Political Institutions & Regimes Series (PIRSS)

• 18 December 2024 | h. 10:30-12:30 | Seminar Room (Conservatorio)
Umberto Platini (Postdoc, Bocconi University) & Stefano Sangiovanni (PhD candidate, POLS)
Analyzing public perceptions of government actions and political scandals through survey experimental designs

• 14 February 2025 | h. 10:30-12:30 | Seminar Room (Passione)
Tiziana Corda (Postdoc, University of Milan)
The external dimension of regime legitimation: How leaders leverage international engagement to legitimize their rule

• 28 February 2025 | 10:30-12:30 | Seminar Room (Passione)
Valeria Resta (Postdoc, University of Milan)
The place of pink-washing in the 'menu of manipulation': Assessing the link between gender politics and the types of authoritarianism

Scientific Board
Andrea Pedrazzani (University of Milan)
Andrea Cassani (University of Milan)
Tamara Grechanaya (Postdoc - University of Milan)

Parties, Voters & Elections Seminar Series (PVES)

• 10/03/25 | h. 15:30 | Seminar Room (Passione)
Valentina Nava and Ghita Bordieri (Post-doc, University of Milan-Bicocca)
A perspective from below: ethnographes of the political periphery

• 10/04/25 | h. 15:30 | Seminar Room (Passione)

Giacomo Melli (PhD candidate, University of Oxford) and Gonzalo Frenetovic (PhD candidate, SOMET)
The Weight of Social Origins in Shaping Political Opinions and Behaviors

Scientific Board
Cristiano Vezzoni (University of Milan)
Allessandro Pellegata (University of Milan)
Jessica Rosco (POLS PhD candidate)

Welfare & Public Policies Series (WPPS)

• 30/10/24 | h. 12:30 | Room B - NASP Graduate School
Luca Cigna (PhD candidate EUI & Post-doc LUISS)
Unions Matter: The New Logic of Collective Action in the 21st Century

• 12/11/24 | h. 12:30 | SPS Seminar Room (Conservatorio)
Simone Tonelli, Niccoló Durazzi & Philip Rathgeb (University of Edinburg)
Automation, Far Right-Voting, and the Mitigating Effects of Welfare Institutions

Pietro Michael Lepidi (PhD candidate, University of Bologna)
'Just Transition' Policy Strategies, A Solution to Climate Indifference? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Italy

• 11/12/24 | h. 12:30 | SPS Seminar Room (Passione)
Maria Giulia Montanari (Post-Doc University of Milan-Bicocca), Cinzia Meraviglia (University of Milan) & Marton Medgyesi (TARKI Social Research Institute)
Do migrant households catch up with local ones? Uptake of family benefits across the EU

Giulia Giraudo (PhD Scuola Normale Superiore)
Care to reform: gendering the EU post-pandemic recovery strategy

• 18/02/2025 | h. 12:30 | SPS Seminar room (Passione)
Robin Hugenot-Noel (Postdoc, University of Milan)
Work yet Welfare: The Political Economy of EU Macrosocialisation.

Tommaso Sacconi (PhD candidate, Sant'Anna Pisa)
A Next Generation of Administrative Reforms? The Europeanisation of Italian Administrative Reforms on Access and Skills

• 05/03/2025 | h. 12:30 | SPS Seminar room (Passione)
Ester Bonomi  (PhD candidate, NASP-Unimi)
Lifelong guidance regional policies: Lombardy and Veneto in comparison

Paolo Funari (PhD candidate, POLS)
The politics of welfare state adaptation to automation risks: a comparison of Italy & Spain

• 23/04/2025 | h. 14:30 | SPS Seminar room (Passione)
Gregorio Buzzelli (Post-doc, Politecnico di Torino)
"Guns versus butter" in public opinion: the politicisation of the warfare-welfare trade-off

Marina Pagliarello (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow, European University Institute)
Universities as Informal Diplomatic Actors: Implications for Internationalization, Social Policy, and Sustainable development

• 21/05/2025 | h. 12:30 | SPS Seminar room (Passione)
Matilde Cittadini (PhD Candidate, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Precarious futures: rethinking youth vulnerabilities and social policies in an unstable labour market

Valeria De Tommaso (PhD candidate, POLS)
The Policy and Politics Trajectory of the Long-Term Care Reforms in Southern Europe

• 04/06/2025 | h. 14:30 | SPS Seminar room (Passione)
Lorenç Soler-Buades (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
The New Politics of Minimum Income Reform: Changing Coalitions in a Multidimensional Policy Space

Davide Caprioglio (PhD candidate, POLS), Beatrice Carella (Post-Doc, University of Milan), Maurizio Ferrera (University of Milan)
The social crisis as a trigger of EU political structuring (2014-2024)

Scientific Board
Matteo Jessoula (University of Milan)
Marcello Natili (University of Milan)
Valeria De Tommaso (POLS PhD candidate)
Paolo Funari (POLS PhD candidate)

International Relations Series (IRS)

Martti Letho (University of Jyväskylä)
Intelligence and Warfare in Cyberspace - Experiences From Ukraine

Edoardo Landoni (PhD candidate, POLS)
Geography and Cyberspace: The Geopolitical Dimension of Cyberpower

Scientific Board
Andrea Locatelli (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Milan)
Sara Berloto (POLS PhD Candidate)
Edoardo Landoni (POLS PhD Candidate)

Permanent Seminar in Political and Legal Philosophy

• 30/10/2024 | h. 10:00-12:00 | SPS Seminar Room (Passione)
Francesco Testini (Jagiellonian University)
Is punishment necessary? Penal abolitionism,(im)pure restitution and the dispensability of punishment

• 27/11/2024 | h. 10:00-12:00 | SPS Seminar Room (Passione)
Corrado Fumagalli (University of Genova)
On the (true) democratic value of the right to free speech

• 26/02/2025 | h. 14:30-16:30 | DILHPS Seminar Room
Nicola Riva (University of Milan)
Libertà dal genere vs libertà di genere? Un invito a prendere le tensoni sul serio

Scientific Board
Giulia Bistagnino (University of Milan)
Alessandra Facchi (University of Milan)
Beatrice Magni (University of Milan)
Francesca Pasquali (University of Milan)
Nicola Riva (University of Milan)