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SUMMARY:Junior Scholar Event: Interdisciplinary Methodology Workshop Series on Democracy and Authoritarianism
DESCRIPTION:More Details TBD soon. This event may be subject to modifications in schedule and content.
URL:https://brias.be/event/junior-scholar-event-interdisciplinary-methodology-workshop-series-on-democracy-and-authoritarianism-3/
LOCATION:BrIAS\, Boulevard Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, Brussels\, 1050\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:Programme Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270325T120000
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SUMMARY:Thursday seminar: BIFD Liza Mügge + BIFD Marija Radoman
DESCRIPTION:Masculine Power: Political Privilege and the Future of Democracy \nby Liza Mügge  \nPolitics is still shaped by masculine norms—often so familiar that they remain invisible. This talk explores how ideals of manhood influence who is heard\, how authority is performed\, and which forms of power are considered legitimate. At a time when far-right and anti-gender movements strategically mobilize masculinity\, understanding these dynamics is essential. Drawing on the concept of political masculinities\, the talk shows how gendered scripts structure political privilege\, exclusion\, and resistance—and why they matter for democracy. \nBio\nLiza Mügge is Professor in Politics of Diversity at the political science department of the University of Amsterdam. She leads several international research projects funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and the European Commission (Horizon Europe) (see politicsofdiversity.eu). She is founding editor of the European Journal of Politics & Gender. \nDemocracy and LGBTIQ Rights in Southeast Europe \nby Marija Radoman \nThis talk examines the relationship between attitudes towards LGBTIQ rights and broader political values related to democracy and authoritarianism in Southeast Europe. Previous research has often found a connection between authoritarian attitudes and intolerance towards LGBTIQ people\, although the strength of this relationship vary across different contexts. The main focus of this analysis is to examine the extent to which attitudes towards LGBTIQ rights are associated with authoritarian political values at the individual level. The talk will draw on data from the European Social Survey\, including Round 11 (2023/24)\, reports by ILGA-Europe\, and an analysis of relevant social and political contexts. Particular attention will be paid to post-socialist societies\, with a comparative perspective on the region and Europe. The analysis also considers the growing use of LGBTIQ issues by illiberal and nationalist political parties to mobilise support. It takes into account the selective acceptance of LGBTIQ people\, including the particular exclusion of trans people\, their bodies\, and their visibility. Moving beyond the measurement of negative attitudes towards one marginalised group\, the talk explores what these attitudes reveal about wider political orientations\, the strengthening of right-wing trends in Europe\, and violence and stereotypes directed at LGBTIQ people. \nBio\nMarija Radoman is a PhD sociologist with over a decade of experience in gender and queer studies\, political values\, LGBTQ+ rights\, and research methodologies. Her academic work focuses on the intersections of social structures and individual experiences. She currently serves as a Research Associate at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade\, affiliated with the Institute for Sociological Research.
URL:https://brias.be/event/thursday-seminar-bifd-liza-mugge-bifd-marija-radoman/
LOCATION:BrIAS\, Boulevard Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, Brussels\, 1050\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:Programme Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270405T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270405T123000
DTSTAMP:20260724T121616Z
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SUMMARY:Junior Scholar Event: writing session
DESCRIPTION:More Details TBD soon. This event may be subject to modifications in schedule and content.
URL:https://brias.be/event/junior-scholar-event-writing-session-7/
LOCATION:BrIAS\, Boulevard Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, Brussels\, 1050\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:Programme Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270408T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270408T140000
DTSTAMP:20260925T140846Z
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SUMMARY:Thursday seminar: BIFD Jørgen Møller + Régis Dandoy
DESCRIPTION:The City Revisited: Urban Self-Government and European State Formation\nby Jørgen Møller \nThis lecture returns to a big\, classic question: the role of towns and cities in European state formation. In his posthumously published essay Die Stadt (The City)\, Max Weber placed the European city at the centre of European state formation. In recent years\, scholars have pursued several specific aspects of this relationship. However\, there has been no broad attempt to understand origins\, nor to analyse the consequences of urban self-government for state-building\, regime change\, and economic development and\, hence\, no attempt to appraise the wider importance of urban self-government for European state formation. Now is an auspicious time to embark on such a broad and ambitious research project. We have much better historical data than what was available to Weber; we have new methodological ways of interrogating these data; and we can draw insights from the broad\, specialized literature on urban self-government referenced above. This lecture\, which is based on a co-authored book (with Jonathan Doucette) currently under contract with OUP\, asks what\, on this basis\, we can say today about the origins\, development\, and consequences of self-governing cities in Europe? \nBio\nJørgen Møller has a PhD from the European University Institute\, Italy (2007) and is currently professor at the Department of Political Science\, Aarhus University\, Denmark and member of the Danish Royal Academy of Sciences. His research interests include processes of state formation\, dynamics of democratization and democratic stability\, and comparative methodology\, all in the intersection between history and politics.\nHis work has been published in journals such as American Journal of Political Science\, Journal of Politics\, Perspectives on Politics\, International Organization\, International Studies Quarterly\, Journal of Democracy\, and Sociological Methods & Research and in several books with Oxford University Press\, Cambridge University Press and Routledge. \nInsights from missions of election observation\nby Régis Dandoy \nInternational election observation has become a well-established norm since the early 1990s. Yet the practice now faces two converging challenges. The first is technological. Methodologies designed for paper-based voting are increasingly out of step with biometric registration\, electronic and Internet voting\, and automated results systems that are often opaque\, leaving observers unable to directly inspect an election’s core mechanics. Generative AI compounds this\, flooding campaigns with synthetic media that spreads faster than it can be verified. The second is the deliberate exploitation of observation’s credibility by authoritarian regimes\, which increasingly comply with the norm not to improve integrity but to capture the legitimacy genuine observation confers. This seminar examines “fake” or politically biased observation\, i.e. missions that mimic credible monitoring while lacking independence and rigor\, issuing favorable assessments despite documented irregularities to neutralize credible findings. Drawing on field experience and documented cases\, this seminar offers a comparative perspective on both fronts: where observation methodologies have adapted to technological disruption and where structural constraints such as fake observation strategies limit that adaptation. It closes by outlining what a technology-literate methodology and effective verification mechanisms would require to meet both challenges. \nBio\nRégis Dandoy is professor of comparative politics and director for the Centre for European Studies at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador). He is also associate researcher at Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)\, Waseda University (Japan) and the United Nations University. He holds a Jean Monnet chair on the European Union election observation missions and he participated to around twenty international election observation missions as an electoral expert\, primarily in Latin America. His main research interests and publications focus on digital democracy\, subnational elections\, electronic voting and election observation.
URL:https://brias.be/event/thursday-seminar-bifd-jorgen-moller-regis-dandoy/
LOCATION:BrIAS\, Boulevard Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, Brussels\, 1050\, Belgium
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270412T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270412T123000
DTSTAMP:20260724T121617Z
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SUMMARY:Junior Scholar Event: writing session
DESCRIPTION:More Details TBD soon. This event may be subject to modifications in schedule and content.
URL:https://brias.be/event/junior-scholar-event-writing-session-8/
LOCATION:BrIAS\, Boulevard Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, Brussels\, 1050\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:Programme Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270415T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270415T180000
DTSTAMP:20260930T130443Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Democratic Leadership
DESCRIPTION:Democratic Leadership\nMore Details TBD soon. This event may be subject to modifications in schedule and content.
URL:https://brias.be/event/workshop-democratic-leadership-thursday-seminar-bifd-michael-saward/
LOCATION:BrIAS\, Boulevard Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, Brussels\, 1050\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:Programme Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270419T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270419T123000
DTSTAMP:20260724T121617Z
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UID:4305-1808127000-1808137800@brias.be
SUMMARY:Junior Scholar Event: writing session
DESCRIPTION:More Details TBD soon. This event may be subject to modifications in schedule and content.
URL:https://brias.be/event/junior-scholar-event-writing-session-9/
LOCATION:BrIAS\, Boulevard Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, Brussels\, 1050\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:Programme Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270421T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270421T170000
DTSTAMP:20260930T130543Z
CREATED:20260930T130354Z
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SUMMARY:BIFD and Francqui Inaugural Lecture Michael Saward
DESCRIPTION:The Representative is Present : Power\, Politics and Democracy in The Square \n by Michael Saward \nAcross a range of countries\, a resurgent far right is targeting many values and markers of contemporary democracy (or at least\, liberal democracy). Some opponents of democratic erosion or backsliding argue that democracy must become something it has not yet been to do the work of equality\, freedom and empowerment that is demanded of it; it must be deepened\, extended\, transformed. Central to this thinking is the need to bring power closer to the people\, to increase trust and legitimacy in democratic ideas and institutions. We need\, so it is argued\, more proximity\, co-creation\, deliberation and connection between representatives and the represented\, perhaps even in ways that destabilize that very distinction. To explore this conjecture in stark terms\, the lecture takes us to The Square – a place of face-to-face encounter (or co-presence) where representation meets participation\, government meets citizen\, and roles and identities are contested and negotiated. In The Square\, the representative is present\, and relations of power are performed amid more fluid and dynamic sense of time\, space\, and material. Can exploring The Square – across a range of real-world and hypothetical examples – sharpen our thinking and open doors to new modes of democratic transformation? \nBio\nMichael Saward is Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick. A democratic theorist\, he is author of The Representative Claim (Oxford UP 2010)\, Making Representations (ECPR Press and Rowman and Littlefield 2020) and Democratic Design (Oxford UP 2021). In recent years he has been a visiting scholar at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México\, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)\, and Australian National University. International collaborations have in 2024 produced two new volumes: Claiming and Contesting Representation in Mexico: Meanings\, Practices and Settings (edited by F. Castanos\, S. Inclan and M. Saward) (Bristol: Bristol University Press 2024); and Bodies\, Spaces\, Claims: The Theory and Practice of Performing Political Representation (edited by P. Diehl and M. Saward) (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2024). Along with Shirin Rai (SOAS) and Warwick Theatre and Performance colleagues Silvija
URL:https://brias.be/event/bifd-and-francqui-inaugural-lecture-michael-saward/
LOCATION:BrIAS\, Boulevard Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, Brussels\, 1050\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:Programme Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270422T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270422T140000
DTSTAMP:20260925T141834Z
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SUMMARY:Thursday seminar: BIFD Tània Verge + BIFD Ekaterina Rashkova
DESCRIPTION:Challenging Patriarchy while Countering the Far Right: The Case for Feminist Policies for Men\nby Tània Verge \nGender equality policies have historically focused on women\, for good reason: gender structures inequalities and power relations that systematically advantage men. When addressing men\, gender equality policies have tended to approach them primarily as agents of change\, exhorting them to become allies or equality ambassadors\, embrace care\, reject violence\, and\, more generally\, adopt more egalitarian masculinities. Yet such approaches have clear limitations. Attitudes are unlikely to change simply because policy targets attitudes directly\, particularly in an increasingly reactionary political context. \nThis lecture makes the case for feminist policies for men\, without embracing narratives of male victimhood. By feminist policies for men\, I mean policies that address the gendered conditions shaping men’s lives\, ranging from educational underachievement and the marked underrepresentation in care professions to specific health risks or the invisibility of male victims of sexual violence. Acknowledging men’s structural privilege does not preclude recognising situated disadvantages affecting men and boys\, nor addressing them through concrete policy measures\, including positive action. \nRather than seeking to transform masculinities primarily through interventions aimed at changing attitudes\, feminist policies for men should intervene in the material and institutional conditions through which attitudes\, behaviours and gender relations are (re)produced\, thereby bearing more potential for structural transformation. In doing so\, feminist policy can challenge patriarchy while also contesting anti-feminist and far-right actors turn men’s (gendered) problems into grievances against women\, feminism and LGBTIQ+ people. \nBio\nTània Verge is a Full Professor of Politics and Gender at the Department of Political and Social Sciences\, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF\, Barcelona)\, where she led the Equality Unit between 2014 and 2021 and coordinated the Minor in Gender Studies. Between May 2021 and August 2024\, she served as Minister of Equality and Feminisms of the Government of Catalonia\, and between May 2024 and February 2026 she was an MP in the Parliament of Catalonia. \nHer main area of research is gender and politics\, with a focus on how political parties and parliaments are shaped by gender dynamics and on resistance to the adoption and implementation of equalities policies. Her consultancy and governmental practice have also given her new insights into the possibilities and limitations of feminist institutional redesign. \nExclusive Democracy? The Role of Political Parties in Mobilizing the Migrant Vote\nby Ekaterina Rashkova \nLiving in an era of mass movement of people – over 300 million people reside elsewhere than their country of birth – it is pertinent to re-address the issues of political participation and representation. Political parties\, which originated as the main linking pins between people and government\, have largely operated within national grounds. Often\, we refer to that link as the one between citizens and governmnet. Yet\, in a world of global migration we can no longer think in terms of citizens since with immigrants and emigrants\, the electorate has changed beyond nationality and national boundaries. Recent work (e.g. Rashkova and van der Staak 2019) shows that many national parties now engage with their diaspora abroad and claim that migrants’ relationship with the receiving state affects their political participation at home (e.g. Chaudary 2018\, Finn 2020). At the same time\, the evidence on why some parties engage with diaspora while others do not is mixed (e.g. Piccio 2020\, Kernalegen and Van Haute 2020). The intention of this talk is to present a snapshot of a research agenda that aims to 1) draw attention to a budding issue of a changing model of representation\, 2) provide a brief account of how theoretically political parties respond to migration\, and 3) set the scene for a larger scholarly debate on the changing nature of representation due to the changing role and needs of civil society around the globe. \nBio\nEkaterina R. Rashkova is a comparative political scientist with expertise on party competition\, gender and migrant politics\, and representation. Her research interests lie in understanding the behaviour of political actors and the strategies they employ\, given the institutional framework and the societal pressure they operate in. Currently\, she is working on the representation of migrants and the party abroad. The political integration of non-citizen residents in host countries\, as well as the connection of national political parties to their diaspora abroad. Her work often compares new and established democracies and has appeared among others in Comparative European Politics\, West European Politics\, European Political Science Review\, International Political Science Review\, Party Politics\, and Political Studies as well as in several edited book volumes.
URL:https://brias.be/event/thursday-seminar-bifd-ekaterina-rashkova-bifd-tania-verge/
LOCATION:BrIAS\, Boulevard Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, Brussels\, 1050\, Belgium
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270503T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270503T123000
DTSTAMP:20260724T121631Z
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SUMMARY:Junior Scholar Event: writing session
DESCRIPTION:More Details TBD soon. This event may be subject to modifications in schedule and content.
URL:https://brias.be/event/junior-scholar-event-writing-session-10/
LOCATION:BrIAS\, Boulevard Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, Brussels\, 1050\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:Programme Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270505T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270505T180000
DTSTAMP:20260925T142100Z
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SUMMARY:Thursday seminar: BIFD Théo Aiolfi
DESCRIPTION:The Art of the Breach: Populism\, Transgression and Performances the People\nby Théo Aiolfi \nBio\nThéo Aiolfi is a junior professor at the Université Bourgogne Europe\, as part of the Centre Interlangues Texte\, Image\, Langage (TIL). His interdisciplinary research is located at the intersection of political science\, communication and performance studies. His research interests include populism\, performativity\, style and politics as performance\, with a focus on far-right politics and political leadership.\nHe is one of the convenors of the Populism Specialist Group\, one of the largest groups within the Political Studies Association in the United Kingdom and a major platform for critical studies on populism. He is also a member of several international research networks\, including the Reactionary Politics Network\, [Democracy\, Signification and Resistance (DESIRE)]\, the Warwick Performance and Politics Network and the International Populism Research Network.
URL:https://brias.be/event/thursday-seminar-bifd-theo-aiolfi/
LOCATION:BrIAS\, Boulevard Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, Brussels\, 1050\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:Programme Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270510T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270510T123000
DTSTAMP:20260724T121632Z
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SUMMARY:Junior Scholar Event: writing session
DESCRIPTION:More Details TBD soon. This event may be subject to modifications in schedule and content.
URL:https://brias.be/event/junior-scholar-event-writing-session-11/
LOCATION:BrIAS\, Boulevard Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, Brussels\, 1050\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:Programme Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270513T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270513T180000
DTSTAMP:20260909T114001Z
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SUMMARY:PPDB workshop: Political Parties and Democratic Governance
DESCRIPTION:More Details TBD soon. This event may be subject to modifications in schedule and content.
URL:https://brias.be/event/ppdb-workshop/
LOCATION:BrIAS\, Boulevard Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, Brussels\, 1050\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:Programme Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270513T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270513T140000
DTSTAMP:20260925T142744Z
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SUMMARY:Thursday seminar: BIFD Susan Scarrow
DESCRIPTION:The changing landscape of party politics: a view from 5 continents\nby Susan Scarrow \nBio\nDr. Susan Scarrow is Moores Chair Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston. She has published widely on how political parties and political finance rules affect political participation and citizens’ attitudes towards politics. Her books include Beyond Party Members and Organizing Political Parties: Representation\, Participation\, and Power (co-editor). She is a founding co-director of the Political Party Database Project\, a global consortium of scholars studying political party development.
URL:https://brias.be/event/thursday-seminar-bidf-susan-scarrow/
LOCATION:BrIAS\, Boulevard Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, Brussels\, 1050\, Belgium
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270520T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270520T140000
DTSTAMP:20260925T143302Z
CREATED:20260724T121646Z
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SUMMARY:Thursday seminar: BIFD Sandrine Baume + BIFD Nana Akua Anyidoho
DESCRIPTION:The Paradox of Militant Democracy Through the Lens of Dirty Hands\nby Sandrine Baume \nThe idea that democracy may need to protect itself against actors seeking to undermine it from within lies at the heart of militant democracy. Yet militant democracy raises a fundamental normative problem: how can democracies defend themselves against forces exploiting democratic rights for antidemocratic purposes without themselves violating those rights? This tension has been described as the “paradox of democratic self-injury.” Existing scholarship has generally adopted two contrasting positions. Some regard the paradox as insurmountable and therefore reject militant measures as incompatible with democratic principles. Others consider it surmountable\, apparent\, or essentially pragmatic\, and argue that suitably constrained militant measures can be justified. \nThis paper develops a third approach by interpreting the paradox of democratic self-injury as a “dirty hands” scenario. Such scenarios involve genuine moral conflicts in which competing values cannot be fully reconciled. Militant democracy\, we argue\, confronts democracies with a conflict between political self-determination\, requiring free political competition\, and the preservation of stable democratic institutions\, which may require restricting that competition. This perspective acknowledges the genuine moral costs of militant measures while allowing for their qualified justification. It also implies that such measures require compelling evidence of a serious threat to democratic institutions and must remain sensitive to the moral risks inherent in defending democracy. \nBio \nSandrine Baume is a Full Professor at the University of Lausanne. Her research lies at the intersection of democratic theory and the history of political thought. She has focused in particular on institutions (such as constitutional courts)\, key actors (such as political parties)\, principles (including transparency and democratic self-defence)\, and practices (such as political compromise). Her extensive knowledge of legal scholars from the Weimar Republic has played a pivotal role in shaping her research and publications.\nMore recently\, she has broadened her research to examine the political competence of people with intellectual disabilities\, with particular attention to the role that the concept of autonomy plays in this debate. \nTitle TBC\nby Nana Akua Anyidoho \nBio\nNana Akua Anyidoho is a researcher in social policy and social development at the University of Ghana. She is interested in the ways in which marginalized social groups (in particular\, young people and women) navigate unfavourable policy structures in their struggles for social and economic rights. Her research focuses on higher education policy\, youth and women’s employment\, with emphasis on themes of agency\, participation and inclusion.
URL:https://brias.be/event/thursday-seminar-bifd-sandrine-baume-bifd-nana-akua-anyidoho/
LOCATION:BrIAS\, Boulevard Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, Brussels\, 1050\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:Programme Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270524T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270524T123000
DTSTAMP:20260724T121646Z
CREATED:20260724T121646Z
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SUMMARY:Junior Scholar Event: writing session
DESCRIPTION:More Details TBD soon. This event may be subject to modifications in schedule and content.
URL:https://brias.be/event/junior-scholar-event-writing-session-12/
LOCATION:BrIAS\, Boulevard Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, Brussels\, 1050\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:Programme Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270525T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270525T180000
DTSTAMP:20260724T121647Z
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SUMMARY:Future-oriented policy-making and foresight + Thursday seminar BIFD Alice Poma
DESCRIPTION:More Details TBD soon. This event may be subject to modifications in schedule and content.
URL:https://brias.be/event/future-oriented-policy-making-and-foresight-thursday-seminar-bifd-alice-poma/
LOCATION:BrIAS\, Boulevard Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, Brussels\, 1050\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:Programme Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270527T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270527T180000
DTSTAMP:20260909T114019Z
CREATED:20260724T121647Z
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SUMMARY:Forum: Cities and Democracy: Cities as Democratic Enclaves + Closing Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:More Details TBD soon. This event may be subject to modifications in schedule and content.
URL:https://brias.be/event/forum-cities-and-democracy-closing-ceremony/
LOCATION:BrIAS\, Boulevard Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, Brussels\, 1050\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:Programme Events
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