Francesc Amat

Francesc Amat

@cescamat.bsky.social

Ramon y Cajal & Deputy Director of IPERG http://www.ub.edu/iperg/. Advancing https://www.ub.edu/mipe/ at University of Barcelona https://sites.google.com/site/cescamat

2,150 Followers 2,344 Following 75 Posts Joined Sep 2023
4 days ago
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🔹La professora i investigadora de la #FEE de la @ub.edu @juditvall.bsky.social ha estat nomenada presidenta de la @sce.iec.cat, filial de l’@iec.cat.

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6 days ago

Please forward to your colleagues!

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5 days ago

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

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1 week ago
Alexandra Scacco (WZB): Intergroup Contact, Empathy Education, and Refugee-Native Integration: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Lebanon – IPERG

📢 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...

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1 week ago

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

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1 week ago
Oxford Abstracts Delegate Registration

📢 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...

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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...

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2 weeks ago
Lucas Leemann (Zurich): Parties and the People: Why Do Parties Support Direct Democracy? – IPERG

📢 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

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3 weeks ago
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🏛️ 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

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1 month ago
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@politiquesupf.bsky.social @cpoliticaub.bsky.social @politiquesuab.bsky.social @ibei.org

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1 month ago
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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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1 month ago

Molt content amb la concessió de la Consolidación Investigadora 2025. 🎉

Really happy with this grant. Stay tuned — calls on HPE will be out soon! 😊

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1 month ago

Very happy to welcome today Fran Villamil @uc3m.es at IPERG.

Seminar at the usual time, 2.30pm.

Seminar Room 1038.

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1 month ago
Francisco Villamil (UC3M): The consequences of grassroots human rights: Mass grave exhumations in Spain – IPERG

📢 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...

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1 month ago
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PhD Studentships in Political Economy at King’s College London on FindAPhD.com PhD Programme - PhD Studentships in Political Economy at King’s College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

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...

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1 month ago
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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

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1 month ago

📢 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

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1 month ago

Just one week to go! The deadline is next Wednesday, January 21. Send us your proposals.

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3 months ago
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📢 📢 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

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2 months ago
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<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library Click on the title to browse this issue

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...

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2 months ago

#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...)!

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3 months ago
Research Officer Research Officer, , <p style="background: white; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: #333333;">LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</s...

🚨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/...

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2 months ago
Goethe-Universität — FB03 - Gesellschaftswissenschaften Die Goethe-Universität ist eine forschungsstarke Hochschule in der europäischen Finanzmetropole Frankfurt. Lebendig, urban und weltoffen besitzt sie als Stiftungsuniversität ein einzigartiges Maß an E...

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...

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2 months ago
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Jane Austen – Virginia Woolf Retrat de Jane Austen del recull «Escriptores» de Virginia Woolf. Traducció de Carme Camacho en edició de Marina Porras. De la Ela Geminada.

Jane Austen per Virginia Woolf. En traducció de Carme Camacho a @laelageminada.bsky.social.

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3 months ago
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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!

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3 months ago
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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

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3 months ago
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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

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3 months ago
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Institucions i ciutadania - La UB Divulga - UB

📅 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🧵🔚

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3 months ago

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.

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