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UCL European Institute @uclei.bsky.social · 10h

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UCL European Institute @uclei.bsky.social · 6d

How can food help us understand culture, identity, and history? How does food bring people together in dark times? How has Ukraine’s status as a major global exporter of food been affected by the war? Listen to find out more!

@ukrinstitute.bsky.social @uclssees.bsky.social

#Podcast #Food

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UCL European Institute @uclei.bsky.social · 6d

🎙️ Tune in to the latest episode of The Ukraine Shelf podcast where @oliahercules.bsky.social and Felicity Spector speak with @uilleamblacker.bsky.social and @okhromeychuk.bsky.social on all things food!

☁️ soundcloud.com/european-ins...
🎧 www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6HZ...

#Europe #TheUkraineShelf

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David Phinnemore @dphinnemore.bsky.social · 6d

Latest European Political Community summit in Copenhagen today.

'While the gathering hasn’t lived up to the hype set by Macron, most of those who spoke to POLITICO said it would be wrong to consider it a failure. Dialogue doesn’t hurt anyone, after all.'
www.politico.eu/article/macr...

Macron’s big European meeting is turning into a speed-dating exercise

The once-hyped European Political Community hasn’t produced major deliverables, but it’s still useful for dialogue and showcasing policy initiatives.

www.politico.eu

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UCL European Institute @uclei.bsky.social · 8d

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UCL European Institute @uclei.bsky.social · 8d

Michael Ignatieff served as President and Rector of the Central European University between 2016 - 2021, the turbulent years which saw CEU's expulsion from Budapest and its re-establishment in Vienna.

Read more: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

Academic Freedom: What It Is, What It Isn’t, and Why It’s Under Threat

Come and join us for the 2025 UCL Europe Lecture with Michael Ignatieff

www.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL European Institute @uclei.bsky.social · 8d

📣 Academic Freedom: What It Is, What It Isn’t and Why It’s Under Threat 📣

Join us for our annual Europe Lecture, in partnership with UCL Laws, supported by UCL Disagreeing Well

Register for free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/academic-f...

#UCL #AcademicFreedom #Europe

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Kati Cseres @katicseres.bsky.social · 12d

Slovakia in the footsteps of Hungary: new constitutional amendments impose binary gender, restrict adoption to heterosexual couples, and ban surrogacy, a major step backwards for rights in the EU. #RuleOfLaw #LGBTIQ #Slovakia

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 12d

Slovakia’s parliament amended its constitution today to state that all citizens are either male or female, limit adoption to married heterosexual couples and ban surrogacy.

Slovakia enshrines 2 genders in constitution

Fico government’s controversial move sets up clash with EU law.

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UCL European Institute @uclei.bsky.social · 12d

This book by the excellent @selenadaly.bsky.social, published with @universitypress.cambridge.org, looks really interesting. Come celebrate its launch!

@uclselcs.bsky.social, @artshumsucl.bsky.social

UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social · Jul 11

IAS Book Launch: Emigrant Soldiers
15 October 2025, 5:30pm-7:30pm
We are delighted to host Selena Daly and the launch of her book 'Emigrant Soldiers. Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War'
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: Emigrant Soldiers

We are delighted to host Selena Daly and the launch of her book 'Emigrant Soldiers. Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War'

www.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · Aug 20

Space, Mobility & Subjecthood in Early Modern History
29 Oct 5:30pm at UCL
This roundtable will be of interest to scholars working on the histories of imperial formations, subaltern lives, and intellectual histories from the margins of empires in the early modern period
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History

A roundtable with authors of new books on histories of the Spanish Atlantic, featuring Bethan Fisk, Chloe L. Ireton, Adolfo Polo y la Borda, Julia McClure and Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez. Respondent, Jorg...

www.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research @ucl-cffr.bsky.social · Sep 5

Émile Zola: Life and Dream
2 October 5-7pm @ucl-ias.bsky.social
We are pleased to host this triple book launch:
'Émile Zola: A Determined Life' by Robert Lethbridge
'Zola's Dream: Idealism on Trial' by Claire White
'Émile Zola: Writing Modern Life' by Rachel Bowlby
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch 'Émile Zola: Life and Dream'

The IAS and the Centre for French and Francophone Research are pleased to host this triple book launch on the subject of Émile Zola.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL SSEES Library @uclsseeslibrary.bsky.social · 12d

Happy #EuropeanDayofLanguages from all of us at UCL SSEES Library!
To mark the occasion, we have curated a selection of books to support and inspire your language learning journey.
tinyurl.com/ycxdwna3
#EDL2025 #LanguagesOpenHeartsAndMinds #UCLSSEES #LanguageLearning

Display of books on the Ground Floor of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies Library. Three bays of bookshelves, featuring a selection of titles on East European languages and language learning.

A selection of language learning packs featuring books and CDs. The languages covered are Hungarian, Estonian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Slovak, Czech and Polish.

A printed poster advertising the European Day of Languages, 26 September 2025. The text reads: Languages: your bridge to the future, and the design features a person, depicted in white, walking across a colouful bridge, with the tagline "Languages: your bridge to the future" translated into a large range of different European languages.

Display of books on the Ground Floor of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies Library. A bay of bookshelves featuring a selection of titles on East European languages and language learning.

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UCL European Institute @uclei.bsky.social · 12d

How can the EU, faced by the likes of Putin & Trump, reconcile the demands for a more geopolitical union with its commitment to a constitutional one?

Join @laws.ucl.ac.uk in person or hybrid for Michael Dougan @livunislsj.bsky.social Current Legal Problems lecture.

www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

Hybrid | Membership of the EU in an Era of Geopolitical Disorder

This lecture will be delivered by Professor Michael Dougan, as part of the Current Legal Problems Lecture Series 2025-26

www.ucl.ac.uk

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UCL European Institute @uclei.bsky.social · 13d

🏢 Curious about the architecture of politics in Europe? 🗺️

🇪🇺 Brexit still shapes our politics of today ➡️

Dive into discussion - our books are available to download for free with @uclpress.bsky.social

discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

#Europe #UCL

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UCL Arts & Humanities @artshumsucl.bsky.social · 15d

Literature in the Age of the Self summer event 📽️

Discover the best moments of the starry literary event featuring Rachel Cusk, Brian Dillon, and Vidyan Ravinthiran.

buff.ly/HHO6zY1

The event was organised as part of the Selfy Stories podcast: buff.ly/j9hDWKd

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UCL European Institute @uclei.bsky.social · 13d

On 30 September:

Sounds like a superb event on nature in socialist art history, all part of the ERC/UKRI supported research project on the Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts @ucl-ias.bsky.social.

sava.earth

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Ben Noble @benhnoble.bsky.social · 16d

What to make of the Intervision song contest? See this excellent article by Joanna York for @france24.com, including comment from me. @uclssees.bsky.social

www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

Soft power: Russia revives the Intervision song contest, Cold War rival to Eurovision

Russia on Saturday hosts Intervision, an international song contest that was a regular fixture in Soviet states in the 1960s and ’70s. The revival follows Russia’s exclusion from Eurovision since its…

www.france24.com

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UCL SSEES @uclssees.bsky.social · 15d

Please join us for this #SSEESing roundtable event to hear more about the implications of the 2025 Czech parliamentary elections for the country's democracy, society, and position in Europe.

Co-sponsored by the British Czech and Slovak Association.

🗓️ 9 October at 6pm
➡️ buff.ly/OQPDKzV

Event poster for 'Democracy at a crossroads? The Czech parliamentary elections and their implications' with an image of a person voting and the Czech flag.

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UCL Centre for Holocaust Education @uclholocaust.bsky.social · 14d

📣Just launched!
A new self-paced, online course designed specifically for UK teachers.
Deepen your understanding of the complex history of antisemitism & provide your students with a richer, more nuanced context for the Holocaust. holocausteducation.org.uk/nazi-antisem...

@coreysoper.bsky.social

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 13d

'Worldwide, there are up to 1,000 research-intensive universities out of more than 23,000 institutions in total. But these are perceived to be ever more important for economic success — something that has brought its own challenges.' 1/2

How universities came to be — and why they are in trouble now

What and who universities are for has changed considerably since the Second World War, leaving long-standing institutions ill-equipped to cope with current financial and political challenges.

www.nature.com

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UCL European Institute @uclei.bsky.social · 13d

Excellent example of a travelling concept / word - from the anxious cry of a magician's apprentice in an 18th c poem to commonly known and widely used expression (in Germany, mid), a (forgettable) 1980s Hollywood comedy, and an apposite comment about 21st politics.

Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 13d

"The spirits that I summoned I now cannot rid myself of again" Goethe 1796

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UCL European Institute @uclei.bsky.social · 13d

New research on the effects of local rent price hikes on support for the radical right.

Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 13d

Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD.

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

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13d

This country made significant progress against racism in my lifetime - but we did not do so by chance. There is a visible visceral regression in experiencing of overt racism because the toxic fringe with the most extreme views have a sense of permission & impunity
www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...

Comment: Why are we going backwards on racism in Britain?

Black and Asian people have increasingly equal opportunities to reach the top, but a viscerally and unacceptably unequal experience of public space

www.easterneye.biz

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 22d

A new Explainer out from @aoifemod.bsky.social and me detailing the UK's ECHR commitments under the 1998 Agreement in response to recent speculation. It is short, because there is very little to say - the UK's obligations are evident on the B/GFA's plain text:

caj.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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UCL Centre for Holocaust Education @uclholocaust.bsky.social · 16d

We wish all those celebrating this #RoshHashanah, shana tova u’metukah - a sweet, happy & healthy new year

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