Current political developments luckily have made Pál Susánszky’s @susanszky.bsky.social and my study on "The Media Agenda-Setting Role of Protests in Nondemocratic Regimes: A Case Study From Hungary" a historical text. But I'm still very happy that it has just been published: doi.org/10.1111/socf...
This year the ipb annual conference tries an experimental format. I’m very curious how this will play out.
📣 #Veranstaltungshinweis: eine Kooperation des ipb mit der @atlantakademie.bsky.social: Online-Vortrag „No Kings & #ICE Out – #Protestbewegungen in den #USA“ mit Prof. Sabine von Mering. 18. März 2026, 18 Uhr, online. Anmeldung & mehr Info:
20 years of protest survey data now available!
In the last 20 years, the @protestinstitut.bsky.social has conducted more than 30 protest surveys at demonstrations. We have made this huge dataset now publicly available at @gesis.org.
Details it the blog post: protestinstitut.eu/20-jahre-pro...
Nine days left to apply
Two PhD Positions in Project about Protests in Africa
@sophiahunger.bsky.social and I are looking for two PhD researchers in our project „Welfare States and Protest: Understanding the Contentious Outcomes of Social Policy in Africa". Application deadline is 14.1.26:
www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...
The year is coming to an end. Time to look back at what happened at ipb this year:
1/6 ipb Working Papers 📄
Our Working Papers make early-stage research on social movements visible, from the Palestinian solidarity movement to Christopher Street Day demonstrations
More in the comments 👇
We are looking for PhD students interested in a macro comparative perspective, how social policy reforms and their generosity affect the occurrence of social policy related protests in a large sample of African states, using LLMs and building on our work on automating PEA.
Two PhD Positions in Project about Protests in Africa
@sophiahunger.bsky.social and I are looking for two PhD researchers in our project „Welfare States and Protest: Understanding the Contentious Outcomes of Social Policy in Africa". Application deadline is 14.1.26:
www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...
Stoked to see a beloved side project finally come to completion. Today, I submitted my #Querdenken dataset (N= 4748). Available soon via @dprex.bsky.social for scientific reuse. Big thanks to @marlenehilgenstock.bsky.social for the great support. Looking foward seeing the findings it might generate.
In a joint project with @sehaunss.bsky.social, we will analyze how social policy outcomes in Africa influence political contention and nonviolent political conflict. This involves a large protest events analysis of a large set of African countries using multimodal data.
We will be hiring new PhD students interested in social movements and protest in Africa, soon. Keep your eyes open for job openings 🪧
In unseren Analysen haben wir 5 Einstellungstypen zur #Klima-Thematik identifiziert – von den „Ablehnenden“ bis zu den „Entschlossenen“. Welcher #Klimatyp bist Du? Zum Selbsttest geht‘s hier: fgz-risc-data.de/klimatypenre...
#FGZ #Klimakrise #Demokratie #Gerechtigkeit #Wandel #Gesellschaft #Zukunft
Die Einstellungen der Menschen zur #Klima -Thematik sind differenziert #Politik sollte eine breite gesellschaftliche Debatte um Sorgen, Lasten, Chancen & Perspektiven sozialer Teilhabe eröffnen – um #Wandel zu gestalten & die #Demokratie zu schützen & zu stärken! #Zukunft #Sicherheit #Vision #🇩🇪 #🇪🇺
Politik von unten Colloquium is back! Join us online on Monday, November 3rd at 4 pm (CET), for the first session of the Autumn 2025 series. We will be discussing Dr. Suparna Banerjee's paper titled "Collective Resistance and Electoral Autocracy: The Case of Electoral Bonds in India".
Out now: our conceptual paper on Protest–counter-protest interactions. Open access: doi.org/10.1177/0002...
At BIGSSS we are currently looking for two PhD students (four years of DAAD funding) in our program Contentious Politics in the Digital Age (CoPoDi). Apply until 27 October 2025, more information here: www.bigsss-bremen.de/static/uploa...
Finally out: Revisiting the Exit from Nuclear Energy in Germany with NLP (DOI: 10.3262/ZFD2402218, www.researchgate.net/publication/...): How far can we replicate manual discourse annotation with NLP tools?
Application deadline is 1 October. Any questions, please contact priska.daphi(AT)uni-giessen.de. More details here: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/453...
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Join our team @fgz-risc.bsky.social in our comparative research project on local protests and social cohesion headed by Priska Daphi and Sebastian Haunss (@sehaunss.bsky.social). We are offering a full post-doc position for 3.5 years.
Die Töchter einiger NSU-Mordopfern haben eine Petition gestartet.
Grund: NSU-Terroristin #BeateZschäpe darf auf eigenen Wunsch in ein Nazi-Aussteigerprogramm - obwohl sie nie Reue zeigte, nie bei der Aufklärung half, noch Kontakt zur rechten Szene hat. Sie erhofft sich davon eine kürzere Haft.
The conference program for the @protestinstitut.bsky.social ipb conference @unibremen.bsky.social is out: protestinstitut.eu/ipb-conferen...
Come to Bremen on 1 & 2 October for an exiting program with more than 80 presentations.
🗣️Do you want to automate the classification of protest events and political event data?
➡️@sehaunss.bsky.social, P.Daphi, J.M.Dollbaum, L.Hristova, P.Susánszky & E.Steinhilper introduce PAPEA, a new pipeline that uses fine-tuned LLMs to analyze event data www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
📢Call for Papers: “Visibility, Surveillance, and Policing”
Bilingual (DE/EN) workshop by the AK Soziale Bewegungen und Polizei @TU Chemnitz - 28 Nov 2025
Submit 300-word abstracts to philipp.knopp@phil.tu-chemnitz.de by 15 July 2025
🔗 protestinstitut.eu/event/ipb-wo...
PAPEA Pipeline
Finally out! Our PRSM article introducing a A modular pipeline for the automation of protest event analysis (PAPEA). Open Access at: doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
Reminder: @protestinstitut.bsky.social Conference Protests and Social Movements between Innovation and Tradition. 1 & 2 October 202 in Bremen.
Deadline for paper submissions is 31 May.
CfP and details available at: protestinstitut.eu/veranstaltun...
Image of a building of the University of Bremen with the text "Summer School for Women in Political Methodology" and "20 to 26 July at the University of Bremen" writen on it.
🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Bremen 🚨
Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org
At this year's @protestinstitut.bsky.social conference Priska Daphi, Larissa Meier, Pál Susánszky and I will organize a panel on Protest and Civil Society under Far-right Dominance. The call is here: cloud.freiheitswolke.org/s/jCxKBZJSjk.... Please circulate it and consider submitting a paper.
CfP Protests and Social Movements between Innovation and Tradition. 1 & 2 October 2025.
This year the ipb annual conference addresses the tension between tradition and innovation in protests and social movements.
CfP and details available at: protestinstitut.eu/veranstaltun...