Visited the PROTEST exhibition with my @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social MSc #EuropeanStudies students today. Had a great discussion on the role of #protests in #Europe afterwards 🇪🇺 Plenty of examples from their own experience in different countries and contexts.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘂𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗨 𝗱𝗼 𝗻𝗼𝘄? We sat down with Full Professor Giselle Bosse and PhD researcher Wicke van den Broek to discuss why the EU must not engage with Lukashenka’s regime. 👉 Read the interview here: studioeuropamaastricht.nl/2025/11/03/f... #WorkingOnEurope

Lots of meetings about #teaching and #learning but today was the start of the only full course I teach, for our @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social MSc #EuropeanStudies, on #democracy in #Europe

Last week I had the pleasure of teaching a short intro to text classification with LLMs to the faculty at @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social. Interested? Materials: github.com/laurencleek/.... I've also made public a repo for an intro to GitHub course github.com/laurencleek/... I taught some time back!

A month ago I presented BBILY to friends and colleagues, hosted by @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social. These are the introductory comments that I made: michaelerard.com/blog/comment...

Join @posteurope.bsky.social for his inaugural lecture as Professor of practical #philosophy with a thematic focus on the #politics of socio-technical systems @maastrichtu.bsky.social 🗓️ 7 Nov 2025, 16:30 💬 "Instelling, werk en technologie" 🎥 Watch live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=037m...

Today, at 16:30, @posteurope.bsky.social will deliver his inaugural lecture 'Instelling, werk en technologie' and accept his position as Professor of practical #philosophy with a thematic focus on the #politics of socio-technical systems. 📹watch live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=037m...#philosophy

Pre-discussing the Dutch elections @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social

You’re invited!💥 CARE, ART & CARE AESTHETICS public event — with a woodworking workshop, expert panel, Q&A + refreshments. 📅 14 Nov | 12:00–18:00 🪵 Workshop: Werkhuis Maastricht, Hunnenweg 4 🎤 Panel: FASoS, Grote Gracht 76 Free, 18+, no experience needed. 👉 Register: tinyurl.com/3b4fzn93

Ben jij gepassioneerd over bijdragen aan de toekomst van het hoger #onderwijs via doeltreffend beleid en strategisch advies? Solliciteer dan op de #vacature van #beleidsadviseur in onze Teaching & Learning Hub! 🔔vacature sluit op 26 oktober 👉https://tinyurl.com/ye24a3e5

Join us for the @maastrichtu.bsky.social Master’s Open Day!💡 Discover our interdisciplinary programmes, meet inspiring lecturers and students, and explore how FASoS can help you shape a meaningful career in the humanities and social sciences✨ 🗓️ 15 November 👉 Register now: tinyurl.com/3dkn4vty

Curious about studying at @maastrichtu.bsky.social? Join us for the Bachelor’s Open Day and discover our unique international community, problem-based learning approach, and vibrant campus life💡✨ 🗓️ 8 November 2025 💬 Explore our programmes & meet students and staff 👉 Register: tinyurl.com/mtu2k8hp

🎓 This week, we are celebrating our FASoS master’s #graduates! 🌟 Your dedication, curiosity, and critical insight have brought you to this proud milestone. From innovative research to international collaborations, you’ve shown what it means to think deeply and engage meaningfully with the world🌍

🎓 Congratulations to our FASoS bachelor’s #graduates! 🌟 Today we celebrate your hard work, creativity, and perseverance — and the friendships, discoveries, and memories made along the way💐 Here’s to new adventures, continued learning, and meaningful contributions ahead👏

🌟 Want to make your research more #collaborative and #community-driven? Join our workshop “Designing Community-Led Research/Projects”🤝 🗓️ 30 Oct 2025, 14:00–16:00 📍 GG76 1.15, Maastricht University 👤 Led by Branko Popovic, co-founder of FASHIONCLASH Secure your spot today 👉 tinyurl.com/4n2n8kxh

The Department of History is recruiting two PhD candidates for the @erc.europa.eu project FeMMiWork Research women's overlooked contributions to #postwar labour and community life. Apply before 30 November 👉 shorturl.at/xARJF

Today at 16:30, Anna Harris will deliver her inaugural lecture and accept her position as Professor of #Anthropology and #Medicine at @maastrichtu.bsky.social 🎥 Watch live: shorturl.at/U72tS#Anthropology

Join Anna Harris for her inaugural lecture as Professor of #Anthropology and #Medicine at @maastrichtu.bsky.social#Medicine#Anthropology🗓️ 24 Oct 2025, 16:30 💬 "The Matter of Hospitals: An Ethnographer Investigates" 🎥 Watch live: shorturl.at/U72tS

The #ghost of a French officer haunts the halls of our faculty 👻 Keep an eye out, you never know who or what is watching you 👀 #halloween #happyhalloween

🏥 Book launch: The Matter of Hospitals, edited by Anna Harris, reveals the hidden #material life of #hospitals, from bedsheets to x-rays. 📆 7-11, 15:30–17:00 📍 Boekhandel De Tribune, Maastricht 🎤 Rianne Letschert & the editor 💻 Open access via Maastricht University Press

The Arts Umbrella Dance Company brings movement to the #PROTEST exhibition by @bartvandenboom.bsky.social. Young Canadian dancers respond to the artworks with powerful choreographic interventions—where dance and visual art merge into a living, moving experience. 📆9 October 📍Stercollege

📅 Nov. 13 2025 | 💻 Online 🎤 Keynote: Prof. Emilie Sitzia (@uva.nl / @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social) Full Program & infos : tinyurl.com/3avsz2xa @forarthistory.org.uk

A real pleasure to contribute to this @edlab-ctl.bsky.social video series on #educational #research. Offers an insight into our research on the #international #classroom in #PBL and into how @carlahaelermans.bsky.social and I collaborated. #EduSky #TeachLearnSky @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social

On Saturday, we participated in the #weekendvandewetenschap. Children and parents could learn more about doing research, from European #negotiations to designing #hospitals, and from deciphering #ChatGPT to drawing #mobility maps.

🇬🇧 Westminster as a learner, not just a model? A new article by @bettovanwaarden.bsky.social in Parliamentary History shows how the UK Parliament observed peril, promise & practice in parliamentary broadcasting abroad. Read the full article here: tinyurl.com/4vys5vmx

I had a great time presenting BYE BYE I LOVE YOU to friends and colleagues yesterday at @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social. It kicked off a busy fall--I have six more talks to do by the end of the year. Get in touch if I can talk to your group about first words, last words, and/or writing nonfiction.

How did #computers go from niche machines to everywhere, all at once? It turns out one of the oldest technologies, #books, was key. Join our MUSTS colloquium by @patrickmccray.bsky.social on Wednesday 8 October in which we will explore how literature shaped the rise of computing. shorturl.at/UJsqM

🤝📅 Are you a FASoS researcher and do you want to design research with communities? Join our hands-on workshop at FASoS on 30 October with Branko Popovic (FASHIONCLASH) to explore skills for meaningful, lasting collaborations. Register now to secure your spot! 👉 tinyurl.com/4n2n8kxh

🗣️ How do children in Limburg learn and use dialects? A new study by Elma Blom, Leonie Cornips & Øystein A. Vangsnes finds that age, peer interactions & Dutch proficiency all shape dialect skills. A look at language learning in a dialect–standard continuum! Find out more here: tinyurl.com/y3vfeyr6

Back from our summer ☀️ break with an interview! Read about @blenormand.bsky.social's new @erc.europa.eu project, "Women Migrants from the Northern Mediterranean and Work in Postwar Northwestern Europe" (FeMMiWork). Read the interview here: ceureviewofbooks.com/interview/in...

Believe the hype. @hypestudies.bsky.social @danishanley.bsky.social @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social

As a faculty in the humanities and social science, we @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social engage with contested contemporary issues on a daily basis in #learning, #teaching & #research. We are therefore happy to host the new Viewmaster exhibition PROTEST which opened yesterday. See: tinyurl.com/viewprotest

A nice review of #Unsustainable in the @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social. Thanks to Evelyn Langford for a generous and engaged review! blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb... @nyupress.bsky.social @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social

📖 New in # EU studies: @johanadriaensen.bsky.social, Sophie Vanhoonacker & Igor Sarkissian explore how the EU’s push for a #geopolitical agenda reshapes institutional power. Their article sheds light on shifting balances within the EU polity. Read more here: tinyurl.com/984xtca9

👀Curious about how the European Commission relies on private consultants in shaping #EU #policy? In When Consultants Come to Town, Andreea Nastase & Elissaveta Radulova unpack the justifications and the risks. Read the article here: tinyurl.com/mt9cd3fd

📝 New review essay by @ferenclaczo.bsky.social! In “Do not surrender to words! Mark Mazower on two histories of Antisemitism”, he reflects on Mazower’s call to fight antisemitism as part of a wider anti-racist strategy while protecting free debate. Read the essay now: tinyurl.com/3mwv5773

🇪🇺 From defence & competitiveness to the Green Deal, housing & poverty. Von der Leyen’s State of the Union touched on it all. In an interview with @studioeuropa.bsky.social Christine Neuhold reflects on the #politics, #funding & future of #EU action. Read more 👉 tinyurl.com/s3e7nxc8

📢 Vacancy alert: We are looking for a #PhD candidate to research the long-term history of the #EU’s Eastern enlargement. Join FASoS and develop your own project in an international and interdisciplinary environment. Interested? Check out this link and apply before 28 September: tinyurl.com/3zh3w8ad

📢 New publication alert! In JCMS, @thcon.bsky.social & Sophie Vanhoonacker explore how the EU’s #geo-economic turn reshapes the balance of power between Commission, Council & Parliament with trade & security more entangled than ever. 👉 tinyurl.com/mrm7he3u

🔍🧠 What happens when #memory becomes #political? In her new article The Politics of Memory: Between History, Identity and Conflict, Aline Sierp examines how collective memory is mobilised as a strategy in conflicts within and between states. Interested? Check the article here: tinyurl.com/46rsfkra

🌏💼 What does “retirement” mean when return, care, and labour continue across borders? In her new chapter in Anthropology of Retirement, @meghaamrith.bsky.social examines the futures imagined by ageing migrant domestic workers in Singapore & Hong Kong. Read more here: tinyurl.com/bde79pae

🎶 New from Peter Peters: Electronic Baroque: Building a Historical Organ for the Present. He explores the creation of a unique baroque organ with both mechanical and electronic interfaces showing how innovation intertwine in today’s musical practices. Read more here: tinyurl.com/3ptwxsaw

✍️📚 New in Global Intellectual History: @ferenclaczo.bsky.social critically engages with Dirk Moses’ The Problems of Genocide, reflecting on how we name and frame the “greatest political evil” and its implications for global intellectual debates. Read the publication here: tinyurl.com/uh8zkr3f

📰 Leonie Cornips & Daan Hovens ask: can dairy farms, where cows & technology often outnumber people, be seen as multi-actant communities of practice? Their new article reimagines workplace learning in non-human centred environments. Read the paper here: doi.org/10.56395/8ac...

🌏 How do ageing #migrant domestic workers in Asia reimagine security for later life? @meghaamrith.bsky.social explores how financial education, kinship care & alternative imaginaries shape ideas of social protection in Singapore & Hong Kong. Read the article now: tinyurl.com/ysju9hme

📱✈️ In a new article Framing embodied mobility through video calls, Laura J. Ogden explores how migrant youth use digital media during ‘home’ visits to Ghana, highlighting multi-generational ties and new ways of seeing mobility through audio-visual methods. Read more here: tinyurl.com/r6t8bky4

📖✨ In When Sally Met Steve, @sallywyatt.bsky.social contributes a creative haiku-based reflection to Revisiting Reflexivity. The volume explores how science and technology studies engages with reflexivity. Essential reading for those curious about liveable worlds in research: tinyurl.com/3svhejhb

📚🌍 New paper by Simone Plöger, Laura Ogden, Sara Fürstenau & Vera Nowikow explores how Ghanaian & Syrian newcomer students in Germany perceive inequalities and opportunities in secondary education through the lens of language learning. Read more here: tinyurl.com/379z3p2w

🌍📢 New ENSURED reports are out! With contributions from @claraweinhardt.bsky.social and @mirkoheinzel.bsky.social. These studies explore #trade, #climate, #migration, #digital currencies and more!

🎉 Congratulations to @masssimons.bsky.social on receiving a grant from the Evert Willem Beth Foundation! With this support, he will organise a symposium to strengthen the Dutch- and Flemish-speaking HOPOS community in the history & philosophy of science.