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🔎 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

❓ What does history look like when borders are no longer the starting point?

A new anniversary video from the EUI explores how transnational and oral history approaches shape research in the @eui-history.bsky.social today.
▶️ Full episode: https://loom.ly/iyUW6Bg

What happens when judges rewrite law through a feminist lens? 🔍
In this interview, Professors Silvia Suteu @eui-law.bsky.social & Ivana Krstić reimagine judicial reasoning to address gender inequality and democratic backsliding. 👉 https://loom.ly/9y0M_3c

❓What happens when a state questions the citizenship of millions of its citizens?
Read the full analysis in a piece by @ashleymhollands.bsky.social @eui-schuman.bsky.social published on The Conversation 👉https://loom.ly/ElP60JU

How can historical research change lives in the present?

This #MyEUIResearch story looks at how Jan Daniel Schubert’s work @eui-history.bsky.social on Algerian migrant workers in the GDR led to new commemorative events.

Read more: https://loom.ly/TJ4IqhE

In the current wave of protests, internet shutdowns are a tool of repression in Iran. In #EUIdeas, Abdollah Baei Lashaki @eui-schuman.bsky.social explores the consequences of internet shutdowns for Iranian civil society & human rights 👉 https://loom.ly/UgHw92A

✉️ "The EUI widened my horizon. I encountered a vast diversity of researchers and topics that I would otherwise never have come across."

🎓 Our alum Paul Csillag shares everything about his research journey as a PhD in History.

🔗Read the full story here: https://loom.ly/8LQOAG0

#AlumEUI

Sabrina Frydman @eui-stg.bsky.social & Anna Śledzińska-Simon @eui-law.bsky.social argue that access to courts and formal legal procedures is not enough to ensure meaningful access to reproductive justice.
https://loom.ly/c9nOJS0

📮In our newest Letters to Future scholars series, Our STG Alum Lorenzo Diez Picazo shares insights from his student life in and beyond the EUI.

Follow his master's journey as he talks about life and study in Florence 🔗https://loom.ly/yZF9qu8

#AlumEUI

🚨 Last days to apply! Don't miss out on the academic journey of a lifetime at the European University Institute in Italy! 🇮🇹

🌐 Join a vibrant research hub and be part of a world-renowned academic community. #EUIPhD

Apply now: www.eui.eu/phd

Martin Habets @eui-eco.bsky.social uncovers the link between variations in daily temperature and cases of domestic violence. His research reveals an increase in domestic violence on warmer days, particularly for the most vulnerable.
🔗 https://loom.ly/AaDbKAM

SPS is delighted to celebrate Stefano Guzzini on receiving the @isanet.bsky.social Theory Section Best Special Issue Award for ‘Dialogue with the Chinese School of IR Theory’.

This work advances inclusive, global theory and underscores @eui-eu.bsky.social commitment to excellence.🌍📖🎓

Renting isn’t the same experience for everyone in Poland.
In a forthcoming study, Barbara Jancewicz, Fernand Braudel Fellow @eui-sps.bsky.social, explores how name, accent, and nationality shape access to housing. Read more: https://loom.ly/5RZ3v_4

🎉Happy first weekend of 2026 and welcome back to the rhythm of things, with new energy! ✨

👯Let's start strong and empower ourselves with the EUI music playlists!

💚 Spotify: https://loom.ly/c4_iXeQ
🧡 SoundCloud: https://loom.ly/uSm_y6Y

Make January sound like a fresh start 🎶💪