18th December 2024
Empirical Social Science Research Seminar Series – Supply Creating its Own Demand? Crisis Policy Feedback in the EU during the COVID-19 Pandemic
As the second entry of this semester’s Empirical Social Science Research Seminar Series, we hosted a seminar held by Ann-Kathrin Reinl from the European University Institute.
13th November 2024
Empirical Social Science Research Seminar Series – Coalition-Directed Voting under Uncertainty
We hosted a seminar held by Lukas Stoetzer from the University of Witten/Herdecke. It was the first entry of this semester’s Empirical Social Science Research Seminar Series, which is jointly organized by our IDP research team and the faculty for social sciences and philosophy. For this series, which was established in last year’s winter semester, we invite external speakers to present their latest empirical research.
28th and 29th October 2024
Movie Screening – Tax Wars
As part of the “Globale Mittelhessen” film festival, cinemas here in Marburg and in Gießen showed the documentary “Tax Wars”, directed by Hege Dehli and Xavier Harel. It describes how multinational corporations manage to pay very little taxes and why governments around the world seem powerless against this tax evasion. Afterwards, Miquel Pellicer and Letícia Barbabela chaired discussions about the documentary with the audiences. Read more →
10th October 2024
Workshop – Municipal Finances in South Africa
On 10th of October, we hosted a 2-hour workshop on municipal public finances in South Africa. The workshop was chaired by Nara Monkam, Chair of Municipal Finance at the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences of the University of Pretoria. We are very grateful for her visit and for sharing her expertise with us!
19th-20th September 2024
Workshop – Distributive Politics in the Global South
In late September, we hosted the “Distributive Politics in the Global South” workshop, where we discussed the dynamics of inequality, redistribution, and political representation with scholars from across Europe. Read more →
