Visiting Scholar Program

Due to the #COVID19 situation, all the lunch seminars between 18 March-06 May are postponed to a later date. The dates will be announced soon!

The V-Dem Institute is on a regular basis organizing seminars focusing on various topics within the field of democracy research. Leading international scholars visit University of Gothenburg to present their research. The seminars focus on topics such as democratization in different parts of the world, effects of democratization, electoral violence, persistence of inequality in new democracies etc. The seminars are open for the general public and the venue for seminars is the V-Dem Institute, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg.

For more information about the program, please contact Nazifa Alizada at nazifa.alizada@v-dem.net. 

Schedule for the V-Dem Lunch Seminars Spring 2020

Download the program here  V-Dem Lunch Seminars Spring 2020_detailed.pdf (249.6 KB)

Address: Stora Skansen, Sprängkullsgatan 19, Dept. of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

 

15 January: Hind Arroub (visiting scholar 13 -17 January)

Founder & the Director of “Hypatia of Alexandria Institute for Reflexion and Studies’’ & V-dem Regional Manager for North Africa

Title: Second Wave of Arab Uprising: Nothing But Justice and Freedom

 

4 February: Karoline Wiesner (visiting scholar 4 February)

Associate Professor in Complexity Science at the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol

Title: Stability of Democracies: A Complex Systems Perspective

Note: the seminar is on Tuesday.

 

12 February: Kevin Casas-Zamora

Secretary-General of International IDEA

Title: The Black Box of Democracy: The Old and New Challenges of Political Finance

 

26 February: Gergana Dimova (visiting scholar 25-28 February)

Lecturer in politics at the University of Winchester, UK

Title: Democracy in Crisis? What Do Media Scandals and Government Investigations Tell Us About the State of Democracy in Russia, Germany and Bulgaria?

 

18 March: Eric Lake 

PhD Candidate at the University of Florida

Title: Das Man, Dasein, Terrorism, and Counterterrorism: Explaining Anti-system Event Occurrences as a Function of Care Structure Management

 

25 March: Alexander Taaning Grundholm (visiting scholar 1 March-31 May)

PhD research fellow at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

Title: Keeping Your Enemies Close: Opposition Co-Optation and Coup Risk in Autocracies

 

8 April: Jean Lachapelle (V-Dem)

Post-Doctoral Fellow at V-Dem

Title: Rules of Repression: Military Rule, Coercion and Autocratic Survival

 

22 April: Aila Matanock (visiting scholar 20-24 April)

Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley

Title: Untouchable Forces: Restoring Trust in Security in Weak States?

 

6 May: Natasha Wunsch (visiting scholar 4-7 May)

Assistant Professor in Political Science/European Integration at Sciences Po, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) and Principal Investigator for the “Democratic Backsliding in Eastern Europe: Sequence, Strategies, Citizens” at ETH Zurich.

Title: Unpacking Democratic Backsliding: A Dynamic Analysis of Democratic Regression in Eastern Europe

 

Schedule for the V-Dem Lunch Seminars Fall 2019

Download the progragram here  V-Dem Lunch Seminars Fall 2019_detailed.pdf (266.6 KB)

Schedule for the V-Dem Lunch Seminars Spring 2019

Download the program here  V-Dem Lunch Seminars Spring 2019_detailed.pdf (159.6 KB)

Schedule for the V-Dem Lunch Seminars Fall 2018

Download the program here  V-Dem Lunch Seminars Fall 2018_detailed.pdf (146.5 KB)

Schedule for the V-Dem Lunch Seminars Spring 2018

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Schedule for the V-Dem Lunch Seminars Fall 2017

Download the program here  V-Dem Lunch Seminars Fall 2017_detailed.pdf (98.9 KB) .

Schedule for the V-Dem Lunch Seminars Spring 2017

Download the program here  V-Dem Lunch Seminars Spring 2017_detailed.pdf (156.8 KB) .

Schedule for the V-Dem Lunch Seminars Fall 2016

Download the program here  V-Dem Lunch Seminars Fall 2016.pdf (92.9 KB) .

Schedule for the V-Dem Lunch Seminars Spring 2016

Download the program here  V-Dem Lunch Seminars Spring 2016.pdf (92.3 KB)

Schedule for the V-Dem Lunch Seminars Fall 2015