🚨 Belgium 🇧🇪 is taking the lead at #EU level on re-evaluating, and possibly suspending, the 🇪🇺 Association Agreement with #Israel 🇮🇱, and on banning illicit trade with Israeli settlements. 👇

Apart from listening to this episode with Olga Burlyuk and Dr Ladan Rahbari everyone should download their open access book!

Was a pleasure to discuss global economic inequality w Eva Smets at Oxfam’s Change! weekend on economic justice

It was nice to see so many friends and colleagues again in Amsterdam. We also had two days of intensive editorial meetings for the handbook on 'Doing EU Studies Otherwise' with a wonderful team at AISSR. To be continued

How & why do we inscribe the “I” in research? How does centering the self can end up releasing responsibility to question colonial/modern power?

Join our session on
“Positionality Statements as a Function of Coloniality” by Jasmine K Gani & Dr Rabea M. Khan

🔗 southsouthmovement.org/events/researc…

📢 Experienced scholar ? Help us help early career researchers !

🤝 Free 30 min of your time at the end of June to meet online a young scholar seeking career advice!

Thank you for your solidarity ☺

EVENT
Migration has been a controversial theme across Europe for many years, with particular implications for the EU’s partnership with Africa.

This event explores what’s needed to deliver a partnership of sound mutual developmental benefits.

Register: odi.org/en/events/the-…

« Opmerkelijk in het licht van de actualiteit is dat slechts twee banken bedrijven uitsluiten die de Israëlische nederzettingenpolitiek mogelijk maken, of actief zijn in de bezette gebieden. Het gaat om Triodos en VDK. » standaard.be/cnt/dmf2024041…

Absolutely THRILLED with our upcoming events! Hope to see you at a workshop, lecture or film screening.

The landscape of EU development finance is changing as The EBRD enters sub-Saharan Africa, a region where the EIB has long been a key player. For a better understanding of the emerging rivalry and EU calls for improved coordination, check out our article:
kluwerlawonline.com/journalarticle…

We are hiring 2 new colleagues at the European Studies department at UvA Geesteswetenschappen ARTES_UVA:

1. Professor of European Studies, esp. European law in the humanities (topics: rule of law, social Europe, Next generation EU, Green deal, etc)

vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Profes…

DL 26 May

Service work in academia (peer review, meetings, mentorship, community engagement...) takes time away from research, but is essential to keep institutions running.

A new study shows that women do 75% of service work, while men only do 25%.

#gendergap

kifinfo.no/en/2024/03/wom…

“Forget the “cordon sanitaire” against the far right. Today, European neoliberalism is defended by a cordon into which such forces have already been integrated”

Europe’s Mood of War Is Whitewashing the Far Right

My piece / ⁦Jacobin⁩ jacobin.com/2024/04/europe…

Online guest lecture by Folúkẹ́ Ifejola Adébísí (Univ Bristol) at our law faculty on 25 April:
ugent.be/re/epir/nl/act…

Glasgow University als voorbeeld voor alle andere universiteiten. Door Ghassan Abu Sitta te verkiezen als rector besloot men resoluut afstand te nemen van de aanhoudende #educide of #scholasticide

Dr. Nadia Fadil
Maha Abdallah مها عبدالله
فيروز
Tomaso Ferrando
Jihane Sliti
Jan Orbie

Hond is een ´triviaal instrument’ voor de minister 🙄

« The EU’s incompetence suddenly has become the peace-loving Europeanist’s last hope » - thoughtful reflections by ⁦Yanis Varoufakis⁩ on the state of the EU (today also translated in Dutch in ⁦De Standaard⁩) project-syndicate.org/commentary/eur…

Thank you Sara Canali for a very insightful seminar on Critical Discourse Analysis, with applications related to Egypt, Meloni, and more!

New article with Jairo I Fúnez-Flores on how white ignorance produces epistemic coloniality within British elite universities. Thank you so much to the Sociology Compass editors and our reviewers.
See in Sociology Compass: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Please join us tomorrow from 2 to 4 pm for David Mwambari's lecture “The politics of vernacular memory in post-colonial African contexts”. The lecture takes place in Auditorium Vandenhove UGent