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🆕 Just published in Geopolitics: “A Relational Approach to Study Europeanisation via Enlargement” As the enlargement process is re-energised, we must rethink our theoretical tools to make sense of the politics of the process. 📝 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #Europeanisation #EUEnlargement

Economists looking at an idea from sociology literature that they will be the first to write a paper on.

Some people say the biggest gap in research funding is at mid career level. So here is our new call for our mid career fellowship programme which provides buyout for 6 to 12 months to devote to the completion of a major piece of research. Spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/mid-...

Huge congratulations 🤩 to @kslootmaeckers.bsky.social & @frammaturo.bsky.social whose paper "The unexpected politics of ILGA-Europe’s rainbow maps [...]" has received the Best Article Award by the CES Sexuality & Gender Section 🏆 The paper is now✨FREE ACCESS✨ until Sep. 30th!

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

Love, solitarity and strength to all Hungarian LGBTQ and allies, defying Orban’s ban and rallying at Budapest Pride today. Despite all efforts to erase us, we shine! #BudapestPride

Happy Budapest Pride! #resist #Pride

Manchester University Press’s summer sale with 50% discount! With the paperback of my book just out, you can now get your copy for just a little over £12!!! Get your copy now! It’s not gonna be that cheap anytime soon! Use discount code Sun50 - manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526191281/

I was interviewed by @e-international.bsky.social about my book, my broader work as well as my views on LGBT politics in Europe. I really enjoyed being able to reflect on the different people and ideas that have shaped my academic life. Read it here: www.e-ir.info/2025/06/09/i...

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I was interviewed by @e-international.bsky.social about my book, my broader work as well as my views on LGBT politics in Europe. I really enjoyed being able to reflect on the different people and ideas that have shaped my academic life. Read it here: www.e-ir.info/2025/06/09/i...

My book has been released as a paperback with a refresh of the cover ☺️ This means that you can now buy your book at much more affordable prices! Have a look here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526191281/

Smart, sharp critique of @ilgaeurope.bsky.social’s Rainbow Map by @frammaturo.bsky.social and @kslootmaeckers.bsky.social. What happens when advocacy tools shape reality more than reflect it? It builds hierarchies, fuels homonationalism, and reduces queer life to legal checkboxes.

Rainbow indexes are back in the news again 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 While the negative trend for the UK is indeed a troubling signal for British LGBTQ+ folks, they should also be interpreted with caution as @frammaturo.bsky.social & @kslootmaeckers.bsky.social explain here doi.org/10.1332/2515...

Woke up to this little nugget! Very grateful for the way people have been engaging with my work and the generosity I’ve received in their engagement.

Stand up for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8

Start your week off right & make sure you check out our latest Themed Issue on "LGBTQ+ Politics in Contentious Times" 📖 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 It's packed with work by stars 🌟 like @honoratabogusz.bsky.social @kslootmaeckers.bsky.social @alavizzari.bsky.social @grahn.bsky.social among others!

The fact that the UK Supreme Court uncritically accepted “research” (from an anti-trans group) that trans inclusion in single-sex spaces threatens lesbians inverts reality. The biggest supporters of trans folk are cis lesbian and bi women. It’s also homophobic to erase trans lesbians and gay men.

Trying to get my head around what the Supreme Court ruling means for birth certificates in the UK 📝

"Almost all the UK attacks reported in my study centred on LGBTQ+ materials." Meanwhile editors commission dozens more articles about the silencing of, perhaps, Britain's most published academic, Kathleen Stock. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

In February, the European Commission withdrew their anti-discrimination legislation proposal. For @citystgeorgesucu.bsky.social, @kslootmaeckers.bsky.social discusses the veneer of progress in human rights issues and his award-winning book on sexual politics in Serbia/the EU: tinyurl.com/3pjs3yxv

A conversation not to be missed! Register your attendance now: uaces.civiplus.net/civicrm/even...

The withdrawal of the EU’s anti-discrimination directive has elicited concern about the bloc’s commitment to equality. Join us on Monday, 10 March 2025 from 14:30 - 15:45 pm GMT for a virtual roundtable dissecting the challenges ahead. Register here for free: uaces.civiplus.net/civicrm/even....

Coming in: Sexual politics and EU accession in Serbia by @kslootmaeckers.bsky.social is the WINNER of the #EUSA 2025 Best Book Prize🎉 'A much-needed critical reappraisal of the Europeanisation of LGBT rights and EU enlargement policies' - @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social Available now! #LGBTQ

Still time to submit your extended abstracts! We are so excited to get new and novel approaches and new voices to join us! Deadline 15 January!

"Inequality is viewed as an asset of incumbent policy actors bc it provides them w a predictable device w which to manage potentially unpredictable (& politically dangerous) situations." www.routledge.com/9781032786575

Do you research #PrideEvents? Consider sending an abstract for a chapter for the book 'The Changing Face of Pride: Movements, Activism, Histories' edited by me and Francesca R Ammaturo ! Deadline 15/01/2025. Info on Submission: koenslootmaeckers.com/pridebook.html #CFP #LGBTQ

Looking forward to presenting "Proximity to monosexuality as protection in asylum", a chapter of my PhD thesis on bi+ asylum at @doingips.bsky.social this Friday! We will be at KCL and @kslootmaeckers.bsky.social has very kindly agreed to be my discussant 😄 If you'd like to join, get in touch!

Before I start teaching #EuropeanStudies again, time for a panel at #UACES2024 on @kslootmaeckers.bsky.social and @rguerrina.bsky.social report The Sound of Silence in the European Studies Canon www.uaces.org/edi-report

Starting the week presenting my paper “the case for a relational approach to Europeanisation via enlargement” at the UACES annual conference.

Out now with @kstoeckl.bsky.social and I are happy to share our new book "The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights" nyupress.org/978147982479... A decade in the making, it offers in-depth look at the global movement to curtail LGBTI rights—and how the LGBTI movement responds to it.

Off we go for#UACES2024! See you all there!

Interested in #European studies #EU politics, law, economics etc.? Want to follow academics working in those area? Our @uaces.bsky.social conference this year #UACES2024 is next week in #Trento and I've put together a starter pack of conference participants already on BlueSky go.bsky.app/LwLMxw9

It takes a British TV channel to capture the killing of an unarmed civilian w/white flag by IDF troops live on screen for some to believe what eyewitnesses & relief organisations have been saying for weeks. Still some arguing that it was a rare & unfortunate accident.

First academic highlight in 2024: to attend the #FemWars workshop on militarism, gender and war in the Nordics with a keynote by Cynthia Enloe! Delighted too see (again) @kslootmaeckers.bsky.social @elinberg.bsky.social @atrwibben.bsky.social www.fiia.fi/en/event/mil...

Now that I have received the official letter, I am very pleased to announced I have been promoted to Reader in International Politics and that I can now spend the next few years trying to explain what being a Reader means.

All the speakers have been announced and you still have two days to register for the annual @equalin-sight.bsky.social conference “Bridging the Gap” — follow the link to register to attend either In person or online bridging-the-gap.co 👇👇👇

Very excited to join the Bridging the Gap conference (20 Nov) organised by @rguerrina.bsky.social to deliver my keynote "Making EDI policies work: asking the tough questions". To register (to join online) and see the full programme, visit www.bridging-the-gap.co

Do you write about #PrideEvents? If yes, why not submit a paper for the panel 'The Changing Face of Pride Events: Movements, Activism, Histories' that Francesca R Ammaturo and I are proposing for #ECPG2024? Access the #CFP here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I am just at an emotional loss looking at the news in the last few hours. I am in despair to see such loss of live, such genocidal violence and the lack of a response and the ways in which our governments are condoning and supporting this blatant erasure of humanity.

because the UN Security Council hasn’t acted, the UN General Assembly will convene an emergency session on Palestine today & tomorrow—a huge number of speakers will speak, and then all will vote on a draft resolution from Jordan. You can watch here: media.un.org/en/asset/k1y...

Hitting the submit button is a great way to start the weekend. Fingers crossed for a smooth review process, because I am very proud of this piece ☺️

In his book, Coming In. Sexual Politics and EU Accession in Serbia (ManchesterUP, 2023) Koen Slootmaeckers offer a succinct and comprehensive analysis of sexual politics, Europeanization and policy making in Serbia. @aleksranko.bsky.social reviews the book. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/sexua...

This year’s @SPAISBristol annual lecture by on disability and political representation by @elizabethjevans.bsky.social drawing attention to the exclusion of disable people in politics. Absolutely fantastic and much needed research

. @mstambolis.bsky.social has arrived! He is not only a brilliant scholar but also a kind friend and above all someone do all to follow 🤩

My day was quite exciting!!! (Yes! I’m proud of my slides)

Excited to go to University of East Anglia today on another lap of my book tour! It is always great to talk about LGBT politics in Europe and ask some core question about how we imagine progress and its political consequences.

A reading list of 15 articles, made open access by Journal of Palestine Studies. Articles provide historical context and analysis of the 17-year Israeli blockade of Gaza. #Polisky www.tandfonline.com/journals/rpa...

“We see in the violence that is seen, the violence that is not (…) Solidarity also means being willing to keep opening that door, to the hardest most painful truths, the violent colonial histories kept present” - Sara Ahmed feministkilljoys.com/2023/10/16/k... #FreePalestine