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Department of History @eui-eu.bsky.social. We offer PhDs and post-doctoral fellowships focused on the transnational and comparative history of Europe in the world 🌐 https://loom.ly/11Zd7ZY

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@eui-history.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 2:40 PM

A journey through Florence's multifaceted global connections If you are in Florence by 9 January 2027, visit the exhibition: 🌏 Global Florence. The World of Francesco Carletti, ca. 1573-1636 πŸ“† 9 October 2026 - 9 January 2027 πŸ“ Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Italy πŸ‘‡

@eui-history.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 12:27 PM

Our researcher Fartun Mohamed defends their #PhD thesis on Somali memories of Italian colonialism across three generations πŸ‘‰ loom.ly/eVTdvbY

The thesis restores Somali voices to the centre of historical knowledge, challenging their exclusion from Italian historiography

@eui-history.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 12:15 PM

Our researcher MΓ³nica Monmeneu GonzΓ‘lez defends their #PhD thesis on the Lyceum Clubs of Madrid and Havana as instruments of women's cultural influence in the transatlantic space 1920s-1940s πŸ‘‰ loom.ly/eScu50U

The thesis tracks how members, exhibitions, and ideas moved between the two clubs

@eui-eu.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 9:52 AMReposted by @eui-history.bsky.social

What stories are missing from European memory? @eui-history.bsky.social Professor Monika Baar explores how disability has been written out of European history & what changes when we revisit the past through a disability lens. πŸ”Ž https://loom.ly/Bo-9TaI

@eui-history.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 2:17 PM

Our researcher Arina Fedorova defends her #PhD thesis on the Peasants Land Bank as a tool for the restructuring of agrarian order in late-imperial Russia πŸ‘‰ loom.ly/7yteK7Q

It argues that the Bank functioned as a key mechanism to regulate access to land and project authority across the empire

@eui-history.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 1:25 PM

Want to know more about Francesco Carletti and his travels?
πŸ—£οΈ Check this interview with our own Giorgio Riello πŸ‘‰ loom.ly/BLO8whM
πŸ“š Browse the #EUI Library collections πŸ‘‰ loom.ly/F4wNkz8

@eui-history.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 1:25 PM

The exhibition, hosted at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, is the result of a collaboration among the @eui-eu.bsky.social , Stanford University, Syracuse University, @warwickuni.bsky.social and @khiflorenz.bsky.social

@eui-history.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 1:25 PM

Highlights include an atlas from Ming China annotated by Carletti, a magnificent copy of the Shahnameh (Persian national epic poem), a Japanese katana, and other exceptional objects illustrating the cultural and commercial connections linking early modern Tuscany with the wider world

@eui-history.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 1:25 PM

Tracing Florentine merchant Francesco Carletti's journey across the globe, the exhibition reveals Florence as a hub of trade, diplomacy, and knowledge exchange during the early modern period, delving into its most controversial aspects (including its connections to the slave trade)

@eui-history.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 1:25 PM

A journey through Florence's multifaceted global connections Brace for the opening of the exhibition: 🌏 Global Florence. The World of Francesco Carletti, ca. 1573-1636 πŸ“† 9 October 2026 - 9 January 2027 πŸ“ Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Italy

@eui-history.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 12:22 PM

Can we frame β€˜the economy’ as a product of political thinking in international spaces?

On 7 October, 11.00 CEST, join our first Monthly Research Meeting with our own Glenda Sluga πŸ‘‰ loom.ly/J_bliUA

Based on the research by our @ecointeui.bsky.social project, funded by @erc.europa.eu

@eui-history.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 12:00 PM

πŸŽ“ Our researcher Katerina Acheimastou defended her #PhD thesis on the relationship between political and gender-based violence during the Greek Civil War (1944–1949) πŸ‘‰ loom.ly/UsJglIs

πŸ“š Want to get a grasp of Katerina's research? Read this #MyEUIResearch interview πŸ‘‰ loom.ly/sgMvFbQ

@manumourlon.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 6:41 AMReposted by @eui-history.bsky.social

Now off to print, coming out on 15 December with @cornellupress.bsky.social !

Book description and pre-orders here:

cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

@eui-adgcentre.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 7:29 AMReposted by @eui-history.bsky.social

πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί What does it mean to be European?

For #EuropeanHeritageDays, revisit @ @eui-history.bsky.social alumna Oriane Calligaro's thesis on how notions of "Europeanness" have been negotiated and promoted since the 1950s.

πŸ“– loom.ly/Dc26pww

@eui-adgcentre.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 7:59 AMReposted by @eui-history.bsky.social

πŸ“£LAST DAYS:

Call for Applications for the European Court of Auditors Postgraduate Research Grant Programme.

Interested in EU’s public finances and policies? This is for you!

πŸ“†Deadline is 6 October
More info πŸ‘‰ loom.ly/-Y5gQL8

@euauditors.bsky.social ‬ @eui-euarchives.bsky.social ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

@eui-history.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 1:01 PM

Who laid the foundations of US globalism in the #20thcentury?

On 30 September, 15:00 CEST, join the book presentation by David Ekbladh on American conservatives' embrace of the USA’s global role in the 1930s πŸ‘‰ loom.ly/5FuWFL0

Organised by our Interwar Histories Working Group πŸ‘‰ loom.ly/hk8X6Nc

@eui-history.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 10:26 AM

πŸŽ“ 2-3 October, Krakow - Workshop "Translation and Diplomacy in the Early Modern Ottoman World" πŸ‘‰ loom.ly/UWIMyKc

Co-organised by Giancarlo Casale with Alumnus Mariusz Kaczka

@eui-history.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 10:26 AM

πŸŽ“ 28-30 September, Warsaw - Conference "Global Connections: Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Modern World ca. 1500-1800" πŸ‘‰ loom.ly/68-mKyU
Co-organised by Giancarlo Casale with Alumn* Igor Chabrowski, Klaudia Kuchno, @janblo.bsky.social and @natalia-woszczyk.bsky.social

@eui-history.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 10:26 AM

DzieΕ„ dobry!

Next week, our Department is coming to Poland with 2 events (more info in the thread below πŸ‘‡)

Both events have been made possible thanks to the generous support of the @eui-eu.bsky.social Widening Europe Programme πŸ‘‰ loom.ly/5ytoTFM

#EUIWidening

@eui-history.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 12:51 PM

What kind of scholarship would a decolonised understanding of Ottoman history generate?

On 25 September, 16.00 CEST, join our department's inaugural lecture with Pascale Ghazaleh (American University in Cairo) πŸ‘‰ loom.ly/fRCrvec

πŸ“£ #history #decolonial #historiography #Ottoman

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