Public Events

Matthias Thiemann is Professor of European Public Policy at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Sciences Po, Paris, and the MPIfG Scholar in Residence 2025. During his stay at the Institute, he presents a lecture series entitled "Technocrats, State Agency, and the Rise and Continued Expansion of the Shadow Banking System." The three lectures will take place on April 29, May 6, and May 13, 2025. [more]

Matthias Thiemann is Professor of European Public Policy at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Sciences Po, Paris, and the MPIfG Scholar in Residence 2025. During his stay at the Institute, he presents a lecture series entitled "Technocrats, State Agency, and the Rise and Continued Expansion of the Shadow Banking System." The three lectures will take place on April 29, May 6, and May 13, 2025. [more]

Beliefs about the future shape attitudes, experiences, and priorities in the present. This lecture explores the relationship between democracy and the expected world to come. [more]

Matthias Thiemann is Professor of European Public Policy at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Sciences Po, Paris, and the MPIfG Scholar in Residence 2025. During his stay at the Institute, he presents a lecture series entitled "Technocrats, State Agency, and the Rise and Continued Expansion of the Shadow Banking System." The three lectures will take place on April 29, May 6, and May 13, 2025. [more]

In her lecture, Valeria Pulignano introduces a theory of the politics of unpaid labor, advancing our understanding of inequality within the context of precarious work. She establishes a crucial link between unpaid labor’s political dimensions and its role in fueling emerging forms of precarious work that are characterized by persistent inequalities in a context of labor market reforms, societal shifts, and technological changes. [more]

The European constitutional navigation of the noughties succeeded in stipulating that European integration had ushered in European society (Article 2 TEU). This choice remains underexplored. In light of current European uncertainty, the lecture explores the meaning and promise of European society. [more]