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Politics and Society in an Age of Geoeconomic Uncertainty

MPIfG Symposium
  • Start: Nov 26, 2026
  • End: Nov 27, 2026
  • Location: Cologne
  • Host: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
  • Topic: Discussion and debate formats, lectures
  • Contact: info@mpifg.de
In an era of overlapping crises marked by trade wars, energy price shocks, and military conflicts, global economic interdependencies are increasingly becoming a source of vulnerability and an arena of strategic intervention. The theme of this year’s newly launched MPIfG Symposium considers geoeconomic tensions and how they are reshaping societies. [more]
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The Great Green Game: How Europe Lost Cleantech Primacy to China

MPIfG Lecture
  • Date: Nov 30, 2026
  • Time: 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Cornel Ban
  • Copenhagen Business School
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
  • Location: Cologne
For a decade, Europe was supposed to be the lab and the workshop of the green future. Then China overtook it at speed and at scale. In his talk, Cornel Ban explains how that reversal happened — and why prevailing explanations get China wrong. [more]
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Contested Pathways to Climate Transition: Interests, Institutions and Imaginaries

Workshop
  • Date: Dec 7, 2026
  • Location: Cologne
  • Host: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
A Cooperation Workshop of the Research Group “Contested Ecologies” at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and the Research Group “REIMAGINE” at the University of Antwerp. [more]
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Governing Growth: The Postwar Transformations of Capitalism and Democracy

MPIfG Lecture
  • Date: Dec 16, 2026
  • Time: 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Peter A. Hall
  • Harvard University
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
  • Location: Cologne
In his talk, Peter A. Hall will discuss the arguments in his new book, Governing Growth. He asks: How do capitalist economies change over time? [more]
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Gesellschaftliche Drift: Dynamisierter Wandel, institutionelle Schwäche und kritische Weichenstellung

MPIfG Lecture
  • Date: Jan 27, 2027
  • Time: 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Steffen Mau
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Politik- und Sozialwissenschaft
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
  • Location: Cologne
Der Vortrag unternimmt den konzeptuellen Versuch, die gegenwärtigen Wandlungsdynamiken in westlichen Gesellschaften mit dem Begriff der Drift diagnostisch zu erfassen. [more]
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