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Europeanist [literature, thought, politics] | Directing @uclei.bsky.social | Working with @ucl-global.bsky.social | Curating @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social
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Uta Staiger @ukstaiger.bsky.social · Feb 20
'One doesn't always have to speak'
- Hannah Arendt
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uclei.bsky.social
The 2025 European Lecture is now available 👇

Michael Ignatieff on Academic Freedom: What It Is, What It Isn’t and Why It’s Under Threat

Watch now: youtu.be/IYi_67T5VnM?...

@laws.ucl.ac.uk @efieldingd.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 10:43 AM
ukstaiger.bsky.social
Starting today, with @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social & Thomas Meyer, authors of two most compelling, utterly different recent biographies, exploring the life, mind & work of Hannah Arendt.

By the Goethe Institute, at @ateneubcn.cat & supported by the Amigos, @uclei.bsky.social and the ADHUC @ub.edu.
ukstaiger.bsky.social Uta Staiger @ukstaiger.bsky.social · 7d
Couldn't be more excited for next week's Hannah Arendt Days at the @ateneubcn.cat - curated with the Goethe Institute Barcelona.

www.goethe.de/ins/es/de/st...
November 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
ukstaiger.bsky.social
Beautifully written short read by @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social and Dean Vuletic, on Canada's bid to join the Eurovision party -fashionably late.

(Repost from The Toronto Star)

ucleuropeblog.com/2025/11/27/c...
Canada’s move to join Eurovision is a savvy nation-building tactic
Nomi Claire Lazar and Dean Vuletic examine Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to include Canada’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest as part of his $120-million investment in strengthe…
ucleuropeblog.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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britishacademy.bsky.social
"Today’s Budget was an opportunity for the government to offer further detail and clarity on the state and finances of the higher education sector, building on the recent White Paper."

Read our response to the Autumn Budget in full: https://bit.ly/4rs7bCc
The British Academy's response to the Autumn Budget
The British Academy has responded to the Autumn Budget (26 November 2025)
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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chowleen.bsky.social
The border is a rusted hinge that does not bend.

The border is the blood clot in the river’s vein.

The border is a handshake that becomes a squeezing contest.

-Alberto Ríos
from “The Border: A Double Sonnet” (2015)
#everynightapoem
Full poem below. Image is my typing the poem out on a typewriter. The border is a line that birds cannot see. The border is a beautiful piece of paper folded carelessly in half. The border is where flint first met steel, starting a century of fires. The border is a belt that is too tight, holding things up but making it hard to breathe. The border is a rusted hinge that does not bend. The border is the blood clot in the river’s vein. The border says stop to the wind, but the wind speaks another language, and keeps going. The border is a brand, the “Double-X” of barbed wire scarred into the skin of so many. The border has always been a welcome stopping place but is now a stop sign, always red. The border is a jump rope still there even after the game is finished. The border is a real crack in an imaginary dam. The border used to be an actual place, but now, it is the act of a thousand imaginations. The border, the word border, sounds like order, but in this place they do not rhyme. The border is a handshake that becomes a squeezing contest. The border smells like cars at noon and wood smoke in the evening. The border is the place between the two pages in a book where the spine is bent too far. The border is two men in love with the same woman. The border is an equation in search of an equals sign. The border is the location of the factory where lightning and thunder are made. The border is “NoNo” The Clown, who can’t make anyone laugh. The border is a locked door that has been promoted. The border is a moat but without a castle on either side. The border has become Checkpoint Chale. The border is a place of plans constantly broken and repaired and broken. The border is mighty, but even the parting of the seas created a path, not a barrier. The border is a big, neat, clean, clear black line on a map that does not exist. The border is the line in new bifocals: below, small things get bigger; above, nothing changes. The border is a skunk with a white line down its bac…
November 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
ukstaiger.bsky.social
Dispiriting if important thread on the proceedings. TLDR: ends (at the moment of posting) with a historical image of the headless horseman.
eicathomefinn.bsky.social Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d
House of Commons Education Committee on Universities and the threat of insolvency starts its last session at 10:00.
BBC Parliament - Select Committees
Coverage of select committee proceedings at the Palace of Westminster.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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katherinemcdon.bsky.social
Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.
Icon of St Katherine
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
Are you worried about the devastating cuts we are seeing to arts, humanities & social sciences in UK universities? Last call for my lecture in Leicester this Thurs 27th Nov on the value of these subjects and how they support UK security, cohesion and prosperity www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-a-...
Shaping a Brighter Future
The first event in our Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture Series, delivered by Hetan Shah, Chief Executive, The British Academy
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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john-self.bsky.social
Of the last twelve authors who have won the Booker Prize, only two (Marlon James and Douglas Stuart) have published another novel since their win. Obviously very recent winners skew the stat, but still a surprising figure to me.

Worth a read (though you may need to register to read it for free):
That difficult second Booker: the long-term impact of a win
In the week since its victory, 2025’s Booker winner David Szalay’s Flesh experienced a boost of 1,441% in week-on-week sales, according to NielsenIQ BookData.
www.thebookseller.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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jowolff.bsky.social
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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lyndseystonebri.bsky.social
Hugely looking forward to this!
ukstaiger.bsky.social Uta Staiger @ukstaiger.bsky.social · 7d
With the extraordinary @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social and Thomas Meyer, authors of two most compelling recent biographies.

www.goethe.de/ins/es/de/st...
November 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
ukstaiger.bsky.social
Couldn't be more excited for next week's Hannah Arendt Days at the @ateneubcn.cat - curated with the Goethe Institute Barcelona.

www.goethe.de/ins/es/de/st...
November 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
ukstaiger.bsky.social
Well.
jackstilgoe.bsky.social Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 7d
A semi-regular AI map-drawing test. This was my older attempt
November 20, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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ronensteinke.bsky.social
Mit Nazis reden. (Heute vor 80 Jahren war Prozessbeginn.)
November 20, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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tabouchadi.bsky.social
The far right will be the dominant force on the right in Europe within the next 5-10 years. Most focus is still on how to prevent this but imho too many mistakes have been made that have created path dependencies. We need to focus more on what it means for our democracies when we reach this stage.
timbale.bsky.social Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 7d
Strongly suspect that this is what will happen here in 28/9. Tories will replace Badenoch with a leader prepared to try it and Farage (as per 2019 but this time as the senior partner) will continue to deny he'll do a stand-down deal - right up until the point he does one.
French conservatives are inching towards a pact with Le Pen that could enable a far-right takeover of the country | Paul Taylor
In trying to woo Le Pen’s voters, Les Républicains risk destroying France’s Gaullist legacy and putting Paris on a collision course with the EU, says Paul Taylor of the European Policy Centre
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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antonspisak.bsky.social
Today was a very important day: the 36th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. Also a day when over 50,000 people went into the streets in Bratislava, despite a terrible rain storm, in protest of Fico’s government in Slovakia. Here’s why it really mattered. /1
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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davidheniguk.bsky.social
A levy on foreign students is one of the closest things you're going to see to tariffs on services - except the UK will be putting it on its own exports...

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Levy on international students’ tuition fees not in best interest of UK, says leader of top university
Duncan Ivison, president of Manchester University, says government’s 6% surcharge plan will ‘hurt the sector’
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Chi Onwurah 'understood the UK was doing “as well as before Brexit” in the areas of the programme focused on curiosity-driven research, “but we are performing less well in pillars 2 and 3 of the programme”, which include business collaborations, commercialisation and societal challenges.'
November 14, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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hofrench.bsky.social
Tremendous use of graphics. on.ft.com/4nQFAHR In charts: ten years since the Paris climate accord Free to read.
In charts: ten years since the Paris climate accord
In 2015 nearly 200 countries signed a historic agreement to fight climate change. What has changed in that time?
on.ft.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social
#Zürich

Heute Abend geht es weiter.
Und wie letztes Mal - auch online ⬇️

#ImVertrauern
November 13, 2025 at 7:29 AM
ukstaiger.bsky.social
Beautifully branded European wine to ease us into an evening of conversation on European and EU law at @laws.ucl.ac.uk.
November 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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lordrickettsp.bsky.social
It’s out! Here’s @LordsEUCom Report ‘Unfinished Business: resetting the UK- EU relationship’. The Gov’t have made a strong start, esp on security and defence, but there’s still much to do in turning aspirations and goodwill into workable agreements 1/8
publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...
publications.parliament.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social
🇵🇱🥐 It's 11 November, which is Remembrance Day for most of Europe, Independence Day for Poland, and St. Martin's Day for Poznań and Greater Poland, so I managed to get a hold of St. Martin's croissants at a Polski Sklep in Berlin and serve my colleagues this croissant bowl.
November 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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laws.ucl.ac.uk
📢 The Public Constitution
🗣️ Prof Alon Harel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
With UCL Laws’ Prof Oliver Gerstenberg, @nataliamoralesc.bsky.social & Ronan McCrea.
📅 13 Nov 2025 | 🕚 1pm | 📍 In person & online
🔗 Book for free:
The Public Constitution
This event is organised by the UCL Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism.
buff.ly
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM