#Skystorians: What are your favorite papers and books that discuss working with historical life writing?

It was ‘boots on the ground’ yesterday, facilitating one of the #PBL groups during our BA #EuropeanStudies Experience Day. Thanks to our @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social marketing team for organising and of course to @hdijkstra.bsky.social & @historikarin.bsky.social for their contributions

Proofs! Great reminder that this massive volume, aka the Cambridge Handbook of the League of Nations and International Law is slowly coming your way.. expected in June 2026

Great opportunity at @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social: we have 4-year postdoc position on disinformation and European democracy. Possible disciplinary focus includes, e.g., political science and computational social science. Interdisciplinary approaches to disinformation are encouraged.

📢 We are hiring! 📢 Come and join us at @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social @maastrichtu.bsky.social as Assistant Professor in European Political History since 1900! Will you become my new colleague? Please check out the full vacancy here 👇 vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Prints! Ready to delve into this new volume that just arrived in the mail, with new perspectives from various disciplines on the 1920-1946 Permanent Court of International Justice. Including a chapter by yours truly on the role of the Netherlands in the establishment of the court.

Another piece from the special issue on EU legal history 'from below' that is nicely coming about on first view: the story of Helen Marshall's unlikely (but major) contribution to EU law.

9 december! Zegt het voort! ukrant.nl/hoger-onderw...

The symposium is coming together nicely: Brigitte Leucht, Magnus Esmark and Mala Loth write the introduction cum manifest on bottom-up legal history. @koenvanzon.bsky.social @historikarin.bsky.social @whommes.bsky.social @lolaavril.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

BOOK: Philip BAJON, Informal Decision Making in the European Community under the Luxembourg Compromise. The Law that Never Was (London: Bloomsbury/Hart, 2025 📖 esclh.blogspot.com/2025/11/book...

If you can, join this (hybrid) book launch of @whommes.bsky.social 's history of the European Convention of Human Rights and its reception in the Netherlands!

Come visit us during tomorrow’s @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social BA Open Day and learn more about our four fantastic programmes in 📚 Arts & Culture 📚 🤖 Digital Society 🤖 🇪🇺 European Studies 🇪🇺 🌐 Global Studies 🌐 Details ☞ www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/bachelors-op...

Another publication now on First View! This piece by Wiebe Hommes @uvalawschool.bsky.social will be part of the forthcoming special issue featuring histories 'beyond European legal integration' - but open for you to read already from today!

Fascinating read on airports as sites of contestation between nation states and their immigration regimes on the one hand and international rights conceptions on the other, from the perspective of the refugees..

Published today @europeanlawopen.bsky.social : this piece co-authored with @koenvanzon.bsky.social on 'societal mobilisation' of EU law through an instrument you'd not immediately think of as very 'societal': infringement proceedings

📣Call for Panels, Papers and Posters for the APH 2026 Conference! Deadline, 1 Dec 2025. Topic: Dynamizing and Decentring Empires: A Recalibration of the History of the Political 📍Münster @uni-muenster.de @sechistnetwork.bsky.social 📅11-13 June 2026 www.associationforpoliticalhistory.org?p=2797

There they are! Kicking off the 2025-2026 academic year (and my directorship of the programme!) with over 300 first year students for the BA European Studies @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social 🇪🇺

Happy Europe Day from our @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social European Studies graduates!

One great PhD opportunity! The lucky historian will learn a great deal. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Huge crowd, protesting against the budget cuts in Dutch higher education at Maastricht #WOinActie

Today UM strikes! 🟥 Staff & students pause work to protest education cuts. Over 2,500 concerned citizens and academics signed a solidarity letter. ✊ Follow the liveblog 👉 edu.nl/xaa3q & share your solidarity on social media platforms using #WOinActie Or follow the strike live on this channel!

Vandaag staakt Maastricht! Aujourdhui, Maastricht en grève! Heute streikt Maastricht! Today Maastricht is on strike! ✊ #KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs www.fnv.nl/nieuwsberich...

Op woensdag 16 april pakt Maastricht de estafettestaking van Nederlandse universiteiten over. We staken uit protest tegen de inmiddels door de Eerste Kamer goedgekeurde bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs. Omdat goed (hoger) onderwijs essentieel is voor Nederland kennisland en haar democratie!

Waarom we heel snel werk moeten gaan maken van onze geo-ideologische ongeletterdheid (als we tenminste niet steeds weer door de grillen van buitenlandse leiders in de internationale betrekkingen overvallen willen worden). Nieuwe column! 👇🏼 www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Hello! We’re looking forward to sharing news about recent archival deposits, grant opportunities for research on European integration, exhibits, publications, and outreach activities at the HAEU. Please give us a follow-we’re excited to meet you! 📲 @eui-EUArchives.bsky.social

Never mind woke Marxism, I can't even indoctrinate my students into formatting a bibliography consistently. 🤷🏻‍♀️

The call for papers for the ELU-S inaugural conference is out! More information on how to submit your abstracts is available here: europeanlawunbound.eu/annual-confe... We look forward to receiving your paper and panel submissions and seeing you in Prague!

🧭 #EUEnlargementDilemmas No.7 🔄 @ferenclaczo.bsky.social reconsiders European integration as a history of the present, focusing on the roles East Europeans have played & how they remind their fellow Europeans of the existential stakes of the 🌍 European project. 👉 bit.ly/4hXp5qC

Hoe is dit beleid?? "De gewenste daling van de instroom van internationale studenten is al bijna gehaald. Dat creëert ruimte, schrijft [Bruins]. Tegelijkertijd: wordt het doel een jaar niet gehaald, dan volgt er mogelijk een “vermindering in de netto bekostiging per student in dat jaar”."

Happy to announce a new issue has dropped. Good stuff. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Zorgelijke ontwikkeling, ik hoop dat het Nationaal Archief snel met een oplossing komt (ook voor die onderzoekers die gebruik willen maken van de vele andere collecties van het archief is de toegang momenteel zeer beperkt)!

Once again, we had a great vibe on our @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social campus during a very sunny Bachelor Open Day! Good to see so many prospective students and parents coming to Maastricht, and considering our wonderful programmes.

On Feb 26th, our @maastrichtu.bsky.social Law&History network will host a seminar with Lucas Lixinski @heritagelaw.bsky.social , discussing the turn to history in international law, and its promise to offer alternative imaginations by recovering history: www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/law-h...

My @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social colleague @ferenclaczo.bsky.social on why it is 'high time to consider the place and roles of Eastern Europe and East Europeans in the history of European integration' (and more importantly: how to do it!)

Still time to submit your panel/paper proposal for next APH conference on 'How to decolonize political history?' Deadline: 10 February 📍Antwerp, Belgium 📆 18-20 June 2025 Apply on the dedicated website👇

Goedemorgen!

Ook de Eerste Kamer wordt niet wijs uit de ratjetoe aan plannen, bezuinigingen en nieuwe wetten die Eppo Bruins over het HO uitstort. Goed dat zij om opheldering en uitstel vragen in plaats van instemming te verlenen zonder de tijd voor reflectie genomen te hebben.

As an historian drifted into European law, I am very excited by the promise of interdisciplinary (and also cross-subdisciplinary..) conversations harboured by this new initiative! Looking forward to the first CfP (for those unable to watch the video: conf to take place in Prague 25-27 sept 2025)

Hoera! Volgtip 👇

Mooi draadje over het onderzoek van @koenvanzon.bsky.social (en een beetje van mij) naar de handhaving van Europese milieu/veiligheidswetgeving in de jaren 80. Ook toen grepen burgers en belangengroepen het EU-recht aan om maatregelen af te dwingen - via de rechter, maar ook via klachtenprocedures

The website for our conference "How to decolonize political history" (Antwerp, 18-20 June 2025, organized by @associationpolhist.bsky.social and @uantwerppohis.bsky.social) is out: www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferenc...! Only 11 days left to submit a proposal for a panel or paper.

Stagevacature! Ken of ben jij een geschiedenisstudent die Naomi en mij de komende maanden wil assisteren bij een onderzoek naar de geschiedenis van de 'rode familie'? Check dan deze vacature van @wiardibeckman.bsky.social

Goedemorgen allemaal! Deze week aan mij, @koenvanzon.bsky.social, de beurt om dit account te beheren. Ik ben historicus van de Europese Unie. Hier een kort overzicht van mijn onderzoek 🧵. In de loop van deze week ga ik hier dieper op in. Als jullie al vragen of verzoeken hebben, stel ze gerust!

One more for my reading list - looks fascinating!

Als je ze nog niet kende: volg dit geweldige account @historicivertellen.bsky.social met volgende week @koenvanzon.bsky.social over democratie en technocratie in de EU!

How do International Organisations survive existential challenges? Most timely book publication by @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social colleague @hdijkstra.bsky.social and his ERC team!

Mooi nieuws! @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social collega @mariellew.bsky.social benoemd tot lid van De Jonge Akademie @knaw-nl.bsky.social

Rechter houdt kabinet aan wettelijke stikstofdoelen, die inmiddels vrijwel onhaalbaar zijn. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

En weer komt het op de rechter aan om de politiek te dwingen zich aan de wet te houden. Kan/moet het anders? Hier een interessante reflectie bij het stikstof-nieuws van vandaag.