European University Institute, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Florence, Italy. Master of Research in Political and Social Sciences

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1 Lorenzo Cini Place of birth: Florence Date of birth 28/08/1983 EDUCATION (Expected) December 2015 June 2012 April 2010 February 2007 September 2004-June 2005 European University Institute, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Florence, Italy. PhD Candidate ( ) Submitted thesis: The Contentious Politics of Higher Education. Struggles and Power Relations within the English and Italian Universities Supervisor: Professor Donatella della Porta (European University Institute, Scuola Normale Superiore) Jury members: Professor Laszlo Bruszt (European University Institute), Professor Rachel Brooks (University of Surrey), Professor Nick Crossley (University of Manchester) European University Institute, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Florence, Italy. Master of Research in Political and Social Sciences Supervisor: Professor Donatella della Porta (European University Institute, Scuola Normale Superiore) Università degli Studi di Firenze, College of Political Sciences Cesare Alfieri, Florence, Italy. Master of Science in Politics and Decision-Making Processes Honours thesis: Civil Society and Radical Democracy Advisers Professor Brunella Casalini (Università di Firenze), Professor Marco Tarchi (Università di Firenze) Final grade: 110/110 with distinction Areas of specialization: Political philosophy, Public policy, Administration science, Political economy, Political science and sociology Università degli Studi di Firenze, College of Political Sciences Cesare Alfieri, Florence, Italy. Bachelor of Political Science Thesis in History of Contemporary Political Thought: The Intellectual Experience of Quaderni Rossi: Theoretical Originality and Political Limits Advisers: Professor Claudio De Boni (Università di Firenze), Professor Marco Tarchi (Università di Firenze) University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. Studied at the College of Arts and Humanities through the Erasmus Programme Courses in Comparative politics, History of Northern Ireland conflict, Contemporary political philosophy, Liberty and violence, Analysis of political discourse SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS 1

2 December 2012 November 2012 Giustizia, uguaglianza e differenza. Una guida alla lettura della filosofia politica contemporanea (with Brunella Casalini), Firenze University Press: Florence [ Justice, Equality, and Difference. A Guide to the Reading of Contemporary Political Philosophy ] Società Civile e Democrazia Radicale, Firenze University Press: Florence [ Civil Society and Radical Democracy ] CHAPTER CONTRIBUTIONS Forthcoming Forthcoming Student Struggles and Power Relations in Contemporary Universities. The Cases of Italy and England, in Brooks R. (eds.), Student Politics and Protest: International Perspectives, Routledge: London From Student to General Struggles. The Protests against the Neoliberal Reforms in Higher Education in Contemporary Italy, in Ayyash M., Hadj- Moussa R. (eds.), Generations and Protests: Legacies, Emergences in the MENA Region and the Mediterranean, Brill: Leiden BOOK REVIEWS December 2015 December April 2011 Filosofia Italiana, No. 2, Filosofia-Italiana.net Book review of Bobbio N. 2014, Scritti su Marx. La Dialettica, lo Stato, la Società Civile, Donzelli: Roma KSP Journals Book review of della Porta D. 2015, Social Movements in Times of Austerity: Bringing Capitalism Back into Protest Analysis, Polity: Cambridge Filosofia Politica, No. 1, Il Mulino Book review of Little A., Lloyd M. (eds.) 2009, The Politics of Radical Democracy, Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh JOURNAL ARTICLES In preparation In preparation Class Struggles without Class? Conflicts, Movements, and Contentious Politics. New Marxist Perspectives in Social Theory, (with Daniela Chironi, Eliska Drapalova, Federico Tomasello), Special Issue, Anthropological Theory: Sage Journals Student Movements in the Age of Austerity. An Overview, (With Cesar Guzman Goncha), Social Movement Studies: A Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest: Taylor & Francis OTHER PUBLICATIONS 13 March 2013 Gli ottantamila giovani invisibili, la Repubblica, [The invisible eighty thousand young people], Newspaper article TEACHING EXPERIENCES AND RELATED ACTIVITIES October 2014-June European University Institute, Italy

3 Working Group Organizer: Designed and organized the seminar series: Marxism(s) in Social Movements. Is Marx Back in Social Theory? - Sponsored by the Centre on Social Movement Studies (COSMOS), directed by Professor Donatella della Porta (European University Institute, Scuola Normale Superiore) February 2015 October-December 2013 November 2013 May 2013 October 2006 October 2011 Guest Speaker: Designed and delivered the lecture Il Processo di Costruzione dell Università Neoliberale e le sue Resistenze [ Constructing and Resisting the Neoliberal University ], within the PhD programme in Social and Political Change, Department of Political and Social Sciences Teaching Assistant: Designed and taught the seminar series Democracies beyond Liberalism? Conceptions and Practices of Radical Democracy, within Professor Brunella Casalini s course in Political Philosophy Libera Università Popolare, Reggio Emilia, Italy Guest Speaker: Designed and delivered the lecture Società Civile e Movimenti Sociali: La Democrazia Radicale [Civil Society and Social Movements: Radical Democracy]. Lecture convened within the course in political science Società Civile e Movimenti Sociali nelle Società Postdemocratiche, [ Civil Society and Social Movements in Post-Democratic Societies ], sponsored by Fondazione Gramsci Emilia-Romagna Teacher Training Certificate, European University Institute Seminar and workshop components: Designing university teaching; teaching portfolio, assessment and feedback; evaluating teaching; lecture planning and delivery; small group teaching; classroom management. Taught by Professor Neil McLean, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Guest Speaker: Presented the original book Società Civile e Democrazia Radicale [Civil Society and Radical Democracy ], within the international counter-summit It s Capitalism, Stupid. The Festival of the Other Europe (3-12 May) organized by Collettivo Prezzemolo (EUI political group of workers and researchers) Sarah Lawrence College. Florence, Italy, Tutor and coordinator: Responsible for planning and leading extracurricular activities for American college students; organized cultural events, such as conferences, trips, and concerts; coordinated orientation activities related to cultural and social integration of the students in Florence ACADEMIC COLLABORATIONS AND WORK EXPERIENCES February Centre on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos), European University Institute, Florence, Italy Worked in the European research project, Mobilizing4democracy Mobilizing for democracy: Democratization processes and the mobilization of civil society, directed by Professor Donatella della Porta (European University

4 Institute, Scuola Normale Superiore). Tasks: proofreading and indexing of the volume Mobilizing for Democracy May 2011-October 2013 May 2010-April 2011 October 2008 May 2009 November 2001 June 2002 Centre on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos), European University Institute, Florence, Italy Worked in the cross-national comparative project, Contextualizing Contestation: Caught in the Act of Protest. Tasks: surveying street demonstrations Radio HUB, Florence, Italy Station manager: Organized and directed a web radio in collaboration with the Department of Youth Policy of the City of Florence. Centro Studi Cultura Sviluppo, Pistoia, Italy, Internship: Collaborated with staff in managing the orientation and placement of European students in companies and organizations within the local province ( Leonardo da Vinci program ); analyzed the students educational and professional needs; prepared multiple evaluation reports of the students over the course of their internships. Spazio Reale, San Donnino (FI), Italy, Teacher: Taught Italian as a second language in after-school courses for primary and early post-primary pupils in the Chinese community of San Donnino. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES May 2015 March 2015 February 2015 September 2014 European University Institute, Italy Flexibility & Precarity in Academia. A Gendered and Grassroots Perspective, sponsored and organized by COSMOS and the Traveling Seminars on Ricerca Precaria, Presented the paper, Struggles against Precarity in England: The Case of the Fractional Staff, on the panel: Regulating Flexibility and Opposing Precarity in the European Academia European University Institute and Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy Graduate Network Conference 2015, Presented the paper, Student Struggles and Power Relations in Contemporary Universities. The Cases of Italy and England, on the panel: Social Movements Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain ESA Research Network Social Movements - Midterm Conference Presented the paper, Struggles and Power Relations in the Italian and English Universities of Today, on the panel: From Contention to Social Change: Rethinking the Consequences of Social Movements and Cycles of Protest Orientale (University of Naples), Italy Annual General Meeting of the International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE); 4

5 Presented the paper, Bringing Political Economy into Social Movement Studies. The University Struggles against the Neoliberal Policies in Today s England, organized and chaired panel titled, Political Economy and Social Movement Studies: Bridging some Theoretical and Political Gaps May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 August 2013 European University Institute, Italy Workshop Bringing capitalism back in. Resistance to corporate power and austerity policies; Presentated the paper, They say cut back, we say fight back! The Student Struggles of 2010 against the Austerity Measures in the UK. University of Manchester, UK Conference Alternative Futures and Popular Protests; Presentated (with Eliska Drapalova) the paper, Protests Out of the Economic Crisis. The Movimento 5 Stelle in Italy and 15M in Spain: Two Instances of a New Politics? Washington D.C, USA 21 st Conference for Europeanists (CES): Resurrections; Presented (with Eliska Drapalova) the paper, Bringing Politics as Common Good Back In. The Mobilizations of Movimento 5 Stelle in Italy and 15M in Spain. XXVII Convegno SISP (Società Italiana di Scienza Politica); Presented the paper, Radical is Beautiful. The Radicalization of the Action Forms in the Italian Onda Anomala Between 2008 and 2010, on the panel titled, Repertoires of Contention and the Intersection of Agency and Structure XXVII Convegno SISP (Società Italiana di Scienza Politica); Presented (with Eliska Drapalova) the paper, Protecting the Commons. Mobilizations against Political Corruption in Italy, on the panel titled, And Now Kill Us All. The Challenges of Mobilizations against Corruption and Organized Crime Sciences Po Bordeaux, France ECPR General Conference 2013 (European Consortium for Political Research); Presented the paper, Dissenting Students. The Impact of the Onda Anomala on the Italian Universities, on the panel titled, The Consequences of the New Wave of Mobilization University of Turin, Italy 11 th ESA Conference (European Sociological Association); Presented the paper, Imagining an Alternative Higher Education. Conceptions of the University in the Onda Anomala Movement, on the panel titled, A Global Dissenting Youth? Student Movements and Youth Activism in the Anti-Austerity and Anti-Corporate Mobilizations: Relevance, Role, Strategies, and Effects 5

6 May 2013 July 2011 September 2010 European University Institute and Conference organizer: Designed and organized the international countersummit, It s Capitalism, Stupid! The Festival of the Other Europe (3-12 May) University of Warwick, UK ALSP Annual Conference on Authority, Legitimacy, and Rights ; Presented the paper, Between Participation and Deliberation. Toward a New Standard for Assessing Democracy? Metropolitan University of Manchester, UK Political Theory Conference 2010; Presented the paper, Civil Society and Radical Democracy, on the panel titled, Looking to the Future: Where now for radical democracy? SUMMER SCHOOLS July 2015 September 2014 July 2013 September 2012 September 2010 Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences. Linking Theory and Empirical Research Successful application with travel grant for the panel on Social Struggle and Globalization ((merit based competition declined) Euronomade Summer School, Italy Summer School of Contemporary Political Philosophy in Passignano sul Trasimeno (Perugia), organized by Euronomade; Theme: Spazi Costituenti: Europa, Lotte, Mondo [ Constituent Spaces: Europe, Struggles, World ] University of Ljubljana, Slovenia ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques 2013 Successful application and participation in the weekly seminars Process Tracing Methodology I and Content Analysis Uninomade Summer School, Italy Summer School of Contemporary Political Philosophy in Passignano sul Trasimeno (Perugia), organized by Uninomade; Theme: Conricerca e biocapitalismo [Coresearch and Biocapitalism ] Università di Roma Tre, Italy Participated with scholarship at the Summer School of Political Philosophy in Rome (La Faggeta), supported by the Roman Philosophical Society; Theme: Coscienza e responsabilità 6