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After the #BLM movement, museums began rethinking how race appears in collections. @amberburbidge.bsky.social @eui-history.bsky.social studies early modern images of Black figures & how stereotypes shaped ideas of race & gender.

Are young people really more depressed than past generations? Jos van Leeuwen @eui-sps.bsky.social challenges the “global mental health crisis” narrative, showing trends vary across countries & that economic & political contexts matter 👉 https://loom.ly/QE1CBDU

In the latest #uniquelyEUI episode, the @eui-law.bsky.social Department of Law reflects on 50 years of scholarship and today’s experimental and interdisciplinary approaches to legal research.

Watch the full #EUI50 conversation: https://loom.ly/lan6rFg

🗳️ Does where we vote shape how we vote? #MyPhDPitch

Thomas Taylor at @eui-eco.bsky.social shows postal voting in the US narrows the partisan gap between married men and women, partly by increasing political discussion at home.

📝 🇪🇺 We have signed a new Partnership Agreement with ESM - European Stability Mechanism at our EUI campus in Fiesole, establishing a structured framework for collaboration.

🔗 Read the full news: https://loom.ly/WTDSdbw

@eui-fbf-school.bsky.social @eui-stg.bsky.social

Alain Lempereur, Olena Snigyr, and Bohdan Bernatskyi discuss how the war against Ukraine reshapes global power politics.
@eui-schuman.bsky.social @eui-stg.bsky.social

🔗 https://loom.ly/oM9Drus

#EUIdeas: On the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, @olenasnigyr.bsky.social @eui-schuman.bsky.social reflects on Russia's coercive negotiation strategy.
Read the full piece 🔗https://loom.ly/HiVeWNo

In this #MyEUIResearch story, Aliesia Soloviova @eui-history.bsky.social traces how gender expectations and Soviet ideology shaped everyday family life and why they still resonate today.
🔗 https://loom.ly/XUrX_F4

📣 Applications are open for the 2026 Summer courses of the Academy of European Law at the EUI!

This June, join us at Villa Salviati and online to explore #EULaw and #HumanRights.

📆 Applications are considered on a rolling basis.
👉 Apply by 3 April

Learn more here: ➡️https://loom.ly/xNmKyBw

🏅 As #MilanoCortina2026 comes to an end, who decided who could compete and who not?

@eui-law.bsky.social researcher Pedro José Mercado Jaén shows how disputes in global sport are resolved through internal tribunals and arbitration. 🔗https://loom.ly/5gdQWv4

📽️✨ #MyPhDPitch: @gatybiyo.bsky.social @eui-law.bsky.social reflects on fieldwork with the Baka people in Central Africa and what happens when state property law meets Indigenous ways of understanding the forest.

@marlenethomass.bsky.social @eui-eco.bsky.social on how organised crime shapes public procurement — and whether outcomes differ in areas with clan cooperation versus conflict. 🔗 https://loom.ly/LfnpTys

Salvador Lescano and Emilio Rodriguez-Triocci @eui-stg.bsky.social argue that the US’s recent intervention in Venezuela has shown the failure of Latin American countries to address crises within the sub-continent.

Read more on EUIdeas 👉 https://loom.ly/CeWewhk

🔎 New interview w/ @heinkelmann-wild.bsky.social @eui-sps.bsky.social exploring how global governance might evolve under Trump II — from erosion of multilateral norms to renewal via new coalitions.

➡️ https://loom.ly/jxEueE8

🏆 ABILA Book of the Year

In this interview, Judith Bauder from @eui-law.bsky.social explains how property is woven through women’s lives under international law and reflects on positionality and empathy in human rights research.

🔗 https://loom.ly/LLU4_OA

📽️✨ #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.

Applications are open for the second call of the Master in Economic Research #MRes!

Develop your skills with leading scholars and join a global community at the forefront of #research

Apply by March 16th and start your journey in September 2026 at the EUI in #Florence

🔗https://loom.ly/Cgl_jSU

In this #MyEUIResearch interview, @ttaylor-econ.bsky.social @eui-eco.bsky.social discusses how postal voting affects autonomous political decisions within couples. 🔗https://loom.ly/FLB7x9s

📌 During her recent short-term mobility stay at the EUI, Anesa Omanovic found what many #ESRs need most: dedicated time to focus on her work & meaningful connections with scholars across Europe.

📣 Applications are now open for 1-week mobility stays at the EUI! https://loom.ly/OmVYzIM

Prof. @hermwerf.bsky.social @eui-sps.bsky.social discusses his study on educational expansion across 40 countries over 6 decades, & why the data tells a more hopeful story than current debates suggest 📌 https://loom.ly/WDlzM68

#EUIUpFront: @streinz.bsky.social and Anna Pisarkiewicz discuss what Europe's digital sovereignty means beyond laws.
@eui-law.bsky.social @eui-schuman.bsky.social

🎥 loom.ly/7qpznT4

“I made some lifelong friends, I met my now wife, and this was an amazing experience to be able to meet people from all over the world, in this one city, at a very strange time.” [...]

Let’s take a look at #AlumEUI Gabriel Cohen’s post-graduate journey
🔗 https://loom.ly/YvOlwxw

#WhyEUI

📰 #EUIdeas: Roberta Carlini @eui-schuman.bsky.social discusses whether the potential acquisition of one of Italy's major newspaper publishers by a foreign media mogul could trigger the 1st application of the European Media Freedom Act. 👉 https://loom.ly/BDFjcFU

At one of Europe’s least discussed borders, access to asylum is being quietly restricted.

In this #EUIResearch interview, Maciej Grześkowiak @eui-law.bsky.social explains why this matters — legally and humanly.

🔗 Read more: https://loom.ly/uqDUU9E

In this #EUIResearch interview, Max Weber Fellow Polina Baitsym explores the Ukrainian take on post-WWII socialist realism: a space for artistic citizenship, where artists and critics engaged in dialogue while negotiating and resisting Soviet control. 🖼️

🔗 Full interview: https://loom.ly/Z5c_n-E

🗨️ "You will probably never have a better time in your life."

📝In our latest edition of Letters to Future Scholars, alumnus Cándido García Molyneux looks back at his PhD experience and how it shaped him professionally.

🔗Read the full story: https://loom.ly/bf0wPL0

#AlumEUI #WhyEUI

📣 We are pleased to launch the new #ExEdEUI Catalogue, alongside a renewed website and an expanded portfolio of open courses, tailored programmes, and the #EUIGEM.

Find out more about our opportunities!
🔎 https://loom.ly/FHK90-c

Debates over a possible EU ban of glyphosate show how contested pesticide regulation remains.

In this interview, Corinna Unger @eui-history.bsky.social looks back at how international organisations debated pesticide use after 1945.

🔗 https://loom.ly/k-j5HkA

In the 9th episode of the podcast #TheElephantInTheRoom, EUI alumna Carla Vitantonio joins Giuseppe Zago for a conversation exploring coloniality, power and solidarity dynamics, and the politics of “othering” through the lens of her years in North Korea, Myanmar and Cuba.
🎧 https://loom.ly/H288Lm4

💡"The world is complex, there are many struggles and endeavors to go through - creativity is the solution."

🎓STG alumna Fiametta Sacconi shares with us her experience at the School of Transnational Governance.

📫Read the newest letter to future scholars
🔗https://loom.ly/OeM6-v0