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)

• 10/04/25 | h. 15:30-17:30 | Seminar Room (Passione)

Giacomo Melli (PhD candidate, University of Oxford) and Gonzalo Frenetovic (PhD candidate, SOMET) (tbc)
Social Mobility, Inequalities and Political Participation

• (Date TBA)
Valentina Nava and Ghita Bordieri (Post-doc, University of Milan-Bicocca)
A perspective from below: ethnographes of the political periphery 

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

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)

Modern Warfare and Historical Context: Understanding Russia's War Against Ukraine

Eugene Finkel (Kenneth H. Keller Professor of International Affairs, Johns Hopkins University)
Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-hundred-year Quest to Dominate Ukraine

Agata Lavorio (Postdoc, Università di Milano)
Strategic Cyberwar: the First Months of the Russo-Ukrainian War

• March 2025 | Room TBA

Realism, Human Nature, and "Neurobiopolitics" 

Edoardo Maria Landoni (PhD Candidate, POLS)
Prospettive biologiche e neuroscientifiche. Il rinnovato interesse per la "natura umana" nelle scienze politiche e nelle relazioni internazionali 

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

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)