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- The politics of platform regulation. How governments shape online content moderation
Dr Robert Gorwa, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Prof. Dr. Thorsten Thiel (Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences) and Prof. Dr. Andreas Goldthau
November 20 | Workshop | Event
- The International Political Economy of the Energy Transition. Three Essays on the Interactions between Renewable Energy, Value Creation and Public Policy
Laima Eicke, supervised by Prof Dr Andreas Goldthau
November 19 | PhD Defense
- TEDxUniversity of Erfurt: A new perspective
organized by MPP students Idowu Adeyemi, Loise Effah Yeboah and others
November 15 | Conference | Website | Newspost | Videos
- Welcome Lecture 2024: “Leadership is anything other than stability”
Dr Atif Ikram Butt, Section Chief for Public Advocacy and Communication at the United Nations Environment Programme's headquarters in Nairobi
November 6 | Lecture| Event | Newspost | Video
- Digitalization and the Future of Work and Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Evans Tindana Awuni, supervised by Prof Dr Achim Kemmerling
October 30 | PhD Defense
- Geoeconomics and hegemony. Assessing a European energy space in transition
Kings College London and Research Group Security and Capitalism, University of Erfurt
October 11 | Workshop | Event | Newspost
- Scholarships and application training
Dr Maia George |Academic Skills Programme
September 02 - 03 | Workshop
- Consultation for the Federal guidelines ""Preventing crises, managing conflicts, promoting peace"
Federal Government's Advisory Board for Civilian Crisis Prevention and Peacebuilding, representatives of the Federal Foreign Office and other federal ministries as well as civil society organisations
July 23 | Government Consultation | Event | Report (in German)
- The future of work in public and private sector in Indonesia: What can be learned from each other?
Prof Dr Achim Kemmerling and Viddy Ranawijaya (Brandt School's PolDigWork) with the Faculty of Administrative Sciences of Universitas Indonesia and Think Tank CELIOS
July 23 | Workshop | Newspost
- Farewell Ceremony 2024
July 18 | Party/Celebration | Event | Newspost | Video
- Digital identities – The case of Europe
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
July 03 | Lecture | EIPCC Guest Session | Event
- The Role of Public Policy in Fostering Social Innovation within Ecosystems
Prof Dr Heike Grimm and Priscilla Appiah at International Public Policy Association
June 26 | Conference Workshop | Newspost
- EIPCC Kitchen Talk with Lior Hermann
June 26 | Discussion/Forum| EIPCC Guest Session | Event
- Brandt School Afterworks Summer Edition
Lions Club Erfurt-Thuringia and Brandt School Community
June 19 | Others| EIPCC Guest Session | Event
- Wissenschaft – und ich?! Bürgerinnen und Bürger im Austausch mit der Wissenschaft
with Professor Cornelia Betsch, Professor Bettina Hollstein & Professor Achim Kemmerling, among others, hosted by DFG HRK, Academies of Sciences
June 15 | Others| “Wissenschaft – und ich?!” | Event
- Symposium: Geoeconomics. On the securization of trade, economy and technology
Research Group Security and Capitalism at the University of Erfurt
June 12 | Conference/Symposium | Event | Poster | Newspost
- How to strengthen migrants‘ voice in democracies
Professor Luicy Pedroza (El Colegio de México), Doreen Denstädt (Thuringian Minister for Migration, Justice and Consumer Protection)
June 11 | Lecture | Newspost
- Brandt Lecture 2024: Preventing hot conflicts: human security in times of climate change
Svenja Schulze (Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development)
May 31 | Lecture | Event | Newspost | Video
- Replacing the Breaking of Heads with Counting of Heads. Managing the Conflict-Triggering Elements of Liberal Peace Theory
Jalale Getachew Birru, supervised by Prof. Dr. Solveig Richter
May 30 | PhD Defense
- The Role of Public Policy in Scaling up Sustainable Entrepreneurship –A Multilevel Analysis
Juliane Corredor Jimenez, supervised by Prof Dr Heike Grimm
May 29 | PhD Defense
- Alumni Day 2024
Welcome back to Erfurt!
May 22 | Conference/Congress | Event | Video | Poster
- Meet the Ambassador
Professor Amy Gutmann, Ambassador of the United States of America to Germany
May 14 | Discussion/Forum | Event | Newspost
- Startup Preschool Erfurt
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, Plattform e.V., Thex Thüringen, StartUp Migrants
April 26 | Workshop | Event
- From AI governance to critical mineral supplies: Eurasia’s Top Risks 2024
Henning Gloystein, Director for Energy, Climate & Resources at the Eurasia Group
January 31 | Presentation | Newspost
- Brandt School Impact Lab 2024
Pitches and discussions of Social Entrepreneurship Projects with partners
January 30 | Workshop | Event | Newspost | Blogpost
- The 2024 U.S. elections - A bipartisan outlook on key issues, key states, and the electoral process.
Representatives Steve Israel & Tom Davis, moderation: Sudha David-Wilp (GMF), in cooperation with the US Consulate General Leipzig and the Chair for North American History
January 23| Discussion/ Forum | Event | Newspost
- Theorizing future trajetories on the digital divide: A Global South approach
Prof. Dr. Bruce Mutsvairo
January 10 | Discussion/Forum | Event
2023
- Sustainable energy for some? Value creation and distribution in the energy transtion
Silvia Weko, later winner of the Körber Foundation Study Award for her PhD thesis, supervised by Prof Dr Andreas Goldthau
December 15 | PhD Defense | Newspost
- Why diversity matters
Andrew Aris, CEO and founder of Spirit of Football
November 7 | Lecture | Event
- Erfurt Transatlantic Dialogue: Division and polarization
in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Thuringia and the US Consulate General Leipzig, with Prof Cynthia Miller-iDriss, Dr Regina Cazamatta, Jeanette Gusko, moderated by Christian Tischmeyer
November 2 | Panel Discussion | Newspost
- Commitment Award Winners' Workshop
with Engagement Global and the Engagementpreis-Foundation
October 16 | Workshop | Newspost
- Welcome Lecture 2023: The unresolved climate change problem
Prof Dr Guntram Wolff, German Council on Foreign Relations
October 11 | Lecture | Newspost | Video
- Artificial intelligence and public policy
Dr Hasnain Bokhari at El Colegio de Mexcio
September 21-22 | Workshop | Newspost
- Brandt School Alums Talk
Robin Schultz and Stefan Volkmann
September 19 | Discussion | Event
- Farewell Ceremony 2023
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
July 13 | Celebration | Newspost | Video
- Commitment Award 2023
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, Engagementpreis-Stiftung
July 6 | Recurring Event |Website Commitment Award| Newspost| Video
- Digital Learning Lab
Offer to Brandt School students interested in digital tools by Dr Hasnain Bokhari
June 19 | Workshop | Newspost
- Guest Lecture "Kiron : Entrepreneurial NGO or Social Business?"
Dr. Tobias Ernst, social entrepreneur, managing director of Kiron Open Higher Education gGmbH and co-founder of the Match Talent initiative
May 31 | Guest Lecture | Newspost
- Brandt Lecture 2023: "Zeitenwende" in Germany’s Foreign Policy? Taking Stock a Year on
Ambassador Boris Ruge, German Foreign Office, former Vice Chairman of the Munich Security Conference
May 16 | Guest Lecture | Newspost | Video
- ChatGPT & Teaching
Lecturers exploring chances and risks
May 12 | Workshop | Newspost
- EU and digital political communication
Anja Türkan, former digital strategist for EU President Ursula von der Leyen
May 11 | Seminar | Event
- Security capitalism. On the geoeconomics of market, law and regulation
Prof Dr Andreas Goldthau and Prof Dr Oliver Kessler
May 11 | Workshop | Event
- Partnership launch with INPUMA
with the International Institute of Public Policy and Management at the University of Malaya
May 3 | Partnership launch | Newspost
- The future of work in Mexico
organized by the PolDigWork project in cooperation with the Centre for International Studies, El Colegio de Mexico
March 3 | Research Workshop | Newspost
- The art of political communication: How to draft a speech for the German president and how to frame and communicate political messages
Martin Klingst, journalist, author and former head of strategic communications at the Office of the German Federal President
January 24| Guest Lecture
- Brandt's Afterwork
January 18 | Event
- Dynamic Accountability in Civil Society Organisations
Wolfgang Jamann, Executive Director at the International Civil Society Centre in Berlin
January 17| Guest Lecture
- Global Social Democracy - Willy Brandt and the Socialist International in Latin America
Dr. Bernd Rother, Senior Fellow at the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation, Prof. Dr. Mariana Llanos, Associate Professorship for "Democratic Institutions in the Global South" at the Brandt School, in cooperation with Friedrich Ebert Foundation Thuringia
January 17| Guest Lecture |Poster| Newspost
- International Trade and Environmental Protection: Promises and Pitfalls of Global Governance
Prof. Dr. Clara Brandi, Professor in International and Development Economics at the Uni Bonn, Head of Programme at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
January 11| Online Guest Talk | Event | Poster
2022
- Brandt's Afterwork
November 16 & December 14 | Event - Erfurt Transatlantic Dialogue: The War in Ukraine, NATO and the Future of European Security Policy
Dr. Barbara Kunz (Senior Researcher at the IFSH), Alejandra Ortiz-Ayala, PhD (Willy Brandt School of Public Policy), Ken Toko (Consul General of the United States of America in Leipzig)
October 24| Erfurt Transatlantic Dialogue | Poster| Newspost
- Diversity Workshop
Stephanie Gauga (Mithila), Yanda Bango (European Network Against Racism), Emmanuel Baba Aduku (Willy Brandt School of Public Policy)
October 13| Workshop - Welcome Lecture
Shakuntala Banerjee (ZDF, Senior Brandt Fellow)
October 13| Welcome Lecture | Newspost
- Transformational Certificate
organized in collaboration with the Hertie School of Public Policy and the Intersectoral School of Governance Baden-Württemberg
August 28 & 29| Executive Training | Newspost
- Commitment Award Ceremony
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, Engagementpreis-Stiftung
July 7 | Recurring Event |Webseite Commitment Award| Newspost
- Evaluating Development Cooperation
Amélie Gräfin zu Eulenburg (Head of Department for Sustainable Economic and Social Development at DEval, the German Development Cooperation Evaluation Institute)
July 6| Guest Lecture
- Online Seminars on Working in Germany as an International Student
Eden Guesh Hagos in cooperation with the Fair Integration project (DGB-Bildungswerk Thüringen e.V.)
July 5 & 8 | Fair Integration Project Seminars | Poster
- Brandt School Alumni Talk
Moritz Borchard (Culture Goes Europe)
June 27 | Brandt School Alum Talk
- Democratic Institutions in Latin America: Challenges, Processes, Remedies
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, GIGA
June 23| Workshop
- Future of Digital Learning after COVID-19
Dr. Janine Rischke-Neß (Research Associate for E-Didactic, Berlin Professional School)
June 17 | Brandt School Talks | Poster
- GPPI: Aid and Conflict
Otheneba Boateng (Research Associate, Global Public Policy Institute)
June 15| Guest Lecture
- Brandt Lecture 2022: After Ukraine and Afghanistan - What about Multilateralism?
Dr. Almut Wieland-Karimi (Exectutive Director of the ZIF, Zentrum für Internationale Friedenseinsätze)
June 14 | Brandt Lecture | Poster | Newspost & Video
- Online Book Launch Workshop "Digitalization and the Welfare State"
Prof. Dr. Achim Kemmerling
June 10 | Online Book Launch Workshop |Poster
- Advocay for Public Health - Example Tobocco Control
Dr. Katrin Schaller (Head (interim) of the Cancer Prevention Unit and of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Tobacco Control at the German Cancer Research Center)
June 07 | Guest Lecture
- Public Sector Careers in Sustainability and Durable Solutions
Daniela Martínez Garza (Durable Solutions Officer at the UNHCR in Mexico-City), Marina Heft (Desk Officer for Education and Sustainable Development at the Thuringian Ministry for Environment, Energy and Nature Preservation)
June 01 | Brandt School Alum Talk | Poster
- Willy Brandt on the Frontlines of the Cold War
Schott Krause (Historian, Director of the federal Willy Brandt-Forum Unkel on the Rhine)
May 25 | Guest Lecture |Poster | Newspost
- Just transitions: How can socio-economic inequalities of climate change can be adressed?
Prof. Dr. Andreas Goldthau (Director of the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy); Prof. Dr. Achim Kemmerling (Former Director of the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy); Prof. Beate Hampe (Vice President for International Affairs) Katrin Göring-Eckardt (Vice President of the German Bundestag)
May 23 | Discussion | Poster | Newspost
- Contemporary Discourses on Migrant Female Careworkers
Thoko Madonko (Programme manager at the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Southern Africa)
May 17 | Guest Lecture | Newspost
- Digital Learning from Engagement to Collaborative Learning
Dr. Hasnain Bokhari (Research Associate Internationalization and Digitization of Teaching)
May 16 | Workshop
- Adaptive Leadership in Practice
Falk Bothe (Director VWGS Consulting)
April 26 | Guest Lecture
- Russia’s War against Ukraine - Ukraine’s Local Identities, Nation-building and International Agency
Margaryta Rymarenko, PhD (PhD in Political Science from the Central European University)
April 13 | Guest Lecture from the EIPCC | Poster | Newspost
- Dangerous Dependency? Energy Security in Times of Geopolitical Tension
Prof. Dr. Andreas Goldthau (Director of the Brandt School) at Friedrich Naumann Foundation
Feb 24 | Virtual discussion | Newspost
- Will the World be more sustainable after COVID-19?
Dennis Taenzler (Director of Climate Policy, adelphi)
Jan 27 | Guest Lecture
- A post-Western IPE?
Joel Sandhu (Program Manager, Global Public Policy Institute and host of the “Global Futures” podcast on global politics and how rising powers like China and India are influencing it)
Jan 26 | Guest Lecture
- Geopolitics of the Digital International System
Tyson Barker (Head of Technology and Global Affairs Program, German Council on Foreign Relations)
Jan 26 | Guest Lecture | Poster | Newspost
- Employment Effects of Raising the German Minimum Wage
Dr. Arne Baumann (Head of the German Minimum Wage Commission / Mindestlohnkommission)
Jan 24 | Guest Lecture | Poster
- Energy and Developement: UN SE4A and SDGs
Nopenyo Dabla (Associate Program Officer for sub-Saharan Africa, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA))
Jan 20 | Guest Lecture
- ClientEarth: Using the power of law to protect life on Earth
Prof. Dr. Hermann Ott (Head of of ClientEarth German Office)
Jan 18 | Guest Lecture | Poster
- Green Hydrogen: The New Oil?
Almudena Nunez (Research Associate, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS))
Jan 13 | Guest Lecture
- 'Affordable Housing'-Policies for a Post-COVID World: State of the Art, Complex Challenges and new Agendas
Dr. Steffen Wetzstein (Adjunct Research Fellow School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia and coordinator of “Policy and Research” Working Group, European Network for Housing)
Jan 11 | Guest Lecture | Newspost
2021
- Business Ethics - Concepts and Cases
Prof. Dr. Bettina Hollstein (Managing Director at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies)
Nov 8 | Guest Lecture
- Haniel Alumni Talk
Brandt School & Haniel Stiftung, Input Session by Marie Ullmann (Policy Officer at German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs)
Oct 7 | Alumni Talk
- Environmental Migration: Climate as a Determinant of Migration
Mariam Traoré Chazalnoël (Senior Policy Officer at the IOM Headquarters in Geneva)
Oct 27 | Guest Lecture | Poster - Exploring the Entrepreneurial Mindset in the Context of Managing Adversities within the German Ecosystem: The Impact of Cultural Values on Entrepreneurial Behavior
Maha Mohamed Mohsen Abdelsattar Aly, supervised by Prof Dr Heike Grimm
Oct 20 | PhD Defense
- Welcome Lecture and Graduation Prizes: Opening of the Academic Year 2021/22
Online Event hosted by the Brandt School
Oct 13 | Program | News Post - Multilateral Decision Making: The case of UNESCO
Michael Worbs (Ambassador (ret.), former Chair of the Executive Board of UNESCO)
Jul 8 | Guest Lecture | Poster - Rural Livelihoods
Adibi Nor (University Malaya), Azlina Kamal (UNICEF Malaysia)
Jul 6 | Guest Lecture | Poster - The Power of Family-friendly and Inclusive Cities
Carmen Niethammer (Senior Gender Specialist at European Investment Bank, Senior Brandt Fellow)
Jul 1 | Guest Lecture | Poster - German Federal Elections 2021: Leadership and Party Politics in Focus
Simon Vaut (Senior Civil Servant, German Government)
Jun 29 | Guest Lecture | Poster | News Post - Humanitarian Innovations
Georg Höhne (Innovation Aid)
Jun 29 | Guest Lecture | Poster | News Post - Clarity of Responsibility and Foreign Policy Performance Voting
Prof. Sibel Oktay (University of Illinois at Springfield)
Jun 29 | Guest Lecture | Poster - Capturing Social Processes: Trajectory-Based Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Prof. Dr. Dr. Lasse Gerrits (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Dr. Sofia Pagliarin (University of Bamberg)
Jun 23 | Guest Lecture | Poster | News Post - Commitment Award Ceremony
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, Engagementpreis Stiftung
Jun 17 | Recurring Event | News Post | Ceremony on YouTube| Website Commitment Award - International Inequality of the Pandemic
Barbara Fritz (FU Berlin), Achim Kemmerling (WBS)
Jun 16 | Guest Lecture | Poster - Alumni Reunion and Conference
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Jun 15-16 | Conference | Poster | News Post - The Internal Opposition Effect of International Sanctions: Insights from a Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Dr. Julia Grauvogel (German Institute for Global and Area Studies GIGA)
Jun 2 | Guest Lecture | Poster| News Post - The European Green Deal and German Economic Competitiveness
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik (DGAP), Moderation Andreas Goldthau (WBS)
May 27 | Discussion | News Post - Promoting Women‘s Labour Force Participation
Carmen Niethammer (Senior Brandt Fellow)
May 25 | Guest Lecture | Poster | News Post - Public Finance, CEOs and the Top 1 Percent
Renira Angeles (NORCE Bergen)
May 4 | Guest Lecture | Poster - Global Pathways to the Modern Tax State
Laura Seelkopf (University St. Gallen)
Apr 27 | Guest Lecture | Poster | News Post - The Ins and Outs of Building a Political Career
Simon Vaut (German Federal Government)
Mar 30 | Guest Lecture | Poster - Alumni Talk #4: What about being a global citizen? Brandtians at international organisations
Atif Ikram (UN) & Danielle Al-Qassir (UN)
Mar 25 | Alumni Talk | Poster - Alumni Talk #3: Hey, I want to be a researcher! Brandtians who followed the academic path
Alice Murage (Simon Fraser University), Mateeullah Tareen (Humboldt University of Berlin) & Jorge Sellare (Center for Development Research, ZEF)
Mar 23 | Alumni Talk | Poster - Alumni Talk #2: Is Europe my place? Non-German Brandtians who stayed here
Tornike Kikishvili (Deutsche Börse) & Otto Dodoo (Patrizia Foundation)
Mar 18 | Alumni Talk | Poster - Alumni Talk #1: Home Sweet Home: How Brandtians found a job back in their home countries
Patricia Loggetto (St. Jude’s Hospital) & Hidayati Pratiwi (Yayasan Plan International)
Mar 16 | Alumni Talk | Poster - What do the Covid-19 recovery packages mean for the global economy?
Shahin Vallée (German Council of Foreign Relations, DGAP)
Feb 15 | Guest Lecture | Poster - The power politics of private governance: trade-sustainability nexus in an interconnected world
Karina Marzano (WBS)
Feb 10 | Seminar | Poster - Energy Transition & Environmental Movements in South Africa
Almut Mohr (WBS)
Jan 27| Seminar | Poster - The Democratic Politics of Military Interventions
Wolfgang Wagner (Vrije University Amsterdam)
Jan 19 | Guest Lecture
- Social Science Concepts and Measurement: Guidelines for Creating Concepts
Gary Goertz (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Jan 13 | Guest Lecture | Poster - The Attitudes of States Towards the Global Climate Change Regime: How and Why They Differ
Jan Karlas (Charles University, Prague, CZ)
Jan 12 | Guest Lecture | Poster
2020
- Thinking Pragmatically about Research Design in Quantitative and Qualitative Research
Dimiter Toshkov (Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University)
Dec 16 | Guest Lecture | Poster - (Be)coming Nigerian: Can Satire Help Us to Transform Government and Bureaucracy?
Elnathan John (novelist)
Dec 15 | Guest Lecture | Poster - Terrorism and Conditions for Human Rights in Counter-terrorism in Sub-Sahara Africa
Steve Wakhu Khaemba (WBS doctoral candidate)
Dec 9 | PhD Defense | Poster - Breaking the Silos: Working Across the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus in Conflict Environments
Henriette von Kaltenborn-Stachau (World Bank)
Dec 8 | Guest Lecture | Poster | News Post - Offshore Finance: what is it, where does it come from and why does it matter?
Andrea Binder (Global Public Policy Insititute GPPi, Germany)
Dec 2 | Guest Lecture - The Use of Evidence in Public Health Policy
Paul Cairney (University of Sterling, Scotland)
Nov 23 | Guest Lecture - Ruling without Governing: Tutelary Regimes in Comparative Politics and the Case of Myanmar
Marco Bünte (University Erlangen Nuremberg, GIGA, Germany)
Nov 18 | Guest Lecture | Recording of the event (YouTube) | News Post - Elements of Understanding Violent Memory in the Colombian Conflict
Lerber Dimas (University of Guajira, Colombia)
Nov 17 | Guest Lecture | Poster - Brandt School Graduation Prizes
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Oct 29 | Award Ceremony | Website-Link "Brandt School Graduation Prizes"| News Post - Welcome Reception
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Oct 29 | Reoccuring Event | Recording of the event (YouTube) | News Post - Commitment Award
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Jul 7 | Award Ceremony | Website-Link "Commitment Award"| News Post - Alternative Budgeting Approaches
Achim von Heynitz (Centennial Group International)
Jun 9 | Guest Lecture | News Post - Implications of Covid-19 on Internal Armed Conflict: the Case of Myanmar
Karen Simbulan (RAFT Myanmar, WBS Alumna)
Apr 16 | Guest Lecture - After the Masters: A Q&A on PhD-ing and postdocs
Richard Stupart (London School of Economics, United Kingdom)
Apr 14 | Guest Lecture - Expert Advice and Government Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
Olga Löblova (Cambridge University, United Kingdom)
Apr 9 | Guest Lecture - Polity, Policy and Politics: Working in a Political Organization
Magno Karl (WBS doctoral candidate)
Apr 7 | Guest Lecture - The EU Refugee Crisis and the Corona-Pandemic
Morgan Courtney (UNHCR, WBS alumnus)
Apr 2 | Guest Lecture - China's Dramatically Growing Military Strength and its Implications
Elbridge Colby (The Marathon Initiative, US)
Feb 18 | Guest Lecture - Never forget Srebrenica: Filmmaking and Post-Conflict Memories
Ado Hasanovic
Jan 22 | Guest Lecture - The Political Economy of Offshore Finance
Andrea Binder (Global Public Policy Insititute GPPi, Germany)
Jan 21 | Guest Lecture - Refugees and Municipalities – Rethinking the Distribution Process
Will Jones (School of Politics and Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
Jan 16 | Guest Lecture | News Post - Russia’s Assertiveness in the Near Abroad: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Regional Primacy
Adriana Cuppuleri (Visiting doctoral student at WBS)
Jan 14 | Guest Lecture - Environmental Policy-Making in Brazil
Bruno Taitson (WWF, WBS alumnus)
Jan 6 | Guest Lecture
2019
- EU-China relations: cooperation, competition and rivalry
Reinhard Bütikofer (China Delegation, EU Parliament)
Dec 13 | Guest Lecture - Data Science for Policy-Making and Social Science
Asif Azizov (OJSC Mugan Bank)
Dec 11 | Guest Lecture - The Rise and Fall of Multilateralism (IA)
Daniel Warner (former advisor to UNHCR, ILO, NATO and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Defense CH)
Dec 5 | Workshop - Multilateral Crisis Management (CSMP)
Daniel Warner (former advisor to UNHCR, ILO, NATO and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Defense CH)
Dec 4 | Workshop - The differing effects of personal values on attitudes towards migrants in East and West Europe
Saamah Abdallah (PhD student, University of Erfurt)
Nov 7 | Guest Lecture - Welcome Reception
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Oct 14 | Reoccuring Event - Methoden der Außenpolitikanalyse: Ansätze, Daten und Perspektiven
Patrick Mello
Sep 26-27 | Conference - Commitment Award
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Jul 7 | Award Ceremony | Website Link - “Politics as a Vocation“ Reflections on Max Weber’s “Politik als Beruf” 100 years later
Michele Nicoletti (University of Trento, IT)
Jul 2 | Guest Lecture - Guns, Community Mistrust and Public Health Don’t Mix: Trials and Errors That Fuel the World’s Second-Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Monday Banga (IOM)
Jun 6 | Guest Lecture - Social investment and intergenerational redistribution: How much and by whom
Pieter Vanhuysse (University of Southern Denmark, DK)
May 27 | Guest Lecture - Open Day
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
May 25 | Reoccuring Event - Visualizing and Presenting Empirical Evidence in Public Policy Making
Zbigniew Truchlewski (post-doc, University of Geneva)
May 6 | Guest Lecture - Transatlantic Economic Relations - From TTIP to Trumpian Tantrum … and Back?
Peter H. Chase (Senior Fellow with the German Marshall Fund)
Apr 25 | Guest Lecture - Civil Society Support and Transnational Peacebuilding: Between Democracy Promotion and Political Interference
Andrei Gomez-Suarez (Colombia University of Bristol, UK)
Apr 24 | Guest Lecture - Concepts of Peace and Peacebuilding: Europe and Beyond
Oliver Richmond (University of Manchester, UK)
Mar 3 | Discussion - Key Challenges on Kosovo’s European Integration Path
Albana Rexha (visiting DAAD PhD researcher)
Feb 2 | Discussion - Solidarity in Europe
Benjamin-Immanuel Hoff (Minister for Culture, Federal- and European affairs of the Free State of Thuringia)
Jan 17 | Guest Lecture - Digitale Zeitenwende – Perspektive des öffentlich-rechtlichen Mediensystems
Karola Wille (MDR)
Jan 10 | Joint Lecture Series (Landtag)
2018
- The Politics and Economics of Aid in Myanmar
Youngmi Kim (University of Edinburgh, UK), Matteo Fumagalli (University of St Andrews, UK)
Dec 3| Workshop - Workshop complementing the seminar "Political Advocacy and Leadership" by Dr. Aragón
Robert Burdy (MDR aktuell)
Nov 30 - Dec 1 | Workshop - Employee Representation in a multi-national Context
Natalia Glück (WBS alumna)
Nov 26 | Guest Lecture - Consumer Law in the European Union: Insights and Research Questions
Matthias Amort (University of Erfurt)
Nov 21 | Guest Lecture - Flight, Displacement and Hunger – The Results of the Global Hunger Index and Discussion
Klaus von Grebmer (International Food Policy Research Institute, IFPRI)
Nov 15 | Workshop - Poverty Prevention in Thuringia – Between Empirical Data and Subjective Discriminations
Jörg Fischer (Institute for Municipal Planning and Development)
Nov 8 | Guest Lecture - The Midterms and the World: How the US Elections Will Impact on Trump's Foreign Policy
Cornelius Adebahr (Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Policy Studies, German Council on Foreign Relations)
Nov 7 | Guest Lecture - Welcome Reception
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Oct 10 | Reoccuring Event - Erfurter Herbstlese: Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
David Graber (London School of Economics, UK), Achim Kemmerling (WBS)
Sep 21 | Literature Event - Commitment Award
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Jul 7 | Reoccuring Event | Website Link - The United Nations – how it reacts to the challenges of our increasingly complex world
Karl Theodor Paschke (UN)
Jul 6 | Guest Lecture - Marx Imagery in Socialism
Frank Ettrich (WBS)
Jul 3 | Joint Lecture Series - Democratic Backsliding in Eastern Europe and the Political Crisis of the European Union. Insights from Hungary
Thilo Bodenstein (Central European University, HU)
Jul 3 | Guest Lecture - Politics and Economics of Budgeting. The Case of Erfurt University
Jörg Brauns (Chancellor, University of Erfurt)
Jun 18 | Guest Lecture - Truth in Post-Truth Times. Fake News and Social Bots
Tabea Wilke (Digital Strategist)
Jun 14 | Joint Lecture Series (Landtag) - Study Trip to Buchenwald
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Jun 13 | Excursion - Job application crash course
Katharina Palko (ThAFF)
Jun 1 | Workshop - What is truth?
Heribert Prantl (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
May 31 | Joint Lecture Series (Landtag) - Fake News sind die neuen Zeitungsenten
Werner D'Inka (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
May 24 | Joint Lecture Series (Landtag) - Open Day
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
May 5 | Reoccuring Event - Women for Peace – Between Adaptation and Opposition
Tawakkol Karman (Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2011) , Solveig Richter (WBS), Bente Scheller (HBS Beirut), Mirjam Kruppa (Thuringian Commissioner for Migration)
May 3 | Discussion - Wer hat Angst vor Fake News? Warum wir souveräner mit Lügen, Fälschungen und Fake News umgehen sollten.
Stefan Raue (Deutschlandradio)
Apr 14 | Joint Lecture Series (Landtag) - Social Entrepreneurship and Venture Financing
Ricardo Alvarez (Simó-Bosch Consulting)
Apr 16 | Guest Lecture - Professional Reintegration Workshop for Students from Africa, Asia and Latin America
AGEP
Apr 2-4 | Workshop - Study trip to Berlin: "Germany – Civilian or Military Power?"
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Jan 17-18 | Excursion - Negotiating Peace in Syria: What Role for Germany?
Andreas Krüger (SWP Berlin, DE)
Jan 11 | Guest Lecture
2017
- Application Portfolio Basics
Covadonga Gonzalez (ThAFF)
Dec 11 | Workshop - Supporting Political Dialogue and Transition in Conflict Countries
Alia Eshaq (Berghof Foundation)
Dec 11 | Guest Lecture - Multilateral Diplomacy in Fragile States: Dealing with Conflict and Cooperation
Daniel Warner (DCAF)
Dec 6-7 | Workshop - Welcome Reception
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Nov 22 | Reoccuring Event - The Current State of International Relations and Global Diplomacy
Nicholas Kralev (Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government)
Oct 13 | Guest Lecture - Commitment Award
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Jul 7 | Reoccuring Event | Website-Link - German Elections Ahead - Workshops for International Students
Eric Linhart (TU Chemnitz) , Miriam Küller (Policy Advisor), Bernd Rother (WBS)
Jun 23 | Workshop - Challenges of Humanitarian Health Action
Volker Lankow (Doctors without Borders)
Jun 20 | Guest Lecture - "Brexit" - How We Got There and Where Are We Heading Now?
Seb Dance, Jacob von Weizsäcker (EU Parliament)
Jun 16 | Guest Lecture - Democracy Under Fire?! Roundtable Discussion
Daniel Warner (DCAF), Karolina Podstawa (University of Lodz) , Solveig Richter (WBS)
Jun 1 | Discussion - Transparency International Deuschlad e.V. - The Work of a Global Anti-Corruption Coalition
Anna-Maija Mertens (Transparency International Deutschland e.V.)
May 29 | Guest Lecture - Open Day
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
May 5 | Reoccuring Event - Advanced Academic Writing
De Souza Karl Magno (University of Erfurt)
Apr 28 | Workshop - Perpetual Transition. Why Europe Has Failed in Democracy Promotion in Turkey
Dilek Kurban (Marie Curie Fellow Hertie School of Governance)
Apr 20 | Guest Lecture - Russia's Intervention in Syria: Aims, Achievements and Obstacles
Margarete Klein (SWP Berlin)
Feb 2 | Guest Lecture - Welcome Reception
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Jan 27 | Reoccuring Event - Study Trip to Brussels and Bonn
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Jan 24-27 | Excursion - GOD IS NOT WORKING ON SUNDAY! Surviving Women Driving Social Change in the Rwanda of Today
Leona Goldstein (film maker)
Jan 19 | Movie Screening - Policy Design and Implementation: The Case of EU Targeted Sanctions
Clara Portela Sais
Jan 18 | Guest Lecture
2016
- Peace in the Offing: Colombia
Daniel Brombacher (GIZ)
Dec 15 | Guest Lecture - Fishbowl Discussion - "Public Policy - The Way Ahead"
Hasnain Bokhari (University of Erfurt)
Dec 14 | Discussion - A New Conflict in the Offing? Ethiopia
Jalale Getachew (WBS PhD student)
Dec 7| Guest Lecture - Transitional Justice in Afghanistan - A Lost Case?
Nicole Birtsch (SWP)
Dec 7 | Guest Lecture - Willy Brandt (1913-1992) - The Outstanding European Statesman and His Legacy for Our World of Today
Wolfgang Hoppenstedt
Nov 22 | Guest Lecture - Letter to an SS Guard - Guest talk with Auschwitz Survivor Leon Schwarzbaum
Leon Schwarzbaum
Oct 27 | Guest Lecture - Commitment Award
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Jul 7 | Reoccuring Event | Website Link - EU Human Rights Policy in Practice
Friederike Tschampa (European External Action Service)
Jul 5 | Guest Lecture - Back to which Future? The End of the Latin American Left?
Andrés González (Prof. at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador)
Jun 20 | Guest Lecture - Decolonialization, State Succession and a Formal Problem of International Law
Harald Kleinschmidt
Jun 5 | Guest Lecture - Doctoral Studies Information Session: Pursuing your doctoral degree in Germany
Solveig Richter (WBS)
May 26 | Workshop - On the Road to the White House: The 2016 US Presedential Elections
Ronald Brownstein
May 10 | Guest Lecture - OSCE Conflict Prevention and Resolution: Lessons from the Field
Eva-Maria Velickovic (OSCE Ukraine)
May 4 | Guest Lecture - Renewable Energy: A Quarter Century of Growth and the Lessons Learned
Marc-Antoine Renaud (Eolectric)
Apr 22 | Guest Lecture - Research Methods for Doctoral Students
Patrick A. Mello (TU Dresden)
Apr 8 | Workshop - The Islamic State and the Situation in Syria
Guido Steinberg (SWP)
Feb 3 | Guest Lecture - Impact Matters: New Trends for NPOs to Maximize Their Social Impact
Andreas Rickert (CEO of PHINEO gAG)
Jan 14 | Guest Lecture
2015
- Impact Measurement, Social Return on Investment and the Sinzer Platform
Marlon van Dijk (CEO of Social E-valuator BV/Sinzer)
Dec 9 | Guest Lecture - The Eclectic Roots of Statist Religious Law: Constitutional Migration and the Adaptability of Islamic Law in Iran
Mirjam Künkler (Lichtenberg Kolleg, Göttingen)
Nov 24 | Guest Lecture - Fishbowl Discussion with Hasnain Bokhari - "Public Policy - The Way Ahead"
Hasnain Bokhari (WBS)
Nov 11 | Discussion - "It's not charity. It's a chair of power" - Debating and Advocating Gender Quotas in Afghanistan's Second Transformation Decade
Andrea Fleschenberg dos Ramos Pinéu
Nov 10 | Guest Lecture - Welcome Reception
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Nov 9 | Reoccuring Event - Commitment Award
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Jul 12 | Reoccuring Event | Website Link - After the Rebellion: Perspectives for a Sustainable Peace in Mali
Jan Fahlbusch (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung)
Jun 8 | Discussion - Living in Emegerny - Mit Ärzte ohne Grenzen im Einsatz / Gespräch im Anschluss
Doctors Without Borders
May 27 | Movie Screening - Transitional Justice and Historical Memory in Authoritarian Regimes
Antônio Henrique , Graciano Suxberger, Thiago Santos Aguiar de Pádua, Jefferson Carús Guedes (PhD students WBS)
May 21 | Discussion - Radical Ecological Democarcy: Towards a Sustainable and Equitable Future
Ashish Kothari (Founder-member of Kalpavriksh)
May 19 | Guest Lecture - Taking Stock of the Global Green Transformation: Great Hope or False Promise
Stefan Cetkovic (Environmental Policy Research Centre, FU Berlin)
May 6 | Guest Lecture - Journalism in the Digital Age
Markus Ziener (HMKW Berlin)
Apr 24 | Guest Lecture - Why and How to Keep Abreast of Current Affairs?
Karl-Theodor Paschke (former German ambassador)
Apr 23 | Guest Lecture - Professional Writing for Public Policy
Sebastian Gallander (Vodafone Foundation Germany)
Apr 18-19 | Workshop - Visit: Wolfgang Tiefensee (Minister, Government Thuringia)
MPP students (WBS)
Feb 16 | Excursion - Issues of Human Rights Policy from a German Perspective
Christoph Strässer (Federal Government Comissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid, Germany)
Feb 13 | Guest Lecture - How U.S. Diplomacy Strenghtens Economic Ties
Thomas Miller (Minister-Counselor for Public Affairs, U.S. Embassy Berlin)
Feb 3 | Guest Lecture - Discussion
Florian Hoffmann, Hasnain Bokhari, Aline Mugisho, Ritu Sharma, Arslan Yaseen (WBS)
Jan 21 | Discussion
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