🎉 Congratulations to @ilheenk.bsky.social for winning The 2025 Loop Best Blog prize #ECPRPrizes @ecprtheloop.bsky.social
Her ⭐️compelling⭐️ blog piece, Metapolitical digital wars on gender, race, and queer life, was selected by the jury @dr-akudo.bsky.social, Alejandro Tauber & @priscyll.bsky.social
Yesterday, I was delighted to present my thesis project in the Public Opinion class at the Fac’ de Ciencias de la Información y la Comunicación at the UCM.
A big thank you to @beatrizranea.bsky.social for the invitation and to the students for their interest, engagement, and thoughtful questions!
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"Different party families, similar opposition to gender equality? A comparative analysis of conservative and far-right parties in parliamentary debates in Belgium and Spain".
New paper out by Romain Biesemans, Researcher at SciencePo ULB...
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🚨 I am happy to share my new article “Different party families, similar opposition to gender equality? A comparative analysis of conservative and far-right parties in parliamentary debates in Belgium and Spain”, co-authored with Archibald Gustin and published in the @ejpgjournal.bsky.social.⬇️
I am very glad to start a four-month research stay in the Department of Political Science at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), as part of the @geypog.bsky.social research group. This opportunity will allow me to further develop my doctoral research within the Spanish context!
I had the pleasure to present at the SoF some results from my thesis dealing with LGBTQIA+ issues in Belgian party manifestos.
A huge thank you to Petra Meier for chairing this excellent panel and to Robin Devroe, Aloïsa Pilloy and Zoë Lardinois for the great presentations and discussions!
[Activité] @romainbiesemans.bsky.social, chercheur à SciencePo ULB (Cevipol) interviendra lors de la table ronde organisée par la coalition genre, dans le cadre de l'évènement "résister aux campagnes anti-genre".
20 février, à la Cité Miroir à Liège.
Why did countries back shared EU debt during COVID-19🦠 after rejecting it in the euro crisis?
@tiagomramalho.bsky.social explains how a new “solidarity coalition” formed in 2020 and what it reveals about changing ideas of responsibility in the EU.
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PhD Summary: "Crafting campaigns, messages, and identities: Belgian parties in a digitalized political arena" by @lucaskins.bsky.social, postdoc at SciencePo ULB (Cevipol)
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[Media] @romainbiesemans.bsky.social, chercheur à SciencePo ULB (Cevipol) était l'invité dans le podcast 'Dans de beaux draps - 17 Politiques d'égalité de genre' à écouter ici ⤵️
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[Activité] @romainbiesemans.bsky.social, chercheur à SciencePo ULB (Cevipol) présentera un papier intitulé 'Comment les enjeux LGBTQIA+ influencent la compétition partisane? Etudes de cas en Belgique et en Espagne' lors des midis de STRIGES le 09 décembre, 12h15-14h
[OUT] 'Federal and regional elections in Belgium, 9 June 2024', new paper by @romainbiesemans.bsky.social, researcher at SciencePo ULB (#Cevipol) in collaboration with David Talukder and Daan Delespaul, in The Electoral Bulletins of the European Union
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[Activité] Ariane Gemander et @romainbiesemans.bsky.social, chercheurs à SciencePo ULB (REPI et Cevipol) présentent une communication intitulée "L’Arizona, attaque néolibérale contre l’égalité de genre" au colloque du Gresea le 15 octobre à Liège
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Le jeudi 23 octobre, Romain Biesemans, Chercheur à SciencePo ULB (Centre d'étude de la vie politique de l'ULB - Cevipol), interviendra sur le thème : "Le genre est-il une cible idéologique" dans le cadre du Certificat 'Populismes et extrémismes' de l'Université de Liège
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«Federal and regional elections in Belgium, 9 June 2024».
New paper by Romain Biesemans, Researcher at SciencePo ULB (Centre d'étude de la vie politique de l'ULB - Cevipol), with David Talukder & Daan Delespaul in the Electoral Bulletins of the European Union.
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The @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference was a blast in beautiful Thessaloniki!
I had the pleasure to present for the first time a longitudinal analysis of the mobilisation of LGBTQIA+ issues by Spanish parties in their manifestos.
See you next year in Krakow!
#ecprgc26 #thessaloniki
Glad to join my first IPSA conference in Seoul where I presented my paper titled “LGBTQIA+ and Party Politics in Consociational Democracy: Evidence from Belgium” within the panel “Gender Politics in Polarized Societies”.
Thank you to the panelists and organizers!
A heartfelt thank you to Gerard Coll-Planas for his warm welcome and support, to all the colleagues at the University of Vic, and to Marina Garcia Castillo; colleague, flatmate, and most importantly, a golden friend who was there through the hardest and the best of times.
Wrapping up my visiting stay at UVic. It was a wonderful opportunity to immerse myself in the Catalan (and Spanish) academic world, to teach my very first class and seminar in the language of Almodóvar and to meet incredible people and experience life in beautiful Barcelona. 🫶
A huge thank you to Gerard Coll-Planas for this opportunity (and for challenging me to present these findings in the language of García Lorca). My thanks also go to Marina Garcia Castillo for co-organizing the session, and to the students for their insightful questions on LGBTQIA+ issues.
It was also an opportunity to present the first results of my longitudinal analysis on the salience of LGBTQIA+ issues in the programs of both Francophone and Dutch-speaking political parties.
I had the pleasure this afternoon of giving my first lecture in Spanish on LGBTQIA+ politics in Belgium to the Master's students in Gender Studies at the Universitat de Barcelona, as part of the course on Lesbian, Gay, Trans, and Queer Studies.
[Rayonnement] @romainbiesemans.bsky.social, researcher at SciencePo (Cevipol) will present a paper titled 'Pro-Women but Anti-Feminist: Vox’s Instrumentalisation of Gender Against Trans* Rights in Spain' at the conference Antifeminisme i extrema dreta org by the Universitat de Barcelona on 18 June
In the context of Pride Month, I had the pleasure of collaborating with the @socialmedialab-ulb.bsky.social to analyze how LGBTQIA+ issues were addressed in the communication of Belgian political parties and their leaders on X, between January 2022 and June 2024.
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💬 @romainbiesemans.bsky.social, teaching assistant and PhD candidate @sciencepoulb.bsky.social highlights the low visibility of LGBTQIA+ topics in overall partisan communication on X, which reflects a tacit agreement across the political spectrum on these issues.
🏳️🌈 As part of Pride Month, we teamed up with @romainbiesemans.bsky.social and looked at the prevalence of LGBTQIA+ issues and people in the communication of Belgian parties and their leaders on X between January 2022 and June 2024.
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♀️ Are women politicians in Belgium getting equal spotlight from their political parties on social media?
Short answer: not really 👎
📊 On average in Belgium, fewer than 1 in 3 posts by political parties on X that mention politicians actually feature a woman.
Discover our analysis 👇
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Meet the team of the Social Media Lab (SML): Lucas Kins (ULB), Laura Jacobs (UAntwerpen), Awenig Marié (ULB), and Caroline Close (ULB).
🎉 Excited to launch the Social Media Lab (SML) @ULB on Bluesky!
🔎 The SML, a research project led by Caroline Close (@sciencepoulb.bsky.social) in collaboration with @uantwerpen.be, is an observatory of political communication on social media in Belgium.
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[Media] 'EVRAS, dans le feu des contestations', une interview de @romainbiesemans.bsky.social, chercheur à SciencePo ULB (Centre d'étude de la vie politique de l'ULB - Cevipol) pour La Ligue
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[Activité] @romainbiesemans.bsky.social, chercheur à SciencePo ULB #Cevipol participera à la Table-ronde 'Femmes et extrême droite' organisée à l'UNamur le 8 avril