Austerity is hotly debated topic within the social sciences. It cannot be reduced to spending cuts, but has to be understood as a complex social phenomenon with consequences for mental health and well-being, social equality, politics and everyday life. Some observers therefore, speak of an “age of a... Continue

This year's cooperative Erlangen-Duke Seminar took place on 20th and 21st of July. The seminar, chaired by Prof. Dr. Clemens Kauffmann, Prof. Georg Vanberg PhD (Duke University) and PD Dr. Hans-Jörg Sigwart, focused on Constitutional Political Economy. Continue

On 13 June 2017 at 18:15 Prof. Dr. Wouter Vandenhole (UNICEF Chair in Children's Rights, University of Antwerp) will speak.   For detailed information see Programme "Children's Rights: A Threat to Family Values?" (PDF). Continue

On 31 May 2017 at 18:00 Morten Kjaerum (Director, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law) will speak. Morten Kjaerum has been Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Sweden since 2015. Prior to that, he was the fi rst Director of... Continue