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Lecture Series: "Democratic Challenges in Europe"

23 April 2026: ANDRES REILJAN (TARTU) - Affective Polarization in Contemporary Democracies: Measurement, Implications and Remedies      7 May 2026: JOSEFINA ERIKSON (UPPSALA) - Populist Radical Right Parties and Challenges to Gender-Balanced Representation: Evidence from Sweden 21 May 2026: MARC HELBLING (MANNHEIM) - Liberal Democratic Values Among Immigrants in Europe. Socialization and Adaptation Processes 4 June 2026: KIRA RENÉE KURZ (GREIFSWALD) - The Politics of Age: Youth Political Representation in Comparative Perspective 2 July 2026 (online only): VICENTE VALENTIM (MADRID) - The Normalization of the Radical Right# 7 July 2026 (Tuesday): HANNA FOLSZ (STANFORD) - Economic Retaliation and the Decline of Opposition Quality in Democratic Backsliding 9 July 2026: VELO PETTAI (FLENSBURG) - Ethnic Domination and its Reversal: Soviet and Post-Soviet Estonia
Programme for Democratic Challenges in Europe

A new lecture series organized by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research (IFZO) and the DFG International Research Training Group Baltic Peripeties – Narratives of Reformations, Revolutions and Catastrophes will take place this semester. Under the title Democratic Challenges in Europe this joint lecture series will deal interdisciplinarily with the current political tendencies in the Baltic Sea region.

 

Day: Thursdays, 18.15–19.45
Place: University of Greifswald, Domstraße 9a, Raum 3.07 

The programme

For online participation, please write to: baltic-peripeties[at]uni-greifswald.de

 

Organisers:

Oksana Alekseev & Jochen Müller


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