WZB Talks

What are the cutting edge questions researchers at the WZB are working on? Which new insights has WZB research to offer and where is more work needed?

The series "WZB Talks" provides the WZB community as well as interested external guests with the opportunity to get to know the WZB research agenda better: Researchers present their current work, followed by a discussion with the audience.

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Some of the talks are recorded, the audio files are made available on this website, please see the link under the respective program entry.

WZB Talks take place on Tuesdays 1 p.m. in room A 310.

Upcoming WZB Talks:

9 December 2025 

Farmer-herder conflicts in Nigeria: the role of climate change and religious cleavages

WZB Talk by Ruud Koopmans (in collaboration with Daniel Meierrieks and Daniel Tuki)

16 December 2025

Party Brands in Europe

WZB Talk by Swen Hutter

06 January 2026

Dreaming Rich: How inequality sustains itself through motivated beliefs (Working Title)

WZB Talk by Julia Baumann

10 February 2026

The gender-specific wage returns to ICT skills: Do women and men profit equally from skill acquisition over their careers? (Working Title)

WZB Talk by Martin Ehlert

03 March 2026

Mind the Gap: AI Usage in Europe and the US (Working Title)

WZB Talk by Jonas Jessen and Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln

07 April 2026

Never Again! Reflections on constitutional responses to WWII and the Holocaust in Germany, Israel and the United States (Working Title)

WZB Talk by Mattias Kumm

05 May 2026

Intergroup contact, empathy education and refugee-host integration in Lebanon (Working Title)

WZB Talk by Alex Scacco

09 June 2026

Wealth, inequality and social cohesion (Working Title)

WZB Talk by Nhat An Thrin

08 September 2026

Manifesto Project (Working Title)

WZB Talk by Pola Lehmann

10 November 2026

Capturing and comparing transboundary crises - A text-as-data measurement model (Working Title)

WZB Talk by Christian Rauh

 

Past WZB-Talks 

25 February 2025

Schelling sorting or moving to opportunity? Evidence from school choice in Berlin

WZB Talk by Macartan Humphreys

1 April 2025

Gloomy prospects? Perceptions of inequality and their political implications

WZB Talk by Marius Busemeyer

8 April 2025

Typology of contestations

WZB Talk by Michael Zürn and Alexander Schmotz

13 May 2025

Between Beliefs and Borders: Migration, Religion, and Abortion Attitudes

WZB Talk by Alessandro Ferrara, Yasemin Soysal and Alicia Vignali

3 June 2025

Varieties of Militant Democracy

WZB Talk by Mattias Kumm

9 September 2025

Behavioral measures improve AI hiring: A field experiment

WZB Talk by Dorothea Kübler

30 September 2025

Homophily in Grant Evaluations

WZB Talk by Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln and Felix Holub

14 October 2025

Assessing the Prospects for Democratic Backsliding in the United States

WZB Talk by Paul Pierson

25 November 2025

What Predicts Success in the Absence of Clear Evaluation Standards? Evidence from German-Language Literary Prizes
 

WZB Talk by Lena Hipp

Please find previous WZB Talks in the archive.