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Great to see #MyPhDPitch back this academic year 👏
Watch Pablo Cañete’s video and explore why Spain and Portugal followed different paths during the 2008 crisis and what democracy had to do with it.
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📍 Frankfurt alumni, this one’s for you.
🗓️ The EUI Alumni Chapter launch is coming to Frankfurt, and we’d love to see a strong local turnout.
🔗 Details & registration: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
If you’re part of the EUI community in Germany (or know someone who is), please spread the word!
How has sovereignty in the Arab world evolved since WWI?🌍
At this morning's Swiss Chair Seminar, Prof. Raslan Ibrahim of Political Science and IR at @sunygeneseo.bsky.social & at @gvagrad.bsky.social challenged traditional IR frameworks. A brilliant deep dive into social practices and Global IR
How are distant wars made legible to us?
New research by Frederik Carl Windfeld from our Department, co-authored with Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen, examines how widely circulated images from Syria are framed through visual patterns that echo Gothic storytelling.
🔗 Read more: loom.ly/5LWV8Fc
🎓 Fifty years of questions
As the EUI turns 50, the SPS Department reflects on what it means to grow inside an interdisciplinary blender
In this special conversation
🔹 Arnout van de Rijt, Head of Department
🔹 PhD researchers Louise Dupont and Cathrine Kjaer
🎥 Full episode here: loom.ly/ZlwyV8A
📢 Hungary votes. Central Europe watches.
Join us on 16 April 15:30 CEST for a roundtable unpacking what’s at stake in Hungary’s election and what it might mean for the EU, for populism, and for the region's political future.
Registration: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
#EUI #HungaryVotes #EUpolitics
🚨 We're live on LinkedIn!
SPS now has its own LinkedIn page! Follow us for research updates, events, and voices from our academic community.
👉 www.linkedin.com/showcase/eui...
Big thanks to the EUI comms, marketing and alumni teams for the early support.
#EUI #SPS #SocialSciences #LinkedInLaunch
On International Women’s Day, we celebrate the first women who have shaped the Department of SPS at the EUI, from pioneering leaders to today’s scholars whose work and leadership have helped define our community and its intellectual legacy.
#IWD2026 #EUI #WomenInAcademia #SPS
PhD researchers from Widening countries can now apply for funded research visits at the SPS Department, EUI.
Spend the Fall term 2026 in Florence working with SPS faculty, joining seminars and connecting with the EUI research community.
Deadline: 31 March 2026
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www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...
Call for Papers 📣
The EUI SPS Department invites submissions for the workshop “Political Behaviour in Central & Eastern Europe.”
Research on elections, public opinion, parties and political participation in the CEE region.
Submit by 30 March 2026
www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...
#PoliticalScience
Organized by the Eastern Europe as Laboratory of Change Working Group, this roundtable event features a discussion on the recent Hungarian general elections.
The Department of Political and Social Sciences SPS has launched the call for papers for the workshop on political behaviour in Central and Eastern Europe CEE
EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences | 39 followers on LinkedIn. The SPS Department at the EUI focuses on contemporary challenges facing European politics and societies
In this MyEUIResearch story, PhD researcher Frederik Carl Windfeld uncovers how Western media represented Syrian children as ghosts and Aleppo as haunted, and
As part of the uniquelyEUI anniversary series, the Department of Political and Social Sciences reflects on five decades of interdisciplinary research, explori
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The European University Institute is pleased to launch in Frankfurt its first Alumni Chapter in Germany, generously hosted by the European Central Bank.
The EUI Widening Europe Programme continues to support research visits for PhD students enrolled at higher education institutions or public research centres i
📽️✨ #MyPhDPitch is back this academic year!
▶️ Watch the video w/ @pablocaneet.bsky.social @eui-sps.bsky.social & find out why Spain & Portugal took different paths during the 2008 crisis, and what democracy had to do with it.
