💡 What piece of knowledge transformed your research? #EUI50 In her #EUIdeas essay, @eui-history.bsky.social Professor Alexia Yates reflects on how David Harvey’s theory reshaped her understanding of the modern city. Read more 🔗 https://loom.ly/hIuJYa8

🎓 Our researcher Halit Serkan Simen defends his #PhD thesis on the political landscape of the late #16thcentury Ottoman Empire through the career of Grand Vizier Koca Sinan Pasha 👉 loom.ly/t3hh-lE 📚 #OttomanHistory #MediterraneanHistory #PoliticalHistory

On 8 May, the EUI will unveil its new flagship event as part of our 50th anniversary celebrations: EUIdeas. Learn more and register here: https://loom.ly/D68cUso #EUI50 #EUIdeas

📣 Aquest dijous suma't a les víctimes oblidades dels desastres ecològics a Europa amb #SubalternMemories2026 #Txernòbil #VajontDam #SpanishCivilWar #Ukraine #Seveso #NovaKakhovka 📆 16/04📍 Florència @eui-history.bsky.social 💻 en línia 🔗 Inscripció gratuïta: europeanmemories.net/activities/s...

🚀We all know that exactly 65 years ago soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space. But did you know that the European Space Agency @esa.int & the Historical Archives offer 2 grants for researchers working with ESA archives? 📅 Apply by 15 May ℹ️ +info loom.ly/Ybo4xsM

🎓 Are you a Master's student or recent Master's graduate interested in doing history ... otherwise? Join our Summer School: Decentring Europe: Doing History Otherwise, 1500-present 👉 loom.ly/oIUq_Ls 📆 16-18 Sept 2026 🌐 Online ⏰ Apply by 3 May 2026 📣 #SummerSchool #historysky #skystorians

Co-organising this with Lola and Zsófi has been a joy and we are all so excited! You can join us in person or online, just register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58... The brilliant @npapadogian.bsky.social will be delivering a keynote on 'Shared authority and queer oral history'.

💥 Remembering disasters that shaped Europe 5th #SubalternMemories · 16 April · Florence 📍 + Zoom 💻 Italy panel: 🎤 Chiara Calzana — Vajont Dam 🏞️ 🎤 Monika Baar — Seveso 🏭 🔗 Programme & registration: europeanmemories.net/activities/subaltern-memories-2026/

🇪🇺🔬Turning research policy into a cornerstone of European integration This book by alumna Veera Mitzner (@eui-history.bsky.social) traces how research and science became central to EU’s vision for competitiveness and growth and transformed the European research landscape Read more➡️ loom.ly/FlR6dHk

⏳ One week to go! If you can’t join us in Florence, attend the #SubalternMemories Conference online via Zoom 💻 on 16 April. 🚨Don’t miss this discussion on the memory of environmental and technological disasters in Europe 🔗 Register now and secure your spot: europeanmemories.net/activities/s...

In a few days I will be in Catania with two lectures (in Italian) for master's students and colleagues on women, Enlightenment and Catholicism, and on islands and imaginary travels. Do join us if you happen to be in the city on 16th and 17th April! @inthiseui.bsky.social @eui-history.bsky.social

What if capitalism didn’t begin in the Atlantic world? Maarten Draper (@eui-history.bsky.social) explores how European trading posts in Asia reveal a different origin, shaped through negotiation with powerful Asian economies. https://loom.ly/8YXSl4c

🎙️ New podcast! 🎧 🌏 Towards a planetary history, again 📻 Listen to a conversation with our own Glenda Sluga and Giorgio Riello 👉 loom.ly/lx7fELE 📻 Part of the Meet a Historian podcast series 👉 loom.ly/IWAoLc8 Brought to you by our CAPASIA and @ecointeui.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu projects

📖 What can popular literature reveal about gendered boundaries between public and private life in #earlymodern cities? Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess article co-authored by @mboluferp.bsky.social 👉 loom.ly/4NvC5aY 📚 #FridayReads #GenderHistory #Literature

Application deadline in about three weeks! ⤵️

Image-building, Expo ’92 and the European Community This article by alumna Anastasia Remes demonstrates how the EC sought to legitimise its political authority through architectural symbolism and historical narrative with its Expo ’92 pavilion. 👉 Read it #OpenAccess: loom.ly/o7O38J0 #FridayReads

Are you an early career scholar researching the history of European integration? It’s a match! The ADG wants you… 💘 …to apply for its VII Annual Graduate Conference by April 14 🔗 Full details: loom.ly/Pv2q1ho 📍 @eui-eu.bsky.social, Florence, 14-15 September 2026

🎙️ New podcast 🎧 🤔 How can geology reshape understandings of the Anthropocene and planetary pasts? 📻 Listen to a conversation with Iva Peša @unileiden.bsky.social Adam Bobette @glasgow.ac.uk and Dagomar Degroot (Georgetown Uni) 👉 loom.ly/IWAoLc8 📢 Next episode coming out next week, stay tuned!

📣 Looking forward to welcoming our speakers to Florence for the 5th #SubalternMemories conference! @achimklueppelberg.bsky.social will present on the legacy of the #Chernobyl disaster, marking its 40th anniversary. 🔗 Discover the full programme and speakers: europeanmemories.net/activities/s...

What role can history play in reimagining knowledge beyond Eurocentric perspectives? 🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ Join the debate at our #SummerSchool : Decentring Europe: Doing History Otherwise, 1500-present 👉 loom.ly/oIUq_Ls 📆 16-18 Sept 2026 🌐 Online 👩‍🎓 Open to MA students or recent MA graduates ⏰ Apply by 3 May 2026

This #DisabilityHistory event @eui-history.bsky.social is TOMORROW, Folks! 👇👇👇👇👇👇

💬 Speakers and contributors include: 👤 Corinna Unger, Polina Baitsy and Monika Baar @eui-history.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social 👤 Santiago Gorostiza @lunduniversity.bsky.social 👤 Chiara Calzana #unitorino 👤 Achim Klüppelberg @achimklueppelberg.bsky.social 👉 www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

What happened in the consulting room of an astrologer physician in rural England 400 years ago? Find out at CASEBOOKS THERAPY, Wed 25 Mar DM @laurenkassell.bsky.social for details @hagenilda.bsky.social @robralley.bsky.social @jakubochocinski.bsky.social #histmed #astrology @eui-history.bsky.social

🎙️ New #Podcast 🎙️ Listen to the @bruegel.org The Sound of Economics podcast with our own @manumourlon.bsky.social discussing the current Italian economic and political situation in the European context 👉 loom.ly/siqhz1o 📻 #history #Italy #Europeanintegration

How do ideas about race change over time? #MyPhDPitch Roberto Larrañaga @eui-history.bsky.social studies how Spanish intellectuals around 1900 redefined race during a moment of crisis & imperial decline, framing it less as biology and more as national character.

👋 Let’s welcome our new visiting fellow Zoé Evrard (FNRS - UCLovain)! Her research project focuses on the European planning in the light of neoliberalism during 1970 to 1990. Do you want to become a Visiting Fellow? Find all the information in our website 👉 loom.ly/u_hjJE4

Disability beyond the 'from isolation to integration narrative' On 25 March, 11.00 CET, join the lecture by Monika Baar on the history of Self-Governing Communities in Europe 👉 loom.ly/4jfEw90 Part of our Monthly Research Meetings 👉 loom.ly/7qMN2DM 📣 #disabilityhistory

🌐 Hybrid event - open to online participants 🌐 Beyond the rhetoric of inclusion On 23 March, 15.00 CET, join a lecture by Angéla Kóczé on racialised Romani women and the limits of European equality 👉 loom.ly/7KlWe6o 📣 #romanihistory #genderhistory #politicalhistory

🤔 What do we really mean when we call something “natural”? Join our researchers and faculty grappling with this question at La Storia in Piazza, a public history festival co-organised by our own Carlotta Sorba 🗓️ 26-29 March 2026 📍 Genoa, Italy 📜 Programme (in Italian) 👉 loom.ly/QElzI2k

What does it mean to de-centre Europe in historical research? Find your own answer at the EUI Summer School: Decentring Europe: Doing History, 1500-present 👉 https://loom.ly/oIUq_Ls 📆 16-18 Sept 2026 🌐 Online 👩‍🎓 Open to MA students/recent MA graduates ⏰ Apply by 3 May 2026

🎉New archives available! 🚜The inventory of the European Confederation of Technical, Agricultural, Rural, and Forestry Contractors collection has been published at the Historical Archives. Dig into this new perspective on European integration! ℹ️https://loom.ly/5C_sr-c

Pigs, planners, and potato peels Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess article by our Alumnus Olav Hofland on the Soviet scheme to feed pigs with urban food waste from the #1930s to the #1980s 👉 buff.ly/ZM9IvEK 📚 #FridayReads #EnvironmentalHistory #FoodHistory

📢 #CFA: EPP Group Research Grant The Group of the European People’s Party in the European Parliament supports early-stage researchers studying Christian Democracy & European integration. 🗃️ 3 grants for archival research in Florence and/or Brussels 📅 Apply by 15 May ℹ️ https://loom.ly/VjzhU34

Conceptualising girlhood in late Ottoman literature On 13 March at 14.00 CET, join a lecture with Atacan Atakan on emotion and gender in the late Ottoman novel 👉 buff.ly/PRMqfQE 🌐 Open to online participants 📣 #GenderHistory #Literature #Novel

Miraculous defences and collective memory Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess book chapter by our Alumnus Jan Blonski on the memory of divine interventions that allegedly saved towns in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Khmelnytsky Uprising 👉 buff.ly/a9uOy2f 📚 #FridayReads #ReligiousHistory

After the #BLM movement, museums began rethinking how race appears in collections. @amberburbidge.bsky.social @eui-history.bsky.social studies early modern images of Black figures & how stereotypes shaped ideas of race & gender.

Exploring the lives of left-wing volunteers who fought in multiple conflicts across the globe during the mid-20th century On 11 March, 17.00 CET, join a book presentation with Morten Heiberg and Enrico Acciai 👉 loom.ly/kCiRjuo 🌐 Open to online participants 📣 #PoliticalHistory #WarHistory

Le tournant de la rigueur: even in English, the expression describing the French government’s 1983 decision to devalue the French franc, stay in the EMS and reject the so-called alternative policy gains some traction. (1/4) www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

What does it mean to study, defend, and transmit European peace today? Join this much‑needed collective reflection on how peace is studied, defended, and transmitted across generations by @eui-euarchives.bsky.social and the Martens Centre! ⬇️

📚 New publication! 📚 On the move: mobility and Early Modern translation 👉 buff.ly/9rFFBQ5 Co-edited by our own Giancarlo Casale and Ann Thomson The volume investigates the translators' role as agents of encounter in a world in which ideas, texts and people circulated as never before

Reinscribing gender and sexuality in space(s) On 11 March, 14.00 CET, join a workshop with Jocelyne Dakhlia @ehess.fr on her recent book Harems et Sultans 👉 loom.ly/PI6CdyY Organised by M'hamed Oualdi and @eui-qfg.bsky.social 🌐 Open to online participants 📣 #SexualityHistory #GenderHistory

Recommended for historians and political scientists working on EU integration – the call is open for Visegrad Fund Grants for scholars from Central and Eastern Europe to consult the holdings of @eui-euarchives.bsky.social. Deadline: 27 April. Details 👉 tinyurl.com/y8p72tmt @eui-history.bsky.social

Trying to make a fresh start Read the 🔐 #OpenAccess article by our Alumnus Giovanni Tonolo on Dahomean politicians rethinking oil palm development in the late colonial period (1957-1960) 👉 loom.ly/8XDvOyw 📚 #Fridayreads #ColonialHistory #Decolonization

I enjoyed presenting details of my first book project today to Tōdai colleagues – on the theopolitical thought of Algernon Sidney (1623-1683), developing from my "De republica saeculari", my doctoral thesis @eui-history.bsky.social. I was delighted to receive encouraging comments!

Our researcher Nikolaos Paraschis defends his #PhD thesis mapping the reception of Soviet literature by the Greek political Left 1920s-1960s 👉 loom.ly/7wVxAUQ The thesis explores the role of Soviet literary reception in Greek social, political, and cultural history 🎓 📚 #CulturalHistory #Literature

📣 #CfA 📣 Are you a #PhD researcher enrolled in a doctoral programme in and holding nationality of one of the countries included in the #EUIWidening Europe Programme? Apply for a funded research visit with us! (autumn term 2026-2027) 👉 loom.ly/7QHy_yo ⏰ Apply by 30 April 2026 📣 #PhDlife

The European University - a fundamentally multilingual enterprise? On 6 March, 16.00 CET, join the lecture with David Ilmar Lepasaar Beecher, offering insights on multilingualism and academia in Europe from the perspective of the EU-Russian frontier 👉 loom.ly/UqjmDKI 🌐 Open to online participants!

In this #MyEUIResearch story, Aliesia Soloviova @eui-history.bsky.social traces how gender expectations and Soviet ideology shaped everyday family life and why they still resonate today. 🔗 https://loom.ly/XUrX_F4

Communicating (hi)stories If you are in Florence on 6 March, join a workshop investigating the politics and dynamics of research communication 👉 loom.ly/XK7DOlk Organised by our @eui-qfg.bsky.social, Visual and Material History and History of Science and Medicine Working Groups

Casebooks Therapy — where experts and enthusiasts gather to discuss hard to read, often tragic, sometimes life-affirming medical records that aren't even #medieval — will take place on Weds, 25 Feb, 3pm Florence time. Always online, never dull. DM or email @laurenkassell.bsky.social for the link.