Events

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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]
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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
- by invitation only - [more]
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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
- by invitation only - [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 - [more]


Past Events

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]
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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]
grüner Hintergrund mit weißer Schrift

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]
grüner Hintergrund mit weißer Schrift

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]
grüner Hintergrund mit weißer Schrift

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]
grüner Hintergrund mit weißer Schrift

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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Concluding Workshop for the ERC Project EVaP and Book Discussion

Events 2026
  • Date: May 27, 2026
  • Time: 08:45 AM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: University of Amsterdam
Organized by Ursula Daxecker, University of Amsterdam & Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science and Neeraj Prasad, University of Amsterdam [more]

The Democratic Welfare State: How Does the Welfare State Moderate Political Participation Gaps Between Labor Market Insiders and Outsiders?

ITC Colloquium Spring/Summer 2026
  • Date: May 13, 2026
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Nastia Nedjai (MPIPS)
  • Location: MPIPS Villa, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12
  • Room: Conference Room
- by invitation only - [more]
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