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Michael Herzfeld – book presentation The Nation State and its Ills

Thursday, May 15, 2025, 15.00:XNUMX p.m.
Misiti Hall – CNR-IRPPS, via Palestro 32, Rome
Info: eventi.dsu@cnr.it

Michael Herzfeld, anthropologist and professor emeritus at Harvard University and Leiden University, presents his latest book “The Nation State and Its Ills” (Castelvecchi).
The meeting is introduced by the director of the Department of Human and Social Sciences, Cultural Heritage (DSU) which organizes the event, Salvatore Capasso, and the following will speak: Pietro Vereni, University of Rome Tor Vergata Alexander Koensler, University of Perugia, Francesco Faeta, Sapienza University of Rome. Moderated by Azzurra Malgieri.

Presentation of the book Work and wages in Italy

Monday 12 May 2025, 11.30am-13.00pm
Misiti Hall – CNR-IRPPS, via Palestro 32, Rome

Rinaldo Evangelista, full professor of Economic Policy at the University of Camerino and lecturer in Industrial Economics at LUISS “Guido Carli” in Rome, will present the book Lavoro e salari in Italia Cambiamenti nell'occupazione, precarietà, impoverimento (Carocci editore), which he edited with Lia Pacelli (associate professor of Political Economy at the University of Turin).

The meeting will be moderated by Dante Sabatino (CNR-IRPPS) and the following will speak: Linda Laura Sabbadini, editorialist for La Repubblica, formerly Istat, and Domenico Carrieri, emeritus 'Sapienza'.

The long-term decline in real wages and the deterioration of working conditions that we have witnessed in Italy in recent decades are configured as a real social emergency, which materializes in the presence of increasingly large segments of the population pushed into a condition of precariousness and uncertainty about the future. The volume provides an empirically and methodologically founded, but easy to read and understand, framework on the various elements of fragility of the employment structure and working conditions in our country (book publisher card).

Research and intervention against gender violence, in the footsteps of Maura Misiti

Tuesday 15 April 2025, 10.00-13.00, Marconi Hall CNR, P.le A. Moro 7
h. 15.00 Misiti Hall – CNR-IRPPS, via Palestro 32, Rome

On Tuesday 15 April 2025, the CNR headquarters in Rome (Sala Marconi) will host the event “Research and intervention against gender violence: practices and relationships for change, in the footsteps of Maura Misiti”.

The initiative, organized by the Subgroup Work-life balance and prevention and fight against discrimination, harassment and mobbing Gender Equality Team, represents an important opportunity for reflection and discussion on issues of crucial relevance to our work and represents a special occasion to commemorate and remember our colleague Maura Misiti, who passed away last April 2024, whose passion and dedication to gender issues continue to inspire the Group's path.

Free entry upon request registration to the following link and it will be possible to follow the live streaming on teams.

The meeting will be followed at 15.00:XNUMX pm by the inauguration of the Sala Misiti, at the CNR-IRPPS.

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Book Presentation: The Politics of Migrant Labour

Tuesday 1 April 2025, 11.30am-13.00pm
Misiti Hall – CNR-IRPPS, via Palestro 32, Rome
TEAMS Connection

Within the ERC project Illicit Labor and the global photovoltaic industry, Gabriella Alberti (University of Leeds) and Devi Sacchetto (University of Padua) will present their latest book The Politics of Migrant Labor: Exit, Voice, and Social Reproduction (Bristol University Press).

The meeting will be moderated by Riccardo Martinelli (CNR-IRPPS) and speakers will include: Lucia Amorosi (Scuola Normale Superiore), Andrea Ciarini (Sapienza University of Rome) and Antonio Sanguinetti (CNR-IRPPS).

This book explores the link between labor mobility and international migration from a historical and global perspective. By analyzing migrants' individual and collective actions, both inside and outside trade unions, Alberti and Sacchetto offer a new interpretation of migrant workers' everyday mobility, considering it as a creative and vital strategy for social reproduction and labor struggle.

New Urban Geographies: Airbnb, Long-Term Rentals, and Residents

Tuesday 25 March 2025

Misiti Hall, CNR-IRPPS, via Palestro 32, Rome

Teams Connection

TRAINING – WINBLUE

On February 25, 2025, from 14:00 p.m. to 17:30 p.m., the training “Promoting gender equality in companies and organizations of the blue economy”, promoted by the European project WINBLUE.

The training aims to increase awareness, and the level of sharing of knowledge and good practices on gender equality in the blue economy, in order to strengthen the ability to face challenges and overcome obstacles that do not allow people to enjoy professional development opportunities in a balanced way regardless of gender. Interactive sessions are planned during the event.

The training is aimed at people working in businesses, NGOs, research, universities and students over 18 who work or are interested in the Blue Economy sector.

Those who participate in the training will receive a certificate.

It will be possible to participate in the workshop both in person and remotely.

Registration is required to participate: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/WINBLUE-TRAINING

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Cancelled Event: Ukraine. What Peace? Seminar

Unfortunately, the seminar scheduled for January 23, 2025 has been canceled. We will communicate the new date as soon as it is available.

Thursday 23 January 2025 – 12.30 pm

Asia Hall – CNR-IRPPS, via Palestro 32, Rome

Teams Live Link (Passcode: K64LJ7ri)

Presentation of the book “Social classes in Italy today”

Tuesday 21 January 2025 – 11.30 am

Misiti Hall – CNR-IRPPS, via Palestro 32, Rome

Teams Live Link (Passcode: Z8ie9bm2)

Pier Giorgio Ardeni He is a professor of Political and Development Economics at the University of Bologna.

(Book and author information) Social classes in Italy today (Editori Laterza), describes the social differences that remain strong and clear in Italy, where they limit social mobility, access to education, possibilities and opportunities. Of course, classes are no longer what they once were because professions and lifestyles have changed, but they still exist, after they had convinced us that in our 'liquid' society they had dissolved.
These pages, following step by step how the class structure has evolved in Italy and quantifying the weight of the various strata and classes in the changing of their characteristics and composition, want to show how inequalities in income distribution correspond to differences in profession and educational qualifications and how the social structure still influences power relations. The relative weight of classes has varied and with it their 'political' weight, in the channels of representation. A book that wants to demonstrate how classes still exist, indeed, and it is from these that we must start again to rethink the crisis of democracy and representation.