A large FAU delegation travelled to the Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg to attend the Open Conference of the International Relations Section of the German Political Science Association (DVPW) from 21 to 23 September 2026. The conference brought together around 250 researchers in 54 panels and 16 roundtables to discuss current scholarship as well as important questions and challenges for International Relations and adjacent disciplines of Political Science.
The FAU delegation – consisting of Katrin Kinzelbach, Tobias Berger, Janina Heaphy, Gemma Lligadas González, Katharina Nicolai, Lars Lott, and Maximilian Wegener – took part in a broad array of panels and roundtables (Programm), including on academic freedom, the transformation of the international order and concomitant challenges for human rights, as well as transnational autocratization dynamics and strategies of civil society resistance.
Photo © Prof. Dr. Anna Holzscheiter, FU Berlin