SCRIPTS News
Video-Release „Die Story des Rosa Winkels“ feat. Sébastien Tremblay
The video is accessible on YouTube (in German only) at the channel "WissenAusBerlin" from the Berlin University Alliance. It follows Dr. Sébastien Tremblay , who was a Postdoc Fellow at SCRIPTS. He shares the rationale behind his historical research on the Euro-American queer community, in particular the significance of one symbol: the Rosa Winkel (Pink Angle).
May 20, 2022
Ukrainian scholars Tetiana Kostiuchenko and Olena Podvorna have started their special scholarships
SCRIPTS has created an emergency fund to grant special fellowships to scholars at risk from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. Dr. Tetiana Kostuichenko and Dr. Olena Podvorna have already started their special scholarship. Other at-risk scholarship holders are in the admission phase.
May 10, 2022
Support for the "Berliner Wissenschaftsbrücke"
SCRIPTS has created an emergency fund to grant special fellowships to scholars at risk from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. Together with its partners, SCRIPTS solicits external financial support to fund further long-term fellowships in the framework of the " Berliner Wissenschaftsbrücke ".
Apr 21, 2022
Call for Papers for the Peripheral Liberalism Workshop Oct 2022
The workshop "Peripheral Liberalism. Market economists and the liberal script outside the West, 1970-2020" is organised by the SCRIPTS research group " Peripheral Liberalism " and will take place on site on 6-7 Oct 2022. The deadline for abstracts for papers and short CVs is 30 June 2022.
Apr 11, 2022
What does neutrality mean?
Gwendolyn Sasse , expert on Eastern Europe and director of the SCRIPTS partner Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), talks about the meeting of Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul to the newscast Tagesschau from public broadcaster ARD. She explains that at the moment there is no common understanding what "neutrality" would really mean for both sides. Read the German interview here .
Mar 29, 2022
SCRIPTS suspends institutional relationships with Russian universities and science institutions
Mar 16, 2022
Call for Papers for the Regional Conference Latin America
The regional conference "Political Polarization, Regional Governance and Challenges for the Liberal Script in Latin America" is a cooperation of SCRIPTS, El Colegio de Mexico and the University of São Paulo. It will take place on site in Mexico City in early 2023. The exact date of the conference is to be confirmed. The deadline for paper submissions is 15 April 2022.
Mar 14, 2022
Statement on the Putin regime’s invasion of Ukraine
This statement condemns the Putin regime's invasion of Ukraine. It was initiated by the doctoral researchers of SCRIPTS and is supported by the directors of SCRIPTS. Among the supporters are Principal Investigators, postdoctoral researchers and student assistants. SCRIPTS members who would like to support the statement can add their signature by sending an e-mail to birt@scripts-berlin.eu .
Mar 07, 2022
New study: Majority of Germans support global vaccine sharing
Researchers show that a majority of Germans support more solidarity with poorer countries in the COVID-19 pandemic. In a survey conducted as part of the project " Politics of Public Allocation of Scarce Goods: Evidence from the COVID-19 Vaccination Programme , around 10,000 citizens across Germany were asked for their opinion on financial support and vaccine donations to increase vaccination rates worldwide. The study was released as a non-peer-reviewed preprint here .
Jan 27, 2022
Prof. Dr. Philipp Lepenies takes on Cluster Professorship Sustainable Development
Philipp Lepenies becomes Professor of Sustainable Development. The Cluster Professorship Sustainable Development at Freie Universität Berlin is funded by SCRIPTS to complement existing research on climate and energy in the Berlin area.
Jan 11, 2022
Launch of second "Faces of SCRIPTS" video series
"Faces of SCRIPTS" are short video interviews with young researchers from SCRIPTS about personal experiences and their path into academia. It is the second series of the format, which was launched in 2019. Each week, a new video will be published on YouTube.
Jan 11, 2022
Cluster Professor Yasemin Soysal and research consortium obtain major funding for project on health, migration & gender
As part of an interdisciplinary research consortium, Prof. Dr. Yasemin Soysal , who holds the Cluster Professorship in Global Sociology , obtained funding in the amount of 1.3 million by the Berlin University Alliance (BUA). The title of the project is "Exploring gender-specific determinants and contexts of migrant health from an integrated Global Health perspective". The project is one of four projects that have been awarded funding by the BUA through their "Grand Challenge Initiative Global Health" ( press release in German here ). It will run from 01 Feb 2022 to 31 Jan 2025. The research consortium consists of researchers from Freie Universität Berlin/WZB Social Science Center, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. More details about this SCRIPTS affiliated project can be found here .
Dec 09, 2021
Four Graduate Students from SCRIPTS awarded with Oxford Grants 'Europe in a Changing World'
Thea Céline Kirsch , Nora Kürzdörfer , Jaša Veselinovič and Mikhail Zabotkin were awarded with an Oxford Grant for the project ‘Europe in a Changing World’.
Nov 16, 2021
Launch Event for 75th Anniversary Edition of the Journal International Organization
In cooperation with the German Foreign Office and the Humboldt Lab of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the SCRIPTS Knowledge Exchange Lab invited scholars and foreign policy experts to an exclusive discussion on "The Future of the Liberal International Order" on 8th October 2021 at the Humboldt Lab in the Humboldt Forum, Berlin. A report will follow.
Oct 09, 2021
New cohort of doctoral fellows
Sep 16, 2021
Prof. Dr. Christoph Möllers receives the Tractatus Prize 2021 for philosophical essay writing
Principal Investigator Prof. Dr. Christoph Möllers was awarded the Tractatus Prize 2021 for his book Freiheitsgrade. Elemente einer liberalen politischen Mechanik (Suhrkamp, 2020) . More information on the book and the prize can be found below.
Sep 08, 2021
