COSMOS Conferences

Revitalising Antifascism: Social Movements against Authoritarian Turns

Date: 13/10/2026 - 14/10/2026

Place: Palazzo Vegni

Category: COSMOS Conference

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Social movement studies in intense times, A conference to honour Donatella Della Porta’s work

Date: 03/06/2026 - 05/05/2026

Place: Palazzo Strozzi

Category: COSMOS Conference

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Conflitti e forme della partecipazione politica nelle democrazie contemporanee

Date: 19/02/2026

Place: Scuola Normale Superiore, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence

Category: COSMOS Conference

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“The Return of the future” project final conference

Date: 16/01/2026

Place: Aula Altana, Scuola Normale Superiore, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence

Category: COSMOS Conference

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Two final events for the Transform project (in English and Italian)

Date: 11/12/2025 - 13/12/2025

Place: Palazzo Strozzi

Category: COSMOS Conference

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Memory and social movements in democratic crises

Date: 13/11/2025 - 14/11/2025

Place: Palazzo Strozzi

Category: COSMOS Conference

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An international conference

Protesting Crises: Progressive Social movements in the Face of Authoritarian Backlash

Date: 23/10/2025 - 24/10/2025

Place: Aula Altana, Scuola Normale Superiore, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence

Category: COSMOS Conference

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Reclaiming Power: Bridging Social Movements and Industrial Relations in Labour Mobilisation

Date: 26/05/2025 - 27/05/2025

Place: Palazzo Strozzi

Category: COSMOS Conference

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Social movements between sociology and history. An interdisciplinary dialogue

Date: 22/05/2025

Place: Aula Altana, Scuola Normale Superiore, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence

Category: COSMOS Conference

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Social movements and the law: Legal mobilisation in a comparative perspective

Date: 20/05/2025 - 21/05/2025

Place: Palazzo Strozzi

Category: COSMOS Conference

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Feminism as a Method, Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies and Methods in the Social Sciences

Date: 14/11/2024 - 15/11/2024

Place: Scuola Normale Superiore, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence

Category: COSMOS Conference

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The making of (Dis)Order

Date: 25/10/2024

Place: Scuola Normale Superiore, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence

Category: COSMOS Conference

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

Call for Papers: SWANA from Below: living, enduring, and remembering its revolutions

Date: 30/11/2022 - 02/12/2022

Place: Scuola Normale Superiore, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence

Category: COSMOS Conference

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The conference will feature three workshops designed and moderated in cooperation with the Marc Bloch Zentrum at Humboldt University in Berlin and the DRafting and Enacting the Revolutions in the Arab Mediterranean Project (DREAM) and Center for Social Movements Studies (COSMOS) at the Scuola Normale Superiore.

Weaving the Transnational Anti-Gender Network

Date: 30/05/2022 - 31/05/2022

Place: Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Palazzo Strozzi (5th Floor), Piazza degli Strozzi, Firenze

Category: COSMOS Conference

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Ten Years of COSMOS: Taking Stock and Moving Forward

Date: 19/04/2022

Place: 9:30-17:30 (CET), Online conference

Category: COSMOS Conference

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