitalism\, stupid!”\, picking up on the themes and topics of the conversation (policing\, surveillance\, civil society\, radical democracy\, nationalism\, austerity\, etc)\, especially when it comes to social movements\, how the economic situation is influencing the political situation at present\, and how we as activist-academics can respond with a progressive or radical agenda that can give hope in a period of poly-crisis. We will also be discussing what it means to be an activist-academic. This event is also an opportunity to link with EUI alumni\, SNS\, Paris 1\, FU Berlin\, and even further afield. \nAbout the speakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaniela Chironi (bio tbc)\n\n\nEraldo Souza dos Santos (they/them/theirs)\, MA\, is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at Panthéon-Sorbonne University\, in France. They will be a Klarman Fellow at the Department of Government of Cornell University from August 2024) and will become an Assistant Professor of Criminology\, Law and Society at the University of California – Irvine from July 2025. They are a historian of legal and political thought. Their research explores how political concepts have come to shape political discourse and political practice\, and how political actors have come to contest the meaning of these concepts in turn. In their current book project\, they trace the global history of the idea of civil disobedience. They are also currently writing a family memoir on race and modern slavery in Brazil. Their next project and monograph will provide a racial genealogy of the idea that it is necessary to defend democracy against its enemies. They engage in anti- racist\, anti-war\, and climate activism. More information can be found at their website: https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/\n\n\nJessica Whyte (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales\, in Australia. Her research interests include the intersection of political economy and legal/moral discourses\, particularly when it comes to human rights and humanitarianism\, as well as the use of economic power in international politics\, including economic sanctions.\n\n\nLorenzo Zamponi (bio tbc)\n\n\nLorenzo Cini (he/his/him) is a lecturer in Employment Relations at University College Cork in the Ireland. His teaching and research focus is on employment relations\, labour movements\, and labour conflicts. He also engages in social movements and is a labour activist.\n\n\nProf Dr Veronika Zablotsky (she/her) is affiliated to Universität Koblenz and to Freie Universität Berlin\, both in Germany. Her teaching and research focus is on political theories\, transnational feminist theory\, postcolonial theory and post-socialism in Eurasia\, and critical migration and diaspora studies. She engages in social justice\, anti- racist\, queer-feminist activism\, and advocates for no borders\, internationalism\, and contemporary abolitionism.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the event’s format and timetable\n \nIntroduction \n\n\n\n0900-0920: Introductory round (names\, pronouns\, occupation\, activism\, feelings today – reveal only what comfortable with). Self-introductions only. Outline of today’s schedule. Go around the room asking if there are any particular points or issues they would like to see raised today and if they would like to see something come out of today’s discussion. \nEUI activism\, past and present \n0920-0930: What was the Colletivo Prezzemollo? (Daniela Chironi or Lorenzo Zamponi) \n0930-0940: What was the Festival of the other Europe – It’s capitalism\, stupid\, event? (Daniela Chironi or Lorenzo Zamponi) \n0940-0945: What is the EUI Researchers’ Union? (EUIRU delegate) 0945-0950: What is the Alternative State of the Union? \n0950-10:00: Short break. \nWhy is it (still) capitalism\, stupid? Do you think it is (still) capitalism? \n1000-1010: Jessica Whyte \n10:10-1020: Lorenzo Cini \n1020-1100: Open discussion \n1100-1130: Long break \nWhat is it to be an activist-academic in the modern\, neo-liberal university? Would you call yourself an activist-academic? \n1130-1140: Veronika Zablotsky \n1140-1150: Eraldo Souza dos Santos \n1150-1230: Open discussion \n1230-1240: Short break \n1240-1300: Cool-down\, breathing exercises. Roundtable on feelings and positive take-aways from today’s session and the past few days. Roundtable on what we would have maybe liked to see discussed that we could not fit in. Roundtable on what we would like to see into the future. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter the event closes at 1300\, attendees are invited to join us as we walk to Badia Fiesolana for lunch. The Alternative State of the Union Unconference will continue at 1400 in the EUI Library Garden for our concluding participatory brainstorming session. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue URL:https://altsou.com/event/its-still-capitalism-stupid/ LOCATION:Sala del Consiglio (Villa Salviati) + on zoom\, European University Insitute\, Florence\, Italy CATEGORIES:altSOU'24,Hybrid event,Roundtable END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240521T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240521T123000 DTSTAMP:20260607T024522 CREATED:20240418T164533Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240513T101847Z UID:558-1716289200-1716294600@altsou.com SUMMARY:Beyond borders? Academic and activist research at EU borders DESCRIPTION:WHO?\nFederico Alagna (Scuola Normale Superiore)\, Kamila Fiałkowska (University of Warsaw and Badaczki i Badacze na Granicy)\, Giulia Fabini (University of Bologna) and Martina Tazzioli (University of Bologna) \nWHAT?\nThis roundtable focuses on borders and calls for a dialogue that brings empirical\, conceptual and philosophical perspectives together. While Frontex has increased its workforce to control the external borders next to national border guards\, it is also becoming increasingly normal to encounter border controls within the Schengen area itself. External and internal borders of the European Union (EU) are spaces of daily violence and illegal pushbacks\, but also of daily resistance from those on the move and their supporters. How do we tell the story of this resurgence of borders in Europe? Have they always been so present\, or are they just more visible? What is our role as researchers and/or activists doing research at/on borders?  \nThis roundtable invites speakers to share their experiences – as academics and/or activists – at the internal and external borders of the EU. Through a roundtable format\, the event aims at:  \n\nSharing field experiences about the situation at particular borders in Europe\nDiscussing the changing nature of borders and of (re/de)-bordering practices and their effect on people on the move and locals\nReflecting collectively on more critical understandings of borders and migration\nDiscussing how it is possible to navigate political engagements within academic institutions Each participant will make a presentation of their research and/or activist experience of 10 minutes\, after which we will open the floor for discussion.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\n\nGiulia Fabini is a Junior Assistant Professor in the Department of Legal Studies at the University of Bologna. She holds a PhD in Law and Society from the University of Milan and was a student researcher at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at UC Berkeley. Giulia’s research focuses on border control and the interaction between migrants and the police\, migrant struggles\, immigration courts\, and the prison system from a gender perspective. She is currently collaborating on two research projects on police women and the prison police. Giulia acted as the Assistant Editor for the European Journal of Criminology (2017-2020) and she is a member of the editorial boards of Studi sulla questione criminale\, Rivista Antigone\, and Justice\, Power and Resistance. As an activist\, she is an observer of Antigone Association and has the authorization to visit prisons in Emilia-Romagna region. She is part of the European Society of Criminology\, the European Group for the study of deviance and social control\, and the Law and Society Association. Her most recent publication is Governing Immobility in the COVID-19 Crisis in Italy: Non-conforming Behaviors of Migrants Confronting the New Old Processes of Othering\n\n\nKamila Fiałkowska is a researcher at the Centre of Migration Research\, University of Warsaw and one of the coordinators of the Researchers on the Borders (Badaczki i Badacze na Granicy – https://www.bbng.org/) – a grassroots\, inter-university\, interdisciplinary research network created in response to the ongoing humanitarian crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border. Kamila obtained her PhD in 2018 at the Faculty of Political Studies and International Relations at the University of Warsaw. Her research focuses on gender relations in migratory settings\, masculinity studies and family relations\, as well as the construction of national and gender identities. \n\n\nMartina Tazzioli is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Cultures at the University of Bologna. She holds a PhD in Politics from Goldsmiths\, University of London\, and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Pisa. Martina’s research is situated at the crossroads of Political Geography\, Critical Migration and Border Studies\, and Political Philosophy. She is currently working on three projects: One on memory of border controls and migrants’ struggles\, a related project about counter-mapping and legal geographies of border violence on the central Mediterranean route\, and a research project about social reproduction activities in camps\, with a focus on Greece. Her latest publications include Border abolitionism: migration containment and the genealogies of struggles (2023)\, The Making of Migration. The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe’s Borders (2019)\, and Spaces of Governmentality: Autonomous Migration and the Arab Uprisings (2015). \n\n\nFederico Alagna is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Political Science and Political Sociology in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Bologna. Federico’s research focuses on the politics of migration in the EU and Italy\, with specific reference to the migrant smuggling policy regime\, the role of civil society actors in the production of migration policies from below\, the criminalisation of people on the move and solidarity initiatives. He is a political activist\, mostly in the migrant solidarity and right to the city movements\, and is part of the sea rescue initiative Mediterranea Saving Humans. In the past\, Federico has also served as Deputy-Mayor for Culture and Public Education of the City of Messina.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue URL:https://altsou.com/event/beyond-borders-academic-and-activist-research-at-eu-borders/ LOCATION:Sala Triaria (Villa Schifanoia) + on zoom\, Florence\, Italy CATEGORIES:altSOU'24,Hybrid event,Roundtable END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240520T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240520T120000 DTSTAMP:20260607T024522 CREATED:20240417T172018Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240513T094717Z UID:342-1716199200-1716206400@altsou.com SUMMARY:Sinking Europe\, Thinking migration: the law in theory and practice DESCRIPTION:WHO?\nMartina 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) \nWHAT?\nThe 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 people attempting to access Europe\, and of fundamental rights breaches at its borders. A growing number of regulations and legislative proposals aim at creating major obstacles to prevent people on the move from enjoying their fundamental rights. Additionally\, internal regulations continue to separate people depending on the basis of social\, cultural and ethnic faultlines. While theorizing migration law as racist and postcolonial seems quite straightforward\, forging practices of resistance becomes more and more arduous due to the political landscape.The roundtable provides a platform for a critical discussion on the multifaceted challenges and complexities surrounding the legal framework of migration in the European Union (EU). Drawing on diverse perspectives from civil society\, policymaking\, activists and practitioners\, the roundtable will delve into these matters through a collaborative dialogue. The hope is that through lively exchanges among the participants\, innovative strategies of resistance and creative policy proposals can be imagined. \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\n\nMartina Flamini\, civil judge engaged in migration and asylum law\, privacy law\, human rights\, data protection\, non discrimination\, and medical malpractice. She is currently working in Ufficio del Massimario of the Italian Court of Cassation. She is a member of groups “asylum and migration”\, European project ACTIONES\, REJUS and FRICORE in the field of asylum and migration. Martina Flamini is also a judicial trainer of the Italian School of Judiciary and of the EUAA. Martina Flamini is going to contribute to the collective reflection on (sinking) Europe dealing with migration and asylum drawing from her vast experience on the field as a judge.\n\n  \n\nChiara Favilli\, lawyer and professor of EU law at University of Florence. Chiara acted as a lawyer in a Dublin case before the CJEU in preliminary reference procedure (C‐228/21\, C‐254/21\, C‐297/21\, C‐315/21 e C‐328/21). She will share her experience in challenging the most disreputable piece of legislation in EU migration law\n\n  \n\nFrançoise Blum\, former European civil servant\, she is currently engaged in the Navire Avenir Project\, which aims at the creation of a European Maritime Flag for operations of rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. Françoise will present how this project fits into the European migration context and discuss the role of the law in shaping the rescue of migrants at sea.\n\n  \n\nRomain Lanneau\, Consultant researcher working for Statewatch\, a civil society organisation that produces and promotes critical research\, policy analysis and investigative journalism to inform debates\, movements and campaigns on civil liberties\, human rights and democratic standards. Romain will discuss the use of secret evidence in migration and asylum cases in the EU and the potential (in theory) for data protection to offer an effective remedy\n\n  \n\nTineke Strik is an MEP in the European Parliament since 2019\, affiliated with the Greens. She is also a professor of Citizenship and Migration Law at Radboud University. She will offer a political perspective on European migration law and in particular talk about the New Pact on Migration and Asylum that has been discussed in and adopted by the Parliament in April 2024. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n \n Details \n \n \n\n \n Date: \n \n May 14\, 2024 \n \n\n Time: \n \n \n 10:00 – 12:00 CEST\n \n \n\n \n \n \n Event Categories: altSOU’24\, Hybrid event\, Roundtable\n Event Tags:EU law\, Europe\, Human Rights\, International Law\, Lebanon\, Palestine\n \n \n\n \n\n \n Organiser \n \n \n \n \n STG Fellows \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nVenue \n\n\n\n \n \n\n \n Sala Triaria (Villa Schifanoia) + on zoom\n \n\n \n \n \n\n\n Florence\,\n\n\n\n Italy\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Add to calendar \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Google Calendar \n \n \n \n iCalendar \n \n \n \n Outlook 365 \n \n \n \n Outlook Live URL:https://altsou.com/event/sinking-europe-thinking-migration-the-law-in-theory-and-practice/ LOCATION:Sala Triaria (Villa Schifanoia) + on zoom\, Florence\, Italy CATEGORIES:altSOU'24,Hybrid event,Roundtable END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240514T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240514T120000 DTSTAMP:20260607T024522 CREATED:20240428T205856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240512T113909Z UID:852-1715680800-1715688000@altsou.com SUMMARY:Pricey silence! Are The EU values at stake in the Southern Neighbourhood? DESCRIPTION:Joint event organised by STG Fellows \nWHO?\n\n\nAbbas Sibai\, Policy Leader Fellow\nLouis Blin\, Visiting Fellow\, Robert Schuman Centre\nNicholas Milanese\, Visiting Fellow\, Florence School of Transnational Governance\nElena Asciutti\, Coordinator for External Relations\, European University Institute\n\n\nWHAT?\n\nThis talk will discuss the EU’s approach to the Southern Neighborhood\, focusing on Lebanon and Gaza\, where pressing geopolitical dynamics impact stability\, security\, and prosperity. \nAgainst economic crises\, political instability\, and humanitarian concerns\, this talk aims to assess whether the EU’s European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) adequately reflects its values and interests in promoting positive change. Panelists will offer diverse perspectives and actionable recommendations and provide insights into geopolitical factors shaping the ENP’s trajectory. The talk will invite attendees from policymaking\, academia\, and development practice to explore innovative strategies for EU-civil society collaboration and discuss practical solutions tailored to the region’s needs. \nREGISTRATION\nRegistration via the EUI event page: https://www.eui.eu/events?id=568037 \n  \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue URL:https://altsou.com/event/pricey-silence-are-the-eu-values-at-stake-in-the-southern-neighbourhood/ LOCATION:Sala del Capitolo (Badia) + on zoom\, European University Insitute\, Florence\, Italy CATEGORIES:altSOU'24,Hybrid event,Roundtable END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR