Space|Economy. The spatial turn in applied social and economic research
December 19, 2022
SEMINAR NOT ORGANIZED BY THE PHD PROGRAMME
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
November 21, 2022
Prof.ssa Gerarda Fattoruso (Sannio University, Italy)
14.30 - Sapienza Università di Roma, Sala Riunioni (3° piano ed CU002 ex Scienze Statistiche - room 301)
SEMINARS NOT ORGANISED BY THE PHD PROGRAMME
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
October 5, 20 ottobre; November 2, 17, 30; December 15 dicembre
SEMINARS NOT ORGANISED BY THE PHD PROGRAMME
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Il trentennale del Trattato di Maastricht e il ventennale dellʼadozione dellʼEuro: riflessioni e prospettive in una visione interdisciplinare
October 18 2022
Seminar not organized by the PhD Programme
The essential aim of the initiative is to offer, from an interdisciplinary perspective (economics, law, sociology, statistics), some reflections both on the Maastricht Treaty and on the adoption of the Euro by some European countries as a common currency, highlighting the various consequences produced on the EU countries in recent years and on those that are likely to occur in the coming years.
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International Conference on Sustainability Analysis - ICSA
14-15 July 2022
CONFERENCE NOT ORGANISED BY THE PHD PROGRAMME
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 )
June 27, 2022 - 14.00 - 17.00 Room B8
SEMINAR ORGANIZED BY THE PhD PROGRAM (language: English)
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
SEMINAR ORGANIZED BY THE PhD PROGRAM
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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Book presentation: Poverty in Italy, (il Mulino 2022), Chiara Saraceno, David Benassi, Enrica Morlicchio
Monday, May 23 12.00, Room B4
Italy is one of the EU countries that was hardest hit by the 2008 financial crisis and is also slowest in recovering, even compared to other Mediterranean countries that share some of its societal features. Poverty has steadily increased throughout the period following 2008, and no clear indication of a trend reversal is yet visible. Working poor, the young, children and migrant foreign households are the main victims of the situation. Also the territorial divide has deepened, with the Southern regions bearing the brunt of the crisis much more, and for a longer time, than the Centre-North ones. According to the authors, the duration and depth of the crisis in Italy, and its impact on poverty, were largely a consequence of long-term structural features of the Italian economy, of its weak and fragmented social safety net, with its high expectations concerning family solidarity and the gender division of labour on the one hand, of its sluggish growth since the 1990s on the other. Governments’ austerity choices in reaction to the crisis (and under pressure from the EU) have further strengthened these features, although the recent introduction of a minimum income provision has marked an important change in the policy approach to poverty.
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Visual Methods and the Urban.Experience
May 20, 2022
SEMINARS NOT ORGANIZED BY THE PHD PROGRAM
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
May 16 and 23 2022 - Room B8 h. 16.00
SEMINAR ORGANIZED BY THE PhD PROGRAM
Dr. Bianca Maria Potì - IRCRES CNR (member of the teaching board) - mandatory for students of 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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Memories of the Future
Thursday, 21st of April - 14.00 -17.00
SEMINAR ORGANIZED BY THE PhD PROGRAM - Language: Italian
What happens when we remember the future we imagined in the past? We can read it as a source of possibilities, as a "not yet", and at the same time analyze it in the light of the comparison between the current situation and the way we imagined our present in the past. Starting from these and other considerations, Paolo Jedlowski's seminar explores sociological and interdisciplinary questions - both theoretical and methodological - about "memories of the future".
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The McDonaldization of Society. A review of George Ritzer’s main contribution
Aprile 6 - 15.30-17.30 ROOM B8 via Salaria
SEMINAR ORGANIZED BY THE PhD PROGRAM
Modern societies are getting more and more particular in terms of efficient, predictable, calculable, substitutable, and controllable goods. What is required is not a “less rational” society, but more control over “the process of razionalization”. This can be achieved through McDonaldization, a process by which the characteristics of the fast food restaurants are coming to take over more and more sectors of American society and the world (since mid-60s). McDonaldization is spreading to every sector of society; we will discuss about other segments of our lives that this process has recently expanded to and about its “irrational” trade-offs (new forms of alienation).
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Trovare il colpevole. La costruzione del capro espiatorio nelle organizzazioni
April 4th Monday - 10.00 -13.00
SEMINAR ORGANIZED BY THE PhD PROGRAM
Language: Italian
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series of Sapienza Economics Seminars 2022
Since April 1 to July 8 2022
CYCLE OF SEMINARS NOT ORGANIZED BY THE PHD PROGRAM
Department of Economics and Law and Department of Social Sciences and Economics of Sapienza University of Rome
Program and links: https://sites.google.com/view/sapienza-econ-seminars/
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INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON COMPLEXITY
Wednesday 30th March 2022 | 9.00 am
CONFERENCE NOT ORGANISED BY THE PHD PROGRAMME
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Incontri su Economia e Società alla Nuvola
26 e 27 marzo 2022
CONFERENZA NON ORGANIZZATA DAL DOTTORATO
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Nuove culture del lavoro
24 marzo 2022
CONFERENZA NON ORGANIZZATA DAL DOTTORATO
Avremo in futuro la quantità e la qualità di lavoro necessaria per includere le nuove generazioni? E il lavoro come lo si cerca e come lo si trova? Di sicuro ai giovani è richiesto di adottare un abito mentale diverso dal passato: la ricerca del posto passa anche dalla cura dell’occupabilità del singolo, dalla capacità di amministrare e incrementare il proprio capitale di conoscenze per presentarsi più forti sul mercato del lavoro. Più responsabilità, dunque, per i figli ma a monte anche per i genitori. È questo il tema conduttore del festival “Nuove culture del lavoro” che offre anche una ricognizione delle nuove culture di chi il lavoro già ce l’ha. Lo smartworking che mette alla frusta le grandi e piccole organizzazioni aziendali, rimodella la giornata dei lavoratori, richiede nuove competenze tecnologiche, impatta sulla vita familiare. E ancora: il welfare aziendale, tutte le esperienze che hanno visto impresa e lavoro avvicinarsi, rinnovare le ragioni dello scambio, farsi comunità di intenti. Infine, ma non ultimo, il lavoro comandato dalle nuove piattaforme digitali. Quali profili e soprattutto quali tutele diventano decisivi quando la controparte è (anche) un algoritmo.
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Sapienza Economics Seminars
Since March 18, 2022
SEMINARS NOT ORGANIZED BY THE PHD PROGRAM
The Department of Economics and Law and the Department of Social Sciences and Economics of Sapienza University of Rome are pleased to announce the series of Sapienza Economics Seminars 2022.
The time slot is on selected Fridays, 2:00-3:00pm (CET), starting March 18 until July 08.
The seminars are both in-person and remote.
WEBSITE: https://sites.google.com/view/sapienza-econ-seminars/
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Fairwork Italy . Verso un’economia di piattaforma più giusta
17 febbraio 2022
CONFERENZA NON ORGANIZZATA DAL DOTTORATO
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Reflective Overview about Instruments for Urban Policy: dialoguing with Patrick Le Galès
Thursday, 3 February 2022
SEMINAR ORGANIZED BY THE PhD PROGRAM
Introduction – E. d’Albergo
Discussant – S. Lucciarini
Round table - F. Celata, R. Galdini, B. Pizzo, W. Tocci
Mandatory for students of curricula 3 e 5
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From Innovation systems to socio-economic transition: empirical studies on societal challenges and innovation and the policy implications - Bianca Potì (CNR)
Third Term (May 2022 - onwards)
SEMINAR ORGANIZED BY THE PhD PROGRAM
Mandatory for curricula 3 and 5
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From Innovation systems to socio-economic transition: conceptual and methodological tools - - Bianca Potì (CNR)
Third Term (May 2022 - onwards)
SEMINAR ORGANIZED BY THE PhD PROGRAM
Mandatory for curricula 3 and 5
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