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> From: Alice Mattoni <alice.mattoni@???>
> Subject: [Forms.of.participation-at-statsvet.su.se] COSMOS inaugural speech - Sydney Tarrow - April 30th
> Date: 22 aprile 2012 18:08:54 GMT+02:00
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> The Consortium on Social Movement Studies, COSMOS, will be inaugurated with a speech by Sidney Tarrow. The inaugural speech will be about “Occupying America: Lessons for Social Movement Theory”. The event is open to the public and, of course, free. Where? At the European University Institute, in Florence (IT). When? On April 30th, from 3 to 5 pm. For more details see the EUI website.
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> The Consortium on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos) is part of the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the European University Institute. Focusing on social movements as part of broader contentious politics, it promotes theoretically-driven empirical analyses on forms, dimensions, causes and impacts of social movements, in established democracies as well as authoritarian regimes. Particular attention is given to social movements as promoters of democratization processes. Cosmos aims at raising funds for research projects on social movements. In the spirit of methodological pluralism, it welcomes qualitative and quantitative approaches to undertake empirical investigations. Cross-national comparative project are complemented by analyses of transnational phenomena. Building upon a cross-disciplinary tradition in social movement studies, Cosmos also aims at increased cooperation among the the fields of political science and sociology, as well as anthropology, history, psychology, philosophy, law, economics and area studies.In order to improve synergies and networking among researchers in social movement studies, Cosmos organizes conferences, colloquia, public lectures, seminar series and other public events that will bring together expertise from the EUI as well as from other universities. It welcomes research students, postdoctoral fellows and visiting scholars from any discipline interested in the Centre’s themes. It also aims at facilitating the communicating of research findings on the mentioned topics to the academia, the public sphere and policy makers.
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> Alice Mattoni
> Postdoctoral Fellow
> Department of Sociology
> University of Pittsburgh
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> www.alicemattoni.com
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