Event Details
Mon, April 14, 2025
16:30 – 18:45
VILLA SASSETTI
Villa La Pietra
Via Bolognese, 120
50139 Florence, Italy
A symposium on the first 100 days of the Trump Administration and its implications for Italy and the EU.
Program
4:30 – Welcome – Prof. Rogan Kersh, NYU Florence Academic Director
4:30-5:30 p.m. Trump’s First 100 Days: US Perspectives
Prof. John Ferejohn, NYU School of Law and Stanford University
Prof. Morris Fiorina, Stanford University
Moderator: Maria Kaltsidis, NYU Florence student
5:45-6:45 p.m. Trump’s First 100 Days: Implications for Italy/EU
Prof. Lorenzo De Sio, Luiss-Guido Carli in Rome
Prof. Giampiero Gallo, NYU Florence
Prof. Pasquale Pasquino, NYU Florence and Luiss-Guido Carli in Rome
Moderator: Prof. Roberto D’Alimonte, Luiss-Guido Carli in Rome and NYU Florence
Intrudictions to speakers: NYU Florence Students Taylor Esmie, Alondra Padilla Bahena, Farzana Pritte, Justina Vo
Featured Biographies
Roberto D'Alimonte
Roberto D’Alimonte is professor of political science at Luiss-Guido Carli in Rome where he has also been chair of the department of political sciences. He is also adjunct professor in the Florence campus of New York University. Until 2010 he has taught for over 30 years at the University of Florence. Professor D’Alimonte has been Ford Foundation Fellow at Yale and American Council of Learned Societies Fellow at Harvard and taught as visiting professor in the political science department at Yale. In the Fall of 1989 he gave his first course in the political science department at Stanford University in Palo Alto and has continued to teach there as a visiting professor for a number of years. At Stanford he has also given courses on Europe in the MBA program at the Graduate School of Business and he has been for many years a speaker in the Stanford Business School’s Executive Program. His most recent research interests have to do with political and electoral change in Western democracies, particularly Italy. In 2005 he founded the Italian Center for Electoral Studies and has been its director until March 2019. Well-known as a political journalist, Professor D’Alimonte covers political events for Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy’s major financial newspaper. He is often sought out by international media for commentary on current Italian and European affairs. His quotes have appeared in The New York Times, Financial Times, The Times, New Yorker, Le Monde, Asahi Shimbun, Bloomberg, Reuters. He has collaborated with former Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on electoral reform.
Lorenzo De Sio
Lorenzo De Sio is Associate Professor at the LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, where he teaches several courses at all levels. Formerly Visiting Research Fellow at UC Irvine, Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute, Campbell National Fellow at Stanford University, he is the coordinator of the CISE (Centro Italiano Studi Elettorali) and a member of the Scientific Council of the ITANES (Italian National Election Studies). A member of the Methods Working Group of the “True European Voter” international research project (ESF-COST Action IS0806), he participates in the EUDO Observatory on Public Opinion, Political Elites and the Media. His research interests are broadly into elections, voting behaviour and party competition in comparative perspective. Among his publications, beyond several books and edited books in Italian and English, are articles appearing in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Electoral Studies, Party Politics, West European Politics, South European Society and Politics, and all major Italian political science journals.
John Ferejohn
John Ferejohn is Professor Emeritus at NYU and Stanford University. He joined the NYU School of Law faculty full-time in Fall 2009 as a professor of law and politics after teaching at the Law School as a perennial visiting professor since 1993. Ferejohn’s scholarship focuses on the development of positive political theory, and especially its application to the study of legal and political institutions and behavior. His most current research concerns Congress and policy making, courts within the separation-of-powers system, constitutional adjudication from a comparative perspective, democratic theory and law, and the philosophy of social science. Ferejohn was a professor of social science at the California Institute of Technology from 1972 to 1983. He then joined the faculty at Stanford University, where he became the Carolyn S. G. Munro Professor of Political Science and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution where he served until 2009. Ferejohn earned his PhD in political science at Stanford University in 1972, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981, and received an honorary doctorate at Yale University in 2007. His publications include A Republic of Statutes: The New American Constitution (2010), The Personal Vote: Constituency Service and Electoral Independence (1987), both of which he co-authored, and Pork Barrel Politics: Rivers and Harbors Legislation, 1947-1968 (1974), and many scholarly articles in law, political science, economics, and philosophy. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.he American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.
Morris P. Fiorina
Morris P. Fiorina is the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution. He received an undergraduate degree from Allegheny College and a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester, and taught at Caltech and Harvard before joining Stanford in 1998. Fiorina has written widely on American politics, with special emphasis on the study of representation, public opinion and elections. He has published numerous articles and written or edited thirteen books, including: Representatives, Roll Calls, and Constituencies; Congress–Keystone of the Washington Establishment; Retrospective Voting in American National Elections; The Personal Vote (coauthored with Bruce Cain and John Ferejohn); Divided Government; Civic Engagement in American Democracy (co-edited with Theda Skocpol), Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America (with Samuel Abrams and Jeremy Pope), Disconnect: The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics (with Samuel Abrams), Can We Talk: The Rise of Rude, Nasty, Stubborn Politics (co-edited with Dan Shea) and most recently, Unstable Majorities. Fiorina has served on the editorial boards of a dozen journals in Political Science, Political Economy, Law, and Public Policy, and from 1986-1990 served as Chairman of the Board of Overseers of the American National Election Studies. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. He has received Career Achievement Awards from the American Political Science Association’s Organized Sections on Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior, and Political Organizations and Parties.
Giampiero Gallo
Giampiero Gallo received his PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989. He was Professor of econometrics at the University of Firenze with previous appointments with the Department of Econometrics at the University of Geneva, the World Bank, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of California at San Diego. He has authored several scientific articles on forecasting, financial volatility, and European exchange rate management. At NYU Florence, he teaches “International Economics” and “Econometrics”.
Maria Kaltsidis
Maria Kaltsidis is a first year student at New York University. She is majoring in Global Public Health and Biology. Her leadership experience includes serving as the NYU Florence Class President, Wasserman Global Representative, and Career Mentoring Club leader. She has participated in many academic events, recently speaking as a panelist at the European University Institute on “Collaborative Leadership.”
Pasquale Pasquino
Pasquale Pasquino is Senior Fellow at the CNRS in Paris and Global Distinguished Professor at New York University. He studied classical philology, philosophy and political theory in Naples and Paris I-Sorbonne. Before joining the CNRS and NYU he worked at the Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte – Göttingen, at the Collège de France – Paris (Histoire des systèmes de pensée) and at King’s College – Cambridge. He published notably a book on Emmanuel Sieyes and the invention of modern constitutionalism in France and numerous articles on the history and theory of state and constitution in Germany, France, England and Italy.