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Wednesday 2 September 2026
09:00 AM-09:30 AM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Wednesday 2 September 2026
09:00 AM-09:30 AM
CLab-M SCHOOL OF INNOVATION, Main Building - 1st floor Welcome MetRiSP Crash Course09:00 AM-09:30 AM
09:30 AM-11:00 AM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Wednesday 2 September 2026
09:30 AM-11:00 AM
CLab-M SCHOOL OF INNOVATION, Main Building - 1st floor Course 1: Introduction to R (Part 1)09:30 AM-11:00 AM
11:00 AM-11:30 AM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Wednesday 2 September 2026
11:00 AM-11:30 AM
CLab-M SCHOOL OF INNOVATION, Main Building - 1st floor Coffee Break11:00 AM-11:30 AM
11:30 AM-01:00 PM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Wednesday 2 September 2026
11:30 AM-01:00 PM
CLab-M SCHOOL OF INNOVATION, Main Building - 1st floor Course 1: Introduction to R (Part 2)11:30 AM-01:00 PM
01:00 PM-02:00 PM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
- Lunch Break
- “Preferential” Trade Agreements?
Presenter: Sebastian Lukas Ahlstich (Denmark - Copenhagen Business School)
Authors: Sebastian Lukas Ahlstich, Jan Stuckatz - Qualunquemente: Amnesties and Ideological (De-)Legitimization in Democratic Transitions
Presenter: Riccardo Di Leo (Italy - European University Institute)
Authors: Riccardo Di Leo, Elias Dinas, Lucía Doménech Collado - Migrant Responses to Nativist Policies
Presenter: Roberto Valli (Italy - European University Institute)
Authors: Roberto Valli, Fanny Valli, Massimo Troncone - Delegating Without Enabling: Subnational Governance Capacity and Policy Drift in EU Decentralised Water Management
Presenter: Beniamino Masi (Italy - University of Pisa)
Authors: Beniamino Masi, Eugenio Pizzimenti - The perception of crises and the burden capacity gap
Presenter: Annika Kolbe (Germany - Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München)
Authors: Annika Kolbe, Clara Fochler, Jon Bøe Valgermo, Thomas Huh Tangen - New Policy, Old Habits? Project Design and Implementation in Italy’s NRRP
Presenter: Lorenzo Mascioli (France - Sciences Po Paris)
Authors: Lorenzo Mascioli, Laura Polverari - Public Administration Capacity Building for Collaborative Governance: The Case of Local Development Policies
Presenter: Giulia Bonazzi (Italy - Milano Bicocca University)
Authors: Giulia Bonazzi - Digital Twins as Security Infrastructures: Anticipatory Governance, Hybrid Risks and Climate-Stressed Systems
Presenters: Gerardo Ferrentino (Italy - University of Salerno), Michele Barbieri (Italy - University of Salerno)
Authors: Gerardo Ferrentino, Michele Barbieri - Who Owns Cybersecurity? Policy Struggles and Organisational Logics in the Cyber State
Presenter: Mattia Sguazzini (Italy - University of Genoa)
Authors: Mattia Sguazzini - Old Rivalries, New Vectors: The Geopolitical Logic of Interstate Cyberattacks
Presenter: Gaia Michelazzi (Italy - University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
Authors: Gaia Michelazzi - The Great Preemption Battle: Venue, Capture and the Displacement of State AI Regulation in the United States
Presenter: Vanni Filloramo (Italy - University of Macerata)
Authors: Vanni Filloramo - From Political Demands to Survival Claims: Protest Dynamics in Divided Palestine
Presenters: Ghadir Abumiddain (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore), Abdalhadi Alijla
Authors: Abdalhadi Alijla, Ghadir Abumiddain - Invisible Politics: Lessons from the Iraqi Tishreen on Unaffiliated Activist Trajectories and Long Revolutions in Divided Societies
Presenter: Alice Franchini (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Alice Franchini - Rappresentanza insorgente: il caso delle favelas a Rio de Janeiro
Presenter: Rebecca Bottino (Italy - University of Florence)
Authors: Rebecca Bottino - Inspiring Heroes and Resonant Images: Emotions, Character Work, and the Diffusion of Visual and Performative Collective Action in Turkey
Presenter: Selen Sarikaya Eren (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Selen Sarikaya Eren, Batuhan Eren - Patterns of Euroscepticism within Ethno-Regionalist Parties: A Typology and an Explanatory Framework
Presenter: Emanuele Massetti (Italy - University of Trento)
Authors: Emanuele Massetti - Representing Autonomy in a Changing Italy: The Südtiroler Volkspartei and National Politics in light of the 2022 Election
Presenter: Andrea Carlà (Italy - Eurac Research)
Authors: Andrea Carlà, Alice Engl, Günther Pallaver - A very unpredictable landscape: regional elections in Italy (2010-2025).
Presenter: Gaia Matilde Ripamonti (Italy - University of Trieste)
Authors: Gaia Matilde Ripamonti - Comment court-on pour la langue bretonne ? construction émotionnelle du collectif et politique de la joie.
Le cas de la Redadeg en Bretagne.
Presenter: Jeanne Toutous (France - Université de Rennes)
Authors: Jeanne Toutous - Flemish Identity, Flemish Nationalism and consociational governance in Brussels
Presenter: Michel Huysseune (Belgium - Free Univerisity of Bruxelles)
Authors: Michel Huysseune - A Dual-Track Regime? Digital Sovereignty and Military AI in the EU
Presenter: Fabio Carbone (Italy - University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli)
Authors: Fabio Carbone, Adriano Cozzolino, Diego Giannone - Uso della IA generativa nella PA e problemi di policy. Il caso della sperimentazione presso il Tribunale di Catania e l'Ordine degli avvocati di Catania
Presenter: Giancarlo Vecchi (Italy - Politecnico di Milano)
Authors: Giancarlo Vecchi - Artificial Intelligence in Water Governance: Barriers and Opportunities
Presenter: Alessandra Orsini (Italy - University of Teramo)
Authors: Alessandra Orsini - Artificial Intelligence for Peacebuilding: A Systematic Literature Review of Conceptual Frameworks, Applications, and Knowledge Gaps
Presenter: Irene D'antimo (Italy - University of Macerata)
Authors: Irene D'antimo - Who Should Govern AI? Trust in Institutions, Risk Judgments, and Regulatory Preferences in the EU
Presenter: Aurelia Zucaro (Italy - University of Calabria)
Authors: Francesco Maria Scanni, Aurelia Zucaro - AI, Big Tech, and Digitalisation: An Electoral Opportunity for Europe’s Political Parties?
Presenter: William John Atkinson (Italy - LUISS Guido Carli - Rome)
Authors: William John Atkinson - Watch the Company You Keep: Elite Networks and Political Assassinations
Presenter: Manuel Vogt (UK - University College London)
Authors: Manuel Vogt - From Pro-Government to Anti-State: Understanding the Shifting Trajectories of Pro-State Militia Violence
Presenter: Laura Salvo (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Laura Salvo - Seeking to strategically shape socio-spatial relations:
the dynamic development of the Red Brigades, 1970-1980
Presenter: Lorenzo Bosi (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Lorenzo Bosi - Rebel that Repress: A case study of HTS and its repression of civilian dissent in Idlib
Presenter: Mattia Felice Melillo (Switzerland - Geneva Graduate Institute)
Authors: Mattia Felice Melillo - Political Entrepreneurs in Armed Conflict
Presenter: Margherita Salvia (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Margherita Salvia, Andrea Ruggeri - Does New Violence Reactivate Old Violent Legacies? Electoral Consequences in Italy, 1943–88
Presenter: Aldo Paparo (Italy - University of Florence)
Authors: Stefano Costalli, Aldo Paparo, Andrea Ruggeri - Where Populism Fails: Mapping the Spatial Limits of Anti-Establishment Mobilization in Czechia
Presenter: Jakub Lysek (Czech Republic - Palacky University)
Authors: Jakub Lysek - Chinese Financial Crime, Social Embeddedness, and Territorial Opportunity Structures in Italy
Presenter: Alessandro Corti (Italy - University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
Authors: Alessandro Corti, Sara Valle, Michele Riccardi - Democracy and Legitimacy in Latin America: A Comparative Exploration Through Configurational Analysis Across Three Years: 2018, 2020, and 2023
Presenter: Rafael Plancarte Escobar (Mexico - Autonomous University of Queretaro)
Authors: Rafael Plancarte Escobar - Can the Surrogate Speak? Surrogacy, Policy-Making, and Democratic Erosion in Italy
Presenter: Cecilia Iula (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Cecilia Iula, Giada Bonu Rosenkranz - From Anti-Gender Mobilizations to Anti-Trans Coalitions: A Policy Specialization?
Presenter: Nico Isa Borrelli (Italy - University of Bari Aldo Moro)
Authors: Nico Isa Borrelli - Political Parties Responding to Anti-Gender Mobilisation: Mapping Strategies in Belgium and Spain
Presenter: Romain Biesemans (Belgium - Université Libre de Bruxelles ULB)
Authors: Romain Biesemans - Making Chronic Pain a Policy Issue: Gynaecological Illness, Agenda Denial and the Thresholds of Interception
Presenter: Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi (Italy - Centre for Research on Intersectional Spaces and Societies)
Authors: Ilaria Iacconi Iambrenghi - Mainstreaming far-right ideas in gender debates. The evolution of far-right agenda-setting power in Italian public debates on gender from 1996 to 2026.
Presenter: Giovanni Maggi (Belgium - Université Libre de Bruxelles ULB)
Authors: Giovanni Maggi - “They Cheat, We Don't.... but Should We Have?”: Electoral Defeat, Blame Attribution, and the Violation of Democratic Norms
Presenters: Michele Farina (Italy - University of Urbino Carlo Bo), Enea Fiore (Italy - University of Turin)
Authors: Enea Fiore, Robin Piazzo, Michele Farina - Let the people talk. How information and interpersonal discussion reduce affective polarization around issues
Presenter: Davide Morisi (Denmark - University of Southern Denmark)
Authors: Davide Morisi, Eugen Chapiro, Adam Peresman - Perceptions of Procedural Fairness and Populist Attitudes in Italy’s 2026 Referendum
Presenter: Giona Panarello (Switzerland - Franklin University)
Authors: Giona Panarello - "Versailles is over". Invective in political discourse, from allusions and sarcasm to insults and ridicule. Has Donald Trump influenced the way politicians insult?
Presenter: Olgierd Annusewicz (Poland - University of Warsaw)
Authors: Olgierd Annusewicz - Manufacturing Simplicity: A Systematic Literature Review of Astroturfing as a Mechanism of Discursive Reduction in Computational Propaganda
Presenter: Katarzyna Szelest-Karpowicz (Poland - University of Warsaw)
Authors: Katarzyna Szelest-Karpowicz - The Factory of Drama: Giorgia Meloni, Political Performance, and the Dramaturgical Transformation from Opposition to Government
Presenter: Jonathan Kamkhaji (Italy - European University Institute)
Authors: Jonathan Kamkhaji, Claudio Radaelli, Laurie Boussaguet - The EU and the Challenges of Asymmetric Multilateralism and Coalition Reconfiguration
Presenter: Fulvio Attinà (Italy - University of Catania)
Authors: Fulvio Attinà - Fluid patronage within a frozen conflict: The evolution of the EU/US-Kosovo relations
Presenter: Daniele Stracquadanio (Italy - University of Trento)
Authors: Daniele Stracquadanio - Fragmented Multilateralism in the Mediterranean: Multi-Track Diplomacy e and the Conversion of Policy Knowledge in EU External Action
Presenter: Valentina Gruarin (Italy - University of Catania)
Authors: Valentina Gruarin - The complexity of shelter applied through multilateralism: Evidences from the EU’s approach in the Eastern Partnership
Presenter: Edoardo Lavezzo (UK - University of York)
Authors: Edoardo Lavezzo - Interest Groups in Low-Politicized and Fragmented Policies: The Case of Long-Term Care in Southern Europe
Presenter: Celestina Valeria de Tommaso (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Celestina Valeria de Tommaso - The growing differentiation of the CAP interest groups: a more open and conflictual political arena, yet a still-closed policy arena
Presenter: Renata Lizzi (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Elisa Bordin, Renata Lizzi - The Conjunctural Logic of Policy Influence: Interest Groups and the Italian PNRR
Presenter: Andrea Pritoni (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Andrea Pritoni - Change or persistence? The link between religion, ethnicity, and ethnonationalism in post-Yugoslav societies, 1989-2003
Presenter: Maruša Bastardi (Switzerland - University of Lausanne)
Authors: Maruša Bastardi - Structural Modes of Religious Politicization: Insight from Network Analysis of American Christianities' Belief Systems
Presenter: Alberto Calabrese (Italy - University of Trento)
Authors: Alberto Calabrese - Structural Barriers or Preferences? Decomposing the Muslim Women's Employment Gap in the Context of a Free Childcare Pilot
Presenter: Ilaria Rossi (Italy - Sapienza University of Rome)
Authors: Ilaria Rossi - Identità, posizioni, credibilità, temi: le risorse della competizione partitica
Presenter: Lorenzo de Sio (Italy - LUISS Guido Carli - Rome)
Authors: Lorenzo de Sio - I partiti tra governo e opposizione
Presenter: Luca Pinto (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Elisabetta de Giorgi, Luca Pinto, Michelangelo Vercesi - Partiti tradizionali e partiti antagonisti: Caratteristiche ideologiche e interazioni sistemiche
Presenter: Mattia Zulianello (Italy - University of Trieste)
Authors: Mattia Zulianello - Studiare i partiti politici: i metodi qualitativi
Presenter: Mattia Zulianello (Italy - University of Trieste)
Authors: Mattia Zulianello, Francesco Melito, Ghita Bordieri - Citizens’ Innate Motivations for Multidimensional Political Representation
Presenter: Bence Hamrak (Italy - European University Institute)
Authors: Bence Hamrak, Christopher Wratil - Democratic Exceptions in Times of War: Public Support for Election Postponement across European Democracies
Presenter: Francesco Baraldi (Netherlands - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Authors: Francesco Baraldi - Whose Voice? Issue Responsiveness to National and European Publics in the European Parliament (2004 – 2024)
Presenter: Marcello Carammia (Italy - University of Catania)
Authors: Marcello Carammia, Federico Russo - Democratic Ambivalence in Europe: Assessing the Role of System Performance
Presenter: Sergio Martini (Italy - University of Siena)
Authors: Sergio Martini - Affective Polarization Across Time and Space: Generational Replacement and Life-Cycle change in Comparative Perspective
Presenter: Giuseppenrico Tempesta (Italy - LUISS Guido Carli - Rome)
Authors: Giuseppenrico Tempesta - Intersectional Marginalization and the Gender Gap: Women’s Voting Behaviour in Southern Europe
Presenter: Ester Flumeri (Italy - Unitelma Sapienza University of Rome)
Authors: Ester Flumeri - How personal experiences shape issue salience: evidence from a multidimensional survey experiment
Presenter: Omar Qasem (Belgium - Antwerp University)
Authors: Omar Qasem, Tijs Laenen - Affective Polarization and Electoral Behavior in Comparative Perspective
Presenter: Diego Garzia
Authors: Diego Garzia, Frederico Ferreira Da Silva - Group Switching and the Politics of Cleavages in the European Parliament: Evidence on Group Mobility, Identity, and Political Realignment (1979–2024)
Presenter: Enrico Calossi (Italy - University of Pisa)
Authors: Enrico Calossi - Voter-Party Congruence and Electoral Support on Ukraine in the 2024 European Parliament Elections
Presenter: Marco Morini (Italy - Sapienza University of Rome)
Authors: Marco Morini, Davide Angelucci, Luca Carrieri - Domesticizing alliance politics? The case of Slovakia’s defiance of NATO during Fico’s fourth government
Presenter: Fabio Maina (Italy - University of Genoa)
Authors: Fabio Maina - Foreign Policy Postures or Inconsistency? Analyzing Open-Ended Survey Responses on Leaders’ Wartime Decisions with Large Language Models
Presenter: Valerio Vignoli (Italy - Scuola univ. Superiore difesa, CASD)
Authors: Valerio Vignoli, Matteo Casiraghi, Francesco Olmastroni - Outsourcing the Outrage: Public Opinion and Plausible Deniability of Foreign Interference by Proxy
Presenters: Ondřej Rosendorf (Czech Republic - Charles University), Tobias Risse (Switzerland - University of St Gallen)
Authors: Ondřej Rosendorf, Tobias Risse - Partisan Realignment and Foreign Policy Attitudes: Elite Cueing and Government Transitions in Western Europe
Presenter: Claudio Cozzi Fucile (Italy - University of Siena)
Authors: Claudio Cozzi Fucile - Governing the Future. The PLANAPP Model of Strategic Foresight Institutionalisation in the Portuguese Executive: Structures, Practices and Comparative Implications
Presenter: Danilo Felaco (Independent researcher)
Authors: Danilo Felaco - When AI meets crises: Evidence from South Korea
Presenter: Matilde Biagioni (Italy - Perugia University)
Authors: Matilde Biagioni - Anticipatory practices and interactive documentary: a proposed method for bringing lived experience into foresight thinking and the policy cycle.
Presenter: Judith Aston (UK - University of the West of England)
Authors: Judith Aston, Karen Boswall, Laura de Vito, Rengin Gurel Ozmen, Sopha Hatzisavvidou - From guidance to practice: explaining how SF is integrated in designing EU policies
Presenter: Gaia Taffoni (Italy - European University Institute)
Authors: Gaia Taffoni, Laura de Vito - Addressing critiques of resilience in socio-ecological systems. Insights from three empirical research projects
Presenter: Giorgio Varanini (Germany - Humboldt University Berlin)
Authors: Giorgio Varanini, Peter Feindt, Nicolai Goritz, Malte Moeck, Maria Proestou, Thomas Vogelpohl - From Holocaust-Centrism to Multifocal Genocide Concept: Shifting Meanings of Genocide in Slovakia after 1989
Presenter: Nina Paulovicova (Canada - Athabasca University)
Authors: Nina Paulovicova - How movements (do not) remember? Non-commemorative memory in the
experience Sicilian opposition to military infrastructures
Presenter: Federica Frazzetta (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Federica Frazzetta - More than a Football Match? Italian Ultras’ Banners Through a Social Movements Approach
Presenter: Federico Taddei (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Federico Taddei, Stefano Sangiovanni - Modernity as a Project. An Inquiry into the commissive legacy of Liberalism
Presenter: Raffaele Alberto Ventura (France - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)
Authors: Raffaele Alberto Ventura - Rethinking Representative Democracy: Plebiscitary Mediation and Political Representation in Contemporary Europe
Presenter: Gianfranco Baldini (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Gianfranco Baldini - Democratic Representation and Political Autonomy
Presenter: Giulia Bistagnino (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Giulia Bistagnino - Leo Strauss in America: A Critical Genealogy of Straussianism in Conservative and Reactionary U.S. Thought
Presenter: Alessandro Mulieri (France - Sciences Po Paris)
Authors: Alessandro Mulieri - Towards a Cartography of Party-Based Illiberalism
Presenter: Leonardo Puleo (Belgium - Université Libre de Bruxelles ULB)
Authors: Leonardo Puleo, Giuseppe Carteny - Dissoluzione o fallimento del liberalismo? Continuità e discontinuità tra Russell Kirk e Patrick J. Deneen
Presenter: Carlo Marsonet (Italy - University of Turin)
Authors: Carlo Marsonet - What is postliberalism?
Presenter: Elia Montani (Italy - University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
Authors: Elia Montani - Performing Heimat: TikTok and the Discursive Politics of Belonging in South Tyrol
Presenter: Katharina Crepaz (Italy - European Academy Bolzano/Bozen)
Authors: Katharina Crepaz - Reshaping Truth and Visibility Through GenAI. Synthetic Images in the Communication Strategies of European Far-Right Parties and Leaders
Presenter: Melissa Stolfi (Italy - Roma Tre University)
Authors: Melissa Stolfi, Emma Garzonio - From Sleeping Giants to Everyday Citizens: How Authoritarianism Shapes Visual Narratives and Public Characters
Presenter: Selen Sarikaya Eren (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Selen Sarikaya Eren - When Municipalities Break Down: How Governance Transitions Impact Robustness
Presenter: Mario de Rosa (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Mario de Rosa, Saverio Di Giorno, Lorenzo Eaco - Policy Success from Below: Subnational Governance and Positive Public Policy
Presenter: Sean Kippin (UK - University of Stirling)
Authors: Sean Kippin - Governing the Spending of European Union Money: Member States and the Recovery and Resilience Facility
Presenter: Tiziano Zgaga (Germany - Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München)
Authors: Tiziano Zgaga - THE TWIN TRANSITIONS - GREEN AND DIGITAL - THROUGH THE EU GREEN DEAL AND THE AI ACT
Presenter: Gianluigi Delle Cave (Italy - Università Telematica San Raffaele)
Authors: Gianluigi Delle Cave - Structural Dependency: NATO, Defense Industry Politics, and Europe’s Stagnation
Presenter: Diane Zorri (USA - Norwich University, VT)
Authors: Diane Zorri - Fabricating torture as ‘enhanced interrogation’: Science, care and medicalised violence in the War on Terror
Presenter: Georgios Glouftsios (Italy - University of Trento)
Authors: Georgios Glouftsios - From Peacebuilding to Preparedness: Militarising the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in Contemporary Europe
Presenter: Sofia Sutera (Italy - University of Padua)
Authors: Sofia Sutera - Between Barracks and Boulevards: Military Domestic Deployment in Contested Regimes
Presenter: Bruno Bevilacqua (Italy - University of Genoa)
Authors: Bruno Bevilacqua - Assessing the success of democratic resistance. Public opinion on Ukraine’s Euromaidan protests / Revolution of Dignity in 2013/14
Presenter: Heiko Pleines (Germany - University of Bremen)
Authors: Heiko Pleines - Between Nationalisation and Russification: Language Policy in Public Schools in the Soviet and post-Soviet Context
Presenter: Andrei Tarasov (Italy - University of Trento)
Authors: Andrei Tarasov - Eurasian Regionalism and the Limits of Russian Power: Instrumentalism, Legitimacy and the Eurasian Economic Union
Presenter: Diana Shendrikova (Italy - Politecnico di Milano)
Authors: Diana Shendrikova - Dancing through Intertexts: Humor, Meme Literacy and Political Engagement on TikTok
Presenter: Antonio Martella (Italy - University of Turin)
Authors: Antonio Martella, Junio Aglioti Colombini - Preaching Against Oligarchy. J. Talarico and the Democratic Rearticulation of Southern Political Culture
Presenter: Silvano Poli (Italy - University of Florence)
Authors: Silvano Poli, Daniele Battista, Michele Varini - Astroturfing as a Tool of Hidden Electoral Campaigns and Future Research Horizons, Artificial Grassroots in the Polish Cyber-Ecosystem
Presenter: Katarzyna Szelest-Karpowicz (Poland - University of Warsaw)
Authors: Katarzyna Szelest-Karpowicz - “Is Allah lesbian?” – Gender, Sexuality, and Nonreligion in Morocco
Presenter: Lena Richter (Italy - European Academy Bolzano/Bozen)
Authors: Lena Richter - Reclaiming Space: Havle between Secularism, Conservatism, and Feminism
Presenter: Nicole Stella Metz (Italy - Sapienza University of Rome)
Authors: Nicole Stella Metz - The Price of Belief: Rational Choice, Libertarian Ideology, and Political Advocacy for controversial Religious Movements
Presenter: Luigi Corvaglia (Italy - FECRIS)
Authors: Luigi Corvaglia, Luigi Corvaglia - Measuring Men: Gender Self-Placement Measures and the Politics of Male Identity
Presenter: Anna Guildea (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Anna Guildea - Measuring scientific evidence consumption literacy for public policy with the INSPIRE inventory
Presenter: Sebastian Ramirez-Ruiz (Italy - European University Institute)
Authors: Sebastian Ramirez-Ruiz, Simon Munzert - Studying the Multi-dimensionality of ILGA Europe's "Rainbow Index" in Capturing the Advancement of Pro-LGBTIQ+ Policies in 30 European Countries (2000–2024)
Presenter: Margherita Bordignon (Italy - University of Pavia)
Authors: Margherita Bordignon, Pamela Pansardi - Measuring Electoral Participation in International Surveys: Assessing the Validity of Turnout Indicators Across Contexts
Presenter: Cristiano Vezzoni (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Cristiano Vezzoni - The structure of belief systems in Large Language Models
Presenter: Max Boiten (Hungary - ELTE TK)
Authors: Max Boiten - Monitoring Visitors Impacts as a Tool for Transboundary Biodiversity Governance: Lessons from the Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE HUMANITA Project
Presenter: Isidoro de Bortoli (Italy - European Academy Bolzano/Bozen)
Authors: Isidoro de Bortoli - From Valuation to Investibility: Policy Learning and Incentive Alignment in Transboundary Biodiversity Governance
Presenter: Luca Cetara (Italy - European Academy Bolzano/Bozen)
Authors: Luca Cetara - Multilevel transboundary biodiversity protection in the Julian Alps: is the stratification of cooperative frameworks successful?
Presenter: Emma Mitrotta (Italy - European Academy Bolzano/Bozen)
Authors: Emma Mitrotta, Federica Cittadino - Assessing the Effectiveness of Transboundary Biodiversity Protection in Three European Case Studies: A Scoring Method
Presenter: Federica Cittadino (Italy - European Academy Bolzano/Bozen)
Authors: Federica Cittadino - «‘SO FAR, SO CLOSE’: STATE CAPTURE, GRAND CORRUPTION AND THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS. A MULTILEVEL PREVENTIVE-PUNITIVE FRAMEWORK BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW»
Presenter: Margherita Martino (Italy - Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies)
Authors: Margherita Martino - Corruption, State Capture and the Limits of EU Conditionality in the Western Balkans
Presenter: Marko Tmusic (Serbia - University of Belgrade)
Authors: Marko Tmusic - The Local Weak Link? Anti-money laundering practices in Italian municipalities
Presenter: Anna Borghetti (Italy - University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
Authors: Anna Borghetti, Giovanni Nicolazzo, Lorena Andreea Axinte, Francesca Basso, Caterina Gavioli, Micheal Victor Lo Giudice, Gaia Michelazzi - Top-Level Corruption in Russian Universities: Some Conclusions from Criminal Cases
Presenter: Alexey Konov (Russia - Higher School of Economics)
Authors: Alexey Konov - Information control: assessing the links between media capture and political corruption
Presenter: Fernanda Odilla (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Fernanda Odilla - The new European anti-corruption directive: developments and consequences for national policies
Presenter: Francesco Merenda (Italy - Perugia University)
Authors: Francesco Merenda - Fairness and Representation in Bureaucratic Responsiveness: Evidence for Minority Discrimination in Local Service Delivery
Presenter: Bence Hamrak (Italy - European University Institute)
Authors: Bence Hamrak, Daniel Kovarek - Il riordino territoriale e la costruzione partecipativa nei processi di fusione dei comuni
Presenter: Martina Scarselli (Italy - University G. D'Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara)
Authors: Martina Scarselli - Infrastructure of Participation: Co-construction, Knowledge, and Local Governance in Bologna's Digital Twin
Presenters: Edoardo Carminucci (Italy - University of Bologna), Luca Venga
Authors: Edoardo Carminucci, Luca Venga, Oskar Steiner - Trust and Legitimacy Effects of Local Democratic Innovations: Beyond Citizens' Assemblies and Beyond Participants
Presenter: Jan Hruška (Poland - Adam Mickiewicz University)
Authors: Jan Hruška - Participation and deliberation in central Italy: local unions and fusion of municipalities.
Presenter: Dario Quattromani (Italy - Link Campus University Rome)
Authors: Dario Quattromani - From Experiment to Framework: Assessing Multi-Municipality Youth Participatory Budgeting in the Alpine area South Tyrol
Presenter: Elisabeth Alber (Italy - European Academy Bolzano/Bozen)
Authors: Elisabeth Alber, Anna Pohl - Mandate expansion and legitimacy of International Organizations: Survey experiment on NATO’s resilience domain
Presenter: Andrea Knapp (Germany - Universität Potsdam)
Authors: Andrea Knapp, Ha Eun Choi - The Experimental Mindset: How Causal Hegemony Threatens Scientific Explanation
Presenter: Matthew Loveless (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Matthew Loveless - What Parties Say and What They Show: Voter Responses to Textual and Visual Issue Blurring
Presenter: Luigi Curini (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Luigi Curini, Giovanni Pagano - Towards synthetic IR? Studying the integration of AI in wargaming and IR lab experiments
Presenter: Manfredi Valeriani (Italy - LUISS Guido Carli - Rome)
Authors: Manfredi Valeriani, Martina Lucaccini - Future Imaginaries and Civilian Political Attitudes in Protracted Low-Intensity Conflict
Presenter: Chiara Minora (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Chiara Minora - Local Referendums, Development Conflicts, and the Quality of Local Democracy in the Czech Republic
Presenter: Pavel Maškarinec (Czech Republic - University of J. E. Purkyne in Usti nad Labem)
Authors: Petr Bláha, Pavel Maškarinec - Contesting Membership, Reinforcing Belonging? Brexit and European Identity Dynamics.
Presenter: Sofia Siemoni (Switzerland - Swiss National Science Foundation)
Authors: Sofia Siemoni - Yeasayers, Naysayers, and Non-Voters: Open-Ended Motivations in the Italian Justice Referendum
Presenter: Francesco Visconti (Italy - LUISS Guido Carli - Rome)
Authors: Francesco Visconti - Learning from direct democracy
Presenter: Maxime Walder (Switzerland - University of Geneva)
Authors: Maxime Walder, Nathalie Giger, Denise Traber - Freedom, Responsibility and Crisis: Presidential Narratives of Covid-19 Vaccination in Italy, Germany and Poland
Presenter: Valeria Carmen Caputo (Italy - University of Trieste)
Authors: Valeria Carmen Caputo - Civil Society Organizations in the Age of Trumpized Political Discourse: Crisis Narratives, Delegitimation, and Strategies of Civic Mobilization
Presenter: Agnieszka Bejma (Poland - University of Warsaw)
Authors: Agnieszka Bejma - The Transnational Diffusion of 'Trumpism': A Critical Discourse Analysis of Rhetorical Simplification and Brutalisation among Democratic Leaders
Presenter: Malgorzata Kaczorowska (Poland - University of Warsaw)
Authors: Malgorzata Kaczorowska - The Coloniality of Gender: Bordertexturing as a Decolonial Feminist Agenda
Presenter: Astrid Fellner (Germany - Saarland University)
Authors: Astrid Fellner, Eva Nossem - GENDERED BORDER GOVERNANCE AND SELECTIVE PROTECTION AT CHILE´S NORTHERN BORDER
Presenter: Gabriela Perez Lagos (Hungary - Central European University)
Authors: Gabriela Perez Lagos - Europe hijacking solidarity
Presenters: Marta Rawluszko (Poland - University of Warsaw), Conny Roggeband (Netherlands - University of Amsterdam)
Authors: Marta Rawluszko, Conny Roggeband - Gender on the move: control and resistance on the Balkan route
Presenter: Adele Moltedo (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Adele Moltedo - Beyond the East/West divide: imagined geographies of ‘traditional values’ activists in Kazakhstan
Presenter: Tatiana Stebneva (UK - University of Glasgow)
Authors: Tatiana Stebneva - The End of European Innocence: Unity or Decline in the Age of Great-Power Rivalry
Presenter: Lorenzo Zambernardi (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Lorenzo Zambernardi, Arlo Poletti - Ad Hoc Coalitions, Global Governance and Political Parties’ Influence
Presenter: Andrea Cipollina (Italy - University of Genoa)
Authors: Andrea Cipollina - From Multilateralism to Multipolarity: Can the EU Be the Guardian of the Liberal Order
Presenter: Filip Denda (Montenegro - University of Donja Gorica)
Authors: Filip Denda - A Transatlantic Digital Divide? Navigating Narratives of Governance, Dominance and Capabilities
Presenter: Antonio Zotti (Italy - University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
Authors: Antonio Zotti, Luciana Ghica - Lobbying in the Eyes of Citizens: Public Perceptions of Different Types of Interest Groups
Presenter: Claudia Mariotti (Italy - University of Roma Tre)
Authors: Claudia Mariotti, Alberto Bitonti, Giulia Mugellini, Jean-Patrick Villeneuve - The Role of Transnational University Networks in the Swiss Multilevel Science Diplomacy Field: Accumulation, Reproduction and Conversion of Capital
Presenter: Tatyana Bajenova (Italy - European University Institute)
Authors: Tatyana Bajenova - The Cuban regime and the opposition: The competition to gain access to the European Parliament
Presenter: Michel Navarro (Hungary - Corvinus University of Budapest)
Authors: Michel Navarro - Hybrid Advocacy and the Value of Information in EU–Mediterranean Digital Governance
Presenter: Valentina Gruarin (Italy - University of Catania)
Authors: Valentina Gruarin - Mapping the Italian Religious Voter Across Time: Religion, Attitudes, and Voting
Behavior, 1981-2018
Presenter: Francesco Piacentini (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Francesco Piacentini, Andrea Turković - Believing Without Bonding: the case of desigrejados in Brazil and their political consequences
Presenter: Victor Araújo (UK - University of Reading)
Authors: Victor Araújo, Valeria Rainero - Choosing is Believing: Advertising, Religious Competition, and Public Funding in Italy
Presenter: Carlo Nardella (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Carlo Nardella - Churches and Conspiracy Beliefs: Mapping an Underexplored Field of Research through a mixed-method approach
Presenter: Maurizio Cavaliere (Italy - University of Salerno)
Authors: Maurizio Cavaliere, Giuliana Sorci - Analysis of Media Trajectories on Refugees in Europe: A Time Series Clustering Approach
Presenter: Tommaso Greppi (Italy - University of Trento)
Authors: Tommaso Greppi, Elisa de Matteis, Matteo Bassoli - The trade off between regular and irregular migration
Presenter: Matilde Rosina (UK - King's College London)
Authors: Matilde Rosina, Omar Hammoud Gallego - Reframing Solidarity in EU Migration Policy: The Solidarity Mechanism under the New Pact on Migration and Asylum
Presenter: Valentina Giombetti (Italy - University of Parma)
Authors: Valentina Giombetti - The new Schengen regime: Italy and the (re)introduction of controls at the external frontiers
Presenter: Michela Ceccorulli (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Michela Ceccorulli, Raffaella Coletti - The Same Sovereigntism? Comparing the European policies of Fidesz and Fratelli d'Italia
Presenter: József Dúró (Hungary - Corvinus University of Budapest)
Authors: József Dúró - Lo studio delle organizzazioni di partito. Dai modelli idealtipici agli approcci contemporanei
Presenter: Eugenio Pizzimenti (Italy - University of Pisa)
Authors: Eugenio Pizzimenti, Daniela Romée Piccio, Sorina Cristina Soare - La leadership nei partiti. Concetti, funzioni e cambiamenti
Presenter: Fortunato Musella (Italy - University of Naples Federico II)
Authors: Fortunato Musella, Fabio Bordignon - La democrazia intra-partitica in prospettiva comparata: concetti, pattern e il caso italiano
Presenter: Antonella Seddone (Italy - University of Turin)
Authors: Antonella Seddone, Stefano Rombi, Fulvio Venturino - Media, comunicazione e nuove tecnologie
Presenter: Davide Vittori (Italy - LUISS Guido Carli - Rome)
Authors: Davide Vittori, Cecilia Biancalana, Valeria Tarditi - Infrastrutture di prossimità e pratiche di voto personale: ricostruire la mobilitazione politica locale attraverso CAF e patronati a Catania
Presenter: Francesca Montemagno (Italy - University of Catania)
Authors: Francesca Montemagno, Rossana Sampugnaro - Are Elites Better Informed? Factual Misperceptions among Citizens, Journalists, and Politicians in Italy
Presenter: Filippo Tronconi (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Alberto la Malfa, Filippo Tronconi - Affective representation in Europe: intersectional differences in emotions toward national and EU parliaments
Presenter: Matilde Ceron (Austria - University of Salzburg)
Authors: Matilde Ceron, Ermela Gianna, Zoe Lefkofridi - From Grievance to Representation? Migration-Related Discrimination, Political Voice, and MEP Responsiveness in Europe
Presenter: Zeynep Mentesoglu Tardivo (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Zeynep Mentesoglu Tardivo, Federico Russo - Hi Gemini, Who Should I Vote For? The Benefits (and Problems) of Using LLMs To Improve Voter-Party Congruence
Presenter: William John Atkinson (Italy - LUISS Guido Carli - Rome)
Authors: William John Atkinson, Paul Saproza - An Emerging Educational Cleavage? Analyzing Educational Groups’ Political Preferences and Behavior with Millions of Survey Reponses across the Globe
Presenter: Manuel Wagner (Germany - Goethe University Frankfurt)
Authors: Julian L. Garritzmann, Manuel Wagner - Political Abstention Is Not Necessarily Political Alienation: Different Types of Political Participation among European Youth
Presenter: Nicola Maggini (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Nicola Maggini, Giorgio Dolci - When Recognition Backfires: Experimental Evidence on Place-Based Appeals, Attachment, and Political Trust
Presenter: Fred Paxton (UK - University of Glasgow)
Authors: Fred Paxton, Francesco Colombo - A representation failure? Social conflicts, parties’ credibility, and alienation from democracy
Presenter: Mirko Crulli (Belgium - Université Libre de Bruxelles ULB)
Authors: Mirko Crulli, Vincenzo Emanuele - When is interference by international organizations legitimate? Evidence from Italy and Slovakia
Presenter: Michal Onderco (Netherlands - Erasmus University)
Authors: Michal Onderco, Reinout Van Der Veer - When is it OK to ban elections? A cross-country perspective on the demand-side of democratic resilience
Presenter: Filip Kostelka (Italy - European University Institute)
Authors: Filip Kostelka, Yana Bochkareva, Silvia Porciuleanu - Challenging Universality: How Cultural Relativism Shapes Public Opinion on Human Rights
Presenter: Tobias Risse (Switzerland - University of St Gallen)
Authors: Tobias Risse, Christoph Steinert, Stefanie Walter - Politicising the Shock: Norm Entrepreneurs, Public Opinion, and Strategic Culture Change after Ukraine
Presenter: Alina Cherri (Italy - University of Genoa)
Authors: Alina Cherri - Solidarity Divided: How Populist Attitudes Shape Left-Wing Support for International Solidarity
Presenter: Giada Pasquettaz (Germany - University of Konstanz)
Authors: Giada Pasquettaz - Il crowdfunding civico in Italia: partecipazione politica e governance collaborativa nelle politiche pubbliche locali
Presenter: Helena Lea Memeo (Italy - University of Pavia)
Authors: Helena Lea Memeo - How do governments imagine the future?
Presenter: Marlene Jugl (Italy - Bocconi University)
Authors: Marlene Jugl - Co-creation as anticipatory governance: designing inclusive policies for the urban night
Presenter: Benedetta Carlotti (Italy - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Authors: Benedetta Carlotti - Plants as Policy Actors: Nature-based Solutions and Vegetal Governance in Turin and Barcelona
Presenter: Federico Cuomo (Italy - University of Turin)
Authors: Federico Cuomo, Luca Battisti, Alessandra Manganelli - Constructing memory through symbolic objects. The “lenzuoli” committee in Sicily in the 1990s.
Presenter: Giuseppe Lipari (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Giuseppe Lipari - Where “the Others” prevail: Štivor as an Alternative Memory Space in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Presenters: Maura Madeddu (Austria - University of Graz), Leonardo Torelli (Austria - University of Graz)
Authors: Maura Madeddu, Leonardo Torelli - Student movements: forgotten and remembered
Presenter: Alena Gileva (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Alena Gileva - Collective Actors in Uruguay's "Memory, Truth and Justice" Social Movement
Presenter: Sebastián Moreno (Uruguay - Universidad ORT Uruguay)
Authors: Sebastián Moreno - Contesting Foundational Memories: Reappropriation of the Democratic Past in Contemporary Portugal
Presenter: Filipa Raimundo (Portugal - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa)
Authors: David Castaño, Filipa Raimundo, David Castaño - Some paradoxes of democracy
Presenter: Jack Birner (Italy - University of Trento)
Authors: Jack Birner - The Failure of Liberalism in Poland
Presenter: Leszek Nowak (Poland - University of Warsaw)
Authors: Leszek Nowak - Rethinking Representative Democracy through “Common Virtues”: Epistemic Foundations of Civic Reciprocity Beyond Liberal Minimalism
Presenter: Rafael Vazquez (Spain - Universidad de Granada)
Authors: Rafael Vazquez - Comparative study of Liberal democracy and People's democracy in the context of African development.
Presenter: Francis Kwesi Kyirewiah (Ghana - Takoradi Technical University)
Authors: Francis Kwesi Kyirewiah - Rethinking citizens' political competence: does it require knowledge?
Presenter: Emma Delfrate (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Emma Delfrate - Religione, secolarizzazione e lobbying: la trasformazione del ruolo delle organizzazioni religiose nelle democrazie contemporanee
Presenter: Andrea Santo (Italy - LUISS Guido Carli - Rome)
Authors: Andrea Santo - La fatica di credere. Islamofobia, stereotipi e resistenza tra i giovani musulmani e le giovani musulmane in Italia
Presenter: Riccardo Cruzzolin (Italy - University of Perugia)
Authors: Riccardo Cruzzolin, Marta Scialdone - Sacred Leaders: A Missing Perspective in the Study of Religion and Right-Wing Populism
Presenters: Susanna Pagiotti (Italy - University of Perugia), Selena Mariano (Italy - Perugia University)
Authors: Susanna Pagiotti, Selena Mariano - Evolving thinking on nuclear sharing in the Netherlands
Presenter: Michal Onderco (Netherlands - Erasmus University)
Authors: Michal Onderco - Meaning over Structure: The Iranian Nuclear Project as a Vehicle for Ideological Contestation
Presenter: Ludovica Castelli (Italy - IAI)
Authors: Ludovica Castelli - Beyond Deterrence? Italy’s Role in NATO Nuclear Sharing in a Changing European Security Environment
Presenter: Paolo Foradori (Italy - University of Trento)
Authors: Paolo Foradori - Religion(s), Nationalism and Conflict: A Poisonous Relation?
Presenter: Luca Ozzano (Italy - University of Turin)
Authors: Luca Ozzano - Governing Nature, Rearticulating Tradition: Religion, Norm Translation, and the Politics of Ecological Civilization in China
Presenter: Valentina Pettosini (Italy - University of Siena)
Authors: Valentina Pettosini - From Religious Zionist Statism to Messianic-Securitarian Populism: The Sociogenesis of the Ben-Gvirist Right in Israel
Presenter: Alon Helled (Italy - University of Turin)
Authors: Alon Helled - Experimentalist Governance in Times of Strategic Uncertainty:
The European Union’s Strategy for the Adriatic-Ionian Region
Presenter: Marco Pietro D'attoma (Norway - University of Agder)
Authors: Marco Pietro D'attoma, Stefan Gänzle - Politicized Enlargement and the Varieties of National Interest: MEPs’ Written Questions on Albania and Serbia
Presenter: Alda Kushi (Italy - University of Salento)
Authors: Alda Kushi - Disentangling National Approaches to EU Enlargement: Insights from Italy under the Meloni Government
Presenter: Maria Giulia Amadio Viceré (Italy - LUISS Guido Carli - Rome)
Authors: Maria Giulia Amadio Viceré, Matteo Bonomi - Policy Europeanization and EU Support in Candidate Countries
Presenter: Alessandro Pellegata (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Alessandro Pellegata, Hakan Yapar - Relationship–Specific Capital in Public Decision-Making: Evidence from Judges and Lawyers
Presenter: Matteo Vasca (Italy - University of Naples Federico II)
Authors: Giovanni Immordino, Tommaso Oliviero, Matteo Vasca - Beyond the bench. What digital communication can tell us about the power of courts
Presenter: Luigi Rullo (Italy - University of Naples Federico II)
Authors: Luigi Rullo - Setting the agenda without conflictual vetoes.
Constitutional Court's decision style and its drivers. The Italian case.
Presenter: Francesco Zucchini (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Francesco Zucchini, Emmanuele Pavolini - The Role of Constitutional Courts in shaping social and labour market policies. The Italian case
Presenter: Emmanuele Pavolini (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Emmanuele Pavolini - Amid government and challengers: the role of third parties during the (no) DDL 1660
episode in Italy
Presenter: Federica Frazzetta (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Federica Frazzetta, Alice Ferro - Police brutality and democratic erosion: Explaining the factors of police violence
Presenter: Anna Borghetti (Italy - University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
Authors: Anna Borghetti - Counterpopulist Social Movements and Democratic Self-Defence
Presenter: Batuhan Eren (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Batuhan Eren, Manuela Caiani, Nicolò Pennucci - Protesting in defence: On democratic defence and anti-authoritarian learning against autocratic moves
Presenter: Andrea L. P. Pirro (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Andrea L. P. Pirro, Davide Rocchetti - When Does Big Tech Become a Threat? Linking conspiracy beliefs and populist radical right
Presenter: Jessica Rosco (Switzerland - University of Lausanne)
Authors: Jessica Rosco, Oscar Mazzoleni - Post‑Acute Consolidation of Italy’s No‑Vax Telegram Sphere: Conspiratorial Infrastructures and Radical‑Right Articulations
Presenters: Anita Lavorgna (Italy - University of Bologna), Federico Pilati (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Selenia Anastasi, Federico Pilati, Anita Lavorgna - Political Conspiracism: The case of Great Replacement Conspiracy Theory
Presenter: Marco Solinas (Italy - Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies)
Authors: Marco Solinas - The Hidden Toll of Loneliness on Electoral Participation. Longitudinal Evidence from The Netherlands.
Presenter: Francesco Marolla (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Francesco Marolla, Arturo Bertero, Cristiano Vezzoni - A Causal Modeling Approach to the Political Consequences of Social Disconnection in Europe
Presenter: Alessia Telari (Italy - University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
Authors: Alessia Telari, Asrin Yenihayat, Marco Piastra, Andrea Bonanomi, Mauro Bertolotti, Patrizia Catellani - Does loneliness undermine democracy?
Presenter: Claudia Neu (Germany - University of Goettingen)
Authors: Claudia Neu - ALONE IN THE POLIS. Existential Loneliness and Political (Dis)Engagement among Italian Citizens
Presenter: Luigi Ceccarini (Italy - University of Urbino Carlo Bo)
Authors: Luigi Ceccarini - Disconnected Citizens: Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Voter Turnout in Europe
Presenter: Arturo Bertero (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Arturo Bertero, Francesco Marolla, Cristiano Vezzoni - Alert, but not Mobilised? How the Stigmatisation of Trans and Non-binary Italians Translates Politically
Presenter: Federico Trastulli (Italy - LUISS Guido Carli - Rome)
Authors: Massimo Prearo, Federico Trastulli - Pathways to Government? Political Backgrounds and Parliamentary Careers in Italy (1946-2022)
Presenter: Matteo Boldrini (Italy - University of Siena)
Authors: Matteo Boldrini, Selena Grimaldi - Intra-party criticism and support for party leaders in Italy (1979-2019)
Presenter: Andrea Ceron (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Andrea Ceron, Paride Carrara, Alessio Scopelliti - Presidential Diplomacy in Parliamentary Democracies: Conceptualisation, Measurement and Evidence from Germany and Italy
Presenter: Valeria Carmen Caputo (Italy - University of Trieste)
Authors: Valeria Carmen Caputo, Mauro Tebaldi, Daniela Caterina, Marco Calaresu - Beneficiaries or Victims? The political class and electoral reform
Presenter: Jeremiasz Salamon (Poland - Jagiellonian University in Kraków)
Authors: Jeremiasz Salamon, Jarosław Flis - Supported by Peers: Can Encouragement Close the Gender Gap in Electoral Political Ambition?
Presenter: Clint Claessen (Austria - University of Salzburg)
Authors: Clint Claessen, Hugo Ferrinho Lopes - Amnesty for Gender Quota Fraud in Brazil: Constitutional Amendments (EC 117/2022 & 133/2024) and Democratic Backsliding
Presenter: Paula Roméro Cajaty Lopes (Portugal - Universidade de Lisboa)
Authors: Paula Roméro Cajaty Lopes - Changing Informal Institutions: Seniority rules in Parliament at time of increasing gender equality
Presenter: Francesca Feo (Norway - University of Bergen)
Authors: Francesca Feo, Ragnhild Muriaas, Torill Stavenes, Marianne Toraaseen - Political Trust and Policy-Induced Shocks in Multilevel Systems: Evidence From EU CO2 Emission Regulations
Presenter: Tommaso Camilot (Spain - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Authors: Tommaso Camilot - Forms of Energy State and the Social Dimension of Decarbonization. Conceptualizing the Changing Nature of EU Energy Governance
Presenter: Ruggero Battagliarin (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Ruggero Battagliarin - The Politics of Neglect and Reaction, and Its Implications: The Case of EU Electricity Policy
Presenter: Francesco Sarti (Switzerland - University of Lausanne)
Authors: Francesco Sarti, Emmanuelle Mathieu - The local political drivers of public perceptions of migrant integration outcomes in Italian small and medium towns and rural areas
Presenter: Andrea Pettrachin (Italy - University of Padua)
Authors: Andrea Pettrachin, Tiziana Caponio, Giacomo Solano - Negotiating Rural Diversity. Spatial Imaginaries as Justification Work in Rural Immigrant Policymaking
Presenter: Federico Rossi (Italy - University of Urbino Carlo Bo)
Authors: Federico Rossi - Hidden in plain sight: navigating coexistence between newcomers and locals in Italian rural towns
Presenter: Leila Giannetto (Italy - European University Institute)
Authors: Leila Giannetto, Silvia Di Passio - Asimmetrie in costruzione: genere, autorità epistemica e interruzione nelle arene politiche locali
Presenter: Claudia Menichetti (Italy - University of Trento)
Authors: Claudia Menichetti - Partecipazione, ballottaggi e mobilitazione asimmetrica nelle elezioni comunali italiane
Presenters: Aldo Paparo (Italy - University of Florence), Alessandro Chiaramonte (Italy - University of Florence)
Authors: Alessandro Chiaramonte, Aldo Paparo - Chi accede alle cariche politiche locali? Un'analisi delle differenze centro-periferia
Presenter: Carmen Buglisi (Italy - University of Padua)
Authors: Carmen Buglisi, Elisabetta Ginevra Iida, Lorenza Perini - Diseguaglianze urbane e geografia del voto referendario a Palermo
Presenter: Francesca Montemagno (Italy - University of Catania)
Authors: Francesca Montemagno, Laura Azzolina, Girolamo D'anneo, Roberto Fodera - Framing Responsibility, Feeling Protest: Citizens’ Emotional Responses to Climate Activism in Italy and Czechia.
Presenter: Nikolaos Saridakis (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Nikolaos Saridakis, Ondřej Císař, Manuela Caiani, Linda Coufal - Researching the affective democracies of climate justice movements in the polycrisis: methodological and empirical insights
Presenter: Louisa Parks (Italy - University of Trento)
Authors: Louisa Parks, Alice Dal Gobbo - Demanding or Doing? Evolving Strategies, Outcomes, and Future Visions in the Italian Climate Movement
Presenter: Giuseppe Cugnata (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Giuseppe Cugnata, Lorenzo Zamponi - Unpacking Social Cohesion: Mechanisms of Grassroots Environmental Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict Settings
Presenter: Martina Cocchi (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Martina Cocchi - Words That Arm: Framing Effects and Mass Preferences for Defense Expenditure
Presenter: Claudio Cozzi Fucile (Italy - University of Siena)
Authors: Claudio Cozzi Fucile, Fazio Luciana, Isernia Pierangelo - Who Speaks for War? Elite Cues and European Public Support for Military Interventions
Presenter: Francesco Olmastroni (Italy - University of Siena)
Authors: Francesco Olmastroni, Valerio Vignoli, Fabrizio Coticchia - The Language of Intervention: Strategic-Cultural Framing and the Ideological Structure of Parliamentary Support for Italian Military Operations Abroad.
Presenter: Ivan Fraternali (Italy - Scuola univ. Superiore difesa, CASD)
Authors: Ivan Fraternali, Lorenzo Di Stefano - Looking South, Marching East: Italian Defense Policy Between Decupling and New Strategic Priorities
Presenter: Francesca Longo (Italy - University of Catania)
Authors: Francesca Longo, Cosimo Melella - Why Middle Powers Intervene abroad: Italy between Alliances and Domestic Constraints
Presenter: Fabrizio Coticchia (Italy - University of Genoa)
Authors: Fabrizio Coticchia, Matteo Mazziotti Di Celso - Organizational Adaptation to Fragmenting Globalization: How Firms Internalize Statecraft and Shape Economic Openness.
Presenter: Tommaso Fonti (Switzerland - Geneva Graduate Institute)
Authors: Tommaso Fonti - From Architect to Guarantor: The Developmental State in the Post-Directive Phase,
Evidence from Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry
Presenter: Ruben de Francesco (Italy - University of Messina)
Authors: Ruben de Francesco - Theorizing Post-Kazan EU–BRICS Relations: Between Bilateralism and Geoeconomics
Presenter: Giovanni Spina (Italy - University of Catania)
Authors: Giovanni Spina - Contesting the Liberal International Order in Government Discourse: Economic and Cultural Sources
Presenter: Mehmet Yavuz (Austria - University of Salzburg)
Authors: Mehmet Yavuz, Andreas Dür, Gemma Mateo - From Encampments to “Blocchiamo tutto!” and Subsequent De/Mobilizations: The Cycle of Pro-Palestine Student Protests in Italy (The Catania Case)
Presenter: Gianni Piazza (Italy - University of Catania)
Authors: Gianni Piazza, Giorgia Urso - How Movements Endure: Divergent Trajectories of Pro-Palestinian Student Encampments in Italy
Presenter: Sandro Schraudolph (Italy - University of Trento)
Authors: Sandro Schraudolph - Mnemonic Regimes:
Epistemic violence and the Erasure of Palestine in Post-communist Slovakia
Presenter: Nina Paulovicova (Canada - Athabasca University)
Authors: Nina Paulovicova - Legal mobilisation without the law? Lessons from the Palestine solidarity movement
Presenter: Federico Alagna (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Federico Alagna - Ambiguous connections: reputation, secrecy and corruption between ‘ndrangheta and politics in Australia
Presenter: Anna Sergi (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Anna Sergi, Alberto Vannucci - Breaking Rules and Roles: Experimental Evidence on Gendered Expectations in the Evaluation of Women Politicians
Presenter: Maria Zuffova (Italy - European University Institute)
Authors: Maria Zuffova, Jozef Michal Mintál, Klára Kaničárová - Beyond Compliance: whistleblowing as an anti-corruption policy tool. Comparative insights from training evaluation in Italy, Bulgaria and Spain.
Presenters: Francesca Rispoli (Italy - University of Pisa), Alberto Vannucci (Italy - University of Pisa)
Authors: Francesca Rispoli, Alberto Vannucci - Civic Monitoring and Transparency in Confiscated Assets: The Case of Libera
Presenter: Camilla Galaverni (Italy - University of Pisa)
Authors: Camilla Galaverni - The Semiotics of Agonistic Democracy, or How to Avoid Polarization
Presenter: Sebastián Moreno (Uruguay - Universidad ORT Uruguay)
Authors: Sebastián Moreno - The philosophical discourse of security. The dialectics of securitization and counter-securitization as a driver of social and political change
Presenter: Raffaele Alberto Ventura (France - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)
Authors: Raffaele Alberto Ventura - The Spiral of Partisan Disillusionment Theory
Presenter: Rosemarie Calleja (Malta - University of Malta)
Authors: Rosemarie Calleja - The Inside Matters: the Importance of Going Beyond Affective Polarization
Presenter: Bruno Bevilacqua (Italy - University of Genoa)
Authors: Bruno Bevilacqua - Transactionalism in Turkish Energy Diplomacy: Comparing geopolitics of energy between the EU and China
Presenter: Edoardo Lavezzo (UK - University of York)
Authors: Edoardo Lavezzo - Reframing the Criticality of Raw Materials: A Comparative Analysis of EU–Africa and US–Latin America Interdependencies
Presenter: Silvia Orioli (Italy - University for Foreigners of Perugia)
Authors: Silvia Orioli, Diana Shendrikova, Gabriele Casella, Emidio Diodato - International Institutions: Still Policy-Relevant Information Sources for the European Union in Turbulent Times
Presenter: Francesca Minetto (Italy - European University Institute)
Authors: Francesca Minetto, Sebastian Ramirez Ruiz - The Italian Left in the Age of Neoliberal Restructuring: Labour, Education, and Authoritarian Governance
Presenter: Lorenzo Cortinovis (Italy - Filcams-CGIL)
Authors: Lorenzo Cortinovis - Keji Zili Ziqiang 科技自立自强: Position, Register, and the Reconfiguration of Chinese Technological Self-Reliance
Presenter: Vanni Filloramo (Italy - University of Macerata)
Authors: Vanni Filloramo - Technocapitalism and the Quest for Cognitive Power: China-US rivalry in the Digital Age
Presenters: Sara Concetta Santoriello (Italy - University of Naples Federico II), Veronica Strina (Italy - University of Salerno)
Authors: Sara Concetta Santoriello, Veronica Strina - Central Control or Local Autonomy? Candidate Selection for Local Elections in Comparative Party Organizations
Presenter: Seonhwa Jang (South Korea - Korea University)
Authors: Seonhwa Jang, Hyeok Yoong Kwon, Dong-Hun Kim - Demystifying the Impact of the Party Organizations and the Party System On the Recent Peace Process in Turkiye
Presenters: Halime Safiye Atalay (Turkey - Istanbul Medipol University), Levent Korkut (Turkiye - Istanbul Medipol University)
Authors: Halime Safiye Atalay, Levent Korkut - On the organisational profile of challenger parties: A comparative analysis
Presenters: Matteo Giardiello (Italy - Unitelma Sapienza University of Rome), Giorgos Charalambous (Cyprus - University of Nicosia)
Authors: Matteo Giardiello, Costas Eleftheriou, Giorgos Charalambous - Those Who Marched for Change? Revisiting Movement Parties from a Cross-Time Event-Based Perspective
Presenter: Damiano Kerma (Italy - University of Pisa)
Authors: Damiano Kerma - Is There Anything Left? Triangulating Programmatic Positions and Perception among the Public of European Left Parties Across Three Measurement Sources
Presenter: Margherita Bordignon (Italy - University of Pavia)
Authors: Margherita Bordignon, Giovanni Pagano, Francesco Piacentini - Regionalism beyond institutions: a systematic review of the literature on regional migration policy implementation
Presenter: Diego Caballero Vélez (Latvia - University of Latvia)
Authors: Leiza Brumat, Diego Caballero Vélez - Territorial policies as critical cases for public policy research: comparative insights from Italy and Spain
Presenter: Cecilia Castellani (Italy - University of Pisa)
Authors: Cecilia Castellani - Measuring Policy Capacity in Europe: A QCA Application on Climate Adaptation Plans for an SGI-based Index
Presenter: Edoardo Carminucci (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Edoardo Carminucci, Mario de Rosa - It Takes One to Know One? Gender Identity and the Evaluation of Political Masculinities: Evidence from a Cross-National Survey Experiment
Presenter: Mariia Tepliakova (Netherlands - University of Amsterdam)
Authors: Mariia Tepliakova - Fathers, Sons, and Brothers: Masculinity, Modernization, and Political Subject Formation from the Late Ottoman Empire to the Early Turkish Republic
Presenter: Gülşen Seven (Turkey - TED University)
Authors: Gülşen Seven, Aylin Özman - The 'Man Question' in Voting Behaviour
Presenter: Anna Guildea (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Anna Guildea, Ingvild Zinober - Il pluralismo informativo nella tv referendaria: il caso della “riforma Nordio” tra agenda setting, frame analysis e questioni aperte
Presenter: Andrea de Rosa (Italy - Sapienza University of Rome)
Authors: Christian Ruggiero, Mauro Bomba, Andrea de Rosa - L'altra campagna: i content creators e il referendum 2026
Presenter: Rossana Sampugnaro (Italy - University of Catania)
Authors: Rossana Sampugnaro, Martina Faia, Pierpaolo Letizia - Lo sdoganamento del podcast nella comunicazione politica italiana: il caso Meloni a Pulp Podcast
Presenter: Sebastiana Risso (Italy - IULM University)
Authors: Sebastiana Risso, Federico Regaldo - Framing the Reform: Polarization, Expertise, and Ideology in the 2026 Italian Judiciary Referendum on Instagram
Presenter: Francesco Piacentini (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Francesco Piacentini, Margherita Bordignon, Giovanni Pagano - Do Young People vote for Younger Parties? Electoral behavior and descriptive representation of younger generations in Europe
Presenter: Lorenzo Colombo (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Lorenzo Colombo - Youth and Far-Right Support in Spain and Portugal: Insights from Survey Experiments
Presenter: Bilge Yabanci (Spain - University of Deusto)
Authors: Bilge Yabanci, Cansu Paksoy - Youth Political Orientations and the Boundaries of Belonging: Citizenship, Migration Background, and Participation in Italy
Presenter: Zeynep Mentesoglu Tardivo (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Zeynep Mentesoglu Tardivo, Simona Guglielmi - Do parliaments care about Gender-Responsive Budgeting? A comparative analysis of Southern Europe and Brazil
Presenter: Pedro de Lima Marin (Brazil - University of Sao Paulo)
Authors: Pedro de Lima Marin, Alice Cavalieri - Paths to Equality: LGBTQIA+ Policymaking in Italy and Portugal
Presenter: Gaia Matilde Ripamonti (Italy - University of Trieste)
Authors: Gaia Matilde Ripamonti, Elisabetta de Giorgi - Missing in Action, decolonization within the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
Presenters: Jillian Leblanc (Independent researcher), Rawnak Nasri
Authors: Jillian Leblanc, Rawnak Nasri - Negotiating feminism in local politics: discursive positioning among women politicians in Italy
Presenter: Giulia Cinti (Italy - University of Bari Aldo Moro)
Authors: Giulia Cinti, Selena Grimaldi - Energy Transition and Local Conflicts: A Comparative Analysis of Case Studies in Italy and Spain
Presenter: Simone Guglielmelli (Italy - University of Calabria)
Authors: Simone Guglielmelli - Institutional voice and discursive frames: the limits of municipal participation in Italy's renewable energy siting procedures
Presenter: Martina Sguazzin (Italy - University of Trieste)
Authors: Martina Sguazzin - Renewable Energy Communities between Local Innovation and Political Contestation
Presenter: Giuseppe Cugnata (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Giuseppe Cugnata - L’altare e la spada: la Chiesa Ortodossa Russa e la legittimazione della guerra nello stalinismo e nel putinismo
Presenter: Alessia Fantini (Italy - University of Pisa)
Authors: Alessia Fantini - Shared Devotion in the Face of Religious Nationalism: Orthodox Sacred Sites and Post-Conflict Coexistence at Zočište Monastery, Kosovo
Presenter: Massimo Mammarella (Italy - Sapienza University of Rome)
Authors: Massimo Mammarella - Religion and political participation in democratic and autocratic regimes: the case of Tunisia
Presenter: Valeria Resta (Ireland - Dublin City University)
Authors: Valeria Resta - Vice or Virtue? Exploring Political Prioritization in Public Administrations
Presenter: Christina Steinbacher (Germany - Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München)
Authors: Christina Steinbacher, Alexa Lenz - Politics for the Core, Technocracy for the Periphery? Explaining the Asymmetric Hybridisation of Technocracy and Democracy in Europe
Presenters: Adriano Cozzolino (Italy - University of Messina), Aurelia Zucaro (Italy - University of Calabria)
Authors: Adriano Cozzolino, Aurelia Zucaro - Domesticated technocrats? Clustering experts in SDGs localisation
Presenter: Giulia Vicentini (Italy - University of Naples Parthenope)
Authors: Maria Tullia Galanti, Giulia Vicentini, Edoardo Bressanelli, Michele Scotto Di Vettimo - From Compliance to Performance.
Discretion as a Driver of Administrative Capacity in Italy:
The Cases of the Trial Office and the Hub & Spoke Model.
Presenter: Rosanna Calcagno (Italy - Politecnico di Milano)
Authors: Rosanna Calcagno - Technocracy as a kind of democratic regime: the People’s Republic of China
Presenter: Nicola Giannelli (Italy - University of Urbino Carlo Bo)
Authors: Nicola Giannelli - A cross-national analysis of political perceptions among the public post terrorist attacks
Presenter: Jana El Amine (France - Université Catholique de Lille)
Authors: Jana El Amine, Raul Magni-Berton - Sacred Capital, States and Conflict in Global Politics
Presenter: Gregorio Bettiza (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Gregorio Bettiza - Islamism in Exile: Securitization, Transnational Arenas, and the Reconfiguration of Islamic Activism
Presenter: Ester Sigillò (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Ester Sigillò - Artificial Intelligence and the Transformation of Foreign Policymaking in the Age of Polycrisis
Presenter: Anna Urbanovics (Hungary - University of Pécs)
Authors: Anna Urbanovics - Artificial Intelligence in Italian municipalities: from perceived affordances to institutional activation
Presenter: Elisa Filippi, Phd (Italy - Italian Foundation for loca Finance and Economy)
Authors: Elisa Filippi, Phd, Valeria Andreani, Francesco Monaco, Rosario Marrapodi, Phd, Edoardo Fabbri, Marco Scarselli - Benessere Digitale e Intelligenza Artificiale nelle Pubbliche Amministrazioni italiane
Presenter: Marco la Bella (Italy - University of Catania)
Authors: Marco la Bella, Patrizia Santoro - Applying artificial intelligence (AI) technology in the European Union: evidence from northern and southern bureaucracies
Presenter: Giorgio Oikonomou (Greece - University of Athens)
Authors: Giorgio Oikonomou - What is new and what is not in measuring corruption with AI? Assessing enduring and novel statistical challenges
Presenter: Fernanda Odilla (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Fernanda Odilla, Michela Gnaldi - Assessing AI Literacy to Inform University AI Policy: A Mixed-Methods Study at the University of Perugia
Presenter: Marta Ponzo (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Marta Ponzo, Matilde Biagioni - Beyond Technocracy: Measuring Ministerial Portfolio Expertise in Comparative Perspective
Presenter: Juan Rodriguez (Spain - Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona)
Authors: Juan Rodriguez, Marcelo Camerlo - Politicians from 12 countries rarely engage with researchers on social media, but this can change when expertise gains salience
Presenter: Sebastian Ramirez-Ruiz (Italy - European University Institute)
Authors: Sebastian Ramirez-Ruiz - Who Gets to Stay? Gendered Pathways to Parliamentary Seniority in Italy
Presenter: Francesca Feo (Norway - University of Bergen)
Authors: Francesca Feo, Torill Stavenes - Beyond the Crisis: Reframing Legitimacy and the Limits of EU Actorness in Post-2022 European Security
Presenter: Marcello Ciola (Italy - University Guglielmo Marconi)
Authors: Marcello Ciola - Public Diplomatic Visits as Commitment Events for UN Peacekeeping Contributions
Presenter: Fabio D Aguanno (Switzerland - ETH Zurich)
Authors: Fabio D Aguanno, Matteo C. M. Casiraghi, Tiziana Corda, Andrea Ruggeri - Social Network Analysis of UNGA voting Pattern: a proxy to study international politics dynamics
Presenter: Elisabetta Ginevra Iida (Italy - University of Padua)
Authors: Elisabetta Ginevra Iida, Matteo Bassoli - Supranational bureaucracies, member states, and the politics of shaming: The interactive dynamics of international organizations’ reaction to conflicts (2000-2024)
Presenter: Andrea Knapp (Germany - Universität Potsdam)
Authors: Andrea Knapp, Giovanni Agostinis, Paolo Pietro Stohlman - Greening the European Semester: scope, direction and policy implications
Presenter: Camilla Mariotto (Austria - University of Innsbruck)
Authors: Camilla Mariotto, Ekaterina Domorenok, Eugenio Borgognoni - Guarding the Paradigm: Epistemic Conflicts and Institutional Gatekeeping in EU Climate-Related Prudential Regulation
Presenter: Giuseppe Montalbano (Luxembourg - LISER)
Authors: Giuseppe Montalbano - ECB banking supervision in climate tailwinds and headwinds
Presenter: Francesca Romana Paradiso (Germany - Max Planck Institute)
Authors: Francesca Romana Paradiso - The political economy of the EU corporate sustainability regulatory rollback
Presenter: Riccardo Baioni (Germany - Witten/Herdecke University)
Authors: Riccardo Baioni - From Institutions to Individuals: Governing the arrival and settlement of migrants in Rural and Peripheral South Tyrol
Presenter: Verena Wisthaler (Italy - European Academy Bolzano/Bozen)
Authors: Verena Wisthaler, Johanna Mitterhofer - Unveiling the Elusive Logic of Refugee Reception Center Allocation in Italy: The Impact of Multilevel Political Factors
Presenter: Elisa Siragusa (Italy - University of Turin)
Authors: Elisa Siragusa, Camilla Borgna, Tiziana Caponio, Viktoriia Tomnyuk - Living with Transit: Migration as Normalized Emergency in Italian Border Communities
Presenter: Viktoriia Tomnyuk (Italy - University of Turin)
Authors: Camilla Borgna, Effrosyni Charitopoulou, Viktoriia Tomnyuk - Informal governance and long-term trajectories: Asylum reception politics in an Italian mountain region
Presenter: Elisa Lanari (Italy - European Academy Bolzano/Bozen)
Authors: Elisa Lanari - Cicli elettorali romani (1993-2023). Analisi dell’entropia del mercato politico romano
Presenter: Chiara Fiorelli (Italy - Sapienza University of Rome)
Authors: Chiara Fiorelli - La capitale inquieta. Dinamiche elettorali e trasformazione politica a Roma (1993–2023)
Presenter: Roberto de Rosa (Italy - University Niccolò Cusano)
Authors: Roberto de Rosa - Allineamento e disallineamento elettorale: una analisi comparata tra voto politico e amministrativo nei quartieri di Roma
Presenter: Nicola D'amelio (Italy - University of Roma Tre)
Authors: Nicola D'amelio, Caludia Mariotti - Sistemi Elettorali per Vot(ant)i Romani dal 1993 al 2023.
Presenter: Dario Quattromani (Italy - Link Campus University Rome)
Authors: Dario Quattromani, Luigi Di Gregorio - Who writes the conclusions? Measuring the contribution of national leaders to European Council outcomes
Presenter: Michele Scotto Di Vettimo (UK - King's College London)
Authors: Michele Scotto Di Vettimo - Present, but not Represented? Representative Claims and Group Mentions in Parliamentary Debates
Presenter: Clint Claessen (Austria - University of Salzburg)
Authors: Clint Claessen - From Manual Coding to Generative AI: Methodological Challenges and Innovations
in Computational Protest Event Analysis
Presenter: Flavio Piccoli (Italy - Milano Bicocca University)
Authors: Flavio Piccoli, Niccolò Bertuzzi, Lorenzo Mosca, Alice Rampolla - The Myth of Resistance: How Italian Political Parties Frame the Italian Resistance in the Parliamentary Debate
Presenter: Edoardo Corradi (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Edoardo Corradi, Mattia Sguazzini - Orchestrated into Orchestrating: Italy’s Military Assistance to the Philippines
Presenter: Jean Marie Reure (Italy - University of Genoa)
Authors: Jean Marie Reure, Matteo Piasentini, Lorenzo Termine - Aerospace sector and defence policy: an inextricable and growing bond. The case of Italy
Presenter: Lorenzo Rezzonico (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Lorenzo Rezzonico - Buying European, Being European? Italy, Defence Procurement and the Quest for Strategic Autonomy
Presenter: Sofia Eliodori (Italy - LUISS Guido Carli - Rome)
Authors: Sofia Eliodori, Michele Pertosa - Civil–Military Relations and Domestic Security: evidence from France and Italy
Presenter: Matteo Mazziotti Di Celso (France - Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l'École Militaire)
Authors: Matteo Mazziotti Di Celso - Fighting Sanctions Evasion Beyond Borders: De-territorialized Sovereignty and the Governance of Illicit Trade
Presenter: Francesco Giumelli (Netherlands - University of Groningen)
Authors: Francesco Giumelli - Firms, Trade, and the Return of Class Politics
Presenter: Mattia Guidi (Italy - University of Siena)
Authors: Mattia Guidi, Arlo Poletti, Mario Quaranta - Institutional Translation and the Governance of Local Content Provisions in Strategic Supply Chains: Explaining Variation among Industrialised Middle Powers
Presenter: Jonata Anicetti (Belgium - Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB))
Authors: Jonata Anicetti, Antonio Calcara - Economic Security Without Unity. Intra-European Divergence in the Regulation of Chinese EV Firms
Presenter: Silvia Menegazzi (Italy - LUISS Guido Carli - Rome)
Authors: Silvia Menegazzi, Claudio Christopher Passalacqua - Sovereigntists to the Marrow?
How Sovereigntist Claims Shape Attitudes towards GM Food: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Italy
Presenter: Linda Basile (Italy - University of Siena)
Authors: Linda Basile, Mateo Restrepo Vera - Does Populism Help to Justify Democratic Backsliding? Experimental evidence on populist rhetorical style and acceptance of undemocratic behavior
Presenter: Francesco Colombo (Italy - Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Authors: Francesco Colombo, Fred Paxton - What Makes a Party Seem Like Sham Opposition? Evidence from a conjoint experiment
Presenter: Daniel Kovarek (Italy - European University Institute)
Authors: Daniel Kovarek, Bence Hamrák, Attila Farkas - When Outcomes Trump Democracy: Instrumental Reasoning and Citizens’ Tolerance of Norm Breaches
Presenter: Davide Vittori (Italy - LUISS Guido Carli - Rome)
Authors: Davide Vittori - Testing response scales with Silicon Sampling:
Replication of European Social Survey (ESS) Experimental Designs using LLMs
Presenter: Michelle Horváth (Hungary - ELTE Centre for Social Sciences)
Authors: Michelle Horváth, Levente Littvay - Piani di investimento pubblico in contesti emergenziali e sviluppo delle reti corruttive. Il caso della ricostruzione in Irpinia
Presenter: Tommaso Cerutti (Italy - University of Pisa)
Authors: Tommaso Cerutti - An Alien Conspiracy? The Narrative Construction of ’Ndrangheta Places
Presenter: Grazia Enerina Pisano (Italy - Perugia University)
Authors: Grazia Enerina Pisano - The Ambivalence of Media Capture: Vulnerabilities and Resilience Across European Democracies
Presenter: Roberto Mincigrucci (Italy - University of Perugia)
Authors: Roberto Mincigrucci, Rita Marchetti, Anna Stanziano, Marco Mazzoni - Mafia research? Nein danke! - A review of and agenda for mafia research in German political science
Presenter: Ronald Schleehauf (Germany - University of Freiburg)
Authors: Ronald Schleehauf - Climate, Aid, and Authoritarianism: the Fungibility of Climate ODA as a Driver of Autocratic Consolidation in Africa
Presenter: Insaf Dimassi (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Insaf Dimassi - Populist Leaders and Academic Freedom
Presenter: Angelo Vito Panaro (Germany - FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Authors: Angelo Vito Panaro - Leadership and Authority Under Ontological Insecurity: A comparative analysis of Russia and Georgia
Presenter: Ersilia Giallella (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Ersilia Giallella - The Authoritarian Settlement Playbook: Learning and Conflict Management in Turkey
Presenter: Andrea Novellis (Italy - University of Naples L'Orientale)
Authors: Andrea Novellis - Civil Society, Administrative Impartiality, and the State-Democracy Nexus
Presenter: Andrea Vaccaro (Italy - European University Institute)
Authors: Andrea Vaccaro - Forum Theatre Between Participatory and Deliberative Democracy: Non-Verbal Communication, Participation and Inclusion
Presenter: Noemi Cipriano (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Noemi Cipriano - Re-contextualizing Aristotle’s notion of political friendship in deeply Polarized Democracies
Presenter: Elena Irrera (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Elena Irrera, Elena Irrera - Strutture e pratiche della partecipazione digitale nella Cina contemporanea
Presenter: Asia Marcantoni (Italy - University of Urbino Carlo Bo)
Authors: Asia Marcantoni - Le elezioni politiche italiane del 1948: un caso di demonizzazione dell’avversario nel linguaggio politico italiano.
Presenter: Joel Terracina (Italy - University Guglielmo Marconi)
Authors: Joel Terracina - Time is on their Side? Tracing the Dynamics of Populist Support after Economic Shocks
Presenter: Riccardo Di Leo (Italy - European University Institute)
Authors: Costin Ciobanu, Riccardo Di Leo - Stemming the haemorrhage? Individual-level moderation in contemporary Western European workers' declining vote for social democracy
Presenter: Federico Trastulli (Italy - LUISS Guido Carli - Rome)
Authors: Federico Trastulli - The Class Politics of Issue Salience: Economic Insecurity, Immigration, and Political Realignment
Presenter: Gregorio Buzzelli (Italy - Politecnico di Torino)
Authors: Gregorio Buzzelli, Federico Trastulli - Class Coalitions and the Politics of Industrial Policy: Developmental and Defensive State Intervention in Advanced Democracies
Presenter: Simone Tonelli (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Simone Tonelli - How Parties Reshaped Class Participation: Parental Non-Voting, Political Socialisation, and Compositional Change
Presenter: Giacomo Melli (UK - University of Oxford)
Authors: Giacomo Melli - Brothers of Italy and Its Dangerous Transnational Liaisons
Presenter: Leonardo Puleo (Belgium - Université Libre de Bruxelles ULB)
Authors: Leonardo Puleo, Gianluca Piccolino - IL CENTRO CHE NON C’È: IL CASO DI AZIONE, ITALIA VIVA E +EUROPA
Presenter: Samuele Lucidi (Italy - LUISS Guido Carli - Rome)
Authors: Samuele Lucidi - Il Partito Democratico tra vocazione maggioritaria e riarticolazione del campo progressista: organizzazione, leadership e mutamento politico (2007–2026)
Presenter: Matteo Boldrini (Italy - University of Siena)
Authors: Matteo Boldrini - Trasformazione programmatica, ideologica e organizzativa di un partito della sinistra radicale italiana: l’evoluzione di Sinistra Italiana.
Presenter: Arianna Bettin (Italy - University of Genoa)
Authors: Arianna Bettin - Surviving at the Margins: The Italian Greens between Organizational Decline and Electoral Revival (2008–2026)
Presenter: Beniamino Masi (Italy - University of Pisa)
Authors: Beniamino Masi - Movimento 5 Stelle in Sicilia: trasformazioni organizzative e identità politica
Presenter: Giancarlo Minaldi (Italy - University of Enna Kore)
Authors: Giancarlo Minaldi, Sorina Soare - Reclaiming The Prince: Rethinking Agonistic Democracy through Organization and Collective Identity
Presenter: Damiano Palano (Italy - University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
Authors: Damiano Palano - The People Outside the Militant Circle: Militant Logic, Popular Logic, and the Sociology of Left Politics
Presenter: Samuele Mazzolini (Italy - Ca' Foscari University Venezia)
Authors: Samuele Mazzolini, Raúl Rojas Andrés, Jacopo Custodi - Can Agonism Survive Perversion? Mouffe and the Libidinal Crisis of Democratic Subjectivity
Presenter: Silvano Poli (Italy - University of Florence)
Authors: Silvano Poli - Il populismo non esiste? Democrazia compiuta e crisi della categoria populista
Presenter: Filippo Palmieri (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Filippo Palmieri - Student agency and the fight for recognition. Italian student unions and referendums in 2025 and 2026
Presenter: Giuseppe Lipari (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Giuseppe Lipari - The Vanguard or the Loyalists? Comparing the Youth Wings of the Partito Democratico and Forza Italia in Italy
Presenters: Giulio Bricoli (Italy - University of Bologna), Samuele Lucidi (Italy - LUISS Guido Carli - Rome)
Authors: Giulio Bricoli, Giuseppe Lipari, Samuele Lucidi - Between protest and disputes: the changing forms of labour conflict in contemporary Italian politics
Presenter: Massimiliano Andretta (Italy - University of Pisa)
Authors: Massimiliano Andretta - The Politics and Security of Food Heritage in Conflict and Post-conflict contexts
Presenter: Camilla Pagani (Italy - Bocconi University)
Authors: Camilla Pagani - Whose Heritage, Whose Security? Syrian Women and the Gendered Politics of Cultural Heritage Destruction
Presenter: Paolo Foradori (Italy - University of Trento)
Authors: Paolo Foradori - Conflicts Between War and Peace
Presenter: Chiara Minora (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Chiara Minora - Voices behind Territories: How Vulnerability is framed and addressed in Multilevel Governance Systems
Presenter: Selena Grimaldi (Italy - University of Macerata)
Authors: Selena Grimaldi, Silvia Bolgherini, Linda Basile - Tales of Local Autonomy: Strategic Action in Inter-Municipal Territorial Governance across Germany
Presenter: Lukas Häfner (Germany - University of Kassel)
Authors: Lukas Häfner, Anna Growe - Territorial identities and decentralised power: the discursive construction of IGR in Italy by regional presidents.
Presenter: Maria Serena Russo (Italy - University of Trieste)
Authors: Maria Serena Russo - Strategic Hedging in Critical Infrastructure: Italy's Response to Telecommunications Vulnerability
Presenter: Francesco N. Moro (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Francesco Niccolò Moro, Stella Blumfelde - Germany’s Investment Screening under Global Power Shifts: Public Banks and the Management of Foreign Ownership Risks
Presenter: Elif Cemre Besgur (Italy - University of Trento)
Authors: Elif Cemre Besgur - STRENGTH THROUGH REGIONAL ENTANGLEMENT: A PERSPECTIVE ON DERISKING IN ITALY
Presenter: Edoardo Tartaglione (Italy - University of Genoa)
Authors: Edoardo Tartaglione - EU Fiscal Solidarity and Party Rhetoric on Europe
Presenter: Luca Cabras (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Luca Cabras, Enrico Borghetto, Lucia Quaglia, Igor Guardiancich - Strategic Autonomy or Structural Fragmentation? Institutional Coherence and
Europe’s Semiconductor Underperformance
Presenter: Ruben de Francesco (Italy - University of Messina)
Authors: Ruben de Francesco - From Sanctions to Incentives: The Impact of NextGenerationEU on the European Semester
Presenter: Mattia Guidi (Italy - University of Siena)
Authors: Mattia Guidi, Igor Guardiancich, Enrico Borghetto, Lucia Quaglia - European Semester and wage growth dynamics in the Eurozone
Presenter: Eugenio Borgognoni (Italy - University of Siena)
Authors: Eugenio Borgognoni - Towards a University of Care? An Alternative Paradigm for the Future of Higher Education
Presenter: Ouns Mornagui (Italy - University for Foreigners of Perugia)
Authors: Ouns Mornagui - Custodians of the Common World: Co-Creation and the Democratic Promise of Public Higher Education
Presenter: Erica Chito Childs (USA - City University of New York (Hunter-CUNY))
Authors: Erica Chito Childs - WHERE ARE WE TODAY? THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF ITALIAN UNIVERSITIES
Presenter: Elisabetta Boglich (Italy - University of Trieste)
Authors: Elisabetta Boglich - A collaborative prefigurative process in action: rethinking the political role of universities
Presenter: Laurène Le Cozanet (Italy - European University Institute)
Authors: Laurène Le Cozanet, Tatyana Bajenova - Affective Fandom and Platform Power: How Digital Politics Reshapes Economic Priorities in Europe
Presenter: Elena Varotto (Spain - University of Murcia)
Authors: Elena Varotto - Intelligenza artificiale nella comunicazione politica: approcci, applicazioni e sviluppi nella letteratura scientifica
Presenter: Federico Regaldo (Italy - IULM University)
Authors: Federico Regaldo - AI Transparency as Political Strategy: a comparative analysis of fact-checking agencies in Latin America and Europe
Presenter: Paulo Ferracioli (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Paulo Ferracioli, Manoella Fortes Fiebig - Algorithmic Exposure Fairness and Strategic Message Adaptation in Political Campaigns
Presenter: Clara Fochler (Germany - Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München)
Authors: Clara Fochler - Selective Salience as a Foreign Policy Instrument: How Russian Media Constructs European Political Actors
Presenter: Alena Lisina (NEST Centre)
Authors: Alyona Lisina - A Union of Peace or a Union of War? National Elites and European Value-Driven Integration amid the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Presenter: Polina Zavershinskaia (Italy - University of Padua)
Authors: Polina Zavershinskaia, Matteo Bassoli - Leverage Without Authority: Astana, Geneva, and Russia’s Contested Multilateralism
Presenter: Vida Bigdeli (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Vida Bigdeli - Crumbling Middlepowerness? Italy’s Relations with Russia amidst the Russo-Ukrainian War and Geopolitical Tensions
Presenter: Marco Siddi (Italy - University of Cagliari)
Authors: Marco Siddi - How Exposure to Anti-Migration Policies Backfires: The Electoral Consequences of the Italian NGO Sea Rescue Policy
Presenter: Antonello Boccagna (Germany - Humboldt University Berlin)
Authors: Antonello Boccagna - Framing “Remigration” in a Minority Context: Süd-Tiroler Freiheit and Far-Right Discourses in South Tyrol
Presenters: Sophia Schönthaler (Italy - European Academy Bolzano/Bozen), Verena Wisthaler (Italy - European Academy Bolzano/Bozen)
Authors: Sophia Schönthaler, Verena Wisthaler - Reception and Retrenchment: Refugees and Far-Right Support in Rural Italy
Presenter: Eliska Drapalova (Germany - Berlin Social Science Center (WZB))
Authors: Eliska Drapalova, Tiziana Caponio, Camilla Borgna, Viktoriia Tomnyuk, Fabio Torreggiani, Elisa Siragusa - Speaking about 'Them' Differently: Demand-Side Responses to Inclusive and Rights-based Narratives on Immigrants in Spain and Portugal
Presenter: Bilge Yabanci (Spain - University of Deusto)
Authors: Bilge Yabanci, Cansu Paksoy - Governing with cities: A Comparison of top-down and bottom-up transnational city networks in twin transition policies
Presenter: Katherine Arena (Netherlands - University of Groningen)
Authors: Katherine Arena - The structure of mobilizing opportunities: multilevel coalition building against large railway infrastructure in EU
Presenters: Emanuela Bozzini (Italy - University of Trento), Carla Asero (Italy - University of Trento)
Authors: Emanuela Bozzini, Carla Asero - Implementing the Digital and Green Twin Transition Transnationally: The Case of the European Union Strategy for the Adriatic-Ionian Region
Presenter: Marco Pietro D'attoma (Norway - University of Agder)
Authors: Marco Pietro D'attoma - Smart specialization strategies for the co-creation of twin transition projects: The case of the TEN-T corridors.
Presenter: Simona Piattoni (Italy - University of Trento)
Authors: Simona Piattoni - Communicating Cohesion Beyond Borders. Practices, Actors and Narratives in European Territorial Cooperation
Presenter: Marinella Belluati (Italy - University of Turin)
Authors: Marinella Belluati, Sara Pane, Anna Maria Garofalo - Contesting the process while sharing the goal: mobilisation and local discourses on a large-scale agrivoltaic plant in northeastern Italy
Presenter: Martina Sguazzin (Italy - University of Trieste)
Authors: Martina Sguazzin - Rural populists? Questioning the link between anti-environmentalism, populism and science criticism in rural areas.
Presenter: Elisa Lello (Italy - University of Urbino Carlo Bo)
Authors: Elisa Lello, Eduardo Barberis - Beyond the hydrological cycle: desalination, justice and democracy in the Euro-Mediterranean Region
Presenter: Micaela Sciarra (Italy - Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies)
Authors: Micaela Sciarra - Contentious Participation in Extractive Territories. The Archipelago of Anti-Oil Mobilizations in the Val d’Agri
Presenter: Camilla Galaverni (Italy - University of Pisa)
Authors: Camilla Galaverni - UN Security Council Polarization and the Crisis of Multilateral Peace Operations:
Contested Mandates and the Rise of Intervention Skepticism
Presenter: Maria Do Céu Pinto Arena (Portugal - University of Minho)
Authors: Maria Do Céu Pinto Arena - Urgency politics: National priorities, intergovernmental negotiations and legislative speed in the European Union
Presenter: Michele Scotto Di Vettimo (UK - King's College London)
Authors: Michele Scotto Di Vettimo, Christine Reh, Christel Koop, Edoardo Bressanelli - WHO Governance under Uncertainty: Bureaucratic Autonomy during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Presenter: Pimchanok Ratanapises (Germany - University of Bielefeld)
Authors: Pimchanok Ratanapises - Uninvited Guests: Second-Level Gatekeeping in Italian Municipal Politics
Presenter: Chiara D'alessandro (Italy - University of Padua)
Authors: Chiara D'alessandro, Elisabetta Ginevra Iida - The Impact of a Female Winning a Local Election on Femicides. Evidence from Italian Municipalities
Presenter: Ilaria Beghini (Italy - University of Padua)
Authors: Ilaria Beghini, Enrico Rettore - Women's speeches in Committees: a gendered institutionalist explanation
Presenter: Paolo Gambacciani (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Paolo Gambacciani, Edoardo Alberto Viganò - Reconfiguring Solidarity: Identity and Pro-Palestinian Activism in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland
Presenter: Stefano Filippini (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Stefano Filippini - Cognitive mechanisms and frame transformations in dockworkers’ solidarity with Palestine
Presenter: Marco Antonelli (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Marco Antonelli, Donatella Della Porta - ‘No War’ Beyond Inside Peace Movements: Alliance Building in Madrid’s Pro-Palestinian Networks
Presenter: Martín Portos (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Martín Portos, Gomer Betancor - Ethical Protests: Medicide and Healthcare workers for Gaza
Presenter: Anastasia Barone (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Anastasia Barone, Donatella Della Porta - Cheap, Fast, and Replicable: A Two-Step LLM-to-BERT Approach to Ideological Scaling of Political Text
Presenter: Paride Carrara (Latvia - University of Latvia)
Authors: Paride Carrara - Tracing the Working-Time Claim-Cycle:
A human-in-the-loop computational approach for the study of labour conflicts (Italy, 2008–2024)
Presenter: Virginia Salaorni (Italy - University of Florence)
Authors: Virginia Salaorni - When Every Concept Looks Contested: Measurement Artifacts in Embedding-Based Claims about Political Meaning
Presenter: Erdem Demirtas (Denmark - University of Copenhagen)
Authors: Erdem Demirtas - Ambient Propaganda and Narrative Alignment in Wartime Russia
Presenter: Nikita Khokhlov (Ireland - University College Dublin)
Authors: Nikita Khokhlov, Henrik Pröpper, Boris Noordenbos - Steering the Silicon Electorate: Can Internal Representations Fix What Prompts Cannot in Synthetic Survey Samples?
Presenter: Utku Bozdag (Hungary - Centre for Social Sciences, ELTE)
Authors: Utku Bozdag, Levente Littvay, Max Boiten - Mobilizing Against the Threat? A Vignette Experiment
Presenter: Giorgio Dolci (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Giorgio Dolci, Simona Guglielmi - Measuring Political Information Sources in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Evidence from a Survey Experiment
Presenter: Cristiano Vezzoni (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Cristiano Vezzoni - Just Transition Policy Framing and Climate Policy Support: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Italy
Presenter: Pietro Michael Lepidi (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Pietro Michael Lepidi - Why do voters tolerate criminal politicians?
Presenter: Matteo C. M. Casiraghi (Netherlands - University of Groningen)
Authors: Matteo C. M. Casiraghi, Tetsuya Matsubayashi, Seiki Tanaka - Class dismissed? Descriptive representation and the politics of working class abstention
Presenter: Robin Weisser (Switzerland - University of Basel)
Authors: Robin Weisser - How do Politicians’ Working-Class Backgrounds Affect Citizens’ Trust and Feelings of Representation?
Presenter: Manuel Wagner (Germany - Goethe University Frankfurt)
Authors: Manuel Wagner - How do political parties talk about the green transition and labour market change?
Presenter: Cecilia Ivardi (Switzerland - University of St Gallen)
Authors: Cecilia Ivardi - The Candidate Factory: Technological Change and Political Supply
Presenter: Paolo Agnolin (USA - Princeton University)
Authors: Paolo Agnolin - New Radical Left, New Electorate? Class, Education and the Urban–Rural Divide in Europe
Presenter: Matteo Giardiello (Italy - Unitelma Sapienza University of Rome)
Authors: Matteo Giardiello - The International Political Economy of Selective Fragmentation: How Firm-State Relations Reshape Global Disorder.
Presenter: Tommaso Fonti (Switzerland - Geneva Graduate Institute)
Authors: Tommaso Fonti - Revisiting a Classic and Bringing it Back In: the non-Marxian and non-Italian roots of Robert Cox’s theory and its relevance for the analysis of the crisis of the post-Cold War international order.
Presenter: Rocco W. Ronza (Italy - University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
Authors: Rocco W. Ronza - Authoritarian Infrastructural Power: Mega-Projects, Defence Industries, and Regime-Making in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Türkiye
Presenter: Andrea Novellis (Italy - University of Naples L'Orientale)
Authors: Andrea Novellis, Ruth Hanau Santini, Guglielmina Ramaglia - Digital Colonialism in the Global South: A Boon and a Bane
Presenter: Ariane Bar (Independent researcher)
Authors: Sharmin Nisar Chougule, Ariane Bar, Daniele Pallotta, Carolina Sampaio, Shan Ali, Aline Mendes - From Mao to Global China: Italian Imaginaries of China and the Transformation of Global Political Economy
Presenter: Daniela Caterina (China - Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
Authors: Daniela Caterina - Mineral Diplomacy in Multipolar Times: Does BRICS Matter?
Presenter: Giovanni Spina (Italy - University of Catania)
Authors: Giovanni Spina - The Missing Level: Ruling Coalitions in the Transmission Belt of Foreign Policy
Presenter: Nicolò Sorio (Italy - Sapienza University of Rome)
Authors: Nicolò Sorio - Do Elite Theories Matter (Again)? Rethinking the Classics for Contemporary Research
Presenter: Giovanni de Ghantuz Cubbe (Germany - Goethe University Frankfurt)
Authors: Giovanni de Ghantuz Cubbe - Machiavelli’s theory of power through a Weberian perspective
Presenter: Alberto Bitonti (Switzerland - University of Lugano)
Authors: Alberto Bitonti, Claudia Mariotti - Safe Third Countries and the EU Pact: comparative readiness in Italy, Spain, and Greece
Presenters: Gabriele Abbondanza (), Gabriel Echeverría (Spain - Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Authors: Gabriele Abbondanza, Gabriel Echeverría - Bordering liberal mobility: South American responses to displacement crises
Presenter: Leiza Brumat (Belgium - UNU-CRIS)
Authors: Leiza Brumat - Presumed Members, Probationary Applicants: Citizenship Route Hierarchies and Selective Recalibration in Italy
Presenter: Ziqian Ye (China - Peking University)
Authors: Ziqian Ye - Convergence, competition, or complementarity? EU-Member States cooperation on mobility and returns
Presenter: Matilde Rosina (UK - King's College London)
Authors: Matilde Rosina, Iole Fontana - Why does public deliberation struggle to manage conflicts on major public projects? Some evidence from the case of the National Radioactive Waste Repository in Italy.
Presenter: Stefania Ravazzi (Italy - University of Turin)
Authors: Stefania Ravazzi - Policy Making and Digital Sovereignty: Centralization Trends in Italian Digital Policies
Presenter: Giuseppe Borriello (Italy - University of Naples Federico II)
Authors: Giuseppe Borriello - The Agenda-Setting of Major Public Projects: A Political Offer Model based on European Party Manifestos
Presenter: Mauro Pinto (Italy - University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli)
Authors: Mauro Pinto, Giovanni Esposito, Lorenzo Cicatiello - Bridging major projects and place-based decarbonisation through an Actor-Network Theory approach: the case of the West of England Industrial Cluster
Presenter: Laura de Vito (UK - University of the West of England, Bristol)
Authors: Laura de Vito, Giovanni Esposito, Gaia Taffoni, Andrea Terlizzi - A Weapon of the Weak: A Political Economy of Internet Fragmentation
Presenter: Riccardo Nanni (France - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Authors: Riccardo Nanni - "This was my dream, not a wall full of diplomas": Globalized Hegemonic Femininities and the Digital Affective and Performative Pedagogies of Tradwives on Social Media
Presenter: Ana Carolina Martinez (Austria - University of Vienna)
Authors: Ana Carolina Martinez - What pulls the youth to the far-right? A review of what we know
Presenter: Susi Meret (Denmark - Aalborg University)
Authors: Susi Meret - Young Activists of the Far Right: Mobilisation, Identity and Party Politics in Italy and Germany
Presenter: Giorgia Bulli (Italy - University of Florence)
Authors: Giorgia Bulli - Preventing What, and Whom? Gendered Constructions of Far-Right Youth Radicalisation
Presenter: Maria Sangiuliano (Italy - Smart Venice)
Authors: Maria Sangiuliano, Francesca Cimino - Emotional Geographies of European Climate Politics Across the Urban–Rural Divide
Presenter: Ipek Demirsu Di Biase (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Manuela Caiani, Nikolaos Saridakis, Ipek Demirsu Di Biase - The Farmers' Protests Against the EU Green Deal in comparative perspective (Italy, Poland, The Netherlands, Spain and Bruxelles) and the nexus with the far right
Presenter: Manuela Caiani (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Manuela Caiani, Giovanni Starita - Agents of Disruption or Continuity? Assessing the Impact of the Rise of the Far-Right in the European Parliament on EU Policy Development in Security and Defence
Presenter: Alberto Miraglia (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Alberto Miraglia - Navigating energy crises: big companies, energy elites between state, markets and networks.
Presenter: Renata Lizzi (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Renata Lizzi, Paola Arrigoni - Governing by Crisis: Neglect and Reaction in EU Energy Policy
Presenter: Francesco Sarti (Switzerland - University of Lausanne)
Authors: Francesco Sarti, Emmanuelle Mathieu - Policy Solutions and Advocacy Coalitions in the Italian Energy Transition: A Discourse Network Analysis of the Press
Presenter: Claudia Mariotti (Italy - University of Roma Tre)
Authors: Claudia Mariotti, Luca Germano - When Technology Manages: Workers Demands and Union Responses to AI and Emerging Digital Tools
Presenter: Paolo Agnolin (USA - Princeton University)
Authors: Paolo Agnolin - (Re)building Worker Power in Authoritarian Populist Times: Strategic Adaptation of Rural Workers Unions in India
Presenter: Jorinde Van Der Horst (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Jorinde Van Der Horst - Equality Plans and Collective Bargaining: Equality Committees as Emerging Spaces of Trade Union Action in Spanish Organizations
Presenters: Tiziana Munzone (Spain - Universidad de Granada), Rafael Vazquez (Spain - Universidad de Granada)
Authors: Tiziana Munzone, Rafael Vázquez García - „Made in Italy, Worked by Migrants: Exploitation and Resistance in Prato’s Textile Industrial District.“
Presenter: Rachele Campaner (Austria - University of Vienna)
Authors: Rachele Campaner, Rachele Campaner - Coalitions for migrant farmworkers' rights: analysing contextual factors of network creation
Presenter: Maria Antonietta Maneschi (Italy - University of Trento)
Authors: Maria Antonietta Maneschi - Quiet Places. An Ethnography of Racial Violence in Peripheral Italy
Presenter: Marta Panighel (Italy - University of Turin)
Authors: Marta Panighel - Contesting Migration in Mediterranean reception locations
Presenter: Olga Demetriou (UK - Durham University)
Authors: Olga Demetriou, Antonis Ellinas, Antonis Ellinas - The Ukrainian refugee ‘crisis’. Towards an understanding of the political conditions of MLG policymaking
Presenters: Alice Cavalieri (Italy - University of Turin), Federico Cuomo (Italy - University of Turin)
Authors: Alice Cavalieri, Tiziana Caponio, Federico Cuomo - Speaking Strongman Politics: The Determinants and Diffusion of Strategic Authoritarian Communication Among World Leaders
Presenter: Nikita Khokhlov (Ireland - University College Dublin)
Authors: Nikita Khokhlov - Seeking support for power grabs: presidents' rhetoric around term-limit manipulation attempts
Presenter: Tiziana Corda (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Tiziana Corda, Claudio Balderacchi, Andrea Cassani - When Authoritarianism Speaks Democracy: Turkey and the Re-signification of Democratic Politics
Presenter: Chiara Maritato (Italy - University of Turin)
Authors: Chiara Maritato - Democratic rhetoric in autocratizing regimes
Presenter: Giovanni Pagano (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Giovanni Pagano, Tiziana Corda - More than rhetoric? Non-alignment and South Africa’s foreign policy practice
Presenter: Maxine Rubin (Germany - German Institute for Global and Area Studies)
Authors: Maxine Rubin - Not All Revolutions Are Equal: Russia’s Responses to Democratization and the Foreign Policy Choices of Post-Soviet Small States
Presenter: Carlo Busini (Italy - University for Foreigners of Perugia)
Authors: Carlo Busini, Loretta Dell'aguzzo - Autonomy or Alignment? Exploring Defense Production Networks and Foreign Policy Behavior
Presenter: Violet Claire Collins (Italy - University of Genoa)
Authors: Violet Claire Collins - Aspiring Member, Reluctant Hedger: South Korea's Middle-Power Technology Diplomacy at the G7
Presenter: Manfredi Valeriani (Italy - LUISS Guido Carli - Rome)
Authors: Manfredi Valeriani, Silvia Menegazzi, Carolina Polito - Multi-alignment – what it is and what it’s not
Presenter: Maxine Rubin (Germany - German Institute for Global and Area Studies)
Authors: Mahima Duggal, Julia Gurol, Patrick Köllner, Ariel Hernandez Macaspac, Detlef Nolte, Miriam Prys-Hansen, Maxine Rubin, Hamid Talebian - Preferences for Geographic Representation in the Bureaucracy: How Shared Local Ties Influence Public Servant Turnover
Presenter: Daniel Kovarek (Italy - European University Institute)
Authors: Daniel Kovarek - Professionalisation and Politicisation – the case of Bulgarian local government
Presenter: Desislava Kalcheva (Bulgaria - Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski)
Authors: Desislava Kalcheva - Professionalization and politicisation in Hungary’s local government
Presenter: Judit Kalman (Hungary-Corvinus University Budapest)
Authors: Judit Kalman, Gabor Dobos - Professionalisation and Politicisation in Local Government in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Between Formal Legal Frameworks and Practical Realities
Presenter: Damir Kasum (Czech Republic - Palacky University)
Authors: Damir Kasum - Mapping Professionalisation and Politicisation in Czech Local Government
Presenter: Jakub Lysek (Czech Republic - Palacky University)
Authors: Jakub Lysek - The Italian local authorities between personalisation and technocracy: the mayors of provincial capital cities
Presenter: Simone Furzi
Authors: Marco Cilento, Simone Furzi - Islamist appropriation of Global Norms: the Case of Al-’Adl wa-l-Ihsan in Morocco
Presenter: Massimo Ramaioli (Morocco - Al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane)
Authors: Massimo Ramaioli, Ester Sigillo' - Janus-Faced Religion? Ram and the Manufacturing of the Hindu Right in India
Presenter: Paritosh Kumar (Canada - Queen's University)
Authors: Paritosh Kumar - Between Resistance and Governance: How Hamas Has Adapted to Modernity.
Presenter: Claudia Ferrotti (Belgium - Université Libre de Bruxelles ULB)
Authors: Claudia Ferrotti - Islamic Logic as Metalogic: Institutional Dynamics and Environmental Governance in Iran
Presenter: Hila Houmand (Germany - University of Hamburg)
Authors: Hila Houmand - Water Weaponisation and Unconventional Military Coercion in Israel’s Siege of Gaza
Presenter: Simone Papale (Italy - University of Parma)
Authors: Simone Papale, Emanuele Castelli - The recovery chain as a surface of competition: Structural dependencies and strategic interference in the underwater domain
Presenter: Lorenzo Di Stefano (Italy - Scuola univ. Superiore difesa, CASD)
Authors: Lorenzo Di Stefano - Fighting in the Shadow of Norms: Attacks on Desalination Plants as a Modern Form of Water Weaponization
Presenter: Federica Persico (Italy - University of Genoa)
Authors: Federica Persico - A spectrum of shadows: Russia’s support for violent right-wing extremism in Europe in the “grey zone” era
Presenter: Francesco Marone (Italy - University of Valle d'Aosta)
Authors: Francesco Marone - Mapping the Intersectionality of Hate: Different Patterns of White Male Supremacist Discourse across European Right-Wing Parties
Presenter: Luca Mancin (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Luca Mancin - Ideologically Productive, Politically Subaltern: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study of Female Voices in the Italian Manosphere.
Presenter: Selenia Anastasi (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Selenia Anastasi - Giorgia communicating Meloni: populism, post-fascism and (anti-)gender.
Presenter: Federica Formato (UK - University of Brighton)
Authors: Federica Formato - Eredità istituzionali e capacità trasformativa: la riforma degli ATS in Veneto tra opportunità e resistenze al cambiamento
Presenter: Patrizia Messina (Italy - University of Padua)
Authors: Patrizia Messina - Governance collaborativa senza paradigma.
Capacità amministrativa e autonomia progettuale negli Ambiti Territoriali Sociali lombardi
Presenter: Davide Vairani (Italy - CondiVivere APS)
Authors: Davide Vairani - A quali condizioni gli Ambiti Territoriali Sociali possono occuparsi di housing? Due casi studio nel Veneto
Presenter: Bruna Mura (Italy - University of Padua)
Authors: Bruna Mura, Patrizia Messina, Lorenza Perini - La territorializzazione della riforma della disabilità: governance collaborativa e adattamento locale nella Provincia Autonoma di Trento
Presenters: Sabrina Berlanda (Italy - Fondazione Franco Demarchi), Roberto Pallanch (Provincia Autonoma di Trento)
Authors: Sabrina Berlanda, Daniela Amosso, Roberto Pallanch - Entering the Electoral Arena: Narratives and Dilemmas in Movement Party Formation
Presenter: Chiara Milan (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Chiara Milan, Karlo Kralj - Lost in Crisis? Navigating Without a Map Between Survival, Strategy, and Depoliticization: Civil Society Organisations in Turkey's Refugee Response
Presenter: Iremgul Utlu (Belgium - Université Catholique de Louvain)
Authors: Iremgul Utlu - From Deplatforming to Diffusion: Strategic Reorganization in Far-Right Digital Movements
Presenter: Ofra Klein (Netherlands - Erasmus University)
Authors: Ofra Klein - TEMPORAL DISCONNECTION: ORGANIZING AROUND URGENCY IN A SOCIAL MOVEMENT ORGANIZATION
Presenter: Sebastian Luepnitz (Austria - University of Innsbruck)
Authors: Sebastian Luepnitz - Societal Democratization from Below: Feminist Movements and Anti-Gender Regimes in Italy
Presenter: Giada Bonu Rosenkranz (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Giada Bonu Rosenkranz, Emanuela Lombardo - Gendering Innovations? Feminist agency in urban policies in Milan and Bologna
Presenters: Maria Tullia Galanti (Italy - University of Milan), Marina Cassola (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Marina Cassola, Maria Tullia Galanti - The power of feminist democratic innovations: Feminist movements’ politics in anti-gender contexts in Italy and Spain
Presenter: Anastasia Barone (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Anastasia Barone, Emanuela Lombardo - Care as Democratic Innovation: Feminist Responsibility and the Far Right
Presenter: Markus Holdo (Sweden - Lund University)
Authors: Markus Holdo - Towards a Feminist Peace?
Presenter: Oana - Andrada Nitu (Netherlands - University of Amsterdam)
Authors: Oana - Andrada Nitu - How Do Populist Attitudes Relate to Affective Polarization? Disentangling the Relationship Between Populist Dimensions and Polarization Components in Spain
Presenter: Danilo Serani (Spain - University of Salamanca)
Authors: Danilo Serani, Juan Pérez Rajó, Josep María Comellas Bonsfills - When is Populism Redistributive? Beyond Leftist Mobilization
Presenter: Diego Fossati (Hong Kong - University of Hong Kong)
Authors: Diego Fossati - Political Violence and Support for Extremist Parties in the Weimar Republic
Presenter: Edoardo Alberto Viganò (Spain - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Authors: Edoardo Alberto Viganò, Nils-Christian Bormann - Populism as Valence, Populism as Right-Wing: Competing Images of the Populist Politician in Italy and Germany
Presenter: Fedra Negri (Italy - Milano Bicocca University)
Authors: Fedra Negri, Andrea Ceron, Stefano Sangiovanni - Populism, Euroscepticism, and Party Position Change in the European Parliament, 2009–2024
Presenter: Paolo Marzi (Italy - University of Siena)
Authors: Paolo Marzi, Filippo Simonelli - What does Climate Change mean? A Focus Group Study in Italy
Presenter: Gaetano Scaduto (Netherlands - Tilburg University)
Authors: Gaetano Scaduto, Roy Kemmers, Willem de Koster - Beyond Material Interests? Comparing the Micro-Foundations of Decarbonisation Policy Support Across 27 EU Member States
Presenter: Pietro Michael Lepidi (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Pietro Michael Lepidi - Ideology Trumps Reason? Scientific Literacy as a Driver of Participation in Climate Protests
Presenter: Martín Portos (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Martín Portos - Environmentalism At Any Cost? Climate Attitudes and Governance Preferences
Presenter: Elisabetta Mannoni (Italy - University of Siena)
Authors: Elisabetta Mannoni - Does Climate Matter at the Polls? Environmental Attitudes and Voting in the 2024 European Elections
Presenter: Paolo Amantini (Italy - University of Siena)
Authors: Paolo Amantini, Claudio Cozzi Fucile - Executive power in ECE - limitations and determination
Presenter: Jacek Wojnicki (Poland - University of Warsaw)
Authors: Jacek Wojnicki - Strong in Party, Strong in Government? Assessing the Effect of Party Leadership on Cabinet Decision-Making
Presenter: Bruno Marino (Italy - University of Padua)
Authors: Bruno Marino, Michelangelo Vercesi - From Bottleneck to Boost? Vertical Policy-Process Integration and Crisis Management Performance
Presenter: Christina Steinbacher (Germany - Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München)
Authors: Christina Steinbacher, Alexa Lenz - The Institutionalisation of Cooperative Purchasing in the EU: From Crisis Response to Structural Mechanism
Presenter: Giorgia Castiello (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Giorgia Castiello - Executive Power, Institutional Architecture and Systemic Resilience: The Common Good in Times of Crisis
Presenter: Piotr Derejczyk (Poland - Nicolaus Copernicus Superior School)
Authors: Piotr Derejczyk - Da V per Vendetta a Telegram: culture visuali e costruzione dell’appartenenza nei Guerrieri ViVi
Presenter: Camilla Folena (Italy - University of Urbino Carlo Bo)
Authors: Camilla Folena, Enrico Mariani - Quando l’inciviltà diventa visibile. Modalità di rappresentazione e percezione dei comportamenti politici incivili
Presenter: Rossella Rega (Italy - University of Siena)
Authors: Rossella Rega, Sara Bentivegna - It Takes Two to Trust: Multi-modal Experimental Evidence of News Creators’ Influence on Trust-Based Decisions
Presenter: Gaetano Scaduto (Netherlands - Tilburg University)
Authors: Gaetano Scaduto, Augusto Valeriani - Linguaggi visivi, immaginari e strategie simboliche delle leader politiche. Il caso di Giorgia Meloni ed Elly Schlein nelle elezioni europee del 2024 in Italia
Presenter: Edoardo Novelli (Italy - Roma Tre University)
Authors: Edoardo Novelli, Melissa Stolfi - Selective Inclusion or Nationalist Retrenchment? Radical Right Governments and the Politics of External Citizenship
Presenter: Diego Caballero Vélez (Latvia - University of Latvia)
Authors: Diego Caballero Vélez, Sebastián Umpierrez de Reguero, Anca Turcu, Mari-Liis Jakobson - What Is Migration Populism? Concept Development and the Italian Case
Presenter: Gabriel Echeverría (Spain - Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Authors: Gabriel Echeverría - Trick or Threat? A triangulating experiment design to unpack psychological determinants of populism
Presenter: Alessandra Carraro (Italy - Bocconi University)
Authors: Alessandra Carraro - Ethics in Qualitative Migration and Refugee Studies in Europe: From “Doing no Harm” to Reciprocity and Equity
Presenter: Giacomo Orsini (Italy - European Academy Bolzano/Bozen)
Authors: Giacomo Orsini - Positionality in ethnographic research in challenging settings
Presenter: Olga Demetriou (UK - Durham University)
Authors: Olga Demetriou, Antonis Ellinas, Antonis Ellinas - Interviewing Without Extracting?
Reflexivity and Epistemic Tensions in Research with Migrant Women
Presenter: Martina Bruno (Italy - European Academy Bolzano/Bozen)
Authors: Martina Bruno - Studying Overregulation in Advanced Democracies
Presenter: Christoph Knill (Germany - Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München)
Authors: Christoph Knill, Xavier Ferbández-I-Marín, Markus Hinterleitner, Yves Steinebach - Measuring the Effectiveness of Transparency Policy Design: A Global Audit Study of Freedom of Information Implementation
Presenter: Maria Zuffova (Italy - European University Institute)
Authors: Maria Zuffova, Giovanni Esposito - Policy Durability in Times of Turmoil
Presenter: Dominik Brenner (Italy - European University Institute)
Authors: Dominik Brenner - Designing for Ambition and Uptake: Explaining Successful Implementation of Eco-Schemes under the CAP
Presenter: Elisa Bordin (Denmark - University of Copenhagen)
Authors: Elisa Bordin, Carsten Daugbjerg - Eco-Social Policy Integration in Multi-Level Settings. Institutional Dilemmas in the Implementation of EU Cohesion Policy in Italy
Presenter: Ruggero Battagliarin (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Ruggero Battagliarin - Environmental Clash? How the Environmental dimension affects party preferences in Europe
Presenter: Silvia Bolgherini (Italy - Perugia University)
Authors: Silvia Bolgherini, Matteo Giardiello, Luca Carrieri - Eco-Social Governance in Europe: A Systematic Literature Review
Presenter: Lorenzo Mascioli (France - Sciences Po Paris)
Authors: Lorenzo Mascioli, Larissa Nenning, Yuri Kazepov - Spiritual practice, platform distancing, and civic engagement among Czech university students
Presenter: Jaroslav Franc (Czech Republic - Palacky University)
Authors: Jaroslav Franc, Sedláková Renáta, Damian Guzek - Three Shades of Religious Nationalism? The Transformation of Zionist Religious Political Leaders in Israel from Extra-Politics into Government Politics
Presenter: Alon Helled (Italy - University of Turin)
Authors: Alon Helled - Ubi Petrus? Papal References in Italian Parliamentary Debates
Presenter: Carlo Nardella (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Carlo Nardella, Riccardo Ladini - Forgotten Gas, Silenced Narratives: Eurafrigas and Algeria’s Energy Legacies
Presenter: Aurelia Mañé-Estrada (Spain - Universitat de Barcelona)
Authors: Aurelia Mañé-Estrada, Miguel Hernando de Larramendi - From the margins to the core? EU's environmental and climate cooperation in the Mediterranean
Presenter: Giulia Cimini (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Giulia Cimini - Contested Sovereignty and Coercive Migration Diplomacy in the Mediterranean: the outcomes of the 2021 Ceuta Border Crisis
Presenter: Rafael Camarero (Poland - University of Warsaw)
Authors: Rafael Camarero - Patterns of Political Mobilization in Libya. Historical continuities Between the Present and the Past
Presenter: Alvaro Arguelles (Spain - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Authors: Alvaro Arguelles - Sovereignty for and against What? Varieties of Sovereignist Claims in
Mediterranean Europe and South America.
Presenter: Enrico Padoan (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Enrico Padoan - Remigration Goes Mainstream: Chega and the Italian Radical Right in Comparative Perspective
Presenter: Stefano Simini (Portugal - Universidade de Lisboa)
Authors: Stefano Simini - Unity or Fragmentation in Far-Right Politics? Exploring the Ideological Positions of Far-Right Parties in Europe in Foreign Policy
Presenter: Alberto Miraglia (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Alberto Miraglia - Beyond the Party: Konfederacja Korony Polskiej and the Apolitical Ecosystem of Polish Radical-Right Mobilization
Presenter: Ida Rogalska (Poland - University of Warsaw)
Authors: Ida Rogalska - Why the Far-Right Goes Transnational (or Does Not): Catalysts and Inhibitors of Far-Right Transnational Mobilization in France
Presenter: Batuhan Eren (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Batuhan Eren, Manuela Caiani - The Temptation of Roots:
The OUN and European Right-Wing Radicalism—From the Leftism of the 1960s to the Rightward Shift of the 2020s
Presenter: Alexander Gogun (Independent researcher)
Authors: Alexander Gogun - Guardians of Western Order: Informal groups and European Security after Ukraine
Presenter: Maria Giulia Amadio Viceré (Italy - LUISS Guido Carli - Rome)
Authors: Maria Giulia Amadio Viceré, Matteo Bonomi - The Credibility Gap. Extended Deterrence and Strategic Adjustment in the US-ROK Alliance during the second Trump Administation.
Presenter: Matteo Dian (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Matteo Dian, Camilla Tuan - Triangular Binding: Strategic Cooperation choices from Europe to the Indo-Pacific
Presenter: Piero Barlucchi (Italy - University of Genoa)
Authors: Piero Barlucchi - Adrift in Uncertain Waters? Trump's Effect on the EU's Indo-Pacific Strategy
Presenter: Enrico Fassi (Italy - University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
Authors: Enrico Fassi, Giuseppe Gabusi - NATO Looks South: Explaining the Atlantic Alliance’s Engagement with its Southern Flank
Presenter: Fabrizio Coticchia (Italy - University of Genoa)
Authors: Fabrizio Coticchia, Jason Davidson - The Promised Enlargement? Europeanisation, Conditionality, and the Changing Credibility of EU Accession in Serbia, Albania, and Ukraine
Presenter: Roberto de Rosa (Italy - University Niccolò Cusano)
Authors: Roberto de Rosa, Dario Quattromani - Between consultation and EU para-diplomacy: The role of EU advisory bodies in external affairs
Presenter: Giorgio Oikonomou (Greece - University of Athens)
Authors: Giorgio Oikonomou, Spyros Blavoukos - The EU-Latin America Alliance: unifying against Hybrid Threats
Presenter: Francis Espinoza-Figueroa (UK - University of Birmingham)
Authors: Francis Espinoza-Figueroa - From Dissensus to Consensus: A Network Analysis of Council Voting Behaviour Before and After Brexit, 2009–2026
Presenter: Paolo Marzi (Italy - University of Siena)
Authors: Paolo Marzi, Mateo Restrepo - Network Temporalities in Social Movements. Stability and change in the transnational socio-environmental justice field.
Presenter: Marco Pernarella (Italy - University of Trento)
Authors: Marco Pernarella - From Seats to Power: How Personal Networks Shape Women’s Access to Political Leadership
Presenter: Cristina Pozzoli (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Cristina Pozzoli - Addressing Temporal Dynamics in Collective Action Processes: Sustained Co-participation and Turning Point in Brokerage
Presenter: Pietro Casari (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Pietro Casari, Alice Ferro - Tracking stability and change in charitable food provision fields through event sequence analysis: opportunities, challenges, and synergies with recent developments in diachronic network analysis
Presenter: Alejandro Ciordia (Netherlands - Maastricht University)
Authors: Alejandro Ciordia, Filippo Oncini - Gendern Mainstreaming? Analysing the use of gender-conscious language by Austrian MPs
Presenter: Mariia Tepliakova (Netherlands - University of Amsterdam)
Authors: Mariia Tepliakova - “From Mild Christian to Islamic Zealot” – Navigating Mediatised Tools of Othering in the case of Muriel Degauque
Presenter: Oana - Andrada Nitu (Netherlands - University of Amsterdam)
Authors: Oana - Andrada Nitu - Il GenderTok: Mapping Meaning and Visibility on Italian TikTok
Presenter: Junio Aglioti Colombini (Italy - University of Pisa)
Authors: Junio Aglioti Colombini - Leveraging Crowdcoding and LLMs for the analysis of gender mainstreaming: gender-
sensitive recovery policies in the EU
Presenter: Matilde Ceron (Austria - University of Salzburg)
Authors: Matilde Ceron - Exploring the Political Dimensions of Collaborative Governance: Evidence from Childcare Provision in an Italian City
Presenter: Simone Manfredi (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Simone Manfredi, Franca Maino - Mayoral Term Limits and Migrant-Targeted Social Policy in Italian Municipalities
Presenter: Mattia Cecchi (Switzerland - University of Zurich)
Authors: Mattia Cecchi, Giuseppe Pietrantuono - Governance collaborativa locale e inclusione dei MSNA: il ruolo delle reti di prossimità in un contesto urbano italiano
Presenter: Desiree Campagna (Italy - PTSCLAS SpA)
Authors: Desiree Campagna, Francesca Broccia - Infrastrutture territoriali dei dati e governance collaborativa: il ruolo degli Osservatori locali nella trasformazione delle politiche di welfare
Presenter: Celestina Valeria de Tommaso (Italy - University of Milan)
Authors: Celestina Valeria de Tommaso, Franca Maino, Alice Sofia Fanelli, Emanuele de Girolamo - (Dis)United in Diversity: Urban Activists and Local Institutions Challenging B&Bs
Presenter: Luca Alteri (Italy - Sapienza University of Rome)
Authors: Luca Alteri, Alessandro Barile - Disruptive Politics and the AI–Military–Industrial Complex: The Contested Space for Thinking in an Increasingly Automated Public Sphere
Presenter: Markus Holdo (Sweden - Lund University)
Authors: Markus Holdo - Mobilising against the far right: Between threat and normalisation
Presenter: Andrea L. P. Pirro (Italy - University of Bologna)
Authors: Andrea L. P. Pirro, Antonis Ellinas, Pietro Castelli Gattinara - Acting Upon Time: Strategic Temporality of Radical Social Movements
Presenter: Nerea Montejo-López (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Nerea Montejo-López - Feminist democratic innovations between movements and institutions: mapping the ecosystem in Genova
Presenter: Ludovica Berlingieri (Italy - University of Genoa)
Authors: Ludovica Berlingieri, Camilla Guarino - Feminist movements and Political Change in Latin America: Insights on labor and care from Chile’s 2021–2022 Constitutional Convention
Presenter: Ana Beatriz Aquino (Brazil - Federal University of ABC (UFABC))
Authors: Ana Beatriz Aquino, Carolina Gabas Stuchi, Gabriela Paula Silva Alves, Laura Cazarini Trotta - Back to the future: Reactivating feminist historical memories as a political practice in the face of right-wing politics in Chile
Presenter: Rosario Freire Saray (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Rosario Freire Saray - The party politics not yet here: A scoping review on political parties and LGBTI politics.
Presenter: Gennaro Veneziano Labanca (Italy - Milano Bicocca University)
Authors: Gennaro Veneziano Labanca - The Missing Link in Democratic Decline: Unpacking the Impact of Political Trust, Populism, and Polarization in Europe (1997-2023)
Presenter: Fabio Serricchio (Italy - University of Molise)
Authors: Fabio Serricchio, Antonino Castaldo, Vincenzo Memoli - Constructing “the People” Across Levels: Visual Strategies of Right-Wing Populism in Comparative Perspective
Presenter: Benedetta Carlotti (Italy - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Authors: Benedetta Carlotti - Authoritarian or disengaged? How perceived corruption shapes political responses through populist attitudes
Presenter: Mirko Crulli (Belgium - Université Libre de Bruxelles ULB)
Authors: Mirko Crulli, Luis Ramos Rodriguez - From Role Model to Toxic Friend? The European Far Right and Donald Trump 2.0
Presenter: Jakub Wondreys (Germany - Hannah-Arendt-Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at the TU Dresden)
Authors: Jakub Wondreys, Gabriela Greilinger - A Populist in Chief. Populist Parties, Parliamentary Behaviour, and Military Deployments
Presenter: Francesco Baraldi (Netherlands - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Authors: Francesco Baraldi, Khayyam Rzazade - Selective Politicisation and Climate Issue Competition in Italian Flood Coverage: Sourcing Disaster Narratives During the Emilia-Romagna Floods
Presenter: Flavio Piccoli (Italy - Milano Bicocca University)
Authors: Flavio Piccoli - Framing Climate Issues in Digital Environments: Evidence from Populist and Mainstream Parties in Italy
Presenter: Elisa Iannone (Italy - University of Cagliari)
Authors: Elisa Iannone - Not Quite Denied. Normalizing Frames in Italian and Spanish Party Communication on Environmental Disasters
Presenters: Cecilia Castellani (Italy - University of Pisa), Damiano Kerma (Italy - University of Pisa)
Authors: Cecilia Castellani, Damiano Kerma - Climate Litigation and Civil Society: A Study on the Impact of Climate Litigation on Public Opinion
Presenter: Costanza Azzuppardi (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Authors: Costanza Azzuppardi, Giuseppe Naglieri - Talking as one? Issue Convergence and Alliance Integration in the Italian AVS
Presenter: Enea Fiore (Italy - University of Turin)
Authors: Enea Fiore - Copying the benchmark? Nativist family policy in Hungary and in Italy
Presenter: József Dúró (Hungary - Corvinus University of Budapest)
Authors: József Dúró - The Polish SAFE Case: Executive Coordination and EU Multi-Level Governance
Presenter: Katarzyna Jachimowicz (Poland - Nicolaus Copernicus University)
Authors: Katarzyna Jachimowicz - Failure to Fulfil a Constitutional Duty? The Consequences of the Council of Ministers’ Inaction Regarding the State of Natural Disaster.
Presenter: Joanna Kielin-Maziarz (Poland - Kozminski University)
Authors: Joanna Kielin-Maziarz, Joanna Kielin-Maziarz - Navigating the Storm: The Resilience of the Meloni Government in Times of Crisis
Presenter: Izolda Bokszczanin (Poland - University of Warsaw)
Authors: Izolda Bokszczanin, Malgorzata Lorencka
Wednesday 2 September 2026
01:00 PM-02:00 PM
Plenary Session - Lunch Break01:00 PM-02:00 PM
02:00 PM-03:30 PM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Wednesday 2 September 2026
02:00 PM-03:30 PM
CLab-S SCHOOL OF INNOVATION, Main Building - 1st floor Course 2: Spatial Data Analysis02:00 PM-03:30 PM
Wednesday 2 September 2026
02:00 PM-03:30 PM
CLab-M SCHOOL OF INNOVATION, Main Building - 1st floor Course 3: Social and Discourse Network Analysis (Part 1)02:00 PM-03:30 PM
03:30 PM-04:00 PM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Wednesday 2 September 2026
03:30 PM-04:00 PM
CLab-M SCHOOL OF INNOVATION, Main Building - 1st floor Coffee Break03:30 PM-04:00 PM
04:00 PM-05:30 PM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Wednesday 2 September 2026
04:00 PM-05:30 PM
CLab-S SCHOOL OF INNOVATION, Main Building - 1st floor Course 2: Spatial Data Analysis04:00 PM-05:30 PM
Wednesday 2 September 2026
04:00 PM-05:30 PM
CLab-M SCHOOL OF INNOVATION, Main Building - 1st floor Course 3: Social and Discourse Network Analysis (Part 2)04:00 PM-05:30 PM
04:30 PM-07:30 PM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Wednesday 2 September 2026
04:30 PM-07:30 PM
Room Targetti, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies SISP Steering Committee Meeting04:30 PM-07:30 PM
Thursday 3 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:30 AM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Thursday 3 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:30 AM
Room Targetti, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies SISP Steering Committee Meeting09:00 AM-10:30 AM
09:00 AM-05:00 PM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Thursday 3 September 2026
09:00 AM-05:00 PM
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH: Entrance Hall, Ground Floor (Via Giuseppe Verdi 26) Registration of Participants – Information Desk09:00 AM-05:00 PM
10:30 AM-11:00 AM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Thursday 3 September 2026
10:30 AM-11:00 AM
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH: Mezzanine, Central Courtyard, East Courtyard and West Courtyard Welcome Coffee10:30 AM-11:00 AM
11:00 AM-12:45 PM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Thursday 3 September 2026
11:00 AM-12:45 PM
Auditorium Prodi, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - Ground Floor Plenary Session
Ripensare la VQR. Un confronto aperto e plurale11:00 AM-12:45 PM
12:45 PM-01:45 PM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Thursday 3 September 2026
12:45 PM-01:45 PM
Room 14, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Standing Group Meeting Government, Parliament, Representation12:45 PM-01:45 PM
Thursday 3 September 2026
12:45 PM-01:45 PM
Room 15, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Standing Group Meeting Political Theory12:45 PM-01:45 PM
Thursday 3 September 2026
12:45 PM-01:45 PM
Room 5, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - Mezzanine floor Standing Group Meeting Regional Studies and Local Policies12:45 PM-01:45 PM
Thursday 3 September 2026
12:45 PM-01:45 PM
Room 8, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Standing Group Meeting Interest Groups and Lobbying12:45 PM-01:45 PM
Thursday 3 September 2026
12:45 PM-01:45 PM
Room 108, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - 1st floor Standing Group Meeting Political Regimes12:45 PM-01:45 PM
Thursday 3 September 2026
12:45 PM-01:45 PM
Room 7, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Standing Group Meeting Candidate and Leader Selection12:45 PM-01:45 PM
Thursday 3 September 2026
12:45 PM-01:45 PM
Room 20, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Standing Group Meeting Russia and Post-Soviet Space12:45 PM-01:45 PM
Thursday 3 September 2026
12:45 PM-01:45 PM
Room 16, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Standing Group Meeting European Union12:45 PM-01:45 PM
Thursday 3 September 2026
12:45 PM-01:45 PM
Kessler Room, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - Ground Floor Standing Group Meeting Political Communication12:45 PM-01:45 PM
01:45 PM-03:30 PM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Thursday 3 September 2026
01:45 PM-03:30 PM
Poggi Room, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 10.9 - Design-Based Inference with Observational Data01:45 PM-03:30 PM
CHAIR Roberto Valli
DISCUSSANT Roberto Valli (Italy - European University Institute)
Thursday 3 September 2026
01:45 PM-03:30 PM
Room 2D, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building - 2nd floor Panel 6.18 - Shades of capacities: emerging theories and empirical strategies01:45 PM-03:30 PM
CHAIRS Giulia Bonazzi, Lorenzo Mascioli
DISCUSSANT Lorenzo Mascioli (France - Sciences Po Paris)
Thursday 3 September 2026
01:45 PM-03:30 PM
Room 6, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 14.4 - Governing Digital Power: Security, Defence and Hybrid Risks in Cyberspace01:45 PM-03:30 PM
CHAIR Andrea Rigoni
DISCUSSANT Andrea Rigoni (Altirium)
Thursday 3 September 2026
01:45 PM-03:30 PM
Room 11, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 5.9 - Protest Politics in the Global South: Dynamics, Repression, and Political Consequences01:45 PM-03:30 PM
CHAIRS Cesar Guzman-Concha, Giuliana Sorci
DISCUSSANT Giuliana Sorci (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Thursday 3 September 2026
01:45 PM-03:30 PM
Room 10, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 9.6 - Shifting Centre-Periphery Dynamics in Europe in a Period of Global Turmoil01:45 PM-03:30 PM
CHAIRS Adriano Cirulli, Michel Huysseune, Carlo Pala
DISCUSSANT Michel Huysseune (Belgium - Free Univerisity of Bruxelles)
Thursday 3 September 2026
01:45 PM-03:30 PM
Meeting Room, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 3.2 - Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Delegation: Policy-Making, Representation and Institutional Trust01:45 PM-03:30 PM
CHAIRS Simone Busetti, Alessandra Orsini, Francesco Maria Scanni, Aurelia Zucaro
DISCUSSANT Aurelia Zucaro (Italy - University of Calabria)
Thursday 3 September 2026
01:45 PM-03:30 PM
Room 1F, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building - 1st floor Panel 7.16 - The Politics of Dissent: Between Protest and Violence01:45 PM-03:30 PM
CHAIRS Margherita Belgioioso, Francesco N. Moro
DISCUSSANT Margherita Belgioioso (UK - University of Leeds)
Thursday 3 September 2026
01:45 PM-03:30 PM
Room 8, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - Ground floor Panel 10.6 - Empirical Political Geography: Spatial Methods for Political Science and International Relations01:45 PM-03:30 PM
CHAIRS Tommaso Fonti, Joshua Hellinger
DISCUSSANT Ravi Bhavnani (Switzerland - Geneva Graduate Institute)
Thursday 3 September 2026
01:45 PM-03:30 PM
Room Seminar I, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building Panel 12.3 - Agenda setting and agenda denial in gender equality policies: Dynamics of issue advancement and obstruction01:45 PM-03:30 PM
CHAIRS Anna Lavizzari, Andrea Terlizzi
DISCUSSANT Andrea Terlizzi (Italy - University of Florence)
Thursday 3 September 2026
01:45 PM-03:30 PM
Room 2E, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building - 2nd floor Panel 8.6 - Direct democracy, public opinion and the political consequences of referendums01:45 PM-03:30 PM
session 1
CHAIRS Davide Morisi, Francesco Visconti
DISCUSSANT Davide Morisi (Denmark - University of Southern Denmark)
Thursday 3 September 2026
01:45 PM-03:30 PM
Room 3H, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building - 3rd floor Panel 4.2 - The "Trumpization" of Political Discourse: Narratives of War, Peace, and Crisis in an Era of Simplification01:45 PM-03:30 PM
session 1
CHAIR Olgierd Annusewicz
DISCUSSANT Mehmet Yavuz (Austria - University of Salzburg)
Thursday 3 September 2026
01:45 PM-03:30 PM
Room 109, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - 1st floor Panel 7.9 - Under attack? Europe in the Age of Contested Multilateralism01:45 PM-03:30 PM
session 1
CHAIRS Emidio Diodato, Daniela Irrera
DISCUSSANT Emidio Diodato (Italy - University for Foreigners of Perugia)
Thursday 3 September 2026
01:45 PM-03:30 PM
Room 9, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 5.2 - Lobbying and Interest Groups in Contemporary Political Systems: Actors, Strategies, and Influence01:45 PM-03:30 PM
session 1
CHAIRS Alberto Bitonti, Giuseppe Montalbano
DISCUSSANT Giuseppe Montalbano (Luxembourg - LISER)
Thursday 3 September 2026
01:45 PM-03:30 PM
Room 12, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 13.10 - Religiosity and socio-political attitudes and behavior01:45 PM-03:30 PM
session 1
CHAIRS Riccardo Ladini, Valeria Rainero
DISCUSSANT Valeria Rainero (Germany - Goethe University Frankfurt)
Thursday 3 September 2026
01:45 PM-03:30 PM
Room 15, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 8.2 - Political Parties in Transformation: Classical Theories, New Paradigms, and the Italian Case01:45 PM-03:30 PM
session 1
CHAIRS Antonella Seddone, Mattia Zulianello
DISCUSSANT Antonella Seddone (Italy - University of Turin)
Thursday 3 September 2026
01:45 PM-03:30 PM
Room 5, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - Mezzanine floor Panel 3.3 - Reconnecting Citizens and Elites in Europe01:45 PM-03:30 PM
session 1
CHAIRS Marco Improta, Elisabetta Mannoni, Luca Verzichelli
DISCUSSANT Paolo Marzi (Italy - University of Siena)
Thursday 3 September 2026
01:45 PM-03:30 PM
Room 8, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 8.4 - Social groups still matter, but how? Cleavages, identities, and their consequences for voting behavior in contemporary Europe01:45 PM-03:30 PM
session 1
CHAIRS Mirko Crulli, Vincenzo Emanuele
DISCUSSANT Federico Trastulli (Italy - LUISS Guido Carli - Rome)
Thursday 3 September 2026
01:45 PM-03:30 PM
Room 108, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - 1st floor Panel 7.2 - The Changing Politics of Public Opinion in International Affairs01:45 PM-03:30 PM
session 1
CHAIRS Michal Onderco, Ondřej Rosendorf
DISCUSSANT Filip Kostelka (Italy - European University Institute)
Thursday 3 September 2026
01:45 PM-03:30 PM
Room 7, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 6.7 - Future-Oriented Policy Making: Approaches and Practices for Designing Anticipatory, Collaborative, and Inclusive Policies01:45 PM-03:30 PM
session 1
CHAIRS Laura De Vito, Gaia Taffoni
DISCUSSANT Gaia Taffoni (Italy - European University Institute)
Thursday 3 September 2026
01:45 PM-03:30 PM
Room 20, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 5.13 - Identity and culture: semiotic and memory in social movement and collective actions. Mobilising memories amid multiple crises01:45 PM-03:30 PM
session 1
CHAIRS Jamievee Bautista, Stefano Filippini, Sebastián Moreno
DISCUSSANT Stefano Filippini (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Thursday 3 September 2026
01:45 PM-03:30 PM
Room 16, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 2.3 - Rethinking Representative Democracy: Liberal, Illiberal, and Post-Liberal Perspectives01:45 PM-03:30 PM
session 1
CHAIRS Antonio Campati, Alessandro Mulieri
DISCUSSANT Antonio Campati (Italy - University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
Thursday 3 September 2026
01:45 PM-03:30 PM
Kessler Room, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - Ground Floor Semi-Plenary: Regimi politici e cambiamenti di regime: approcci disciplinari a confronto01:45 PM-03:30 PM
CHAIRS Tiziana Corda (Italy - University of Milan), Chiara Maritato (Italy - University of Turin)
Speakers:
Gianni Del Panta (Italian Society for Middle Eastern Studies)
Mara Morini (University of Genoa)
Stefano Palestini (University of Trento)
03:30 PM-04:00 PM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Thursday 3 September 2026
03:30 PM-04:00 PM
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH: Mezzanine, courtyards / DEM: near the conference room Coffee Break03:30 PM-04:00 PM
04:00 PM-05:45 PM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Thursday 3 September 2026
04:00 PM-05:45 PM
Room 3G, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building - 3rd floor Panel 4.3 - The European Far-Right Politics of Truth in Digital Spaces04:00 PM-05:45 PM
CHAIRS Valerio Alfonso Bruno, Beatriz Lopes Buarque, Alessio Scopelliti, Polina Zavershinskaia
DISCUSSANT Beatriz Lopes Buarque (UK - London School of Economics and Political Science)
Thursday 3 September 2026
04:00 PM-05:45 PM
Room Seminar II, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building Panel 6.15 - Shifting Scales: territorial governance, policy reconfiguration and political change dynamics in times of upheaval.04:00 PM-05:45 PM
CHAIR Laura Polverari (Italy - University of Padua)
DISCUSSANT Arianna Giovannini (Italy - University of Urbino Carlo Bo)
Thursday 3 September 2026
04:00 PM-05:45 PM
Poggi Room, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 14.8 - The politics of militarization: beyond strategic coherence and the civilian-military boundary04:00 PM-05:45 PM
CHAIR Giovanni Luca Catucci
DISCUSSANT Elisa Piras (Italy - European Academy Bolzano/Bozen)
Thursday 3 September 2026
04:00 PM-05:45 PM
Room 19, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 1.5 - Post-Soviet and Beyond: Regionalism in the ex-Soviet space04:00 PM-05:45 PM
CHAIR Marco Siddi (Italy - University of Cagliari)
DISCUSSANT Nicolo' Fasola (Italy - University of Bologna)
Thursday 3 September 2026
04:00 PM-05:45 PM
Room 2D, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building - 2nd floor Panel 4.4 - Hybrid Campaigns between Pop Culture, Platforms and AI04:00 PM-05:45 PM
CHAIRS Junio Aglioti Colombini, Roberta Bracciale, Lorenzo Mosca
DISCUSSANT Massimiliano Andretta (Italy - University of Pisa)
Thursday 3 September 2026
04:00 PM-05:45 PM
Room 6, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 13.7 - Religious Movements, Politics and Gender: Negotiating Democracy at the Intersections04:00 PM-05:45 PM
CHAIR Alberta Giorgi
DISCUSSANT Alberta Giorgi (Italy - University of Bergamo)
Thursday 3 September 2026
04:00 PM-05:45 PM
Room 11, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 10.10 - Measurement in Political Research04:00 PM-05:45 PM
CHAIRS Silvia Keeling, Andrea Vaccaro
DISCUSSANT Francesco Marolla (Italy - University of Milan)
Thursday 3 September 2026
04:00 PM-05:45 PM
Room 10, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 6.4 - Transboundary biodiversity protection in Europe: a new governance model for environmental issues?04:00 PM-05:45 PM
CHAIR Federica Cittadino
DISCUSSANT Louisa Parks (Italy - University of Trento)
Thursday 3 September 2026
04:00 PM-05:45 PM
Meeting Room, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 6.2 - Rethinking anti-corruption and integrity amid international challenges04:00 PM-05:45 PM
CHAIRS Francesco Merenda, Fernanda Odilla
DISCUSSANT Benedetto Ponti (Italy - Perugia University)
Thursday 3 September 2026
04:00 PM-05:45 PM
Room 1F, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building - 1st floor Panel 9.2 - Institutional Change, Local Government, and the Nexus of Participation04:00 PM-05:45 PM
CHAIRS Elisabeth Alber, Paul Blokker, Antonello Canzano, Dario Quattromani
DISCUSSANT Dario Quattromani (Italy - Link Campus University Rome)
Thursday 3 September 2026
04:00 PM-05:45 PM
Room 8, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - Ground floor Panel 10.5 - Experimental approaches in Comparative Politics and International Relations04:00 PM-05:45 PM
CHAIRS Matteo C. M. Casiraghi, Francesco Olmastroni
DISCUSSANT Matteo C. M. Casiraghi (Netherlands - University of Groningen)
Thursday 3 September 2026
04:00 PM-05:45 PM
Room 2E, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building - 2nd floor Panel 8.6 - Direct democracy, public opinion and the political consequences of referendums04:00 PM-05:45 PM
session 2
CHAIRS Davide Morisi, Francesco Visconti
DISCUSSANT Francesco Visconti (Italy - LUISS Guido Carli - Rome)
Thursday 3 September 2026
04:00 PM-05:45 PM
Room 3H, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building - 3rd floor Panel 4.2 - The "Trumpization" of Political Discourse: Narratives of War, Peace, and Crisis in an Era of Simplification04:00 PM-05:45 PM
session 2
CHAIR Olgierd Annusewicz
DISCUSSANT Malgorzata Kaczorowska (Poland - University of Warsaw)
Thursday 3 September 2026
04:00 PM-05:45 PM
Room 2, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - Ground floor Panel 12.7 - Coloniality, Gender, and Border Governance: Toward a Decolonial-Feminist Agenda04:00 PM-05:45 PM
CHAIRS Anna Casaglia, Agnese Pacciardi
DISCUSSANT Anna Casaglia (Italy - University of Trento)
Thursday 3 September 2026
04:00 PM-05:45 PM
Room 109, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - 1st floor Panel 7.9 - Under attack? Europe in the Age of Contested Multilateralism04:00 PM-05:45 PM
session 2
CHAIRS Emidio Diodato, Daniela Irrera
DISCUSSANT Maurizio Carbone (UK - University of Glasgow)
Thursday 3 September 2026
04:00 PM-05:45 PM
Room 9, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 5.2 - Lobbying and Interest Groups in Contemporary Political Systems: Actors, Strategies, and Influence04:00 PM-05:45 PM
session 2
CHAIRS Alberto Bitonti, Giuseppe Montalbano
DISCUSSANT Alberto Bitonti (Switzerland - University of Lugano)
Thursday 3 September 2026
04:00 PM-05:45 PM
Room 12, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 13.10 - Religiosity and socio-political attitudes and behavior04:00 PM-05:45 PM
session 2
CHAIRS Riccardo Ladini, Valeria Rainero
DISCUSSANT Riccardo Ladini (Italy - University Telematica E-Campus)
Thursday 3 September 2026
04:00 PM-05:45 PM
Room 14, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 11.6 - Migration, Solidarity, and Crisis Narratives in the European Union04:00 PM-05:45 PM
CHAIR Francesca Pusterla Piccin
DISCUSSANT Francesca Pusterla Piccin (Italy - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Thursday 3 September 2026
04:00 PM-05:45 PM
Room 15, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 8.2 - Political Parties in Transformation: Classical Theories, New Paradigms, and the Italian Case04:00 PM-05:45 PM
session 2
CHAIRS Antonella Seddone, Mattia Zulianello
DISCUSSANT Mattia Zulianello (Italy - University of Trieste)
Thursday 3 September 2026
04:00 PM-05:45 PM
Room 5, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - Mezzanine floor Panel 3.3 - Reconnecting Citizens and Elites in Europe04:00 PM-05:45 PM
session 2
CHAIRS Marco Improta, Elisabetta Mannoni, Luca Verzichelli
DISCUSSANT Elisabetta Mannoni (Italy - University of Siena)
Thursday 3 September 2026
04:00 PM-05:45 PM
Room 8, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 8.4 - Social groups still matter, but how? Cleavages, identities, and their consequences for voting behavior in contemporary Europe04:00 PM-05:45 PM
session 2
CHAIRS Mirko Crulli, Vincenzo Emanuele
DISCUSSANT Leonardo Puleo (Belgium - Université Libre de Bruxelles ULB)
Thursday 3 September 2026
04:00 PM-05:45 PM
Room 108, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - 1st floor Panel 7.2 - The Changing Politics of Public Opinion in International Affairs04:00 PM-05:45 PM
session 2
CHAIRS Michal Onderco, Ondřej Rosendorf
DISCUSSANT Tobias Risse (Switzerland - University of St Gallen)
Thursday 3 September 2026
04:00 PM-05:45 PM
Room 7, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 6.7 - Future-Oriented Policy Making: Approaches and Practices for Designing Anticipatory, Collaborative, and Inclusive Policies04:00 PM-05:45 PM
session 2
CHAIRS Laura De Vito, Gaia Taffoni
DISCUSSANTS Laura de Vito (UK - University of the West of England, Bristol)
Thursday 3 September 2026
04:00 PM-05:45 PM
Room 20, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 5.13 - Identity and culture: semiotic and memory in social movement and collective actions04:00 PM-05:45 PM
session 2
CHAIRS Jamievee Bautista, Stefano Filippini, Sebastián Moreno
DISCUSSANT Jamievee Bautista (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Thursday 3 September 2026
04:00 PM-05:45 PM
Room 16, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 2.3 - Rethinking Representative Democracy: Liberal, Illiberal, and Post-Liberal Perspectives04:00 PM-05:45 PM
session 2
CHAIRS Antonio Campati, Alessandro Mulieri
DISCUSSANT Alessandro Mulieri (France - Sciences Po Paris)
Thursday 3 September 2026
04:00 PM-05:45 PM
Kessler Room, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - Ground Floor Semi-Plenary Session
Cos’è importante insegnare, oggi, sull’analisi comparata dei sistemi politici. Un esercizio di discussione a più voci assistita dall’AI04:00 PM-05:45 PM
CHAIR Francesco Raniolo (Italy - University of Calabria)
Speakers:
Marcello Carammia (University of Catania)
Emidio Diodato (University for Foreigners of Perugia)
Elisabetta De Giorgi (University of Trieste)
Sonia Lucarelli (University of Bologna)
Damiano Palano (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
Simona Piattoni (University of Trento)
Salvatore Vassallo (University of Bologna)
Coordinators:
Selena Grimaldi (University of Macerata)
Enrico Borghetto (University of Florence)
06:00 PM-07:30 PM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Thursday 3 September 2026
06:00 PM-07:30 PM
Auditorium Prodi, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - Ground Floor Welcome Ceremony and Plenary Session
THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE
WAR06:00 PM-07:30 PM
CHAIR Simona Piattoni (Italy - University of Trento)
Keynote:
Sergio Fabbrini (LUISS Guido Carli)
Discussant:
Sonja Puntscher-Riekmann (University of Salzburg)
08:30 PM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Thursday 3 September 2026
08:30 PM
Ex-CTE, Via di Briamasco 2, 38122 Trento Conference Dinner08:30 PM
Friday 4 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Friday 4 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 2D, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building - 2nd floor Panel 13.11 - Reconfiguring Religion in the Public Sphere: Media, Authority, and Transformation09:00 AM-10:45 AM
CHAIRS Rita Marchetti, Susanna Pagiotti
DISCUSSANT Rita Marchetti (Italy - University of Perugia)
Friday 4 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 6, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 14.1 - Norms, Contestation, and the Reshaping of the Global Nuclear Order09:00 AM-10:45 AM
CHAIRS Ludovica Castelli, Paolo Foradori
DISCUSSANT Camilla Tuan (Italy - University of Trento)
Friday 4 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 11, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 13.9 - Political Identity Builders: Religion, Nationalisms and Party Politics in the Politicization of Collective Belonging09:00 AM-10:45 AM
CHAIRS Alon Helled, Luca Ozzano
DISCUSSANT Alon Helled (Italy - University of Turin)
Friday 4 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 10, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 11.7 - EU Enlargement in the Age of “Contested Multilateralism”09:00 AM-10:45 AM
session 1
CHAIRS Luisa Chiodi, Sabina De Silva, Filippo Marinoni
DISCUSSANT Luisa Chiodi (Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa/ Centro Cooperazione Internazionale (OBCT/CCI))
Friday 4 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Meeting Room, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 3.7 - Courts, Politics and Policy Making09:00 AM-10:45 AM
CHAIRS Emmanuele Pavolini, Francesco Zucchini
DISCUSSANT Cristina Dallara (Italy - University of Bologna)
Friday 4 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 1F, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building - 1st floor Panel 5.1 - Democratic Resistance in Dark Times: Social Movements against Backlash and Autocratization in Europe09:00 AM-10:45 AM
CHAIRS Daniela Chironi, Chiara Milan
DISCUSSANT Chiara Milan (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Friday 4 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 8, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - Ground floor Panel 4.11 - Conspiratorial Narratives and Radical Right Politics: Meaning, Mobilization, and Democratic Contestation09:00 AM-10:45 AM
CHAIRS Klaudia Koxha, Emilia Meini
DISCUSSANT Klaudia Koxha (Switzerland - University of Lausanne)
Friday 4 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room Seminar I, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building Panel 8.5 - Loneliness and Political Behaviour: Bridging Gaps in the Study of Social Disconnectedness09:00 AM-10:45 AM
CHAIRS Patrizia Catellani, Cristiano Vezzoni
DISCUSSANT Arturo Bertero (Italy - University of Milan)
Friday 4 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 2E, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building - 2nd floor Panel 3.4 - The Political Class in Comparative Perspective09:00 AM-10:45 AM
session 1
CHAIR Bruno Marino (Italy - University of Padua)
DISCUSSANT Luca Verzichelli (Italy - University of Siena)
Friday 4 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 3H, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building - 3rd floor Panel 12.8 - Intersecting Inequalities in Political Careers: Access, Endurance, and Power09:00 AM-10:45 AM
session 1
CHAIR Francesca Feo
DISCUSSANT Marta Ponzo (Italy - University of Bologna)
Friday 4 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 2, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - Ground floor Panel 11.1 - The European Union, the Green Transition, and the Political Economy of Market Transformation09:00 AM-10:45 AM
session 1
CHAIRS Manuela Moschella, Andrea Prontera
DISCUSSANT Ekaterina Domorenok (Italy - University of Padua)
Friday 4 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 109, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - 1st floor Panel 9.8 - Territorialising migration and integration governance: rural, remote, and marginal contexts09:00 AM-10:45 AM
session 1
CHAIR Verena Wisthaler (Italy - European Academy Bolzano/Bozen)
DISCUSSANT Leila Giannetto (Italy - European University Institute)
Friday 4 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 9, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 8.9 - Fratture centro-periferia e governance locale in Italia: sfide e prospettive09:00 AM-10:45 AM
session 1
CHAIR Fatima Farina (Italy - University of Urbino Carlo Bo)
DISCUSSANT Domenico Fruncillo (Italy - University of Salerno)
Friday 4 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 12, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 5.14 - Perspectives of political participation within and against ecological disaster09:00 AM-10:45 AM
session 1
CHAIRS Niccolò Bertuzzi, Paola Imperatore, Elisa Lello
DISCUSSANT Elisa Lello (Italy - University of Urbino Carlo Bo)
Friday 4 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 14, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 7.4 - Italy in the Age of Rearmament: the Past and Future of Italian Defense Policy09:00 AM-10:45 AM
session 1
CHAIRS Daniela Irrera (Italy - Scuola univ. Superiore difesa, CASD)
DISCUSSANT Francesco Baraldi (Netherlands - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Friday 4 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 15, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 7.8 - When Globalization Fractures: The Political Economy of Contested Multilateralism09:00 AM-10:45 AM
session 1
CHAIRS Mattia Guidi, Arlo Poletti
DISCUSSANT Arlo Poletti (Italy - University of Trento)
Friday 4 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 5, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - Mezzanine floor Panel 5.15 - Mobilizations in Solidarity with Palestine: Protest, Politics, and the Reconfiguration of Publics09:00 AM-10:45 AM
session 1
CHAIRS Sarah Elmasry (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore), Federico Alagna (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
DISCUSSANT Martín Portos (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Friday 4 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 8, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 4.5 - Corruption, organized crime and public narratives: dynamics, representations and policy challenges09:00 AM-10:45 AM
session 1
CHAIRS Marco Antonelli, Roberto Mincigrucci, Alberto Vannucci
DISCUSSANT Fernanda Odilla (Italy - University of Bologna)
Friday 4 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 7, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 2.4 - Rethinking Agonistic Democracy: Emotions, Identity, Polarization09:00 AM-10:45 AM
session 1
CHAIR Damiano Palano
DISCUSSANT Antonio Campati (Italy - University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
Friday 4 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 20, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 7.15 - The Global Political Economy of the new World Disorder(s)09:00 AM-10:45 AM
session 1
CHAIRS Adriano Cozzolino, Silvia Menegazzi, Giuseppe Montalbano
DISCUSSANT Silvia Menegazzi (Italy - LUISS Guido Carli - Rome)
Friday 4 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 16, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 8.3 - The comparative study of political parties: advances, continuity and change (11th Edition)09:00 AM-10:45 AM
session 1
CHAIR Enrico Calossi (Italy - University of Pisa)
DISCUSSANT Giorgia Bulli (Italy - University of Florence)
Friday 4 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Kessler Room, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - Ground Floor Roundtable Sections “Public Policies and Public Administration” & “Methods for Political Science”
From Analytical Approaches to Methods: Status Quo, Challenges and Innovations in Public Policy09:00 AM-10:45 AM
CHAIRS Laura Mastroianni, Andrea Terlizzi
Speakers:
Giovanni Esposito (Université libre de Bruxelles)
Jonathan Kamkhaji (European University Institute)
Anna Malandrino (University of Turin)
Erica Melloni (Universitas Mercatorum)
Fedra Negri (University of Milano-Bicocca)
09:00 AM-06:00 PM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Friday 4 September 2026
09:00 AM-06:00 PM
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH: Entrance Hall, Ground Floor (Via Giuseppe Verdi 26) Registration of Participants – Information Desk09:00 AM-06:00 PM
10:45 AM-11:15 AM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Friday 4 September 2026
10:45 AM-11:15 AM
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH: Mezzanine, courtyards / DEM: near the conference room Coffee Break10:45 AM-11:15 AM
11:15 AM-01:00 PM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Friday 4 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Poggi Room, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 6.13 - Reimagining Public Policy Research: Trends and Perspectives11:15 AM-01:00 PM
CHAIRS Mario De Rosa, Laura Mastroianni
DISCUSSANT Stefania Profeti (Italy - University of Bologna)
Friday 4 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 19, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 12.4 - Masculinity at the Ballot Box: Gender Identity, Electoral Behaviour, and the Politics of the Male Vote11:15 AM-01:00 PM
CHAIRS Anna Guildea, Ingvild Zinober
DISCUSSANT Anna Guildea (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Friday 4 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 2D, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building - 2nd floor Panel 4.7 - When Citizens Vote on Institutions: Referendum Politics and Campaign Communication11:15 AM-01:00 PM
CHAIRS Domenico Fruncillo, Giacomo Salvarani, Rossana Sampugnaro
DISCUSSANT Francesca Montemagno (Italy - University of Catania)
Friday 4 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 6, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 8.8 - Are Young People Turning Right? Political Orientations, Value Attitudes, and Intra-Generational Cleavages11:15 AM-01:00 PM
CHAIRS Asia Leofreddi, Dario Tuorto
DISCUSSANT Mirko Crulli (Belgium - Université Libre de Bruxelles ULB)
Friday 4 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 11, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 3.6 - Gender legislation, power, and institutions11:15 AM-01:00 PM
CHAIRS Alice Cavalieri, Elisabetta De Giorgi, Gaia Matilde Ripamonti
DISCUSSANT Licia Claudia Papavero (Italy - University of Milan)
Friday 4 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 10, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 9.3 - Governing climate and the ecological and energy transitions in the polycrisis: a local and regional perspective11:15 AM-01:00 PM
CHAIRS Giulio Citroni, Valeria Tarditi
DISCUSSANT Erica Melloni (Italy - University Mercatorum - Rome)
Friday 4 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Meeting Room, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 13.3 - Religion in An Age of Autocratization11:15 AM-01:00 PM
CHAIRS Chiara Maritato, Valeria Resta
DISCUSSANT Marko Vekovic (Serbia - University of Belgrade)
Friday 4 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 1F, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building - 1st floor Panel 6.12 - Technocracies at work.
Non-Majoritarian Institutions, Public Administration and Policymaking between Democratic Enhancement and Democratic Backsliding11:15 AM-01:00 PM
CHAIRS Andrea Lippi, Francesco Raniolo
DISCUSSANT Francesco Raniolo (Italy - University of Calabria)
Friday 4 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 8, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - Ground floor Panel 13.1 - Religion, Conflict and International Relations11:15 AM-01:00 PM
CHAIRS Gregorio Bettiza, Luca Ozzano
DISCUSSANT Luca Ozzano (Italy - University of Turin)
Friday 4 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room Seminar I, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building Panel 6.14 - AI and the Transformation of the Public Sector: Risks, Opportunities, and Governance Challenges in Public Administration11:15 AM-01:00 PM
CHAIRS Matilde Biagioni, Fernanda Odilla
DISCUSSANT Matilde Biagioni (Italy - Perugia University)
Friday 4 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 2E, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building - 2nd floor Panel 3.4 - The Political Class in Comparative Perspective11:15 AM-01:00 PM
session 2
CHAIR Luca Verzichelli (Italy - University of Siena)
DISCUSSANT Bruno Marino (Italy - University of Padua)
Friday 4 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 3H, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building - 3rd floor Panel 7.1 - International Organizations in the 21st Century: Resilience, Legitimacy, and Governance Transformation11:15 AM-01:00 PM
session 1
CHAIRS Giovanni Agostinis, Andrea Knapp
DISCUSSANT Andrea Knapp (Germany - Universität Potsdam)
Friday 4 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 2, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - Ground floor Panel 11.1 - The European Union, the Green Transition, and the Political Economy of Market Transformation11:15 AM-01:00 PM
session 2
CHAIRS Manuela Moschella, Andrea Prontera
DISCUSSANT Marco Siddi (Italy - University of Cagliari)
Friday 4 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 109, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - 1st floor Panel 9.8 - Territorialising migration and integration governance: rural, remote, and marginal contexts11:15 AM-01:00 PM
session 2
CHAIR Leila Giannetto (Italy - European University Institute)
DISCUSSANT Andrea Pettrachin (Italy - University of Padua)
Friday 4 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 9, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 8.9 - Fratture centro-periferia e governance locale in Italia: sfide e prospettive11:15 AM-01:00 PM
session 2
CHAIR Fatima Farina (Italy - University of Urbino Carlo Bo)
DISCUSSANT Bruna Mura (Italy - University of Padua)
Friday 4 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 12, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 10.3 - Text as Data in Political Science11:15 AM-01:00 PM
session 1
CHAIRS Mattia Sguazzini, Valerio Vignoli
DISCUSSANTS Valerio Vignoli (Italy - Scuola univ. Superiore difesa, CASD)
Friday 4 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 14, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 7.4 - Italy in the Age of Rearmament: the Past and Future of Italian Defense Policy11:15 AM-01:00 PM
session 2
CHAIR Francesco Olmastroni (Italy - University of Siena)
DISCUSSANT Fabrizio Coticchia (Italy - University of Genoa)
Friday 4 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 15, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 7.8 - When Globalization Fractures: The Political Economy of Contested Multilateralism11:15 AM-01:00 PM
session 2
CHAIRS Mattia Guidi, Arlo Poletti
DISCUSSANT Mattia Guidi (Italy - University of Siena)
Friday 4 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 5, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - Mezzanine floor Panel 10.1 - Survey Experiments in Political Science11:15 AM-01:00 PM
session 1
CHAIRS Stefano Sangiovanni, Gaetano Scaduto
DISCUSSANT Francesco Colombo (Italy - Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Friday 4 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 8, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 4.5 - Corruption, organized crime and public narratives: dynamics, representations and policy challenges11:15 AM-01:00 PM
session 2
CHAIRS Marco Antonelli, Roberto Mincigrucci, Alberto Vannucci
DISCUSSANT Anna Sergi (Italy - University of Bologna)
Friday 4 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 108, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - 1st floor Panel 1.6 - Modes and Drivers of Autocratization11:15 AM-01:00 PM
CHAIRS Angelo Vito Panaro, Andrea Vaccaro
DISCUSSANT Claudio Balderacchi (Italy - University of Florence)
Friday 4 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 7, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 2.4 - Rethinking Agonistic Democracy: Emotions, Identity, Polarization11:15 AM-01:00 PM
session 2
CHAIR Damiano Palano
DISCUSSANT Samuele Mazzolini (Italy - Ca' Foscari University Venezia)
Friday 4 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 20, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 8.12 - Class Politics in Contemporary Advanced Democracies11:15 AM-01:00 PM
session 1
CHAIRS Paolo Agnolin, Gregorio Buzzelli
DISCUSSANT Alessandra Carraro (Italy - Bocconi University)
Friday 4 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 16, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 8.3 - The comparative study of political parties: advances, continuity and change (11th Edition)11:15 AM-01:00 PM
session 2
CHAIR Giorgia Bulli (Italy - University of Florence)
DISCUSSANT Eugenio Pizzimenti (Italy - University of Pisa)
Friday 4 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Kessler Room, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - Ground Floor Semi-Plenary
The Far Right: Conceptualizing Social Movements, Parties, Networks, Leadership and Transnational Mobilization11:15 AM-01:00 PM
CHAIR Manuela Caiani (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Speakers:
Mario Diani (University of Trento)
Alberta Giorgi (University of Bergamo)
Naoto Higuchi (Waseda University, Tokyo)
Emanuela Lombardo (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Manès Weisskircher (Dresden University)
Discussant:
Jens Rydgren (Stockholm University)
01:00 PM-02:00 PM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Friday 4 September 2026
01:00 PM-02:00 PM
Room 14, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Standing Group Meeting Gender and Politics01:00 PM-02:00 PM
Friday 4 September 2026
01:00 PM-02:00 PM
Room 15, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Standing Group Meeting Political Research Methods01:00 PM-02:00 PM
Friday 4 September 2026
01:00 PM-02:00 PM
Room 5, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - Mezzanine floor Standing Group Meeting Social Movements and Political Participation01:00 PM-02:00 PM
Friday 4 September 2026
01:00 PM-02:00 PM
Room 8, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Standing Group Meeting Administrations and Public Policies01:00 PM-02:00 PM
Friday 4 September 2026
01:00 PM-02:00 PM
Room 108, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - 1st floor Standing Group Meeting Politics and Religion01:00 PM-02:00 PM
Friday 4 September 2026
01:00 PM-02:00 PM
Room 7, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Standing Group Meeting International Relations01:00 PM-02:00 PM
Friday 4 September 2026
01:00 PM-02:00 PM
Room 20, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Standing Group Meeting Politics and History01:00 PM-02:00 PM
Friday 4 September 2026
01:00 PM-02:00 PM
Room 16, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Standing Group Meeting Parties, Public Opinion, Elections01:00 PM-02:00 PM
Friday 4 September 2026
01:00 PM-02:00 PM
Kessler Room, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - Ground Floor IPSA LOC Meeting01:00 PM-02:00 PM
02:00 PM-03:45 PM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Friday 4 September 2026
02:00 PM-03:45 PM
Room 11, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 2.5 - The Possibility of the Left Today02:00 PM-03:45 PM
CHAIR Samuele Mazzolini
DISCUSSANT Enrico Padoan (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Friday 4 September 2026
02:00 PM-03:45 PM
Room 10, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 5.12 - Patterns of political participation among the younger generations, from abstention to voting in the latest referendum02:00 PM-03:45 PM
CHAIR Paolo Natale (Italy - University of Milan)
DISCUSSANT Luciano Mario Fasano (Italy - University of Milan)
Friday 4 September 2026
02:00 PM-03:45 PM
Meeting Room, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 14.5 - The International Security of Cultural Heritage in Recent and Contemporary Crises02:00 PM-03:45 PM
CHAIR Camilla Pagani
DISCUSSANT Alessandra Russo (Italy - University of Trento)
Friday 4 September 2026
02:00 PM-03:45 PM
Room 1F, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building - 1st floor Panel 9.7 - Governing Together: Local Actors’ Attitudes toward Inter-Municipal and Intergovernmental Collaboration02:00 PM-03:45 PM
CHAIRS Greta Klotz, Theresia Morandell
DISCUSSANT Greta Klotz (Italy - European Academy Bolzano/Bozen)
Friday 4 September 2026
02:00 PM-03:45 PM
Room 8, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - Ground floor Panel 6.10 - Designing De-Risking: Policy Strategies and Instruments for Addressing National Security Risks02:00 PM-03:45 PM
CHAIRS Paola Coletti, Marco Di Giulio
DISCUSSANT Marco Di Giulio (Italy - University of Genoa)
Friday 4 September 2026
02:00 PM-03:45 PM
Room Seminar I, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building Panel 11.2 - Crisis Keynesianism or Strategic Integration? Recasting EU Economic Governance in the Mid-2020s02:00 PM-03:45 PM
CHAIRS Igor Guardiancich, Mattia Guidi
DISCUSSANT Igor Guardiancich (Italy - University of Padua)
Friday 4 September 2026
02:00 PM-03:45 PM
Room 2E, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building - 2nd floor Panel 6.17 - Universities and the World We Share: Political Roles, Future Scenarios02:00 PM-03:45 PM
CHAIRS Tatyana Bajenova, Laurène Le Cozanet
DISCUSSANT Laurène Le Cozanet (Italy - European University Institute)
Friday 4 September 2026
02:00 PM-03:45 PM
Room 3H, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building - 3rd floor Panel 4.6 - How AI is Reshaping Political Communication02:00 PM-03:45 PM
CHAIRS Paulo Ferracioli, Manoella Fortes Fiebig
DISCUSSANT Cecilia Biancalana (Italy - University of Turin)
Friday 4 September 2026
02:00 PM-03:45 PM
Room 2, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - Ground floor Panel 11.4 - Europe, Eurasia and Beyond? Russia’s Foreign Policy Amidst its War in Ukraine and Sino-American Competition02:00 PM-03:45 PM
CHAIRS Nicolo' Fasola, Marco Siddi
DISCUSSANT Nicolo' Fasola (Italy - University of Bologna)
Friday 4 September 2026
02:00 PM-03:45 PM
Room 109, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - 1st floor Panel 8.11 - Migration and the Populist Radical Right: Politics, Parties and Policy Responses02:00 PM-03:45 PM
CHAIR Fabio Torreggiani (Italy - University of Turin)
DISCUSSANT Andrea Pettrachin (Italy - University of Padua)
Friday 4 September 2026
02:00 PM-03:45 PM
Room 9, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 11.3-6.11 Pursuing the Green and Digital Transition through Co-Creation in Multilevel Governance Projects.02:00 PM-03:45 PM
CHAIR Simona Piattoni
DISCUSSANT Renata Lizzi (Italy - University of Bologna)
Friday 4 September 2026
02:00 PM-03:45 PM
Room 12, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 5.14 - Perspectives of political participation within and against ecological disaster02:00 PM-03:45 PM
session 2
CHAIRS Niccolò Bertuzzi, Paola Imperatore, Elisa Lello
DISCUSSANT Paola Imperatore (Italy - University of Pisa)
Friday 4 September 2026
02:00 PM-03:45 PM
Room 14, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 7.1 - International Organizations in the 21st Century: Resilience, Legitimacy, and Governance Transformation02:00 PM-03:45 PM
session 2
CHAIRS Giovanni Agostinis, Andrea Knapp
DISCUSSANT Giovanni Agostinis (Italy - University of Bologna)
Friday 4 September 2026
02:00 PM-03:45 PM
Room 15, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 12.8 - Intersecting Inequalities in Political Careers: Access, Endurance, and Power02:00 PM-03:45 PM
session 2
CHAIR Francesca Feo
DISCUSSANT Marta Ponzo (Italy - University of Bologna)
Friday 4 September 2026
02:00 PM-03:45 PM
Room 5, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - Mezzanine floor Panel 5.15 - Mobilizations in Solidarity with Palestine: Protest, Politics, and the Reconfiguration of Publics02:00 PM-03:45 PM
session 2
CHAIRS Sarah Elmasry (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore), Martín Portos (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
DISCUSSANT Federico Alagna (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Friday 4 September 2026
02:00 PM-03:45 PM
Room 8, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 10.3 - Text as Data in Political Science02:00 PM-03:45 PM
session 2
CHAIRS Mattia Sguazzini, Valerio Vignoli
DISCUSSANT Mattia Sguazzini (Italy - University of Genoa)
Friday 4 September 2026
02:00 PM-03:45 PM
Room 108, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - 1st floor Panel 10.1 - Survey Experiments in Political Science02:00 PM-03:45 PM
session 2
CHAIRS Stefano Sangiovanni, Gaetano Scaduto
DISCUSSANT Daniel Kovarek (Italy - European University Institute)
Friday 4 September 2026
02:00 PM-03:45 PM
Room 7, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 8.12 - Class Politics in Contemporary Advanced Democracies02:00 PM-03:45 PM
session 2
CHAIRS Paolo Agnolin, Gregorio Buzzelli
DISCUSSANT Ester Flumeri (Italy - Unitelma Sapienza University of Rome)
Friday 4 September 2026
02:00 PM-03:45 PM
Room 20, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 7.15 - The Global Political Economy of the new World Disorder(s)02:00 PM-03:45 PM
session 2
CHAIRS Adriano Cozzolino, Silvia Menegazzi, Giuseppe Montalbano
DISCUSSANT Giuseppe Montalbano (Luxembourg - LISER)
Friday 4 September 2026
02:00 PM-03:45 PM
Room 16, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Roundtable Section “Politics and Religion”
Religion, Politics and Society in Modern Turkey: A Roundtable Discussion with Istar Gözaydin02:00 PM-03:45 PM
CHAIRS Chiara Maritato, Luca Ozzano
Speakers:
Istar Gözaydin (Independent Scholar)
Chiara Maritato (University of Turin)
Luca Ozzano (University of Turin)
Roundtable organised with the contribution of the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society of the University of Turin
Friday 4 September 2026
02:00 PM-03:45 PM
Kessler Room, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - Ground Floor Semi-Plenary Session
Governare o riscrivere le regole? Politica, giustizia e Costituzione dopo il referendum02:00 PM-03:45 PM
CHAIR Stefania Profeti (Italy - University of Bologna)
Speakers:
Giorgia Bulli (University of Florence)
Cristina Dallara (University of Bologna)
Lorenzo De Sio (LUISS Guido Carli)
Luigi Rullo (University of Naples Federico II)
03:45 PM-04:15 PM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Friday 4 September 2026
03:45 PM-04:15 PM
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH: Mezzanine, courtyards / DEM: near the conference room Coffee Break03:45 PM-04:15 PM
04:15 PM-06:00 PM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Friday 4 September 2026
04:15 PM-06:00 PM
Auditorium Prodi, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - Ground Floor Second Plenary Session
Repairing a Fragmented World: Power Politics, Contestation and the Future of International Order04:15 PM-06:00 PM
DISCUSSANT Daniela Sicurelli (Italy - University of Trento)
Speakers:
Anna Caffarena (University of Turin)
Sonia Lucarelli (University of Bologna)
Steven E. Miller (Harvard Kennedy School)
06:00 PM-07:30 PM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Friday 4 September 2026
06:00 PM-07:30 PM
Auditorium Prodi, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - Ground Floor SISP General Assembly06:00 PM-07:30 PM
- Presentation of the 2027 Congress Activities: SISP Annual Congress and IPSA World Congress
- General Assembly
Saturday 5 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Saturday 5 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 6, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 2.6 - “What Have Elites Got To Do With It…?”
Reviewing Classical and Newer Theories09:00 AM-10:45 AM
CHAIRS Jens Borchert, Giovanni De Ghantuz Cubbe
DISCUSSANT Valerio Alfonso Bruno (Italy - University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
Saturday 5 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 11, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 6.20 - Open or Closed? The Politics of Contemporary Migration Governance09:00 AM-10:45 AM
CHAIRS Iole Fontana, Matilde Rosina
DISCUSSANT Andrea Pettrachin (Italy - University of Padua)
Saturday 5 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 10, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 6.8 - The policy-making of major public projects09:00 AM-10:45 AM
CHAIRS Giovanni Esposito, Andrea Terlizzi
DISCUSSANT Andrea Terlizzi (Italy - University of Florence)
Saturday 5 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Meeting Room, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 12.6 - Far-Right youth cultures: identity, aesthetics, and gender09:00 AM-10:45 AM
CHAIRS Giorgia Bulli, Susi Meret
DISCUSSANT Anna Lavizzari (Italy - University of Pisa)
Saturday 5 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 1F, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building - 1st floor Panel 11.8 - Rethinking Europe from Below: Contestation, Identity, and the Impact of Protest in EU Politics09:00 AM-10:45 AM
CHAIRS Manuela Caiani, Lisa Fenner
DISCUSSANT Carlo Ruzza (Italy - University of Trento)
Saturday 5 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 8, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - Ground floor Panel 6.3 - Change and Continuity in Energy Policy: Common Shocks, Different Trajectories?09:00 AM-10:45 AM
CHAIRS Luca Germano, Renata Lizzi, Andrea Prontera
DISCUSSANT Giulio Citroni (Italy - University of Calabria)
Saturday 5 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room Seminar I, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building Panel 5.6 - Organizing Workers across Differences: Labour Conflict, Intersectionality, and Social Movement Unionism09:00 AM-10:45 AM
CHAIRS Massimiliano Andretta, Katia Pilati
DISCUSSANT Massimiliano Andretta (Italy - University of Pisa)
Saturday 5 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 2E, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building - 2nd floor Panel 5.5 - 6.6 From Solidarity to Mobilization: Pro- and Anti-Migration Actors, Hospitality, and Citizenship in Europe09:00 AM-10:45 AM
CHAIRS Olga Demetriou (UK - Durham University), Antonis Ellinas (Cyprus - University of Cyprus), Matteo Bassoli (Italy - University of Padua), Elisa de Matteis (Italy - University of Padua)
DISCUSSANT Matteo Bassoli (Italy - University of Padua)
Saturday 5 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 3H, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building - 3rd floor Panel 1.1 - Speaking democracy while eroding it: the democratic rhetoric of undemocratic leaders09:00 AM-10:45 AM
CHAIRS Andrea Cassani, Tiziana Corda, Marco Dè Test
DISCUSSANT Tiziana Corda (Italy - University of Milan)
Saturday 5 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 2, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - Ground floor Panel 14.6 - Middle Powers’ perspectives on Foreign and Security Policy09:00 AM-10:45 AM
CHAIR Stefano Palestini
DISCUSSANT Luis Schenoni (UK - University College London)
Saturday 5 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 109, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - 1st floor Panel 9.9 - Professionalisation and Politicisation in European Local Government: Institutions, Discourses, and Administrative Capacity09:00 AM-10:45 AM
CHAIRS Matteo Boldrini, Silvia Bolgherini, Marta Ponzo
DISCUSSANT Silvia Bolgherini (Italy - Perugia University)
Saturday 5 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 9, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 13.13 - Transforming Political Islam under Securitization: Actors, Norms and Practices09:00 AM-10:45 AM
CHAIR Ester Sigillò
DISCUSSANT Valeria Resta (Ireland - Dublin City University)
Saturday 5 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 12, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 14.2 - Beyond Conventional Conflict: Proxy Wars and Hybrid Operations in the Grey Zone Era09:00 AM-10:45 AM
CHAIRS Daniela Irrera, Serena Timmoneri
DISCUSSANT Jean Marie Reure (Italy - University of Genoa)
Saturday 5 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 15, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 12.5 - Gendered Meaning at Scale Through Text-as-Data Approaches09:00 AM-10:45 AM
session 1
CHAIRS Matilde Ceron, Nadine Zwienercollins
DISCUSSANT Nadine Zwienercollins (Germany - Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München)
Saturday 5 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 5, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - Mezzanine floor Panel 9.1 - Territorialization of Social Policies and Collaborative Governance: Challenges, Actors, and Dynamics of Policy and Politics09:00 AM-10:45 AM
session 1
CHAIRS Franca Maino, Patrizia Messina
DISCUSSANT Franca Maino (Italy - University of Milan)
Saturday 5 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 8, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 5.11 - Rethinking Strategy in Social Movements in Times of Crisis09:00 AM-10:45 AM
session 1
CHAIR Gianni Piazza (Italy - University of Catania)
DISCUSSANT Gianni Piazza (Italy - University of Catania)
Saturday 5 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 108, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - 1st floor Panel 12.2 - Feminist democratic innovations in antigender times09:00 AM-10:45 AM
session 1
CHAIRS Anastasia Barone, Giada Bonu Rosenkranz, Emanuela Lombardo
DISCUSSANT Cecilia Iula (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Saturday 5 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 7, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 8.1 - New Directions in Populism and Extremism Research09:00 AM-10:45 AM
session 1
CHAIRS Andrej Zaslove, Mattia Zulianello
DISCUSSANT Andrej Zaslove (Netherlands - Netherlands Radboud University Nijmegen)
Saturday 5 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 20, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 4.1 - Climate politics in an age of competing crises: Issue competition and green backlash across parties, movements, media, and public opinion09:00 AM-10:45 AM
session 1
CHAIRS Cecilia Biancalana, Francesco Visconti
DISCUSSANT Riccardo Ladini (Italy - University Telematica E-Campus)
Saturday 5 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Room 16, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 3.5 - Executive Power and Governance: Decision-Making, Crisis, and Institutional Change09:00 AM-10:45 AM
session 1
CHAIRS Izolda Bokszczanin, Malgorzata Lorencka
DISCUSSANT Malgorzata Lorencka (Poland - University of Warsaw)
Saturday 5 September 2026
09:00 AM-10:45 AM
Kessler Room, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - Ground Floor Roundtable Section “International Relations”
Rethinking the International from the “Middle East”: Gaza, Iran and the Post-Multilateral Global Order09:00 AM-10:45 AM
CHAIR Alessandra Russo (Italy - University of Trento)
Speakers:
Abdolrasool Divsallar (UNIDIR – United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research)
Daniela Huber (Roma Tre University)
Matteo Legrenzi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Andrea Teti (University of Salerno)
09:00 AM-11:15 AM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Saturday 5 September 2026
09:00 AM-11:15 AM
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH: Entrance Hall, Ground Floor (Via Giuseppe Verdi 26) Registration of Participants – Information Desk09:00 AM-11:15 AM
10:45 AM-11:15 AM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Saturday 5 September 2026
10:45 AM-11:15 AM
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH: Mezzanine, courtyards / DEM: near the conference room Coffee Break10:45 AM-11:15 AM
11:15 AM-01:00 PM (Time Zone CEST Europe/Rome)
Saturday 5 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 2D, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building - 2nd floor Panel 4.10 - Visual Democracy. Images, Platforms, Gender and the Reconfiguration of the Public Sphere11:15 AM-01:00 PM
CHAIRS Giovanni Boccia Artieri, Stefano Brilli, Elisabetta Zurovac
DISCUSSANT Fabio Bordignon (Italy - University of Urbino Carlo Bo)
Saturday 5 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Meeting Room, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 8.10 - Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Diaspora Voting and the Transformation of National Politics11:15 AM-01:00 PM
CHAIRS Sorina Cristina Soare, Verena Wisthaler
DISCUSSANT Sorina Cristina Soare (Italy - University of Florence)
Saturday 5 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 1F, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building - 1st floor Panel 10.7 - Researching Vulnerable Groups: Ethics and Reflexivity in Political Science11:15 AM-01:00 PM
CHAIR Sophia Schönthaler
DISCUSSANT Agnese Pacciardi (UK - Sussex University)
Saturday 5 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 8, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - Ground floor Panel 6.1 - Measuring policy design dimensions: Effectiveness, capacity, and robustness11:15 AM-01:00 PM
CHAIRS Mattia Casula, Mario De Rosa, Lorenzo Eaco
DISCUSSANT Marlene Jugl (Italy - Bocconi University)
Saturday 5 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room Seminar I, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building Panel 6.19 - Eco-Social Policy: Anatomy of a Nascent Policy Paradigm11:15 AM-01:00 PM
CHAIR Lorenzo Mascioli
DISCUSSANT Ekaterina Domorenok (Italy - University of Padua)
Saturday 5 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 2E, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Building - 2nd floor Panel 13.12 - Religion and Political Participation: Actors, Narratives, and Mobilization11:15 AM-01:00 PM
CHAIRS Rita Marchetti, Susanna Pagiotti
DISCUSSANT Alberta Giorgi (Italy - University of Bergamo)
Saturday 5 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 2, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - Ground floor Panel 1.4 - Contested Sovereignty in Times of Polycris: Narratives and Historical Legacies in the Mediterranean region11:15 AM-01:00 PM
CHAIRS Rafael Camarero, Miguel Hernando De Larramendi
DISCUSSANT Rafael Camarero (Poland - University of Warsaw)
Saturday 5 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 109, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - 1st floor Panel 5.4 - Transnational Far-Right Mobilizations: Historical Legacies, Contemporary Dynamics, and Emerging Trajectories11:15 AM-01:00 PM
CHAIR Carlo De Nuzzo
DISCUSSANT Giorgia Bulli (Italy - University of Florence)
Saturday 5 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 9, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 7.10 - Beyond repair? Security alliances and extended deterrence in the age of Trump.11:15 AM-01:00 PM
CHAIR Matteo Dian
DISCUSSANT Nicolo' Fasola (Italy - University of Bologna)
Saturday 5 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 12, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 11.7 - EU Enlargement in the Age of “Contested Multilateralism”11:15 AM-01:00 PM
session 2
CHAIRS Luisa Chiodi, Sabina De Silva, Filippo Marinoni
DISCUSSANT Filippo Marinoni (Italy - University of Urbino Carlo Bo)
Saturday 5 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 14, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 10.8 - Network Approaches in Political Processes11:15 AM-01:00 PM
CHAIRS Alejandro Ciordia (Netherlands - Maastricht University), Pietro Casari (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore), Alice Ferro (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore), Luigi Schiavo (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
DISCUSSANT Luigi Schiavo (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Saturday 5 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 15, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 12.5 - Gendered Meaning at Scale Through Text-as-Data Approaches11:15 AM-01:00 PM
session 2
CHAIRS Matilde Ceron, Nadine Zwienercollins
DISCUSSANT Nadine Zwienercollins (Germany - Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München)
Saturday 5 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 5, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - Mezzanine floor Panel 9.1 - Territorialization of Social Policies and Collaborative Governance: Challenges, Actors, and Dynamics of Policy and Politics11:15 AM-01:00 PM
session 2
CHAIRS Franca Maino, Patrizia Messina
DISCUSSANT Patrizia Messina (Italy - University of Padua)
Saturday 5 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 8, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 5.11 - Rethinking Strategy in Social Movements in Times of Crisis11:15 AM-01:00 PM
session 2
CHAIR Nerea Montejo-López (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
DISCUSSANT Lorenzo Zamponi (Italy - Scuola Normale Superiore)
Saturday 5 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 108, Paolo Prodi Building, School of International Studies - 1st floor Panel 12.2 - Feminist democratic innovations in antigender times11:15 AM-01:00 PM
session 2
CHAIRS Anastasia Barone, Giada Bonu Rosenkranz, Emanuela Lombardo
DISCUSSANT Massimo Prearo (Italy - University of Verona)
Saturday 5 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 7, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 1st floor Panel 8.1 - New Directions in Populism and Extremism Research11:15 AM-01:00 PM
session 2
CHAIRS Andrej Zaslove, Mattia Zulianello
DISCUSSANT Andrej Zaslove (Netherlands - Netherlands Radboud University Nijmegen)
Saturday 5 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 20, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 4.1 - Climate politics in an age of competing crises: Issue competition and green backlash across parties, movements, media, and public opinion11:15 AM-01:00 PM
session 2
CHAIRS Cecilia Biancalana, Francesco Visconti
DISCUSSANT Giacomo Salvarani (Italy - University of Urbino Carlo Bo)
Saturday 5 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Room 16, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - 2nd floor Panel 3.5 - Executive Power and Governance: Decision-Making, Crisis, and Institutional Change11:15 AM-01:00 PM
session 2
CHAIRS Izolda Bokszczanin, Malgorzata Lorencka
DISCUSSANT Izolda Bokszczanin (Poland - University of Warsaw)
Saturday 5 September 2026
11:15 AM-01:00 PM
Kessler Room, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Building - Ground Floor Semi-Plenary Session
Fare ricerca oggi: libertà accademica, vulnerabilità e responsabilità dopo Giulio Regeni11:15 AM-01:00 PM
CHAIR Alessandra Russo (Italy - University of Trento)
Speakers:
Irene Bono (University of Turin)
Ester Gallo (University of Trento)
Daniela Irrera (Centre for Higher Defence Studies)
Giuseppe Teti (University of Salerno)