Thursday, May 22nd, h. 10, Aula Altana, Palazzo Strozzi Donatella della Porta – Scuola Normale Superiore Luisa Passerini – European University Institute discussant Anastasia Barone – Scuola Normale Superiore This conference aims at exploring the intersections between history and sociology in the study of social movements. The relationship between these two disciplines is a crucial […]

Wednesday 7 May 2025, h.13:00 – 14:30 (CET) Pál Susánszky, University of Bremen Budapest Discussant: Laia Corxet Solè, Scuola Normale Superiore Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Palazzo Vegni Via San Niccolò, 93, Florence Link to join

May 7th, 2025 – h. 11 Altana Conference Hall, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence   Ciampi Lecture: Lesley Wood | Ciampi Visiting Scholar – York University, Canada Chair Lorenzo Bosi | Scuola Normale Superiore Discussants Donatella della Porta | Scuola Normale Superiore Martin Portos | Scuola Normale Superiore

In a watershed moment in Serbia’s history, Aida Kapetanović and Filip Balunović will examine the wave of protests that has been unfolding in the country since November 2024, driven by student movements. Donatella della Porta – Scuola Normale Superiore Chiara Milan – Scuola Normale Superiore Aida Kapetanović – Universities of Rijeka and Belgrade Filip Balunović […]

May 22nd, 2025, Aula Altana, Palazzo Strozzi, H10.00 – 13.30   Donatella della Porta (SNS), Luisa Passerini (EUI) coordinated by: Anastasia Barone (SNS)   This seminar aims at exploring the intersections between history and sociology in the study of social movements. The relationship between these two disciplines is a crucial one, as mutual influences have […]

In an era of traditional political party decline, Andrea Pirro and Pietro Castelli Gattinara will present their work on what they describe as a new phase of nativist mobilization, in which street politics plays an increasingly important role

Friday April 11th 11.30-1.00 presso Palazzo Vegni, Sala del Consiglio (in English) 6-7.30 Casa del Popolo di San Niccolò (in Italian) The event will be organized in two sessions: in the morning a discussion on the state of the art on the criminalization of migrants, while in the afternoon the discussion will involve activists and […]

A COSMOS event, organised in collaboration with FIG (Feminism, Intersectionality and Gender Working Group), will take place on the occasion of Trans Visibility Day. The event will create a space for dialogue between scholars, activists, and community members, fostering intersectional perspectives on trans rights, self-determination, and resistance. The first part will take place at Palazzo […]

The workshop will bring together a range of insights from a variety of cases, contexts, and disciplines to better understand the internal cleavages as well as coalition strategies of contemporary environmental movements. The context in which environmental movements find themselves (and have been challenging) include several overlapping global and international crises that have their particular […]

The goal of this workshop is to develop a comparative perspective on the current mobilization in solidarity with Palestine by presenting and discussing ongoing research in Europe and beyond. Since October 7th, 2023, protests have spread worldwide for ceasefire and against Israeli violation of human rights, the killing of more than 40,000, and the destruction […]

COSMOS Roundtable La partecipazione ai tempi del ddl 1660   Organizzatori: Donatella della Porta, Lorenzo Bosi, Lorenzo Zamponi   22 novembre 2024, Palazzo Strozzi, Sala Altana   14-16 Libertà di manifestazione e repressione nell’Italia del ddl 1660 Donatella della Porta (Scuola Normale Superiore) Claudio Novaro (avvocato) Enrico Gargiulo (Università di Torino)   16.30-18-30 Come reagire […]

November 14th-15th , 2024 (Anastasia Barone, Giada Bonu Rosenkranz and Donatella della Porta) Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, Piazza Strozzi  5th floor (free participation subject to availability/ Auditors can join online through the two links at the end of this post: one for the sessions taking place in […]

November and December program

Politics and Economies of Restoration and Resistance in the Middle East and North Africa

The Summer School will take place at the Scuola Normale Superiore, in Florence, from June 5th to June 16th 2023. Participants School will focus on how to analyse present and past forms of grassroots participation activated by social movement and civil society actors at the local, regional and transnational level. More in general, it aims […]