Political Scientist
Teaching Experience
Manuela Caiani received her Italian License for Full Professorship in Political Science and Political Sociology in 2017. She currently works as an Associate Professor in Political Science at the Scuola Normale Superiore and associated faculty at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) in Vienna, in addition to teaching numerous guest lectures and supervising students at the PhD, graduate, and undergraduate levels.
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Courses
Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence) - Summer school on ‘Visual Analysis & Contentious Politics’ (yearly)
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Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence) - Semester courses on: Comparative European politics; Europeanization; Qualitative methods for social research; Populism and radical right politics; Research design in Comparative politics; Methodological Practices in Social Movement Studies, Movement-Parties Politics (Since 2015)
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Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence) - Crash courses on "Visual and musicological analysis”, "Social network analysis” (since 2020)
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University of Trento, School of International Studies - Course on Qualitative Research Methods, Phd program in International Studies (Jan 2019)
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University of Trento, School of International Studies - Course on Qualitative Research Methods in International Studies, Phd program in International Studies (Nov-Dec. 2018)
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University of Trento, School of International Studies - Course on Qualitative Research Methods in international Studies, Phd program in International Studies (Nov-Dec. 2016)
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Brno University (Czech Republic) - Course on Europeanization from Below: European integration and civil society (Fall 2016)
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European Commission (Brussels) - Course on Qualitative Methods in Social Research, for the EACEA (Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency) (June 29-July 1)
University of Trento, School of International Studies - Course on Qualitative Research Methods in international Studies, Phd programs in International Studies (Winter I 2016)
Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence) - Course on Methodological Practices in Social Movement Studies (Fall 2015)
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Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Dept. of Political Science (Vienna) - Semester courses on Qualitative Methods for Social Research; Europeanization; Comparative European Politics (2009-2015)
Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Dept. of Political Science (Vienna) - Course on Qualitative Methods (Fall 2013)
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Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Dept. of Political Science (Vienna) - Course on Qualitative Methods (Spring 2011)
University of Florence, PhD program in Sociology (Florence, Italy) - Teaching Assistant for ‘The Europeanisation of Contentious Politics’ (June 2008)
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University of Florence, PhD program in Sociology (Florence, Italy) - Teaching Assistant for ‘A European Civil Society? Networks and Mobilisation of Social Movements in Europe’ within the course ‘Sociology of Europe’ (April 2008)
Invited Talks
Guest Speaker 1-2 June 2023, Madrid, ETUI: Training course on combatting the far-right, on “How to debunk far-right myths and counter hate speech”
Guest speaker, 15th and 16th June 2023, University of Groningen, Summit on Social Movements on ‘ Social movements and European identities’.
Guest Speaker, March 2023, Hate Speech and the Radical Right, https://unpop.ces.uc.pt/en/eventos/hate-speech-and-the-radical-right/ and The dark side of the web: extreme right organizations and the internet in Europe and the USA, Coimbra Portugal.
Guest Speaker, 14-15 March 2023 4th conference of the ECTC Advisory Network on terrorism and propaganda, Europol, the Hague, NL
Guest Speaker, June 2023, “How to Study the Radical Right and hate speech”, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Summer School, ‘Denialism and Conspiracy Theories in EU’ Guest Speaker, 26 Jan. 2023, ISPI, Nazionalismi, femminismi e destre, Evento Giornata della Memoria
Guest Speaker, June 27 2023, Program on Extremism Event, The George Washington University (online)
Guest Speaker, 26 Sept. 2022 the European Policy Centre, ‘Italian election analysis’
Roundtable 9 May 2022, ‘Social Movements and Anti vax protest’, the Round Table Standing group Sisp on Political Participation University of Pisa, Pisa.
Guest Speaker, 2022 University of Losanna, Switzerland (organizer: Oscar Mazzoleni ), on Populism. Roundtable December 12th 2022 Symposium “Challenges in Political Sociology: Europe and Civil Society in an Age of Populism”, University of Trento
Guest speaker Nov 2021, ‘Uncivil Society: Perspective on Right wing Violence and Terrorism’, Goethe Institute, Bruxelles
Guest speaker, 2021, ‘Radical Right as a social Movement’ University of Kassel and WZB (online).
Guest speaker 29 Oct. 2021, ‘Radical Right Organizations and Mobilization on the Internet’, Conference ‘Dissent and Communication’, Valencia, Spain
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Guest speaker Dec. 2019, “Muslims in the West and the rise of the new populists: The case of Italy”, at the ‘Populism, Religion and Gender Conference’, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, 5th.
Guest speaker March 2019 “Populism, religion and Muslims
the Italian case”, report https://www.brookings.edu/research/muslims-in-the-west-and-the-riseof-the-new-populists-the-case-of-italy/), Brookings Institute Meeting 12-13°, WDC, USA.
Guest speaker May 2019, “EU elections, party realignment and the ‘bloc’ of the radical right: the Italian case”, Conference on ‘La derecha in Southern Europe’, Fundacio Nexe, University of Valencia.
Guest speaker 2019 ‘The Dark Side of the Web: radical right groups and the Internet’, Conference on ‘Trade unions and the threat of populism and far right’, ETUI Bruxelles 23 Jan.
Guest speaker Dec. 2018, ‘Making sense of Populism(s) in Europe in time of Cris(e)s, Conference organized by the EESC (Comitato Europeo economico e Sociale) on "Civil society in the age of populism: A new blueprint for a thriving democracy in the 21st century", Brussels.
Guest speaker 14 June 2018, “La destra radicale in movimento: fra successi elettorali e nuove strategie online”, Feltrinelli workshop, Cattolica University.
Guest speaker ISPI, Milano, 21 May 2018, “The Radical Right and the online communication”.
Guest speaker Madrid 2018, The role of the Internet for extremist right-wing organizations, International Congress ‘Political Violence and Extreme Right Terrorism: From the sixties to today’, Computense University.
Guest speaker Frankfurt, 2-4 March 2017, International Dissidence Conference, ‘Populism and the European crisis in Europe: Insights from the Itaian case’.
Guest speaker London, Nov. 18-22, 2015, “Radical Politics Online: Empirical evidences from the Extreme Right in Europe and the USA”, Lunch seminars, Political extremism (VOX-Pol) project, King's College.
Guest speaker Budapest, Nov. 10-12, 2015, “extreme right movements in Europe and the U.S.”, Workshop on Mobilization and the Picture of the Enemy, ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences.
Guest speaker London, 28-29th August, 2014, “Extreme Right Movements and online Politics”, Conference on online political extremism (VOX-Pol project), King's College.
Guest Lectures and Seminars
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Centre TransCrime, International PhD in Criminology (Milan) - Seminar on Causes of Populist Radicalization (May 29, 2018)
European University Institute (Fiesole) - Seminar, ‘Populism in Europe’ (May 3, 2018)
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Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Centre TransCrime, International PhD in Criminology (Milan) - Seminar on The Causes of violent radicalization and social movements (May 2-3, 2016)
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Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Dept. of Political Science (Vienna) - Semester courses on Qualitative Methods for Social Research; Europeanization; Comparative European Politics (2009-2015)
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Centre TransCrime, International PhD in Criminology (Milan) - Lecture on ‘The causes of violent radicalization leading to terrorism’ (May 8, 2014)
Luiss University (Rome) - Seminar on ‘Il Web Nero: organizzazioni di estrema destra e politica online’ (December 11, 2013)
University of Siena (Siena) - Lecture on ‘European and American Extreme Right Groups and the Internet’ (December 10, 2013)
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Gothenburg University Centre for Social Movement Research (Gothenburg) - Lecture on ‘Studying the extreme right through the lens of social movement theory’ (December 4, 2013)
University of Pisa (Pisa) - Lecture on ‘European and American Extreme Right Groups and the Internet’ (November 25, 2013)
European University Institute, ECPR Summer School (Fiesole) - Seminar on ‘Social Network Analysis and Social Movement Research’ (September 19, 2013)
European University Institute (Fiesole) - Methodological Seminar on “Social Network Analysis: How and When in Social Movement Research” (April 18, 2013)
University of Mannheim, MZES, Center for European Social Research (Germany) - Lecture on ‘Extreme right movements and online politics’ (April 21, 2013)
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University of Siena, Jean Blondel Lecture Series (Siena) - Lecture on ‘Extreme right organizations and the European Union: frames and discourses of right wing actors in Italy and Germany’ (October 26, 2010)
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University of Brno, CVNS Summer School (Czech Republic) - Seminar on ‘Current Themes in the Research of the Non-profit Sector and Civil Society in Europe’ (August 30-September 4, 2010)
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RAND Corporation and DHS Science and Technology Directorate (Washington DC, USA) - Seminar at the ‘Case Study Methodologies Workshop’ (April 2009)
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SUM-Istituto di Scienze Umane, PhD program in Political Science (Florence, Italy) - Seminar on ‘How to Build a Codebook’ (February 2008)
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SUM-Istituto di Scienze Umane, PhD program in Political Science (Florence, Italy) -Seminar on ‘The Analysis of Documents: Frame Analysis and Claim-making Analysis’ (December 2007)