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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240521T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240521T103000
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SUMMARY:Political humanitarianism\, the Black Mediterranean and border violence
DESCRIPTION:WHO?\nBeppe Caccia (Mediterranea)\, David Yambio (Alliance for the Refugees in Libya)\, Ida Danewid (University of Sussex)\, Vivian Gerrand (Deakin University) and others! \nWHAT?\nThis 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 Europe. Among other questions\, we will discuss what the historical role of mobility controls has been in capturing and disciplining a mobile workforce\, and how activist-academic discourse can build practically applicable counter-narratives to this. We will critique and formulate political alternatives to today’s humanitarian discourse by exploring non-statist forms of care and communality seen among Mediterranean communities. We will examine new possibilities thrown up by the way the Black Mediterranean and ‘bordered’ violence have changed over the past 20 years. We will centre the role of refugees as protagonists in the fight for human rights\, particularly in the context of Libyan refugees in Italy. These questions\, collectively reflected upon\, will feed into the creation of an action plan for use by university communities who wish to bridge the gap between academia\, humanitarian activism and journalism for migrant rights.  \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\n\nDr. Ida Danewid is a social and political theorist based in the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex. Her research interests are in anticolonial political thought\, the black radical tradition\, gender studies\, and histories of internationalism “from below.” She is the author of Resisting Racial Capitalism: An Antipolitical Theory of Refusal (Cambridge University Press). \n\n\n Vivian Gerrand is a scholar of alternative / counter narratives\, migration\, citizenship\, postcoloniality\, radicalisation and resilience who has been studying cultures of migration in Italy since 2003. She lives with European heritage on the unceded lands of the Kulin Nation in Naarm (Melbourne\, Australia)\, where she was born.\n\n\nDavid Yambio (Alliance for the Refugees in Libya) – To be completed\n\n\nBeppe Caccia (Mediterranea)- To be completed\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/political-humanitarianism-the-black-mediterranean-and-border-violence/
LOCATION:Sala Triaria (Villa Schifanoia) + on zoom\, Florence\, Italy
CATEGORIES:altSOU'24,Hybrid event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240521T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240521T123000
DTSTAMP:20260424T064859
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240521T124500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240521T140000
DTSTAMP:20260424T064859
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SUMMARY:We are not on the same boat: Power walk and reflexive lunch
DESCRIPTION:WHO?\nCarla Vitantonio \nWHAT?\nThis simple and participatory exercise allows a physical and direct experience of power differences in a group. The setting of reference will be that of migration. Every participant will be given a role and it’s important that everyone seriously tries to embody the character they are assigned. The facilitator will then give instructions\, and everyone will act according to their character.Spatial movement will show differences between people. At the end of the exercise\, we will do a moment of defusing\, debriefing\, collective reflection. \nThe maximum number of participants is 25. \nIt does not require special abilities\, but it does require the possibility to move in the space from a line. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nIndependent researcher\, humanitarian and development professional\, performer: Carla Vitantonio focuses\, throughout her work\, on coloniality and on its impact on communities\, practices and knowledges. She lived and worked in North Korea\, Myanmar\, and Cuba\, engaging in community disaster preparedness\, social justice\, and crisis management.In 2022 she started “Living decoloniality”\, a toolkit that collects decolonial practices through the aid sector\, which became a podcast\, and is produced by the Centre for Humanitarian Leadership. She is a member of the board of the International Humanitarian Studies Association. In 2022 she was awarded the honor of Cavaliere all’Ordine della Stella d’Italia for her action in the humanitarian sector.Her current research looks at coloniality and subalternity in Italy. \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/power-walk-and-reflexive-lunch/
LOCATION:Villa Schifanoia’s Gardens\, European University Insitute\, Florence\, Italy
CATEGORIES:altSOU'24,In-person event,Participatory event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240521T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240521T153000
DTSTAMP:20260424T064859
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SUMMARY:Teach-in on de/coloniality and our place in Europe
DESCRIPTION:Who?\nCarla Vitantonio \nWhat?\nIn 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 perspective each one will contribute to the session\, following Haraway’s inspiration (1988\, 2016) and creating a temporary web of kin.For this purpose\, I will give a short theoretical introduction based on the colonial matrix of power (Quijano 2000\, 2007)\, and embodied by my own experience of queer\, stigmatized woman\, migrant and daughter of migrants.If you are inspired\, before joining the session you can listen to my podcast “Living decoloniality”. \n \nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nIndependent researcher\, humanitarian and development professional\, performer: Carla Vitantonio focuses\, throughout her work\, on coloniality and on its impact on communities\, practices and knowledges. She lived and worked in North Korea\, Myanmar\, and Cuba\, engaging in community disaster preparedness\, social justice\, and crisis management. In 2022 she started “Living decoloniality”\, a toolkit that collects decolonial practices through the aid sector\, which became a podcast\, and is produced by the Centre for Humanitarian Leadership. She is a member of the board of the International Humanitarian Studies Association. In 2022 she was awarded the honor of Cavaliere all’Ordine della Stella d’Italia for her action in the humanitarian sector.Her current research looks at coloniality and subalternity in Italy. \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/teach-in-on-de-coloniality/
LOCATION:Villa Schifanoia’s Gardens\, European University Insitute\, Florence\, Italy
CATEGORIES:altSOU'24,In-person event,Participatory discussion,Participatory event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240521T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240521T173000
DTSTAMP:20260424T064859
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SUMMARY:Intimately Material: Collective Reflexion on the Material Conditions of Academia
DESCRIPTION:Joint event organised in collaboration with the EUI Queer and Feminist Working Group \nWHAT?\nThe 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.  \nIn the workshop\, we will interrogate the place of academia and the participants’ lived experiences of doing research. By collectively writing “sick notes”\, we want to discuss themes related to the material conditions of doing research\, such as job uncertainty\, capitalistic approaches to research\, academic mobility\, and social reproduction. Our conclusions will be turned into a collective statement expressing our own experienced materialities and ideas of change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE*\n\n\n*Note that registration to this joint event is via the EUI webpage. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://altsou.com/event/intimately-material-collective-reflexion-on-the-material-conditions-of-academia/
LOCATION:Sala del Capitolo (Badia) + on zoom\, European University Insitute\, Florence\, Italy
CATEGORIES:altSOU'24,Hybrid event,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240521T181500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240521T191500
DTSTAMP:20260424T064859
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SUMMARY:Exposing Fortress Europe? The role of the University
DESCRIPTION:WHO?\nJosé Bautista \nWHAT?\nOur 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 political fear-mongering and public spending\, maintained through EU regulations\, and promoted by academia. In line with the 2024 EU New Pact on Migration and Asylum\, democratic governments with connections to authoritarian regimes\, universities\, corporations and large NGOs work together to support a model based on detention\, deportation and externalisation. We shall also revisit questions and perspectives explored during our roundtable on Political Humanitarianism\, the Mediterranean and Border Violence\, with the practical purpose of creating an action plan that university members can use\, in collaboration with activists\, journalists\, and members of civil society\, to work towards alternatives to these models. \nAbout the speaker\nJosé Bautista is an independent investigative journalist based in Spain and specialized in economics migrations. He leads the investigative journalism team at Fundación porCausa\, and also works for The New York Times and Der Spiegel. Bautista has worked for other media outlets and organizations\, including The Wall Street Journal\, Público\, La Marea\, Agencia EFE\, El País\, El Confidencial\, Lighthouse Reports\, OCCRP\, Folha de São Paulo\, eldiario.es\, and CEPAL\, among others. He holds a double master ‘s degree at Sorbonne Paris and the ESCP Business School.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue – TBC
URL:https://altsou.com/event/exposing-fortress-europe-the-role-of-the-university/
LOCATION:Sala del Capitolo (Badia) + on zoom\, European University Insitute\, Florence\, Italy
CATEGORIES:altSOU'24
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240522T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240522T130000
DTSTAMP:20260424T064859
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240513T172756Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240522T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240522T160000
DTSTAMP:20260424T064859
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SUMMARY:Collective Brainstorming and Concluding Event
DESCRIPTION:Participatory assembly on concluding Alt-SoU’24 & co-designing potential output \nOpen to all critical minds interested in building radical futures! \nMore info soon! \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/collective-brainstorming-and-concluding-event/
LOCATION:Badia’s gardens\, European University Institute\, Florence\, Italy
CATEGORIES:altSOU'24,Assembly,Participatory discussion,Participatory event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240611T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240611T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T064859
CREATED:20240610T093703Z
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SUMMARY:Protect Academic Freedom & The Right to Protest: Anti-Zionism ≠ Anti-Semitism!
DESCRIPTION:“Toscana Aperta – Demands Symposium Against Scholasticide in Gaza and Palestine” is a follow-up to the Florence Encampment for Palestine\, organised by students\, researchers and workers from University of Florence\, Scuola Normale Superiore and the European University Institute. \n\n\n\nProtect Academic Freedom & The Right to Protest: Anti-Zionism ≠ Anti-Semitism! \n\n\n\nThis event is the first in a series of events organized by students and researchers from EUI\, SNS\, and UniFi with the goal of opening up a constructive space to address the collective demands formulated in Piazza Shireen Abu Akleh.  \n\n\n\n11.06.2024\, we will explore how certain definitions of antisemitism are used to shut down dissent and create an environment that is hostile to the critique of Israel and of Zionism. This represents a real danger to academic freedom and freedom of expression\, which needs to be addressed by Universities that have to guarantee a space for critical discussions.   \n\n\n\nThe goals of the initiative are: \n\n\n\nPresent to the communities of SNS\, EUI\, and Unifi the Encampment initiative and its core 4 shared demands and create a dialogue on the military-industrial-academic complex in Israeli and its impact on the daily life of the Palestinian people\, during this war in Gaza and in Palestine in general \n\n\n\nHold the 3 universities accountable for the written commitments they approved during the 10 days of the encampment \n\n\n\nCreate an opportunity of dialogue within the different academic communities both to gain the support of those faculty members that are still reluctant to support the 4-demands and to create a meaningful dialogue on the role of scholars\, students and researchers in the Israeli system of occupation and war. \n\n\n\nIncrease the mobilization within the different universities and create a more favourable environment for other “academic activists” who want to come out and join the broader mobilization \n\n\n\nUltimately the initiative is another “instrument” of the shared political strategy developed between Unifi\, SNS and EUI students and researchers and it is part of the “transparency” and “truth” efforts aiming at putting pressure on the academic institutions to act quickly. \n\n\n\nYou can join us in Person\, or online under the following link:  \n\n\n\nhttps://zoom.us/j/95341245239?pwd=Ya1aiUPCcOKNU9DLqEBh19Y6zxZcQV.1 \n\n\n\nMeeting ID: 953 4124 5239 \n\n\n\nPasscode: 410242PRELIMINARY READINGS ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANTIZIONISM AND ANTISEMITISM AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM \n\n\n\nYou can download here the booklet “Florence Students Encampent: demands and political materials” (v1 – 7th June 2024)Studente ebreo all’Occupazione per la Palestina: “Antisemita? No. Giusto condannare i crimini israeliani”. (FirenzeToday)The Palestine exception to Academic Freedom (Decolonial Thought and Praxis)The Jerusalem Declaration on Anti-Semitism is an Orientalist text (Al Jazeera)Summary of the webinar “The anti-semitism label: Fighting Discrimination v. Silencing Critical Voices” (Law4Palestine)Why are America’s elite uWhy are America’s elite universities so afraid of this scholar’s paper?niversities so afraid of this scholar’s paper? (The Guardian)Whatever happend to anti-semitism? (Plutopress)Presumptively Antisemitic: Islamophobic tropes in the Palestine Israel Discourse (Rutgers University Law School)Younes\, Anna-Esther. “Fighting Anti-Semitism in Contemporary Germany.” Islamophobia Studies Journal\, vol. 5\, no. 2\, 2020\, pp. 249–66. JSTOR\,  \n\n\n\nA lot of Palestinians here have the feeling of being invisible (The Left Berlin)Invention of the Mizrahim (Al Jazeera)A victory for anti-zionists in the UK (Al Jazeera)DETAILS ON THE FORMAT – SUBMIT YOUR QUESTION \n\n\n\nThe first session of our three-part symposium series for a toscana aperta will not be structured according to the traditional format of academic presentations followed by a q and a. Instead\, our roundtable will follow a more participatory format\, wherein we shall engage in an egalitarian exchange of questions. This will permit all participants\, regardless of their level of expertise\, to exchange stories\, gain insight into each others points of view\, and collectively answer questions that will help us think about how to protect academic freedom and the right to protest for palestine. \n\n\n\nWe ask you to choose from among the following guiding questions or come up with questions of your own that you would like to address collectively tomorrow. You can also submit your questions anonymously if you wish to do so. \n\n\n\nGUIDING QUESTIONS – SUBMIT YOUR QUESTION ANONYMOUSLY \n\n\n\nwhy should we distinguish between anti-zionism and anti-semitism? \n\n\n\n1) How would investigation into the official definition of these concepts promote academic freedom? \n\n\n\n2) When and how can the weaponisation of antisemitism become a way to silence protest\, critical thinking and dissent? \n\n\n\n3) How does the confusion between these two concepts\, as well as the lack of research on palestine and the occupation\, contribute to the invisibilisation of palestinian people and their points of view? \n\n\n\nHow can universities integrate the demand for academic freedom and the right to protest into their initiatives for equality\, diversity and inclusivity? \n\n\n\n1) How can a demand for academic freedom be formulated\, that would protect the rights of palestinian\, arab\, muslim\, jewish\, pro-palestinian students and other concerned identities to research palestine and the occupation? \n\n\n\n2) How can an edi programme be reformulated to protect these freedoms\, in the context of sns\, unifi\, the eui and other universities? \n\n\n\nWhat do you need\, as a researcher and scholar\, to feel empowered to take a stand and act in support of palestine and against the occupation\, genocide and apartheid engaged in by the israeli state? \n\n\n\n1)In terms of logistical\, legal and psychological support\, as well as academic resources\, what would help you take action for palestine? \n\n\n\n2) What do you need in terms of communication channels with administration and practical support from unions and other representative collectives\, in order to feel safe and supported while acting for palestine?
URL:https://altsou.com/event/protect-academic-freedom-the-right-to-protest-anti-zionism-%e2%89%a0-anti-semitism/
LOCATION:Sala Europa\, Villa Schifanoia\, EUI\, Via Boccaccio 121\, Firenze\, Toscana\, 50133\, Italy
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