Congrats Clint! Best of luck in this new project and environment. Hopefully our paths cross again at the next conference ;)!

🚨 Call for 2 postdocs!

The EDGE team at VUB is hiring! We’re looking for researchers to rethink democracy in Europe: climate, representation & inequality 🔍🌍

Start: Fall 2025
Location: Brussels 🇧🇪
Deadline: 20 June

Info & how to apply 👉 tinyurl.com/zpw3p6z7

Marie Curie Call for Postdoctoral Fellowship is still open:
‼️ DEADLINE 31/05 ‼️

Congratulations Mouli! 👏👏👏

The petition to ban conversion therapy practices in the EU is lacking enough votes from:
- #germany (49.9%)
- #sweden (49.96%)
- #Netherlands (94%)
- #austria (25.5%)
- #Slovenia (83.14%)
- #portugal (24.46%)

If you're a citizen there you can help advance a ban on conversion therapy by voting:

This sounds like a super interesting and valuable contribution! Can't wait to read it!

In "Blending In and Sticking Out: Performing legitimacy claims to become (a) representative", Hannah Oorts reflects on how minoritised representatives perform their role in racialised and gendered institutions. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Looking back on a very fulfilling day at @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #psa25! ✨
I presented a co-authored paper with my colleague from @dfuturevub.bsky.social Daan Vermassen, to an audience filled with friendly faces from @warwickpais.bsky.social. 🙌🏼

🆕 New article by @hannahoorts.bsky.social in European Journal of Cultural Studies!

🔹 “Blending In and Sticking Out” explores how politicians like Assita Kanko navigate race & gender in performing political legitimacy—before being accepted as representatives.

journals.sagepub.com/eprint/9PI82...

Read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

✨My first academic piece is out! ✨
In "Blending In and Sticking Out: Performing legitimacy claims to become (a) representative", I write about how minoritised representatives perform their role within institutions. Read about it in @ejcs-journal.bsky.social

This tariff fiasco is crazy on so many levels. So @hankgreen.bsky.social decided to rank them.

As much as there is to laugh at, stay till the end, because he does a good job breaking down why this is so serious.

youtu.be/8JuuGjRhSYE?...

You know how the far-right is pretty big right now? Well I've got a 🚨New Publication🚨 on interpreting far-right ideologies!

Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement is #OpenAccess in
@ejir.bsky.social

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

👉Last chance to submit your abstracts! 👈
Hope to see everyone interested in #performance, #polarisation, #populism and #democracy there! It's going to be a day filled with an inspiring keynote by prof. Paula Diehl and exchange amongst amazing scholars!! ✨

🚨Publication alert! 🚨

Happy to announce the publication of my first solo academic work! I critique how 'convergence' is deployed in debates about the Eurozone crisis and beyond, offering a constructivist edge to discussions about capitalist restructuring in the Eurozone.

doi.org/10.1111/jcms...

Read the call for papers here: t.co/JJSDycmjBb

🚨10 More days to submit your abstract! 🚨
Join us at the @warwickpais.bsky.social for an engaging workshop on #performanging in times of #polarisation!

More information and the full call for papers here: acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

Join me and @kamilbernaerts.bsky.social at @warwickpais.bsky.social for a workshop combining our research interests: #performance 🎭and #polarisation ↔️! With a keynote by Professor Paula Diehl, discussed by Professor Michael Saward and YOUR paper presentations!

✨Hope to see you there!✨

✨Join us on March 13th at the University of Warwick for an inspiring workshop! Hope to see many of you there! ✨

🚨 New article!

Colleagues Henry Maes, Ambroos Verwee and Lien Smets published an article in @plc-journal.bsky.social toghether with V. Van Ingelgom & L. Knops.

'Affective Polarisation in Citizens’ Own Words: Understanding Group Construction'

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A little #introduction about myself: I am Hannah, 24 years old, working and living in Brussels.
👉 In my #research, I hope to explore how #representation is #constructed and #performed.
☁️ Looking forward to meeting new people, gather new insights and discover #research in this new online space!