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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 4h

The Arts Umbrella Dance Company brings movement to the #PROTEST exhibition by @bartvandenboom.bsky.social. Young Canadian dancers respond to the artworks with powerful choreographic interventions—where dance and visual art merge into a living, moving experience.

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Doctoral & Early Career Research Network @decrarthistory.bsky.social · 1d

📅 Nov. 13 2025 | 💻 Online
🎤 Keynote: Prof. Emilie Sitzia (@uva.nl / @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social)

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Global New Voices 2025 - For Art History

Identity and the Construction of Space Thursday, 13 November 2025 Online via Zoom Attendance free with advance booking BOOK NOW Understanding the complex relationship between space and identity has be...

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Patrick Bijsmans @patrickbijsmans.bsky.social · 2d

A real pleasure to contribute to this @edlab-ctl.bsky.social video series on #educational #research. Offers an insight into our research on the #international #classroom in #PBL and into how @carlahaelermans.bsky.social and I collaborated.

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New video series: Education research in collaboration

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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 2d

On Saturday, we participated in the #weekendvandewetenschap. Children and parents could learn more about doing research, from European #negotiations to designing #hospitals, and from deciphering #ChatGPT to drawing #mobility maps.

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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 5d

🇬🇧 Westminster as a learner, not just a model? A new article by @bettovanwaarden.bsky.social in Parliamentary History shows how the UK Parliament observed peril, promise & practice in parliamentary broadcasting abroad. Read the full article here: tinyurl.com/4vys5vmx

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Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social · 6d

I had a great time presenting BYE BYE I LOVE YOU to friends and colleagues yesterday at @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social. It kicked off a busy fall--I have six more talks to do by the end of the year. Get in touch if I can talk to your group about first words, last words, and/or writing nonfiction.

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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 6d

How did #computers go from niche machines to everywhere, all at once? It turns out one of the oldest technologies, #books, was key.

Join our MUSTS colloquium by @patrickmccray.bsky.social on Wednesday 8 October in which we will explore how literature shaped the rise of computing.

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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 7d

🤝📅 Are you a FASoS researcher and do you want to design research with communities? Join our hands-on workshop at FASoS on 30 October with Branko Popovic (FASHIONCLASH) to explore skills for meaningful, lasting collaborations. Register now to secure your spot! 👉 tinyurl.com/4n2n8kxh

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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 8d

🗣️ How do children in Limburg learn and use dialects? A new study by Elma Blom, Leonie Cornips & Øystein A. Vangsnes finds that age, peer interactions & Dutch proficiency all shape dialect skills. A look at language learning in a dialect–standard continuum! Find out more here: tinyurl.com/y3vfeyr6

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CEU Review of Books @ceureviewofbooks.bsky.social · Sep 3

Back from our summer ☀️ break with an interview! Read about @blenormand.bsky.social's new @erc.europa.eu project, "Women Migrants from the Northern Mediterranean and Work in Postwar Northwestern Europe" (FeMMiWork).

Read the interview here:

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Interview with Brigitte le Normand on her ERC-funded project FeMMiWork - CEU Review of Books

Brigitte le Normand talks to us about her new ERC-funded project, Women Migrants from the Northern Mediterranean and Work in Postwar Northwestern Europe (FeMMiWork).

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Darian Meacham @posteurope.bsky.social · 26d

Believe the hype. @hypestudies.bsky.social @danishanley.bsky.social @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social

Dani Shanley @danishanley.bsky.social · 26d

A few highlights from @hypestudies.bsky.social conference day 2! Thanks to all involved for another great day 🙏

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Patrick Bijsmans @patrickbijsmans.bsky.social · 25d

As a faculty in the humanities and social science, we @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social engage with contested contemporary issues on a daily basis in #learning, #teaching & #research. We are therefore happy to host the new Viewmaster exhibition PROTEST which opened yesterday. See: tinyurl.com/viewprotest

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Matthew Archer @matthewarcher.bsky.social · 9d

A nice review of #Unsustainable in the @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social. Thanks to Evelyn Langford for a generous and engaged review!

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Does corporate sustainability count for anything? - LSE Review of Books

Matthew Archer’s Unsustainable critiques frameworks that measure corporate sustainability and how market-driven reporting shirks environmental responsibility.

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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 12d

📖 New in # EU studies: @johanadriaensen.bsky.social, Sophie Vanhoonacker & Igor Sarkissian explore how the EU’s push for a #geopolitical agenda reshapes institutional power. Their article sheds light on shifting balances within the EU polity. Read more here: tinyurl.com/984xtca9

Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 13d

👀Curious about how the European Commission relies on private consultants in shaping #EU #policy? In When Consultants Come to Town, Andreea Nastase & Elissaveta Radulova unpack the justifications and the risks. Read the article here: tinyurl.com/mt9cd3fd

When Consultants Come to Town: How the European Commission Justifie...

Introduction Reliance on consultancy services and private contractors is a common feature of regulatory governance in Europe. For various jurisdictions, the process of contracting out is “associate...

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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 15d

📝 New review essay by @ferenclaczo.bsky.social! In “Do not surrender to words! Mark Mazower on two histories of Antisemitism”, he reflects on Mazower’s call to fight antisemitism as part of a wider anti-racist strategy while protecting free debate. Read the essay now: tinyurl.com/3mwv5773

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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 16d

🇪🇺 From defence & competitiveness to the Green Deal, housing & poverty. Von der Leyen’s State of the Union touched on it all. In an interview with @studioeuropa.bsky.social Christine Neuhold reflects on the #politics, #funding & future of #EU action. Read more 👉 tinyurl.com/s3e7nxc8

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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 19d

📢 Vacancy alert: We are looking for a #PhD candidate to research the long-term history of the #EU’s Eastern enlargement. Join FASoS and develop your own project in an international and interdisciplinary environment. Interested? Check out this link and apply before 28 September: tinyurl.com/3zh3w8ad

Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 20d

📢 New publication alert! In JCMS, @thcon.bsky.social & Sophie Vanhoonacker explore how the EU’s #geo-economic turn reshapes the balance of power between Commission, Council & Parliament with trade & security more entangled than ever. 👉 tinyurl.com/mrm7he3u

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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 21d

🔍🧠 What happens when #memory becomes #political? In her new article The Politics of Memory: Between History, Identity and Conflict, Aline Sierp examines how collective memory is mobilised as a strategy in conflicts within and between states. Interested? Check the article here: tinyurl.com/46rsfkra

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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 22d

🌏💼 What does “retirement” mean when return, care, and labour continue across borders? In her new chapter in Anthropology of Retirement, @meghaamrith.bsky.social examines the futures imagined by ageing migrant domestic workers in Singapore & Hong Kong. Read more here: tinyurl.com/bde79pae

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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 23d

🎶 New from Peter Peters: Electronic Baroque: Building a Historical Organ for the Present. He explores the creation of a unique baroque organ with both mechanical and electronic interfaces showing how innovation intertwine in today’s musical practices. Read more here: tinyurl.com/3ptwxsaw

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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 26d

✍️📚 New in Global Intellectual History: @ferenclaczo.bsky.social critically engages with Dirk Moses’ The Problems of Genocide, reflecting on how we name and frame the “greatest political evil” and its implications for global intellectual debates. Read the publication here: tinyurl.com/uh8zkr3f

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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 27d

📰 Leonie Cornips & Daan Hovens ask: can dairy farms, where cows & technology often outnumber people, be seen as multi-actant communities of practice? Their new article reimagines workplace learning in non-human centred environments. Read the paper here: doi.org/10.56395/8ac...

Workplace Learning on Dairy Farms: Contemplating the Notion of a Multi-Actant Community of Practice | New Perspectives on Languages

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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 28d

🌏 How do ageing #migrant domestic workers in Asia reimagine security for later life? @meghaamrith.bsky.social explores how financial education, kinship care & alternative imaginaries shape ideas of social protection in Singapore & Hong Kong. Read the article now: tinyurl.com/ysju9hme