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Francesc Amat
@cescamat.bsky.social
Ramon y Cajal & Deputy Director of IPERG http://www.ub.edu/iperg/. Advancing https://www.ub.edu/mipe/ at University of Barcelona

https://sites.google.com/site/cescamat
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📢 📢 Call for Papers

IV Yale–UB Historical Political Economy Workshop

Organized by @Didacqueralt.bsky.social & @Cescamat.bsky.social

🎤 Keynote: Lisa Blaydes (Stanford)

📍 University of Barcelona
🗓 June 29–30, 2026

Submit your papers by Jan 21, 2026:
shorturl.at/oZTNy

#pleaseRT
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February 10, 2026 at 8:28 AM
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Yesterday Walter Sheidel gave us an interesting talk about his research on slavery as part of the launch of the doctoral programme in economic history at the University of Barcelona.
February 6, 2026 at 7:39 AM
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☀️☀️ Exciting news in Madrid!

We are VERY happy to officially announce the creation of the Instituto Juan Linz (aka “IJL”).
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The IJL ("Juan Linz Institute" in English) is dedicated to cutting-edge research and teaching in political science, sociology, economic history and more.
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February 5, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Molt content amb la concessió de la Consolidación Investigadora 2025. 🎉

Really happy with this grant. Stay tuned — calls on HPE will be out soon! 😊
Publicada la Propuesta de Resolución Provisional de «Ayudas para Incentivar la Consolidación Investigadora» (#CNS) 2025.

www.aei.gob.es/sites/defaul...
February 3, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Very happy to welcome today Fran Villamil @uc3m.es at IPERG.

Seminar at the usual time, 2.30pm.

Seminar Room 1038.
Today's #seminar: 'The consequences of grassroots human rights: Mass grave exhumations in Spain'

🗣️Francisco Villamil @uc3m.es 
⏰14:30 CET
📍Room 1038, 690 Building
🔗https://f.mtr.cool/hdxgkwkmzd
🗃️ IPERG seminar

#EconSky #Economics
January 29, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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📢 IPERC Seminar | Jan 29, 2:30 PM @ubeconomics.bsky.social

🎤 Francisco Villamil (UC3M) @franvillamil.bsky.social presents
📄 The consequences of grassroots human rights: Mass grave exhumations in Spain

📍 Sala de Seminaris 1038, Facultat d’Economia i Empresa, UB

www.ub.edu/iperg/events...
Francisco Villamil (UC3M): The consequences of grassroots human rights: Mass grave exhumations in Spain – IPERG
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January 28, 2026 at 9:28 AM
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Are you about to complete a MA/MSc in social sciences? Do you have a very good idea to write a PhD? If so, please consider applying for one of the 5 doctoral studentships that @kcl-spe.bsky.social and @kingsqpe.bsky.social are currently advertising. All details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
PhD Studentships in Political Economy at King’s College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Programme - PhD Studentships in Political Economy at King’s College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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Today's #seminar: 'The Seniority Ceiling: Why Some Immigrants Struggle to Rise in Political Office'

🗣️Olle Folke (Uppsala University)
⏰14:30 CET
📍Room 1038, 690 Building
🔗https://f.mtr.cool/oukkcznctn
🗃️ IPERG seminar

#EconSky #Economics
January 15, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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📢 Last week to submit proposals to the 2026 Yale-UB HPE workshop. Programs from past editions can be found at www.didacqueralt.com/yale-ub-hpew
January 14, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Just one week to go! The deadline is next Wednesday, January 21. Send us your proposals.
📢 📢 Call for Papers

IV Yale–UB Historical Political Economy Workshop

Organized by @Didacqueralt.bsky.social & @Cescamat.bsky.social

🎤 Keynote: Lisa Blaydes (Stanford)

📍 University of Barcelona
🗓 June 29–30, 2026

Submit your papers by Jan 21, 2026:
shorturl.at/oZTNy

#pleaseRT
January 14, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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📢 📢 Call for Papers

IV Yale–UB Historical Political Economy Workshop

Organized by @Didacqueralt.bsky.social & @Cescamat.bsky.social

🎤 Keynote: Lisa Blaydes (Stanford)

📍 University of Barcelona
🗓 June 29–30, 2026

Submit your papers by Jan 21, 2026:
shorturl.at/oZTNy

#pleaseRT
December 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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The Economic History Review has published a virtual issue collecting the contributions of 2025 Nobel Laureate Joel Mokyr in the journal. I had the privilege of writing the introductory essay. You can read it here, together with Joel's articles and reviews.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Click on the title to browse this issue
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December 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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#psjminfo: 2 x 3-year PostDoc positions, deadline Jan 4. We'll study the effects of border change, in ways that overlap with many subfields in CompPol and IR: e.g., HPE, PE of development, state formation, pol. geography, identity, ethnic politics. Also lots of (new) methods (ML, GIS, CausalInf...)!
🚨Jobs!🚨

3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you!

Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Research Officer
Research Officer, , <p style="background: white; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #333333;">LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</s...
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December 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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🚨Jobs!🚨

3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you!

Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Research Officer
Research Officer, , <p style="background: white; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #333333;">LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</s...
jobs.lse.ac.uk
December 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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we have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt
- a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage
- 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure

www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...
Goethe-Universität — FB03 - Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Die Goethe-Universität ist eine forschungsstarke Hochschule in der europäischen Finanzmetropole Frankfurt. Lebendig, urban und weltoffen besitzt sie als Stiftungsuniversität ein einzigartiges Maß an E...
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December 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Jane Austen per Virginia Woolf. En traducció de Carme Camacho a @laelageminada.bsky.social.
Jane Austen – Virginia Woolf
Retrat de Jane Austen del recull «Escriptores» de Virginia Woolf. Traducció de Carme Camacho en edició de Marina Porras. De la Ela Geminada.
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December 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Noon panels! 🔔

After the coffee break 🥐☕ and the BaNPS presentation 🚀

👉🏻 Join us in room 24.S01 for a panel on Democracies & Rights, in room 24.019 for a panel on Territory & Europe and in room 24.021 for one on Political identities!
December 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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L'aula plena per la presentació de la Barcelona Network of Political Science (BaNPS) per part de Jordi Muñoz @jordimunoz.bsky.social i Marc Guinjoan @mguinjoan.bsky.social

👉🏻 www.banps.cat
December 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Good morning and welcome to the JCPOP 2025! 🌞

We kick off in 15 minutes 🎉 Check out the programme 👉🏻 sites.google.com/view/jcpop

Looking forward to seeing you at the different panels, the keynote @evaanduiza.bsky.social and the presentation of BaNPS! 👀

With @politiquesupf.bsky.social @ibei.org
December 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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📅 El 10 de desembre a les 18:30, a la Sala Assumpció Català de l'Edifici Històric de la @ub.edu, tindrà lloc la sessió: "Institucions i ciutadania: una relació en revisió".

📌Inscripció prèvia obligatòria, amb aforament limitat): https://web.ub.edu/ca/web/laubdivulga/institucions-i-ciutadania🧵🔚
Institucions i ciutadania - La UB Divulga - UB
web.ub.edu
December 9, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Admissions are now open for the MSc in Institutions and Political Economy at the UB @ub.edu!

Check it out if you are interested in the intersection of political science, applied economics and economic history.

It's a two-year research-oriented and highly internationalized master.
December 9, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Cada cop més joves mostren desafecció envers les institucions: és desencís polític o un fenomen que afecta també l’educació i la sanitat? ☕ Als #CafèsCientíficsUB debatrem com es pot reconstruir la confiança.

➡️ 10/12/2025 - 18:30 h / Sala Assumpció Català de l'Edifici Històric de la @ub.edu
Institucions i ciutadania - La UB Divulga - UB
web.ub.edu
December 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Això serà demà dimecres 10 de desembre a les 18.30h. Parlarem d'institucions, ciutadans i confiança en les institucions. Veniu!
Cada cop més joves mostren desafecció envers les institucions: és desencís polític o un fenomen que afecta també l’educació i la sanitat? ☕ Als #CafèsCientíficsUB debatrem com es pot reconstruir la confiança.

➡️ 10/12/2025 - 18:30 h / Sala Assumpció Català de l'Edifici Històric de la @ub.edu
Institucions i ciutadania - La UB Divulga - UB
web.ub.edu
December 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
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December 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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🔊 Applications for the Fall 2026 intake of the MSc in Institutions and Political Economy are now open! The MSc in Institutions and Political Economy is a 2-year program with a strong emphasis on research and a multidisciplinary approach towards the Social Sciences.
December 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM