Wim Weymans

Why, when, and how did #europeanvalues over their rivals as a tool to legitimize the European project? Find out in this new essay "Young and Ambivalent. A New Look at the Recent
Rise of European Values, Their History, Precursors and Critics" (open access) www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

New publication, open access: Happy to see this last and maybe most important article of my PhD research published. I argue that liberal democracies cannot require 'shared values', neither of migrants (only), as is the case for the integration requirement... (1/4)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Het zoeken naar zondebokken zal de democratie blijvend beschadigen - Joop - BNNVARA Door groepen uit te sluiten en permanent verdacht te maken hanteren rechtspopulisten een totalitair middel dat de democratie blijvend zal beschadigen.

Bart Verheijen: Het zoeken naar zondebokken zal de democratie blijvend beschadigen www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...

Quentin Skinner and the Contested History of Freedom Over a long career, Skinner has sought to reclaim the idea of republican liberty for the modern age. But his work also raises the question: free for what?

"Quentin Skinner has [focused on] the loss of a republican vision of freedom from domination, as opposed to modern & libertarian freedom from interference that prevails today. And yet he's never shown much interest in what freedom is for" - @samuelmoyn.bsky.social

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Conflicting ideas of liberty The great scholar of intellectual history, Quentin Skinner, has set the terms for a debate that is only just beginning about what liberty looks like after liberalism.

The great scholar of intellectual history, Quentin Skinner, has set the terms for a debate that is only just beginning about what liberty looks like after liberalism.

Conflicting ideas of liberty | David Wootton

engelsbergideas.com/essays/confl...

Raymond Geuss, Storyteller — Sidecar Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025).

For Sidecar, Raymond Geuss remembers Alasdair MacIntyre:

'He was one of the very few anglophone philosophers of the past two hundred years whom one could imagine emerging from the pages of Plutarch or Diogenes Laertius.'

newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Congress has decided to claw back previously approved funding for public media.

This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)

Obituary: Sir Roger Norrington The pioneering conductor of the London Classical Players and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment has died, aged 91.

“It’s been very serious, but serious fun.” The conductor Sir Roger Norrington has died, aged 91.
bachtrack.com/news-roger-n...

Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert’s library 285 rue de Vaugirard – online catalogue soon available La bibliothèque de Michel Foucault et de Daniel Defert du 285 rue de Vaugirard Philippe Chevallier, Henri-Paul Fruchaud and colleagues have catalogued much of Foucault and Defert’s personal l…

Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert's library at 285 rue de Vaugirard - online catalogue soon available
progressivegeographies.com/2025/07/07/l...

The French Socialist Party sinks into the mire: tocqueville21.com/art-goldhamm...

Inside Asylum Appeals: Access, Participation and Procedure in Europe Appeals are a crucial part of Europe’s asylum system but they remain poorly understood. Building on insights and perspectives from legal geography and socio-legal studies, this book shines a light on ...

Another recent open-access book some will find interesting: Inside Asylum Appeals by Nick Gill and others. It's a comparative study involving observations of appeal hearings + research interviews covering Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy and the UK. www.routledge.com/Inside-Asylu...

[Event]
The Institut d'études européennes ULB welcomes you to the Book pre-launch Debate: 'What do judges do, and how do they perceive their role when democracy is under strain?'

June the 5th at 5pm.

L’historien Pierre Nora est mort Historien, maître d’œuvre des « Lieux de mémoire », publiés en sept volumes à partir de 1984, le créateur de la revue « Le Débat » est mort le 2 juin, à l’âge de 93 ans.

L’historien Pierre Nora est mort

The Hall of Uselessness by Simon Leys (NYRB, 2011)

A delight in the finest prose. Legendary Belgian sinologists on emptiness, claptrap from Western Maoists, Chesterton—democrat and thus journalist, Liu Xiaobo, the sea.

I return again and again.

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#SaveTheDate
Le 26 mai 2025, nous explorons la désobéissance sous toutes ses formes, du Moyen Âge à nos jours !
10ᵉ journée d’étude #ModerNum à la KBR (Bruxelles).
Programme & inscriptions : modernum.hypotheses.org/je2025
#histoire #recherche #colloque

Colin Kidd · Dangerous Chimera: What is liberty? Whereas Isaiah Berlin saw no necessary connection between liberty and democracy, Quentin Skinner argues that...

‘Whereas Berlin saw no necessary connection between liberty and democracy, Skinner argues that representative democracy is the only form of governance that can guarantee liberty as independence: “No democracy, no liberty.”’

Colin Kidd on Quentin Skinner and liberty: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Michel de Certeau – ein Reisender durch die mystische Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit - feinschwarz.net Michel de Certeau SJ (1925-1986) war einer der originellsten Theolog:innen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Feinschwarz.net begeht seinen hundertsten Geburtstag am 17. Mai 2025 mit einer Artikelreihe. Es eröffne...

Michel de Certeau SJ (1925-1986) war einer der originellsten Theolog:innen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Am 17.5.2025 wäre sein 100. Geburtstag. Margit Eckholt mit einer Analyse. www.feinschwarz.net/michel-de-ce...

Pierre Rosanvallon, Unsichtbare Institutionen Von Demokratie und Zusammenhalt

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Der Demokratietheoretiker Pierre Rosanvallon regt in »Unsichtbare Institutionen« mithilfe der Konzepte Vertrauen, Autorität und Legitimität zur Wiederherstellung des sozialen Zusammenhalts an: www.hamburger-edition.de/buecher-e-bo...

Très heureux de ce nouveau colloque co-organisé avec Guillaume Coissard:
"Diderot Critique"
4 et 5 juin 2025 à l'ULB
phi.phisoc.ulb.be/diderot-pens...

Micha Knuth, Die stille Revolution Marcel Gauchets historische Anthropologie der Demokratie

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Micha Knuth beleuchtet in »Die stille Revolution« das Leben und die Theorien von Marcel Gauchet, einem der wichtigsten Intellektuellen Frankreichs, und fasst zugleich die französische Geistesgeschichte seit den 1970er Jahren zusammen: www.hamburger-edition.de/buecher-e-bo...

[Activité]
Le REPI Recherche et Etudes en Politique Internationale vous invite au séminaire
«La Trahison des mots. Notes sur le langage abîmé de la guerre de Gaza».
Avec Didier Fassin (Professeur au Collège de France)
Le 14 mai à 12h00
Auditoire Lallemand.

CFP: 250 Years of Franco-American Relations. Tocqueville Review Conference, AUP Paris, May 29-30, 2026 with @davidavrombell.bsky.social and Steve Sawyer
tocqueville21.com/blog-info/ca...

[Event]
The Cevipol and the Institute for European Studies welcome you to the seminar:
«What Narrative for Europe? Taking Stock and Looking Ahead»
With Antoine Bailleux, Matin Deleixhe, François Foret & Didier Georgiakakis
Wednesday the 16th of April at 14:00
Spaak Room
Roosevelt av., 39
1050 Bxl

L'Europe à l'ULB - Conférence-débat avec Étienne Balibar "L’impossible possibilité de la fédération européenne : hier, aujourd’hui, demain"

[Activité] Journée de l'Europe à l'ULB
Conférence-Débat 'L'impossible possibilité de la fédération européenne: hier, aujourd'hui, demain'
Avec Etienne Balibar, professeur émérite à Paris X-Nanterre
Discutant: Martin Deleixhe, professeur à SciencePo ULB (CTP/IEE)
www.iee-ulb.eu/evenements/c...

On 14/4 I will give a talk in Brussels, presenting my @hertieschool.bsky.social Enderlein Fellowship research.

Central question: Where Union law mentions “democracy”, what meaning(s) can we infer from that (and why care)?

Interested?

You can still register here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Dernière chance pour s’inscrire à la « soirée littéraire »! Ce soir à la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique. Il y aura de la musique, de l’art graphique et des petits fours (et des sciences sociales)

Our friend and colleague George Ross passed away on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. A sociologist by training and a political scientist at heart, he left his mark on political ethnography and the field of European studies.

📢 Conférence sur l’accueil des demandeur.euses d’asile en🇧🇪

Depuis 25 ans, des initiatives locales structurent et humanisent cette mission essentielle. Bilan & perspectives avec un panel d’expert.es

📅 24/04/25 – 14h-17h
📍 UCLouvain

👉 Programme et inscription⬇️
link.vandenbroele.be/m/1/90973868...

What will Le Pen's conviction do to the 2027 French presidential race? tocqueville21.com/blog-info/le...

'Opnieuw worden voor Franstalige studenten de mogelijkheden ingeperkt om in Brussel nog Nederlands te studeren' Kelderende inschrijvingscijfers. Bezuinigingen. Je zou kunnen stellen dat het toch wel al een tijdje in de sterren geschreven stond… Vanaf volgend

Le néerlandais is niet meer... Matthieu Sergier en ik schreven over de sluiting van het departement Germaanse studies aan UCLouvain in Brussel. Laten we meer "denken in termen van ‘waardevol’ in plaats van ‘niet rendabel’ [en] alle middelen aanwenden om elkaar zo goed mogelijk te proberen verstaan."