@fasosmaastricht.bsky.social
Research and teaching at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University
@fasosmaastricht.bsky.social@fasosmaastricht.bsky.socialWe hosted Creative Industries Fund NL during its SpotOn Limburg bike tour, showcasing The Plant as a #research and #education lab for #digital #storytelling, #AI & #cultural production, and critical making, and connecting our research and #local collaborations with national funding opportunities.
@fasosmaastricht.bsky.social🌪️ What happens to #Europe after the #US #midterms?
Join @yfreykers.bsky.social, @bettovanwaarden.bsky.social & @mariellew.bsky.social 3 Nov in the Brandweerkantine for expert insights, Q&A and scenario-building on Europe’s response to a changing #transatlantic relationship.
👉 shorturl.at/wN6X3
@fasosmaastricht.bsky.social🌪️ THE PERFECT STORM
What happens when #crises collide? #War, #climate change, #AI, #migration, #economic uncertainty and #geopolitical tensions don’t exist in isolation.
Join us in Maastricht this Nov & Dec as researchers explore the connections shaping our world.
@fasosmaastricht.bsky.social#Propaganda is rarely a pure #lie. So what makes it convincing? 🧐 Researchers from four UM faculties are joining forces to explore disinformation. @bettovanwaarden.bsky.social explains why #history can help us understand today’s information #wars.
Read more: shorturl.at/8D7EX
@fasosmaastricht.bsky.socialMUSTS colloquium '#Freedom, #Imagination and #Change | From Answers to Questions: #Heritage, Meaning-Making, and #Multivocality in #Museum Collections' by Carmen Cabo & Vilja Marée-Bemelen (Discovery Museum).
📅 7 October, 15:30-17:00
📍Grote Gracht 80-82, room 3.002
@fasosmaastricht.bsky.socialCalling all children! What did #Maastricht and the region look like hundreds of years ago? And how did people make #maps without #GPS or #satellites?🤔
Join the workshop during Weekend van de Wetenschap!
📅3 October, 13:00–16:00
📍Tapijn 11, Maastricht
@fasosmaastricht.bsky.socialBring your kids! Can you turn complex research into a funny, exciting or creative comic? In this workshop, you’ll discover real research from FASoS and become a researcher and comic artist for the day! 💡✏️
📅 3 October, 13:00–16:00
📍 Tapijn 11, Maastricht
More information👉 shorturl.at/XswTj
@fasosmaastricht.bsky.socialHarro van Lente will chair #ERC peer review panel SH3, bringing together 19 experts to assess proposals on ‘The Social World and Its Interactions’, including #sociology, #education and #communication studies. ERC Advanced Grants provide €2.5m to senior EU scholars.
@fasosmaastricht.bsky.socialHow do you negotiate as an EU country?🗣️🌍 In this workshop especially for children, you’ll work with other countries to decide where the EU’s money should go: innovation, agriculture or climate?
📅3 October, 13:00-16:00
📍Tapijn 11, Maastricht
@fasosmaastricht.bsky.socialWhat does it take to innovate #classical music? 🎶 In his #farewell lecture, Prof. dr. Peter Peters reflects on experimentation, new #concert forms and the future of classical #music after eight years leading the Maastricht Centre for the Innovation of Classical Music.
@fasosmaastricht.bsky.socialOn Saturday 3 October, curious kids can get hands-on with science at Tapijn! 🧪🗺️ Create a science #comic, design the #hospital of the future, negotiate like an EU #politician and much more!
📍 Tapijn
🗓️ Saturday 3 October | 13:00–16:00
🎟️ Free entry!
#weekendvandewetenschap
@fasosmaastricht.bsky.social🌍 Four FASoS researchers are joining TRADEPOL, an #international network studying how #geopolitical tensions and changing attitudes towards free #trade are reshaping trade #politics in North America and Europe.
Read more: www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/fasos-r...
@studioeuropa.bsky.socialReposted by @fasosmaastricht.bsky.socialA landslide in Saxony-Anhalt, with ripples far beyond Germany. Christine Neuhold, Professor of EU Democratic Governance at @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social, on what the AfD result signals for Europe:
@fasosmaastricht.bsky.socialWho keeps #science running behind the scenes?🔎 Data stewards, lab staff, librarians and IT specialists do vital work that often goes unnoticed. A new UM project shines a light on these “invisible” #knowledge workers and their role in #openscience 🔬
Read more: shorturl.at/Pblb4
@fasosmaastricht.bsky.socialWhat does EU #enlargement look like when #citizens are truly at the centre? 🌍 Prof. Giselle Bosse is scientific lead on 'CitiSense', a new €3.5 million Horizon Europe project exploring how people can have a stronger #voice in shaping the EU’s #future.
@yfreykers.bsky.socialReposted by @fasosmaastricht.bsky.socialEuropa is in decennia niet zo bedreigd geweest als vandaag. Wie dit najaar pleit voor minder defensie-uitgaven, is hopeloos naïef of speelt een gevaarlijk politiek spel.
Mijn opinie @demorgen.be: www.demorgen.be/meningen/wie...
@fasosmaastricht.bsky.socialJoris van Zundert (@huygensknaw.bsky.social) has been appointed professor by special appointment in Computational Humanities at Maastricht University’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. His research explores the opportunities and limitations of #computational methods in the #humanities.
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@fasosmaastricht.bsky.socialCongratulations to @matthewarcher.bsky.social, who received an E.W. Beth Foundation grant @knaw-nl.bsky.social to organise a workshop on “Animal Ethics and the Science of Sentience” at FASoS. 👏 The workshop will take place in spring 2027 and includes a public lecture.
