CONNECT Seminar Series 2024-2025

The CONNECT Seminar Series is a series of seminars showcasing the ongoing research of visiting scholars and members of the research center community. The seminars will be held on the second Tuesday of each month, from October 2024 through June 2025, from 1:00 to 2:00 pm. They follow the lunch seminar format, so attendees may bring their lunch and eat during the seminars. What follows is the complete list of the seminars.

22 OCTOBER - AULA PEZEMO
Watch the company you keep: Elite networks and political repression
Manuel Vogt, University College London

12 NOVEMBER - AULA ROMEI
Rule of law backsliding in Europe
Sabrina Ragone, University of Bologna

10 DECEMBER - AULA ROMEI
Studying environmental politics in Middle Eastern and North African autocracies
Giulia Cimini, University of Bologna

14 JANUARY - AULA ROMEI
Mozambique, CONCP and transnational solidarities: Third-worldism from the Cold War to the challenge of the “Global South” in the 21st century
Corrado Tornimbeni, University of Bologna

11 FEBRUARY - AULA ROMEI
Political support and anti-liberal attitudes in pandemic times. Evidence from Western Europe
Nicola Maggini, University of Bologna

11 MARCH - AULA ROMEI
Gatekeepers to international refugee law? the role of courts in shaping access to asylum
Madalina Moraru, University of Bologna

8 APRIL - AULA ROMEI
Successes and failures of peace processes
Karina Korostelina, George Mason University

13 MAY - AULA ROMEI
Contextualizing cleaning platforms: The role of labor market and welfare institutions. An explorative analysis of six European Cities
Giovanni Amerigo Giuliani and Rebecca Paraciani, University of Bologna

10 JUNE - AULA ROMEI
The primacy of politics: globalization, debts and power in Western Asia and North Africa, 1979-1992
Massimiliano Trentin, University of Bologna