Can the liberal script still be saved?
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| Free admission, online event |
| German, German Sign Language |
| Online event |
| Part of: WeSearch |
The ‘liberal script’ – the organisation of society on the basis of individual self-determination – is under pressure: Chinese state capitalism, Putin’s illiberal democracy, Islamistic terrorism and the rising populism in Europe and the USA appear to be successful counter-models.
Researchers at the cluster of excellence SCRIPTS – Contestations of the Liberal Script are seeking to understand why liberal democracies have fallen into crisis, despite their political, economic and social achievements. They will be presenting their research approaches for discussion at the second event in the WeSearch series. What are the implications of these investigations for political, societal and individual life in the 21st century? What perspectives and concepts are necessary for understanding the regional and global manifestations of the crisis?
Moderation
Volker Wieprecht
Contributors
is Professor of Political Science and Chair of European Integration at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her research and teaching focus on questions of institutional change, research into European integration and diffusion, as well as comparative regionalism and governance.
Together with Michael Zürn, she directs the cluster of excellence SCRIPTS – Contestations of the Liberal Script.
is a doctoral researcher working in the cluster project Towards a Typology of Contestations. She studied political philosophy, and is researching the interface between democratic theory and social psychology. Her doctoral thesis has a particular focus on identity and emotions in politics and society.
is Scientific Director at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), and Einstein Professor of Comparative Study of Democracy and Authoritarianism at the Institute of Social Sciences at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research includes post-communist transformation processes, and the dynamics of war, migration and protest movements. Her work currently includes projects on the war and border regimes in Ukraine, and social mobilisation in Belarus.
is a political scientist and works as a postdoctoral researcher in the cluster Project Social Inequalities, Migration and the Rise of Populist Parties. He works on the development of quantitative methodologies and as well as on comparative research on political and election behavior research.
is a retired Professor of Islamic Studies, as well as a historian and political scientist. Until 2019, she was Director of the Institute of Islamic Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies. She researches and publishes on the topic of Islamic Modernism, with a focus on religion, law, politics & society, Islamic and Islamist movements, secularity and the history of the Middle East and North Africa post-1800.
is Professor of Historical Educational Research at the Institute of Educational Sciences at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His teaching and research focus on the transnational spread of modern school education, the connections between mass education and the history of technology in Europe, Latin America and South Asia, and the tensions between education, power relations and politics in the modern era.
is full of questions and will be the moderator of the series. Along with Robert Skuppin, Wieprecht moderated Die schöne Sendung and Der schöne Morgen, among others, on Radio 1 from 1997 to 2011 and since 2019, he can be seen on the RBB Abendschau.
