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UPCOMING EVENTS
22 SEP 2026
CONNECT seminars
PublishedTelling stories with numbers: data for policy in historical perspective
Federico D'Onofrio (University of Bologna) presents his research on how statistics have shaped policymaking over time.
07 OCT 2026
CONNECT outreach
PublishedL'Europa in un ordine transatlantico che cambia
Un dibattito sulle sfide del rapporto transatlantico: sicurezza, autonomia strategica e politiche industriali europee. Evento organizzato da CONNECT in collaborazione con il Centro Studi Americani.
09 OCT 2026
CONNECT learning
PublishedRecounting Genocide Thirty Years Later: The Role of Testimony and Memory in the Podcast Enclave – Surviving Srebrenica.
Marking thirty years since Srebrenica, this event explores how podcasts use memory and storytelling to recount tragedies of global scope, with the creators of Enclave – Surviving Srebrenica.
13 OCT 2026
CONNECT seminars
PublishedGenre, politics, and the crisis of democracy in the U.S.
George Schulman (New York University) discusses how literary and cultural genres illuminate the current crisis of American democracy.
16 OCT 2026
CONNECT lectures
PublishedThe New Trilemma of Advanced Capitalism: Growth, Democracy, or Climate Action?
In this talk, Aidan Regan (University College Dublin) draws on his recent research to argue governments can no longer pursue growth, democracy, and climate action all at once.
20 OCT 2026
CONNECT seminars
PublishedEmerging lessons on the political economy of climate finance in the Global South
Ruth Carlitz (University of Amsterdam) presents her research on the political dynamics shaping climate finance flows to countries in the Global South.
18 NOV 2026
CONNECT learning
PublishedJobs Outside Academia: A View from the Policy World
A talk on career paths beyond academia, with Stefania Lenoci (World Bank Group) and Marco Simoni (Istituto Affari Internazionali and Luiss University) sharing insights from the policy world.
02 DEC 2026
CONNECT lectures
PublishedBounded Sovereignty: Economic Policy in an Era of Global Fragmentation
Keynote by Stephanie Rickard (LSE) on economic policy amid global fragmentation, opening a winter school by SAIS Europe and University of Bologna's CONNECT. Open to the academic community.
