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Politics in Europe
The lecture series "Politics in Europe" is a regular lecture series that is part of the joint political science colloquium of the chairs of Prof Dr Braun and Prof Dr Wenzelburger.
Interested parties are cordially invited to attend. Please register in advance at vinciane.pilz(at)uni-saarland.de.
Date: 02.05.2024
Time: 16:30-18:00
Place: Building B3 1, room 0.13
Prof Dr Michaela Maier is Professor of Communication Psychology at the Institute of Communication Psychology and Media Education at the Rhineland-Palatinate University of Technology Kaiserslautern-Landau. In her lecture entitled "Shades of EU secpticism 2024", she summarises how Eurosceptic and pro-European parties strategically communicated their respective positions during the election campaign for the last European elections and compares the results with materials from the current election campaign.
Date: 18.06.2024
Time: 16:30-18:00
Place: Building C1 7, room 0.08
Dr Paul C. Bauer conducts research at the University of Freiburg (Institute of Political Science) and the LMU Munich (Institute of Statistics). He also heads a research project on trust measurement at the MZES Mannheim. His presentation entitled "Is there an Affective Component of Political Trust Ratings in Surveys?" examines the influence of emotions on political trust based on open-ended audio responses analysed using AI to detect emotions.
Date: 02.05.2024
Time: 16:30-18:00
Place: Building B3 1, room 0.13
PD Dr Martin Gross is a political scientist and former academic councillor at the Geschwister Scholl Institute of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. In his lecture with the title "How Salient is Cohesion Policy for Regional Governments? Empirical Evidence from Germany" he discusses how the EU's regional policy fosters economic growth and promotes pro-European positions within regional party manifestos, highlighting the prioritization of EU issues by governing parties in coalition agreements, influenced by factors such as the presence of pro-European coalition partners, manifesto emphasis, and dependency on EU funding.
21.11.2023
16:15-17:45
Building B3 2, Room 0.03
Dr Isabelle Guinaudeau holds a double degree in social sciences from Sciences Po Bordeaux and the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Stuttgart. She also completed a Master's degree in German language, literature and culture at the Université de Strasbourg. She completed her Franco-German doctorate in political science at Sciences Po Bordeaux and the University of Stuttgart with summa cum laude honours. In addition to her position as a CNRS researcher at Sciences Po Paris, she is a visiting professor at the University of Zurich.
Her research focuses on comparative politics, party competition, European integration, parties in policymaking and policy analysis. In recent years, she has been studying, among other things, public support for European integration in a comparison of time and countries, the conditions for the implementation of electoral programmes, contemporary changes in political parties in a Franco-German comparison and the significance of party programmes in policy-making.
The topic of her lecture will be "Mandates, Pledge fulfillment and Representation in France and Germany".
13.07.2023
16:30-18:00 Uhr
Geb. B2 2, Raum 1.08
Prof. Dr. Joachim Schild will give a lecture with the title "Deutsch-französische Beziehungen in der Zeitenwende". He is Professor of Political Science/Comparative Politics at the University of Trier. His research focuses on French European policy, Franco-German relations, political economy of European integration and the political system of the V French Republic.
20.06.2023
16:30-18:00
Building B3 1, Room 0.14
Dr. Katjana Gattermann will give a lecture with the title "The personalization of politics in the European Union". She is a researcher at the University of Amsterdam in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, specialising in Political Communication and Journalism. Research interests include political communication, political behaviour, public opinion, journalism and legislative behaviour with a regional focus on the European Union. Her work addresses issues concerning the relationship between representatives and representatives and, in particular, the unifying role of the media in this relationship, thus feeding into debates on the legitimacy and accountability of politics.