🚨 Call for 2 postdocs! The EDGE team at VUB is hiring! We’re looking for researchers to rethink democracy in Europe: climate, representation & inequality 🔍🌍 Start: Fall 2025 Location: Brussels 🇧🇪 Deadline: 20 June Info & how to apply 👉 tinyurl.com/zpw3p6z7

Marie Curie Call for Postdoctoral Fellowship is still open: ‼️ DEADLINE 31/05 ‼️

The petition to ban conversion therapy practices in the EU is lacking enough votes from: - #germany (49.9%) - #sweden (49.96%) - #Netherlands (94%) - #austria (25.5%) - #Slovenia (83.14%) - #portugal (24.46%) If you're a citizen there you can help advance a ban on conversion therapy by voting:

In "Blending In and Sticking Out: Performing legitimacy claims to become (a) representative", Hannah Oorts reflects on how minoritised representatives perform their role in racialised and gendered institutions. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Looking back on a very fulfilling day at @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #psa25! ✨ I presented a co-authored paper with my colleague from @dfuturevub.bsky.social Daan Vermassen, to an audience filled with friendly faces from @warwickpais.bsky.social. 🙌🏼

🆕 New article by @hannahoorts.bsky.social in European Journal of Cultural Studies! 🔹 “Blending In and Sticking Out” explores how politicians like Assita Kanko navigate race & gender in performing political legitimacy—before being accepted as representatives. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/9PI82...

✨My first academic piece is out! ✨ In "Blending In and Sticking Out: Performing legitimacy claims to become (a) representative", I write about how minoritised representatives perform their role within institutions. Read about it in @ejcs-journal.bsky.social

This tariff fiasco is crazy on so many levels. So @hankgreen.bsky.social decided to rank them. As much as there is to laugh at, stay till the end, because he does a good job breaking down why this is so serious. youtu.be/8JuuGjRhSYE?...

You know how the far-right is pretty big right now? Well I've got a 🚨New Publication🚨 on interpreting far-right ideologies! Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement is #OpenAccess in @ejir.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

👉Last chance to submit your abstracts! 👈 Hope to see everyone interested in #performance, #polarisation, #populism and #democracy there! It's going to be a day filled with an inspiring keynote by prof. Paula Diehl and exchange amongst amazing scholars!! ✨

🚨Publication alert! 🚨 Happy to announce the publication of my first solo academic work! I critique how 'convergence' is deployed in debates about the Eurozone crisis and beyond, offering a constructivist edge to discussions about capitalist restructuring in the Eurozone. doi.org/10.1111/jcms...

🚨10 More days to submit your abstract! 🚨 Join us at the @warwickpais.bsky.social for an engaging workshop on #performanging in times of #polarisation!

Join me and @kamilbernaerts.bsky.social at @warwickpais.bsky.social for a workshop combining our research interests: #performance 🎭and #polarisation ↔️! With a keynote by Professor Paula Diehl, discussed by Professor Michael Saward and YOUR paper presentations! ✨Hope to see you there!✨

✨Join us on March 13th at the University of Warwick for an inspiring workshop! Hope to see many of you there! ✨

🚨 New article! Colleagues Henry Maes, Ambroos Verwee and Lien Smets published an article in @plc-journal.bsky.social toghether with V. Van Ingelgom & L. Knops. 'Affective Polarisation in Citizens’ Own Words: Understanding Group Construction' 1/3

A little #introduction about myself: I am Hannah, 24 years old, working and living in Brussels. 👉 In my #research, I hope to explore how #representation is #constructed and #performed. ☁️ Looking forward to meeting new people, gather new insights and discover #research in this new online space!