Following historian Carlo Ginzburg (2019) and writer Francesca Melandri (2023), a political scientist will deliver the Frankfurt Ginzburg Lecture this year. At the invitation of the Italy Forum of Goethe University, Prof. Patrizia Nanz, President of the European University Institute in Florence, will speak

on Monday, November 16, at 6:30 p.m.
in Room 411 of the IG Farben Building (Campus Westend)

on the topic "More than Science: The University as a Social Point of Reference." The lecture will address the current situation of universities in Europe. The presentation will be conducted in German.
Patrizia Nanz is a political scientist and expert on democracy, participatory administration, and sustainability. Since March 2024, she has served as President of the European University Institute in Florence. She is a co-founder of the wiki platform Participedia, a database for democratic innovations worldwide. Her thematic focuses include the European political project, the social role and responsibility of science, the further development of democracy, the renewal of the state and administration, and citizen participation, particularly regarding issues such as climate change, biotechnology, the energy transition, and the search for final repositories.
The European University Institute (EUI) is an international teaching and research institution for postgraduate students and post-doctoral fellows. It was founded by the EU member states as an independent institution of the European Union to contribute to the cultural and scientific development of economics, history, law, political science, and social sciences from a European perspective.
The Ginzburg Lecture at the Italy Forum of Goethe University commemorates the Italian historian and cultural scholar Carlo Ginzburg, who passed away this year and was one of the main representatives of the concept of microhistory.