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On February 1, 2024, Professor Brodocz took up his new position as Vice President for Research and Academic Careers at the University of Erfurt. Please direct all related inquiries to the responsible secretariat (Ms. Denise Baumgart, 0361 737-5000) or to vp-forschung@uni-erfurt.de

• Teaching:

The current range of courses can be found in the course catalog of the University of Erfurt and on Moodle.

For appointments with Professor Brodocz, please register, stating the reason for the appointment (christiane.pilz(at) uni-erfurt.de).

• Research funding:

The German Research Foundation is funding the project: "How are law and politics reconfigured by the constitutional transformations in Bolivia and Ecuador? A system-theoretical analysis", which Prof. Dr. André Brodocz, Dr. Franz Barrios and Dr. Hannah Vermaßen will carry out together from autumn 2024.

The Gerda Henkel Foundation is funding the research group "Ecological Conflicts: Representation Claims and Strategies in the Dispute over the Coming Society", which is headed by Dr. Vincent August (HU Berlin) and Prof. Dr. André Brodocz, with approximately EUR 240,000 from 2023 to 2026. 

From 2022 to 2026, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research is funding the competence network "Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict" with approx. 4 million euros, in which Prof. Dr. André Brodocz and Hanna Schnieders, M.A., from the Chair of Political Theory as well as researchers from the Center for Conflict Research (Marburg), the DFG Cluster of Excellence "Africa Multiple" (Bayreuth) and the Center for Political Practices and Orders ("C2PO", Erfurt) as well as the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute in Freiburg are involved. Further information on the network can be found here

"The Volkswagen Foundation is funding the project "A 'Democratic State of Exception': The corona virus controversy in Germany". The project examines the extent to which a 'democratic state of exception' is created in the democratic public debates on the corona crisis and what opportunities and risks are associated with it. Prof. Dr. André Brodocz and Dr. Hagen Schölzel are responsible for the project. 

• New publications:

- André Brodocz / Marcus Beyer: Wie eine Parteidiktatur ihre Deutungsmacht verwaltet. Funktion und Praktiken des Instituts für Internationale Beziehungen der DDR, in: Jahrbuch Extremismus und Demokratie Vol. 36 (2024) (forthcoming)

- André Brodocz: Does everyone always have to talk to everyone in a democracy? On the challenges of populism at universities , on praefaktisch.de - a philosophy blog, 2023 and on theorieblog.de, 2023

- André Brodocz / Steven Schäller: The Federal Constitutional Court and television in popular democracy. In: Robert van Ooyen/ Martin Möllers (eds.), Handbuch Bundesverfassungsgericht im politischen System. Wiesbaden 2024, pp. 1-23 (preliminary pagination, online first).

- André Brodocz / Hagen Schölzel / Jan Christoph Suntrup: Temporal Structures of the State of Emergency. In: Journal of Political Theory 14 (2023), pp. 171-183 (forthcoming).

- André Brodocz / Hagen Schölzel / Jan Christoph Suntrup: Are we on the way to an age of states of exception? Questions and answers. In: Journal of Political Theory 14 (2023), pp. 275-294 (forthcoming)