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Berenike Firestone

@blfirestone.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral research fellow at WZB Berlin Social Science Center; researching how history shapes our politics and how change can nevertheless happen. sites.google.com/view/berenikefires…

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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Please share!: Last week to apply for @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026 really good news is that there's been an amazing response to the call for papers already; now very excited for this meeting ⬇️ We put together a quick FAQ on Qs that have come up on submitting: epssnet.org/conferences/...
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EPSS 2026 submissions FAQ - EPSS
Submissions are coming in fast for Belfast 2026 and so are your questions about submissions. Here are answers to the most common questions: Where do I go to submit? For panel submission: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/events/75765/symposia/create For paper submission: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79266/submissions/new? How many papers can I submit? We put a constraint of max one presentation per person. This does …
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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 05/09/2025
Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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Berenike Firestone @blfirestone.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
This is an excellent essay.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I was honored to have the opportunity to address the Amherst College community with an address titled "Questioning Code: Courage in the Age of Artificial Intelligence." albert.ias.edu/server/api/c...
Questioning Code:
Courage in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Alondra Nelson
Amherst College Commencement
Amherst, MA
May 24, 2025
As Prepared for Delivery
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Vanessa Boese-Schlosser @boesevanessa.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Need a measure of #democraticstock for your analyses? @acrowinghen.bsky.social Matthew Wilson & I just published the demstock R package & @vdeminstitute.bsky.social working paper It lets you create stock measures of most of the variables included in the V-Dem dataset 😃 🥳 Try it out!🙃
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Berenike Firestone @blfirestone.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Great summary of our study with @arolsenarchives.bsky.social and its message: “For ordinary citizens, the takeaway is clear: Don’t just read about history—help preserve it. Your contribution creates ripples […] potentially helping to build stronger, more inclusive societies.” shorturl.at/Urozd
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The Memory Project That's Reshaping How We Combat Hate
While history books and classroom lessons about historical atrocities are common, a new study reveals that actively participating in remembrance projects might be far more effective at motivating peop...
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Laia Balcells @laiabalcells.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Please, submit nominations to the 2025 CES Carolina de Miguel Award: councilforeuropeanstudies.org/membership/g....
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Carolina de Miguel Moyer Young Scholar Award – Council for European Studies
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Berenike Firestone @blfirestone.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Interview im Deutschlandfunk zu unser neuen Studie zur Wirkung partizipativer Erinnerungsprojekte (publiziert mit Ruth Ditlmann und @oguzhanturkoglu.bsky.social): www.deutschlandfunk.de/aktives-erin...
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Aktives Erinnern - Soziologin Berenike Firestone über partizipative Formate
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Berenike Firestone @blfirestone.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Berlin folks: Join us tonight for the launch of our new paper and a discussion of its implications for political education and memory projects. English interpretation will be available. www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...
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Digitale Erinnerung an die NS-Verfolgung: Erkenntnisse aus dem Crowd-Sourcing-Projekt #everynam
<p>Wie kann die Erinnerung an die NS-Verfolgung wach gehalten werden? Wie können gerade junge Menschen dazu motiviert werden, sich durch ein Befassen mit der Geschichte für eine offene Gesellschaft ei...
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WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
/1 Some news from our unit. A new and exciting paper from @blfirestone.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... ...with an accompanying and innovative public event
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Participating in a Digital-History Project Mobilizes People for Symbolic Justice and Better Intergroup Relations Today - Ruth Ditlmann, Berenike Firestone, Oguzhan Turkoglu, 2025
Awareness of past atrocities is widely seen as critical for restoring justice and building resilient democracies. Going beyond information provision, an increas...
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Berenike Firestone @blfirestone.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The @wzb.bsky.social in Berlin is hosting an interdisciplinary conference on the future of democracy this October. The deadline for paper submissions is a week from now (April 30, 12pm EST). More info here: www.wzb.eu/en/events/1s...
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1st Annual Interdisciplinary WZB Conference
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Phillip Ayoub @payoub.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
🚨 New article in Comparative Political Studies (@cpsjournal.bsky.social)! After many years of rewarding work, Sam, Vera, and I can finally share findings from Mosul, Iraq on how shared suffering under ISIS shaped support for LGBT+ rights. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010... 1/4
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Berenike Firestone @blfirestone.bsky.social · 15/05/2024
Fascinating read. (And makes me even happier about the recent launch of Theory and Social Inquiry as non-profit and open access...)
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Berenike Firestone @blfirestone.bsky.social · 20/04/2024
Pleased to see that our PNAS paper on commemoration and far-right support is part of it and excited to check out more of the other papers! (It also includes a very handy downloadable version of the bibliography in bibtex format by the way.)
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Nick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 06/04/2024
w00t! @mayrl.bsky.social As before (with my monograph), thanks a million to the inimitable @eischwartz.bsky.social! #history #methods Check it out! tinyurl.com/3ewhapt4
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Berenike Firestone @blfirestone.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
EGAP policy brief about our PNAS paper on local memorials and far-right voting: egap.org/resource/how...
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How commemorating victims of past atrocities can reduce support for revisionist political actors – EGAP
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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
Please share: MoPED call for papers 🛵 We host a workshop on the political economy of development in Berlin each summer Great group, good papers, no presentations, intense and constructive discussions: details here wzb.eu/de/node/81172 apply by 11 March
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MoPED Workshop
Berlin Meeting on the Political Economy of Development (MoPED) -- The MoPED workshop offers an opportunity for scholars who focus on the political economy of development, broadly defined, to build...
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