News from the Cluster
Call for Applications: SCRIPTS Digital Autumn School for Graduate Applicants from Structurally Disadvantaged Regions
The SCRIPTS Digital Autumn School 2025 offers tailored guidance for graduate school applications. This edition is designed for students from structurally disadvantaged regions, with preference for alumni of the SCRIPTS Partner Network.
02.10.2025
Call for Applications: SCRIPTS Digital Autumn School for First-Generation Graduate Applicants
The SCRIPTS Digital Autumn School 2025 supports first-generation students preparing for graduate school applications in the Social Sciences and related fields. Participants will receive coaching on their exposé, practical advice on application strategies, and insights into the German academic system.
02.10.2025
Book Presentation and Discussion – Framing Refugees: How National Identity Shapes Refugee Policy
Debates about the admission of refugees are ubiquitous across most Western countries and occupy a significant share of current political discourse. However, the framing of these debates varies considerably, depending both on the receiving country and on the country of origin of the refugees.
11.08.2025
Looking Back and Ahead – A Conversation with SCRIPTS
On the occasion of the decision regarding the cluster’s renewal proposal, we reflect—and look ahead—with SCRIPTS’ leading voices: on research achievements, personal insights, and what comes next.
22.05.2025
SCRIPTS Working Paper No. 57 by Gülay Çağlar, Dominik Hammer, Charlotte Drath, Paula Matlach, and Karolin Schwarz
This pilot study is the first analysis of German misogynous online milieus across platforms and sub-groups. The „Mannosphäre“ – the German variant of the anglophone manosphere – encompasses movements such as „Incels“, „Pick-Up Artists“, and „Men‘s Rights Activists“ that propagate misogynist ideology, reject gender equality and the liberal social order, and spread violent fantasies.
15.05.2025
35 Jahre Mauerfall | SCRIPTS-Forschende reflektieren über den Einfluss des Mauerfalls auf ihr Forschungsfeld
Mit dem Fall der Berliner Mauer verkündeten einige den „Sieg des Liberalismus“. 35 Jahre später stehen liberale Gesellschaftsmodelle weltweit unter Druck.
22.11.2024
Berlin Science Week 2024 | SCRIPTS scholar Sergei Akopov addresses academic freedom
The rising challenges faced by scientists in conducting research and publishing findings without constraints were at the heart of a theatrical performance and panel debate organised by the Hidden Research project during the 2024 Berlin Science Week.
11.11.2024
SCRIPTS Blog Post No. 76 by Anastasia Mgaloblishvili
SCRIPTS Doctoral Researcher Anastasia Mgaloblishvili analyses the 2024 elections that were viewed by many as an existential battle for Georgia’s democracy – a referendum between moving towards Europe and falling back into Russian influence.
31.10.2024
Asia Conferences | SCRIPTS holds Regional Workshops with International Partners
From 7 to 11 October, seven SCRIPTS members participated in two workshops hosted by SCRIPTS in collaboration with international partners in China and Japan.
11.10.2024
