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Freiheit der Wissenschaft in polarisierten Zeiten

17. Institutstag des MPIfG
  • Beginn: 21.11.2024
  • Ende: 22.11.2024
Die Wissenschaftsfreiheit ist essenziell für eine funktionierende Demokratie und in Deutschland im Grundgesetz verankert. Allerdings ist sie auch ein soziales Konzept, das vor dem Hintergrund gesellschaftlichen Wandels fortlaufend neu politisch und juristisch ausgehandelt wird. Die Idee der Wissenschaftsfreiheit ist daher stets umkämpft – insbesondere in Zeiten gesellschaftlicher Polarisierung. [mehr]

The Social Logic of Fossil Fuels

MPIfG Lecture
  • Datum: 27.11.2024
  • Uhrzeit: 16:00 - 17:30
  • Vortragender: Peter Wagner
  • Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), University of Barcelona
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The main cause of the climate crisis is the burning of fossil fuels. This talk will turn the question around and aim at identifying the social problems that were meant to be solved by burning fossil fuels, looking in particular at critical junctures in human history. [mehr]

From Export Orientation to Export Obsession: Germany’s Political Economy in the Twentieth Century

MPIfG Lecture
  • Datum: 04.12.2024
  • Uhrzeit: 16:00 - 17:30
  • Vortragender: Jan-Otmar Hesse
  • Lehrstuhl für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Universität Bayreuth
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The talk will give an overview of Germany’s transformation to a “world export champion” (Exportweltmeister), a concept that first appeared in 1986. The talk will mark the most important turning points and highlight in particular the institutions and instruments that have been created over more than a century by an elite network of politicians and businesspeople in promotion of the German export drive. [mehr]

The Postneoliberal State

MPIfG Lecture
  • Datum: 11.12.2024
  • Uhrzeit: 16:00 - 17:30
  • Vortragende: Daniela Gabor
  • UWE Bristol
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We live in a postneoliberal age, or so we often hear. The state again has transformative ambitions, guided by national security, SDG development, or clean industrialization priorities. Yet it faces one critical question: how to pay for transformation? [mehr]

The Securitization of Market Competition? EU Economic Statecraft in the Age of Geopolitics

MPIfG Lecture
  • Datum: 29.01.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 16:00 - 17:30
  • Vortragende: Kathleen R. McNamara
  • Georgetown University, Washington
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The European Union’s approach to market competition is undergoing significant changes. Originally enshrined in the treaties that built the Single European Market, the EU’s model emphasized neoliberal competition policies. Competition, now being “securitized” in the EU, is reshaped by geopolitical concerns rather than purely economic ones. As the EU was initially established as a peace project, how will the intertwining of market and security logics shape the EU going forward? [mehr]
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