Cosmos
The Centre on Social Movement Studies
Movimenti del Mondo (Movements of the World) is a series of events promoted by the Scuola Normale Superiore and organized by Lorenzo Mosca (SNS) and Donatella della Porta (SNS).
Date: 06/06/2018
Place: Scuola Normale Superiore, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Conference Hall “l’Altana” - 3.30 p.m. - 6.30 p.m.
Category: Movimenti del Mondo
Abstract:
The Berlinale price-winning documentary film ‘The Revolution won’t be televised’ (2016) is a close-up of the massive youth uprisings that took place in Senegal in 2011 when a new grassroots movement emerged. Led by two rappers and a journalist, thousands took to the streets to state that they were “fed up” (Y’en a marre) with the ruling president Abdoulaye Wade
Date: 29/11/2016
Place: Sala Altana, Palazzo Strozzi, Piazza degli Strozzi n.1, Firenze
Category: Movimenti del Mondo
Abstract:
The eight event of this series will focus on a decade of political turmoil in Iceland starting from the 2008 financial crisis, to the pots and pans revolution, the crowdsourced constitution of 2011, to the massive protests following the release of the Panama papers in 2016.
Date: 13/10/2016
Place: Room Altana, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
Category: Movimenti del Mondo
Abstract:
Date: 25/05/2016
Place: Istituto di Scienze Umane e Sociali, Scuola Normale Superiore, Conference Hall “l’Altana” - Palazzo Strozzi
Category: Movimenti del Mondo
Abstract:
The event will focus on work and university after globalization with a keynote speech by Guy Standing and a documentary on the Chilean student movement.
Date: 09/03/2016
Place: Altana Conference Hall, Istituto di Scienze Umane e Sociali, Palazzo Strozzi
Category: Movimenti del Mondo
Abstract:
This event will focus on forms of political participation that are related to consumerism and production.
Date: 02/12/2015
Place: Conference Hall l'Altana, Istituto di Scienze Umane e Sociali, Palazzo Strozzi
Category: Movimenti del Mondo
Abstract:
A debate and documentary screening to reflect on the Arab uprisings in their global context from an historical perspective
Date: 17/09/2015
Place: Conference Hall l'Altana, Istituto di Scienze Umane e Sociali, Palazzo Strozzi
Category: Movimenti del Mondo
Abstract:
A debate and documentary screening on the struggles for same-sex marriages in Italy and the United States.
Date: 11/06/2015 - 11/05/2016
Place: Istituto di Scienze Umane e Sociali, Scuola Normale Superiore, Conference Hall “l’Altana” - Palazzo Strozzi
Category: Movimenti del Mondo
Abstract:
This event focuses on the mobilizations that are opposing to water privatization in the world, and in particular on the emergence and on the characteristics of the Bolivian and Italian movements that are promoting the idea of water as a common.
Date: 21/05/2015
Place: Altana Conference Room, Istituto di Scienze Umane e Sociali, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
Category: Movimenti del Mondo
Abstract:
The documentary screening and debate focuses on the 2013 protests in Turkey. These protests, arisen following the decision of building a new mall in the Gezi Park in Istanbul, lately shifted to more generic political issues. In this way the event had a great resonance at the national level, permitting to the protest to spread to the rest of the country.
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Journal Article - 2019
Journal Article - 2019