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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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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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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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