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Very good thread the US national security strategy, its implications for the transatlantic relationship, and the US administration's view of Europe.

Brilliant briefing, coming out of a longer project run by Ian Bond (@centreeuropeanref.bsky.social) and Ben Noble @benhnoble.bsky.social (UCL) under @uclei.bsky.social’s Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence programme 2023-26.

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Season 5, Episode 11 - Paris +10 Live event: reflections on the impact of the Paris Agreement This episode brings you the highlights from a special event from UCL marking 10 years since the Paris Agreement. Hear how it continues to influence policy, markets, and public debate — and what lies

Listen to episode 11 of the UCL Generation One podcast 🌍

Hear how the Paris Agreement continues to influence policy, markets, and public debate — and what lies ahead as the world confronts climate change in an era of geopolitical turbulence 👇

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Starting today, with @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social & Thomas Meyer, authors of two most compelling, utterly different recent biographies, exploring the life, mind & work of Hannah Arendt.

By the Goethe Institute, at @ateneubcn.cat & supported by the Amigos, @uclei.bsky.social and the ADHUC @ub.edu.

Canada’s move to join Eurovision is a savvy nation-building tactic Nomi Claire Lazar and Dean Vuletic examine Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to include Canada’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest as part of his $120-million investment in strengthe…

“Regularly recurring reminders of national sentiment also engineer a sense we form part of stories and entities larger than us: a people, a culture, a state.”

By @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social and Dean Vuletic

Repost from The Toronto Star 👇

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#AcademicFreedom #UCL #University #PublicKnowledge #EuropeLecture

The 2025 European Lecture is now available 👇

Michael Ignatieff on Academic Freedom: What It Is, What It Isn’t and Why It’s Under Threat

Watch now: youtu.be/IYi_67T5VnM?...

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All eyes on UCL for its 200th birthday. Across 3 nights our Wilkins Building and main Quad will transform into an immersive sound and light experience as UCL illuminated takes us through the history of London’s oldest university. 11–13 Feb 2026 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/event-ticketing/app/ev/25074/

Upcoming: #HannahArendt goes Barcelona.

How AI imagines "Europe".

With huge thanks to @laws.ucl.ac.uk and @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social for co-hosting the evening!

Stay tuned for upcoming podcasts and posts!

#UCL #Europe #ParisAgreement #UCLGrandChallenges #Climate

Thank you for joining us for Paris+10! 🌱

With thanks to H.E. Madame Hélène Duchêne for her insightful opening remarks, to our chair Prof Eloise Scotford, and to our expert panel: Adam Berman, Lisa Vanhala, Pedro Schilling de Carvalho, Dan Bradley, and Jean Jouzel, for a rich and hopeful discussion.

We covered plenty of ground here.

(I also enjoyed venting a little about some of the more bad faith/badly reasoned criticisms of the Strasbourg case-law.)

It’s out! Here’s @LordsEUCom Report ‘Unfinished Business: resetting the UK- EU relationship’. The Gov’t have made a strong start, esp on security and defence, but there’s still much to do in turning aspirations and goodwill into workable agreements 1/8
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University leaders and academics consider role of universities in a time of democratic backsliding UCL European Institute convenes sector roundtable on academic freedom in collaboration with UCL Laws and Disagreeing Well.

We hosted a roundtable on academic freedom, fostering dialogue and collaboration across the higher education sector 👇

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In collaboration with @laws.ucl.ac.uk and UCL Disagreeing Well

Become a European Institute Student Ambassador 2025-26 Are you interested in European politics, culture and identity? Would you like to gain valuable experience advising on how best to engage UCL students, promoting the Institute in the student community ...

🚨 Calling all UCL students! Become a UCL European Institute Ambassador

Work with us to:
- Promote the Institute to fellow students
- Help plan & run Europe-focused events
- Contribute ideas, content, and social media
- Collaborate with student societies

For more info: www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...

On the panel:
Adam Berman (Energy UK)
Lisa Vanhala (UCL Grand Challenges), Dr Pedro Schilling de Carvalho (UCL Centre for Law and Environment)
Dan Bradley (UK Mission to the EU)
Jean Jouzel (CEA, Academy of Sciences)

Join us tomorrow!

Following an opening talk from Excellency Madame Hélène Duchêne, French Ambassador to the UK, join our chair Prof Eloise Scotford, Dean of the Faculty of Laws and distinguished panel of experts and policymakers for an important discussion.

#ClimateCrisis #UCL #ParisAgreement

2025:2 | Swedish Book Review A special issue on city writing, featuring works by Lyra Ekström Lindbäck, Aris Fioretos, Maxim Grigoriev, Gabriella Håkansson, Uta Staiger, Hjalmar Söderberg, Elisabeth Åsbrink and more.

We’re delighted to have co-curated the latest issue of the Swedish Book Review! 📚

This special issue on city writing features works by Lyra Ekström Lindbäck, Aris Fioretos, Maxim Grigoriev, Gabriella Håkansson, @ukstaiger.bsky.social and more.

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#Europe #CityWriting

Shady Quakers, or How Second Empire France Turned Against the Friends The Centre for French and Francophone Research welcomes Andrea Goulet (University of Pennsylvania) to give this talk.

Shady Quakers, or How Second Empire France Turned Against the Friends
19 Nov 4pm
Using novels, plays & newspaper columns, Andrea Goulet proposes the fictional Quaker as a screen onto which the French projected their own ambivalence about “liberté, égalité et fraternité"
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Early Career Network: Writing Retreat ​​​​​​​If you are an early career researcher looking to finish (or start) that piece of writing/lecture/grant application/proposal, this event might be for you!

British Academy Early Career Network: Writing Retreat
28 Nov, 9am-5pm @britishacademy.bsky.social
​​​​​​​If you are an early career researcher looking to finish (or start) that piece of writing/lecture/grant application/proposal, this event might be for you!
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Today!

A core challenge of epistemology—especially political epistemology—is that the final, all things considered answer to hugely important & consequential questions is often: "we don't know, and probably can't know."

A desperation for such unavailable answers drives demand for snake oil substitutes.

Applying Find out how to apply to study an MPhil/PhD programme at the Faculty of Laws

Two weeks left to apply for a PhD at UCL Laws — ranked the UK’s top law school for research quality (REF 2021). 🎓

Deadline: 18 Nov, 5pm (UK)
Apply: buff.ly/YRdH08Q

Join our research community and help shape the future of law. 🌟

#LawSky #PhDOpportunity

German Court: Systemic flaws in Poland’s asylum system, especially for people entering via Belarus, mean Germany can’t send them back under the Dublin rules.

The Starmer government repeating many of the same cackhanded blunders that reflect a lack of strategic vision which Johnson and May stumbled into are another datapoint for the hypothesis that the UK has deeper structural dysfunctions towards the EU beyond party politics

EU demands UK pay into budget as part of relationship ‘reset’ Growing tension between London and Brussels just six months after summit set out to build stronger ties

Good morning from Brussels, where an EU struggling internally and with its global position is trying to respond as it knows best, by punching down on smaller partners. For opening paragraphs suggest it is trying to renege on the common understanding with the UK. www.ft.com/content/8963...

2025:2 | Swedish Book Review A special issue on city writing, featuring works by Lyra Ekström Lindbäck, Aris Fioretos, Maxim Grigoriev, Gabriella Håkansson, Uta Staiger, Hjalmar Söderberg, Elisabeth Åsbrink and more.

We’re delighted to have co-curated the latest issue of the Swedish Book Review! 📚

This special issue on city writing features works by Lyra Ekström Lindbäck, Aris Fioretos, Maxim Grigoriev, Gabriella Håkansson, @ukstaiger.bsky.social and more.

swedishbookreview.org/2025-2

#Europe #CityWriting

Event poster for 'Writing Through War' with an image of the 'Bakhmut' book cover.

What does it mean mean to write through war? Please join us for an evening with Ukrainian writer and war reporter Myroslav Laiuk, who will reflect on the challenges of representing violence and suffering.

Moderated by @odrekhivska.bsky.social.

🗓️ 14 November at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
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