Archive Events in 2020

With the implementation of predictive policing, the police in Germany have entered the algorithmic age. The associated hype led to a sensitization of political and police decision-makers for the (propagated) potential of big data analyses. As a result, numerous projects and programs have been recently set up to promote a general datafication of policing, such as the infrastructure program ‘Police 2020’ or the introduction of data analysis platforms à la Palantir ‘Gotham’ (e.g., ‘hessenDATA‘).

Andrew Schotter is professor at the Department of Economics, New York University.

While recent developments have impacted the future of the anti-extraction bill movement in Hong Kong, we would like to review what happened in the last year and discuss the more recent actions of the movement. The upcoming webseminar features two scholars from Hong Kong: Samson Yuen, Assistant Professor at the Lingnan University, and Anna Tsui, Research Assistant at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Please note that this event takes place in English only with no translation.

The event is part of the WZB Talks series.

The Center for Civil Society Research at the WZB and the Center for Political Sociology of Germany at the Freie Universität Berlin have organized this workshop on electoral and non-electoral polarization to take place on June 25th and June 26th 2020.

The event will take place via ZOOM.

by Leonard Wantchekon

by Yiming Liu and Jana Friedrichsen

The Working Group on African Political Economy (WGAPE), founded in 2002, is a network of researchers with deep field research experience that meets regularly to provide structured feedback on in-progress research papers related to the theme of African political economy.

Digitales Kolloquium

Welchen Einfluss hat die Corona-Krise auf unseren gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt? Welche Folgen lassen sich schon jetzt abschätzen für Bildung und Bildungsungleichheit, Digitalisierung, Familie, Gesundheit, Mortalität, Pflege, Solidarität, Sozialpolitik und sozialwissenschaftliche Datenerhebung?

Im Rahmen eines digitalen Kolloquiums wollen wir den soziologischen Perspektiven auf die Corona-Krise eine Plattform geben und zum Austausch anregen. Die Vorträge finden auf Zoom statt.

11 March 2020 - Coronavirus: update
All public events at the WZB have to be cancelled with immediate effect. This measure will be effective until 20 July 2020. It is based on today's decision by the Governing Mayor of Berlin to introduce a range of urgent measures for Berlin's research institutions to counter the further spread of the Corona-virus.

Linsey McGoey, University of Essex

11 March 2020 - Coronavirus: update
All public events at the WZB have to be cancelled with immediate effect. This measure will be effective until 20 July 2020. It is based on today's decision by the Governing Mayor of Berlin to introduce a range of urgent measures for Berlin's research institutions to counter the further spread of the Corona-virus.

Symposium

11 March 2020 - Coronavirus: update
All public events at the WZB have to be cancelled with immediate effect. This measure will be effective until 20 July 2020. It is based on today's decision by the Governing Mayor of Berlin to introduce a range of urgent measures for Berlin's research institutions to counter the further spread of the Corona-virus.

Johan P. Mackenbach, University Medical Center Rotterdam

11 March 2020 - Coronavirus: update
All public events at the WZB have to be cancelled with immediate effect. This measure will be effective until 20 July 2020. It is based on today's decision by the Governing Mayor of Berlin to introduce a range of urgent measures for Berlin's research institutions to counter the further spread of the Corona-virus.

Workshop and Discussion of the book by Alec D. Walen in the presence of the author

Joint work with Anne-Marie Jeannet, Esther Ademmer, and Martin Ruhs

11 March 2020 - Coronavirus: update
All public events at the WZB have to be cancelled with immediate effect. This measure will be effective until 20 July 2020. It is based on today's decision by the Governing Mayor of Berlin to introduce a range of urgent measures for Berlin's research institutions to counter the further spread of the Corona-virus.

Wie verändern sich Mobilitätsgewohnheiten? Entstehen neue Bedürfnisse? Welche Bedeutung kommt dabei den Angeboten der Shared Mobility zu? Diese Fragen zu beantworten, gestaltet sich zunehmend schwierig, denn das Mobilitätsverhalten wird komplexer. Welche Verkehrsmittel auf einem Weg oder an einem Tag genutzt werden und wie sich die Nutzungsmuster über die Zeit verändern, kann mit einfachen Befragungen kaum noch erfasst werden.

Latin America has seen the rise of social movements and conflicts in the streets in the last year. The continent is in turmoil. In his talk, Federico Rossi will draw on extensive research about the unemployed workers movement (the piqueteros) in Argentina as well as on related mobilizations across Latin America to shed light on these emerging dynamics. The piquetero movement has been the largest movement of unemployed people in the world and transformed Argentine politics to the extent of becoming part of the governing coalition for more than a decade.

Cevat Giray Aksoy and Panu Poutvaara

In großen Teilen der Welt ist Demokratie inzwischen zur Norm geworden. Genau umgekehrt sieht es in der islamischen Welt aus: 53 Prozent der Länder sind autoritär regiert, nur vier Prozent demokratisch. Immer mehr Muslime fliehen vor Diktatur und Unfreiheit, Terror und Krieg, Armut und Arbeitslosigkeit.

The lecture will take stock of the transformation of policy elites and intermediary organizations in contemporary politics. Myriad new spaces of policy, governance, and influencing have opened up over the past several decades, and ever-more intermediary entities and players have arisen to fill them. These intermediaries, increasingly novel entities and players that defy classification, have reorganized relations with states in a remade ecosystem characterized by more porous and blurred boundaries.

Based on a book coauthored with Chris Howell (“Trajectories of Neoliberal Transformation”, Cambridge University Press, 2017), this presentation will document the liberalization that has characterized industrial relations since the late 1970s. The presentation will combine quantitative evidence for 15 OECD countries with in-depth case studies of Germany, Italy, France, Sweden, and the UK. In the presentation, particular attention will be devoted to the German case.

Since the global financial crisis of 2008/09, international cooperation has failed to curb volatile financial markets. Changes in the global rules of finance discussed in the G20 during the last decade remain limited, and it is uncertain whether they are suitable to help mitigate and manage future crises to come. Thomas Kalinowski argues that this failure is not the result of the ‘nature’ of the international system, the clash of national egoisms, or a lack of leadership.