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Romain Biesemans

@romainbiesemans

PhD candidate/teaching assistant| Cevipol, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Gender & LGBTQIA+, Political parties, Belgian politics, Spanish politics| he/him

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I am very glad to start a four-month research stay in the Department of Political Science at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), as part of the @geypog.bsky.social research group. This opportunity will allow me to further develop my doctoral research within the Spanish context!

06.03.2026 13:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I had the pleasure to present at the SoF some results from my thesis dealing with LGBTQIA+ issues in Belgian party manifestos.

A huge thank you to Petra Meier for chairing this excellent panel and to Robin Devroe, Aloïsa Pilloy and Zoë Lardinois for the great presentations and discussions!

10.02.2026 08:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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[Activité] @romainbiesemans.bsky.social, chercheur à SciencePo ULB (Cevipol) interviendra lors de la table ronde organisée par la coalition genre, dans le cadre de l'évènement "résister aux campagnes anti-genre".
20 février, à la Cité Miroir à Liège.

27.01.2026 19:28 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The letter and the bond: coalitions, anti-coalitions, and the adoption of the coronabond in the European Union | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core The letter and the bond: coalitions, anti-coalitions, and the adoption of the coronabond in the European Union

Why did countries back shared EU debt during COVID-19🦠 after rejecting it in the euro crisis?

@tiagomramalho.bsky.social explains how a new “solidarity coalition” formed in 2020 and what it reveals about changing ideas of responsibility in the EU.

21.01.2026 15:44 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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[OUT] Out now in @plc-journal.bsky.social
PhD Summary: "Crafting campaigns, messages, and identities: Belgian parties in a digitalized political arena" by @lucaskins.bsky.social, postdoc at SciencePo ULB (Cevipol)
plc-journal.eu/article/view...

11.12.2025 20:39 👍 2 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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Dans de beaux draps - 17 Politiques d'égalité de genre Qu'est-ce que les politiques d'égalité de genre? Et où en sommes-nous en Belgique? Avec nous Dans de Beaux Draps, on reçoit Bastien Bomans, chargé de mission au Conseil "Genre et égalité" ULiège, pou...

[Media] @romainbiesemans.bsky.social, chercheur à SciencePo ULB (Cevipol) était l'invité dans le podcast 'Dans de beaux draps - 17 Politiques d'égalité de genre' à écouter ici ⤵️
www.mixcloud.com/48FM/dans-de...

27.11.2025 18:11 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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[Activité] @romainbiesemans.bsky.social, chercheur à SciencePo ULB (Cevipol) présentera un papier intitulé 'Comment les enjeux LGBTQIA+ influencent la compétition partisane? Etudes de cas en Belgique et en Espagne' lors des midis de STRIGES le 09 décembre, 12h15-14h

17.11.2025 22:37 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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[OUT] 'Federal and regional elections in Belgium, 9 June 2024', new paper by @romainbiesemans.bsky.social, researcher at SciencePo ULB (#Cevipol) in collaboration with David Talukder and Daan Delespaul, in The Electoral Bulletins of the European Union
geopolitique.eu/en/articles/...

09.09.2025 18:09 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Colloque - Contre l'Arizona et son monde – Gresea En Belgique, la séquence électorale de 2024 et la formation des gouvernements qui s'en est suivie ont marqué un tournant radical à droite. Au-delà des résultats électoraux, ce virage politique marque…

[Activité] Ariane Gemander et @romainbiesemans.bsky.social, chercheurs à SciencePo ULB (REPI et Cevipol) présentent une communication intitulée "L’Arizona, attaque néolibérale contre l’égalité de genre" au colloque du Gresea le 15 octobre à Liège
gresea.be/Colloque-Con...

03.10.2025 17:26 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Le jeudi 23 octobre, Romain Biesemans, Chercheur à SciencePo ULB (Centre d'étude de la vie politique de l'ULB - Cevipol), interviendra sur le thème : "Le genre est-il une cible idéologique" dans le cadre du Certificat 'Populismes et extrémismes' de l'Université de Liège

25.09.2025 12:13 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Federal and regional elections in Belgium, 9 June 2024 - Groupe d'études géopolitiques Introduction Political analysts could indulge themselves on the 9th of June 2024, since Belgium hosted no less than six separate elections. The results of these elections were meant to change the powe...

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«Federal and regional elections in Belgium, 9 June 2024».
New paper by Romain Biesemans, Researcher at SciencePo ULB (Centre d'étude de la vie politique de l'ULB - Cevipol), with David Talukder & Daan Delespaul in the Electoral Bulletins of the European Union.
geopolitique.eu/en/articles/...

10.09.2025 08:50 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference was a blast in beautiful Thessaloniki!

I had the pleasure to present for the first time a longitudinal analysis of the mobilisation of LGBTQIA+ issues by Spanish parties in their manifestos.

See you next year in Krakow!

#ecprgc26 #thessaloniki

29.08.2025 15:13 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Glad to join my first IPSA conference in Seoul where I presented my paper titled “LGBTQIA+ and Party Politics in Consociational Democracy: Evidence from Belgium” within the panel “Gender Politics in Polarized Societies”.

Thank you to the panelists and organizers!

15.07.2025 07:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A heartfelt thank you to Gerard Coll-Planas for his warm welcome and support, to all the colleagues at the University of Vic, and to Marina Garcia Castillo; colleague, flatmate, and most importantly, a golden friend who was there through the hardest and the best of times.

23.06.2025 10:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Wrapping up my visiting stay at UVic. It was a wonderful opportunity to immerse myself in the Catalan (and Spanish) academic world, to teach my very first class and seminar in the language of Almodóvar and to meet incredible people and experience life in beautiful Barcelona. 🫶

23.06.2025 10:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A huge thank you to Gerard Coll-Planas for this opportunity (and for challenging me to present these findings in the language of García Lorca). My thanks also go to Marina Garcia Castillo for co-organizing the session, and to the students for their insightful questions on LGBTQIA+ issues.

04.06.2025 15:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It was also an opportunity to present the first results of my longitudinal analysis on the salience of LGBTQIA+ issues in the programs of both Francophone and Dutch-speaking political parties.

04.06.2025 15:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I had the pleasure this afternoon of giving my first lecture in Spanish on LGBTQIA+ politics in Belgium to the Master's students in Gender Studies at the Universitat de Barcelona, as part of the course on Lesbian, Gay, Trans, and Queer Studies.

04.06.2025 15:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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[Rayonnement] @romainbiesemans.bsky.social, researcher at SciencePo (Cevipol) will present a paper titled 'Pro-Women but Anti-Feminist: Vox’s Instrumentalisation of Gender Against Trans* Rights in Spain' at the conference Antifeminisme i extrema dreta org by the Universitat de Barcelona on 18 June

29.05.2025 10:39 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

In the context of Pride Month, I had the pleasure of collaborating with the @socialmedialab-ulb.bsky.social to analyze how LGBTQIA+ issues were addressed in the communication of Belgian political parties and their leaders on X, between January 2022 and June 2024.

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20.05.2025 13:43 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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💬 @romainbiesemans.bsky.social, teaching assistant and PhD candidate @sciencepoulb.bsky.social highlights the low visibility of LGBTQIA+ topics in overall partisan communication on X, which reflects a tacit agreement across the political spectrum on these issues.

20.05.2025 09:53 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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🏳️‍🌈 As part of Pride Month, we teamed up with @romainbiesemans.bsky.social and looked at the prevalence of LGBTQIA+ issues and people in the communication of Belgian parties and their leaders on X between January 2022 and June 2024.

In this thread, we break down the results for you📎 🧵1/5

20.05.2025 09:53 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 2
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♀️ Are women politicians in Belgium getting equal spotlight from their political parties on social media?

Short answer: not really 👎

📊 On average in Belgium, fewer than 1 in 3 posts by political parties on X that mention politicians actually feature a woman.

Discover our analysis 👇

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23.04.2025 12:22 👍 18 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
Meet the team of the Social Media Lab (SML): Lucas Kins (ULB), Laura Jacobs (UAntwerpen), Awenig Marié (ULB), and Caroline Close (ULB).

Meet the team of the Social Media Lab (SML): Lucas Kins (ULB), Laura Jacobs (UAntwerpen), Awenig Marié (ULB), and Caroline Close (ULB).

🎉 Excited to launch the Social Media Lab (SML) @ULB on Bluesky!

🔎 The SML, a research project led by Caroline Close (@sciencepoulb.bsky.social) in collaboration with @uantwerpen.be, is an observatory of political communication on social media in Belgium.

🧵 1/5 – More below ⬇️

14.04.2025 13:03 👍 15 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
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EVRAS, dans le feu des contestations | La Ligue de l’Enseignement et de l’Éducation permanente Incendies d'écoles, alertes à la bombe, menaces de mort. En septembre 2023, les réactions à un programme d’Éducation à la vie relationnelle, affective et sexuelle terrorisent l’enseignement francophon...

[Media] 'EVRAS, dans le feu des contestations', une interview de @romainbiesemans.bsky.social, chercheur à SciencePo ULB (Centre d'étude de la vie politique de l'ULB - Cevipol) pour La Ligue
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09.04.2025 18:28 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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[Activité] @romainbiesemans.bsky.social, chercheur à SciencePo ULB #Cevipol participera à la Table-ronde 'Femmes et extrême droite' organisée à l'UNamur le 8 avril

03.04.2025 09:03 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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[Prix] 🎉 Félicitations à @romainbiesemans.bsky.social (Cevipol) ! 🎉
Son article avec Archibald Gustin, «Are radical right anti-gender politics so unique? A comparative analysis of conservative and radical right parties in Belgium and Spain », a remporté le Prix du Meilleur papier de l’ABSP 2024. 👏

28.03.2025 12:22 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Décoder l’Arizona (3/4) : un néolibéralisme aux accents autoritaires - Politique Selon Grégoire Chamayou, le concept de « libéralisme autoritaire » ne relèverait toutefois pas de l’oxymore, mais plutôt du pléonasme1. En effet, la

Nouvelle contribution issue du travail collaboratif de plusieurs chercheur·e·s décryptant l'accord de gouvernement pour la @revuepolitique.bsky.social. Nous revenons avec Ariane Gemander sur le chapitre éthique et la traversée du désert que laisse présager l'Arizona atour du droit à l'avortement.

19.03.2025 08:45 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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🌈 Sexism in politics: a barrier to women’s representation Sexism in politics restricts women’s participation and weakens democracy. A study by Hilde Coffé and colleagues on the 2024 legislative elections in Belgium reveals the impact of sexist attacks, stere...

As part of the Gendering Democracy Series by The Loop @ecpr.bsky.social, we shared key findings from our study on sexism during the 2024 🇧🇪 elections.
In this post, we highlight the challenges women candidates face and we outline concrete steps for tackling the issue

theloop.ecpr.eu/sexism-in-po...

17.03.2025 09:10 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Le centre interdisciplinaire TRANSFO ULB a quitté le ciel sombre de X pour voler tel un papillon dans un ciel plus bleu, n'hésitez pas à suivre son actualité 👇https://bsky.app/profile/transfo-ulb.bsky.social

10.03.2025 10:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0