Join our panel on 6/10!

Universities Under Pressure: Academic Freedom in an Age of Authoritarianism and Human Rights Frameworks

Discussants:
@cqschneider.bsky.social, Kirsten R. Leyer @cengizgunay.bsky.social

In cooperation with @weareceu.bsky.social

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My book is precisely about this questions. Summarizing it in one toot is challenging …:-)

I warmly invite everyone in our community to reach out, share your ideas, and join me in shaping CEU’s future together.

As I take on this responsibility, I am reflecting on the privilege of working alongside colleagues, students, and @alumni who are deeply committed to our shared mission. I look forward to listening, learning, and helping CEU continue to thrive in a rapidly changing world.

CEU has been part of my life for over 20 years. It is more than an academic home; it is a community that has shaped my thinking, my values, and my sense of purpose. It is a place where conversations spark change and research meets real-world challenges.

Today, I begin my journey as Interim President and Rector of @Central European University, a role that inspires both gratitude and responsibility.

As we said in 2017: if academic freedom is under attack in Hungary and we don’t fight back, it will be under attack sooner than later in other countries, too. #CEU #Harvard

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Meine 5 Cents zur Frage, was Unis tun sollten in der momentanen Lage

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Some (not only) personal news

Quite amazing for the American VP to be giving lessons on liberty to Europeans while his boss bans the Associated Press from news briefings because it calls the Gulf of Mexico by its actual name.

Chinese translations of two more recent books of mines, all with @cambridgeup.bsky.social, are under way: “Qualitative Comparative Analysis using R”, with Nena Oana @nenaoana.bsky.social and Eva Thomann @evathomann.bsky.social and “Set-Theoretic Multi-Method Research”. I hold my breath. 我屏住呼吸 #QCA

我很高兴地宣布：My book, co-authored with Claudius Wagemann, “Set-Theoretic Methods for the Social Sciences” (2012) is now available in Chinese. I learn that the middle initial Q. translates as Q. in Chinese.

I’d be pleased to be added, too

Special thanks to @ingorohlfing.bsky.social, with whom I kicked off the SMMR project; and @nenaoana.bsky.social, who crucially helped with refining the conceptual ideas and with implementing them into the smmr() function in R.

www.cambridge.org/9781009307192. 20% discount with code STMMR23.

Are you interested in enhancing your descriptive and causal inference by combining QCA with case studies? Happy to see my book out now.
Descriptive and causal inference is enhanced by returning to cases after QCA. SMMR spells out the principles and practices of selecting the best cases in the data.