AltSOU’24 Opening Ceremony!
Villa Schifanoia’s Gardens European University Insitute, Florence, ItalyJoin altSoU’24 opening ceremony! Featuring statements from altSoU’24 organisers and an intervention of the EUI President Patrizia Nanz. Venue
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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, ItalyWHO? 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, ItalyWho? 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, ItalyLet’s gather to Fiasco Social Club and raise our glasses to critical minds and radical futures! Venue
Political humanitarianism, the Black Mediterranean and border violence
Sala Triaria (Villa Schifanoia) + on zoom Florence, ItalyWHO? 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 […]
Beyond borders? Academic and activist research at EU borders
Sala Triaria (Villa Schifanoia) + on zoom Florence, ItalyThis roundtable focuses on borders and calls for a dialogue that brings empirical, conceptual and philosophical perspectives together.
We are not on the same boat: Power walk and reflexive lunch
Villa Schifanoia’s Gardens European University Insitute, Florence, ItalyWe are not in the same boat: power walk
Teach-in on de/coloniality and our place in Europe
Villa Schifanoia’s Gardens European University Insitute, Florence, ItalyWho? Carla Vitantonio What? In this teach-in session, I would like to invite participants to build together a reflection on coloniality in our own system and culture. I am assuming that most of us come from different places, located at variable distance from the mainstream European culture (system, society, model, whatever), and from this unique […]
Intimately Material: Collective Reflexion on the Material Conditions of Academia
Sala del Capitolo (Badia) + on zoom European University Insitute, Florence, ItalyJoint 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’ […]
Exposing Fortress Europe? The role of the University
Sala del Capitolo (Badia) + on zoom European University Insitute, Florence, ItalyWHO? José Bautista WHAT? Our goal during this summative session on Migration is to plan direct involvement, as university members, in the fight against the migration control industry and the externalisation of EU border controls. With the help of an independent investigative journalist from Spain, we shall discuss how migration control mechanisms are sustained by […]
It’s (still) capitalism, stupid!
Sala del Consiglio (Villa Salviati) + on zoom European University Insitute, Florence, ItalyWHO? 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 […]
Collective Brainstorming and Concluding Event
Badia’s gardens European University Institute, Florence, ItalyParticipatory assembly on concluding Alt-SoU’24 & co-designing potential output Open to all critical minds interested in building radical futures! More info soon! Venue