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Institute for German Studies (IGES) Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies (CREES) Rethinking backsliding: Workshop DateFriday 16th - Saturday 17th June 2023Location: University of BirminghamDescriptionThis workshop will bring together leading scholars to discuss causes, consequences and categorizations of the process of democratic erosion Displaying 1 to 1 of 1 Previous Events 2023 31st May - Anticorruption Efforts and Electoral Manipulation in Democracies25th May - Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP: How political parties persuade voters to support radical ideas24th May - Ascending Order: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions.11th May - Migrants in Post-Socialist Britain25th April - Support for Displaced Ukrainians in the UK - History and Stereotypes24th April - Subjective and Objective Measurement of Democratic Backsliding27th-31st March - 5th UK Annual Political Psychology Conference24th March - What Indonesian democracy can teach the world23rd March - NEW DATE! Voters Under Pressure: Group-Based Cross-Pressure and Electoral Volatility22nd February - Vampires, Vibrators and Pret-a-Manger: A Story of Big Data7th February - Antidote to Backsliding: Ethnic Politics and Democratic Resilience 2022 16th November - Roses Down the Barrel of a Gun, Georgia: Love and Revolution3rd November - Contemporary German literature and theatre: Between cultural production and political interventions (online event)20th October - Language, Violence, and Peacemaking in Ukraine12th October - 25 years on from Blair's Babes – what have we learned about women's representation?12th October - 25 years on from Blair's Babes – what have we learned about women's representation?4th October - Building sustainable workplaces after the pandemic – the contribution and challenges of carbon zero for business4th October - Improving social mobility: how should education institutions and employers work together?4th October - Levelling Up Through Literacy - the power of cross-sector collaboration28th September - The mother of all presidential elections in (still) democratic Brazil28th September - The mother of all presidential elections in (still) democratic Brazil28th September - Ukraine & Russia: between Myths and War22nd September - What is Eloquence? Why Does It Matter?21st September - Performing Popular Sovereignty: Populism in Ancient and Modern Politics22nd June - ICCS roundtable - Expert Accounts of International Conflict: The Russian invasion of Ukraine6th-21st June - #MeToo in China Exhibition25th May - ICCS roundtable - Expert Accounts of International Conflict: The Russian invasion of Ukraine11th May - The Fault Lines of Inequality: COVID19 and the Politics of Financialization3rd May - NEW DATE! On a Slippery Slope? Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe27th April - ICCS roundtable - Expert Accounts of International Conflict: The Russian invasion of Ukraine30th March - Heterogeneity and plasticity of the self. Some anthropological reflections30th March - ICCS roundtable - Expert Accounts of International Conflict: The Russian invasion of Ukraine23rd-25th March - Teaching German in a Transcultural World16th March - Writing Home: A Conversation between Olivia Wenzel and Kaoutar Harchi9th March - ICCS roundtable - Expert Accounts of International Conflict: The Russian invasion of Ukraine22nd-25th February - 4th UK Annual Political Psychology Conference16th February - ICCS Research Seminar: Methodological Insights on Studying Distrust in IR9th February - The Ideology of Political Reactionaries2nd February - Englishness: The Force Transforming British Politics26th January - The Russia-Ukraine-NATO Triangle: War, Peace and Diplomacy in Europe 2021 8th December - Early GDR literature-avant-garden approaches to theatre in the socialist state: Matthew Hines1st December - Happy Birthday Niedersachsen24th November - Annual Fage Lecture: The Time of Letters: Epistolarity and Nigerian Newsprint Cultures, 1920s-1960s24th November - The COP 26 Summit: Reflections and Future Scenarios18th November - The Same Old Newness: the Elections in Bulgaria17th November - Democratic Decay and Authoritarian Resurgence10th November - 'Intourist' in the Baltics in the 20 century: Marta Starostina10th November - Special POLSIS Seminar: "Britain after Brexit"3rd-4th November - Opening a conversation about statelessness, governance, and the problem of citizenship - in the Commonwealth and beyond13th October - Richard Wagner as Subject of Friedrich Nietzsche's and Theodor W. Adorno's Enlightenments: Imran Hashmi13th October - Failure of Democracy: Political Threats and Economic Crisis in Interwar Europe6th October - A Changing of the Guard? The 2021 German Elections28th September - Post-Truth Politics: Silencing, Violence and Resistance in Public Debate30th June-2nd July - Shifting Constellations: Germany and Global (Dis)Order1st June - 2021 Birmingham Asia Forum21st April - Prospects of Stabilising US-China Relations10th March - The New Party Challenge: Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe4th March - Brexitland3rd March - IGES Book Panel with Paul Betts - Ruin and Renewal: Civilising Europe after World War II24th February - New Patterns of Political Competition in Western Europe: Populists vs. Populists23rd February - IGES/BRIHC Lecture10th February - The Moral Economy of Elections in Africa: Democracy, Voting and Virtue3rd February - Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past… and Present28th January - Authors and translators in dialogue: Sandra Hoffmann and Katy Derbyshire27th January - Germany and Eastern Europe: Birmingham-Utrecht Joint Postgraduate Workshop27th January - REPRESENT Seminar on Populism with Daniele Albertazzi and Davide Vampa 2020 18th November - Political Entrepreneurs: The Rise of Challenger Parties in Europe13th November - Fascism Past and Present: What lessons can we learn from Italy's history?9th November - Special POLSIS Seminar – Parties, Voters and Elections Research Group28th October - Europe's Crisis of Legitimacy22nd October - Populism in Europe and the USA15th October - Populism Around The World: Beyond The "Charismatic Leader"14th October - Distract and divert: How world leaders use social media during contentious politics19th March - Post-Truth Politics: Impacts on the Public Sphere and the Quality of Public Deliberation10th February - An Evening with Travis Alabanza23rd January - The League of Nations @ 100: Humanitarian Histories 2019 20th November - Brexit and Questions of 'National Inheritance': The Colonial Conditions of our Present Crises12th June - The Impact of Climate Change on Human Security: Civilian and Military Perspectives21st March - Making Sense of Corruption - Cancelled15th March - British Foreign Policy in a Fragmenting World6th March - Performances of Injustices: The politics of truth, justice and reconciliation in Kenya 2018 4th December - Choices, Challenges and Crises: Economic Reform in Post-Communist Europe28th November - Russia in Syria: Quagmire or Masterstroke?26th November - Blair's Britain: A Legacy Assessed21st November - Black to Red: the Politics of Prison Reform in the former Soviet Union15th November - Syria's Disappeared: The Case Against Assad7th November - Diversifying the Brexit Debate: the EU and marginalised voices5th November - Frozen Conflict: Interpreting reality through art, film and social sciences24th October - Not 'Coming Out'? The Attitudinal Panopticon and the Shallow Europeanisation of LGBT Rights in Serbia16th October - National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy9th October - PTR Polsis seminar series9th October - How Democracies Die12th July - Trusting Enemies7th June - Thirty Years Later: Ethnic Conflict in the Former Soviet Union22nd May - Becoming the World's Most Powerful Woman: Angela Merkel and the Transformation of United Germany2nd May - Euroscepticism and the Future of European Integration19th April - Brexit and British Politics7th March - IGS Workshop: 'The (Im)Possibility of Liberating One('s)Self'6th March - Reflections on the Italian elections 2017 27th June - The Destruction of Memory: a cross-disciplinary event 2016 5th December - Podcast: Education and Peace-Building in Deeply Divided Societies14th November - Trust processes in the eye of the storm! How do we cope with salient vulnerability31st October - Set-Theoretic Thinking in the Social Sciences – Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) in a Nutshell17th October - Personality and International Politics: Insights from Existing Research and Directions for the Future12th September - Podcast: Global Governance for the Anthropocene: Nuclear Weapons and the Global Ecology20th June - Ontological Security: A Holistic Framework for Analysis 2014 13th-17th October - Russian Festival of Culture1st May - Motors of Change, Sources of Stability: Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe