Our researcher Wouter Baas defends his #PhD thesis on forms of transnational cooperation among German-speaking Catholic activists and their connection to the spread of German nationalism during the interwar period 👉 loom.ly/gq865fg

Moral Reconstruction

PhD defence by Wouter Baas

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You are all invited to attended our lecture by Dr. Tetiana Zemliakova's lecture on "Making Sense of Historical Time", The lecture will take place on 17.00 on 18 November @eui-eu.bsky.social. Please register on the event page: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...! See you there.

Making Sense of Historical Time: From Perception to Constitution

A lecture on the phenomenology of historical time by Dr Tetiana Zemliakova (CEU Democracy Institute)

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Why did nearly a century of efforts to develop the oil palm sector in Dahomey/Benin not make its producers wealthy? 📚 Read the newly published 🔓 #OpenAccess book by our Alumnus Giovanni Tonolo 👉 loom.ly/3ksjumo The book is a published version of Tonolo's #EUI #PhD thesis

🌏 Since the turn of the 21st century, the prospect of planetary histories has begun to appear on the horizon of historians’ views 👩‍🏫 Delve into this fascinating approach at our seminar series Planetary Histories 👉 loom.ly/zCITE7k 🤝 Co-organised with @ihr.bsky.social

Planetary Histories Seminar Series

Seminar series jointly organised by the Institute of Historical Research, London and the EUI Department of History

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What happens when politics ceases to offer hope and apocalyptic thinking becomes a last refuge? Our Nicolas Guilhot recently published a book on the history of conspiratorial thinking 👉 loom.ly/bQ5CMAA The book explores the interplay between conspiracy theories and social imbalances

An early modern institution in a modern age? If you are in Florence on 19 October, join the lecture by Kristina Puljizević on the 1820s Habsburg anti-epidemic system along the Dalmatian-Ottoman border 👉 loom.ly/CmtBfAs Part of the activities of the #EUIWidening Europe Programme

An Early Modern Institution in a Modern Age? Interpreting the Habsburg Sanitary Cordon on the Dalmatian-Ottoman Border

lecture by Kristina Puljizević (Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb)

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What our our #PhD researchers-led working groups up to next week (19-23 October)? Check the thread below! 🧵 👇

The Feminist Modernist Studies Special Issue “The Contour of an Electric Spirit”: Revisiting Mina Loy in the 21st Century, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2026) is now all online! Happy to be part of such a range of new work. My article www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Issue www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfmd20/9/2

I'll present my upcoming paper “The European Parliament's victory of 1989 – EP's outreach to Polish Solidarity union 1979-89” on Monday @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social event. Based on research at @eui-euarchives.bsky.social. More: tinyurl.com/3sx8uarm @eui-history.bsky.social @manumourlon.bsky.social

How do contemporary far-right movements draw on longer histories of exclusion, vulnerability, and visions of national renewal? On 21 October, 17.30 CEST, join our 2026 Ursula Hirschmann Lecture with Dagmar Herzog 👉 loom.ly/yD5pmiE 🤝 Co-organised with the @eui-schuman.bsky.social

The New Fascist Body: Ableism and affective politics from Nazism to the contemporary far right

Prof. Dagmar Herzog (CUNY) will deliver the 2026 Ursula Hirschmann Lecture, jointly organised by the Robert Schuman Centre and the EUI Department of History.

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A journey through Florence's multifaceted global connections If you are in Florence by 9 January 2027, visit the exhibition: 🌏 Global Florence. The World of Francesco Carletti, ca. 1573-1636 📆 9 October 2026 - 9 January 2027 📍 Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Italy 👇

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Discover 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, exploring merchant Francesco Carletti’s world through 69 objects revealing global trade and cultural exchange around 1600, from a Ming Chinese atlas to a Japanese katana. 📍 Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana 🗓️ Until 9 January 2027 🎫 https://loom.ly/DfIEZBo

Our researcher Fartun Mohamed defends their #PhD thesis on Somali memories of Italian colonialism across three generations 👉 loom.ly/eVTdvbY The thesis restores Somali voices to the centre of historical knowledge, challenging their exclusion from Italian historiography

Our researcher Mónica Monmeneu González defends their #PhD thesis on the Lyceum Clubs of Madrid and Havana as instruments of women's cultural influence in the transatlantic space 1920s-1940s 👉 loom.ly/eScu50U The thesis tracks how members, exhibitions, and ideas moved between the two clubs

What stories are missing from European memory? @eui-history.bsky.social Professor Monika Baar explores how disability has been written out of European history & what changes when we revisit the past through a disability lens. 🔎 https://loom.ly/Bo-9TaI

Our researcher Arina Fedorova defends her #PhD thesis on the Peasants Land Bank as a tool for the restructuring of agrarian order in late-imperial Russia 👉 loom.ly/7yteK7Q It argues that the Bank functioned as a key mechanism to regulate access to land and project authority across the empire

A journey through Florence's multifaceted global connections Brace for the opening of the exhibition: 🌏 Global Florence. The World of Francesco Carletti, ca. 1573-1636 📆 9 October 2026 - 9 January 2027 📍 Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Italy

Can we frame ‘the economy’ as a product of political thinking in international spaces? On 7 October, 11.00 CEST, join our first Monthly Research Meeting with our own Glenda Sluga 👉 loom.ly/J_bliUA Based on the research by our @ecointeui.bsky.social project, funded by @erc.europa.eu

🎓 Our researcher Katerina Acheimastou defended her #PhD thesis on the relationship between political and gender-based violence during the Greek Civil War (1944–1949) 👉 loom.ly/UsJglIs 📚 Want to get a grasp of Katerina's research? Read this #MyEUIResearch interview 👉 loom.ly/sgMvFbQ

Now off to print, coming out on 15 December with @cornellupress.bsky.social ! Book description and pre-orders here: cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

🇪🇺 What does it mean to be European? For #EuropeanHeritageDays, revisit @ @eui-history.bsky.social alumna Oriane Calligaro's thesis on how notions of "Europeanness" have been negotiated and promoted since the 1950s. 📖 loom.ly/Dc26pww

📣LAST DAYS: Call for Applications for the European Court of Auditors Postgraduate Research Grant Programme. Interested in EU’s public finances and policies? This is for you! 📆Deadline is 6 October More info 👉 loom.ly/-Y5gQL8 @euauditors.bsky.social ‬ @eui-euarchives.bsky.social ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

European Court of Auditors Postgraduate Research Grant Programme

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Who laid the foundations of US globalism in the #20thcentury? On 30 September, 15:00 CEST, join the book presentation by David Ekbladh on American conservatives' embrace of the USA’s global role in the 1930s 👉 loom.ly/5FuWFL0 Organised by our Interwar Histories Working Group 👉 loom.ly/hk8X6Nc

Power Cannot be Divorced from Responsibility

The Interwar Histories Working Group organise a book presentation with Professor David Ekbladh about how American conservatives came to embrace the US’s global mission during the world crisis of the 1...

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Dzień dobry! Next week, our Department is coming to Poland with 2 events (more info in the thread below 👇) Both events have been made possible thanks to the generous support of the @eui-eu.bsky.social Widening Europe Programme 👉 loom.ly/5ytoTFM #EUIWidening

What kind of scholarship would a decolonised understanding of Ottoman history generate? On 25 September, 16.00 CEST, join our department's inaugural lecture with Pascale Ghazaleh (American University in Cairo) 👉 loom.ly/fRCrvec 📣 #history #decolonial #historiography #Ottoman

Interrupting Grand Narratives: Ottoman History and Decolonial Perspectives

Inaugural Lecture of the History Department

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International Seminar for Early- Career Eighteenth-Century Scholars, Teruel, 7-10 July 2027: "Books, letters and empires in the age of Enlightenment". Still a few days left to send proposals (until 30 Sept.)! All information here: www.isecs-zaragoza2027.net/en/early-car... @eui-history.bsky.social

International Seminar for early-career eighteenth-century scholars – 17º Congreso de la Sociedad Internacional de estudios del siglo XVIII

Imagen: José Luis Mieza, vía Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

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Our researcher Salvador Lima defends his #PhD thesis on transnational aspects of the history of the French and Spanish Foreign Legions in the interwar Period 👉 loom.ly/0KCK99w The thesis argues that the two Legions emerged as parallel responses to a set of similar political and military challenges

🎉 That's a wrap on the VII Annual Graduate Conference on the History of European Integration! Two days filled with exchanges and plenty of new questions and approaches to explore. Thanks to all who made it possible!

The @eui-history.bsky.social PhD thesis defence of Salvador Lima, on the Spanish Legión and the French Légion étrangère in the inter-war period as military and colonial institutions, happens just this week! Worth following if you can! www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

Legionnaires of the Modern Empire.

PhD defence by Salvador Lima

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Our researcher Gabriel Farrugia defends his #PhD thesis on the emotional experience of sailors on board the galleys of Malta, c.1570s-1640s 👉 loom.ly/RBRVc1U The study explores how faith, otherness, and community were sensed, negotiated, and remembered at sea in the early modern Mediterranean

🙌 The Alcide de Gasperi Annual Conference is in full swing. Don’t miss the public roundtable “Why (EU) history matters for today’s governance?” at 17.30 in @eui-stg.bsky.social More to come tomorrow!