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Human rights history before and after 1989 Interview with prof. Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann
Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann is a contemporary historian whose recent work focuses on human rights. He teaches at Berkeley, California, and between November and December he was a visiting guest at the Ciampi Institute in Florence. Over the past two years, the world has witnessed an explicit scaling back of the use…
Read moreThe causes behind Chile’s shift to the right
Different right-wing candidates offered a wide range of alternatives and coalesced in the second turn, immigration from Venezuela was broadly used as a campaign talking point that spoke to a wide range of the population, the relations between newly elected President Kemp and world right-wing leaders. A conversation with Javier…
Read moreInterview to prof. Santiago Anria – speaker in the conference “Protesting Crises: Progressive Social movements in the Face of Authoritarian Backlash”
The outcome of presidential elections in Chile presents an extremely polarized picture in which the left, which came to power on the back of social movements, finds itself competing with an extreme right that uses various arguments taken from Trump's agenda. What is the cause of this polarization, and why…
Read moreAn international system without hegemony, interview with Beverly Silver
A long-term analisys of the history of capitalism, a reading of the global system as a combination of economics and state power: this is the perspective that Beverly Silver, professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University, where she directs the Arrighi Center for Global Studies, brought to Italy, a month-long…
Read moreArtificial Intelligence, a map of issues – Clara Punzi
Artificial Intelligence, a map of issues Clara Punzi The way we live and work is changing rapidly due to digital technologies and Artificial Intelligence. A workshop held on June 10, 2025 at the University of Pisa, organized by the Artificial Intelligence research group of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa…
Read more“Global governance is a mirage” – interview with Wolfgang Streeck
On the 19th of May, professor Wolfgang Streeck (Emeritus Director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung) was one of the guests at the “Sovereignty and State Systems after Globalism” together with professor Beverly Silver (Ciampi Visiting Scholar from Johns Hopkins University). Two different views and diagnoses of the deep crisis the…
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