Conferences, Workshops, and Panel Discussions
Before It’s Too Late: Academic Perspectives on the Fascist Threat
3 July 2026, 13:00–17:00, Zughafen Erfurt, as part of the Erfurt Democracy Festival (Demokratiefest Erfurt).
Researchers from the University of Erfurt (including Prof. Sophia Hoffmann) and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena discussed the dangers posed by fascist actors, practices, and narratives to democracy in nine forums.
Format: Nine short discussion forums.
Democracy in War and Peace: “Nonviolence, the Peace Movement, and Civil Disobedience in Democracy. From Minneapolis to Erfurt?”
2 July 2026, 18:00–20:00, HS6, University of Erfurt.
Conversation with former Thuringian Minister of Justice Doreen Denstädt and Michael Riegner.
Format: Panel conversation.
Muamer Bećirović: “The Role of Individuals and Statecraft in Establishing and Safeguarding the Post-Napoleonic International System (1813–1848)”
2 July 2026, 12:00–14:00, University of Erfurt.
Lecture on how world orders emerge, remain stable, and collapse.
Format: Lecture.
The new international sexual order: how the far right mobilises sexuality
Lecture by Dr Alexander Stoffel (Queen Mary University of London), 10 June 2026, University of Erfurt.
A new international sexual order that treats women’s bodies and trans existence as a threat to the nation – from Trump’s politics to the rise of the AfD in Thuringia.
Format: Lecture and discussion in English and German, open to all.
What’s up with International Politics? Reflecting on current world disorder – a conversation with the StaWi
16 April 2026, 12:00–16:00, Forschungsbau, Room C19.00.02/03, University of Erfurt.
Conversation among PhD researchers and postdocs from the C2PO and EIPCC graduate programs on current upheavals in international politics.
Format: For PhDs and postdocs.
Workshop “Conceptualising Intelligence in the Global South”
17–18 July 2025, University of Erfurt. Organised by Dr. Noura Chalati, Titus van de Kerke and Cynthia Wang.
Interdisciplinary workshop expanding Western-centred intelligence studies to include perspectives from the Global South.
Format: Two-day workshop with discussion sessions.
Conference “Political Public Sphere: Structures and Strategies”
19–21 March 2025, University of Erfurt. Section conference of the DVPW Section on Political Theory and History of Ideas, organised by Thorsten Thiel, Katja Reuter and Sebastian Berg.
The focus was on the structures and concepts of political public sphere(s).
Format: Three-day conference, first part of a two-part conference with FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Conference “Political Judgment: A Resource for Democracy?”
27–29 March 2025, International Meeting Centre of the University of Erfurt.
Organised by Prof. Dr. Andreas Anter and Johannes Schmoldt.
Format: Three-day conference.
Writing Retreat of the C2PO Early Career Researchers
30–31 May 2024, Erfurt Old Town.
Two-day writing retreat for members of the C2PO and the University of Erfurt to support individual writing projects.
Format: Retreat, funded by the C2PO with support from the University of Erfurt.
“Decolonial Dialogues”
11 May 2023, University of Erfurt.
Organised by the Chair of International Politics and Conflict Studies together with other researchers from the University of Erfurt and Erfurt-based initiatives.
Format: Discussion event on (de)colonization, open to university members and the public.
Panel Discussion “Liberalism and Its Critique: On the Contemporary Relevance of John Stuart Mill’s Sociopolitical Thought”
27 June 2024, 18:15, University of Erfurt (Lecture Building 1, Lecture Hall 3).
Panel discussion marking the publication of a handbook on the life, work, and impact of John Stuart Mill.
Format: In cooperation with the Society for Utilitarian Studies, supported by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation.
Workshop: Ethnography & Epistemic Hierarchies
25–26 May 2023, University of Erfurt. Organised by Anna Goll, Hanna Schnieders and Amelie Harbisch.
Exchange and reflection on ethnographic knowledge production, with a focus on doctoral students and postdocs.
Format: Workshop with the BMBF project “Postcolonial Hierarchies” and the DVPW working group on ethnographic methods.
Joint Workshop by the C2PO and the EIPCC: “Postcolonial Hierarchies and Public Policymaking”
24 May 2023, University of Erfurt. Organised by Siddharth Tripathi, André Brodocz, Oliver Kessler and Achim Kemmerling.
Explored common ground between public policy, political science, IR and postcolonial/decolonial studies.
Format: Joint workshop for networking and exchange.
Weimar Conference on World Politics: New Directions in International Relations Theory in Germany
4–6 May 2023, Weimar. Organised by Dirk Nabers, Frank Stengel (CAU Kiel), Oliver Kessler and Madeleine Böhm.
Conference on new directions in international relations theory in Germany.
Format: Conference with a planned edited volume.
General Assembly of the C2PO
29 March 2023, 10:00, online via Webex.
Annual general assembly of the C2PO.
Format: For minutes and further information: Madeleine Böhm.
“Political Thought in the Anthropocene: Challenges and Current Positions”
5 July 2022, 18:00, online (Webex). Organised by Lorina Buhr.
Discussion with Petra Gümplová (University of Jena), Leander Scholz (Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research), Elmar Flatschart (University of Vienna) and Elisabeth Heyne (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin).
Format: Online panel.
“Technology in International Politics: Interdisciplinary aspects of a broad phenomenon”
Lecture series in the winter semester 2021/2022, online. Conveners: Madeleine Böhm, Janine Schmoldt.
Interdisciplinary lecture series on the impact of technology on international affairs, including (cyber) warfare, digital capitalism and platform economics.
Format: Online lecture series.
“Limits of Order: How the Corona Pandemic Challenges the State”
Lecture series in the summer semester 2021, online via Webex.
University-wide public series with Prof. Andrea Römmele, Prof. Wolfgang Streeck, Prof. Stefan Kolev, Prof. Stephan Rixen and Prof. Dirk Jörke.
Format: Five online lectures with discussion.