Programme Launch and Fiasco Fundraising Party with Karaoke!

Fiasco Social Club Badia Fiesolana, EUI, Florence, Italy

Join us for our fundraising party as we launch the programme of the AltSOU unconference 2024 (29 April, 20-22 May). There will be karaoke! So come together, sing your heart out, raise a glass and embrace the joy of collective action! Note: +1€ on all drinks to go towards AltSOU costs. Fiasco opens: 19:00 Programme […]

European Launch of the PWO Report: “Workers in all but pay, name, and conditions”

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

In 2023, the Postgraduate Researchers’ Organisation (PWO) of Ireland commissioned its branch at the European University Institute (EUI) to issue a survey and compile a report on instances of employee status for PhD researchers across the European Research Area (ERA).

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 […]

AltSOU’24 Opening Ceremony!

Villa Schifanoia’s Gardens European University Insitute, Florence, Italy

Join altSoU’24 opening ceremony! Featuring statements from altSoU’24 organisers and an intervention of the EUI President Patrizia Nanz.   Venue

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 […]

Antifascismo in Italia – A talk with local activists

Fiasco Social Club Badia Fiesolana, EUI, Florence, Italy

Who? Marco Filippini (Love My Way), Daria Campriani (Intersexioni), Non una di meno Firenze, Julia Kaiser (University of Leipzig), Collettivo di Fabbrica What? (English below) L’estrema destra avanza in Europa. Stiamo assistendo al ritorno della politica autoritaria e alla repressione strisciante dei movimenti sociali e dei dissidenti politici. Negli ultimi mesi, il dibattito italiano ha […]

AltSoU’24 opening party!

Fiasco Social Club Badia Fiesolana, EUI, Florence, Italy

Let’s gather to Fiasco Social Club and raise our glasses to critical minds and radical futures! Venue