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In a Deutsche Welle preview of the election year 2022, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Seibel discusses possible election results for the SPD and CDU. The article focuses in particular on the state elections in Saarland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony. The article can be read online in English here and in German here.

Prof. Dr. Christian Breunig was interviewed by Bayerischer Rundfunk and Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung as part of the diversity study he published. The content of both interviews is the composition of the German Bundestag with regard to the diversity of the members of the Bundestag. The article of the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung can be found here, the article of the Bayerischer Rundfunk here.

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Seibel was interviewed by ARD about the new federal government as part of the Morgenmagazin programme. Special focus was placed on the new ministers who have been assigned to a ministry away from their previous area of activity. The short excerpt from the Morgenmagazin can be viewed here.

Kathryn Hahn-Madole from the USA (M.Sc. SEDS) and Christian Græns Mende from Denmark (M.A. PolVer) have received the VEUK award for honorable international full-time students in 2021. The Alumni Association of the University of Konstanz VEUK awards three prizes á 200 Euro each year to honor special efforts of exchange students and foreign students. More information about the award and the previous winners can be found here.

The KOMEX workshops offer cutting-edge, inclusive, and affordable methodological training in both qualitative and quantitative research design and techniques for PhD students and postdocs. Courses take place from March 10-11 (On-line preparatory course) and March 14-18, 2022 (in-person and on-line main courses at 4 ECTS) at the University of Konstanz, Germany—beautifully situated at Lake Konstanz, close to the Alps, near the borders to Switzerland and Austria. More information on the matter can…

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Seibel was interviewed about the election of the CDU chairmanship as part of an online article by Deutsche Welle. In it, he comments on the three candidates and their ability to lead the CDU as opposition leaders in the future. In this context, the political background of the candidates is also discussed. The article can be found here.

Prof. Dr. Gerald Schneider spoke to the Badische Zeitung about the EU's failed framework agreement with Switzerland. The article not only explains the failure of the negotiations, but also the resulting implications for the Bodenseekreis and Baden-Württemberg. You can find the article in the online edition of the Badische Zeitung here.

Jun.-Prof. Jan Vogler has published an article in the U.S. daily Politico on the democratizing effect of the black plague in the Middle Ages together with Prof. Daniel W. Gingerich from the University of Virgina. In the article, the authors examine the effect of stronger bargaining power of workers during a pandemic. The article can be found online here.

Several Gabonese media report on a workshop on African party labelling co-organised by Dr Anja Osei at the Omar Bongo University in Libreville. Both Gabonese television and online media report on the workshop in the Gabonese capital. The television reports in French can be found here and here. Online articles on the workshop, also in French, can be found here and here.