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Department of History @eui-eu.bsky.social. We offer PhDs and post-doctoral fellowships focused on the transnational and comparative history of Europe in the world 🌐 loom.ly/11Zd7ZY

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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 1h
Our researcher Arina Fedorova defends her #PhD thesis on the Peasants Land Bank as a tool for the restructuring of agrarian order in late-imperial Russia 👉 loom.ly/7yteK7Q It argues that the Bank functioned as a key mechanism to regulate access to land and project authority across the empire
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A journey through Florence's multifaceted global connections Brace for the opening of the exhibition: 🌏 Global Florence. The World of Francesco Carletti, ca. 1573-1636 📆 9 October 2026 - 9 January 2027 📍 Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Italy
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Can we frame ‘the economy’ as a product of political thinking in international spaces? On 7 October, 11.00 CEST, join our first Monthly Research Meeting with our own Glenda Sluga 👉 loom.ly/J_bliUA Based on the research by our @ecointeui.bsky.social project, funded by @erc.europa.eu
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🎓 Our researcher Katerina Acheimastou defended her #PhD thesis on the relationship between political and gender-based violence during the Greek Civil War (1944–1949) 👉 loom.ly/UsJglIs 📚 Want to get a grasp of Katerina's research? Read this #MyEUIResearch interview 👉 loom.ly/sgMvFbQ
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Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol @manumourlon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Now off to print, coming out on 15 December with @cornellupress.bsky.social ! Book description and pre-orders here: cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🇪🇺 What does it mean to be European? For #EuropeanHeritageDays, revisit @ @eui-history.bsky.social alumna Oriane Calligaro's thesis on how notions of "Europeanness" have been negotiated and promoted since the 1950s. 📖 loom.ly/Dc26pww
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
📣LAST DAYS: Call for Applications for the European Court of Auditors Postgraduate Research Grant Programme. Interested in EU’s public finances and policies? This is for you! 📆Deadline is 6 October More info 👉 loom.ly/-Y5gQL8 @euauditors.bsky.social ‬ @eui-euarchives.bsky.social ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬
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European Court of Auditors Postgraduate Research Grant Programme
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Who laid the foundations of US globalism in the #20thcentury? On 30 September, 15:00 CEST, join the book presentation by David Ekbladh on American conservatives' embrace of the USA’s global role in the 1930s 👉 loom.ly/5FuWFL0 Organised by our Interwar Histories Working Group 👉 loom.ly/hk8X6Nc
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Power Cannot be Divorced from Responsibility
The Interwar Histories Working Group organise a book presentation with Professor David Ekbladh about how American conservatives came to embrace the US’s global mission during the world crisis of the 1...
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Dzień dobry! Next week, our Department is coming to Poland with 2 events (more info in the thread below 👇) Both events have been made possible thanks to the generous support of the @eui-eu.bsky.social Widening Europe Programme 👉 loom.ly/5ytoTFM #EUIWidening
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What kind of scholarship would a decolonised understanding of Ottoman history generate? On 25 September, 16.00 CEST, join our department's inaugural lecture with Pascale Ghazaleh (American University in Cairo) 👉 loom.ly/fRCrvec 📣 #history #decolonial #historiography #Ottoman
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Interrupting Grand Narratives: Ottoman History and Decolonial Perspectives
Inaugural Lecture of the History Department
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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
International Seminar for Early- Career Eighteenth-Century Scholars, Teruel, 7-10 July 2027: "Books, letters and empires in the age of Enlightenment". Still a few days left to send proposals (until 30 Sept.)! All information here: www.isecs-zaragoza2027.net/en/early-car... @eui-history.bsky.social
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International Seminar for early-career eighteenth-century scholars – 17º Congreso de la Sociedad Internacional de estudios del siglo XVIII
Imagen: José Luis Mieza, vía Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Our researcher Salvador Lima defends his #PhD thesis on transnational aspects of the history of the French and Spanish Foreign Legions in the interwar Period 👉 loom.ly/0KCK99w The thesis argues that the two Legions emerged as parallel responses to a set of similar political and military challenges
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🎉 That's a wrap on the VII Annual Graduate Conference on the History of European Integration! Two days filled with exchanges and plenty of new questions and approaches to explore. Thanks to all who made it possible!
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Ángel Alcalde @angelalcalde.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The @eui-history.bsky.social PhD thesis defence of Salvador Lima, on the Spanish Legión and the French Légion étrangère in the inter-war period as military and colonial institutions, happens just this week! Worth following if you can! www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
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Legionnaires of the Modern Empire.
PhD defence by Salvador Lima
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Our researcher Gabriel Farrugia defends his #PhD thesis on the emotional experience of sailors on board the galleys of Malta, c.1570s-1640s 👉 loom.ly/RBRVc1U The study explores how faith, otherness, and community were sensed, negotiated, and remembered at sea in the early modern Mediterranean
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🙌 The Alcide de Gasperi Annual Conference is in full swing. Don’t miss the public roundtable “Why (EU) history matters for today’s governance?” at 17.30 in @eui-stg.bsky.social More to come tomorrow!
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Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment @oxunienl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Available now | Constructions of femininity in the Spanish Enlightenment by Mónica Bolufer Peruga, translated by Elizabeth Lewis, is publishing today! Discover more and purchase directly for 20% off RRP here ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... #c18studies #academicsky
Promotional graphic announcing a new English translation, Constructions of Femininity in the Spanish Enlightenment by Mónica Bolufer Peruga (translated by Elizabeth Franklin Lewis), showing the book cover with a gray historical sketch of a woman, blue title bands, and publisher logos.
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
History can shed light on today’s geopolitical challenges Check out this timely interview with our Scientific Coordinator, @flaviacanestrini.bsky.social, on the historical roots of US extraterritorial sanctions👇
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Eye-opening, interdisciplinary and long-lasting 📜 Read the interview with our Alumna Diana Natermann on her #PhD journey in our department 👉 loom.ly/2e6_RjQ 🎓 Interested in our doctoral programme? Check the programme's webpage 👉 loom.ly/pvk17dc ⏰ Applications opening in early November 2026
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Eye-opening, interdisciplinary and long-lasting: Diana Natermann
Diana Natermann is an EUI PhD alumna in History 20112015 She is Assistant Professor in European Political History at Maastricht University and returned to the
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🤔🇪🇺 Why does (EU) history matter to all? Join us in Florence for a public roundtable exploring how research on European integration can help us understand the challenges of today's world. 📅 14 September, 17:30 📍 @eui-stg.bsky.social 📝 Register: loom.ly/W5U6Bko
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Why (EU) history matters for today’s governance?
A multidisciplinary discussion on how and why research on European integration history can inform approaches to the many challenges of today
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Historical Archives of the European Union @eui-euarchives.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
⏰Deadline approaching! #CFA for support for academic or artistic work using the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) archives at the HAEU. Two grants are available 📚 Academic Fellowship 🎨 Artistic Fellowship Apply by 30 Sept 2026 (17:00 CET). ℹ️ loom.ly/tvSB-gM #Archives #grants
Selected documents from the ECF holdings at the Historical Archives of the European Union
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🇮🇪 Did you know that Ireland applied twice before being accepted into the European Communities? Finally, on January 22, 1972, Ireland signed the Treaty of Accession. 📂Interested in the history of European integration? Explore the holdings of the @eui-euarchives.bsky.social 👉 loom.ly/Rt048eE
Signing of the accession treaty for Ireland. HAEU, BO-44-I.8
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European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🏦 Max Weber Fellow @flaviacanestrini.bsky.social @eui-history.bsky.social explores the US sanctions adapted to increasingly globalised markets between the end of the 1970s & the 1980s. Full interview 🔗 loom.ly/haoyHlM
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Planning to solve environmental problems Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess article by our #PhD researcher Rasmus Skov Andersen and our Alumnus Niklas Olsen on Bjørn Lomborg's thought and the history of climate politics 👉 loom.ly/haeCaXg 📚 #FridayReads #EnvironmentalHistory
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
📣 Looking for a #PostDoc in the Social Sciences and Humanities? Check the @eui-eu.bsky.social Max Weber Programme 👉 loom.ly/rLz1uFg 🔗 Find out more about the eligibility criteria and application process 👉 lnkd.in/eb9x8Z9P ⏰ Application deadline: 16 October 2026, 2.00 p.m. CEST
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Historical Archives of the European Union @eui-euarchives.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
#OTD in 1943 the first congress of the Italian Movement for the European Federation adopted Spinelli's motion arguing that only a democratic European federation could guarantee peace, freedom and the rule of law. Read Spinelli's motion, preserved at the HAEU: loom.ly/bY6_-nY
"La struttura federalistica costituisce la condizione necessaria per lo sviluppo di una vita politica libera"La structure fédéraliste est la condition indispensable au développement d'une vie politique libreThe federalist structure constitutes the necessary condition for the development of a free political life.Caratteri e scopi del movimento federalist europeo (HAEU AS-3, p.21)
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Historical Archives of the European Union @eui-euarchives.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A new academic year begins at the European University Institute—a warm welcome to all new and returning members of the EUI community! As the Institute marked its 50th anniversary this year, we invite you to explore an online exhibit of the EUI's visual history 🔗 loom.ly/MgP5mYE #EUI50
View of the Badia Fiesolana in the early 1970s. Photo: Unknown author / HAEU.
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European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Benno Gammerl, @ricbul.bsky.social & @zsofia-v.bsky.social on the conservative discourse surrounding the Berlin Pride attack. ➡️ Read the @theconversation.com article: loom.ly/FWClPqI
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
💡 New questions. New sources. New ways of doing European history The ADG Annual Graduate Conference returns on 14-15 September, bringing together early-career scholars to discuss its latest research on the history of European integration. +info: loom.ly/CZLlOe4 📍@eui-eu.bsky.social ⬇️
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Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Out! 📙 Constructions of femininity in the Spanish Enlightenment, the English expanded version of my book published in 1998 in Spanish, translated and edited by Betsy Lewis, with new presentations and historiographic essay. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... @eui-history.bsky.social
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
📢 Job vacancy - Chair in Intellectual History We welcome applications from scholars working across a broad range of fields, including: 💠 History of political theory, political economy 💠 Knowledge systems and IT 💠 Postcolonial and intersectional thought 💠 Humanist, post-human, and planetary history
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
What can an artist's religious conversion tell us about spiritual experimentation in early #20thcentury Florence? Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess article by our #PhD researcher @jenniferashby.bsky.social on British painter and poet Mina Loy's conversion to Christian Science 👉 loom.ly/xSABxbk 📚 #FridayReads
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Atomic capitalism, extractivism, and global inequality 🎧 Listen to the 10th episode of our podcast series Meet a Historian with Professor Jayita Sarkar (University of Glasgow) ➡️ loom.ly/AOEKt9o 🎙️ #podcast #history #inequality #nuclear #extractivism
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Jennifer Ashby @jenniferashby.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Delighted to share that my article on Mina Loy's conversion to Christian Science in Florence around 1909 has been published in Feminist Modernist Studies! Thanks to @euilibrary.bsky.social, the article is Open Access so is free to read & download (see below): doi.org/10.1080/2469...
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The making of Mina Loy’s Christian Science in Florence, Italy
The poet and painter Mina Loy (1882–1966) maintained a life-long, idiosyncratic belief in Christian Science. However, little is known of her formative introduction to the faith in Florence, Italy, ...
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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Senior colleagues, apply for the position of a Chair in Intellectual History at my alma mater!
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
📊 Modeling the world economy Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess Working Paper by Mirek Tobiáš Hošman on economist Guy Orcutt and the forgotten origins of economic research at the World Bank 👉 loom.ly/0KUXePY Part of @ecointeui.bsky.social research 👉 loom.ly/TRIVTO8 📚 #fridayreads #history #economics
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Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Professorship! The European University Institute (my PhD alma mater) in Florence, Italy, is seeking a new Chair in Intellectual History, 1500–Present. Deadline: 10 September www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
An cloistered courtyard with a tree centre and a tower to the right
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
📢 Job vacancy - Chair in Intellectual History We welcome applications from scholars working across a broad range of fields, including: 💠 History of political theory, political economy 💠 Knowledge systems and IT 💠 Postcolonial and intersectional thought 💠 Humanist, post-human, and planetary history
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
⚽Still recovering from the #WorldCup final? Here's a football flashback from the @eui-euarchives.bsky.social In 1999, the EUI football team travelled to Antwerp to take part in the first European University Championship Football. 😉History preserved the photo, (un)fortunately not the score #EUI50
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Meet the world's first influencers 📰 Read The Conversation Europe article by our PhD researcher Emma Schwak on the birth of lifestyle advice in post-revolutionary France 👉 loom.ly/vWzNFQY 📚 #fridayreads #history #taste #lifestyle #influencers
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The world’s first influencers were French and they emerged after the Revolution
Influencer culture is not a thing of the past, and yet the movers and shakers of post-revolutionary France are proof that writing lifestyle columns and trending is a centuries-old pursuit.
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Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol @manumourlon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Come and work with us @eui-history.bsky.social ! A wonderful opportunity for a chair in intellectual history. We're looking for a broad range of specialisations, details here: www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
🇪🇺 Today marks the anniversary of Simone Veil's inaugural speech as President of the European Parliament. Following the first direct European elections in June 1979, she became the first woman elected to its presidency. 📜 Read the full speech at @eui-euarchives.bsky.social loom.ly/B_6-Fxs
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
🤔 Thinking about applying for a #PhD in History? 📣 Our fully funded PhD programme focuses on global connections within Early Modern and Modern European History 🗓️ Save the date: applications open in November 2026! 📚 Find out how to start the intellectual adventure of a lifetime 👉 loom.ly/pvk17dc
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Doctoral Programme in History and Civilisation
emstrongImportant note: The deadline to apply for the 202627 academic year is 15 January 2026 at 14:00 CET Time in Italy Later applications will not be accept
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🎓 What role can academia play in cultural mediation? 📚 Read the volume co-edited by our own @mboluferp.bsky.social on the mediating role played by academies and intellectual centres between Italian and Spanish culture during the "long" 18th century 🔓Available in #OpenAccess 👉 loom.ly/tSsMKzY
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Researching the invisible histories of the United Nations 🎧 Listen to the 8th episode of our podcast series Meet a Historian with Professor (and EUI Alumna) Alanna O'Malley (Erasmus University Rotterdam) ➡️ loom.ly/rjDS5co 🎙️ #podcast #UN #history
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
📚 #Fridayreads #EarlyModern #TradeHistory #GlobalHistory
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
What is International History ... now? Join the 2nd final workshop of our @ecointeui.bsky.social project, funded by @erc.europa.eu 👉 loom.ly/3w_C20o 📆 23-24 July 2026 📍 Western Tower Room, University of Sydney, Australia 🌐 Open to online participants Check the project website 👉 loom.ly/68hg2pY
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Our researcher Yunus Doğan defends his #PhD thesis on the entangled histories of the Moriscos and the Ottoman Empire across the Mediterranean from the 16th to the early 17th century 👉 loom.ly/MjpePCA 🎓📚 #OttomanHistory #MediterraneanHistory
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EUI Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
All aboard! 65 years ago, the @eib.org financed one of its earliest railway projects, supporting the electrification of the North–South route in Germany. A step toward economic integration and international connectivity in postwar Europe. Next stop: @eui-euarchives.bsky.social loom.ly/7mw8EAE
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