Past Events

2023-2024
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Business Ethics - Concepts and Cases
Prof. Dr. Bettina Hollstein (Managing Director at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies)
Nov 8 | Guest Lecture -
Haniel Alumni Talk
Brandt School & Haniel Stiftung, Input Session by Marie Ullmann (Policy Officer at German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs)
Oct 7 | Alumni Talk -
Welcome Lecture and Graduation Prizes: Opening of the Academic Year 2021/22
Online Event hosted by the Brandt School
Oct 13 | Program | News Post -
Environmental Migration: Climate as a Determinant of Migration
Mariam Traoré Chazalnoël (Senior Policy Officer at the IOM Headquarters in Geneva)
Oct 27 | Guest Lecture | Poster -
Multilateral Decision Making: The case of UNESCO
Michael Worbs (Ambassador (ret.), former Chair of the Executive Board of UNESCO)
Jul 8 | Guest Lecture | Poster -
Rural Livelihoods
Adibi Nor (University Malaya), Azlina Kamal (UNICEF Malaysia)
Jul 6 | Guest Lecture | Poster -
The Power of Family-friendly and Inclusive Cities
Carmen Niethammer (Senior Gender Specialist at European Investment Bank, Senior Brandt Fellow)
Jul 1 | Guest Lecture | Poster -
German Federal Elections 2021: Leadership and Party Politics in Focus
Simon Vaut (Senior Civil Servant, German Government)
Jun 29 | Guest Lecture | Poster | News Post -
Humanitarian Innovations
Georg Höhne (Innovation Aid)
Jun 29 | Guest Lecture | Poster | News Post -
Clarity of Responsibility and Foreign Policy Performance Voting
Prof. Sibel Oktay (University of Illinois at Springfield)
Jun 29 | Guest Lecture | Poster -
Capturing Social Processes: Trajectory-Based Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Prof. Dr. Dr. Lasse Gerrits (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Dr. Sofia Pagliarin (University of Bamberg)
Jun 23 | Guest Lecture | Poster | News Post -
Commitment Award Ceremony
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, Engagementpreis Stiftung
Jun 17 | Recurring Event | News Post | Ceremony on YouTube | ARD broadcast| Website Commitment Award -
International Inequality of the Pandemic
Barbara Fritz (FU Berlin), Achim Kemmerling (WBS)
Jun 16 | Guest Lecture | Poster -
Alumni Reunion and Conference
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Jun 15-16 | Conference | Poster | News Post -
The Internal Opposition Effect of International Sanctions: Insights from a Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Dr. Julia Grauvogel (German Institute for Global and Area Studies GIGA)
Jun 2 | Guest Lecture | Poster| News Post -
The European Green Deal and German Economic Competitiveness
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik (DGAP), Moderation Andreas Goldthau (WBS)
May 27 | Discussion | News Post| Link to the event description -
Promoting Women‘s Labour Force Participation
Carmen Niethammer (Senior Brandt Fellow)
May 25 | Guest Lecture | Poster | News Post -
Public Finance, CEOs and the Top 1 Percent
Renira Angeles (NORCE Bergen)
May 4 | Guest Lecture | Poster -
Global Pathways to the Modern Tax State
Laura Seelkopf (University St. Gallen)
Apr 27 | Guest Lecture | Poster | News Post - The Ins and Outs of Building a Political Career
Simon Vaut (German Federal Government)
Mar 30 | Guest Lecture | Poster - Alumni Talk #4: What about being a global citizen? Brandtians at international organisations
Atif Ikram (UN) & Danielle Al-Qassir (UN)
Mar 25 | Alumni Talk | Poster - Alumni Talk #3: Hey, I want to be a researcher! Brandtians who followed the academic path
Alice Murage (Simon Fraser University), Mateeullah Tareen (Humboldt University of Berlin) & Jorge Sellare (Center for Development Research, ZEF)
Mar 23 | Alumni Talk | Poster - Alumni Talk #2: Is Europe my place? Non-German Brandtians who stayed here
Tornike Kikishvili (Deutsche Börse) & Otto Dodoo (Patrizia Foundation)
Mar 18 | Alumni Talk | Poster - Alumni Talk #1: Home Sweet Home: How Brandtians found a job back in their home countries
Patricia Loggetto (St. Jude’s Hospital) & Hidayati Pratiwi (Yayasan Plan International)
Mar 16 | Alumni Talk | Poster - What do the Covid-19 recovery packages mean for the global economy?
Shahin Vallée (German Council of Foreign Relations, DGAP)
Feb 15 | Guest Lecture | Poster - The power politics of private governance: trade-sustainability nexus in an interconnected world
Karina Marzano (WBS)
Feb 10 | Seminar | Poster - Energy Transition & Environmental Movements in South Africa
Almut Mohr (WBS)
Jan 27| Seminar | Poster -
The Democratic Politics of Military Interventions
Wolfgang Wagner (Vrije University Amsterdam)
Jan 19 | Guest Lecture - Social Science Concepts and Measurement: Guidelines for Creating Concepts
Gary Goertz (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Jan 13 | Guest Lecture | Poster - The Attitudes of States Towards the Global Climate Change Regime: How and Why They Differ
Jan Karlas (Charles University, Prague, CZ)
Jan 12 | Guest Lecture | Poster
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Thinking Pragmatically about Research Design in Quantitative and Qualitative Research
Dimiter Toshkov (Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University)
Dec 16 | Guest Lecture | Poster -
(Be)coming Nigerian: Can Satire Help Us to Transform Government and Bureaucracy?
Elnathan John (novelist)
Dec 15 | Guest Lecture | Poster -
Terrorism and Conditions for Human Rights in Counter-terrorism in Sub-Sahara Africa
Steve Wakhu Khaemba (WBS doctoral candidate)
Dec 9 | PhD Defense | Poster -
Breaking the Silos: Working Across the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus in Conflict Environments
Henriette von Kaltenborn-Stachau (World Bank)
Dec 8 | Guest Lecture | Poster | News Post -
Offshore Finance: what is it, where does it come from and why does it matter?
Andrea Binder (Global Public Policy Insititute GPPi, Germany)
Dec 2 | Guest Lecture -
The Use of Evidence in Public Health Policy
Paul Cairney (University of Sterling, Scotland)
Nov 23 | Guest Lecture -
Ruling without Governing: Tutelary Regimes in Comparative Politics and the Case of Myanmar
Marco Bünte (University Erlangen Nuremberg, GIGA, Germany)
Nov 18 | Guest Lecture | Recording of the event (YouTube) | News Post -
Elements of Understanding Violent Memory in the Colombian Conflict
Lerber Dimas (University of Guajira, Colombia)
Nov 17 | Guest Lecture | Poster -
Brandt School Graduation Prizes
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Oct 29 | Award Ceremony | Website-Link "Brandt School Graduation Prizes"| News Post -
Welcome Reception
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Oct 29 | Reoccuring Event | Recording of the event (YouTube) | News Post -
Commitment Award
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Jul 7 | Award Ceremony | Website-Link "Commitment Award"| News Post -
Alternative Budgeting Approaches
Achim von Heynitz (Centennial Group International)
Jun 9 | Guest Lecture | News Post -
Implications of Covid-19 on Internal Armed Conflict: the Case of Myanmar
Karen Simbulan (RAFT Myanmar, WBS Alumna)
Apr 16 | Guest Lecture -
After the Masters: A Q&A on PhD-ing and postdocs
Richard Stupart (London School of Economics, United Kingdom)
Apr 14 | Guest Lecture -
Expert Advice and Government Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
Olga Löblova (Cambridge University, United Kingdom)
Apr 9 | Guest Lecture -
Polity, Policy and Politics: Working in a Political Organization
Magno Karl (WBS doctoral candidate)
Apr 7 | Guest Lecture -
The EU Refugee Crisis and the Corona-Pandemic
Morgan Courtney (UNHCR, WBS alumnus)
Apr 2 | Guest Lecture -
China's Dramatically Growing Military Strength and its Implications
Elbridge Colby (The Marathon Initiative, US)
Feb 18 | Guest Lecture -
Never forget Srebrenica: Filmmaking and Post-Conflict Memories
Ado Hasanovic
Jan 22 | Guest Lecture -
The Political Economy of Offshore Finance
Andrea Binder (Global Public Policy Insititute GPPi, Germany)
Jan 21 | Guest Lecture -
Refugees and Municipalities – Rethinking the Distribution Process
Will Jones (School of Politics and Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
Jan 16 | Guest Lecture | News Post -
Russia’s Assertiveness in the Near Abroad: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Regional Primacy
Adriana Cuppuleri (Visiting doctoral student at WBS)
Jan 14 | Guest Lecture -
Environmental Policy-Making in Brazil
Bruno Taitson (WWF, WBS alumnus)
Jan 6 | Guest Lecture
- EU-China relations: cooperation, competition and rivalry
Reinhard Bütikofer (China Delegation, EU Parliament)
Dec 13 | Guest Lecture - Data Science for Policy-Making and Social Science
Asif Azizov (OJSC Mugan Bank)
Dec 11 | Guest Lecture - The Rise and Fall of Multilateralism (IA)
Daniel Warner (former advisor to UNHCR, ILO, NATO and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Defense CH)
Dec 5 | Workshop - Multilateral Crisis Management (CSMP)
Daniel Warner (former advisor to UNHCR, ILO, NATO and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Defense CH)
Dec 4 | Workshop - The differing effects of personal values on attitudes towards migrants in East and West Europe
Saamah Abdallah (PhD student, University of Erfurt)
Nov 7 | Guest Lecture - Welcome Reception
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Oct 14 | Reoccuring Event - Methoden der Außenpolitikanalyse: Ansätze, Daten und Perspektiven
Patrick Mello
Sep 26-27 | Conference - Commitment Award
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Jul 7 | Award Ceremony | Website Link - “Politics as a Vocation“ Reflections on Max Weber’s “Politik als Beruf” 100 years later
Michele Nicoletti (University of Trento, IT)
Jul 2 | Guest Lecture - Guns, Community Mistrust and Public Health Don’t Mix: Trials and Errors That Fuel the World’s Second-Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Monday Banga (IOM)
Jun 6 | Guest Lecture - Social investment and intergenerational redistribution: How much and by whom
Pieter Vanhuysse (University of Southern Denmark, DK)
May 27 | Guest Lecture - Open Day
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
May 25 | Reoccuring Event - Visualizing and Presenting Empirical Evidence in Public Policy Making
Zbigniew Truchlewski (post-doc, University of Geneva)
May 6 | Guest Lecture - Transatlantic Economic Relations - From TTIP to Trumpian Tantrum … and Back?
Peter H. Chase (Senior Fellow with the German Marshall Fund)
Apr 25 | Guest Lecture - Civil Society Support and Transnational Peacebuilding: Between Democracy Promotion and Political Interference
Andrei Gomez-Suarez (Colombia University of Bristol, UK)
Apr 24 | Guest Lecture - Concepts of Peace and Peacebuilding: Europe and Beyond
Oliver Richmond (University of Manchester, UK)
Mar 3 | Discussion - Key Challenges on Kosovo’s European Integration Path
Albana Rexha (visiting DAAD PhD researcher)
Feb 2 | Discussion - Solidarity in Europe
Benjamin-Immanuel Hoff (Minister for Culture, Federal- and European affairs of the Free State of Thuringia)
Jan 17 | Guest Lecture - Digitale Zeitenwende – Perspektive des öffentlich-rechtlichen Mediensystems
Karola Wille (MDR)
Jan 10 | Joint Lecture Series (Landtag)
- The Politics and Economics of Aid in Myanmar
Youngmi Kim (University of Edinburgh, UK), Matteo Fumagalli (University of St Andrews, UK)
Dec 3| Workshop - Workshop complementing the seminar "Political Advocacy and Leadership" by Dr. Aragón
Robert Burdy (MDR aktuell)
Nov 30 - Dec 1 | Workshop - Employee Representation in a multi-national Context
Natalia Glück (WBS alumna)
Nov 26 | Guest Lecture - Consumer Law in the European Union: Insights and Research Questions
Matthias Amort (University of Erfurt)
Nov 21 | Guest Lecture - Flight, Displacement and Hunger – The Results of the Global Hunger Index and Discussion
Klaus von Grebmer (International Food Policy Research Institute, IFPRI)
Nov 15 | Workshop - Poverty Prevention in Thuringia – Between Empirical Data and Subjective Discriminations
Jörg Fischer (Institute for Municipal Planning and Development)
Nov 8 | Guest Lecture - The Midterms and the World: How the US Elections Will Impact on Trump's Foreign Policy
Cornelius Adebahr (Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Policy Studies, German Council on Foreign Relations)
Nov 7 | Guest Lecture - Welcome Reception
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Oct 10 | Reoccuring Event - Erfurter Herbstlese: Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
David Graber (London School of Economics, UK), Achim Kemmerling (WBS)
Sep 21 | Literature Event - Commitment Award
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Jul 7 | Reoccuring Event | Website Link - The United Nations – how it reacts to the challenges of our increasingly complex world
Karl Theodor Paschke (UN)
Jul 6 | Guest Lecture - Marx Imagery in Socialism
Frank Ettrich (WBS)
Jul 3 | Joint Lecture Series - Democratic Backsliding in Eastern Europe and the Political Crisis of the European Union. Insights from Hungary
Thilo Bodenstein (Central European University, HU)
Jul 3 | Guest Lecture - Politics and Economics of Budgeting. The Case of Erfurt University
Jörg Brauns (Chancellor, University of Erfurt)
Jun 18 | Guest Lecture - Truth in Post-Truth Times. Fake News and Social Bots
Tabea Wilke (Digital Strategist)
Jun 14 | Joint Lecture Series (Landtag) - Study Trip to Buchenwald
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Jun 13 | Excursion - Job application crash course
Katharina Palko (ThAFF)
Jun 1 | Workshop - What is truth?
Heribert Prantl (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
May 31 | Joint Lecture Series (Landtag) - Fake News sind die neuen Zeitungsenten
Werner D'Inka (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
May 24 | Joint Lecture Series (Landtag) - Open Day
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
May 5 | Reoccuring Event - Women for Peace – Between Adaptation and Opposition
Tawakkol Karman (Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2011) , Solveig Richter (WBS), Bente Scheller (HBS Beirut), Mirjam Kruppa (Thuringian Commissioner for Migration)
May 3 | Discussion - Wer hat Angst vor Fake News? Warum wir souveräner mit Lügen, Fälschungen und Fake News umgehen sollten.
Stefan Raue (Deutschlandradio)
Apr 14 | Joint Lecture Series (Landtag) - Social Entrepreneurship and Venture Financing
Ricardo Alvarez (Simó-Bosch Consulting)
Apr 16 | Guest Lecture - Professional Reintegration Workshop for Students from Africa, Asia and Latin America
AGEP
Apr 2-4 | Workshop - Study trip to Berlin: "Germany – Civilian or Military Power?"
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Jan 17-18 | Excursion - Negotiating Peace in Syria: What Role for Germany?
Andreas Krüger (SWP Berlin, DE)
Jan 11 | Guest Lecture
- Application Portfolio Basics
Covadonga Gonzalez (ThAFF)
Dec 11 | Workshop - Supporting Political Dialogue and Transition in Conflict Countries
Alia Eshaq (Berghof Foundation)
Dec 11 | Guest Lecture - Multilateral Diplomacy in Fragile States: Dealing with Conflict and Cooperation
Daniel Warner (DCAF)
Dec 6-7 | Workshop - Welcome Reception
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Nov 22 | Reoccuring Event - The Current State of International Relations and Global Diplomacy
Nicholas Kralev (Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government)
Oct 13 | Guest Lecture - Commitment Award
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Jul 7 | Reoccuring Event | Website-Link - German Elections Ahead - Workshops for International Students
Eric Linhart (TU Chemnitz) , Miriam Küller (Policy Advisor), Bernd Rother (WBS)
Jun 23 | Workshop - Challenges of Humanitarian Health Action
Volker Lankow (Doctors without Borders)
Jun 20 | Guest Lecture - "Brexit" - How We Got There and Where Are We Heading Now?
Seb Dance, Jacob von Weizsäcker (EU Parliament)
Jun 16 | Guest Lecture - Democracy Under Fire?! Roundtable Discussion
Daniel Warner (DCAF), Karolina Podstawa (University of Lodz) , Solveig Richter (WBS)
Jun 1 | Discussion - Transparency International Deuschlad e.V. - The Work of a Global Anti-Corruption Coalition
Anna-Maija Mertens (Transparency International Deutschland e.V.)
May 29 | Guest Lecture - Open Day
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
May 5 | Reoccuring Event - Advanced Academic Writing
De Souza Karl Magno (University of Erfurt)
Apr 28 | Workshop - Perpetual Transition. Why Europe Has Failed in Democracy Promotion in Turkey
Dilek Kurban (Marie Curie Fellow Hertie School of Governance)
Apr 20 | Guest Lecture - Russia's Intervention in Syria: Aims, Achievements and Obstacles
Margarete Klein (SWP Berlin)
Feb 2 | Guest Lecture - Welcome Reception
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Jan 27 | Reoccuring Event - Study Trip to Brussels and Bonn
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Jan 24-27 | Excursion - GOD IS NOT WORKING ON SUNDAY! Surviving Women Driving Social Change in the Rwanda of Today
Leona Goldstein (film maker)
Jan 19 | Movie Screening - Policy Design and Implementation: The Case of EU Targeted Sanctions
Clara Portela Sais
Jan 18 | Guest Lecture
- Peace in the Offing: Colombia
Daniel Brombacher (GIZ)
Dec 15 | Guest Lecture - Fishbowl Discussion - "Public Policy - The Way Ahead"
Hasnain Bokhari (University of Erfurt)
Dec 14 | Discussion - A New Conflict in the Offing? Ethiopia
Jalale Getachew (WBS PhD student)
Dec 7| Guest Lecture - Transitional Justice in Afghanistan - A Lost Case?
Nicole Birtsch (SWP)
Dec 7 | Guest Lecture - Willy Brandt (1913-1992) - The Outstanding European Statesman and His Legacy for Our World of Today
Wolfgang Hoppenstedt
Nov 22 | Guest Lecture - Letter to an SS Guard - Guest talk with Auschwitz Survivor Leon Schwarzbaum
Leon Schwarzbaum
Oct 27 | Guest Lecture - Commitment Award
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Jul 7 | Reoccuring Event | Website Link - EU Human Rights Policy in Practice
Friederike Tschampa (European External Action Service)
Jul 5 | Guest Lecture - Back to which Future? The End of the Latin American Left?
Andrés González (Prof. at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador)
Jun 20 | Guest Lecture - Decolonialization, State Succession and a Formal Problem of International Law
Harald Kleinschmidt
Jun 5 | Guest Lecture - Doctoral Studies Information Session: Pursuing your doctoral degree in Germany
Solveig Richter (WBS)
May 26 | Workshop - On the Road to the White House: The 2016 US Presedential Elections
Ronald Brownstein
May 10 | Guest Lecture - OSCE Conflict Prevention and Resolution: Lessons from the Field
Eva-Maria Velickovic (OSCE Ukraine)
May 4 | Guest Lecture - Renewable Energy: A Quarter Century of Growth and the Lessons Learned
Marc-Antoine Renaud (Eolectric)
Apr 22 | Guest Lecture - Research Methods for Doctoral Students
Patrick A. Mello (TU Dresden)
Apr 8 | Workshop - The Islamic State and the Situation in Syria
Guido Steinberg (SWP)
Feb 3 | Guest Lecture - Impact Matters: New Trends for NPOs to Maximize Their Social Impact
Andreas Rickert (CEO of PHINEO gAG)
Jan 14 | Guest Lecture
- Impact Measurement, Social Return on Investment and the Sinzer Platform
Marlon van Dijk (CEO of Social E-valuator BV/Sinzer)
Dec 9 | Guest Lecture - The Eclectic Roots of Statist Religious Law: Constitutional Migration and the Adaptability of Islamic Law in Iran
Mirjam Künkler (Lichtenberg Kolleg, Göttingen)
Nov 24 | Guest Lecture - Fishbowl Discussion with Hasnain Bokhari - "Public Policy - The Way Ahead"
Hasnain Bokhari (WBS)
Nov 11 | Discussion - "It's not charity. It's a chair of power" - Debating and Advocating Gender Quotas in Afghanistan's Second Transformation Decade
Andrea Fleschenberg dos Ramos Pinéu
Nov 10 | Guest Lecture - Welcome Reception
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Nov 9 | Reoccuring Event - Commitment Award
Willy Brandt School of Public Policy
Jul 12 | Reoccuring Event | Website Link - After the Rebellion: Perspectives for a Sustainable Peace in Mali
Jan Fahlbusch (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung)
Jun 8 | Discussion - Living in Emegerny - Mit Ärzte ohne Grenzen im Einsatz / Gespräch im Anschluss
Doctors Without Borders
May 27 | Movie Screening - Transitional Justice and Historical Memory in Authoritarian Regimes
Antônio Henrique , Graciano Suxberger, Thiago Santos Aguiar de Pádua, Jefferson Carús Guedes (PhD students WBS)
May 21 | Discussion - Radical Ecological Democarcy: Towards a Sustainable and Equitable Future
Ashish Kothari (Founder-member of Kalpavriksh)
May 19 | Guest Lecture - Taking Stock of the Global Green Transformation: Great Hope or False Promise
Stefan Cetkovic (Environmental Policy Research Centre, FU Berlin)
May 6 | Guest Lecture - Journalism in the Digital Age
Markus Ziener (HMKW Berlin)
Apr 24 | Guest Lecture - Why and How to Keep Abreast of Current Affairs?
Karl-Theodor Paschke (former German ambassador)
Apr 23 | Guest Lecture - Professional Writing for Public Policy
Sebastian Gallander (Vodafone Foundation Germany)
Apr 18-19 | Workshop - Visit: Wolfgang Tiefensee (Minister, Government Thuringia)
MPP students (WBS)
Feb 16 | Excursion - Issues of Human Rights Policy from a German Perspective
Christoph Strässer (Federal Government Comissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid, Germany)
Feb 13 | Guest Lecture - How U.S. Diplomacy Strenghtens Economic Ties
Thomas Miller (Minister-Counselor for Public Affairs, U.S. Embassy Berlin)
Feb 3 | Guest Lecture - Discussion
Florian Hoffmann, Hasnain Bokhari, Aline Mugisho, Ritu Sharma, Arslan Yaseen (WBS)
Jan 21 | Discussion
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