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🔍Explore a new Article by @kzippel.bsky.social #PublicationFriday 

🧠 The recent attacks on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in U.S. universities are part of a wider anti-gender, anti-science, and anti-democratic agenda that seeks to dismantle equality infrastructures.

🔗 ogy.de/iho2

📘 #PublicationFriday
A team of SCRIPTS Researchers published a paper exploring how two politicized issues — migration and climate change — mobilize citizens across Europe.

🔍 What shapes cross-national differences in non-electoral participation, with a focus on petition signing?

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📢 SCRIPTS sucht eine*n Programmkoordinator*in (m/w/d) in Vollzeit (befristet bis 31.12.2032)!

Schwerpunkt: Veranstaltungsmanagement & Forschungskoordination im internationalen Umfeld.

🗓️ Frist: 11.08.2025
💼 E13 TV-L FU
🔗 Mehr Infos: www.scripts-berlin.eu/about-us/job...

#Jobs #Berlin #SCRIPTS

Displaced Russian Academics. Networks, Markets, and Survival Strategies loading...

What challenges do Russian émigré academics face when integrating into Western academia? #PublicationFriday

Alexander Kalgin and Sergei Mashukov explore this question in their recent SCRIPTS Working Paper, examining the concept of "academic survival" within the social sciences.

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📚 #PublicationFriday | "Russia’s Right and the Putin regime"

📌 Can there be a political right inside a regime often labeled fascist?

🔍 In their new article Katharina Bluhm & Mihai Varga argue that differences in Russia’s political landscape are still discernible and important.

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✨ Wir blicken zurück auf eine inspirierende Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft!

Danke fürs Miträtseln, Zuhören, Diskutieren & Mitgestalten – vom PubQuiz über den Vortrag zu PALS und Misogynie in Deutschland bis hin zur Wissenschaftsskulptur.

Wir danken euch und freuen uns auf alles, was noch kommt! 🚀

Vom Staat zur Marke. Die Geschichte des Nation Branding loading...

New book alert! 📚 #PublicationFriday

"Vom Staat zur Marke" by Jessica Gienow-Hecht explores how countries brand themselves—like products—with slogans, campaigns & image-building.
Nation branding isn’t new—it goes back to the 19th century! 🌍

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Podiumsdiskussion „Wissenschaft unter politischem Druck – wie frei ist die Forschung?“

🧠 Wissenschaft unter politischem Druck – wie frei ist die Forschung?
Podiumsdiskussion zur Haushaltskürzungen in der Wissenschaft mit Teilnahme der SCRIPTS Professor Stefan Gosepath.

📅 Wann: 8. Juli 2025, 16:00-17:30
📍 Wo: Freie Universität Berlin

Weitere Informationen und Anmeldung: ogy.de/v1n9

💡Reminder! There's still time to sign up for Prof. Sikkink's lecture tomorrow.

Don't miss the change to join us!

Public Lecture | Is the Justice Cascade Over? The Decline of Human Rights Prosecutions in the World loading...

Join us on June 26, at 10:00 AM at Freie Universität Berlin for a compelling public lecture by Prof. Kathryn Sikkink (Harvard Kennedy School), exploring the global decline in human rights prosecutions.

📅 June 26, 2025 | 10:00 AM
📍 FU Berlin, Rost- und Silberlaube, Room J27/14
📝 ogy.de/73dr

Justifying the State, Individual Uptake, and Territorial Annexation loading...

It's #PublicationFriday! 📚

We would like to share with you the latest published SCRIPTS working paper:
📄"Actual Acceptance and the Justification of the State" by Teng Li.

🔍The central question is: What justifies the authority of the state?

🔗Read it now:

The Coastal Route of Chilean Neoliberalism: Pedro Ibáñez Ojeda, the Mont Pelerin Society and the 1981 Regional Meeting loading...

It's #PublicationFriday 📚

📖Read the new article “The Coastal Route of Chilean Neoliberalism” by Maximiliano Jara-Barrera!

💡It traces Pedro Ibáñez Ojeda’s role in shaping an alternative path to neoliberalism. Focused on local actors using transnational networks to drive change.

Kein Maßstab für eine gerechte Gesellschaft Wer mehr leistet, der verdient auch mehr. So lässt sich das Prinzip einer Leistungsgesellschaft formulieren. Zu gerechter Gesellschaft führt das nicht.

💬 Leistung – kein Maßstab für eine gerechte Gesellschaft
🎙 Prof. Dr. Stefan Gosepath (SCRIPTS) bei DLF Nova "Hörsaal": Ein philosophischer Blick auf soziale Gerechtigkeit, Chancengleichheit & Verdienst.

🔗Jetzt reinhören:

💡 A Postcolonial Trend in the Historiography of International Law?

We're excited to highlight an article by our Postdoc @micheletedeschini.bsky.social‬!
He argues that any account of the past is also an act of constructing authorial identity.

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🇺🇸 Wissenschaft unter Beschuss – Trump 2.0 & die Folgen:

Kürzungen. DEI-Abschaffung. Entlassungen. Ein „Klima der Angst“ an US-Unis.
Was passiert da – und wie soll Europa reagieren?

🎙️ Podiumsdiskussion
📅 04. Juni | 🕕 18:15 Uhr | 📍 FU Berlin
💬 Eintritt frei – Anmeldung: buff.ly/5lCTFaK

📢Event invitation!

Trump v. Harvard – Academic Freedom and Democracy Challenged

With Daniel Ziblatt (Harvard) & Jessica Gienow-Hecht (SCRIPTS)
Moderation: Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff (DGAP)

Take part on 28 May at @dgap.org & online.

🎟 Infos and registration: ogy.de/7i8w

#AcademicFreedom

SCRIPTS is celebrating! 🎉
We have been awarded a second round of funding through the DFG’s Excellence Strategy!

We're excited to continue exploring how democracies adapt under pressure—our new focus: democratic resilience. More to come as we prepare for SCRIPTS 2.0!

#Democracy #ExcellenceStrategy

#9 - On the Rise and Decline of Democracy | 29.04.2025 | Philipp Lepenies & Natascha Freundel (moderation) loading...

🎬 Now online: Futuring #9 On the Rise and Decline of Democracy!

📺 Watch the full film now on our website: ogy.de/slw7

✨Big thanks to everyone who joined us — to Philipp Lepenies and Natascha Freundel and to our partners @suhrkamp.de and ‪@urania-berlin.bsky.social!

#SCRIPTS #Discussion

🔍 Neu erschienen: Unsere Studie „Mapping the Germanosphere“

📣 „Die ‚Germanosphere‘ ist kein loser Raum, sondern ein vernetztes digitales Ökosystem, in dem sich frauenfeindliche Narrative systematisch verstärken.“
📍 Projektpartner: @isdglobal.org
📄 Jetzt lesen: ogy.de/w9p6

❗Reminder to apply for your IRC Fellowships.

Application deadline is 15 May!

A new event series is starting soon! 🚀 A cooperation with @dgap.org

The first discussion: „Remaking America: The Benefits of Trump’s Tariffs Are Worth the Costs, Argues Mark DiPlacido“.

⏰ May 15, 6:30 to 8:00 p.m
🏘️ At DGAP, Rauchstraße 17, 10787 Berlin and via Zoom

Register here! ogy.de/hh17

Putting the Masculinity into Liberalism. Gender Essentialism and Catalan Self-Perception as a Progressive Liberal Democracy loading...

🏙The present-day attempt to frame Catalonia as feminist. What lies behind it?

Johannes Heß and Tobias Klee explore the tension between the historically masculine character of Catalan national symbols and contemporary efforts to recast Catalonia as feminist. #PublicationFriday

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🔔 Don’t miss our event next Tuesday!

Prof. Philipp Lepenies talks about his new book Sovereign Decisions with journalist Natascha Freundel.

📅 29 April, 19:30
📍 Urania Berlin
🎟️ uraniaberlin.reservix.de/p/reservix/e...

📢 Call for Papers: Author's Conference

You are interested in research about regional organisations? Then take the opportunity and send us your text proposal on regional organisations and their role in contesting or being contested by the liberal script.

🔗 more information: ogy.de/e5c7

🚀 Wir freuen uns Teil der BUA Kampagne "Das offene Wissenslabor" zu sein!
Ihr könnt SCRIPTS und unsere Forschung ab heute in 3D erleben - neugierig geworden? Probiert es aus: www.wissenslabor3d.de

Call for Applications | SCRIPTS IRC Fellowships loading...

🚨Call for Applications: IRC Fellowships

Curious about a fellowships at the International Research College (IRC) of SCRIPTS? We invite you to send us your applications for a 2-month fellowships at the IRC!

📅 Deadline 15th May 2025
📍 Berlin
📚2,500€ per month to cover your costs
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Welcome to the Liberal State! Place Branding as a Historical Practice loading...

📣 #PublicationFriday: Check out the SCRIPTS Working Paper No. 48!
The authors examine three case studies exploring, why self-proclaimed liberal actors do struggle to market themselves effectively.

💡 Liberal image campaigns often face legitimacy gaps and audience-related challenges.
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🚀 New at SCRIPTS: We're part of the Impact Hub project, exploring how German peacebuilding can be more effective and sustainable. A collab with @ifshhamburg.bsky.social, Center for Peace Mediation @viadrina.bsky.social, funded by @diplo.de and Robert Bosch Stiftung.

🔗 More info: ogy.de/pbdp

📣 Are you a BA or MA student interested in gender politics, democracy, and the rise of right-wing movements in Europe?

Join the unique, hands-on research course "Backlash Against Gender", organised by SCRIPTS doctoral researchers.

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