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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 10h

Are you a #historian researching #earlymodern gender-based violence?

📣 Check our Marie Curie Fellow @ladygiada.bsky.social 's Call for Papers: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns 👇

⏰ Send your proposal by 20 December 2026

📣 #CfP #genderhistory #genderstudies

LadyGiada @ladygiada.bsky.social · 10h

Call for Papers📣: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns. Join us in Florence. We look forward to hosting you in May 2026😎☀️ @eui-history.bsky.social #skystorians #academicsky #earlymodern

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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 15h

From law student in Perugia to European leader, the journey of Fabrizia Baduel Glorioso was devoted to protecting the rights of workers.

Trade unionist, journalist and later the first woman to become president of the @eesc.bsky.social.

Discover more about her legacy in loom.ly/h8mobsU

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Daniel Banks @danielobanche.bsky.social · 1d

I'm also incredibly excited (and feel quite humbled) about this prize! Thanks so much Dominique for sharing. For those who are interested, P&P's very kind editors have made the article open access for the next three months:

academic.oup.com/past/article...

Dominique Reill @dominiquereill.bsky.social · 10d

So excited to announce Daniel Banks has been awarded the SIHS Modern Italian History article prize for his Past&Present piece "Ships, Guns and Money: The Logistics of Revolution and Garibaldi’s Campaign of 1860." More here: www.italianhistoricalstudies.org/events-award...

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EUI Library @euilibrary.bsky.social · 1d

🎉🔓 🖼️ Check out the Open Access poster exhibition now at Villa Schifanoia!
🗓️ See all exhibition dates 👉 loom.ly/-Tv5N1o
📌 Who Owns Our Knowledge? Exploring Open Access through Voices of Change

#OAWeek2025 #OpenAccess #EUIResearch #OpenScience #VoicesofChange

Open Access Week Exhibition Posters in Villa Schifanoia.

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European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social · 6d

We have obtained our first-ever campus-wide environmental certification 🎉

✅ Certified under UNI EN ISO 14001/2015 for Environmental Management Systems
✅ Positive opinion for EMAS registration (awaiting final approval)

Read the full news piece 🔎 https://loom.ly/PIIdxjY

Laura Bechi (EUI) and Giovanni De Santis (EUI) met with SAGA's environmental consultant Colum Gibson (MTI) to discuss a campus sustainability audit.

Jacopo Cellini (HAEU), Giovanni De Santis (EUI), Laura Bechi (EUI) toured the HAEU in April with the SAGA project's environmental consultant Colum Gibson (MTI).

Laura Bechi (EUI) explains EUI sustainability implementation on a tour of Villa Salviati. With Colum Gibson (SAGA-MTI) and Samir Musa (EUI)

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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 3d

Join us for the presentation (in Italian) of Giulia Calvi's book "Vestire il mondo. Una storia globale di abiti, corpi, immaginari"!👗👘👢🌍🌎🌏
🕔 6th Ottober, 17,30h
📍Biblioteca delle Oblate, Firenze

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European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social · 2d

⏰ The deadline to apply for #EUI postdoctoral fellowship programmes is fast approaching!

Don't miss out on the chance to become part of a world-class academic community 👥📚

Apply now at: https://loom.ly/WmotZrE

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

1848 in the rear-view mirror

On 3 November at 17.00 CET, join a lecture with Christopher Clark on how the 1848–1849 revolutions reveal history’s non-linear ties to today’s political and social challenges 👉 loom.ly/_7YP-fo

📣 #historysky #skystorians

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Historical Archives of the European Union @eui-euarchives.bsky.social · 2d

🌿 It's great to be part of the EUI's sustainability efforts!
🎯The EUI has attained Certification UNI EN ISO 14001/2015 for Environmental Management Systems.
🚀This validates work to reduce the EUIs environmental impacts, and shows we are going in the right direction!
🔎 https://loom.ly/f6Xd62Q

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EUI Library @euilibrary.bsky.social · 2d

🎉 For the 30th EUI Alumni reunion, it was a pleasure to welcome Alumni to the Library and create a special display of theses for them! 📕📕 Typically, these items are displayed on the shelves throughout the Library, but we gathered them all together for a special reunion of their own🥳
#EUIAlumni

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Caroline Mezger @carolinemezger.bsky.social · 2d

An alle Kurzentschlossenen — heute Abend werde ich mit ein paar netten Kolleg*innen die Promotionsmöglichkeiten am @eui-history.bsky.social besprechen. Link zur Registrierung unten!

EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 7d

Promovieren in den Geschichtswissenschaften – aber wie?

Am 6 Oktober 2025 findet ein Info-Abend zu Promotionsmöglichkeiten in den Geschichtswisseenschaften am Europäisches Hochschulinstitut, Florenz statt 👉 loom.ly/5MhCuf4

📣 #PhD #Geschichtswissenschaften

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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 6d

Global History and Planetary Histories

On 9 October, 17.30 GMT, join the 1st session of the @ihr.bsky.social Planetary Histories seminars, a panel discussion with Emma Rothschild 👉 loom.ly/30DV37s

Organised by our own Glenda Sluga and Giorgio Riello with Andrew Fitzmaurice and Thomas Simpson

Panel Discussion: “Global History and Planetary Histories”

Planetary Histories seminar- session 1

loom.ly

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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 7d

📖 Did you know that… the first European passports were issued by the ECSC in the 1950s?

They are one of the earliest tangible steps towards European unity and symbolise a new era of movement across EU borders.

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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 7d

Promovieren in den Geschichtswissenschaften – aber wie?

Am 6 Oktober 2025 findet ein Info-Abend zu Promotionsmöglichkeiten in den Geschichtswisseenschaften am Europäisches Hochschulinstitut, Florenz statt 👉 loom.ly/5MhCuf4

📣 #PhD #Geschichtswissenschaften

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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 8d

Much more than commercial outposts

🌏 On 8 October 11.00 CEST, join the lecture by Giorgio Riello on the role played by Indian Ocean trading factories in the histories of early modern capitalism 👉 loom.ly/RwTOjgw

🎙️Part of our Monthly Research Meetings 👉 loom.ly/7qMN2DM

📣 #capitalism #history

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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 8d

Breaking barriers, building futures

On 10 November at 17:00 CET, join the 2025 Ursula Hirschmann lecture by Viviane Reding, President of the Fondation du Mérite européen, and former Vice-President of the European Commission (2010-2014) 👉 loom.ly/00BUrZ8

📣 #GenderStudies #EuropeanIntegration

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EUI Library @euilibrary.bsky.social · 9d

We are delighted to announce the launch of the exhibition, ‘Who Owns Our Knowledge? Exploring Open Access through Voices of Change’ exhibition at Salviati!
📍Salviati, 29 Sept to 5 Oct
See all dates 👉 loom.ly/-Tv5N1o

#OAWeek2025 #OpenAccess #EUIResearch #OpenScience #VoicesofChange

Attendees at the Open Access Exhibition in Villa Salviati.

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EUI Library @euilibrary.bsky.social · 9d

Are you interested in learning more about Zotero, a free and user-friendly tool designed to help you collect, manage, cite, and share your research sources? Join us for this session 🔗 loom.ly/Uj1V5ro
🗓️Wed 1 October
🕚 14:00 - 15:30
📍Badia Fiesolana, Sala del Capitolo
#EUILibrary #Researchskills

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ECOINT @ecointeui.bsky.social · 13d

New paper by Glenda Sluga on Mineral/ #naturalresources in ‘Asia and the Far East’, and the legacies of #empire in a shifting #internationalorder, 1947-1974 @erc.europa.eu @eui-history.bsky.social www.ecoint.org/post/mineral...

Mineral/natural resources in ‘Asia and theFar East’, and the legacies of empire in a shifting international order, 1947-1974

A Working Paper by Glenda Sluga | 2025

www.ecoint.org

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ECOINT @ecointeui.bsky.social · 11d

#UN #ECOSOC in Motion: An Internactive Timeline of Its Institutional Bodies (1946–2025) @eui-history.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu www.ecoint.org/post/ecosoc-...

ECOSOC in Motion: A Visual Timeline of Its Institutional Bodies (1946–2025)

A data visualisation by Sabine Selchow | 2025

www.ecoint.org

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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 13d

🤔 How can #historians work on topics where deliberate misinformation has been worked into the historical record?

If you are in Florence on 2 October, join a Masterclass with Alison Frank Johnson @harvard.edu on the moral necessity of proving that something never happened 👉 loom.ly/WMzwbzM

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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 13d

Skeletons in the closet

If you are in Florence on 1 October, join the Max Weber Programme lecture with Alison Frank Johnson @harvard.edu on remnants of Medieval blood libel in postwar Central Europe 👉 loom.ly/fxIiIjU

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Historical Archives of the European Union @eui-euarchives.bsky.social · 13d

⏳ Deadline approaching!
Don’t miss your chance to apply for the 2025 European Court of Auditors Postgraduate Research Grant.
📚 The grant supports archival research on the history of EU policy.
📅 Apply by 6 October 2025!
👉 Details: https://loom.ly/k7LKnMI

#grants #archives #EUhistory

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European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social · 15d

🌠Don't forget to register for Bright Night 2025!

⏱️Deadline for registrations: today at 13:00

Palazzo Buontalenti will be exceptionally open to the public for guided tours

To register, follow this link https://loom.ly/qxKUzvc or send an email to [email protected] by 13:00 today.

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 15d

#Maritimehistory

EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 15d

Our researcher Cosimo Pantaleoni defends his #PhD thesis on Venetian navy crews at the end of the #16thcentury , focusing on the condition of convict rowers on board galleys and connecting it to wider phenomena of banditry and piracy in the #earlymodern Adriatic Sea 👉 loom.ly/nOWcjao

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