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On the evening of the U.S. election, we invited students to an information and discussion evening titled "America Votes: The 2024 Presidential Election in Focus." The event was organized by the FSI Politics, Dr. Simon Primus from the Chair of Comparative Political Science, and Dr. Kristina Maul, an ...

Last September,  Antonia Thies, doctoral candidate in the DFG Research Training Group on 'Sentimentality in Literature, Culture, and Politics' embarked on her second of three field researches to the Gulf, this time to Saudi Arabia. Embedded within the research activities of the Chair of Middle East ...

Partnering with the International Max Planck Research School "Global Multiplicity" (IMPRS-GM), FAU professors Katrin Kinzelbach (political science) and Dominik Müller (anthropology) inaugurated an interdisciplinary IMPRS doctoral research group called Human Rights Now – How? The collaboration was...

The Institute of Political Science cordially invites you to a lecture by Stuart Nicolson titled "And the rest is history… Political Communication in the Disinformation Age – Experiences from the Inside". Until last year, Stuart Nicolson served as the head of communications/ spokesman for Scotland’s ...

On October 14, 2024, at 12:15 p.m., we welcome new students of the MA degree program in Political Science. Please join us in room PSG 0.0 6. On October 15, 2024, at 2:15 p.m., the introductory event for the BA degree programs in Political Science as well as the Teacher Training degree program (Gy...

The German Political Science Association (GPSA) organized its 29th Annual Congress under the theme ‘Politics in the Polycrisis’ at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen from 24 to 27 September 2024. FAU's Institute of Political Science was strongly represented with seven lectures, four panels and t...

From September 5 to 8, Dr. Lars Lott and Dr. Simon Primus from the Institute of Political Science participated in the annual congress of the American Political Science Association. The APSA Annual Meeting is one of the world's most important conferences, bringing together international scholars from...

The book “Human Rights Politics. An introduction” by Michael Krennerich has just been published - also available as Open Access. It provides an introduction to the diversity of topics, actors and institutions in human rights politics and shows how political science and related disciplines can cont...

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