Active EUI


A Q+A with Engaged Academics

Kathryn Carlson meets with Law researcher Mario Pagano for a Q+A about Engaged Academics, one of EUI’s working groups. Can you tell me a little about what Engaged Academics is? We are an interdisciplinary Working Group affiliated with the Law department and the History department. Engaged Academics is slightly different from other EUI working groups, […]

Ladies Hour Football

Spring is on its way. And you know what that means: the Coppa is coming. For the uninitiated, the Coppa Pavone is the EUI’s annual five-a-side tournament, which takes place  in early June at Villa Schifanoia. Teams can be of any size, but there must always be at least one woman on the pitch. The […]

Introducing… Théâtre Francophone

    ‘Seuls les yeux sont encore capable de pousser un cri’ – René Char    (Only the eyes are capable of screaming)  [Included as an introduction to Ivresse] Those seeking evenings of light-hearted, jovial entertainment had better make a swift volte-face now. Dabbling in the dark, the experimental, and the emotionally discordant, Théâtre Francophone is […]

Rowing Club races in Venice

On 19 May the EUI Rowing Club will be taking part in the VogaLonga, a 32km rowing race through the canals of Venice. Around 1,800 boats will take part in the race which finishes in the Grand Canal. The EUI team will leave Florence on the morning of 18 May and return the day after […]

Active EUI: Cineclub

The director of a film charting 150 years of the Italian nation will come to the EUI later this month, as part of a collaboration between the Cineclub and the Department of History and Civilisation. Enrico Cerasuolo, director of ‘From Garibaldi to Berlusconi – 150 Years of Italian History’, will attend a screening of the […]

Active EUI: Culinary Club

A fishmongers’ stock is laid out on the table of a cosy kitchen in Campo di Marte and within seconds members of the EUI’s Culinary Club are busy cleaning, scaling and skinning the seafood

Active EUI: Italian outside the classroom

On 22 and 23 September EUI researchers and staff enjoyed a sailing and hiking weekend, as part of an initiative by the Language Centre to get people speaking Italian outside of the EUI

Active EUI: Rowing

At the end of September the EUI’s rowing club will take to the water again, launching from Florence’s esteemed club on the Arno.