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SCRIPTS is an Excellence Cluster that examines the nature, causes, and potential consequences of contestations of the liberal script in a global, comparative, and historical perspective. Hosted at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social and funded by @dfg.de.

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SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 30/01/2026

📊 New from ZOiS: How Secure Do the Germans Feel? Many Germans feel secure despite war in Europe, but personal safety, family and finances rank far above defence issues. The war in Ukraine is widely seen as “close”. 📸: Unsplash/Omar Ramadan @zois.bsky.social @gwendolynsasse.bsky.social 🔗 ogy.de/jcto

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 28/01/2026

New interview with Alexander Libman on why propaganda is central to contemporary authoritarian rule. Focusing on Russia and China, he explains how narratives stabilise power and signal legitimacy. 👉 Full interview: ogy.de/2ckw #Propaganda #Authoritarianism #China #Russia

Alexander Libman on Why Propaganda Matters More Than Ever for Autocracies

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 22/01/2026

📣 #CallForApplications #CfA The SCRIPTS Academic Accelerator #Fellowship 2026 is open for 2nd & 3rd year #PhD #researchers from regions and communities underrepresented in academia. Join us for 12 months in #Berlin. ⏰ Deadline: 28 Feb 2026 💶 Funding: €1,800/month 👉 ogy.de/bz4q 🙌 Please share!

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 20/01/2026

Congratulations to Anette Eva Fasang 🎉 In December 2025, the Principal Investigator was elected to the Leopoldina, Germany’s National Academy of Sciences. A well-deserved recognition of her outstanding research on families, life courses, and social inequality.

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 28/11/2025

🔍 New SCRIPTS Working Paper by Karmen Tornius #PublicationFriday African women were key architects of today’s gender equality agenda. A major UN women’s conference in 1985 connected women’s lives to inequality, debt and rural livelihoods—bringing violence against women to the forefront. ogy.de/imdt

Drafting the Gender Equality Script: African Women Between “Liberal” and “Liberatory” Gender Discourses in the 1980s

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SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 14/11/2025

Discover the new SCRIPTS Working Paper by Tanja A. Börzel #PublicationFriday It outlines the renewed 7-year research agenda of SCRIPTS and examines why the liberal script remains contested and how it endures crises. 📄 ogy.de/6b3e 📸credits: Marija Zaric

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 28/10/2025

Vom Staat zur Marke Wie vermarkten sich Staaten wie Konzerne? Historikerin Jessica Gienow-Hecht & Filmemacherin Nicola Graef im Gespräch über Nation Branding – von Kriegspropaganda bis PR-Kampagnen. 📅 7.11.2025 | 🕢 19:30–21:00 📍 Urania, Kleist-Saal, Berlin 🎟️ Tickets: 8/5 € Mehr Info: ogy.de/zk8v

Discussion | Futuring the Liberal Script #10: From State to Brand

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SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 06/10/2025

SCRIPTS lädt ein zum 7. Pub Quiz 2025 in der Fahimi Bar! Gemeinsam mit Berlins 7 Exzellenzclustern erwarten euch zwei spannende Quizrunden, eine Live-Präsentation und tolle Preise! 📅 13.10. 📍 Fahimi Bar, Skalitzer Str. 133, 10999 Berlin ⏰ 19–21 Uhr Mehr Info: ogy.de/l20z

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SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 02/10/2025

🚨 Call for Applications! SCRIPTS Digital Autumn School 2025 supports students from disadvantaged regions in preparing graduate school applications. Benefit from personalized exposé feedback, application coaching, and insights into the German academic system, 🗓 Apply by Oct 6, 2025 → ogy.de/f1uj

Call for Applications: SCRIPTS Digital Autumn School for Graduate Applicants from Structurally Disadvantaged Regions

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 02/10/2025

🚨 Call for Applications! The SCRIPTS Digital Autumn School 2025 supports first-generation students on their path to graduate school. Participants receive coaching, feedback on their exposé, and an introduction to the German academic system. 🗓 Apply by Oct 6, 2025 → ogy.de/lqua

Call for Applications: SCRIPTS Digital Autumn School for First-Generation Graduate Applicants

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SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 19/09/2025

How do digital platforms and weakened parties fuel democratic backsliding? #PublicationFriday Bennett & Livingston show how digitally networked organizations mobilize extremists, reshape parties, and blur the line between online and offline politics. 📖 ogy.de/z1l9 📷 credits: Luke Heibert

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SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 05/09/2025

Ever thought Putin’s gender jokes are less about laughs and more about insecurity? An article by E. Donskih & S. Akopov argues they’re tied to Russia’s ontological insecurity—anxieties about identity, masculinity, and place in the world. #PublicationFriday 📖 ogy.de/p1lq 📷 credits: Pixabay, svklimkin

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 29/08/2025

📌 How is academic freedom understood worldwide? #PublicationFriday 📚 Kriszta Kovács & Janika Spannagel introduce a special issue offering a framework to map global variations, tensions between liberal and illiberal science scripts, and forms of contestation. 🔗Read here: ogy.de/l4e9

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SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 22/08/2025

📌Why is security policy in the Global South so often overlooked? #PublicationFriday📚 An article by @tberger.bsky.social & Markus-Michael Müller analyses a series of articles and shows how South–South security cooperation reshapes global security governance. 🔗 Read the full article: ogy.de/g1th

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 08/08/2025

🔍 New Article by @klatt.bsky.social & Sonja Blum #PublicationFriday 🚨 How scientific evidence is used in political narratives during COVID-19 Even in a pandemic with growing scientific certainty, political debates don’t necessarily use more evidence - they use it strategically. 🔗 ogy.de/sjlk

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SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 07/08/2025

⏰ Noch bis zum 11.08 bewerben! Wir suchen bei SCRIPTS Berlin eine*n Programmkoordinator*in, der*die unsere Forschungsagenda zum Klingen bringt. 🎼🌍 Dein Schwerpunkt: Veranstaltungsmanagement & Forschungskoordination im internationalen Umfeld. 💼 E13 TV-L FU 🔗 Mehr Infos zu Bewerbung:

Stellenausschreibung: Programmkoordinator*in (m/w/d) Vollzeitbeschäftigung befristet bis 31.12.2032

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 01/08/2025

🔍Explore a new Article by @kzippel.bsky.social #PublicationFriday 🧠 The recent attacks on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in U.S. universities are part of a wider anti-gender, anti-science, and anti-democratic agenda that seeks to dismantle equality infrastructures. 🔗 ogy.de/iho2

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 25/07/2025

📘 #PublicationFriday A team of SCRIPTS Researchers published a paper exploring how two politicized issues — migration and climate change — mobilize citizens across Europe. 🔍 What shapes cross-national differences in non-electoral participation, with a focus on petition signing? 🔗 buff.ly/OMxtiMC

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 21/07/2025

📢 SCRIPTS sucht eine*n Programmkoordinator*in (m/w/d) in Vollzeit (befristet bis 31.12.2032)! Schwerpunkt: Veranstaltungsmanagement & Forschungskoordination im internationalen Umfeld. 🗓️ Frist: 11.08.2025 💼 E13 TV-L FU 🔗 Mehr Infos: www.scripts-berlin.eu/about-us/job... #Jobs #Berlin #SCRIPTS

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Stellenausschreibung: Programmkoordinator*in (m/w/d) Vollzeitbeschäftigung befristet bis 31.12.2032

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 18/07/2025

What challenges do Russian émigré academics face when integrating into Western academia? #PublicationFriday Alexander Kalgin and Sergei Mashukov explore this question in their recent SCRIPTS Working Paper, examining the concept of "academic survival" within the social sciences. 🔗 Free Access:

Displaced Russian Academics. Networks, Markets, and Survival Strategies

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 11/07/2025

📚 #PublicationFriday | "Russia’s Right and the Putin regime" 📌 Can there be a political right inside a regime often labeled fascist? 🔍 In their new article Katharina Bluhm & Mihai Varga argue that differences in Russia’s political landscape are still discernible and important. buff.ly/37WvIJE

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SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 04/07/2025

✨ Wir blicken zurück auf eine inspirierende Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft! Danke fürs Miträtseln, Zuhören, Diskutieren & Mitgestalten – vom PubQuiz über den Vortrag zu PALS und Misogynie in Deutschland bis hin zur Wissenschaftsskulptur. Wir danken euch und freuen uns auf alles, was noch kommt! 🚀

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 04/07/2025

New book alert! 📚 #PublicationFriday "Vom Staat zur Marke" by Jessica Gienow-Hecht explores how countries brand themselves—like products—with slogans, campaigns & image-building. Nation branding isn’t new—it goes back to the 19th century! 🌍 📘 Read more here:

Vom Staat zur Marke. Die Geschichte des Nation Branding

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SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 03/07/2025

🧠 Wissenschaft unter politischem Druck – wie frei ist die Forschung? Podiumsdiskussion zur Haushaltskürzungen in der Wissenschaft mit Teilnahme der SCRIPTS Professor Stefan Gosepath. 📅 Wann: 8. Juli 2025, 16:00-17:30 📍 Wo: Freie Universität Berlin Weitere Informationen und Anmeldung: ogy.de/v1n9

Podiumsdiskussion „Wissenschaft unter politischem Druck – wie frei ist die Forschung?“

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SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 25/06/2025

💡Reminder! There's still time to sign up for Prof. Sikkink's lecture tomorrow. Don't miss the change to join us!

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SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 23/06/2025

Join us on June 26, at 10:00 AM at Freie Universität Berlin for a compelling public lecture by Prof. Kathryn Sikkink (Harvard Kennedy School), exploring the global decline in human rights prosecutions. 📅 June 26, 2025 | 10:00 AM 📍 FU Berlin, Rost- und Silberlaube, Room J27/14 📝 ogy.de/73dr

Public Lecture | Is the Justice Cascade Over? The Decline of Human Rights Prosecutions in the World

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 20/06/2025

It's #PublicationFriday! 📚 We would like to share with you the latest published SCRIPTS working paper: 📄"Actual Acceptance and the Justification of the State" by Teng Li. 🔍The central question is: What justifies the authority of the state? 🔗Read it now:

Justifying the State, Individual Uptake, and Territorial Annexation

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SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 13/06/2025

It's #PublicationFriday 📚 📖Read the new article “The Coastal Route of Chilean Neoliberalism” by Maximiliano Jara-Barrera! 💡It traces Pedro Ibáñez Ojeda’s role in shaping an alternative path to neoliberalism. Focused on local actors using transnational networks to drive change.

The Coastal Route of Chilean Neoliberalism: Pedro Ibáñez Ojeda, the Mont Pelerin Society and the 1981 Regional Meeting

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SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 11/06/2025

💬 Leistung – kein Maßstab für eine gerechte Gesellschaft 🎙 Prof. Dr. Stefan Gosepath (SCRIPTS) bei DLF Nova "Hörsaal": Ein philosophischer Blick auf soziale Gerechtigkeit, Chancengleichheit & Verdienst. 🔗Jetzt reinhören:

Kein Maßstab für eine gerechte Gesellschaft

Wer mehr leistet, der verdient auch mehr. So lässt sich das Prinzip einer Leistungsgesellschaft formulieren. Zu gerechter Gesellschaft führt das nicht.

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SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 30/05/2025

💡 A Postcolonial Trend in the Historiography of International Law? We're excited to highlight an article by our Postdoc @micheletedeschini.bsky.social‬! He argues that any account of the past is also an act of constructing authorial identity. 🔗

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 28/05/2025

🇺🇸 Wissenschaft unter Beschuss – Trump 2.0 & die Folgen: Kürzungen. DEI-Abschaffung. Entlassungen. Ein „Klima der Angst“ an US-Unis. Was passiert da – und wie soll Europa reagieren? 🎙️ Podiumsdiskussion 📅 04. Juni | 🕕 18:15 Uhr | 📍 FU Berlin 💬 Eintritt frei – Anmeldung: buff.ly/5lCTFaK

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 26/05/2025

📢Event invitation! Trump v. Harvard – Academic Freedom and Democracy Challenged With Daniel Ziblatt (Harvard) & Jessica Gienow-Hecht (SCRIPTS) Moderation: Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff (DGAP) Take part on 28 May at @dgap.org & online. 🎟 Infos and registration: ogy.de/7i8w #AcademicFreedom

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SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 22/05/2025

SCRIPTS is celebrating! 🎉 We have been awarded a second round of funding through the DFG’s Excellence Strategy! We're excited to continue exploring how democracies adapt under pressure—our new focus: democratic resilience. More to come as we prepare for SCRIPTS 2.0! #Democracy #ExcellenceStrategy

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 22/05/2025

🎬 Now online: Futuring #9 On the Rise and Decline of Democracy! 📺 Watch the full film now on our website: ogy.de/slw7 ✨Big thanks to everyone who joined us — to Philipp Lepenies and Natascha Freundel and to our partners @suhrkamp.de and ‪@urania-berlin.bsky.social! #SCRIPTS #Discussion

#9 - On the Rise and Decline of Democracy | 29.04.2025 | Philipp Lepenies & Natascha Freundel (moderation)

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 15/05/2025

🔍 Neu erschienen: Unsere Studie „Mapping the Germanosphere“ 📣 „Die ‚Germanosphere‘ ist kein loser Raum, sondern ein vernetztes digitales Ökosystem, in dem sich frauenfeindliche Narrative systematisch verstärken.“ 📍 Projektpartner: @isdglobal.org 📄 Jetzt lesen: ogy.de/w9p6

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 09/05/2025

❗Reminder to apply for your IRC Fellowships. Application deadline is 15 May!

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SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 07/05/2025

A new event series is starting soon! 🚀 A cooperation with @dgap.org The first discussion: „Remaking America: The Benefits of Trump’s Tariffs Are Worth the Costs, Argues Mark DiPlacido“. ⏰ May 15, 6:30 to 8:00 p.m 🏘️ At DGAP, Rauchstraße 17, 10787 Berlin and via Zoom Register here! ogy.de/hh17

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 25/04/2025

🏙The present-day attempt to frame Catalonia as feminist. What lies behind it? Johannes Heß and Tobias Klee explore the tension between the historically masculine character of Catalan national symbols and contemporary efforts to recast Catalonia as feminist. #PublicationFriday 🔗📑

Putting the Masculinity into Liberalism. Gender Essentialism and Catalan Self-Perception as a Progressive Liberal Democracy

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SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 24/04/2025

🔔 Don’t miss our event next Tuesday! Prof. Philipp Lepenies talks about his new book Sovereign Decisions with journalist Natascha Freundel. 📅 29 April, 19:30 📍 Urania Berlin 🎟️ uraniaberlin.reservix.de/p/reservix/e...

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SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 23/04/2025

📢 Call for Papers: Author's Conference You are interested in research about regional organisations? Then take the opportunity and send us your text proposal on regional organisations and their role in contesting or being contested by the liberal script. 🔗 more information: ogy.de/e5c7

Call for Papers | Author's Conference: Contestations of the Liberal Script in Regional Organizations in the Global South and the Global North

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 23/04/2025

🚀 Wir freuen uns Teil der BUA Kampagne "Das offene Wissenslabor" zu sein! Ihr könnt SCRIPTS und unsere Forschung ab heute in 3D erleben - neugierig geworden? Probiert es aus: www.wissenslabor3d.de

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SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 23/04/2025

🚨Call for Applications: IRC Fellowships Curious about a fellowships at the International Research College (IRC) of SCRIPTS? We invite you to send us your applications for a 2-month fellowships at the IRC! 📅 Deadline 15th May 2025 📍 Berlin 📚2,500€ per month to cover your costs 🔗

Call for Applications | SCRIPTS IRC Fellowships

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 11/04/2025

📣 #PublicationFriday: Check out the SCRIPTS Working Paper No. 48! The authors examine three case studies exploring, why self-proclaimed liberal actors do struggle to market themselves effectively. 💡 Liberal image campaigns often face legitimacy gaps and audience-related challenges. 📚

Welcome to the Liberal State! Place Branding as a Historical Practice

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SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 10/04/2025

🚀 New at SCRIPTS: We're part of the Impact Hub project, exploring how German peacebuilding can be more effective and sustainable. A collab with @ifshhamburg.bsky.social, Center for Peace Mediation @viadrina.bsky.social, funded by @diplo.de and Robert Bosch Stiftung. 🔗 More info: ogy.de/pbdp

Impact Hub | Integrierte Wirkfähigkeit von Friedensengagement

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 07/04/2025

📣 Are you a BA or MA student interested in gender politics, democracy, and the rise of right-wing movements in Europe? Join the unique, hands-on research course "Backlash Against Gender", organised by SCRIPTS doctoral researchers. +Info:

Backlash Against Gender: Comparative Perspectives on Europe’s Anti-Gender Politics

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 04/04/2025

Check out the latest SCRIPTS Working Paper by Yasemin Soysal, Jessica Kim, Elizabeth A. Henry & Jerrid Carter. #PublicationFriday 🌍 Using cross-national data, the authors find that right-wing populism is linked to greater scepticism and left-wing populism to lower scepticism. 🔗

Populism’s Many Faces. Understanding Its Role in Climate Scepticism Cross-Nationally

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 28/03/2025

Tanja Börzel and Janika Spannagel explore whether academic freedom has spread globally through diffusion or national modernization.This research highlights the crucial role of scholars, universities, and civil society in defending and advancing academic freedom #PublicationFriday 📑

The globalization of academic freedom | Global Constitutionalism | Cambridge Core

The globalization of academic freedom - Volume 14 Issue 1

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MATH+ Berlin Cluster of Excellence @mathplusberlin.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

📚 Exzellentes Pubquiz #2 – am 7.4. in der Fahimi Bar! Gastgebendes Cluster: Temporal Communities. Fragen aus Literatur, Zeit & Forschung – offen für alle, ohne Anmeldung. 19–21 Uhr | Skalitzer Str. 133, Berlin shorturl.at/FpPn3

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 27/03/2025

Upcoming event! SCRIPTS Professor Philipp Lepenies joins journalist Natascha Freundel to discuss the evolution of democracy, the challenges it faces - the key arguments from his latest book, Sovereign Decisions. 🗓️ April 29th 📍 Kleistsaal Urania ⏰ 7:30 PM Get your ticket! buff.ly/d84mjd2

SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 14/03/2025

#PublicationFriday Yara Sa’di-Ibraheem argues that research on urban regeneration should pay greater attention to time as a tool for analyzing contemporary neoliberal urban regeneration processes. Additionally, she highlights the importance of examining non-Eurocentric temporalities. 🔗📑 ogy.de/vl5x

Out of Home, Out of Time. Temporalities of Displacement and Urban Regeneration

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