On September 3, Steffen Mau delivered a talk as part of CEU’s 35th Anniversary Presidential Lecture Series. In “Societies of Change, Societies of Crisis? On the Contestations of the Liberal Model,” Mau examined the growing sense of uncertainty and decline shaping contemporary societies and explored the challenges facing liberal democracy.

Ursula Daxecker has received funding for a large interdisciplinary project supported by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), in collaboration with a research consortium. The project studies the knowledge, skills, attitudes and practices that politicians need in order to uphold democratic and moral norms in times of major societal transition and crisis.

Ursula Daxecker, Abbey Steele (UvA) and Jessica Soedirgo (UvA), have been awarded funding for DIViNE (Democratic Institutions and Violence Network in Europe) through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Networks program. The network will examine how democratic institutions, often regarded as peaceful and resilient, both respond to and shape social unrest, extremist mobilization and political violence.

In an in-depth interview with the French daily Le Monde, Steffen Mau discusses the relationship between East and West Germany, memory culture since the Second World War, and the role of East German identity in the rise of the AfD.

On 26 August, our Managing Director Steven Vertovec will give a public lecture in Reykjavík entitled "Migration and Social Complexity …and Iceland", on how the idea of superdiversity helps to explain the country's rapid diversification. | 26 Aug, 13:00, The Nordic House.

Steven Vertovec, President of the International Panel on Migration (IPM), and the Chairs of the Panel's four thematic Working Groups have met for the first time in Berlin. They defined each group's scope, composition and timeline and began work on their assessments. They also discussed how the Panel will synthesise and communicate its findings, and exchanged views with representatives of other scientific and national panels.