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Sidney Carls-Diamante is one of five new Postdoctoral Fellows from the 14th call for applications. She has started her fellowship in July and is affiliated with the Department of Philosophy.

Boredom as a potential threat to COVID-19 containment measures.

Lecturers can borrow the KIM.MediaBOX from the KIM to record their own (teaching) videos.

Laszlo Muntean (Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and American Studies at Radbout University, Nijmegen, Fellow at the IAS CEU, Budapest, Hungary) gave an online European Netias lecture.

Along with its four project partners in Bulgaria, Denmark, France and Greece, the University of Konstanz was successful in the European Universities Initiative (EUI) of the European Commission. In the next three years, the partners’ “European Reform University Alliance” (ERUA) will receive funding of approximately five million euros to establish a pan-European university network.

Das Centre for Science and Technology Studies der Universität Leiden hat kürzlich die Ergebnisse des Leiden Ranking 2020 veröffentlicht. In den Kategorien Open Access und internationale Co-Autorenschaften schneidet die Universität Konstanz erstklassig ab.

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has published the article "Euroscepticism as a motor of integration" by Prof. Dirk Leuffen and Prof. Christian Breunig. The article describes the paradoxical effect of Euroscepticism on European integration. The fear of the disintegration of the EU inspired the willingness of citizens to agree to redistributive measures. You can access the article here.

In this year's mayoral election in Strasbourg, Céline Geissmann, a Master's graduate of the department, was elected Deputy Mayor. Together with the new mayor Jeanne Barseghian, she will chair Strasbourg for the next six years. You can find the article about the election in Strasbourg here