We're also happy to announce the calendar for the 2025-2026 CONNECT Seminar Series, featuring a brilliant line up of CONNECT members from @unibo.it and SPS visiting scholars @fbulfone.bsky.social (Leiden) & Anuscher Farahat (UWien). Every first Tuesday of the month, 1-2pm - all welcome!

After the summer break, CONNECT is back for a new academic year!🍂 Mark your calendars for our first lecture of 2025-2026: 📅 Sept 19, 3pm-4.30pm | Aula Poeti, Palazzo Hercolani, Bologna 👩‍🏫 Emma Mawdsley (Cambridge) 🗣️ “DOGE-ing USAID: what next for humanitarianism & global development” #Connect #Unibo

Your Guide on How to Support Mutual Aid Groups in Palestine as Humanitarian Crisis Deepens

I just donated to several of these (vetted) organizations. Please consider doing the same if you have the means and are outraged by the Israeli starvation of the Gaza population.

We are delighted that our Special Issue on "The Politics of Growth, Stagnation and Upgrading in Peripheral Economies" coedited w/ @fbulfone.bsky.social & Aldo Madariaga is now out in Competition & Change @compchange.bsky.social, Vol. 29(3–4). 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1024...

My time at the @mpifg.bsky.social coincided with a good chunk of the PhD journeys of these brilliant junior colleagues - a fantastic cohort of talented political economists and economic sociologists. Follow them to keep track of the future of the discipline!

Since the great financial crisis, much has been written in CPE on the fate of South European economies. Have they really morphed into export-led growth models? With what outcomes? Are their trajectories convergent? In this new DP, we use granular data to put claims from the literature to the test 🧵

I'm very happy to be joining the editorial board of Competition & Change, a journal which has become home to some of the best and most stimulating interdisciplinary research in political economy and socioeconomics. Give us a follow and stay tuned for updates!

Hello! 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 has joined Bsky. We'll be sharing new articles and other journal-related updates. To start, excellent news: Our 2024 impact factor is up four points: 3.4. This reflects the high-quality work of our authors, reviewers, and editors—thank you, and keep them coming! 🙏

In Montréal for SASE 2025 – or nearby? 🇨🇦 Join us Thursday, July 10 for free public sessions at the Palais des Congrès – no badge needed. Global scholars, union leaders & policymakers discuss labor, social economy & policy innovation. #SASE2025 #Montreal #PublicSessions

in viaggio verso casa in tempo per andare a votare #referendum #italia #5Si

Workers fight for more than wages

Please listen to the UN General Secretary.

From the FT today: "The killings on Sunday will deepen doubts about GHF’s ability to replace the UN, which previously delivered aid to families at local distribution sites. MSF International on Saturday described the new system as “disastrous. Ineffective. Dangerous. Reckless. Dehumanising”."

“Reuters examined the data from the Gaza Health Ministry to look more closely at those who have died. It found that more than one-fifth of those killed in the territory were children under the age of 12. More than 1,200 families were completely wiped out”

BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.

Waking up to the news of yet another attack overnight on a school shelter in Gaza, 25 killed, among which many children, burnt to death in their sleep. What will it take for our governments to finally take decisive steps to stop Israel committing this genocide? www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/liv...

Opposite Downing Street in London this Friday evening

Great to see the @isa-sociology.org speak out for Palestine and Palestinians 🇵🇸: www.isa-sociology.org/en/about-isa...

📢On 9-12 June, Unibo's SPS Dept will host a free Summer School for postgrad students on Gender, Politics & Society co-organised with the University of Florida. The program introduces students to diverse gender-focused approaches in CPE & IR. Applications are now open! 👉 site.unibo.it/gender-polit...

🎧 Connecting the Nodes è ora su Spotify!🙌 🌍 Il podcast di CONNECT propone uno sguardo transnazionale su politica e la società, trasformando la ricerca in sapere pubblico. 🎙️ Sono già online i primi due episodi—segui la pagina per non perderti le prossime uscite: 👉 open.spotify.com/show/6l9HyZJ...

Next Friday (April 11, 3pm), we are honoured to welcome Prof. Emerita Vivien Schmidt (BU) to our Department. Prof. Schmidt will give a CONNECT lecture on “The Power of Ideas and Discourse in the Rise of Populism: A Transatlantic Perspective.” All welcome! 👉 centri.unibo.it/connect/en/a...

Nel nuovo episodio del podcast di CONNECT, @andreapirro.it e @ninahall.bsky.social discutono con @manuelamoschella.bsky.social dello stato attuale della politica climatica in Europa, di movimenti per il clima, ultradestre e climate backlash. Conversazione davvero interessante, consiglio l'ascolto!

Watching the US slide into autocracy feels eerily familiar — like re-living the early years of Orbánism (only more intense, honestly). I wrote down some reflections from that period. It won’t make you feel better. But it might make the stakes clearer. medium.com/@palma.polya...

We’re beyond thrilled to launch the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy If you’re a fellow political economist annoyed by all-male rooms & gendered comments— join us & share! 🗓️ 22-25 Sept, 2025 in Cologne 🚨 Apply by 25 Apr, 2025 www.mpifg.de/1343511/2025...

Great to see this out! It features also a chapter by me, @aritassinari.bsky.social, Lorenzo Cini and Joerg Nowak on platform workers' mobilisation and organising practices in Germany, Ireland, Italy and the UK.

Lots of great positions at @mpifg.bsky.social, pls share! - 2yr postdoc in wealth research - 2yr postdoc in technology & sovereignty - 3+3yr senior researcher in political economy - 3+3yr senior researcher in economic sociology - tenure/director-track group leader digitalization & society

🚀 Come work with us! 🌍📚 The PhD call for applications in Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna is now open! Find all the details and apply here 👉 www.unibo.it/en/study/phd... 📅 Deadline: April 3

I wish Italian faculty also took notice. If you don't start organising in normal times, when you need it, it might be too late.

At last, this paper found a (nice!) home in Stato&Mercato. With Francesco Bagnardi, we offer an explanation for the deep variation in Italian governments' policy approaches towards informal employment - shifting between enforcement efforts & blatant forbearance. www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1425/...

🔴 "Connecting the Nodes" è online! Il nuovo podcast di CONNECT, centro di ricerca del Dipartimento SPS Unibo su politica e società globale 🎙️ Ep. 1: Trump alla Casa Bianca—nomine, prime mosse, impatto globale. Con Raffaella Baritono & Mario Del Pero. 🎧 Ascolta ora: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayzB...

It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

This week in Pavia economic sociologists and political economists from across Italy gather for the annual SISEC conference @sisec.bsky.social. With Anna Mori & Lisa Dorigatti we are coordinating three panels on industrial relations institutions & actors w/ an excellent line-up of contributors 👇

💡New publication alert! Just out on Transfer, with Oscar Molina and @donatodc.bsky.social we compare the politics of the policy responses to the recent inflation crisis in Italy and Spain. Free PDF copy here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/Y6GMP...

Had a really excellent time at @weareceu.bsky.social in Vienna this past Monday discussing @ankehassel.bsky.social's recent research works on the political economy of growth & welfare with some wonderful colleagues. Engaging and thought-provoking exchanges - thanks so much for hosting us!

Some exciting CPE events coming up in Bologna at the SPS Department! Tomorrow 15/01, 11am in Aula Jemolo (Palazzo Hercolani), @mpifg.bsky.social director Lucio Baccaro gives a talk on the state of the art of the Growth Models approach in the framework of our PhD Seminar series. All welcome!

📣 We've just launched the Bluesky page of Unibo's CONNECT Research Centre on Transnational Connections & Global Governance, directed by the fantastic @manuelamoschella.bsky.social. We got seven cool research clusters, an interdisciplinary membership & a full line-up of events in Bologna. Follow us!

Good news for IPE in Italy: @ripejournal.bsky.social is now recognized as "fascia A" (top tier) scientific journal in the field of economic sociology in the list of journals used by the Italian Agency for the Evaluation of Research Quality(ANVUR). 🙏 to @aritassinari.bsky.social for the initiative!

New year resolution - slowly getting to grips with Bluesky... thanks @palmapolyak.bsky.social for assembling this starter list and making this task easier!

Hi! 👋 I just joined Bluesky, where I'll probably be as inactive as I was on the other site, but just to introduce myself: I'm Assistant Professor in Economic & Labour Sociology at the University of Bologna & I teach & research on labour politics, industrial relations & comparative political economy