Lecture on "Stadt-Öffentlichkeit" at the conference of the DVPW Theory Section (03. 2025)

20 March 2025 | University of Erfurt

On 20 March, Dr. Verena Frick will give a lecture on "Stadt-Öffentlichkeit. Democratic potentiality and current threats to urban public space". This year's section conference is dedicated to the overarching theme of “Political Public Spheres: Structures” and will take place at the University of Erfurt. Click here for the program.

New publications on conservatism and co(h)ionization (03.2025)

On 26 February 2025, a collective review by Tobias Adler-Bartels was published in the Politische Vierteljahresschrift. The review entitled “Ideologische Konflikte und historische Konstellationen - Forschungsperspektiven auf den Konservatismus” deals with current research perspectives from various publications on conservatism and thus highlights various ideological conflicts and relevant historical constellations. In March 2025, Merkur published an essay by Tobias Adler-Bartels entitled “Nach der Ko(h)lonisation” on German unity and the associated asymmetries between the old and new federal states.

Lecture on radical and moderate conservatism in the early Federal Republic (02.2025)

27. February 2025 | Hamburg Institute for Social Research

On February 27, Tobias Adler-Bartels gave a lecture entitled "The Contested Boundaries of German Conservatism. Radical and Moderate Conservatives in the Early Federal Republic" on the topic of radical and moderate conservatism in the early Federal Republic. The lecture took place as part of the workshop “Politics of Demarcation and the Radical-Right in Post-War Europe: Defining what is Right” at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. The workshop aimed to examine the demarcation strategies within the radical right as a political movement, in particular the interplay of self-positioning and external attribution, in order to understand how, when and why these demarcations emerged, changed or disappeared, what functions they fulfilled and how they reacted to symbolic “cordons saintaires”.