Space|Economy. The spatial turn in applied social and economic research
19 dicembre 2022
SEMINARIO NON ORGANIZZATO DAL DOTTORATO
Spatial data, methods and themes have been gaining centrality in many areas pof applied economic research A spatial perspective iș indeed crucial to understand globalization, inequalities, migration, the pandemič, digital capitalism, climate change, and in many other fields of investigation. Thanks to GIS software, big data or satellite imagery, spatial data is literally burgeoning. It is therefore important to find a common ground for discussing theoretical, epistemological and practical issues related to the use of spatial data and methods, going beyond traditional disciplinary and thematic boundaries. In the workshop, PhDs from various Departments of Sapienza will present their ongoing research, and reflect on the challenges of using spatial methodologies.
The workshop will be opened by the key-note speech of Simona lammarino, former head of the Department of Geography and Environment at the USE, and renowned expert in the study of regional economic development and policy, multinational corporations, innovation and technological change.
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Multi-criteria methodological approaches for socio-economic systems
21 novembre 2022
Prof.ssa Gerarda Fattoruso (Sannio University, Italy)
ore 14.30 - Sapienza Università di Roma, Sala Riunioni (3° piano ed CU002 ex Scienze Statistiche - stanza 301)
SEMINARIO NON ORGANIZZATO DAL DOTTORATO
Decisions are the main pivot in the economic and social sciences. The analysis of the processes that lead to choices and the elements that condition them converge in the decision theories: an interdisciplinary research area based on the contributions of mathematics, statistics, economics, sociology, philosophy, psychology and management. In most cases, the theories that deal with the decisions assume the perfect rationality of the decision maker, therefore the ability to identify the best choice, passing through an essentially analytical process always referable to logical structures.
Actually, however, perfect rationality does not always represent a model capable of interpreting the processes of choice. In the contemporary world, the variety of possible options is increasing, the range of solutions to problems among which each decision maker, man, machine, organization, must choose. As complexity increases, it is not so much the ability to make a decision about a certain problem (problem solving) that is critical, but the ability to decide which is the most relevant problem to deal with, or the one that is most convenient to tackle (problem finding). The concept of decision considered as the choice to undertake an action, among several available alternatives, by an individual or a group of individuals changes. Recently, new lines of research have been developed to better satisfy the diversity of conditions encountered in real world; among these we find the Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM), born to face with problems of different nature. They have the function of providing the Decision Maker (DM) with tools to deal with complex decision-making problems that he has to face. MCDM allow comparison on multiple criteria with the aim of contributing to the development of a learning process that feeds the decision-making process. Multi-criteria methods can be used to manage complexity, stimulate the participation of decision makers and facilitate communication between those involved. The use of MCDM methods is widely adopted in different fields of interest. Their use is motivated on the one hand by the high complexity of decision-making problems, and on the other by solving problems using advanced techniques
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2022/2023 SERIES OF INTERNAL SEMINARS IN ECONOMICS
5, 20 ottobre; 2, 17, 30 novembre, 15 dicembre
SEMINARI NON ORGANIZZATI DAL DOTTORATO
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Il trentennale del Trattato di Maastricht e il ventennale dellʼadozione dellʼEuro: riflessioni e prospettive in una visione interdisciplinare
18 ottobre 2022
Seminario non organizzato dal dottorato
Scopo essenziale dell'iniziativa è quello di offrire, in una prospettiva interdisciplinare (economica, giuridica, sociologica, statistica), alcune riflessioni sia sul Trattato di Maastricht che sullʼadozione dell'Euro da parte di alcuni paesi europei come moneta comune, mettendo in risalto le varie conseguenze prodotte sui paesi aderenti all'Unione europea in questi anni e su quelle probabili negli anni a venire.
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International Conference on Sustainability Analysis - ICSA
14-15 July 2022
CONFERENZA NON ORGANIZZATA DAL DOTTORATO
Sustainability is one of the most frequent concepts in institutional and academic debate in recent years. However, its meaning remains controversial and elusive. The term does not have a univocal definition in literature, although it is widespread and there are several research trends in this field. Consequently, different disciplines have contributed to the sustainability debate. Thus, there are many definitions currently in circulation, often divergent from one another. Moreover, the concept has changed over time, taking on new meanings related to the different phases of the international debate. We can consider sustainability as a contested concept. This conference aims to analyze sustainability taking into account its multidisciplinary nature, which has undoubtedly influenced the difficulty of a univocally accepted definition. Contributions from different disciplines will be accepted and encouraged, from sociology to statistics, from law to economics, and so on
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Field research in sensitive contexts (Dr. Irene Tuzi Università Sapienza di Roma and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin )
27 giugno 2022 14.00 - 17.00 Aula B8
SEMINARIO ORGANIZZATO DAL DOTTORATO (in inglese)
This seminar aims at encouraging an in-depth and critical reflection on qualitative research methods used in fragile contexts and sensitive research areas. Carrying out fieldwork in humanitarian contexts, conflict-sensitive settings, situations of poverty, social exclusion, and systemic violence often constitutes many ethical and methodological challenges for a researcher. Some of the topics on which this seminar will focus are: interacting with vulnerable and disadvantaged populations; gender-specific challenges; researcher’s positionality, self-reflexivity, and access to the field; practical and social implications of the research; psychological repercussions for the researcher; research limitations and challenges; security in authoritarian and fragile contexts. The discussion will be developed around case studies and reading materials and will encourage interested participants to carry out a fieldwork exercise. This seminar is particularly suitable for PhD candidates in migration and refugee studies, gender studies, or humanitarian studies who are expected to carry out field research. At the end of the seminar, participants will gain the theoretical tools to critically approach qualitative research in a perspective of sensitive contexts
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Digital Governance of Education
June 7, 2022 - 15:00 – 17:00 PM
SEMINARIO ORGANIZZATO DAL DOTTORATO
Prof. Paolo Landri (CNR- IRPPS)
Link: meet.google.com/vfz-ygrg-vmv
Education policy and practice are more and more imbricated in digital technologies and platforms. As a result, the very condition of the education policy and practice is being reshaped by a concatenation of data, algorithms, codes and expertise. Pandemic has accelerated this process and now platforms, software, algorithms are becoming ‘the new magic’ to change education from the scratch (Cone et al., 2021; Grek & Landri, 2021). Accordingly, a widespread sense of inevitability characterizes the scenario of the education governance, aligned mostly on technological solutionism (Morozov, 2019). To counter this simplistic and reductionist approach, I will introduce what I will call untimely investigations on the digital education governance, that is a research program interested in ‘pursuing questions no one seems to ask or and looking in a direction where most people are not looking’ (Heimans & Biesta, 2020). By drawing theoretically on Actor Network Theory and empirically on a set of research on the contemporary transformations of the education system in Italy (Landri, 2018, 2020), I will focus on the becoming digital of education governance and school leadership in this country with the aim of (re)considering the political and the educational dimensions of the digital governance. The development of cartographies of the digital education governance will illustrate, in particular, the increasing entanglement of public education in privately owned and commercial platforms through processes of soft privatization and the progressive dilution of educational issues into the language of learning.
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Seminario di presentazione del libro di Chiara Saraceno, David Benassi, Enrica Morlicchio, La povertà in Italia (il Mulino 2022)
Lunedì 23 Maggio, ore 12.00, Aula B14
Il libro esplora le dimensioni strutturali della povertà nel nostro paese in un'ottica comparata. La povertà è un fenomeno multidimensionale, prodotto dall'interazione di una pluralità di elementi e non legato soltanto alla mancanza di lavoro. Ne sono corresponsabili, in Italia, la crescente precarietà del mercato del lavoro, i bassi tassi di occupazione femminile, la frammentazione e l'eterogeneità del sistema di protezione sociale, la scarsa e diseguale disponibilità di servizi di conciliazione famiglia-lavoro, le forti differenze territoriali. Un quadro reso ancora più difficile dalle due crisi che hanno caratterizzato i primi vent'anni del secolo, quella finanziaria del 2008 e quella pandemica. In assenza di politiche che agiscano sull'intero complesso di questi fattori, il solo aumento dell'occupazione non è sufficiente ai fini di una riduzione della povertà.
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Visual Methods and the Urban Experience
20 maggio 2022
SEMINARIO NON ORGANIZZATO DAL DOTTORATO
The seminar brings together scholars from the fields of visual sociology and anthropology, of visual culture and political science and documentary filmmaking to debate the nature of visual research in urban contexts. How can we gather a better understanding of cities and urban life thanks to a visual perspective? What are the benefits of this particular angle vis-a-vis other kinds of research? What research techniques are better suited for studying urban contexts?
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From Innovation systems to socio-economic transition
16 e 23 Maggio 2022 - aula B8 ore 16.00
SEMINARIO ORGANIZZATO DAL DOTTORATO
Dr. Bianca Maria Potì - IRCRES CNR (componente del collegio dei docenti) - obbligatorio per gli studenti del curriculum 5
a) May 16 Room B8 h. 16.00 - the conceptual and methodological tools. Analytical concepts, disciplinary building blocks and their interrelations, methods and instruments to study innovation systems’ transition dynamics.
b) May 23 - Room B8 h. 16.00. Historical and recent case studies. Mission oriented policy and its evaluation. Future lines of research. Models for understanding transitions, models for providing case-specific policy advice, and models for facilitating stakeholder processes.
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