📢 Hungary votes. Central Europe watches.
Join us on 16 April 15:30 CEST for a roundtable unpacking what’s at stake in Hungary’s election and what it might mean for the EU, for populism, and for the region's political future.
Registration: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
#EUI #HungaryVotes #EUpolitics
How are distant wars made legible to us?
New research by Frederik Carl Windfeld from our Department, co-authored with Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen, examines how widely circulated images from Syria are framed through visual patterns that echo Gothic storytelling.
🔗 Read more: loom.ly/5LWV8Fc
🎓 Fifty years of questions
As the EUI turns 50, the SPS Department reflects on what it means to grow inside an interdisciplinary blender
In this special conversation
🔹 Arnout van de Rijt, Head of Department
🔹 PhD researchers Louise Dupont and Cathrine Kjaer
🎥 Full episode here: loom.ly/ZlwyV8A
🚨 We're live on LinkedIn!
SPS now has its own LinkedIn page! Follow us for research updates, events, and voices from our academic community.
👉 www.linkedin.com/showcase/eui...
Big thanks to the EUI comms, marketing and alumni teams for the early support.
#EUI #SPS #SocialSciences #LinkedInLaunch
On International Women’s Day, we celebrate the first women who have shaped the Department of SPS at the EUI, from pioneering leaders to today’s scholars whose work and leadership have helped define our community and its intellectual legacy.
#IWD2026 #EUI #WomenInAcademia #SPS
Call for Papers 📣
The EUI SPS Department invites submissions for the workshop “Political Behaviour in Central & Eastern Europe.”
Research on elections, public opinion, parties and political participation in the CEE region.
Submit by 30 March 2026
www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...
#PoliticalScience
PhD researchers from Widening countries can now apply for funded research visits at the SPS Department, EUI.
Spend the Fall term 2026 in Florence working with SPS faculty, joining seminars and connecting with the EUI research community.
Deadline: 31 March 2026
More 👇
www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...
Great to see #MyPhDPitch back this academic year 👏
Watch Pablo Cañete’s video and explore why Spain and Portugal followed different paths during the 2008 crisis and what democracy had to do with it.
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📍 Frankfurt alumni, this one’s for you.
🗓️ The EUI Alumni Chapter launch is coming to Frankfurt, and we’d love to see a strong local turnout.
🔗 Details & registration: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
If you’re part of the EUI community in Germany (or know someone who is), please spread the word!
How has sovereignty in the Arab world evolved since WWI?🌍
At this morning's Swiss Chair Seminar, Prof. Raslan Ibrahim of Political Science and IR at @sunygeneseo.bsky.social & at @gvagrad.bsky.social challenged traditional IR frameworks. A brilliant deep dive into social practices and Global IR
SPS Theses of the Month: December.
We celebrate the pioneering research of our doctoral candidates at @eui-eu.bsky.social .
Discover the groundbreaking insights of our latest PhDs. 🌍✨
www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...
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
Welcome to 2026 with new research insights🧠
In this news, our Fellow Barbara Jancewicz examines housing discrimination in Poland, demonstrating how accent and nationality continue to influence access to rental markets and why digital comms. have not changed these biases.
www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...
🎄 Season’s greetings from the SPS Department 🎄
We’re closing for the winter break after a year of research and ideas in motion.
Thanks to our community for a year of sharp thinking and curiosity. We’ll be back in January, gearing up for 2026 and the EUI’s 50th anniversary.
✨ Happy holidays ✨
How did Amazon become inevitable?
As part of #EUI50 celebrations, SPS hosts "Attention, Shoppers!" with Kathleen Thelen from @mit.edu, exploring American retail capitalism, power, and the pursuit of cheap goods.
Join us!
📍 Badia Fiesolana | Hybrid
🕒 09/01 - 17:00 CET
🔗 www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
🎉 Celebrating 50 Years of the EUI!
As we prepare a series of events to commemorate this special occasion, we invite all alumni, researchers and friends of the EUI to stay connected and be the first to receive updates about the upcoming 50th anniversary activities
👉 mailchi.mp/eui/50
Same funding, similar projects, opposite outcomes: one EU project became a vibrant cultural centre, another an abandoned ruin. @lorenzomascioli.bsky.social explains why—and it's changing how we think about regional development 🔗 https://loom.ly/PmtAiFc
🎓 November was a big month at SPS: 9 researchers successfully defended their theses.
From political attitudes, to sanctions, climate justice and information warfare, their work shows the depth and range of SPS research.
Congratulations to all our new doctors!
www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...
💰 Does money change how we define "fair"?
New research by @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social, @irenepaneda.bsky.social , J. Kamphorst & B. Battu, shows that as income rises, people rely more on meritocratic beliefs to oppose redistribution
Published on Social Science Research
🔓: hdl.handle.net/1814/94113
📺 New #EUIUpFront just out: "Academia in times of distrust" with SPS professor @eliasdinas.bsky.social. Reflecting on the state of knowledge production, academic freedom and political pressure.
🎙️ Watch the full video and share your thoughts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyPH...
#AcademicFreedom
Are you considering applying for a PhD in Political and Social Sciences at the @inthiseui.bsky.social ?
Join us online for the 2025 SPS Virtual Open Day and have the opportunity to meet and talk with members of the department.
Register now: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
Congratulations to @lintuslotta.bsky.social for successfully defending her PhD thesis!
Her findings reveal how local institutional differences reinforce social stratification, and why understanding these dynamics matters for building a fairer society. 🎒
🎥 Watch MyPhDPitch to hear the key insights.
"In American culture, we’re just so tied up with our jobs"
Our Prof. Munger speaks to @businessinsider.com on why Boomers cling to power & homes, and how a culture where "work is identity" squeezes younger cohorts. 📉
Read the feature: www.businessinsider.com/baby-boomers...
📢 Final week to apply for the Swiss Chair in Federalism and Democracy. A key position supported by the Swiss Government for scholars working on federalism and democratic processes.
Deadline: 24 Nov 2025
Details: www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
Online Application form: apps.eui.eu/Vacancies/Ca...
🙌 Three inspiring days at the #EUI celebrating excellence in sociology!
The 2025 Kohli Prize Awards honoured Peter S. Bearman for groundbreaking research and @socarxiv.bsky.social for advancing open, collaborative science.
💬 “These awards affirm sociology’s power to face today’s big questions.”
🎓 “How do independent candidates change the game of democracy?”
That’s the question behind Lorenzo Mascioli’s PhD, now successfully defended at the EUI 👏
Instead of just telling us, he shows it in a one-minute video pitch that captures the heart of his research.
🎥 Watch here: youtu.be/2nKR1P9xaWM
@vanityfair.com recently quoted our Prof. Kevin Munger in an article exploring TikTok’s role in the New York City mayoral election.
Read the full piece here: vanityfair.com/news/story/the-internets-new-babygirl-is-curtis-sliwa
#EUI #SPS #PoliticalCommunication #SocialMedia #TikTok #ResearchImpact
A huge thank you to Prof. @matthiasleese.bsky.social (@ethz.ch) for yesterday's Swiss Chair Seminar lecture on the Schengen Information System.
Europe's most critical security infrastructure is not a stable machine, but a fragile system held together by constant, invisible "care practices."
🔥 A full house for the Swiss Chair Lecture at SPS
by @dirkmoses.bsky.social, leading expert on genocide, on: "Gaza and the failure of Frankf. School critical theory"
Examined how “never again Auschwitz” has shifted from a call for emancipation to a tool for silencing dissent and policing migration.