Activities and news

International Fellowship

03.2022 -04.2022
European University Institute Florence / Robert Schumann Centre for Advanced Study
Visiting Fellow
03.2020
New York University
DAAD Visiting Fellow at Deutsches Haus

Conferences

03-04. 2023
Helsinki
The Puzzle: the gap between what has been termed "EU elites" and EU citizens
29 March - 1 April 2023
11.2022
Fulda
The War against Ukraine and EU Studies
3 and 4 November 2022
08.2022
Innsbruck, Austria
Parliaments, Politicisation and Democracy in Europe and the EU
Section at the ECPR General Conference 2022, 26-28 August,
Section Chair: Claudia Wiesner (University of Applied Sciences, Fulda)
Section Co-Chair: Taru Haapala (Autonomous University Madrid)
05.2022
Geisa
The Reorganisation of Europe
Conference on the Opening of the Point Alpha Research Institute, 3 May 2022
10.2021
Online
Challenges to Comparative Politics
International Conference of the DVPW Section "Comparative Politics", organised together with Norma Osterberg-Kaufmann and Stefan Wurster, online, 4 October 2021
05.2021
Online
Conference "Let's Talk Europe
International conference (online) at the University of Applied Sciences Fulda
12.2020
Fulda
Conference "Theorising the EU's Crisis"
International Conference (Hybrid) at Fulda University of Applied Sciences
08.2020
ECPR Virtual Conference
Concepts, Practices, Actions: Theories, Methodologies and Techniques of analysing Politics beyond the Nation State
Section at the ECPR General Conference 2020, 26-28 August, Innsbruck, Austria
Section Chair: Claudia Wiesner ((Hochschule Fulda)
Section Co-Chair: Kristin Anabel Eggeling (University of Copenhagen)
02.2020
Fulda
Dear Fall Thüringen
Public discussion event, Fulda University of Applied Sciences
09.2019
Warsaw
Hybrid Concepts and the Concept of Hybridity
Section, ECPR General Conference, Wroclaw, together with Christoph Mohammad- Klotzbach

Panels

08.2022
Innsbruck
Democratisation within and beyond the EU
Panel at the ECPR General Conference 2022, 24 August 2022
08.2022
Innsbruck
Citizens, politicisation and democracy in the EU
Panel at the ECPR General Conference 2022, 23 August 2022
10.2021
Online
Doing qualitative research
Panel at the international conference: Challenges to Comparative Politics, DVPW Section "Comparative Politics", online, 4 October 2021, together with Kristin Annabel Eggeling
10.2021
Online
Texts, documents and discourses
Panel at the international conference: Challenges to Comparative Politics, DVPW Section "Comparative Politics", online, 4 October 2021, together with Kristin Annabel Eggeling
10.2021
Online
Visuals, practices, ethnography
Panel at the international conference: Challenges to Comparative Politics, DVPW Section "Comparative Politics", online, 4 October 2021, together with Kristin Annabel Eggeling
08.2020
ECPR Virtual Conference
Micropolitics, Practices, Language and Action: Methodologies and Approaches
Panel at the Virtual ECPR General Conference, together with Kristin-Annabel Eggeling
08.2020
ECPR Virtual Conference
A Practice Turn in the European Public Sphere: Actors, Narratives and Political Processes
Panel at the Virtual ECPR General Conference, with Elena Garcia Guitan
08.2020
ECPR Virtual Conference
Theorizing International Politics: Building Generalization, Abstractions and Theories from Empirical Data
Panel at the Virtual ECPR General Conference, together with Kristin-Annabel Eggeling
09.2019
Warsaw
Rethinking the concept of politicization
Panel, ECPR General Conference
09.2019
Warsaw
The political philosophy of the EU's Crisis
Panel, ECPR General Conference
09.2019
Warsaw
Rhetoric of Hybrid Concepts
Panel, ECPR General Conference

Lectures

11.2022

The War and the conflict between democracies and autocracies
Presentation at the international workshop "The War against Ukraine and EU Studies", Fulda, 3 and 4 November 2022

09.2022

The EU as a democratic (multi-level) system
Lecture at the conference Integration through Politics, Integration through Law?, AK Politik und Recht der DVPW, Europa KollegHamburg, 16 September 2022

09.2022

Doing and undoing democracy
Presentation at the EISA Pan-European Conference, Athens, 2 September 2022

08.2022

Towards the critical informed EU citizen?
Presentation at ECPR General Conference 2022, Innsbruck, 23 August 2022

07.2022

The sustainability of democratic governance in the light of European crises
Lecture at the Annual Conference of the German Political Science Association, Tutzing, 8 July 2022

06.2022

EP elections 2019: Politics, Politicisation and Polarisation
Lecture at the conference of the Standing Group on European Integration, Rome, 9 June 2022

04.2022

From crisis mode to thick legitimation: Democratising Europe's fiscal architecture
Lecture at the Robert Schumann centre for Advanced Studies, EUI, Florence, 11 April 2022

10.2021

online

Doing qualitative research: Reflecting principles and principled challenges
Presentation at the international conference: Challenges to Comparative Politics, DVPW Section "Comparative Politics", 4 October 2021

10.2021

online

Actors, concepts, controversies: Towards a micropolitical approach in EU studies
Presentation at the international conference: Challenges to Comparative Politics, DVPW Section "Comparative Politics", 4 October 2021

09.2021

Interinstitutional micropolitics
Paper, EISA Pan European Conference on International Relations, 13 - 17 September 2021, Section "International Practices".

09.2021

Patterns of European Crisis Governance and democracy: from financial crisis to COVID
Paper at DVPW Congress 2021, Panel "Democratic Health in the Corona Pandemic II. Crisis Responses and Adaptation Measures in a Democracy-Autocracy Comparison".

08.2021

Citizens and Europe
Paper at the virtual ECPR General Conference, 30 August - 3 September 2021, Panel "Representing the Citizens in the European Union"

06.2021
online

Distribution in Times of Corona: Women, Men, the Pandemic and the Federal Government's Economic Stimulus Package
Paper presented at the virtual conference "Social Science Perspectives on the Corona Pandemic", University of Mainz, 18 June 2021

06.2021
online

Shaping the EU from Within: Interinstitutional Micro-Politics
Paper at the virtual conference of the ECPR Standing Group "European Union", 10-12 June 2021, Panel " The Dynamics of Inter-Institutional Relations".

03.2021

Les relations franco-allemandes et la recherche sur l'Union Européenne
Paper presented at the conference "Reflections on the (non) circulation of EU and integration research between Germany and France", funded by CIERA, Strasbourg 4 and 5 March 2021

02.2021
online

The Brexit from a political science perspective
Lecture at the virtual discussion event "Brexit- wie weiter" of the Protestant Academy Frankfurt, 25 February 2021

02.2021

The ECB between financial crisis and populisms
Robert Schumann Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, 24 February 2021

01.2021

Values and Identity in the European Union
Discussion event of the Young European Federalists (Online), 27 January 2021

12.2020

What crisis? The multiple facets of crisis/es in the current EU
International Conference "Theorising the Crisis", Fulda (Online), 3 December 2020

11.2020

The new European Union
Contribution to the discussion event of the Europakolleg Hamburg, 26 November 2020

11.2020

Legitimacy as an "essentially contested concept"
Lecture at TU Dresden, 16 November 2020

11.2020

The ECB between financial crisis and populisms
Bicocca University, Milano, Italy, 11 November 2020

11.2020

The European Union and democracy
Lecture at Bard College Berlin, 10 November 2020

10.2020

Democracy and (il)liberalism in the European Union
Lecture at New York University, 28 October 2020

10.2020

The ECB between financial crisis and populisms
Book presentation and discussion
London School of Economics, 31 March 2020

08.2020

Actors, concepts, controversies: Towards a micropolitical approach in EU studies
Virtual ECPR General Conference

09.2019

Conflicts, meanings, and practices of institutions, norms and normativity: Studying conceptual controversies in building the EU as a polity
EISA General Conference, Sofia, 13 September 2019

09.2019

Representative Democracy in Times of Austerity: New Challenges in the EU Multilevel System
EISA General Conference, Sofia, 13 September 2019

09.2019

Rethinking the Concept of Politicisation
ECPR General Conference, Warsaw, 4 September 2019

Lecture Series: Politics and Policies in the EU 2021-2022

02.
December 2021
Lecture and Discussion: "Research Counting for nothing: How competition, quantification and key performance indicators affect #ichbinhanna and the quality of research"
Dr. Amrei Bahr
09 December 2021
Workshop and Discussion: "How gender responsive were Finland's Covid-19 Recovery Policies?
Dr. Anna Elomäki, Prof. Dr. Johanna Kantola
Large-Scale and Green? The German Covid-19 Stimulus Package in International Comparison
Prof. Stefan Wurster
The German Covid-Rescue package and gender equality

Prof. Dr. Claudia Wiesner
16 December 2021
Lecture and Discussion: Voices from the Past: Economic and Political Vulnerabilities in the Making of Next Generation EU
Prof. Dr. Klaus Armingeon
20 January 2022
Lecture and Discussion: Public Design - democratizing decision-making for a common future
Caroline Paulick-Thiel
27 January 2022
Lecture and Discussion: Investigating and regulating Big Tech: the European Commission's enforcement of the competition rules against Google
Nicholas Khan
10 February 2022
Discussion Round: Central Banking, Capitalism and Global Crises
Prof. Dr. Joscha Wullweber, Prof. Dr. Claudia Wiesner

 

Lecture Series: Europe in the World: Conflicts, Politics, Values 2022-2023

29 November 2022
Democracy and the Freedom of Speech
René Pfister
05 December 2022
Lecture and Discussion: Global Challenges: The Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Muge Kinacioglu
20 December 2022
Lecture and Discussion: Populism: A Threat or Challenge to Democracy?
Emilia Palonen
16 January 2023
Lecture and Discussion: Hope in the Anthropocene
David Chandler
24 January 2023
Lecture and Discussion: EU as a Global Player
Sven Simon
31 January 2023
Europe in the World and its position in the war against Ukraine
Reinhart Bütikofer
07 February 2023
Democracy, the Global Order and the war against Ukraine
Claudia Wiesner

 

Excursions

November 2022
Point Alpha Excursion
May - June 2022
Visit of the EU-institutions in Brussels

 

Simulation Games

July 2022
Model United Nations (MUN)
Fulda
January 2022
Global Model European Union (GlobalMEU)
Online

 

European house parliaments

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M.A. Courses
Winter-
semester
2022/2023
Debating Democracy in / and Europe
Teaching research Seminar, Master "Intercultural Communication and European Studies", Fulda University of Applied Science
November
2022
Europe On The Next Level: Do We Need Deeper Cultural And Political Integration?
Fulda
May
2022
Does Europe's Democracy Need a Major Update?
Fulda
Winter-
semester
2021/2022
Debating Democracy in / and Europe Part 2
Teaching research Seminar, Master "Intercultural Communication and European Studies", Fulda University of Applied Science
June
2021
Should the EU represent European interests more decisively in future pandemic crises?
Online
Summer-
semester 2020
Theorising the EU's crisis
Seminar, Master "Intercultural Communication and European Studies", Fulda University of Applied Science
Winter semester
2019/2020
Bridging the Gap between the EU and its Citizens
Teaching research Seminar, Master "Intercultural Communication and European Studies", Fulda University of Applied Science

 

Courses for doctoral students
Winter-
semester
2022/2023
Researching Europe
Jean Monnet Network International PhD Course "Debating Europe".
Summer-
semester
2020/2021
Researching Europe
International PhD course of the Jean Monnet Network "Debating Europe", open call, 16. international participants
Winter semester
2020/2021
Europa beforschen / Researching Europe
Seminar for doctoral students at the Social Sciences Doctoral Centre, Fulda University of Applied Sciences
Winter-
semester
2019/2020
Ph.D. Core Course
Seminar for doctoral candidates at the Social Sciences Doctoral Centre, Fulda University of Applied Sciences

 

Prof. Dr. Claudia Wiesner

Political Science with a focus on European Integration