Current dates

Thursday, 18.9.2025, 10:30-12:30

Contemporary witness project: The 10th People's Chamber of the GDR

Dr Bettina Tüffers (KGParl) at the IParl Research Colloquium, Berlin.

Thursday, 25.9.2025 to Friday, 26.9.2025

Electoral organisation counts! Status and perspectives of comparative electoral organisation research

Conference organised by IParl and HWR at the premises of the Foundation for Science and Democracy in Kiel (Programme)

Thursday, 9 October 2025

What drives the selection of young candidates? Evidence from Germany's mixed-member proportional systems

Paper presentation by Dr Danny Schindler, Daniel Hellmann and Kira Renée Kurz at the conference of the DVPW's Thematic Group on Comparative Parliamentarism on 9 and 10 October 2025, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.

Thursday, 30 October 2025, 10:30-12:30

Stepping Stone or Pitfall? Politically Engaged Women Staffers Rather Work Behind the Scenes Than Run for Elected Office

Presentation of a research project by Lena Stephan (University of Greifswald) at the IParl Research Colloquium, Berlin.

Thursday, 20 November 2025, 10:30-12:30

Opposition behaviour in German Bundestag

Presentation of the dissertation project by Michael Bannert (Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern) at the IParl Research Colloquium, Berlin.

Thursday, 4 December 2025; 10:30-12:30

Humility. On a parliamentary virtue.

Presentation of a book project by Dr Burkhard Conrad (Archdiocese of Hamburg) at the IParl Research Colloquium, Berlin.