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Join our IFS Upcycling Workshop! We will use old sports equipment and materials from the IFS, but you are also welcome to bring your own old sports equipment and materials. Registration is mandatory, and the number of participants is limited to 10 people
Zwei Laptops stehen versetzt auf einem Tisch. Am rechten Laptop sind zwei Hände an der Tastatur. Gegenüber davon schreibt eine Person auf einen Block.
Laptops gesucht: Stiftung sammelt für bedürftige Studierende
Für einige Studierende der Uni Mannheim ist der Zugang zu essenziellen technischen Mitteln, wie einem eigenen Laptop, ein unerreichbarer Luxus. Obwohl die Möglichkeit besteht, Geräte auszuleihen, werfen Rückgabefristen und Wartezeiten weitere Hürden im ohnehin herausfordernden Studienalltag auf – ...
Portrait von Thomas Puhl. Er trägt ein weißes Hemd, eine rot-blaue Krawatte und einen schwarzen Blazer und steht lächelnd vor einer weißen Wand.
Professor Dr. Thomas Puhl auf Platz 2 bei der Wahl zum „Rektor des Jahres“
Bereits zum vierten Mal ist Puhl bei der Umfrage unter den Mitgliedern des Deutschen Hochschulverbands (DHV) ganz vorn mit dabei.
Zeit für eine neue Podcastfolge! Heute mit unseren Gästen Fabian und Felix zum Thema nachhaltiger Sport! 😍
Oke Bahnsen has defended his dissertation
After the successful defense of his thesis earlier this month Oke celebrated with our chair.
New thesis topic: Using Generative AI for Emotion Identification
Explore this exciting new thesis opportunity, where you can harness the potential of AI!
Rep2plus fast startet im FSS 2024 am 08.03.2024
Das Rep2plus fast startet ab dem 08.03.2024!
Amelie Freiberg presenting at ISA 2024 in San Francisco
Amelie Freiberg will participate at the International Studies Association Annual Convention 2024 April 3rd – 6th 2024 in San Francisco, USA.  She will present her research “How Rebel Groups Socialize: Introducing the Socialisation & Political Education in Rebel Groups (SOPERG) Data Project”. ...
Contribution to the Workshop “Wissenschaft meets Außenpolitik” in Berlin
Sabine Carey will participate at the Workshop “Wissenschaft meets Außenpolitik” Deutsche Außenpolitik aus der Sicht der Internationalen Beziehungen on 21/22 March 2024. She will contribute to a panel on civil war and fragile states. The workshop is jointly organized by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für ...
Guest lecture at the University of Bergen
Sabine Carey will give a guest lecture at the Challenges in Advanced Democracies (CHAD) Research Group at the Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, on 6th March 2024. She will present her work on perceptions of the police in Northern Ireland, co-authored with Marcela Ibanez ...
Exam date

The exam of the BA lecture “Ausgewählte Themen der Vergleichenden Regierungslehre: Authoritarian Politics” held by Professor Traunmüller will take place on Wednesday, 11. June 2025.

The retake of the exam is planned to be on Saturday, 23 August 2025.

26/01/2022 Conditional Accept at PSRM!

Our paper “Computing quantities of interest and their uncertainty using Bayesian simulation” has just been conditionally accepted at Political Science Research & Methods (with Andi Murr and Jeff Gill).

14/12/2021 Invited Talk at WZB

Tomorrow, I will give a talk on “Free Speech and Self-Censorship at the University: Testing the ‘Campus Cancel Culture’ Hypothesis” in the MaD Colloquium at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB).

24/11/2021 Pre-registered Study In-Principle-Accepted!

Our pre-registered study for the GLES Open Science Challenge “Subjective Freedom of Speech: Why Do Citizens Think They Cannot Speak Freely?” (with Jan Menzner) has been in-principle-accepted for publication in Politische Vierteljahresschrift.

06/07/2020 Our Survey Items on Covid-19 are included in ESS Round 10!

Our (Marc Helbling, Rahsaan Maxwell and myself) survey items on Covid-19 were chosen to be included in the next round of the European Social Survey, due to be fielded across Europe from September 2020. The survey items on government authority and legitimacy in the age of a pandemic will focus on attitudes... 

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17/08/2020 Conditional Accept at KZfSS!

Our paper “Is Free Speech in Danger on University Campus? Evidence from a Most Likely Case” (with Matthias Revers) has just been conditionally accepted for publication in the Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie!

17/08/2020 Accept at PA!

What a day: Our paper “Eliciting Beliefs as Distributions in Online Surveys” (with Lucas Leemann and Lukas Stoetzer) has just been accepted for publication in Political Analysis!