Pricey silence! Are The EU values at stake in the Southern Neighbourhood?

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

Joint event organised by STG Fellows WHO? Abbas Sibai, Policy Leader Fellow Louis Blin, Visiting Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre Nicholas Milanese, Visiting Fellow, Florence School of Transnational Governance Elena Asciutti, Coordinator for External Relations, European University Institute WHAT? This talk will discuss the EU’s approach to the Southern Neighborhood, focusing on Lebanon and Gaza, where […]

Political humanitarianism, the Black Mediterranean and border violence

Sala Triaria (Villa Schifanoia) + on zoom Florence, Italy

WHO? 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 […]

Teach-in on de/coloniality and our place in Europe

Villa Schifanoia’s Gardens European University Insitute, Florence, Italy

Who? 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 […]