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The introductory events for the master's and bachelor's degree programs in the 2025/26 winter semester will take place on October 13 and 14 – Welcome!

On July 1, 2025, Prof. Dr. Thomas Demmelhuber was invited to give a guest lecture in the series "The Middle East in Transition: Contemporary Historical Perspectives” at the Institute for the Studies of the Culture and Religion of Islam at Goethe University Frankfurt. He spoke about the interaction b...

In early September, Prof. Dr. Eva Marlene Hausteiner, head of the Chair of Political Theory and History of Political Thought, was on the philosophy magazine Sein und Streit (Deutschlandfunk). The central thread of her audio essay is the tension between outrage and outrage fatigue. It is about whe...

The annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA) took place in Vancouver, Canada this year. The conference's theme was 'Reimagining Politics, Power, and Peoplehood in Crisis Times'. FAU Professor Katrin Kinzelbach presented a paper on 'The Republic of China’s Role in Shaping U...

The “long summer of migration” is marking its tenth anniversary. Angela Merkel's widely quoted statement “We can do it,” which she made (for the first time) at the Federal Press Conference on August 31, 2015, became a leitmotif of integration policy and the associated social debate on the reception ...

In their essay on the Eric Voegelin Library, Dr. Eno Trimçev, the library’s director, and Dr. Łukasz Święcicki (University of Siedlce) introduce this lesser-known resource of European Voegelin research. The core of the Eric Voegelin Library – which in total houses five separate collections – consis...

On July 9, 2025, the Institute of Political Science held a graduation ceremony for its Bachelor’s and Master’s graduates. The event was opened by the head of the institute, Prof. Dr. Eva Hausteiner. In her welcome speech, she praised the graduates for their achievements and emphasized the importanc...

Over 3500 participants attended the annual congress of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) in Seoul, among them parts of the Institute’s faculty. Lars Lott presented a paper on the connection between autocratization and its effects on universalism and the provision of social polic...

At an international human rights conference jointly organized by the University of Freiburg (FRIAS) and the Gladstein Familiy Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut, Prof. Dr. Katrin Kinzelbach participated in a panel discussion and gave a presentation on the Academic Freedom Index....

What is the state of Erlangen's climate policy six years after the city council declared climate emergency? On July 1, this question was the focus of a discussion on the film “Zusammen”, which portrays Erlangen's participation process. The event was organized by the Chair of Comparative Politics at ...