BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//AltSOU - ECPv6.3.7//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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:20240520T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240520T173000 DTSTAMP:20260619T193935 CREATED:20240418T073851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240513T095150Z UID:405-1716215400-1716226200@altsou.com SUMMARY:Palestine & Academia: protecting academic freedom & exploring the power dynamics\, logistics and obstacles faced by Palestinian scholars at risk DESCRIPTION:WHO?\nArees 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) \nWHAT?\nThe EUI Working Group on Palestine and the Legal and Political Theory WG present a joint two-part event\, which will focus on the obstacles and repression faced by both Palestinian refugees and scholars working on Palestine. In the first part\, we will explore and discuss diverse obstacles faced by Palestinian refugees locally in Florence\, and comparatively in other contexts more broadly. Our speakers will share their perspectives and experience on approaching logistical issues such as visas\, health insurance\, discrimination – as well as navigating claims of antisemitism in doing work on Palestine. We will have a participatory open discussion\, in which the aim will be to collectively discuss how to aggregate and account for these issues\, so that we might produce action points to more proactively support Palestinian refugees to our local community in Florence\, and to join our European University Institute. After a short break we will then focus on the more academic dimension and explore the difficulties and outright repression scholars working on Palestine face. Western universities often embrace anti- “cancel culture” narratives to justify their failure to combat racist\, sexist\, colonial\, or homophobic speech on campus. Their response is however diametrically opposite when it comes to anti-racist researchers and professors\, who find their voices suppressed by censorship and layoff threats. In Europe\, just like racism itself\, the problem continues to be ignored and hidden from the (white) public eye. Yet\, that is the modus operandi of its academic institutions\, especially regarding anti-Zionism. The recent developments in Israel’s genocidal colonial project have intensified that institutional persecution and shed light on how academic freedom is often limited to those who speak within the current hegemonic frame\, while others must fear consequences to their career and lives. In the second part of our joint event\, we invite all to break the myth of the “leftist university”. We welcome persons who have experienced said persecution to discuss academic repression and the fallacy of cancel culture in a world where most universities (and especially those in the Global North) are willingly furthering the status quo and actively impeding radical emancipatory critique. We will conclude\, with recommendations on how to ensure academic freedom and how to protect scholars working counter-hegemonic projects such as the important work being done on Palestine. \nAbout the speakers\n\nArees Bishara is a Palestinian Activist and doctoral student in political and economic sociology at Tel Aviv University\, studying the Palestinian ICT sector\, the Israeli high-tech industry – as well as indigenous encounters with neoliberalism\, the knowledge economy\, technology\, and entrepreneurship in settler-colonial and patriarchal contexts.\n\n  \n\nMaria Chiara Rioli is Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Contemporary History at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia\, Italy. She has hands-on experience with assisting Palestinian refugees\, and chairs the Committee for Academic Freedom of the Italian Society for Middle Eastern Studies (SeSaMO).\n\n  \n\n\nFederica Stagni holds a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology of the Scuola Normale Superiore under the supervision of Donatella della Porta and Lorenzo Bosi. Her research focuses on anti-demolition and anti-eviction movements in Israel and Palestine\, where she has spent periods of field research. Federica obtained a degree in International and Diplomatic Sciences from the University of Bologna and a Master’s in European and International Studies from the School of International Studies of Trento. She worked as a researcher for ACLED in the Middle East working group. She has published in several scientific journals\, such as Critical Sociology\, PACO\, the International Journal of Qualitative Methods\, and Theoria. \n\n\n  \n\nJairo Flores-Funez (Texas Tech University)\n\n  \n\nAnna Younes (Graduate Institute)\n\n  \n\nMalaka Shaikh (University of St Andrews)\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 22\, 2024 \n \n\n Time: \n \n \n 9:00 – 13:00 CEST\n \n \n\n \n \n \n Event Categories: altSOU’24\, Hybrid event\, Roundtable\n Event Tags:Academia\, Activism\, Capitalism\n \n \n\n \n\n \n Organiser \n \n \n \n \n AltSOU Team \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/palestine-academia-protecting-academic-freedom-exploring-the-power-dynamics-logistics-and-obstacles-faced-by-palestinian-scholars-at-risk/ LOCATION:Sala Triaria (Villa Schifanoia) + on zoom\, Florence\, Italy CATEGORIES:altSOU'24,Hybrid event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240521T153000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240521T173000 DTSTAMP:20260619T193936 CREATED:20240418T170822Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240512T140320Z UID:579-1716305400-1716312600@altsou.com 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240521T181500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240521T191500 DTSTAMP:20260619T193936 CREATED:20240418T171127Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240518T181801Z UID:582-1716315300-1716318900@altsou.com 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240522T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20240522T130000 DTSTAMP:20260619T193936 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 END:VCALENDAR