The Making of European Society: Towards a Sociology of European Integration

It’s our pleasure to invite you to our next European Studies Unit seminar, „The Making of European Society: Towards a Sociology of European Integration”. Our special next guest is Guglielmo Meardi (Professor of Economic Sociology at Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence), who will present his work “The socio-economic dimension of the rise of European populism”.

The seminar will be chaired by Edit Zgut-Przybylska and the event will have a hybrid form. We strongly encourage you to take part in person, but it is also possible to participate online.

When: 8th of October, 2025 at 12:00 a.m. – 13:30 p.m.
Where in person: IFiS PAN, Nowy Świat 72, 00-330 Warszawa, room 154
Where on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/97438233977?pwd=2gGlpVn4vPnLFaZBvMg4NdRu7uk0E3.1
Identyfikator spotkania: 974 3823 3977
Kod dostępu: 252103

Please confirm your participation at ezgut@ifispan.edu.pl by October 7.

Back to the familialist future: the rise of social policy for ruling populist radical right parties in Italy and Poland

ABSTRACT
The rise of populism in Europe has been associated mostly with cultural issues, but there is increasing attention to the socio-economic causes and the socio-economic effects. Drawing on research carried out in the UK, in Italy, and in Poland, the seminar will discuss how populism tries to fill the void left by the decline of intermediary associations and to what extent, when it comes to power, it involves a change of direction compared to previous social and employment policies.
See the full article here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01402382.2021.1916720

BIO
Guglielmo Meardi is Professor of Economic Sociology at Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence. He was previously Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of Warwick, UK. His research focuses on the labour and social aspects of economic integration, especially in Europe. He has published ‘Social Failures of EU Enlargement” (2012) and edited the “Research Handbook on Migration and Employment” (2024).

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