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.

WZB Talks are currently being held online as Zoom conferences. Log-in details are provided within the invitations for each seminar.

Information on our Data Protection Policy can be found here.

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

If you want to join the public sessions, please register here. Zoom details will be sent subsequently.

 

Upcoming WZB Talks

 

16 January 2024

WZB Talk by Martina Dieckhoff

12 December 2023, 2 pm

Race, Class, and What Else? Policies and Politics in American Cities

WZB Talk by Jennifer L. Hochschild

 

Past WZB Talks

 

21 November 2023, 2 pm

Zero Sum Thinking: Origins and Implications

WZB Talk by Stefanie Stantcheva

Listen to a recording of this WZB Talk here: Audiofile (mp3)

31 October 2023, 2 pm

Can a low emission zone improve academic performance? Evidence from a natural experiment in the city of Madrid

WZB Talk by Manuel T. Valdés

Listen to a recording of this WZB Talk here: Audiofile (mp3)

26 September 2023, 2 pm

The Returns to Power: A Political Theory of Economic Inequality

WZB Talk by Thomas F. Remington

Listen to a recording of this WZB Talk here: Audiofile (mp3)
Here you can find the presentation (pdf)

4 July 2023, 2 pm

Competition in Online Dating Markets

WZB Talk by Elizabeth Bruch

No recording

27 June 2023, 2 pm

Market Imperatives and the Public Sphere: Constitutional issues concerning the regulation of social media

WZB Talk by Mattias Kumm

Listen to a recording of this WZB Talk here: Audiofile (mp3)

13 June 2023, 2 pm

Are Most Journalists Killed in Democracies?

WZB Talk by Vanessa Boese

No recording

6 June 2023, 2 pm

The politics of education: a new dataset on education systems and policies worldwide

WZB Talk by Adrián del Rio Rodríguez

Listen to a recording of this WZB Talk here: Audiofile (mp3)
Here you can find the presentation (pdf)

30 May 2023, 2 pm

Horror Vacui, Or How States Use Culture to Stabilize Authoritarian Rule

A Case Study of National Socialist Period Mixed-Race White Supremacists

WZB-Talk by Anna Skarpelis

Listen to a recording of this WZB Talk here: Audiofile (mp3)

16 May 2023, 2 pm

Electoral Quotas and Intersectional Discrimination: Leadership Selection in Kenya

WZB Talk by Kimuli Kasara - cancelled

9 May 2023, 2 pm

Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times

WZB Talk by Jack Lewis Snyder

Listen to a recording of this WZB Talk here: Audiofile (mp3)

Hybrid event

2 May 2023, 2 pm

Rearranging the Desk Chairs: A Large Randomized Field Experiment on the Effects of Close Contact on Interethnic Relations

WZB Talk by Felix Elwert

Listen to a recording of this WZB Talk here: Audiofile (mp3)
Here you can find the presentation (pdf)

18 April 2023, 2 pm

Ethnic and social inequalities in access to primary health care: Evidence from a nation-wide field experiment in Germany

WZB Talk by Jianghong Li and Jan Paul Heisig

Listen to a recording of this WZB Talk here: Audiofile (mp3)
Here you can find the presentation (pdf)

4 April 2023, 2 pm

Ground Control: Organizing Content Moderation for Social Media Platforms

WZB Talk by Sana Ahmad

Listen to a recording of this WZB Talk here: Audiofile (mp3)

28 March 2023, 2 pm

Reproduction policies in comparative perspective. Mapping a contested field with new policy data

WZB Talk by Hannah Zagel

internal, no recording

14 March 2023, 2 pm

The Conservative Dilemma in the Digital Age: How Online Organizations Contribute to Democratic Backsliding

WZB Talk by Steven Livingston

Listen to a recording of this WZB Talk here: Audiofile (mp3)
Here you can find the presentation (pdf)

7 March 2023, 2 pm

Put Your Money Where Your Mouth is? Normative and Monetary Democracy Assistance and Democratization

WZB Talk by Jessica Kim

no recording

14 February 2023, 2 pm

Teachers’ Ethnic and Gender Biases: Behavioral Evidence from Danish Registry Data

WZB Talk by Julian Schüssler

Listen to a recording of this WZB Talk here: Audiofile (mp3)
Here you can find the presentation (pdf)

7 February 2023, 2 pm

Identity Appraisals & Diversity in U.S. Selective College Admissions

WZB Talk by Sonia Giebel

Internal

31 January 2023, 2 pm

Human Metrics: How Scoring is Governing Our Life

WZB Talk by Liav Orgad

No recording

17 January 2023, 2 pm

Is the Gender Wage Gap Really a Family Wage Gap in Disguise?

WZB Talk by Youngjoo Cha

Internal, no recording

 

Please find the past WZB Talks in the archive.

 

 

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WZB Talks take place on Tuesdays. Find dates and times on the list of events. Please note that this event series takes place in English only with no translation.

 

If you want to join the public sessions, please register here. Zoom details will be sent subsequently.

 

Contact

Friederike Theilen-Kosch

friederike.theilen-kosch [at] wzb.eu