Cosmos

The Centre on Social Movement Studies

Events

Europe in Movement(s) Genoa 2001 and Transnational Mobilisations in Historical Perspective

Date: 19/11/2026 - 20/11/2026

Place: Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Category: Other

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Revitalising Antifascism: Social Movements against Authoritarian Turns

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

Place: Palazzo Vegni

Category: COSMOS Conference

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Civil Society and Activism in the Middle East

Date: 29/09/2026

Place: Palazzo Vegni

Category: COSMOS Talk

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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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Cosmos Summer School, Understanding contentious politics: theory and practice of social movement research

Date: 11/05/2026 - 15/05/2026

Place: Palazzone Cortona

Category: Summer School

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Cuba tra crisi e resistenza: bloqueo, scenari globali e internazionalismo solidale

Date: 30/04/2026

Place: Casa dei Popolo San Niccolò

Category: COSMOS Roundtable

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Organizing from the Shop Floor: Migration, Race, and Intersectional Solidarity in Italy and Germany’s Logistics Sector

Date: 28/04/2026

Place: Palazzo Strozzi

Category: COSMOS Seminar

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Water struggles in Italy and Greece: strategies and outcomes

Date: 24/04/2026

Place: Palazzo Strozzi

Category: Other

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Touristification in Florence and protests against it in Southern Europe

Date: 09/04/2026 - 10/04/2026

Place: Palazzo Strozzi

Category: COSMOS Workshop

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Books Against Censorship: Scuola Normale Superiore Acquires Titles Removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s Nimitz Library.

Date: 23/03/2026

Place: Palazzo Vegni

Category: Other

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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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This winter Cosmos Talks program

Date: 10/01/2026 - 30/05/2026

Place: Palazzo Vegni

Category: COSMOS Talk

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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

News

08/06/2026

Social movements in intense times. Notes for a (semiserious) auto-ethnography

01/04/2026

Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis

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19/03/2026

Books Against Censorship: Libraries as Bastions of Freedom/Libri contro la censura, le Biblioteche come presidio di libertà

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17/03/2026

Travelling with the European Convoy for Cuba

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09/02/2026

Genova 2001 in historical perspective, a conference and a call for papers

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03/02/2026

Call for papers: Contentious Politics in Spain: Cycles, Transformations and New Repertoires of Contention

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Publications

Journal Article - 2026

Feminist strategies against the far right in Chile: the #EnContra campaign and the 2023 exit plebiscite

Rosario Freire Saray

Journal Article - 2026

Invisible Politics: Lessons from the Iraqi Tishreen on Unaffiliated Activist Trajectories and Long Revolutions in Divided Societies

Alice Franchini

Journal Article - 2026

Nationalism as sovereignty? Renegotiating state-citizen relations through counterhegemonic discourse in the Iraqi Tishreen revolution

Alice Franchini

Edited Volume - 2026

Conspiracism and Political Conflict

Manuela Caiani, Marco Solinas, Hans-Jorg Trenz

Journal Article - 2026

The Temporal Turn in Social Movement Studies: Political Readings of Temporality

Nerea Montejo-López

Journal Article - 2026

Beyond Euroscepticism: radical left and right ‘visions of Europe’ across party and protest arenas

Caiani, M., & Fenner, L. S.

Monograph - 2025

Free download for "Contentious Politics of Global Health Movements"

Donatella Della Porta, Stella Christou

Journal Article - 2025

Communication creates partial organization: A comparative analysis of the organizing practices of two climate action movements, Youth for Climate and Fridays for Future Italy

Marco Deseriis, Lorenzo Zamponi, Diego Ceccobelli

This article focuses on a neglected aspect of the climate action movement Fridays for Future, namely, the relationship between its mediated communication practices and its early organizational processes. Drawing from a strand of organizational communication that underscores the constitutive dimension of communication to organizing processes, we analyze the significance of mediatized leadership and networked communication for the foundation and early development of two national chapters of Fridays for Future: Youth for Climate (YFC) Belgium and Fridays for Future Italy (FFFI).

Journal Article - 2025

Power resources, territory and labour conflicts in the logistic sector

Donatella Della Porta, Marco Antonelli

Journal Article - 2025

Normalization through transnationalization? Far right international coordination and cooperation

Manuela Caiani