Events

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Belonging in modern societies: Are citizens abroad still considered a part of the polity by resident citizens?

ITC Colloquium Fall/Winter 2026
  • Date: Sep 30, 2026
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Alyssa M. Taylor (MPIPS)
  • Location: MPIPS Villa, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12
  • Room: Conference Room
While migration research has focused largely on attitudes toward immigrants, we know less about how citizens view emigrants, in particular their access to their “citizen rights”. This paper examines the extent to which resident citizens regard those ... [more]

Zerstörungslust beim Göttinger Literaturherbst

  • Date: Oct 6, 2026
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Oliver Nachtwey & Carolin Amlinger | Moderation: Steffen Mau
  • Location: Paulinerkirche, Göttingen
Die Demokratie ist von Zerstörungswut umzingelt. Die Literatursoziologin Carolin Amlinger und der Soziologe Oliver Nachtwey untersuchen anhand zahlreicher Interviews die neuen autoritären Bewegungen unserer Zeit – von AfD und Trump bis zu libertären ... [more]
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Formen der Destruktivität: Eine Frommsche Perspektive auf antidemokratische Affekte

ITC Colloquium Fall/Winter 2026
  • Date: Oct 7, 2026
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 11:45 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speakers: Oliver Nachtwey (Universität Basel) & Carolin Amlinger (Universität Freiburg)
  • Location: MPIPS Villa, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12
  • Room: Conference Room
In den heutigen liberalen Demokratien ist ein Anstieg nihilistischen gewalttätigen Extremismus zu beobachten – eine Form der Feindseligkeit, die sich mit bestehenden Theorien zur politischen Gewalt nur schwer erklären lässt. In diesem Vortrag wird ... [more]
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Futures of Difference in Brazil Webinar

Events 2026
  • Date: Oct 16, 2026
  • Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Zoom Event
Race, indigeneity, gender, religion, and inequality in a country at the crossroads | Social categories — race, gender, religion, sexuality, legal status, and more — are neither natural nor neutral. They are born out of a contested history of ... [more]
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Political Othering among Peruvian Elites

ITC Colloquium Fall/Winter 2026
  • Date: Oct 28, 2026
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Mauricio Rentería (MPIPS)
  • Location: MPIPS Villa, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12
  • Room: Conference Room
- by invitation only - Over the last decade, Peruvian politics has increasingly been marked by class-based polarisation, most notably in the contrasting patterns of support for right- and left-wing candidates across affluent urban areas and poorer ... [more]
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Superdiversity in Latin America: Migration Crises, Social Complexity, and Unequal Diversification

Events 2026
  • Start: Oct 30, 2026 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Oct 31, 2026 03:30 PM
  • Location: Museum of World Cultures, Mexico City
This two-day symposium brings together scholars from across Latin America, North America, and Europe to examine how the concept of superdiversity travels — and transforms — when applied to Latin American contexts. [more]


Past Events

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Broad Constituency-Building as a Strategy Against the Far Right: The Case of Post-WWII Germany

ITC Colloquium Fall/Winter 2026
  • Date: Sep 23, 2026
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Berenike Firestone (MPIPS)
  • Location: MPIPS Villa, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12
  • Room: Conference Room
What explains regional variation in support for the far right? Demand-side or reflection theories assume that the presence of a right-leaning constituency will result in electoral support for the right. Using the case of post-WWII West Germany and ... [more]
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Contested Conceptions of Social Cohesion: A Social Milieu Perspective Based on Evidence from the Social Cohesion Panel

ITC Colloquium Fall/Winter 2026
  • Date: Sep 9, 2026
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Patrick Sachweh (University of Bremen & Research Institute Social Cohesion)
  • Location: MPIPS Villa, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12
  • Room: Conference Room
Patrick Sachweh is a Professor of Comparative Sociology at the University of Bremen. His re-search interests include social inequality, com-parative welfare state research, political sociology, and mixed methods research. He is a Principal ... [more]

Mapping Migrants’ Political Space

ITC Colloquium Spring/Summer 2026
  • Date: Jul 8, 2026
  • Time: 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Margherita Cusmano (MPIPS)
  • Location: MPIPS Villa, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12
  • Room: Conference Room
- by invitation only - [more]
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Inaugural DFG Research Network Meeting: “Qualitative Studies of Public Opinion”

Events 2026
  • Start: Jul 3, 2026
  • End: Jul 4, 2026
  • Location: MPIPS, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11
The three-year DFG research network on qualitative studies of public opinion in democratic politics launches with a two-day workshop on 3–4 July 2026 at the Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science in Göttingen. The network is funded by ... [more]

Explorative Data Visualization

ITC Colloquium Spring/Summer 2026
  • Date: Jul 1, 2026
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Alexei Matveev
  • Location: MPIPS Villa, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12
  • Room: Conference Room
- by invitation only - [more]
Institute Garden

Gegenwartslese

Events 2026
  • Date: Jun 26, 2026
  • Time: 04:30 PM - 09:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: MPIPS Institute Garden, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12
  • Topic: Discussion and debate formats, lectures
Gefördert von der Kohli-Stiftung | In Kooperation mit Calvör und dem Göttinger Literaturherbst · Die Gegenwartslese schafft einen Begegnungsraum zwischen Sozial­wissenschaft, Literatur und Öffentlichkeit. Autor*innen treffen auf Forschende des neuen ... [more]
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Who Gets Represented? Social Groups, Political Inequality, and Democratic Responsiveness in France and Germany

ITC Colloquium Spring/Summer 2026
  • Date: Jun 24, 2026
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Theres Matthieß (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
  • Location: MPIPS Villa, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12
  • Room: Conference Room
  • Topic: Discussion and debate formats, lectures
 Theres Matthieß is Assistant Professor of Empirical Democracy Research at the University of Göttingen. Her research interests include comparative political science, political representation, party competition, voting behavior, democratic legitimacy ... [more]
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Zusammenhalt, Transformation und Arbeit. Programmatik und Perspektiven der SOFI-Forschung

ITC Colloquium Spring/Summer 2026
  • Date: Jun 10, 2026
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Berthold Vogel (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
  • Location: MPIPS Villa, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12
  • Room: Conference Room
  • Topic: Discussion and debate formats, lectures
Berthold Vogel ist seit 2016 geschäfts­ führender Direktor des Soziologischen Forschungs­ instituts (SOFI) an der Georg­August­Universität Göttin­ gen. Seit 2020 ist er Sprecher des Göttinger Standortsim Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher ... [more]
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Arbeit in der Klassengesellschaft: Theoretische und empirische Annäherungen an eine Politik der Solidarisierung

ITC Colloquium Spring/Summer 2026
  • Date: Jun 3, 2026
  • Time: 04:45 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Nicole Mayer-Ahuja (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
  • Location: MPIPS Villa, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12
  • Room: Conference Room
  • Topic: Discussion and debate formats, lectures
Welche Dynamiken prägen die deutsche Klassengesellschaft der Gegenwart? In ihrer Monographie widmet sich Nicole Mayer-Ahuja der Frage „Warum Lohnarbeit spaltet - und wie es anders gehen kann“. Sie argumen­tiert, warum es nach Jahrzehnten, in denen ... [more]
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Taking a Position in the Political Field: Voting, Speeches and Interactions in the German Weimar Reichstag, 1920-1932 (Benjamin Rohr, co-author)

Open Lectures 2026
  • Date: May 27, 2026
  • Time: 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: John Levi Martin (University of Chicago)
  • Location: MPIPS Library Hall, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11
  • Topic: Discussion and debate formats, lectures
Political analysts have long used spatial representa tions as a substrate for behavioral models, especially for legislators’ voting choices. Most commonly, we think in terms of a single-dimension continuum of ide ology running from left to right ... [more]
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