News from the Cluster
SCRIPTS Blog Post No. 74 by Roberta Astolfi
Recent domestic circumstances and the results of the EU elections give reasons for raising the level of concern about the resilience of Italian democracy. Roberta Astolfi analyses the international relevance of two Italian specific political events and how they affect new strategies and regrouping within the European institutions.
Jul 17, 2024
Press release | PALS
Liberal societies are under pressure worldwide: internally eroded by right-wing populist electoral victories and growing economic inequality, externally challenged by the power play of autocratic governments. The survey “ Public Attitudes towards the Liberal Script ” (PALS), conducted in thirty countries with over 60,000 participants, provides a crucial basis for future research. The resulting dataset offers insights into attitudes toward liberal principles and institutions and is now available to the public.
Jul 10, 2024
SCRIPTS doctoral researchers Johannes Heß and Tobias Klee at the exhibition "Europäische Resonanzen: Eduard Bigas überträgt Josep Pla in die Gegenwart"
One hundred years after the Catalan author and journalist Josep Pla travelled and reported on post-war Europe, the Delegation of the Government of Catalonia to Germany opened an exhibition on his work, reimagining his writings through the artistic lens of Catalan artist Eudard Bigas. On June 20 th , 2024, the artist (who hails from Pla’s hometown of Palafrugell), gave a tour through his works, in which he interpreted Pla’s impressions with collages, montages, and drawings. The images draw on parallels between Pla’s time and ours: inflation, nationalism, and violent dictatorships.
Jul 03, 2024
SCRIPTS Blog Post No. 73 by Kriszta Kovács
University campuses, typically known as places for open and free exchange of opinions during peaceful times, have recently turned into battlegrounds. This shift has sparked discussions on the boundaries of academic freedom. Kriszta Kovács’s blog post focuses on the scope of this freedom and asks what the European Union institutions have done so far to protect academic freedom, a fundamental prerequisite for serious academic work.
Jun 27, 2024
SCRIPTS Think Piece No. 17 by Jaša Veselinovič
The outgoing European Commission promised to be a ‘geopolitical’ one. Five years later, the EU’s ‘geoeconomic turn’ can be seen as one of the von der Leyen team’s main legacies. As Jaša Veselinovič argues in this Think Piece, this shift consists not only of new economic policy tools but also entailed changes and adaptations in the EU’s foreign policy-trade nexus. He states that even though requirements of geoeconomic policymaking induced numerous (in)formal adjustments, they remain only softly institutionalised – and that their fate (and more generally legitimacy) under the future new Commission remains uncertain.
Jun 14, 2024
SCRIPTS Blog Post No. 72 by Anastasia Mgaloblishvili
In the face of ongoing protests in Georgia, SCRIPTS Doctoral Researcher Anastasia Mgaloblishvili analyses the significance of the outcome of the upcoming EU elections for the country's democratic development.
Jun 05, 2024
Workshop | Comparative studies of digital repression
Discussion and exchange about digital repression: AI-driven propaganda, digital rights, social media effects, surveillance, and censorship
May 28, 2024
Die SCRIPTS Wissensskulptur
Inwiefern werden die Versprechen des liberalen Skripts, wie Freiheit, Gerechtigkeit und Wohlstand erfüllt oder gebrochen? SCRIPTS untersucht in der neuen Wissensinstallation die spannungsreichen Kontestationen des liberalen Skripts.
Apr 25, 2024
SCRIPTS Working Paper No. 40 by Xinyuan Dai and Lucie Lu
Beyond Liberal Narratives. China and the International Human Rights Order
Apr 16, 2024
SCRIPTS Working Paper No. 39 by Jessica Gienow-Hecht and Steffen Just
Music and Human Rights Since World War II
Apr 16, 2024
SCRIPTS Working Paper No. 38 by Adriana Cuppuleri
20 Years of LIO Contestation(s). A Computational Text Analysis of Russia’s Foreign Policy Discourse (2003–2023)
Apr 03, 2024
SCRIPTS Blog Post No. 71 by Roberta Astolfi
Roberta Astolfi presents her political-philosophical reflections on Meloni’s proposal for a constitutional reform, which points to a deep ongoing crisis of representativity of the Italian government and raises questions about the future of the liberal democratic system.
Mar 20, 2024
SCRIPTS Working Paper No. 37 by Cristiane Lucena Carneiro and Mariane Monteiro Costa
Institutions of the Inter-American Human Rights System and Their Role in Shaping the Liberal International Order.
Mar 06, 2024
SCRIPTS at ISA | ISA 2024 ANNUAL CONVENTION
SCRIPTS’ scientists will host and actively participate in 33 panels and roundtables throughout the four-day event of the ISA 65th Annual Conevntion 2024.
Mar 05, 2024
SCRIPTS Working Paper No. 36 by Arie Kacowicz
Before and After the Liberal International Order. Overlapping and Diverging Trajectories of the International Society and the Liberal Order
Mar 05, 2024
SCRIPTS Arguments by Curd Knüpfer
Two factors stand out in the ongoing contestations of the liberal script: 1) the rapid transformation of democratic media systems, accompanied by new modes of collective will formation, and 2) an increase in digitally facilitated connections among avowedly illiberal actors. To effectively address these challenges, liberal institutions must update the heuristics that guide their responses to these emerging phenomena.
Nov 29, 2023
New Leadership at SCRIPTS
The Cluster has elected a new leadership in its last plenary meeting and we are delighted to welcome Mark Hallerberg and Yasemin Soysal.
Nov 28, 2023
SCRIPTS | Midterm Conference
Midterm Conference (SCRIPTS) - The Cluster of Excellence "Contestations of the liberal Script (SCRIPTS)" is taking stock after around four years of funding.
Nov 27, 2023
Call for Papers: Workshop on Race and Multilateralism in the International Order
The research project “Race and Multilateralism: The Anatomy of a Complex Relationship” (RAM) based at the Freie Universität Berlin and funded by SCRIPTS, is organising a workshop on 23rd-24th May 2024 on the relationship between race and multilateralism in the international order. Call for Papers (PDF) Deadline: 05 January, 2024
Nov 15, 2023
Fall Academy “Challenging Inequality (II)” at the University of Konstanz
For the second time, the Fall Academy took place at the University Konstanz, 4 to 6 October 2023.
Nov 14, 2023
