The first months of the second Trump’s presidency have been characterized by brutal episodes of repression of pro-Palestine protests which build upon attacks on education – through cuts and suspensions on research funds and threats against entire fields of academia – and the harassment of migrants and ethnic minorities. While they appear to be the […]

(On Monday March, 7th, researchers and PhD students gathered to discuss the recent wave of protests in Greece and Turkey. We publish Stella Christou contribution on what is happening in Greece). This event was organised to discuss the recent mass mobilisations in Greece and Turkey. I will be speaking on Greece, although 10 minutes is […]

Venerdì 11 aprile 11.30-13 Palazzo Vegni, Sala del Consiglio (in inglese) 18.00-19.30 presso Casa del Popolo di San Niccolò (in italiano) L’obiettivo del seminario è fare luce sul fenomeno spesso invisibile della detenzione della popolazione migrante, al fine di mantenere alta l’attenzione su una problematica che, nelle sue molteplici manifestazioni, sembra essere in continua aggravamento. […]

(Giada Bonu Rosenkranz and Anastasia Barone) FIERCE – Feminist Movements Revitalizing Democracy in Europe is a Horizon project funded by the European Commission, involving 8 countries (Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey). It studies how anti-gender groups and feminist movements are engaging with democratic processes in Europe—through discourse, practices, and alliances. Part of […]

The new Florentine headquarters of the Scuola Normale has an ancient history and a contemporary one that is worth remembering because it is intertwined with the events that have been affecting historic central areas of Italian and European cities for some years now. In the mid-1970s, the medieval Palazzo Vegni was in fact occupied by […]

La nuova sede fiorentina della Scuola Normale ha una storia antica e una contemporanea che vale la pena di ricordare perché si intreccia con le vicende che da qualche anno a questa parte coinvolgono i centri storici delle città italiane ed europee. Nella metà degli anni ’70, il medioevale Palazzo Vegni è infatti stato occupato […]

Lo scorso 18 marzo la Classe di Scienze politico-sociali della Scuola Normale Superiore ha ospitato un confronto ad ampio raggio sullo stato dell’università in Italia. Lo spunto iniziale è stato dato da una riflessione sulle analisi e proposte del Tavolo tecnico” per la Strategia italiana in tema di ricerca fondamentale del 2022, cui ha fatto […]

Universities are under attack, and there is an urgent need for reflection on the international context and the developments in Italy, their social role, the resources available and the institutional changes taking place. This set of problems will be addressed in the meeting ‘The Future of the University in Italy’ that the Scuola Normale Superiore […]

The conference – organised by COSMOS – Centre on Social Movement Studies of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore – focuses on renewed interest in class issues within social movements and labor studies. The event will take place on May 26 and 27, 2025. Theoretically, it aims to bridge these fields […]

The history of housing occupations in Florence, the situation today and an exibition on the occupation of Palazzo Vegni in 1976 are the ingredients of this public meeting to be held in Italian in Palazzo Vegni, on March 18th at 5 pm La storia delle occupazioni a Firenze, il ritorno della questione abitativa in città […]

Conveners: Manuela Caiani and Hans Joerg Trenz (SNS) Financial and logistic support Scuola Normale Superiore, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Florence   The Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence, Italy) invites applications from doctoral students for  the 2025 Ph.D. School on Visual Analysis and Contentious Politics. The PhD School will be  held at the Palazzone di […]

“A Nation gripped by moral panic” an essay by Donatella Della Porta on Qantara, a German portal that presents itself as “The dialogue portal founded in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 and has been promoting understanding between European and Islamic societies for over 20 years through well-founded contributions. The project […]

The Global Movement in Solidarity with Palestine The conference “The Global Movement in Solidarity with Palestine and Its Repression,” hosted by the Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) on November 28–29, 2024, in Florence, brought together a diverse and engaged audience. The event witnessed high attendance, underscoring the urgency and global resonance of the topics discussed. Scholars, […]

Legal mobilisation has been broadly theorised and empirically studied as a repertoire of contentious action within the inter-disciplinary scholarly field of social movements and the law. Even though it attracted significant interest from scholars across a number of disciplines, it has been studied to very different extents depending on the policy fields and social movements […]

The International Conference Feminism as a Method: Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, and Methods in the Social Sciences will be held at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the Scuola Normale Superiore, on November 14th and 15th. Organized by Anastasia Barone, Giada Bonu Rosenkranz, and Donatella della Porta, this event will bring together scholars from various countries […]