Senior colleagues, apply for the position of a Chair in Intellectual History at my alma mater!

EUI Department of History@eui-history.bsky.social · 2w ago

📢 Job vacancy - Chair in Intellectual History We welcome applications from scholars working across a broad range of fields, including: 💠 History of political theory, political economy 💠 Knowledge systems and IT 💠 Postcolonial and intersectional thought 💠 Humanist, post-human, and planetary history

📊 Modeling the world economy Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess Working Paper by Mirek Tobiáš Hošman on economist Guy Orcutt and the forgotten origins of economic research at the World Bank 👉 loom.ly/0KUXePY Part of @ecointeui.bsky.social research 👉 loom.ly/TRIVTO8 📚 #fridayreads #history #economics

Professorship! The European University Institute (my PhD alma mater) in Florence, Italy, is seeking a new Chair in Intellectual History, 1500–Present. Deadline: 10 September www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

📢 Job vacancy - Chair in Intellectual History We welcome applications from scholars working across a broad range of fields, including: 💠 History of political theory, political economy 💠 Knowledge systems and IT 💠 Postcolonial and intersectional thought 💠 Humanist, post-human, and planetary history

⚽Still recovering from the #WorldCup final? Here's a football flashback from the @eui-euarchives.bsky.social In 1999, the EUI football team travelled to Antwerp to take part in the first European University Championship Football. 😉History preserved the photo, (un)fortunately not the score #EUI50

Meet the world's first influencers 📰 Read The Conversation Europe article by our PhD researcher Emma Schwak on the birth of lifestyle advice in post-revolutionary France 👉 loom.ly/vWzNFQY 📚 #fridayreads #history #taste #lifestyle #influencers

The world’s first influencers were French and they emerged after the Revolution

Influencer culture is not a thing of the past, and yet the movers and shakers of post-revolutionary France are proof that writing lifestyle columns and trending is a centuries-old pursuit.

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Come and work with us @eui-history.bsky.social ! A wonderful opportunity for a chair in intellectual history. We're looking for a broad range of specialisations, details here: www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

🇪🇺 Today marks the anniversary of Simone Veil's inaugural speech as President of the European Parliament. Following the first direct European elections in June 1979, she became the first woman elected to its presidency. 📜 Read the full speech at @eui-euarchives.bsky.social loom.ly/B_6-Fxs

🤔 Thinking about applying for a #PhD in History? 📣 Our fully funded PhD programme focuses on global connections within Early Modern and Modern European History 🗓️ Save the date: applications open in November 2026! 📚 Find out how to start the intellectual adventure of a lifetime 👉 loom.ly/pvk17dc

Doctoral Programme in History and Civilisation

emstrongImportant note: The deadline to apply for the 202627 academic year is 15 January 2026 at 14:00 CET Time in Italy Later applications will not be accept

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🎓 What role can academia play in cultural mediation? 📚 Read the volume co-edited by our own @mboluferp.bsky.social on the mediating role played by academies and intellectual centres between Italian and Spanish culture during the "long" 18th century 🔓Available in #OpenAccess 👉 loom.ly/tSsMKzY

Researching the invisible histories of the United Nations 🎧 Listen to the 8th episode of our podcast series Meet a Historian with Professor (and EUI Alumna) Alanna O'Malley (Erasmus University Rotterdam) ➡️ loom.ly/rjDS5co 🎙️ #podcast #UN #history

📚 #Fridayreads #EarlyModern #TradeHistory #GlobalHistory

European University Institute@eui-eu.bsky.social · last mo.

How do you write a book with 24 scholars about a figure you cannot turn into a hero? Giorgio Riello from @eui-history.bsky.social on a new volume that uses one merchant's account as a guide to the early modern world. #EUIResearch https://loom.ly/Hbg1uaU

What is International History ... now? Join the 2nd final workshop of our @ecointeui.bsky.social project, funded by @erc.europa.eu 👉 loom.ly/3w_C20o 📆 23-24 July 2026 📍 Western Tower Room, University of Sydney, Australia 🌐 Open to online participants Check the project website 👉 loom.ly/68hg2pY

Our researcher Yunus Doğan defends his #PhD thesis on the entangled histories of the Moriscos and the Ottoman Empire across the Mediterranean from the 16th to the early 17th century 👉 loom.ly/MjpePCA 🎓📚 #OttomanHistory #MediterraneanHistory

All aboard! 65 years ago, the @eib.org financed one of its earliest railway projects, supporting the electrification of the North–South route in Germany. A step toward economic integration and international connectivity in postwar Europe. Next stop: @eui-euarchives.bsky.social loom.ly/7mw8EAE

🎓I am very happy to share that I have received the James Kaye Memorial Prize at the EUI. It means a great deal to be recognised for the methodological approach to visual and material culture developed in my PhD thesis, especially as this prize honours dialogue between historical and visual sources.

EUI Department of History@eui-history.bsky.social · last mo.

🗣️ "The study of visual and material culture offers a stimulating intellectual space to broaden our understanding of how the past is mobilised in contemporary society" 👏 Congratulations to our Alumna @elisa-chazal.bsky.social on receiving the 2026 James Kaye Memorial Prize 👉 loom.ly/lAz0ZpA

🗣️ "The study of visual and material culture offers a stimulating intellectual space to broaden our understanding of how the past is mobilised in contemporary society" 👏 Congratulations to our Alumna @elisa-chazal.bsky.social on receiving the 2026 James Kaye Memorial Prize 👉 loom.ly/lAz0ZpA

Elisa Chazal wins 2026 James Kaye Memorial Prize in History and Visuality

Elisa Chazals doctoral thesis examines how 19thcentury Europeans staged and consumed the past through immersive historical reconstructions in London, Vienna,

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👏 Congratulations to our own Lucy Riall for winning an @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grant with her project MIGRANT COLONIALISM 👇 Read more on the project's genesis and objectives 👇

European University Institute@eui-eu.bsky.social · last mo.

Prof. Lucy Riall of @eui-history.bsky.social has won an @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grant #ERCAdG, awarded this year to just 9.6% of applicants. Her project studies migration and empire in South America. 🔗 https://loom.ly/_hQ1fek

How do you represent what is fundamentally unrepresentable? If you are Florence on 10 July, join our Visual and Material History WG on a guided tour of the Rothko exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi, followed by a discussion on abstraction and violence with Brad Evans and Chantal Meza 👉 loom.ly/YIyyIEU

Our researcher @natalia-woszczyk.bsky.social defends her #PhD thesis on the emotional experiences connected to the exile of the Bohemian Brethren from the Czech lands in 1548 👉 loom.ly/jeudyRE 🎓📚 Want to get a grasp of Natalia's research? Watch this #MyPhDPitch video 👉 loom.ly/lbeIoDM

Shedding light on the history of Mediterranean slavery If you are in Paris by mid-July, don't miss the exhibition Esclaves en Mediterranee, co-curated by our own M'hamed Oualdi 👉 loom.ly/uOgzQXk 📆 Open until 19 July 2026 🆓 Free of charge 📍 Institut du Monde Arabe, Espace des donateurs, niveau -2

🎓 Getting ready for the #EUI Degree Conferring Ceremony 2026 Join us in celebrating the achievements of our #PhD researchers! 🔴 Watch the livestream starting at 15.00 CEST today 🎥 loom.ly/ENWwZRE 👏 #PhDone #PhDlife #AcademicLife @eui-eco.bsky.social @eui-law.bsky.social

Thank you for a fabulous conference! @SOCIOBORD @eui-history.bsky.social

Our researcher Minja Bujaković defends her #PhD thesis on the history of the Communist Women’s Movement (CWM) as a transnational political formation bound by shared ideas, experiences, practices and goals 👉 loom.ly/fxDKaIQ 📚 #PoliticalHistory #GenderHistory

Our researcher Siga Maguiraga defends her #PhD thesis on the Islamic practice of the quest for knowledge (talab al-‘ilm), pursued by Central Sahelian Muslims in Cairo, particularly at al-Azhar mosque, during the 19th and 20th century 👉 loom.ly/xGl7imE

Elettra Bargellini, @flaviacanestrini.bsky.social, and I had the pleasure to convene a stellar group of #history, #law, #IR and #IPE scholars, incl. #EUI colleagues from the MWP, @eui-history.bsky.social, @eui-law.bsky.social, @eui-sps.bsky.social, @eui-schuman.bsky.social & @eui-stg.bsky.social.

Elettra Bargellini (@eui-law.bsky.social bsky.social), @flaviacanestrini.bsky.social (@eui-history.bsky.social), and I (@eui-sps.bsky.social) organised this event to discuss historical precedents to today’s challenges to the rules-based #order and the implications for #Europe’s future:

Being rich was not enough, one also needed bon goût. Emma Schwak's research at @eui-history.bsky.social traces the first 'influencers' in post-Revolutionary Paris. #MyEUIResearch story: https://loom.ly/6Np44Ds

How did welfare regimes, political transformations and transnational exchanges shape people's lives across twentieth-century European borderlands? On 18-19 June, join the final conference of our @erc.europa.eu SOCIOBORD project 👉 loom.ly/5s9hPgQ 🙋‍♀️ 🌐 Open to both in-person and online participants

Our researcher Andreas Schurr defends his #PhD thesis on the intersection between early #19thcentury Mexican state-building ambitions and the expansionist projects of German-speaking migrants, through the history of the Hacienda Mirador settlement 👉 loom.ly/BPKlmhM 📚 🎓 #PhDone #globalhistory