The Department of Political Science invites you to this semester’s lecture series. All talks take place on Tuesdays from 14:00 to 15:30 pm in the IBW building, room 3.40.

No prior registration is necessary. Come for sharp, timely research and stay for the discussion.

Series Schedule

11.11.2025 | The Impact of Gender Attitudes on Voting Behavior | Alexia Katsanidou (GESIS & University of Cologne)

18.11.2025 | How Environmental Policies Fuel Rural Discontent: The Case of the Nitrogen Crisis in the Netherlands | Diane Bolet (University of Essex)

25.11.2025 | Mothers‘ Views of an Unconditional Cash Transfer Experiment in the United States | Sarah Halpern-Meekin (University of Wisconsin–Madison & Visiting Scholar University of Cologne)

13.01.2026 | The Gendered Division of Labor and Responsibility in Parliaments: Using Word Embeddings to Examine Gender Bias in Political Speech | Helena Heberer (University of Cologne)

20.01.2026 | Threatened Identities and Political Polarization in Multiparty Systems | Hanna Bäck (Lund University)

27.01.2026 | Coping with Europe: The Impact of EU Membership on National Party Systems | Nils Ringe (University of Wisconsin–Madison & Visiting Scholar University of Cologne)

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