The book “I porti e le mafie” by our post-doc research fellow  Marco Antonelli on organised crime penetration in Italian ports has won a special mention for the Paginedamare prize. Three short questions on Antonelli’s work. Why it is useful, interesting and important to observe how crime infiltrates ports The results of this research show […]

An international conference COSMOS – The Centre on Social Movement Studies Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy November 13-14,  2025 (all practical information, deadlines, etc. at the end of this post)   Keynote speakers Andrew Hoskins, Personal Chair of AI, Memory and War, University of Edinburgh Jenny  Wüstenberg, Professor of […]

The conference “Reclaiming Power: Bridging Social Movements and Industrial Relations in Labour Mobilisation” held at in Florence on May 26-27, 2025 was also an opportunity to present the first findings from the second International Strike Report, a work that involves scholars from eleven countries from both the global North and South, a group of countries […]

(On May, 7th, researchers and PhD students gathered to discuss the recent wave of protests in Serbia. We publish Aida Kapetanovic contribution, The event was organized to discuss the student-led mobilization in Serbia, that for six months by now has involved thousands of citizens from different sectors of the society, leading to the resignation of […]

Che effetto hanno avuto le numerose riforme del mercato del lavoro che si sono susseguite in Italia a partire dagli anni ’90? Volendo semplificare molto questa è la domanda che si poneva la discussione promossa dalla Classe di Scienze Politiche e sociali della Scuola Normale Superiore cui hanno partecipato l’ex Ministro del Lavoro, presidente del […]

‘‘Beyond Humanitarianism: Social and Political Perspectives from Gaza and the West Bank”, 28 April, 15-18, Sala Altana at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence. Donatella Della Porta, SNS Francesco Saverio Leopardi, Università di Padova Karim Abualroos, Independent researcher Federica Stagni, SNS   “Internal division and political paralysis: a focus on Gaza”, 29 April, 16-18, School on Transnational governance, […]

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 […]