Movimenti del Mondo is a series of events promoted by the Scuola Normale Superiore and organized by Lorenzo Mosca (SNS) and Donatella della Porta (SNS).

The Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Scuola Normale Superiore, located in Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, invites scholars and observers of these social phenomena to critically discuss such processes offering a comprehensive view, trying to identify the global trends behind and beyond the local events.

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. The discussion will be framed in historical perspective confronting first-hand accounts, scholarly analysis and the cinematographic gaze.

On November 29th the documentary-film ‘Blueberry Soup’ (2013) will tell us a story of grassroots constitutionalism in Iceland following the financial crisis of 2008. The film focuses on an eclectic group of individuals reinventing democracy through the rewriting of the national constitution. The film displays the public forums of the constitutional assemblies formal meetings and then follows five of the women which took part in the works of the assembly.

With

JÓN GUNNAR BERNBURG(University of Iceland)

DONATELLA DELLA PORTA (Scuola Normale Superiore)

EILEEN JERRETT (Documentary Film maker)

PROGRAMME

15:30-16:30 Keynote lecture by Jón Gunnar Bernburg

Discussant: Donatella della Porta

16:30-18:30 Screening of the documentary and discussion with the Director

Allegati

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