Very happy to have Alex Scacco today giving an IPERG Seminar at Universitat de Barcelona @ub.edu
Seminar at the usual time, 2.30pm
Everyone welcomed!
@cpoliticaub.bsky.social @ubeconomics.bsky.social @ubmipe.bsky.social @econhistub.bsky.social
📢 IPERC Research Seminar | Mar 5, 14:30
🎤 Alexandra Scacco (WZB) presents
📄 Intergroup Contact, Empathy Education, and Refugee Native Integration: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Lebanon
📍 Sala de Recepcions @ubeconomics.bsky.social www.ub.edu/iperg/events...
Very happy to have @Lucasleemann.bsky.social today giving an IPERG Seminar at the University of Barcelona @ub.edu
Seminar at usual time 2.30pm
Note the change in the Seminar Room, is not the usual one.
@ubeconomics.bsky.social @cpoliticaub.bsky.social @ubmipe.bsky.social @econhistub.bsky.social
📢 Registration Reminder for EPSS Belfast 2026
If you haven't registered already, please note that the registration deadline for the EPSS Belfast Conference is Friday, 13 March 👇🏼
Register here: app.oxfordabstracts.com/register/eve...
FT: “.. Wherever you look in financial markets, you see signs that global investors are going out of their way to avoid Donald Trump’s America.”
@financialtimes.com @scottlincicome.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/cfdc...
📢 Seminari IPERC-UB | 26 Feb 2026, 14:30 @ubeconomics.bsky.social
🎤 Lucas Leeman @lucasleemann.bsky.social (Zurich) presents
📄 Parties and the People: Why Do Parties Support Direct Democracy?
📍Facultat d’Economia i Empresa, UB, room 1020 tuit.cat/fS6Li
🏛️ IV Catalonia Workshop in Political Theory
📢 Call for Abstracts
📍 University of Girona (UdG) @univgirona.bsky.social
🗓 11 June 2026
📚 Identity, self determination, justice, crisis, solidarity, equality, freedom, protest, conflict, war...
⏳ Deadline to submit an abstract: 31 March 2026
⏰ Friendly reminder!
Our first BANPS newsletter is launching very soon 🎉
Don’t miss updates on Political Science seminars, events and opportunities across the network.
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@politiquesupf.bsky.social @cpoliticaub.bsky.social @politiquesuab.bsky.social @ibei.org
Yesterday Walter Sheidel gave us an interesting talk about his research on slavery as part of the launch of the doctoral programme in economic history at the University of Barcelona.
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☀️☀️ Exciting news in Madrid!
We are VERY happy to officially announce the creation of the Instituto Juan Linz (aka “IJL”).
ijlinz.es
The IJL ("Juan Linz Institute" in English) is dedicated to cutting-edge research and teaching in political science, sociology, economic history and more.
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Molt content amb la concessió de la Consolidación Investigadora 2025. 🎉
Really happy with this grant. Stay tuned — calls on HPE will be out soon! 😊
Very happy to welcome today Fran Villamil @uc3m.es at IPERG.
Seminar at the usual time, 2.30pm.
Seminar Room 1038.
📢 IPERC Seminar | Jan 29, 2:30 PM @ubeconomics.bsky.social
🎤 Francisco Villamil (UC3M) @franvillamil.bsky.social presents
📄 The consequences of grassroots human rights: Mass grave exhumations in Spain
📍 Sala de Seminaris 1038, Facultat d’Economia i Empresa, UB
www.ub.edu/iperg/events...
Are you about to complete a MA/MSc in social sciences? Do you have a very good idea to write a PhD? If so, please consider applying for one of the 5 doctoral studentships that @kcl-spe.bsky.social and @kingsqpe.bsky.social are currently advertising. All details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
15.01.2026 13:58 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Today's #seminar: 'The Seniority Ceiling: Why Some Immigrants Struggle to Rise in Political Office'
🗣️Olle Folke (Uppsala University)
⏰14:30 CET
📍Room 1038, 690 Building
🔗https://f.mtr.cool/oukkcznctn
🗃️ IPERG seminar
#EconSky #Economics
📢 Last week to submit proposals to the 2026 Yale-UB HPE workshop. Programs from past editions can be found at www.didacqueralt.com/yale-ub-hpew
14.01.2026 14:38 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Just one week to go! The deadline is next Wednesday, January 21. Send us your proposals.
14.01.2026 08:13 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
📢 📢 Call for Papers
IV Yale–UB Historical Political Economy Workshop
Organized by @Didacqueralt.bsky.social & @Cescamat.bsky.social
🎤 Keynote: Lisa Blaydes (Stanford)
📍 University of Barcelona
🗓 June 29–30, 2026
Submit your papers by Jan 21, 2026:
shorturl.at/oZTNy
#pleaseRT
The Economic History Review has published a virtual issue collecting the contributions of 2025 Nobel Laureate Joel Mokyr in the journal. I had the privilege of writing the introductory essay. You can read it here, together with Joel's articles and reviews.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
#psjminfo: 2 x 3-year PostDoc positions, deadline Jan 4. We'll study the effects of border change, in ways that overlap with many subfields in CompPol and IR: e.g., HPE, PE of development, state formation, pol. geography, identity, ethnic politics. Also lots of (new) methods (ML, GIS, CausalInf...)!
15.12.2025 13:40 — 👍 13 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
🚨Jobs!🚨
3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you!
Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
we have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt
- a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage
- 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure
www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...
Jane Austen per Virginia Woolf. En traducció de Carme Camacho a @laelageminada.bsky.social.
16.12.2025 09:00 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Noon panels! 🔔
After the coffee break 🥐☕ and the BaNPS presentation 🚀
👉🏻 Join us in room 24.S01 for a panel on Democracies & Rights, in room 24.019 for a panel on Territory & Europe and in room 24.021 for one on Political identities!
L'aula plena per la presentació de la Barcelona Network of Political Science (BaNPS) per part de Jordi Muñoz @jordimunoz.bsky.social i Marc Guinjoan @mguinjoan.bsky.social
👉🏻 www.banps.cat
Good morning and welcome to the JCPOP 2025! 🌞
We kick off in 15 minutes 🎉 Check out the programme 👉🏻 sites.google.com/view/jcpop
Looking forward to seeing you at the different panels, the keynote @evaanduiza.bsky.social and the presentation of BaNPS! 👀
With @politiquesupf.bsky.social @ibei.org
📅 El 10 de desembre a les 18:30, a la Sala Assumpció Català de l'Edifici Històric de la @ub.edu, tindrà lloc la sessió: "Institucions i ciutadania: una relació en revisió".
📌Inscripció prèvia obligatòria, amb aforament limitat): https://web.ub.edu/ca/web/laubdivulga/institucions-i-ciutadania🧵🔚
Admissions are now open for the MSc in Institutions and Political Economy at the UB @ub.edu!
Check it out if you are interested in the intersection of political science, applied economics and economic history.
It's a two-year research-oriented and highly internationalized master.
Cada cop més joves mostren desafecció envers les institucions: és desencís polític o un fenomen que afecta també l’educació i la sanitat? ☕ Als #CafèsCientíficsUB debatrem com es pot reconstruir la confiança.
➡️ 10/12/2025 - 18:30 h / Sala Assumpció Català de l'Edifici Històric de la @ub.edu
Això serà demà dimecres 10 de desembre a les 18.30h. Parlarem d'institucions, ciutadans i confiança en les institucions. Veniu!
09.12.2025 10:04 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0