Workshop: Which energy storage for the flexibility needs of a multi-energy system? Mon 27 May 2019 09.00 - 19.00 Storing energy is becoming key to create a more flexible and reliable energy system. Cost-effective and efficient storage is the next obstacle that ne... Read more Which energy storage for the flexibility needs of a multi-energy system?
Thesis defence: The Risorgimento and the Southern Question. A Financial History Mon 27 May 2019 09.00 - 11.30 This thesis aims to bring back financial history into two of the main topics in Italian historiography, namely the Risorgimento and the Southern Quest... Read more The Risorgimento and the Southern Question. A Financial History
Working group: Joint-event by the EUFML WG and the Competition Law Working Group Mon 27 May 2019 09.00 - 14.00 "Is the EU Resolution framework working through state aid and nothing else?" Paper and presentation by: Maria Ana Barata (3rd-year PhD Researcher) at... Read more Joint-event by the EUFML WG and the Competition Law Working Group
Workshop: Environmental Humanities Workshops Mon 27 May 2019 09.45 - 18.03 Tue 28 May 2019 11.00 - 16.00 Researchers from the History and Civilization and Law departments are organizing two days of reflection on environmental issues from multidisciplinary... Register » Read more Environmental Humanities Workshops
Workshop: Running Experiments Mon 27 May 2019 10.30 - 17.00 Tue 28 May 2019 09.30 - 18.30 Thu 30 May 2019 14.00 - 17.00 Schedule: May 27th: 10:30 - 12:30 and 14:00 - 17:00 Developing an experimental design May 28th: 9:30 - 12:30 and 13:30 - 18:30 Running experi... Read more Running Experiments
Workshop: Spatial Data Analysis Mon 27 May 2019 11.00 - 17.00 Tue 28 May 2019 11.00 - 17.00 Wed 29 May 2019 11.00 - 13.00 This workshop introduces spatial data analysis and its applications in quantitative social science research and is intended for PhD researchers and po... Read more Spatial Data Analysis
Seminar: Andreas Wimmer (Columbia University) gives a talk on “Domains of Diffusion. How culture and institutions travel around the world and with what consequences” Mon 27 May 2019 11.00 - 13.00 Abstract: How do cultural and organizational templates (such as the ideal of gender equality or neoliberal policies) spread around the globe and what ... Register » Read more Andreas Wimmer (Columbia University) gives a talk on “Domains of Diffusion. How culture and institutions travel around the world and with what consequences”
Workshop: What is social democracy and what is it good for? Mon 27 May 2019 13.00 - 18.00 In 1983, Ralf Dahrendorf declared the “end of the social-democratic century”. Social democracy, he argued, was a victim of its own success. Having tra... Read more What is social democracy and what is it good for?
Workshop: The Return of Industrial Policy? Mon 27 May 2019 13.00 - 17.45 Tue 28 May 2019 09.00 - 13.15 Not that long ago, the term industrial policy brought to mind old-fashioned ideas about planned economies or overbearing governments picking losers an... Register » Read more The Return of Industrial Policy?
Seminar series: Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar: Is love written in the stars? Beliefs in astrology and marriage outcomes Mon 27 May 2019 15.00 - 16.15 Some beliefs, although distorted, false, or implausible, hold a grip on people, who may act according to them. We study the impact of astrological pre... Read more Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar: Is love written in the stars? Beliefs in astrology and marriage outcomes
Lecture: CJC Book Launch: The European Union and Deprivation of Liberty Tue 28 May 2019 11.00 - 13.00 'The European Union and Deprivation of Liberty' examines the EU legislative and judicial approach to deprivation of liberty from the perspective of th... Register » Read more CJC Book Launch: The European Union and Deprivation of Liberty
Seminar: "Fixing the Moves? Maps, State and Mobility in Social Sciences" - Masterclass: Introduction to vector mapping Tue 28 May 2019 11.00 - 13.00 As part of the Max Weber multidisciplinary workshop "Fixing the moves? Maps, State and Mobility in Social Sciences", to be held on Friday, May 31, 201... Register » Read more "Fixing the Moves? Maps, State and Mobility in Social Sciences" - Masterclass: Introduction to vector mapping
Working group: When Birth Spacing Does and Does Not Matter for Child Survival: An International Comparison using the DHS Tue 28 May 2019 12.00 - 14.00 Paper presentation within the Inequality Working Group A large body of research has found an association between short birth intervals and the risk... Read more When Birth Spacing Does and Does Not Matter for Child Survival: An International Comparison using the DHS
Seminar series: Microeconomics Seminar: Speculative Bubbles, Heterogeneous Beliefs, and Learning Tue 28 May 2019 13.30 - 14.45 This paper develops a general theory of speculative bubbles and speculative trade in dynamic asset markets with short sales restrictions when agents h... Read more Microeconomics Seminar: Speculative Bubbles, Heterogeneous Beliefs, and Learning
Workshop: Institutional Complexity in Global Governance Tue 28 May 2019 14.00 - 17.00 Global governance structures are increasingly described as highly complex, fragmented, and polycentric. In many issue areas, the creation, design, evo... Register » Read more Institutional Complexity in Global Governance
Working group: Governing Religion and Addressing Violent Radicalisation: Empirical and Theoretical Insights Tue 28 May 2019 14.00 - 17.00 Read more Governing Religion and Addressing Violent Radicalisation: Empirical and Theoretical Insights
Discussion Group: Setting the stage: implications of Artificial Intelligence in peace operations - A Conversation with Velomahanina Razakamaharavo, Policy Leader Fellow at the School of Transnational Governance Tue 28 May 2019 14.30 - 16.00 Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been exponentially developing. The statistics show that AI is generating enormous revenues and China accounted for 38... Register » Read more Setting the stage: implications of Artificial Intelligence in peace operations - A Conversation with Velomahanina Razakamaharavo, Policy Leader Fellow at the School of Transnational Governance
Workshop: Institutional Complexity in Global Governance Wed 29 May 2019 08.30 - 18.15 Thu 30 May 2019 08.30 - 12.45 An increasingly dense web of institutionalized cooperation is one of the hallmarks of contemporary global governance. Whether international agreements... Read more Institutional Complexity in Global Governance
Thesis defence: Foreign debt, crisis management, systemic transformation. Poland 1989-1994 Wed 29 May 2019 10.00 - 12.30 This thesis examines the role of foreign debt in the origin, progress and completion of an economic reform in Poland lasting from 1989 until 1994. The... Read more Foreign debt, crisis management, systemic transformation. Poland 1989-1994
Roundtable: The most contested European elections ever? A read-out of the 2019 vote for the European Parliament Wed 29 May 2019 12.00 - 13.45 European Parliament (EP) elections in May 2019 come at a critical time in the evolution of the EU. They were supposed to be the first elections after... Register » Read more The most contested European elections ever? A read-out of the 2019 vote for the European Parliament
Workshop: Event History Analysis Wed 29 May 2019 14.00 - 18.00 Event history analysis (also known as survival analysis, hazard regression, duration analysis, etc.) is used to analyze the rate of events such as dea... Read more Event History Analysis
Lecture: Rumour and Manliness between Mughal India and Habsburg Iberia Wed 29 May 2019 14.30 - 16.00 In the framework of the HEC colloquia This lecture seeks to present my most recent book, Unwanted Neighbours: The Mughals, the Portuguese, and thei... Register » Read more Rumour and Manliness between Mughal India and Habsburg Iberia
Lecture: Finding Gold for Soviet Industrialization: The State Currency Stores "Torgsin" and Export of Religious Art under Stalin Wed 29 May 2019 16.30 - 18.30 Scholars of Stalinism traditionally focus only on one financial source of Soviet industrialization – the collectivization of peasant households – and ... Register » Read more Finding Gold for Soviet Industrialization: The State Currency Stores "Torgsin" and Export of Religious Art under Stalin
Roundtable: Democracy and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: The SDG16 on peace, justice and accountable institutions | MEDirections Roundtable Thu 30 May 2019 11.00 - 13.00 Although the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by the UN in 2015, made reference to democracy only once, its implementation is based on... Register » Read more Democracy and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: The SDG16 on peace, justice and accountable institutions | MEDirections Roundtable