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SUMMARY:Junior Scholar Event: writing session
DESCRIPTION:More Details TBD soon. This event may be subject to modifications in schedule and content.
URL:https://brias.be/event/junior-scholar-event-writing-session-7/
LOCATION:BrIAS\, Boulevard Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, Brussels\, 1050\, Belgium
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SUMMARY:Thursday seminar: BIFD Jørgen Møller + Régis Dandoy
DESCRIPTION:The City Revisited: Urban Self-Government and European State Formation\nby Jørgen Møller \nThis lecture returns to a big\, classic question: the role of towns and cities in European state formation. In his posthumously published essay Die Stadt (The City)\, Max Weber placed the European city at the centre of European state formation. In recent years\, scholars have pursued several specific aspects of this relationship. However\, there has been no broad attempt to understand origins\, nor to analyse the consequences of urban self-government for state-building\, regime change\, and economic development and\, hence\, no attempt to appraise the wider importance of urban self-government for European state formation. Now is an auspicious time to embark on such a broad and ambitious research project. We have much better historical data than what was available to Weber; we have new methodological ways of interrogating these data; and we can draw insights from the broad\, specialized literature on urban self-government referenced above. This lecture\, which is based on a co-authored book (with Jonathan Doucette) currently under contract with OUP\, asks what\, on this basis\, we can say today about the origins\, development\, and consequences of self-governing cities in Europe? \nBio\nJørgen Møller has a PhD from the European University Institute\, Italy (2007) and is currently professor at the Department of Political Science\, Aarhus University\, Denmark and member of the Danish Royal Academy of Sciences. His research interests include processes of state formation\, dynamics of democratization and democratic stability\, and comparative methodology\, all in the intersection between history and politics.\nHis work has been published in journals such as American Journal of Political Science\, Journal of Politics\, Perspectives on Politics\, International Organization\, International Studies Quarterly\, Journal of Democracy\, and Sociological Methods & Research and in several books with Oxford University Press\, Cambridge University Press and Routledge. \nInsights from missions of election observation\nby Régis Dandoy \nInternational election observation has become a well-established norm since the early 1990s. Yet the practice now faces two converging challenges. The first is technological. Methodologies designed for paper-based voting are increasingly out of step with biometric registration\, electronic and Internet voting\, and automated results systems that are often opaque\, leaving observers unable to directly inspect an election’s core mechanics. Generative AI compounds this\, flooding campaigns with synthetic media that spreads faster than it can be verified. The second is the deliberate exploitation of observation’s credibility by authoritarian regimes\, which increasingly comply with the norm not to improve integrity but to capture the legitimacy genuine observation confers. This seminar examines “fake” or politically biased observation\, i.e. missions that mimic credible monitoring while lacking independence and rigor\, issuing favorable assessments despite documented irregularities to neutralize credible findings. Drawing on field experience and documented cases\, this seminar offers a comparative perspective on both fronts: where observation methodologies have adapted to technological disruption and where structural constraints such as fake observation strategies limit that adaptation. It closes by outlining what a technology-literate methodology and effective verification mechanisms would require to meet both challenges. \nBio\nRégis Dandoy is professor of comparative politics and director for the Centre for European Studies at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador). He is also associate researcher at Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)\, Waseda University (Japan) and the United Nations University. He holds a Jean Monnet chair on the European Union election observation missions and he participated to around twenty international election observation missions as an electoral expert\, primarily in Latin America. His main research interests and publications focus on digital democracy\, subnational elections\, electronic voting and election observation.
URL:https://brias.be/event/thursday-seminar-bifd-jorgen-moller-regis-dandoy/
LOCATION:BrIAS\, Boulevard Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, Brussels\, 1050\, Belgium
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270412T093000
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SUMMARY:Junior Scholar Event: writing session
DESCRIPTION:More Details TBD soon. This event may be subject to modifications in schedule and content.
URL:https://brias.be/event/junior-scholar-event-writing-session-8/
LOCATION:BrIAS\, Boulevard Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, Brussels\, 1050\, Belgium
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270415T090000
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Democratic Leadership
DESCRIPTION:Democratic Leadership\nMore Details TBD soon. This event may be subject to modifications in schedule and content.
URL:https://brias.be/event/workshop-democratic-leadership-thursday-seminar-bifd-michael-saward/
LOCATION:BrIAS\, Boulevard Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, Brussels\, 1050\, Belgium
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SUMMARY:Junior Scholar Event: writing session
DESCRIPTION:More Details TBD soon. This event may be subject to modifications in schedule and content.
URL:https://brias.be/event/junior-scholar-event-writing-session-9/
LOCATION:BrIAS\, Boulevard Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, Brussels\, 1050\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:Programme Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270421T150000
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SUMMARY:BIFD and Francqui Inaugural Lecture Michael Saward
DESCRIPTION:The Representative is Present : Power\, Politics and Democracy in The Square \n by Michael Saward \nAcross a range of countries\, a resurgent far right is targeting many values and markers of contemporary democracy (or at least\, liberal democracy). Some opponents of democratic erosion or backsliding argue that democracy must become something it has not yet been to do the work of equality\, freedom and empowerment that is demanded of it; it must be deepened\, extended\, transformed. Central to this thinking is the need to bring power closer to the people\, to increase trust and legitimacy in democratic ideas and institutions. We need\, so it is argued\, more proximity\, co-creation\, deliberation and connection between representatives and the represented\, perhaps even in ways that destabilize that very distinction. To explore this conjecture in stark terms\, the lecture takes us to The Square – a place of face-to-face encounter (or co-presence) where representation meets participation\, government meets citizen\, and roles and identities are contested and negotiated. In The Square\, the representative is present\, and relations of power are performed amid more fluid and dynamic sense of time\, space\, and material. Can exploring The Square – across a range of real-world and hypothetical examples – sharpen our thinking and open doors to new modes of democratic transformation? \nBio\nMichael Saward is Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick. A democratic theorist\, he is author of The Representative Claim (Oxford UP 2010)\, Making Representations (ECPR Press and Rowman and Littlefield 2020) and Democratic Design (Oxford UP 2021). In recent years he has been a visiting scholar at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México\, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)\, and Australian National University. International collaborations have in 2024 produced two new volumes: Claiming and Contesting Representation in Mexico: Meanings\, Practices and Settings (edited by F. Castanos\, S. Inclan and M. Saward) (Bristol: Bristol University Press 2024); and Bodies\, Spaces\, Claims: The Theory and Practice of Performing Political Representation (edited by P. Diehl and M. Saward) (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2024). Along with Shirin Rai (SOAS) and Warwick Theatre and Performance colleagues Silvija
URL:https://brias.be/event/bifd-and-francqui-inaugural-lecture-michael-saward/
LOCATION:BrIAS\, Boulevard Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, Brussels\, 1050\, Belgium
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270422T120000
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SUMMARY:Thursday seminar: BIFD Tània Verge + BIFD Ekaterina Rashkova
DESCRIPTION:Challenging Patriarchy while Countering the Far Right: The Case for Feminist Policies for Men\nby Tània Verge \nGender equality policies have historically focused on women\, for good reason: gender structures inequalities and power relations that systematically advantage men. When addressing men\, gender equality policies have tended to approach them primarily as agents of change\, exhorting them to become allies or equality ambassadors\, embrace care\, reject violence\, and\, more generally\, adopt more egalitarian masculinities. Yet such approaches have clear limitations. Attitudes are unlikely to change simply because policy targets attitudes directly\, particularly in an increasingly reactionary political context. \nThis lecture makes the case for feminist policies for men\, without embracing narratives of male victimhood. By feminist policies for men\, I mean policies that address the gendered conditions shaping men’s lives\, ranging from educational underachievement and the marked underrepresentation in care professions to specific health risks or the invisibility of male victims of sexual violence. Acknowledging men’s structural privilege does not preclude recognising situated disadvantages affecting men and boys\, nor addressing them through concrete policy measures\, including positive action. \nRather than seeking to transform masculinities primarily through interventions aimed at changing attitudes\, feminist policies for men should intervene in the material and institutional conditions through which attitudes\, behaviours and gender relations are (re)produced\, thereby bearing more potential for structural transformation. In doing so\, feminist policy can challenge patriarchy while also contesting anti-feminist and far-right actors turn men’s (gendered) problems into grievances against women\, feminism and LGBTIQ+ people. \nBio\nTània Verge is a Full Professor of Politics and Gender at the Department of Political and Social Sciences\, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF\, Barcelona)\, where she led the Equality Unit between 2014 and 2021 and coordinated the Minor in Gender Studies. Between May 2021 and August 2024\, she served as Minister of Equality and Feminisms of the Government of Catalonia\, and between May 2024 and February 2026 she was an MP in the Parliament of Catalonia. \nHer main area of research is gender and politics\, with a focus on how political parties and parliaments are shaped by gender dynamics and on resistance to the adoption and implementation of equalities policies. Her consultancy and governmental practice have also given her new insights into the possibilities and limitations of feminist institutional redesign. \nExclusive Democracy? The Role of Political Parties in Mobilizing the Migrant Vote\nby Ekaterina Rashkova \nLiving in an era of mass movement of people – over 300 million people reside elsewhere than their country of birth – it is pertinent to re-address the issues of political participation and representation. Political parties\, which originated as the main linking pins between people and government\, have largely operated within national grounds. Often\, we refer to that link as the one between citizens and governmnet. Yet\, in a world of global migration we can no longer think in terms of citizens since with immigrants and emigrants\, the electorate has changed beyond nationality and national boundaries. Recent work (e.g. Rashkova and van der Staak 2019) shows that many national parties now engage with their diaspora abroad and claim that migrants’ relationship with the receiving state affects their political participation at home (e.g. Chaudary 2018\, Finn 2020). At the same time\, the evidence on why some parties engage with diaspora while others do not is mixed (e.g. Piccio 2020\, Kernalegen and Van Haute 2020). The intention of this talk is to present a snapshot of a research agenda that aims to 1) draw attention to a budding issue of a changing model of representation\, 2) provide a brief account of how theoretically political parties respond to migration\, and 3) set the scene for a larger scholarly debate on the changing nature of representation due to the changing role and needs of civil society around the globe. \nBio\nEkaterina R. Rashkova is a comparative political scientist with expertise on party competition\, gender and migrant politics\, and representation. Her research interests lie in understanding the behaviour of political actors and the strategies they employ\, given the institutional framework and the societal pressure they operate in. Currently\, she is working on the representation of migrants and the party abroad. The political integration of non-citizen residents in host countries\, as well as the connection of national political parties to their diaspora abroad. Her work often compares new and established democracies and has appeared among others in Comparative European Politics\, West European Politics\, European Political Science Review\, International Political Science Review\, Party Politics\, and Political Studies as well as in several edited book volumes.
URL:https://brias.be/event/thursday-seminar-bifd-ekaterina-rashkova-bifd-tania-verge/
LOCATION:BrIAS\, Boulevard Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, Brussels\, 1050\, Belgium
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