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Department of History @eui-eu.bsky.social. We offer PhDs and post-doctoral fellowships focused on the transnational and comparative history of Europe in the world 🌐 https://loom.ly/11Zd7ZY
Mediterraneans?

If you are in Florence on 25 November, join a lecture by Mathieu Grenet on mobility, connectivity, and belonging in the #earlymodern Mediterranean 👉 loom.ly/mWsQzL8

📣 #MigrationHistory #MediterraneanHistory
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Political possibilities in a post-revolutionary world

On 26 November, 17.00 CET, join a workshop with Luis De la Peña on South America and the Balkans in the early #19thcentury 👉 loom.ly/C4S9K1I

Organised by our Political History and Diplomatic/International History working groups
November 19, 2025 at 9:21 AM
🎓 📚 What could you do with us?

Check our faculty areas of supervision 👉 loom.ly/3GVxVSU
and apply for our #PhD programme by 15 January 2026!

🤔 Want to know more? Meet us at our:
🌐 Virtual Open Day - 2 Dec 2025 👉 loom.ly/sp5lOKM

📣 #skystorians #academicsky
November 18, 2025 at 9:32 AM
🍃 Interested in #EnvironmentalHistory ?

Our Environmental History Working Group organises the workshop series "Roots and Routes", highlighting the research of emerging scholars in the field

Join the next session on 20 November, 17:00 CET, with Lucy Wood @qubhistory.bsky.social 👉 loom.ly/TXRqY7o
November 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
What's the link between colonialism, credit, and the making of European commercial society?

On 20 November, 17:00 CET, join a discussion with Blaise Truong-Loï 👉 loom.ly/COLaZ20

Organised by our Economic History and Ideas Working Group

📣 #FinancialHistory
November 17, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Our researcher Enise Şeyda Kapusuz defends her #PhD thesis on modernization, photography, and women in late Ottoman Istanbul between the #1910s and the #1920s 👉 loom.ly/qZZ8dEo

📚🎓 #GenderHistory #OttomanHistory
November 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Activism without lasting forms of collective organisation

On 19 November, 16.00 CET, join a lecture by Anton Jäger @ox.ac.uk on his concept of "hyperpolitics", describing today's increasing politicisation leading to few political consequences 👉 loom.ly/deT9Uyc

Organised by @inthiseui.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Our researcher Roberto Larrañaga defends his #PhD thesis on the concepts of race, autochthony, and character in Spanish Regenerationist thought after the 1898 Spanish-American War 👉 loom.ly/4OTVn1w

📚 🎓 #PoliticalHistory #IntellectualHistory
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Our researcher Brian O'Connor defends his #PhD thesis on the motivations, worldview and praxis of queer cisgender antimafia activists in contemporary Sicily and the Italian peninsula 👉 loom.ly/D_2adIg

🎓📚 #QueerHistory
November 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Our researcher Sandra Ricker defends her #PhD thesis on the German Union for a League of Nations and its efforts to position the Weimar Republic as an avant-garde state within the ‘new international order’ established in 1919 👉 loom.ly/2uTUlnc

📚 #InternationalHistory #PoliticalHistory
November 7, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Our researcher Lewis Driver defends his #PhD thesis on early Fascist strategies of conquest and rule in provincial areas of Italy and Spain, and of how ordinary citizens interacted with and responded to these developments 👉 loom.ly/I_oRYMo

🎓 #PoliticalHistory #ComparativeHistory
November 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Our researcher Tomás Motta Tassinari defends his #PhD thesis on Jesuit missions in West Central Africa (1548-1681) 👉 loom.ly/9WVKszU

The thesis examines the role of Jesuit missionaries in negotiating religious, political, and commercial alliances with African authorities and Portuguese officials
November 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Our researcher Christopher Wendt defends his #PhD thesis on faith and politics, region and nation in post-Habsburg Tyrol 👉 loom.ly/oVkCaAI

The thesis explores how Catholic conservatives negotiated the collapse of the Habsburg imperial order in Central Europe after 1918
October 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Our researcher Isabelle Riepe defends her #PhD thesis on how the idea of World Literature took shape in late 18th-mid 19th century Germany, focusing on the dynamics of the German book market of the period 👉 loom.ly/I3KIFuk

Want to know more?
Watch Isabelle's #MyPhDPitch video 🎥 loom.ly/7Yd-Rp8
October 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Our researcher Corentin Gruffat defends his #PhD thesis on the politics of husbandry improvement in the Habsburg Empire #19thcentury 👉 loom.ly/s4NZtXo

The thesis explores how visions of agricultural development shaped the economic, environmental and political transformations of Central Europe
October 28, 2025 at 9:42 AM
🗣️ "... and if a revolution is coming for us, it may look something like 1848"

On 3 November, 17.00 CET, join a lecture with Christopher Clark on the present-day relevance of the 1848–1849 revolutions 👉 loom.ly/_7YP-fo

🌐🧑‍🏫 Open to in-person and online participation

📣 #historysky #skystorians
October 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
A transnational history of a contested norm

On 29 Oct, 11.00 CET, join the lecture by Christiane Reinecke on the rise of 'Non-Discrimination' as a key concept in political and social conflicts in late #20thcentury Europe 👉 loom.ly/eAf0QZI

🎙️ Part of our Monthly Research Meetings 👉 loom.ly/7qMN2DM
October 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Who negotiated the international order in the first half of the #20thcentury? How did the United Nations' budget develop between the #1950s and the #1970s?

Check the data visualisations prepared by our @erc.europa.eu funded project @ecointeui.bsky.social 👉 loom.ly/2tqtN2A

📊 #skystorians #data
October 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Our researcher Thomas Dumont defends his #PhD thesis on the political action and artistic production of Greek and Turkish dissidents in Paris 1957–1992 👉 loom.ly/94Stq9M

📚 #PoliticalHistory #CulturalHistory
October 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
What can a commercial venture tell us about fascist Italy's colonial diplomacy in Latin America in the #1920s ?

Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess article @conteurohistory.bsky.social by our #PhD researcher @jgomezreig.bsky.social on the journey of the Regia Nave Italia 👉 loom.ly/Pt7OpH8

📚 #FridayReads
October 17, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Categorising human mobilities

On 21 October at 15:00 CEST, join a workshop with Christiane Reinecke on the terminology used in the study of human mobility 👉 loom.ly/3hh1nfM

🌐 Open to online participants

Organised by our Mobilities in History working group 👉 loom.ly/1UfzVsk

📣 #MigrationHistory
October 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
🚨 #CfP 🚨

Are you a #historian working on queer/intersectional perspective in historical research?

Check our @eui-qfg.bsky.social call for papers
InterQueer: Crossing Queer and Intersectional Lenses in Historical Practice 👉 loom.ly/VL6GJSU

📆 Submit your proposal by 28 November 2025

#skystorians
October 16, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Our researcher Klaudia Kuchno defends her #PhD thesis on information about Poland-Lithuania in #EarlyModern Florence 👉 www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

The thesis offers a historical lens through which to reflect on current challenges of information gathering and overload in our hyper-connected societies
October 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The global temporalities of Eastern Europe

If you are in Florence on 23-24 October, join a conference on how Eastern European temporal frameworks have been constructed, operationalised, and contested for political and social purposes 👉 loom.ly/pG6g27g

📣 #Historiography #EUIWidening
October 13, 2025 at 7:57 AM
On the occasion of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences induction weekend for 2025 newly elected members (10-12 Oct 2025), we take the chance to congratulate our own Pieter M. Judson for his 2025 election 👏 loom.ly/KjILLCg

#skystorians #HabsburgHistory
October 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM