HarDIS Workshop: Innovations in European Politics, Political Sciences, and Communication Studies

Zeitraum: 09:30
Organizer: GESIS
Location: GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8, 50667 Köln, Konferenzraum Ost
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In this full-day conference, a distinguished list of speakers will present their novel insights into European politics and the needs and challenges of European social science research. We welcome social scientists from a variety of fields who share a common interest in understanding contemporary challenges to European societies and European Research Infrastructures. This full-day conference is the public part of a workshop designed to implement better research infrastructures for the study of political parties. It is part of the third-party funded research project HarDIS, financially supported by the European Union and the OSCARS project. 

Speaker

  • Giuseppe Ciccolini, European Commission
  • Marta Kołczyńska, Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Louise Luxton, University of Strathclyde
  • Holger Döring, ZALF
  • Melina Liethmann, University of Gothenburg
  • Ioannis Vergioglou (University of St. Gallen)
  • Amina Azaiez, Panthéon-Sorbonne
  • Fabio Votta, University of Amsterdam

Program

09:30 Welcoming

09:45 Challenges to European Democracy

  • Giuseppe Ciccolini, European Commission, Joint Research Centre: The Electoral Consequences of Socio-Economic Inequalities
  • Marta Kołczyńska, Polish Academy of Sciences: Does political trust strengthen democracy? A cross-national longitudinal analysis
  • Louise Luxton, University of Strathclyde: Beyond euroscepticism: Gender supply and demand in the Reform UK vote

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Understanding the Behavior of Political Elites

  • Amina Azaiez, University of Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne: A Hypergraph Analysis of the European Commission Lobby Network
  • Fabio Votta, University of Amsterdam: Understanding Contemporary Data-Driven Political Campaigns

12:30 Lunch break with finger food provided

13:30 Infrastructures for the Social Sciences

  • Holger Döring, Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung: Open Science, Open Infrastructures, Open Source: What is feasible in the social sciences?
  • Melina Liethmann, University of Gothenburg: Data Interoperability in Social Science Research Infrastructures
  • Ioannis Vergioglou, University of St. Gallen: The European NUTS-level election dataset: A tool to map European electoral geography

14:45 Closure and coffee

Registration

Please write an email to Lea.kaftan(at)gesis(dot)org to register for the workshop.