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Call for Applications: SCRIPTS Digital Autumn School for First-Generation Graduate Applicants

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 6d

🚨 Call for Applications!

The SCRIPTS Digital Autumn School 2025 supports first-generation students on their path to graduate school. Participants receive coaching, feedback on their exposé, and an introduction to the German academic system.

🗓 Apply by Oct 6, 2025 → ogy.de/lqua

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 19d

How do digital platforms and weakened parties fuel democratic backsliding? #PublicationFriday

Bennett & Livingston show how digitally networked organizations mobilize extremists, reshape parties, and blur the line between online and offline politics.

📖 ogy.de/z1l9
📷 credits: Luke Heibert

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · Sep 5

Ever thought Putin’s gender jokes are less about laughs and more about insecurity? An article by E. Donskih & S. Akopov argues they’re tied to Russia’s ontological insecurity—anxieties about identity, masculinity, and place in the world. #PublicationFriday
📖 ogy.de/p1lq
📷 credits: Pixabay, svklimkin

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · Aug 29

📌 How is academic freedom understood worldwide? #PublicationFriday 📚

Kriszta Kovács & Janika Spannagel introduce a special issue offering a framework to map global variations, tensions between liberal and illiberal science scripts, and forms of contestation.

🔗Read here: ogy.de/l4e9

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · Aug 22

📌Why is security policy in the Global South so often overlooked? #PublicationFriday📚

An article by @tberger.bsky.social & Markus-Michael Müller analyses a series of articles and shows how South–South security cooperation reshapes global security governance.

🔗 Read the full article: ogy.de/g1th

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SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · Aug 8

Even in a pandemic with growing scientific certainty, political debates don’t necessarily use more evidence – they use it strategically.
🔗https://ogy.de/sjlk

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · Aug 8

🔍 New Article by @klatt.bsky.social & Sonja Blum #PublicationFriday
🚨 How scientific evidence is used in political narratives during COVID-19

Even in a pandemic with growing scientific certainty, political debates don’t necessarily use more evidence - they use it strategically.
🔗 ogy.de/sjlk

Stellenausschreibung: Programmkoordinator*in (m/w/d) Vollzeitbeschäftigung befristet bis 31.12.2032

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · Aug 7

⏰ Noch bis zum 11.08 bewerben!

Wir suchen bei SCRIPTS Berlin eine*n Programmkoordinator*in, der*die unsere Forschungsagenda zum Klingen bringt. 🎼🌍

Dein Schwerpunkt: Veranstaltungsmanagement & Forschungskoordination im internationalen Umfeld.

💼 E13 TV-L FU
🔗 Mehr Infos zu Bewerbung:

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SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · Aug 1

Photo Credit: Barbara Burgess/Unsplash

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · Aug 1

🔍Explore a new Article by @kzippel.bsky.social #PublicationFriday

🧠 The recent attacks on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in U.S. universities are part of a wider anti-gender, anti-science, and anti-democratic agenda that seeks to dismantle equality infrastructures.

🔗 ogy.de/iho2

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SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · Jul 25

📘 #PublicationFriday
A team of SCRIPTS Researchers published a paper exploring how two politicized issues — migration and climate change — mobilize citizens across Europe.

🔍 What shapes cross-national differences in non-electoral participation, with a focus on petition signing?

🔗 buff.ly/OMxtiMC

Stellenausschreibung: Programmkoordinator*in (m/w/d) Vollzeitbeschäftigung befristet bis 31.12.2032

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · Jul 21

📢 SCRIPTS sucht eine*n Programmkoordinator*in (m/w/d) in Vollzeit (befristet bis 31.12.2032)!

Schwerpunkt: Veranstaltungsmanagement & Forschungskoordination im internationalen Umfeld.

🗓️ Frist: 11.08.2025
💼 E13 TV-L FU
🔗 Mehr Infos: www.scripts-berlin.eu/about-us/job...

#Jobs #Berlin #SCRIPTS

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SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · Jul 18

What challenges do Russian émigré academics face when integrating into Western academia? #PublicationFriday

Alexander Kalgin and Sergei Mashukov explore this question in their recent SCRIPTS Working Paper, examining the concept of "academic survival" within the social sciences.

🔗 Free Access:

Displaced Russian Academics. Networks, Markets, and Survival Strategies

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · Jul 11

📚 #PublicationFriday | "Russia’s Right and the Putin regime"

📌 Can there be a political right inside a regime often labeled fascist?

🔍 In their new article Katharina Bluhm & Mihai Varga argue that differences in Russia’s political landscape are still discernible and important.

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SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · Jul 4

✨ Wir blicken zurück auf eine inspirierende Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft!

Danke fürs Miträtseln, Zuhören, Diskutieren & Mitgestalten – vom PubQuiz über den Vortrag zu PALS und Misogynie in Deutschland bis hin zur Wissenschaftsskulptur.

Wir danken euch und freuen uns auf alles, was noch kommt! 🚀

Vom Staat zur Marke. Die Geschichte des Nation Branding

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · Jul 4

New book alert! 📚 #PublicationFriday

"Vom Staat zur Marke" by Jessica Gienow-Hecht explores how countries brand themselves—like products—with slogans, campaigns & image-building.
Nation branding isn’t new—it goes back to the 19th century! 🌍

📘 Read more here:

Podiumsdiskussion „Wissenschaft unter politischem Druck – wie frei ist die Forschung?“

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · Jul 3

🧠 Wissenschaft unter politischem Druck – wie frei ist die Forschung?
Podiumsdiskussion zur Haushaltskürzungen in der Wissenschaft mit Teilnahme der SCRIPTS Professor Stefan Gosepath.

📅 Wann: 8. Juli 2025, 16:00-17:30
📍 Wo: Freie Universität Berlin

Weitere Informationen und Anmeldung: ogy.de/v1n9

Public Lecture | Is the Justice Cascade Over? The Decline of Human Rights Prosecutions in the World

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · Jun 25

💡Reminder! There's still time to sign up for Prof. Sikkink's lecture tomorrow.

Don't miss the change to join us!

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · Jun 23

Join us on June 26, at 10:00 AM at Freie Universität Berlin for a compelling public lecture by Prof. Kathryn Sikkink (Harvard Kennedy School), exploring the global decline in human rights prosecutions.

📅 June 26, 2025 | 10:00 AM
📍 FU Berlin, Rost- und Silberlaube, Room J27/14
📝 ogy.de/73dr

Public Lecture | Is the Justice Cascade Over? The Decline of Human Rights Prosecutions in the World

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · Jun 23

Join us on June 26, at 10:00 AM at Freie Universität Berlin for a compelling public lecture by Prof. Kathryn Sikkink (Harvard Kennedy School), exploring the global decline in human rights prosecutions.

📅 June 26, 2025 | 10:00 AM
📍 FU Berlin, Rost- und Silberlaube, Room J27/14
📝 ogy.de/73dr

Justifying the State, Individual Uptake, and Territorial Annexation

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SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · Jun 20

It's #PublicationFriday! 📚

We would like to share with you the latest published SCRIPTS working paper:
📄"Actual Acceptance and the Justification of the State" by Teng Li.

🔍The central question is: What justifies the authority of the state?

🔗Read it now:

The Coastal Route of Chilean Neoliberalism: Pedro Ibáñez Ojeda, the Mont Pelerin Society and the 1981 Regional Meeting

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · Jun 13

It's #PublicationFriday 📚

📖Read the new article “The Coastal Route of Chilean Neoliberalism” by Maximiliano Jara-Barrera!

💡It traces Pedro Ibáñez Ojeda’s role in shaping an alternative path to neoliberalism. Focused on local actors using transnational networks to drive change.

Kein Maßstab für eine gerechte Gesellschaft

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · Jun 11

💬 Leistung – kein Maßstab für eine gerechte Gesellschaft
🎙 Prof. Dr. Stefan Gosepath (SCRIPTS) bei DLF Nova "Hörsaal": Ein philosophischer Blick auf soziale Gerechtigkeit, Chancengleichheit & Verdienst.

🔗Jetzt reinhören:

Wer mehr leistet, der verdient auch mehr. So lässt sich das Prinzip einer Leistungsgesellschaft formulieren. Zu gerechter Gesellschaft führt das nicht.