EUI Department of History

Conceptualising girlhood in late Ottoman literature

On 13 March at 14.00 CET, join a lecture with Atacan Atakan on emotion and gender in the late Ottoman novel 👉 buff.ly/PRMqfQE

🌐 Open to online participants

📣 #GenderHistory #Literature #Novel

Miraculous defences and collective memory

Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess book chapter by our Alumnus Jan Blonski on the memory of divine interventions that allegedly saved towns in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Khmelnytsky Uprising 👉 buff.ly/a9uOy2f

📚 #FridayReads #ReligiousHistory

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.

Italian volunteers on a truck, Spanish Civil War, 1936

Exploring the lives of left-wing volunteers who fought in multiple conflicts across the globe during the mid-20th century

On 11 March, 17.00 CET, join a book presentation with Morten Heiberg and Enrico Acciai 👉 loom.ly/kCiRjuo

🌐 Open to online participants

📣 #PoliticalHistory #WarHistory

Le tournant de la rigueur: even in English, the expression describing the French government’s 1983 decision to devalue the French franc, stay in the EMS and reject the so-called alternative policy gains some traction. (1/4)

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What does it mean to study, defend, and transmit European peace today?

Join this much‑needed collective reflection on how peace is studied, defended, and transmitted across generations by @eui-euarchives.bsky.social and the Martens Centre! ⬇️

📚 New publication! 📚

On the move: mobility and Early Modern translation 👉 buff.ly/9rFFBQ5

Co-edited by our own Giancarlo Casale and Ann Thomson

The volume investigates the translators' role as agents of encounter in a world in which ideas, texts and people circulated as never before

Reinscribing gender and sexuality in space(s)

On 11 March, 14.00 CET, join a workshop with Jocelyne Dakhlia @ehess.fr on her recent book Harems et Sultans 👉 loom.ly/PI6CdyY

Organised by M'hamed Oualdi and @eui-qfg.bsky.social

🌐 Open to online participants

📣 #SexualityHistory #GenderHistory

Recommended for historians and political scientists working on EU integration – the call is open for Visegrad Fund Grants for scholars from Central and Eastern Europe to consult the holdings of @eui-euarchives.bsky.social. Deadline: 27 April. Details 👉 tinyurl.com/y8p72tmt @eui-history.bsky.social

Visual with #FridayReads under a blue background with a picture of Villa Salviati (home to the EUI History department)

Trying to make a fresh start

Read the 🔐 #OpenAccess article by our Alumnus Giovanni Tonolo on Dahomean politicians rethinking oil palm development in the late colonial period (1957-1960) 👉 loom.ly/8XDvOyw

📚 #Fridayreads #ColonialHistory #Decolonization

An arched external corridor

I enjoyed presenting details of my first book project today to Tōdai colleagues – on the theopolitical thought of Algernon Sidney (1623-1683), developing from my "De republica saeculari", my doctoral thesis @eui-history.bsky.social. I was delighted to receive encouraging comments!

Our researcher Nikolaos Paraschis defends his #PhD thesis mapping the reception of Soviet literature by the Greek political Left 1920s-1960s 👉 loom.ly/7wVxAUQ

The thesis explores the role of Soviet literary reception in Greek social, political, and cultural history

🎓 📚 #CulturalHistory #Literature

📣 #CfA 📣

Are you a #PhD researcher enrolled in a doctoral programme in and holding nationality of one of the countries included in the #EUIWidening Europe Programme?

Apply for a funded research visit with us! (autumn term 2026-2027) 👉 loom.ly/7QHy_yo

⏰ Apply by 30 April 2026

📣 #PhDlife

The European University - a fundamentally multilingual enterprise?

On 6 March, 16.00 CET, join the lecture with David Ilmar Lepasaar Beecher, offering insights on multilingualism and academia in Europe from the perspective of the EU-Russian frontier 👉 loom.ly/UqjmDKI

🌐 Open to online participants!

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

Communicating (hi)stories

If you are in Florence on 6 March, join a workshop investigating the politics and dynamics of research communication 👉 loom.ly/XK7DOlk

Organised by our @eui-qfg.bsky.social, Visual and Material History and History of Science and Medicine Working Groups

Casebooks Therapy — where experts and enthusiasts gather to discuss hard to read, often tragic, sometimes life-affirming medical records that aren't even #medieval — will take place on Weds, 25 Feb, 3pm Florence time. Always online, never dull. DM or email @laurenkassell.bsky.social for the link.

Co-organised by our Alumna @carolinemezger.bsky.social 👇

Another extremely proud and emotional moment: congratulations to Dr Mart Chmielewski for successfully defending their thesis "The Bra Capital of Poland: Socialism, Capitalism, and Economic Change in the Polish Lingerie Industry, 1940s-2020s 💥💅🏽👏🏼

Disentangling the relationship between economic theorising and the reality of markets

On 27 February, 15:00 CET, join a workshop with Gerardo Serra 👉 loom.ly/tLYB-ro

Organised by our Economic History and Ideas Working Group 👉 loom.ly/TqwPvr4

📣 #EconomicHistory #FinancialHistory

How was the international order shaped in the 1930s' economic discourse?

Read Sabine Selchow's 🔓 #OpenAccess @ecointeui.bsky.social working paper on a suggestive League of Nations memo layering different technocratic approaches 👉 loom.ly/-m-bGoM

📚 #FridayReads #EconomicHistory #HistoryOfIdeas

Inhuman Reparations

Inhuman Reparations

On 26 February, join the lecture by Kathryn Yusoff @qmul.bsky.social 👉 loom.ly/Lw7twBQ

In the framework of @ihr.bsky.social Planetary Histories seminar, co-organised by our own Glenda Sluga and Giorgio Riello 👉 loom.ly/I0kI0cg

February is #BlackHistoryMonth 👇

📸 🎶 Exhibition - A musical journey into Black Europe 👉 loom.ly/Ft882B8
📆 16-27 February📍EUI, Florence, Italy

👩‍🎓 Workshop - Tracing the invention of contemporary black identities in France 👉 loom.ly/TE4E96M
📆 27 February📍🌐 EUI, Florence, Italy, and Online

European University Institute conference room with early career researchers at a summer school

📣 Calling early stage researchers!
💡Apply to attend the Annual Graduate Conference on the history of European integration.
✅ Submit a proposal by 14 April!
ℹ️ https://loom.ly/Tf9N9GM
#research #Europeanhistory #EuropeanIntegration @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social

International Love Data Week. Make your original datasets stand out: the why and how of research data archiving and sharing. 18 February, 2026 11:00 - 12:00. Salviati edition.

🎉There is still time to register for today's event at Salviati! Register and more info linked below:
❤️ Salviati edition: https://loom.ly/tVBRjTk
#LoveData26

As every year at this time, the Call for Papers for the next @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social's Annual Graduate Conference is now out! A unique opportunity to present your work and connect with senior scholars and peers in the field.

📅 Submit your proposal by 14 April 2026

ℹ️Full details: loom.ly/Pv2q1ho

📚 Check the @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social article by our Alumnus @danielobanche.bsky.social 👇

thank you for your message, we cannot post the Zoom link directly, but we have reopened the registrations for the defence. Please register on the thesis defence webpage 👉 loom.ly/P96xBnQ to receive the Zoom link

Our researcher Jan Blonski defends his #PhD thesis on the socio-political role of taverns in the #earlymodern Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 👉 loom.ly/P96xBnQ

🎓📚 #SocialHistory #CulturalHistory

How does scientific research drive European integration?🔬🇪🇺

Discover the Centro Comune di Ricerca in Ispra (@scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu), from its nuclear energy origins to its role in supporting @ec.europa.eu policymaking in our hybrid conference on 18 February.

+ info: loom.ly/nf6Et38