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Official account for the Scuola Normale Superiore.
Pisa・Firenze | Tuscany | Italy
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✈️ “Moving Stories Unboxed,” the Normale’s event for EELISA Days 2025, brought together voices and experiences from international mobility. Students shared what stays with you when you step beyond familiar borders: the insight, the change, the growth it sparks. #EEDays2025 #WeAreEELISA @eelisa.eu
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Last week’s EELISA Governing Board meetings marked a new milestone for our Alliance: the welcoming of two associated partners — the USP - Universidade de São Paulo and the Universitatea Tehnică a Moldovei (UTM).

🔗 eelisa.eu/eelisa-expan...
November 27, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Want to join the Normale’s #Biology Workshop?
Open to high school students in their final two years, the camp offers lectures, research activities, and a chance to explore academic life at the SNS.
Pisa / 15–21 Feb 2026. Participation, meals, and accommodation are free. Apply by 5 Dec 2025.
Stage di Biologia
Imparare e conoscersi in un ambiente prestigioso Lo stage è stato concepito come un'occasione per affacciarsi al mondo della Biologia e della ricerca da una delle realtà intellettuali più vivaci d'Ita...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
“Il filo di Arianna”: the new interdisciplinary lecture series of the Normale, offering tools to navigate the complexity of the present. Seven events exploring key themes – like beauty, intelligence, progress – open to everyone and accessible online: orientamento.sns.it/pagina-orien...
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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We’re excited to announce the winners of the EELISA Joint Call #6! 🏆

A big congratulations to the selected projects that will now receive funding and support to bring forward bold, cross-disciplinary ideas within the EELISA European University network.

📌 eelisa.eu/6-eelisa-joi...
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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We’ve reached the final week of #EELISADays2025!

From Nov. 24-28, we wrap up a month of collaboration & learning with a rich lineup of events.
This week brings activities spanning innovation, digital humanities, sustainability, investment & student engagement.

👉https://eelisa.eu/eelisa-days-2025/
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Over 2K visitors have attended “Gli Etruschi alla Normale”, the exhibition at the Torre del Conte Ugolino featuring artifacts from Via Sant’Apollonia and the Palazzone in Cortona. Open until December 31, it’s accompanied by talks on the latest research into Etruscan Pisa: www.sns.it/it/evento/gl...
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
On the occasion of #WorldPhilosophyDay, the Normale proposes this brief video interview with Simona Forti, SNS lecturer in Political Philosophy, explaining to us what, in her view,
is the best thing about this discipline.
Watch the complete video: allaenne.sns.it/video/il-bel...
November 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The new series of public meetings by SNS "La Normale delle Idee" opens with a public dialogue on freedom of speech: a democratic right under pressure from manipulation, censorship, and control. With Gustavo Zagrebelsky and Annalisa Cuzzocrea.
📅 Nov 25, 6 p.m., Sala Azzurra & YouTube
Libertà di Parola | ScuolaNormaleSuperiore
Primo incontro del ciclo "La Normale delle Idee"Dialogano Gustavo Zagrebelsky | professore ordinario di Diritto Costituzionale, ex Presidente della Corte CostituzionaleAnnalisa Cuzzocrea | saggista e ...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Starting today, 130+ participants from across EELISA -Governing & Executive Boards, the EELISA Student Council, staff reps, and work teams- gather at @itu1773.tr to shape EELISA 3.0.

#EELISA #EELISAAlliance #EELISA3_0 #WeAreEELISA

eelisa.eu/eelisa-gover...
EELISA Governance Meeting in Istanbul: shaping the path of the Alliance beyond — EELISA
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November 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Week 3 of #EELISADays2025 is here!
This week brings a diverse mix of activities — sustainability and energy transition, technical visits, competitions, games, ethics, innovation, and governance meetings shaping the future of EELISA 3.0.

👉https://eelisa.eu/eelisa-days-2025/
November 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Camouflage, illusion, and imitation: survival tools and arts of seduction for animals and humans alike. The international workshop "New Perspectives on Animal Camouflage and Human Image-Making" explores these themes across biology, art, and culture.
📅 19–22 Nov 2025 | In presence or online
New Perspectives on Animal Camouflage and Human Image-Making | ScuolaNormaleSuperiore
Camouflage is not the exclusive domain of animals. Humans also practice it, in hunting, war and fashion, social behaviour, and the arts. It is not restricted to artefacts; it also occurs in social beh...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Colleagues hailed Luigi Rolandi’s inspiring energy at a Scuola Normale conference marking his 50‑year career in experimental particle physics. A former student and professor until 2024, he mentored generations. Alumni worldwide gathered in tribute.
November 14, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Galaxy Y1 is forming stars at roughly 180 times the Milky Way’s rate. The discovery, made with the #ALMA telescope, comes from an international research team that includes cosmologists from the Scuola Normale Superiore.
Una fabbrica di stelle agli albori dell'Universo
La galassia denominata Y1 produce una quantità di stelle a una velocità circa 180 volte superiore a quella della nostra Via Lattea. La scoperta grazie al telescopio ALMA è di un team di ricerca internazionale, tra cui cosmologi della Normale di Pisa.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🎥 Work in progress on the next episode of the vodcast "MERITA, quando ne vale la pena"
A journey through the Scuola Normale Superiore: its people, stories, events, and projects.
Stay tuned: the full episode will be released soon!

#MERITA #PNRR
November 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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✨Join us today at @sns.it Palazzo Vegni to discuss feminist, antigender politics, and societal democratization from the perspective of gender regimes theory! 👉🏽https://www.sns.it/it/evento/do-feminist-institutional-responses-address-anti-gender-regime
Do feminist institutional responses address the ‘anti-gender regime’? | ScuolaNormaleSuperiore
ProgramPrevious seminar:
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November 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
«I believe not enough is said about the effort and frustrations that are an extremely important integral part of our educational career».

– Chiara Gambicchia, PhD student of the Faculty of Sciences

#chifalaNormale
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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✨Looking forward to my first week at @sns.it in Florence!
✨It will be a pleasure to meet colleagues and students and participate to the Lunch seminar 11th November with the talk ‘Do feminist institutional responses address the antigender regime?’ With data from our @ccindle-eu.bsky.social
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November 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Writer Giulio Mozzi has witnessed over thirty years of change in Italian literature and publishing. Drawing on his wide experience as author, editor and curator of the "vibrisse" blog, he reflects on how the literary landscape has evolved.
6 Nov 2025, 18 p.m. | Sala Azzurra / online (Teams)
Com'è possibile che l'editoria sia diventata, in pochi anni, il primo nemico della letteratura? | ScuolaNormaleSuperiore
Giulio Mozzi, classe 1960, ha attraversato tutte le trasformazioni dell’editoria italiana: sia come autore (ha esordito nel 1993, è stato al premio Strega nel 1997 e nel 2021), sia come consulente edi...
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November 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Yesterday the Scuola Normale Superiore welcomed its new #PhD students, as they officially begin their research journey. Some of them have already been undergrads at the SNS, others are joining for the first time. All united by curiosity, passion, and the drive to advance knowledge and research.
November 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The lecture "Races and Minorities in the Iberian Empires" by Stefania Pastore (SNS) opens "Minority Cultures", a series promoted by the Faculty of Humanities exploring identity, inclusion, and diversity across time and disciplines. Open to undergraduate and Ph.D. students and to @eelisa.eu students.
"Races" and minorities in the Iberian empires | ScuolaNormaleSuperiore
Stefania Pastore"Races" and minorities in the Iberian empires In ten two-hour seminars, the theme “Minority Cultures” will be explored in an interdisciplinary way, across different spaces and times, c...
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November 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Seminar “The Figure of the Intellectual in Late-20th-Century Italy,” by Federico Ammirabile (SNS), held today at Palazzo Strozzi. Part of Incipit, a project fostering new generations of researchers whose work is often the subject of publications by Edizioni della Normale.
October 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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In this episode of the EELISA Podcast, “Ethos vs Tekhnè: Can Ethics Keep Up with Artificial Intelligence?”, we explore how rapid technological progress challenges our moral frameworks — and what it means for the future of responsible innovation.

Listen now at linktr.ee/eelisapodcast
October 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
🎙️ Work in progress on the Normale’s episode for the EELISA 2.0 podcast
Researcher Valentina Nieri and student Camillo Pellizzari from SNS will share insights into Digital Philology and linked open data.
Episode out in February! @eelisa.eu
Discover the podcast: open.spotify.com/show/7maYUQv...
October 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
«My awareness has grown of just how profound a mark the education I received at the Normale has left: it taught me not to look for short cuts and to tackle my work with rigour, curiosity and openness. It's something that stays with you all your life».
– Caterina Lazzarini #sempernormalista
October 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM