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Interviews 22/01/2026

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…

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Interviews 08/01/2026

The 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…

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Conferences 16/06/2025

“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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Interviews 17/02/2025

Olivier Fillieule: France, from the society of movements to the repression of protest

France, from the society of movements to the repression of protest Olivier Filleule presents his research on French movements and police, a point of view that helps explain the country's political crisis Olivier Fillieule studies and researches social movements and street dynamics in the field, the interactions between police and…

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Interviews 08/01/2025

Work and unionization in the platform economy – an interview with Sarrah Kassem

What are the conditions of workers in the platform economy, what happens beyond the interface? Sarrah Kassem, lecturer at the Tubingen University who will join Scuola Normale Superiore in the coming months has researched and written on the issue. Kassem was a guest at the Istituto Ciampi’s conference “The impact…

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Interviews 09/12/2024

US isolationism and international projection, between dollar rhetoric and armaments. Interview with Mario del Pero

Historian Mario Del Pero on Trumpism and the rift generated by the Iraq war and the 2008 financial crisis. Trumpism and its ability to generate consensus in American society have deep roots, and they are also closely related to the role the United States have played in the world, its…

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