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Svenja Ahlhaus

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Political Theorist at University of Münster Assistant Professor in Political Theory, interested in democratic theory: legal mobilization, political representation, migration, religion, animal politics https://sites.google.com/view/svenja-ahlhaus/home

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Svenja Ahlhaus @svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social · May 9

In my new article 👇 I look at strategic litigation from the perspective of democratic theory.

A short blogpost summarizing the key points is now online at the AJPS Blog.

And here is a short thread:

American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) @ajpseditor.bsky.social · May 8

Strategic litigation as a challenge for deliberative democracy by Svenja Ahlhaus is now available in Early View.
@svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social ajps.org/2025/05/07/s...

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Svenja Ahlhaus @svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social · 6d

Haha! Es ist einfach ein schöner Ort für Gespräche zwischen PoWis, die mehr als Wikipedia lesen!

Svenja Ahlhaus @svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social · 6d

Vielen Dank an das ganze Team von @poloeff.bsky.social für eine tolle Tagung in Erlangen!

Wir sollten uns viel öfter in Orangerien treffen!
@dvpwtheoriesektion.bsky.social

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Sektion Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte in der DVPW @dvpwtheoriesektion.bsky.social · 6d

Nun geht es zur Abschlusskeynote von Teresa Bejan unter dem Titel Speaking as Equals

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Martin Nonhoff @martinnonhoff.bsky.social · 6d

Uuuund jetzt starten wir in den letzten Tag der @dvpwtheoriesektion.bsky.social Tagung zu Akteuren und Strategien der politischen Öffentlichkeit mit Valerien Thielicke-Witt und Campbell MacGillivray. Moderation durch @svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social

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Bernd Schlipphak @bschlipphak.bsky.social · 13d

@ifpolms.bsky.social, the winter term always sees our lecture series on #sustainability & #democracy! This year's focus is on the perspective of citizens, with a great line-up of external and internal presenters.

Participants from other departments @uni-muenster.de & other unis are very welcome!

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Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · 12d

🚨🚨🚨 Deadline is today to apply for our Professorship in International Sustainability. 🚨🚨🚨

**We have a broad reading of the topics being covered by this professorship.**

Apply!

stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/c...

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Bernd Schlipphak @bschlipphak.bsky.social · 15d

It's time again for a new episode - episode 6 - of my series on "Great colleagues @ifpolms.bsky.social doing exciting (and enviable) research": If you are not yet following @mwegemann.bsky.social, please hurry to do so!

EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences @eui-sps.bsky.social · 15d

We are delighted to share that our alumnus @mwegemann.bsky.social received an Honourable Mention in the 2025 Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Award by @apsa.bsky.social’s European Politics and Society section.

His dissertation was recognised among the best works on European politics and society!

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Svenja Ahlhaus @svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social · 14d

Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

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Politische Öffentlichkeit 2025 @poloeff.bsky.social · 26d

📆 Hier kommt die Vorschau auf das Programm zur Tagung der @dvpwtheoriesektion.bsky.social zum Thema "Politische Öffentlichkeit" an der @fau.de!
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Programm-Version für Bildschirmlesegeräte unter folgendem Link: https://www.poloeff.de/programm-erlangen/

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Jonathan Floyd @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social · 22d

Announcement: I'm now Co-Chair of the IPSA Political Philosophy Research Committee @ipsa-rc31.bsky.social. Working with @humeiraiqtidar.bsky.social. Have joined up partly 2 ensure the group continues but also 2 massively grow its presence, starting with the next biennial conference in Rome (2027)...

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Svenja Ahlhaus @svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social · Aug 26

Ah it seems to be #ecprgc25
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The Normativity of International Institutions: Between Commitment and Contestation

European Consortium for Political Research

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Svenja Ahlhaus @svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social · Aug 26

Looking forward to these two panels at #ecprgc2025

"The Normativity of International Institutions: Between Commitment and Contestation" (with @brianmilstein.bsky.social @mpatberg.bsky.social Eva Erman, Silviya Lechner)

"Postnational Constitutionalism" (with Carmen Pavel, Francesco Rizzi Brignoli)

ECPR Panel: The Normativity of International Institutions: Between Commitment and Contestation.

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Svenja Ahlhaus @svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social · Aug 5

Come work with us in Münster @ifpolms.bsky.social

CfA: Professorship (W3) in "Political Science with a Focus on International Sustainability"👇

Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · Aug 4

🎓📢 We’re hiring!

Come join us @uni-muenster.de 🇩🇪 as a W3 Professor in Political Science (🌍 IR & ♻️ Sustainability)

💼 Permanent position
📍 Münster, Germany
🕒 Deadline: Sept 26, 2025

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W3 Professorship in "Political Science with a Focus on International Sustainability" - Universität Münster

Universität Münster bietet Stelle als W3 Professorship in "Political Science with a Focus on International Sustainability" in Münster - jetzt bewerben!

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Svenja Ahlhaus @svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social · Jul 9

Here is my new article on public political theory in times of emergency. I discuss how democratic underlabourers can practice "emergency underlabouring" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social · Jul 9

@svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social tackles the question of how democratic underlabourers should respond to emergency politics. Using the example of climate litigation, and the underlying emergency claims, Ahlhaus argues for a mode of "emergency underlabouring". journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Democratic underlabouring in times of emergency: The case of climate litigation - Svenja Ahlhaus, 2025

There is a growing tendency to diagnose political crises that democracies are supposedly unable to address, such as the climate emergency or the rise of right-w...

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Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social · Jul 9

In our introduction, @svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social, Oliver Eberl and I distinguish two interpretations of the democratic underlabourer and explain the problems the model is facing in global contexts – above all, the absence of a democratic framework.
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Svenja Ahlhaus @svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social · Jul 9

Are you interested in public political theory and an adequate role for political theorists who are neither detached experts nor committed activists? "Democratic underlabouring" captures this idea - and we have edited a brand new special issue on this topic 👇

Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social · Jul 9

NEW SPECIAL ISSUE: Much of political theory today is informed, explicitly or implicitly, by the model of the democratic underlabourer, which, however, assumes the political context of the (democratic) nation-state. journals.sagepub.com/toc/iptb/21/2

Cover of the most recent issue (2/2025) of the Journal of International Political Theory.

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Markus Patberg @mpatberg.bsky.social · Jul 9

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peterniesen.bsky.social @peterniesen.bsky.social · Jul 2

From a workshop in May 2024 that has now resulted in a special issue on *Demokratiewissenschaft* in the journals.sagepub.com/home/ipt, OnlineFirst. Many thanks to @mpatberg.bsky.social , @svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social and Oliver Eberl for organizing and editing, @proftonylang.bsky.social for hosting, ..

l-r Daniel Häuser, Ilaria Cozzaglio, Carmen Pavel, Bernd Ladwig, Regina Kreide, David Owen, Bill Scheuerman, Peter Niesen, Katrin Flikschuh, Oliver Eberl, Svenja Ahlhaus, Cord Schmelzle. Suzanne Bloks', Dominik Austrup's backs.

l-r, t-b David Owen, Jakob Huber. Dominik Austrup, Christian Carl, Oliver Eberl, Cord Schmelzle, Dorothea Gädeke, Bernd Ladwig. Palle Bech-Pedersen, Suzanne Bloks, Markus Patberg, Svenja Ahlhaus, Bill Scheuerman, Lore-Marie Junghans, Daniel Häuser. Peter Niesen, Carmen Pavel, Regina Kreide, Claudia Landwehr, Katrin Flikschuh, Ilaria Cozzaglio, Matthew Braham.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · Jul 1

Reminder that Michael Rosen (Harvard) and I are teaching:

Meisterkurs: Accountability and Power | 21. - 25. July 2025 at the Humboldt University Berlin. No registration fee. If you are interested in attending please enrol by following instructions here.

www.philosophie.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/...

Meisterkurs: Accountability and Power | 21. - 25. Juli 2025

www.philosophie.hu-berlin.de

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Cord Schmelzle @cordschmelzle.bsky.social · Jun 25

Publication day! The paper is part of a special issue on the methodological self-understanding of International Political Theory. I argue that the beloved model of the democratic underlabourer, which defines the role of political theory in practical politics, rests on two...
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Underlabouring at home, moralising abroad? On the role of international political theory - Cord Schmelzle, 2025

The democratic underlabourer has become a popular model for the role of political theory in practical politics in recent years. Its charm lies in the fact that ...

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Aurélia Bardon @aureliabardon.bsky.social · Jun 19

Théorie Politique: 4 parties, 30 chapitres, 876 pages 📖 @bboudou.bsky.social

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Svenja Ahlhaus @svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social · Jun 10

This is a great PhD scholarship in Political Theory, with a focus on normative democratic theory and "Citizens' Agenda-Setting" supervised by the excellent Alice el-Wakil @anewq.bsky.social at the University of Copenhagen @ucph.bsky.social 👇

Alice el-Wakil @anewq.bsky.social · Jun 10

CfA: PhD scholarship in political theory @ucph.bsky.social

Part of my project "Citizens' Agenda-Setting in Democratic Systems," which will explore how citizens should participate in making political agendas

Apply by Aug. 3, 2025
➡️ employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...

#PolTheory #demoinno

PhD Scholarship at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (UCPH): Citizens’ Agenda-Setting in Democratic Systems (CASDS)

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Politikwissenschaft Universität Hamburg @politikuhh.bsky.social · Jun 6

After the Overlapping Consensus. One-day workshop, Hamburg University next Thursday. All welcome, please register.

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Anna Jurkevics @annajurkevics.bsky.social · May 22

Hello folks! My book, Contested Territory, is now out with Oxford University Press. In it, I offer a critical, non-sovereign approach to territorial rights. My theory is democratic, anarchic, cosmopolitan, and here to shake up the conversation on land rights :-) academic.oup.com/book/59797

Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds

Abstract. Contested Territory presents a critical, non-sovereign theory of territorial rights capable of responding to border-defying global crises such as

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Normative Orders @normativeorders.bsky.social · May 22

"Is there a future for deliberative democracy? Democratic theory in the age of oligarchs, autocrats, and patriarchs"

Public Lecture by @simonechambers.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social

📆 03.06., 18:15
📍 Building Normative Ordnungen

Further information: www.normativeorders.net/events/is-th...

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