On Friday 13, 2019, the University of the Peloponnese (PSIR) will award an honorary doctorate to Professor Donatella Della Porta, Dean of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore.
Press Release
The proposal submitted and accepted to the to the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the University of the Peloponnese (PSIR) and ratified by the University’s Senate to award Professor Donatella della Porta an honorary PhD, is in acknowledgment of the fact that her scientific activity is of excellent quality, and that she has made significant contributions to the development of science.
Professor Della Porta’s work is on Political Science and Political Sociology. She has made pivotal and multifaceted contributions to the study of modern social movements, and their development, and impact, as well as in relation to other expressions of the political phenomenon, and in the development of research methodologies and methods in the field of Political Science. More specifically, the main areas of the Professor della Porta’s investigation are social movements, political violence, terrorism, corruption, the police and police protest, civil society, and democracy/democratization process, which she has been researching and studying comparatively, always considering to relate theoretical explorations to the empirical evidence.
Professor Della Porta will be awarded an honorary PhD at a congregation in Loutraki, in Corinth, on Friday 13th of December, 2019. Subsequently, as keynote speaker to PRIR’s 4rth Conference she will give a talk titled “A Momentous Approach to Social Movement Studies”, and chair a plenary session on social movements held in her honor.
Programme:
Friday, 13 December 2019
16: 30-17: 00 Conference Registration
17: 00-17: 15 Conference Opening, Short Greetings
17: 15-17: 45 Award to Professor Donatella della Porta of an Honorary Doctorate of the Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of the Peloponnese
17: 45-18: 30 Speech by Honorary Doctor Donatella della Porta on “A Momentous Approach to Social Movement Studies”
18: 30-18: 45 Break
18: 45-20: 15 Social Movement Special Session:
Chair: Professor Donatella della Porta, Scuola Normale Superiore.
The meeting will be held in English
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