Events 

13th November - Reflections on the US Elections

30th October - Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition and Democracy

16th October - Report launch: Representing Central and Eastern European Migrants in the Media

9th October - Special POLSIS Seminar Reflections on the UK General Election

2nd October - Post-Truth Politics

26th September - How Small Countries in Central Europe Help Answer Big Questions of Politics

4th June - Keynote roundtable: Can foreign policy of democratic states arrest the global decline of democracy?

3rd June - How can we protect academic freedom and build a culture of free speech?

30th April - Roundtable with Professor Peter Wilson

20th March - British Grand Strategy in the Age of American Hegemony

12th March - Standing up against autocratization across political regimes

29th February - Churchill as Appeaser: the Bulldog's Guile, 1931-1954.

28th February - US Election 2024

14th February - The Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made It

13th February - How Politicians React to Anti-Corruption Investigations and Enforcement

12th February - Party People: Candidates and Party Evolution

31st January - The War in Ukraine in Historical Perspective

23rd January - CEDAR reading group session on Campaign Rallies

6th December - Centrist Anti-Establishment Parties and their Struggle for Survival

5th December - The distribution of specialisation in a more or less inhospitable environment: Specialism and generalism among MPs in the UK House of Commons, 2001-2019

29th November - Democratic Resilience in Latin America: Insights from Argentina, Brazil, and Guatemala

22nd November - State of the Parties: Perspectives on British Party Politics

15th November - Women in Conflicts

6th November - Understanding oscillations in Turkish foreign policy: pathways to unusual middle power activism (tandfonline.com) by Mustafa Kutlay and Ziya Öniş.

1st November - Revolutions, counterrevolutions, and (un)making of order in Europe: the case of Ukraine

18th October - Reflections on recent elections in Europe

11th October - Researching Africa/Democracy Day

11th October - BRICS Expansion: Causes and Consequences

10th October - How well does 'resilience' apply to democracy? A systematic review

27th September - Understanding Territorial Withdrawal with Dr. Rob Geist Pinfold

16th June - Is democratic backsliding really happening, and if so what impact has this had on human rights and development?

16th-17th June - Rethinking backsliding: Workshop

13th June - Unintended Consequences of Combating Corruption

9th June - Post-Socialist Subjectivities

31st May - Anticorruption Efforts and Electoral Manipulation in Democracies

25th May - Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP: How political parties persuade voters to support radical ideas

24th May - Ascending Order: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions.

11th May - Migrants in Post-Socialist Britain

25th April - Support for Displaced Ukrainians in the UK - History and Stereotypes

24th April - Subjective and Objective Measurement of Democratic Backsliding

24th March - What Indonesian democracy can teach the world

23rd March - NEW DATE! Voters Under Pressure: Group-Based Cross-Pressure and Electoral Volatility

22nd February - Vampires, Vibrators and Pret-a-Manger: A Story of Big Data

7th February - Antidote to Backsliding: Ethnic Politics and Democratic Resilience

16th November - Roses Down the Barrel of a Gun, Georgia: Love and Revolution

3rd November - Contemporary German literature and theatre: Between cultural production and political interventions (online event)

20th October - Language, Violence, and Peacemaking in Ukraine

12th October - 25 years on from Blair's Babes – what have we learned about women's representation?

12th October - 25 years on from Blair's Babes – what have we learned about women's representation?

4th October - Building sustainable workplaces after the pandemic – the contribution and challenges of carbon zero for business

4th October - Improving social mobility: how should education institutions and employers work together?

4th October - Levelling Up Through Literacy - the power of cross-sector collaboration

28th September - The mother of all presidential elections in (still) democratic Brazil

28th September - The mother of all presidential elections in (still) democratic Brazil

28th September - Ukraine & Russia: between Myths and War

22nd September - What is Eloquence? Why Does It Matter?

21st September - Performing Popular Sovereignty: Populism in Ancient and Modern Politics

6th-21st June - #MeToo in China Exhibition

11th May - The Fault Lines of Inequality: COVID19 and the Politics of Financialization

3rd May - NEW DATE! On a Slippery Slope? Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe

30th March - Heterogeneity and plasticity of the self. Some anthropological reflections

23rd-25th March - Teaching German in a Transcultural World

16th March - Writing Home: A Conversation between Olivia Wenzel and Kaoutar Harchi

9th February - The Ideology of Political Reactionaries

2nd February - Englishness: The Force Transforming British Politics

26th January - The Russia-Ukraine-NATO Triangle: War, Peace and Diplomacy in Europe

8th December - Early GDR literature-avant-garden approaches to theatre in the socialist state: Matthew Hines

1st December - Happy Birthday Niedersachsen

24th November - Annual Fage Lecture: The Time of Letters: Epistolarity and Nigerian Newsprint Cultures, 1920s-1960s

24th November - The COP 26 Summit: Reflections and Future Scenarios

18th November - The Same Old Newness: the Elections in Bulgaria

17th November - Democratic Decay and Authoritarian Resurgence

10th November - 'Intourist' in the Baltics in the 20 century: Marta Starostina

10th November - Special POLSIS Seminar: "Britain after Brexit"

3rd-4th November - Opening a conversation about statelessness, governance, and the problem of citizenship - in the Commonwealth and beyond

13th October - Richard Wagner as Subject of Friedrich Nietzsche's and Theodor W. Adorno's Enlightenments: Imran Hashmi

13th October - Failure of Democracy: Political Threats and Economic Crisis in Interwar Europe

6th October - A Changing of the Guard? The 2021 German Elections

28th September - Post-Truth Politics: Silencing, Violence and Resistance in Public Debate

30th June-2nd July - Shifting Constellations: Germany and Global (Dis)Order

1st June - 2021 Birmingham Asia Forum

21st April - Prospects of Stabilising US-China Relations

10th March - The New Party Challenge: Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

4th March - Brexitland

3rd March - IGES Book Panel with Paul Betts - Ruin and Renewal: Civilising Europe after World War II

24th February - New Patterns of Political Competition in Western Europe: Populists vs. Populists

23rd February - IGES/BRIHC Lecture

10th February - The Moral Economy of Elections in Africa: Democracy, Voting and Virtue

28th January - Authors and translators in dialogue: Sandra Hoffmann and Katy Derbyshire

27th January - Germany and Eastern Europe: Birmingham-Utrecht Joint Postgraduate Workshop

27th January - REPRESENT Seminar on Populism with Daniele Albertazzi and Davide Vampa

18th November - Political Entrepreneurs: The Rise of Challenger Parties in Europe

13th November - Fascism Past and Present: What lessons can we learn from Italy's history?

9th November - Special POLSIS Seminar – Parties, Voters and Elections Research Group

28th October - Europe's Crisis of Legitimacy

22nd October - Populism in Europe and the USA

15th October - Populism Around The World: Beyond The "Charismatic Leader"

14th October - Distract and divert: How world leaders use social media during contentious politics

19th March - Post-Truth Politics: Impacts on the Public Sphere and the Quality of Public Deliberation

10th February - An Evening with Travis Alabanza

23rd January - The League of Nations @ 100: Humanitarian Histories

20th November - Brexit and Questions of 'National Inheritance': The Colonial Conditions of our Present Crises

12th June - The Impact of Climate Change on Human Security: Civilian and Military Perspectives

21st March - Making Sense of Corruption - Cancelled

15th March - British Foreign Policy in a Fragmenting World

6th March - Performances of Injustices: The politics of truth, justice and reconciliation in Kenya

4th December - Choices, Challenges and Crises: Economic Reform in Post-Communist Europe

28th November - Russia in Syria: Quagmire or Masterstroke?

26th November - Blair's Britain: A Legacy Assessed

21st November - Black to Red: the Politics of Prison Reform in the former Soviet Union

15th November - Syria's Disappeared: The Case Against Assad

24th October - Not 'Coming Out'? The Attitudinal Panopticon and the Shallow Europeanisation of LGBT Rights in Serbia

16th October - National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy

9th October - PTR Polsis seminar series

9th October - How Democracies Die

12th July - Trusting Enemies

7th June - Thirty Years Later: Ethnic Conflict in the Former Soviet Union

22nd May - Becoming the World's Most Powerful Woman: Angela Merkel and the Transformation of United Germany

2nd May - Euroscepticism and the Future of European Integration

19th April - Brexit and British Politics

7th March - IGS Workshop: 'The (Im)Possibility of Liberating One('s)Self'

6th March - Reflections on the Italian elections

27th June - The Destruction of Memory: a cross-disciplinary event