Future & past events

CIVICA events bring together experts in the social sciences and related areas, policymakers, and representatives of the public and private sectors to provide society at large with a deeper understanding of current phenomena and to address future challenges.

Learn more about our upcoming lectures, seminars, conferences, roundtables, workshops and other events.

Upcoming events

Dec

12 December, 11:30am - 12:30pm CET | Online

Students’ Reflections on Using Artificial Intelligence in Written Assignments

Dec

13 December, 12-1:30pm CEST | Hybrid @EUI

Thematic seminar | Design & Discovery in the Making of the G-7

Jan

18 January | Hybrid @CEU

CIVICA Workshop on Historical Persistence

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Past events

Nov

2 November 5:30-6:30pm CEST | Online

Discover CIVICA for All - Support and Information for Displaced and Refugee Students

Nov

3 November, 11am-1pm CET | Hybrid @EUI

Workshop | Critical Raw Materials Unpacked

Nov

7 November, 12-1pm CET | Online

Zotero "Train the trainers" workshop

Nov

9 November 11am-12pm CEST | Hybrid @SNSPA

Thematic seminar | Democratic Resilience: Some Conceptual Challenges

Nov

10 November, 2-4pm CET | Hybrid @EUI

Documentary screening | Reclaiming Now

Nov

14 November, 12-1pm CET | Online

Presenting Research Results Well for Maximum Openness

Nov

15-17 November | Hybrid @CEU

CIVICA Doctoral Conference: How to prepare yourself for the academic job market

Nov

20 November | Hybrid @CEU

Data stories 2023

Nov

21 November, 12-1pm | Online

Making a Start on Developing Open History

Nov

23 November | Hybrid @SGH Warsaw School of Economics

Thematic seminar | Climate change, demography, war and consumption

Nov

23 November, 6pm CET | Hybrid @CEU

"CIVICA for all" and Intercultural Communication Workshop

Nov

23 November, 1:30-3:30pm CET | Hybrid @EUI

Expert knowledge for global pandemic policy: a chorus of evidence or a clutter of global commissions?

Nov

24 November, 10am-12pm CET | Hybrid @EUI

Research Seminar | The False Choice between Digital Regulation and Innovation

Nov

30 November, 11am-12pm | Online

Promoting your research: what you need to know

Oct

2 October, 3:30-4:30pm CEST | Online

Everything you always wanted to know about Open Science

Oct

2 October 11am-12pm CEST | Hybrid @SNSPA

Kapuscinski Development Lecture | Human security and the war in Ukraine

Oct

6 October, 2-3pm CET | Hybrid @EUI

Lecture | Global resource flows and their environmental impacts

Oct

10 October 4-6pm CEST | Hybrid @IE University

Thematic seminar | Failed constitution-making processes

Oct

12-13 October | Hybrid @Sciences Po

CIVICA Research Conference

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Oct

13 October | SSE

Research conference: Democratic backsliding and electoral autocracies

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Oct

17 October, 5-6:30pm CET | Hybrid @EUI

Workshop | European Democracy in the shadow of the European 2024 elections

Oct

17 October 2-3:30pm CEST | Hybrid @Hertie School

Thematic seminar | Increasing the supply of European Public Goods: why, what and how

Oct

19 October, 10am-5:45pm CET | Hybrid @EUI

Conference | Digital constitutionalism at the age of AI (DIGICON III)

Oct

20 October, 12-1pm CET | Hybrid @Hertie School

European sovereignty: What it means and what it takes

Oct

23 October, 10am-1pm CET | Online

Openness and Transparency in Social Sciences and Humanities Research

Oct

25 October, 1:30-3:30pm CET | Online

Transparency, Reproducibility & Impact: Placing Open Science Into Practice

Oct

26 October, 5-6pm CET | Hybrid @CEU

Nationalism, Populism, and the Politics of Religion. Towards an Illiberal Reframing of Fundamental Rights

Oct

26 October, 3-4pm CET | Hybrid @LSE

The future of European Union integration in light of the economic and geopolitical challenges

Oct

30 October 5-6:30pm CEST | Hybrid @EUI

Thematic seminar | In the green trenches - The EIB's quest to become EU's climate bank and its evaluative underpinnings

Oct

31 October, 2-4pm CET | Hybrid @EUI

Workshop | The right to food, climate change, and global governance

Sep

4 September 1:30-3pm | Hybrid @SGH Warsaw School of Economics

Lecture by Francesco Billari on the current socio-economic causes of demographic transition and the associated future challenges

Sep

7-8 September | SNSPA

The 4th conference of the Romanian Network of Migration Studies

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Sep

11-13 September | SGH Warsaw School of Economics

Warsaw summer school: Access to social rights from the life course perspective

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Sep

13-16 September | Hybrid @SNSPA

Conference: Mobilities, land use and ecological crises in Europe’s peripheries

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Sep

20 September 5-6:30pm CET | Hybrid @Bocconi

Europe Revisited Seminar | The impossible centralisation: The struggles of economic policy coordination in the EEC, 1957-1992

Sep

21 September 5:30pm CEST | Hybrid @CEU

CIVICA Research Excellence Tour: Prof Iyiola Solanke on "Rethinking the introduction to EU Law"

Sep

18-19 January 2024 | CEU, Vienna

Call for Papers "CIVICA Workshop on Historical Persistence"

Submit your paper by 27/09

Sep

27 September, 4-5pm CEST | Online

Data Science Seminar | CENTRALBANKROBERTA - A fine-tuned large language model for central bank communications

Sep

28 September 12-13 CEST | Hybrid @Stockholm School of Economics

Thematic seminar | Small states in UN climate negotiations

Sep

29 September | SSE

DYSTENA Conference

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Aug

14 August 10am-2pm (CET) | Online

Data Science Summer School | Introduction to R programming

Aug

15 August 9am-1pm (CET) | Online

Data Science Summer School | Introduction to python programming

Aug

16 August 10am-2pm (CET) | Online

Data Science Summer School | Calculus for data science

Aug

17 August 10am-2pm (CET) | Online

Data Science Summer School | Linear algebra for data science

Aug

18 August 10am-2pm (CET) | Online

Data Science Seminar Series | Statistics and probability for data science

Aug

22 August 10am-2pm (CET) | Online

Data Science Seminar Series | A practical introduction to transformers: Train your own BERT

Aug

23 August 10am-2pm (CET) | Online

Data Science Seminar Series | Generative AI: Prompt crafting and creative exploration

Aug

25 August 10am-2pm (CET) | Online

Data Science Seminar Series | Deep learning for multi-model systems

Jun

1-2 June | CEU

4th POLEMO symposium

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Jun

5 June 3-5pm CET | Hybrid @EUI

Research seminar: The need for unexplainable AI

Jun

6 June 9:30am - 5pm | Hybrid @Bocconi

CIVICA Workshop: The Study of Mechanisms in Causal Inference Research

Jun

7-9 June | Hybrid @Hertie

Workshop on Research Methods in Fundamental Rights

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Jun

8 June 10am - 12pm CET| Hybrid @EUI

Decentering Eurocentrism reading group | How we see the world: use of maps and coloniality in transnational policy

Jun

12 June 9am-7:30pm (CET) | Hybrid @EUI

Conference: Scholars at risk in the Social Sciences

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Jun

12 June 10am-12:00pm (CET) | Hybrid @EUI

Keynote lecture: Institutional approaches to addressing the challenges of at-risk scholars

Jun

12 June 5-6:30pm (CET) | Hybrid @EUI

Keynote lecture: Populists and autocrats against the academic freedom in social sciences

Jun

12 June 5:45-7:15pm (CET) | Hybrid @CEU

CIVICA Democracy in the 21st Century Seminar Series | The Far Right Today: Austria in Comparative Perspective

Jun

12-17 June | Hybrid @LSE

LSE research conference: Knowledge beyond boundaries

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Jun

13 June 4 - 5:30pm CET | Hybrid @EUI

The Europolity’s Democratic Odyssey

Jun

14 June 11:30am - 1pm CET | Hybrid @EUI

Anthropocene legalities: Pushing the material, subjective, spatial, and temporal boundaries of climate litigation

Jun

15 June 1:30 - 3pm CET | Online

The experts of Prediction: Cold War Social Scientists on the Crossroads between Authoritarianism and Democracy

Jun

19 June 3-5pm CET | Hybrid @EUI

Digitalisation – Perspectives from the CEPEJ Working Group on Cyber Justice and Artificial Intelligence

Jun

20 June 3 - 4:30pm CET | Hybrid @EUI

Participation and Representation in the Digital Age

Jun

20-21 June | EUI

1st EUI ECO PhD workshop

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Jun

22 June 10:30am - 7pm | Hybrid @Hertie

Green industrial transitions in the EU and the US

Jun

27 June 2-4:30pm CET | Hybrid @CEU

The hidden curriculum of journal publishing. Open workshop with editors of Journal of International Relations and Development

Jun

29 June 7:30-9pm CET | Hybrid @LSE

Global Trends in Climate Litigation

Jun

30 June 9am-3:30pm CET | Hybrid @EUI

Media Pluralism Monitor final conference

Jun

30 June 3-4pm CET | Online

CIVICA Open Science for Researchers in the Social Sciences

May

2-3 May | Hybrid @EUI

Workshop: Transformative transnational governance in the EU and beyond

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May

4-6 May | Hybrid @EUI Florence

The State of the Union 2023: Building Europe in times of uncertainty

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May

8-9 May | Hybrid @EUI

Bridging epistemic divides in cultural heritage protection: An exercise in confrontation and conversation

May

9 May 10-11:30am CET | Hybrid @Hertie

Europe's Balancing Act: Taming inflation without a recession

May

10 May 2-4pm CEST | Online

EDMO Training on EU Policy to Tackle Disinformation

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May

15 May 3-5pm CET | Hybrid @EUI

The age of the Interspecies: New ways to think about and protect nonhuman life on Earth

May

16 May 4-6pm (CET) | Online

DYSTENA Workshop Series: Dynamics in Social Text and Network Analyses

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May

18 May 1:30-3pm CET | Hybrid @EUI

Crisis expertise beyond 'Global North' democracies: The power of knowledge or the knowledge for power?

May

22-23 May | Hybrid @EUI

Workshop: Queer dis-eases: disruptive histories, politics and bodies

May

23 May 4-5pm (CET) | Bocconi

CIVICA Research Excellence Tour: The geometry of misinformation

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May

24 May 10-11:30m (CET) | Online

Democracy in the 21st Century Seminar | Democracy and smart cities: issues, topics, examples

May

24 May 4-5pm (CET) | Hybrid @Hertie

CIVICA Research Excellence Tour: The geometry of misinformation

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May

25 May 2-3pm CET | Hybrid @Hertie

Tours D'Europe: Policy responses to political crises

May

25 May 12-1pm (CET) | Online

Open Science: The OPTIMICE method: how to improve the writing and translating of metadata

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May

25 May 6-7:30pm CET | Hybrid @Hertie

CIVICA Research Excellence Tour: Centering black women in EU equality law

May

25 May 9:30am - 12:30pm | Hybrid @Bocconi

Research Management in European Alliances: Fostering institutional transformation

May

26 May | SNSPA

CIVICA Research Excellence Tour: The geometry of misinformation

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May

31 May 4-5pm CET | Online

CIVICA Data Science Seminar: Handbook of computational social sciences for policy

Apr

4 April 10:30am CET | Hybrid @EUI

The UK Government’s COVID-19 Policy Advisory System. What did “Guided by the Science” mean over time?

Apr

5 APRIL 4-6pm (CET) | Webinar @SNSPA

Innovating teaching practices in digital environments

Apr

19 April 4-5pm CET | Online

Data science seminar: Exploring a new model of industry/academic collaboration: The US 2020 Facebook and Instagram election study

Apr

19 April 9-10:15am CET | Hybrid @EUI

The transformative effect of frontier science

Apr

20 April 4-6pm CET | Hybrid @CEU

Conference: Welfare, Democracy, and Populism Under the Covid-19 Crisis

Apr

20 April 12:30-1:30pm CET | Hertie

Political Economy Lunch Seminar: Cross-partisan dialogue

Apr

21 April 17:00 CET | Hybrid @Hertie

futurEU Competition 2023: Final Round

Apr

21 April 3-4pm CET | Hybrid @EUI

Complexity, climate change, and the political meltdown: From climate censorship to condescending nationalism

Apr

21 April 10am-12pm CET | Hybrid @EUI

Reading group decentering eurocentrism: Unobvious parallels

Apr

25 April 3-5pm CET | Hybrid @SGH

Perspectives And Policy For Ukraine’s Post-War Economy. What Should Be Done After The Russian Aggression Is Over?

Apr

26 APRIL 4-5pm (CET) | Online

Transforming the Guardians? AI in the Courtroom

Apr

27 APRIL 11am-12pm (CET) | Online

Open Science: Adding qualitative & quantitative PhD data to an institutional repository

Mar

1 March 3:30-5pm | Hybrid @CEU

Excellence Tour with Dr Benoît Pelopidas: Nuclear Weapons Choices Governing Vulnerabilities Between Past and Future

Mar

3 March 10am-12pm | Hybrid @Hertie

Excellence Tour with Dr Benoît Pelopidas: Nuclear Weapons Choices Governing Vulnerabilities Between Past and Future

Mar

6 March 10-11:30 (CET) | Online

Ethical rules in conducting and promoting research in social sciences

Mar

7 March 10-10:30am (CET) | Online

Institutional Open Access repositories - theoretical issues & examples

Mar

7 March 1:45-3pm (CET) | Hybrid @LSE

Europe@LSE seminar series: Nativist and Islamist Radicalism in Europe: Anger and Anxiety

Mar

7 March 2-5pm (CET) | Online

STEADFAST project workshop: The role of food and energy demand in climate change mitigation

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Mar

10 March 2023 | 15:30 | Hybrid

Documentary screening "Our Mother’s Land"

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Mar

15 March 11am-12pm (CET) | Online

Open Source Tools for Knowledge Representation

Mar

15 March 1:30-3:10pm (CET) | Hybrid @CEU

Beyond Words: Democratic Practices and the Epistemologies of the Oppressed

Mar

21 MARCH 14-15:30 (CET) | ONLINE

Live Research Seminar in Finance: “Crowded Spaces and Anomalies”

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Mar

22 March 4-5pm (CET) | Online

Data Science Seminar Series: Using multimodal neural networks to better understand how voters process audiovisual information

Mar

22 March 5:40-7:20pm (CET) | Hybrid @CEU

Economics of populism series: The political economy of alternative realities

Mar

23 March 1:30-3pm (CET) | Hybrid @EUI

The contentious politics of expertise in the Covid-19 crisis Scientific controversies and collective actors in Italy and France

Mar

27 March 11:30am-1pm (CET) | Hybrid @EUI

Decentering Eurocentrism Reading Group series: Enlightenment in global history. A historiographical critique

Mar

31 March - 2 April | CEU

European Public Policy Conference

Feb

1 February, 6:30-8pm (GMT) | Hybrid @LSE

Global Trade Policy Challenges: preparing for the next decade

Feb

7 February, 10-10:45am (CET) | Online

Managing software for indexing and citing research papers (Mendeley)

Feb

7 February, 6:45-8pm (GMT) | Hybrid @LSE

In Conversation with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

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Feb

8 February, 5:40-7:20pm (CET) | Hybrid @CEU

Given its consequences, can populism be long lasting?

Feb

9-10 February | Sciences Po

Final conference of the DEMOS project

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Feb

15 February | Online

European Polarisation Conference

Feb

20 February, 3-5pm (CET) | Hybrid @EUI

Research seminar – Artificial intelligence and EU security: The false promise of digital sovereignty

Feb

21 February, 1:30 - 5:30 PM | Online

DYSTENA Workshop Series: Gaining Insights into Social Media discourse by combining text and network analyses

Feb

23 February, 10:30-12:30 (CET) | Hybrid @EUI

Roundtable: The library community in its resistance to Russia's aggression against Ukraine

Feb

24 February, 9:30-16:30 (CET) | Hybrid @EUI

Conference: Assessing the situation in the EU for Ukrainian women displaced by war

Feb

28 February 11-11:30am (CET) | Online

FAIRness of Open Research Data

Jan

9 January 11am-12:30pm | Hybrid @CEU

Economics of Populism and Hybrid Regimes

Jan

17 January | Uppsala University

Excellence Tour with Dr Benoît Pelopidas: Nuclear Weapons Choices Governing Vulnerabilities Between Past and Future

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Jan

18 January 10:15am - 5:45pm (CET) | Online @SSE

Snowball Seminar Series - Migration and Integration: Critical Perspectives in Conversation

Jan

18 January 12-1:15pm (CET) | SSE

Excellence Tour with Dr Benoît Pelopidas: Nuclear Weapons Choices Governing Vulnerabilities Between Past and Future

Jan

19 January | online

SNSPA-CEU joint workshop "ROHUVax" project

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Jan

19 January | Hertie School

Hertie School Open Day 2023

Jan

19 January | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Excellence Tour with Dr Benoît Pelopidas: Nuclear Weapons Choices Governing Vulnerabilities Between Past and Future

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Jan

23 January 12-2pm (CET) | Hybrid @Sciences Po

Seminar organized by the team of the project “When the Law is Silent: Hate Crime Prosecution and Implicit Bias in Law Enforcement Agencies”. Results of the empirical research in Romania

Join the seminar

Jan

25 January 12-1pm (CET) | Online

Open social science principles in systematic documentation analysis

Jan

26 January 11-11:30am (CET) | Online

Digital skills for Open Access resources discovery

Jan

30 January, 3-4:30pm (CET) | Hybrid @EUI

Plurinationalism, Buen Vivir and the Constitutional Refounding: Decolonial practice in Latin America

Jan

30 January, 6-7:30pm (CET) | Hybrid @Hertie School

"A Union of security and solidarity. Building a fair, green and competitive European economy" with Paolo Gentiloni

Dec

2 December | Online @EUI

Introduction to Research Data Management and Data Management Plans

Dec

2 December 11:30 -12:30 CET | Hybrid @EUI

Discussion group: On Tahqiq, Space Travel, and the Discovery of Jetlag (EUI Decentering Eurocentrism Reading Group Series)

Dec

12-13 December | Hybrid @EUI

Conference: Commodification and the Law

Dec

15 December 9 - 10am CET | Online

Conversations over a second coffee: Higher education responsibility - what does it mean? Reflections from wartime

Nov

11-13 November | Online @CEU

Future & past events

Upcoming events

December 2023

Students’ Reflections on Using Artificial Intelligence in Written Assignments

Thematic seminar | Design & Discovery in the Making of the G-7

January 2024

CIVICA Workshop on Historical Persistence

Past events

November 2023

Discover CIVICA for All - Support and Information for Displaced and Refugee Students

Workshop | Critical Raw Materials Unpacked

Zotero "Train the trainers" workshop

Thematic seminar | Democratic Resilience: Some Conceptual Challenges

Documentary screening | Reclaiming Now

Presenting Research Results Well for Maximum Openness

CIVICA Doctoral Conference: How to prepare yourself for the academic job market

Data stories 2023

Making a Start on Developing Open History

Thematic seminar | Climate change, demography, war and consumption

"CIVICA for all" and Intercultural Communication Workshop

Expert knowledge for global pandemic policy: a chorus of evidence or a clutter of global commissions?

Research Seminar | The False Choice between Digital Regulation and Innovation

Promoting your research: what you need to know

October 2023

Everything you always wanted to know about Open Science

Kapuscinski Development Lecture | Human security and the war in Ukraine

Lecture | Global resource flows and their environmental impacts

Thematic seminar | Failed constitution-making processes

CIVICA Research Conference

Research conference: Democratic backsliding and electoral autocracies

Workshop | European Democracy in the shadow of the European 2024 elections

Thematic seminar | Increasing the supply of European Public Goods: why, what and how

Conference | Digital constitutionalism at the age of AI (DIGICON III)

European sovereignty: What it means and what it takes

Openness and Transparency in Social Sciences and Humanities Research

Transparency, Reproducibility & Impact: Placing Open Science Into Practice

Nationalism, Populism, and the Politics of Religion. Towards an Illiberal Reframing of Fundamental Rights

The future of European Union integration in light of the economic and geopolitical challenges

Thematic seminar | In the green trenches - The EIB's quest to become EU's climate bank and its evaluative underpinnings

Workshop | The right to food, climate change, and global governance

September 2023

Lecture by Francesco Billari on the current socio-economic causes of demographic transition and the associated future challenges

The 4th conference of the Romanian Network of Migration Studies

Warsaw summer school: Access to social rights from the life course perspective

Conference: Mobilities, land use and ecological crises in Europe’s peripheries

Europe Revisited Seminar | The impossible centralisation: The struggles of economic policy coordination in the EEC, 1957-1992

CIVICA Research Excellence Tour: Prof Iyiola Solanke on "Rethinking the introduction to EU Law"

Call for Papers "CIVICA Workshop on Historical Persistence"

Data Science Seminar | CENTRALBANKROBERTA - A fine-tuned large language model for central bank communications

Thematic seminar | Small states in UN climate negotiations

DYSTENA Conference

August 2023

Data Science Summer School | Introduction to R programming

Data Science Summer School | Introduction to python programming

Data Science Summer School | Calculus for data science

Data Science Summer School | Linear algebra for data science

Data Science Seminar Series | Statistics and probability for data science

Data Science Seminar Series | A practical introduction to transformers: Train your own BERT

Data Science Seminar Series | Generative AI: Prompt crafting and creative exploration

Data Science Seminar Series | Deep learning for multi-model systems

June 2023

4th POLEMO symposium

Research seminar: The need for unexplainable AI

CIVICA Workshop: The Study of Mechanisms in Causal Inference Research

Workshop on Research Methods in Fundamental Rights

Decentering Eurocentrism reading group | How we see the world: use of maps and coloniality in transnational policy

Conference: Scholars at risk in the Social Sciences

Keynote lecture: Institutional approaches to addressing the challenges of at-risk scholars

Keynote lecture: Populists and autocrats against the academic freedom in social sciences

CIVICA Democracy in the 21st Century Seminar Series | The Far Right Today: Austria in Comparative Perspective

LSE research conference: Knowledge beyond boundaries

The Europolity’s Democratic Odyssey

Anthropocene legalities: Pushing the material, subjective, spatial, and temporal boundaries of climate litigation

The experts of Prediction: Cold War Social Scientists on the Crossroads between Authoritarianism and Democracy

Digitalisation – Perspectives from the CEPEJ Working Group on Cyber Justice and Artificial Intelligence

Participation and Representation in the Digital Age

1st EUI ECO PhD workshop

Green industrial transitions in the EU and the US

The hidden curriculum of journal publishing. Open workshop with editors of Journal of International Relations and Development

Global Trends in Climate Litigation