@scripts-berlin.eu
SCRIPTS is an Excellence Cluster that examines the nature, causes, and potential consequences of contestations of the liberal script in a global, comparative, and historical perspective. Hosted at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social and funded by @dfg.de.
📊 New from ZOiS: How Secure Do the Germans Feel?
Many Germans feel secure despite war in Europe, but personal safety, family and finances rank far above defence issues. The war in Ukraine is widely seen as “close”.
📸: Unsplash/Omar Ramadan
@zois.bsky.social @gwendolynsasse.bsky.social
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New interview with Alexander Libman on why propaganda is central to contemporary authoritarian rule. Focusing on Russia and China, he explains how narratives stabilise power and signal legitimacy.
👉 Full interview: ogy.de/2ckw
#Propaganda #Authoritarianism #China #Russia
📣 #CallForApplications #CfA
The SCRIPTS Academic Accelerator #Fellowship 2026 is open for 2nd & 3rd year #PhD #researchers from regions and communities underrepresented in academia. Join us for 12 months in #Berlin.
⏰ Deadline: 28 Feb 2026
💶 Funding: €1,800/month
👉 ogy.de/bz4q
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Congratulations to Anette Eva Fasang 🎉
In December 2025, the Principal Investigator was elected to the Leopoldina, Germany’s National Academy of Sciences. A well-deserved recognition of her outstanding research on families, life courses, and social inequality.
🔍 New SCRIPTS Working Paper by Karmen Tornius #PublicationFriday
African women were key architects of today’s gender equality agenda. A major UN women’s conference in 1985 connected women’s lives to inequality, debt and rural livelihoods—bringing violence against women to the forefront.
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Discover the new SCRIPTS Working Paper by Tanja A. Börzel #PublicationFriday
It outlines the renewed 7-year research agenda of SCRIPTS and examines why the liberal script remains contested and how it endures crises.
📄 ogy.de/6b3e
📸credits: Marija Zaric
Vom Staat zur Marke
Wie vermarkten sich Staaten wie Konzerne? Historikerin Jessica Gienow-Hecht & Filmemacherin Nicola Graef im Gespräch über Nation Branding – von Kriegspropaganda bis PR-Kampagnen.
📅 7.11.2025 | 🕢 19:30–21:00
📍 Urania, Kleist-Saal, Berlin
🎟️ Tickets: 8/5 € Mehr Info: ogy.de/zk8v
SCRIPTS lädt ein zum 7. Pub Quiz 2025 in der Fahimi Bar! Gemeinsam mit Berlins 7 Exzellenzclustern erwarten euch zwei spannende Quizrunden, eine Live-Präsentation und tolle Preise!
📅 13.10.
📍 Fahimi Bar, Skalitzer Str. 133, 10999 Berlin
⏰ 19–21 Uhr
Mehr Info: ogy.de/l20z
🚨 Call for Applications!
SCRIPTS Digital Autumn School 2025 supports students from disadvantaged regions in preparing graduate school applications. Benefit from personalized exposé feedback, application coaching, and insights into the German academic system,
🗓 Apply by Oct 6, 2025 → ogy.de/f1uj
🚨 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
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
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
📌 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
📌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
Even in a pandemic with growing scientific certainty, political debates don’t necessarily use more evidence – they use it strategically.
🔗https://ogy.de/sjlk
🔍 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
⏰ 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
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Photo Credit: Barbara Burgess/Unsplash
🔍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
📘 #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?
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📢 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
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:
📚 #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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✨ 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! 🚀
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:
🧠 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
💡Reminder! There's still time to sign up for Prof. Sikkink's lecture tomorrow.
Don't miss the change to join us!
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
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:
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.