Lecture on "Stadt-Öffentlichkeit" at the conference of the DVPW Theory Section (03. 2025)

March 20, 2025 | University of Erfurt

On March 20, Dr. Verena Frick will give a lecture on "Stadt-Öffentlichkeit. Democratic potentiality and current threats to urban public space". This year's section conference is dedicated to the overarching theme of “Political Public Spheres: Structures” and will take place at the University of Erfurt. Click here for the program.

New publications on conservatism and Ko(h)lonisation (03.2025)

On February 26, 2025, a collective review by Tobias Adler-Bartels was published in the Politische Vierteljahresschrift. The review entitled “Ideologische Konflikte und historische Konstellationen - Forschungsperspektiven auf den Konservatismus” deals with current research perspectives from various publications on conservatism and thus highlights various ideological conflicts and relevant historical constellations. In March 2025, Merkur published an essay by Tobias Adler-Bartels entitled “Nach der Ko(h)lonisation” on German unity and the associated asymmetries between the old and new federal states.

Lecture on radical and moderate conservatism in the early Federal Republic (02.2025)

February 27, 2025 | Hamburg Institute for Social Research

On February 27, Tobias Adler-Bartels gave a lecture entitled "The Contested Boundaries of German Conservatism. Radical and Moderate Conservatives in the Early Federal Republic" on the topic of radical and moderate conservatism in the early Federal Republic. The lecture took place as part of the workshop “Politics of Demarcation and the Radical-Right in Post-War Europe: Defining what is Right” at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. The workshop aimed to examine the demarcation strategies within the radical right as a political movement, in particular the interplay of self-positioning and external attribution, in order to understand how, when and why these demarcations emerged, changed or disappeared, what functions they fulfilled and how they reacted to symbolic “cordons saintaires”.

Pope and Time - A Symposium with Otto Kallscheuer (01.2025)

January 30, 2025 | Karl Rahner Academy

On January 30, 2025, the symposium jointly organized by the Karl Rahner Academy/Cologne and the Department of Political Theory and History of Ideas/University of Göttingen on Otto Kallscheuer's work "Pope and Time. Heilsgeschichte und Weltpolitik" took place, in media partnership with the Gerda Henkel Foundation's science portal L.I.S.A., which recorded the event. Otto Kallscheuer's work has put the debate about the Catholic Church and the papacy on a new footing. The Catholic Church is presented here as a unique religious community and institution: endangered, paradoxical, anachronistic and at the same time resilient, intent on unity and indispensable as an actor in world history. Prof. Dr. Stein discussed problem-generating solutions for the church's relationship to modernity in a forum together with other experts from the fields of theology, history and political science. A recording of the symposium can be accessed here.

Lecture on "Urban Citizenship and National Membership" (01.2025)

January 22, 2025 | Johanna Quandt Young Academy Frankfurt

On January 22, Dr. Verena Frick gave a lecture on “Urban Citizenship and National Membership” as part of a Study Day at the Johanna Quandt Young Academy Frankfurt on the topic of “Socio-political complexities of public spaces”.

Board of the German Political Science Association (DVPW) (01.2025)

Our colleague Dr. Verena Frick was elected to the board of the German Political Science Association for the 2024-2027 term of office. In this context, she will be particularly concerned with the interests of Q-scientists and the international networking of the DVPW. Further information can be found on the DVPW website.