Veranstaltungen - Rückblick

Normal Science, Sometimes True Theories, or Contemporary History?

Symposium
  • Date: Mar 6, 2025
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
To mark the occasion of the 90th birthday of Fritz W. Scharpf, one of the founding directors of the MPIfG, this symposium will explore questions around the epistemology of the social sciences. [more]

Peripheral Growth Models and the Global Economy: A Second Image IPE Perspective

Max Planck Online Workshop in Comparative Political Economy
The Max Planck Online Workshop in Comparative Political Economy (MAX CPE) is an online seminar series in Comparative Political Economy, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and coordinated by Lucio Baccaro, Sinisa Hadziabdic, Pálma Polyák, and Dustin Voss. [more]

The Geoeconomic Turn in International Political Economy

Conference
  • Start: Jan 30, 2025
  • End: Jan 31, 2025
Global economic relations are undergoing their most significant transformation in decades. Sharpened global rivalries, economic sanctions, interventionist industrial policies, and protectionist trade and investment policies are on the rise. Closely interacting with these trends are the green and digital transitions shaking up global value chain geographies. [more]

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

MPIfG Lecture
  • Date: Jan 29, 2025
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Kathleen R. McNamara
  • Georgetown University, Washington
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
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? [more]

The Fragmentary State

Conference
  • Start: Dec 12, 2024
  • End: Dec 13, 2024
In light of debates about the “return of the state,” the conference explores the idea that fragmentation has transformed and on the whole weakened public capacities for coherent and consequential responses to the social, economic, ecological, and political problems of our time. [more]

The Postneoliberal State

MPIfG Lecture
  • Date: Dec 11, 2024
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Daniela Gabor
  • SOAS University of London
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
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? [more]

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

MPIfG Lecture
  • Date: Dec 4, 2024
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jan-Otmar Hesse
  • Lehrstuhl für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Universität Bayreuth
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
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. [more]

The Social Logic of Fossil Fuels

MPIfG Lecture
  • Date: Nov 27, 2024
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Peter Wagner
  • Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), University of Barcelona
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
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. [more]

Freiheit der Wissenschaft in polarisierten Zeiten

17. Institutstag des MPIfG
  • Start: Nov 21, 2024
  • End: Nov 22, 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. [more]

Class Conflict and Institutional Change: Otto Kahn-Freund (1900–1979) and the Invention of Labor Law

Conference
  • Start: Nov 13, 2024
  • End: Nov 15, 2024
Employing the lens of the life and work of Otto Kahn-Freund, we investigate the invention of labor law as a distinct field of legal doctrine and scholarship. Invention and reinvention are understood here to be ongoing political and scholarly processes, involving the defense of existing institutions and the development of new ones. We consider developments across the twentieth century. [more]

Temporalities of Climate Change

Conference
  • Start: Oct 30, 2024
  • End: Oct 31, 2024
An interdisciplinary conference on the diverse temporal dimensions of climate change and their implications for action [more]

Law and Political Economy: American and European Perspectives

Workshop
  • Date: Oct 28, 2024
This workshop seeks to explore how a systematic study of law and courts might broaden our understanding of political economy. We will discuss the promises and limits of law - how law can be grounds for progressive change ensuring protection for labor and consumers, but also how it often falls short in challenging and transforming entrenched systems of power and inequality in the absence of direct action. [more]

Hoarding Opportunities: Entrepreneurship and Inequality

Conference
  • Start: Sep 25, 2024
  • End: Sep 27, 2024
The conference will explore the dynamics of entrepreneurship within the broader context of social inequality, centering on the pivotal concept of “opportunity hoarding” as proposed by Charles Tilly. We will examine how access to entrepreneurial opportunities is often monopolized by specific groups or networks. [more]

Verteilungskonflikte in der Klimapolitik: Am Beispiel der Wärmewende

  • Date: Sep 9, 2024
  • Time: 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Leon Wansleben
  • MPIfG, Leiter Forschungsgruppe "Umstrittene Ökologien in kapitalistischen Demokratien"
Klimaschutz genießt oberflächlich hohe Akzeptanz in der Gesellschaft. Doch die Einsicht in die Notwendigkeit von Klimaschutzmaßnahmen schwindet, sobald es um Verteilungs-, Macht- und Wertfragen geht. [more]

Rethinking Predation under Financialization through the History of Subprime Mortgages: A Case of Raiding Finance

Max Planck Online Workshop in Comparative Political Economy
The Max Planck Online Workshop in Comparative Political Economy (MAX CPE) is an online seminar series in Comparative Political Economy, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and coordinated by Lucio Baccaro, Björn Bremer, Sinisa Hadziabdic, Pálma Polyák, Saila Stausholm, and Dustin Voss. [more]

IMPRS-SPCE Summer Conference

Nineteenth Summer Conference on Economy and Society
  • Start: Jun 23, 2024
  • End: Jun 26, 2024

Trust Methods: Accounting for Who, What, When, and How to Trust

MPIfG Lecture
  • Date: Jun 19, 2024
  • Time: 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Gil Eyal
  • Columbia University, New York
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
In his talk, Gil Eyal argues against conventional approaches to studying trust in the social sciences and proposes an alternate strategy focused on “trust methods.” [more]

Technology, Migrants, or Offshoring: How the Structure of Risk Perceptions Explains Policy Preferences

Max Planck Online Workshop in Comparative Political Economy
The Max Planck Online Workshop in Comparative Political Economy (MAX CPE) is an online seminar series in Comparative Political Economy, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and coordinated by Lucio Baccaro, Björn Bremer, Sinisa Hadziabdic, Pálma Polyák, Saila Stausholm, and Dustin Voss. [more]

From Finance to Climate: Risk Mitigation in the US

Scholar in Residence Lecture III
  • Date: Jun 18, 2024
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Bașak Kuș
In her lecture series as this year’s MPIfG Scholar in Residence, Bașak Kuș from Wesleyan University will share insights into how governments conceptualize and mitigate risk, and the significant role that economists and economistic reasoning play in shaping these processes – essential analysis for understanding the foundations of the crises that mark our times, from finance to climate, ultimately extending to the crisis of democracy. [more]

Building State Power through Border Control and Immigration Enforcement

MPIfG Lecture
  • Date: Jun 11, 2024
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Kimberly Morgan
  • George Washington University
  • Sign up: info@mpifg.de
In her talk, Kimberly Morgen will discuss the extensive buildup of border policing and immigration enforcement in the United States since the start of the 2000s as an example of state expansion. [more]
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