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).

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 […]

Intimately Material: Collective Reflexion on the Material Conditions of Academia

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

Joint 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, Italy

WHO? 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, Italy

WHO? 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 […]