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Research Colloquium Social Sciences
18.04.2025
Visiting researcher from El Salvador
10.12.2024
Dr. Frank Müller Gastwissenschaftler am LAI
Der Bereich Politikwissenschaft freut sich, Dr. Frank Müller als Gastwissenschaftler am LAI begrüßen zu können. Vom 1. März bis 31. Juli 2024 wird Dr. Müller insbesondere an einem Drittmittelantrag arbeiten, der darauf abzielt, die Zeitschrift "Critical Reviews on Latin American Research (CROLAR)" zu professionalisieren und zu einem nachhaltigen Publikationsorgan zu machen. Darüber hinaus wird Dr. Müller an seiner weiteren Forschung im Bereich " Illicit urbanization in Rio de Janeiro and Medellín " arbeiten. 2023 hat Dr. Müller ein ein Global Fellowship des Marie-Skłodowska Curie Programms an der Universität Amsterdam und der Harvard University erfolgreich abgeschlossen. Gegenwärtig leitet er das Forschungsprojekt " Protein Matters ", finanziert von der Gerda Henkel Stiftung.
25.02.2024
Visiting researcher from Santiago de Chile
From 8 January to 6 February, the LAI's political science division will host Dr Simón Escoffier, an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago). Simón has researched on urban mobilization, political clientelism, local government, and right-wing civil society. During his research visit at the Freie Universität Berlin, he will be working on a new research project exploring environmental mobilization against global warming with a comparative lens. He will also present his recent book, entitled “ Mobilizing at the Urban Margins: Citizenship and Patronage Politics in Post-Dictatorial Chile ” (Cambridge University Press, 2023), at the LAI's social sciences colloquium on 17 January, and will give a talk on 1 February about “The Thin Line Between Politics and Illegality in Chile's Protests” at the Criminality, State and Law Seminar at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science. Visit his full bio and publications here .
09.01.2024
Workshop "Zentralamerika heute: Machtdilemma zwischen neuen und alten Autoritarismusmodellen"
09.11.2023
Research Colloquium Social Sciences
30.10.2023
Prof. Dr. Markus Hochmüller hält die Keynote Speech auf der ILAGNetwork Conference Berlin 2023.
13.06.2023
Werkstattgespräche: A Conversation with Maxwell A. Cameron
In this conversation, Maxwell A. Cameron (UBC, Vancouver), traces the persistence of defective democracy in South America—despite transitions, left turns, constructing new citizenships—and the relevance for our understanding of democracy in general.
19.04.2021
Werkstattgespräche: A Conversation with Laurence Whitehead
In this conversation with one of the most distinguished scholars of the transition literature, Laurence Whitehead, focuses on methodological, conceptual, and normative considerations during the transitions research project.
29.03.2021
Werkstattgespräche: A Conversation with Pablo Policzer
In this conversation, Pablo Policzer (University of Calgary) explores the role of politics in authoritarian regimes.
23.03.2021
