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SCRIPTS is an Excellence Cluster that examines the nature, causes, and potential consequences of contestations of the liberal script in a global, comparative, and historical perspective. Hosted at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social and funded by @dfg.de.
Discover the new SCRIPTS Working Paper by Tanja A. Börzel #PublicationFriday
It outlines the renewed 7-year research agenda of SCRIPTS and examines why the liberal script remains contested and how it endures crises.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Vom Staat zur Marke

Wie vermarkten sich Staaten wie Konzerne? Historikerin Jessica Gienow-Hecht & Filmemacherin Nicola Graef im Gespräch über Nation Branding – von Kriegspropaganda bis PR-Kampagnen.

📅 7.11.2025 | 🕢 19:30–21:00
📍 Urania, Kleist-Saal, Berlin
🎟️ Tickets: 8/5 € Mehr Info: ogy.de/zk8v
Discussion | Futuring the Liberal Script #10: From State to Brand
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October 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
SCRIPTS lädt ein zum 7. Pub Quiz 2025 in der Fahimi Bar! Gemeinsam mit Berlins 7 Exzellenzclustern erwarten euch zwei spannende Quizrunden, eine Live-Präsentation und tolle Preise!

📅 13.10.
📍 Fahimi Bar, Skalitzer Str. 133, 10999 Berlin
⏰ 19–21 Uhr

Mehr Info: ogy.de/l20z
October 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
🚨 Call for Applications!

SCRIPTS Digital Autumn School 2025 supports students from disadvantaged regions in preparing graduate school applications. Benefit from personalized exposé feedback, application coaching, and insights into the German academic system,

🗓 Apply by Oct 6, 2025 → ogy.de/f1uj
Call for Applications: SCRIPTS Digital Autumn School for Graduate Applicants from Structurally Disadvantaged Regions
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October 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM
🚨 Call for Applications!

The SCRIPTS Digital Autumn School 2025 supports first-generation students on their path to graduate school. Participants receive coaching, feedback on their exposé, and an introduction to the German academic system.

🗓 Apply by Oct 6, 2025 → ogy.de/lqua
Call for Applications: SCRIPTS Digital Autumn School for First-Generation Graduate Applicants
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October 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
How do digital platforms and weakened parties fuel democratic backsliding? #PublicationFriday

Bennett & Livingston show how digitally networked organizations mobilize extremists, reshape parties, and blur the line between online and offline politics.

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📷 credits: Luke Heibert
September 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Ever thought Putin’s gender jokes are less about laughs and more about insecurity? An article by E. Donskih & S. Akopov argues they’re tied to Russia’s ontological insecurity—anxieties about identity, masculinity, and place in the world. #PublicationFriday
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📷 credits: Pixabay, svklimkin
September 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
📌 How is academic freedom understood worldwide? #PublicationFriday 📚

Kriszta Kovács & Janika Spannagel introduce a special issue offering a framework to map global variations, tensions between liberal and illiberal science scripts, and forms of contestation.

🔗Read here: ogy.de/l4e9
August 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
📌Why is security policy in the Global South so often overlooked? #PublicationFriday📚

An article by @tberger.bsky.social & Markus-Michael Müller analyses a series of articles and shows how South–South security cooperation reshapes global security governance.

🔗 Read the full article: ogy.de/g1th
August 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
🔍 New Article by @klatt.bsky.social & Sonja Blum #PublicationFriday
🚨 How scientific evidence is used in political narratives during COVID-19

Even in a pandemic with growing scientific certainty, political debates don’t necessarily use more evidence - they use it strategically.
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August 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
⏰ Noch bis zum 11.08 bewerben!

Wir suchen bei SCRIPTS Berlin eine*n Programmkoordinator*in, der*die unsere Forschungsagenda zum Klingen bringt. 🎼🌍

Dein Schwerpunkt: Veranstaltungsmanagement & Forschungskoordination im internationalen Umfeld.

💼 E13 TV-L FU
🔗 Mehr Infos zu Bewerbung:
Stellenausschreibung: Programmkoordinator*in (m/w/d) Vollzeitbeschäftigung befristet bis 31.12.2032
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August 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🔍Explore a new Article by @kzippel.bsky.social #PublicationFriday 

🧠 The recent attacks on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in U.S. universities are part of a wider anti-gender, anti-science, and anti-democratic agenda that seeks to dismantle equality infrastructures.

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August 1, 2025 at 7:00 AM
📘 #PublicationFriday
A team of SCRIPTS Researchers published a paper exploring how two politicized issues — migration and climate change — mobilize citizens across Europe.

🔍 What shapes cross-national differences in non-electoral participation, with a focus on petition signing?

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July 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
📢 SCRIPTS sucht eine*n Programmkoordinator*in (m/w/d) in Vollzeit (befristet bis 31.12.2032)!

Schwerpunkt: Veranstaltungsmanagement & Forschungskoordination im internationalen Umfeld.

🗓️ Frist: 11.08.2025
💼 E13 TV-L FU
🔗 Mehr Infos: www.scripts-berlin.eu/about-us/job...

#Jobs #Berlin #SCRIPTS
Stellenausschreibung: Programmkoordinator*in (m/w/d) Vollzeitbeschäftigung befristet bis 31.12.2032
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July 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
What challenges do Russian émigré academics face when integrating into Western academia? #PublicationFriday

Alexander Kalgin and Sergei Mashukov explore this question in their recent SCRIPTS Working Paper, examining the concept of "academic survival" within the social sciences.

🔗 Free Access:
Displaced Russian Academics. Networks, Markets, and Survival Strategies
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July 18, 2025 at 9:57 AM
📚 #PublicationFriday | "Russia’s Right and the Putin regime"

📌 Can there be a political right inside a regime often labeled fascist?

🔍 In their new article Katharina Bluhm & Mihai Varga argue that differences in Russia’s political landscape are still discernible and important.

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July 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
✨ Wir blicken zurück auf eine inspirierende Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft!

Danke fürs Miträtseln, Zuhören, Diskutieren & Mitgestalten – vom PubQuiz über den Vortrag zu PALS und Misogynie in Deutschland bis hin zur Wissenschaftsskulptur.

Wir danken euch und freuen uns auf alles, was noch kommt! 🚀
July 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
New book alert! 📚 #PublicationFriday

"Vom Staat zur Marke" by Jessica Gienow-Hecht explores how countries brand themselves—like products—with slogans, campaigns & image-building.
Nation branding isn’t new—it goes back to the 19th century! 🌍

📘 Read more here:
Vom Staat zur Marke. Die Geschichte des Nation Branding
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July 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🧠 Wissenschaft unter politischem Druck – wie frei ist die Forschung?
Podiumsdiskussion zur Haushaltskürzungen in der Wissenschaft mit Teilnahme der SCRIPTS Professor Stefan Gosepath.

📅 Wann: 8. Juli 2025, 16:00-17:30
📍 Wo: Freie Universität Berlin

Weitere Informationen und Anmeldung: ogy.de/v1n9
Podiumsdiskussion „Wissenschaft unter politischem Druck – wie frei ist die Forschung?“
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July 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
💡Reminder! There's still time to sign up for Prof. Sikkink's lecture tomorrow.

Don't miss the change to join us!
Join us on June 26, at 10:00 AM at Freie Universität Berlin for a compelling public lecture by Prof. Kathryn Sikkink (Harvard Kennedy School), exploring the global decline in human rights prosecutions.

📅 June 26, 2025 | 10:00 AM
📍 FU Berlin, Rost- und Silberlaube, Room J27/14
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Public Lecture | Is the Justice Cascade Over? The Decline of Human Rights Prosecutions in the World
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June 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Join us on June 26, at 10:00 AM at Freie Universität Berlin for a compelling public lecture by Prof. Kathryn Sikkink (Harvard Kennedy School), exploring the global decline in human rights prosecutions.

📅 June 26, 2025 | 10:00 AM
📍 FU Berlin, Rost- und Silberlaube, Room J27/14
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Public Lecture | Is the Justice Cascade Over? The Decline of Human Rights Prosecutions in the World
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June 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
It's #PublicationFriday! 📚

We would like to share with you the latest published SCRIPTS working paper:
📄"Actual Acceptance and the Justification of the State" by Teng Li.

🔍The central question is: What justifies the authority of the state?

🔗Read it now:
Justifying the State, Individual Uptake, and Territorial Annexation
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June 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It's #PublicationFriday 📚

📖Read the new article “The Coastal Route of Chilean Neoliberalism” by Maximiliano Jara-Barrera!

💡It traces Pedro Ibáñez Ojeda’s role in shaping an alternative path to neoliberalism. Focused on local actors using transnational networks to drive change.
The Coastal Route of Chilean Neoliberalism: Pedro Ibáñez Ojeda, the Mont Pelerin Society and the 1981 Regional Meeting
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June 13, 2025 at 9:57 AM
💬 Leistung – kein Maßstab für eine gerechte Gesellschaft
🎙 Prof. Dr. Stefan Gosepath (SCRIPTS) bei DLF Nova "Hörsaal": Ein philosophischer Blick auf soziale Gerechtigkeit, Chancengleichheit & Verdienst.

🔗Jetzt reinhören:
Kein Maßstab für eine gerechte Gesellschaft
Wer mehr leistet, der verdient auch mehr. So lässt sich das Prinzip einer Leistungsgesellschaft formulieren. Zu gerechter Gesellschaft führt das nicht.
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June 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
💡 A Postcolonial Trend in the Historiography of International Law?

We're excited to highlight an article by our Postdoc @micheletedeschini.bsky.social‬!
He argues that any account of the past is also an act of constructing authorial identity.

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May 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM