Democracies Under Pressure: Contestations
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| free admission |
| Please book your ticket in advance online or at the box office in the foyer. |
| Duration: 60 min |
| 14 years and older |
| Humboldt Lab, 1st floor |
| max. 30 persons |
| Part of: SCRIPTS Short Talks |
| Belongs to: After Nature |
Democracies around the world are currently under pressure – from within and without. The challenges to political and social orders are numerous and rapidly evolving: What are the key challenges and how are they entangled? Are we witnessing a particular historical moment or has democracy always had to be defended against external and internal enemies? What contribution can science make to determining the potential risk? And to what extent is academic freedom itself up for grabs today?
In a conversation with journalist Christoph David Piorkowski, political scientist Tanja A. Börzel answers questions on the situation and challenges of liberal democracies today.
Participants
Christoph D. Piorkowski is a journalist and author. He writes on society, political current affairs, philosophy and the humanities. His political feature articles appear in the Tagesspiegel, as well as in Deutschlandfunk, taz, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Philosophie-Magazin, Das Parlament, Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, and at the Einstein and Max Weber Foundations, among others. In 2021 and 2022 he was nominated for the Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Science Journalism. 2022 Visiting Journalist at the Cluster of Excellence Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS). He is also a lecturer in political philosophy with a focus on migration ethics.
Tanja A. Börzel 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 Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS).
An event in cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)
