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On the 1st of October, four new professors have started their job at the department. We welcome them all. All four are very renowned scholars and will broaden the department's offer in research and teaching.

In the "Ask a question!" format of the Südkurier newspaper, questions from children are answered by professors from HTWG Konstanz and the University of Konstanz. As part of this format, Prof. Wolfgang Seibel and Prof. Michael Herrmann answered two questions. Prof. Wolfgang Seibel answers the question: "How does one become Federal Chancellor?" and Prof. Michael Herrmann explains the concept of the blocking clause in the German Bundestag in an age-appropriate way. Prof. Seibel's answer can be…

On 27 September 2021, an evaluation of the Bundestag election results from Baden-Württemberg by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Seibel was published on the website of the newspaper "Die Welt". Part of this short evaluation are the three parties CDU, SPD and Greens with the most votes in Baden-Württemberg. The article can be found here.

The television station RTS interviewed Prof. Dr. Dirk Leuffen in the context of the German federal election and asked him about the forces that play a role in the run-up to this election. You can find the interview here, it takes place at minute 15:18.

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Juhi Kulshrestha wins a grant of the "Foundational Integrity Research 2021" of the Facebook Foundation. This research award is given to scholars in the social sciences who have submitted research projects on Fake News and polarisation on social media. The exact description and the other winners of this award can be read on the Facebook Foundation website here.

In his study, Prof. Dr. Christian Breunig examines how women, migrants and workers are represented in the German Bundestag. The exciting study caused reputation in the national as well as in the international media.

At the conference of the Deutsche Nachwuchsgesellschaft für Politik- und Sozialwissenschaft (DNGPS) from 17.-19. August several students of the department present their interesting thesis projects.

The University of Konstanz is planning an *in-person* winter semester: 
In compliance with infection prevention measures, a large amount of
courses in all subjects will be offered on the university campus. In
most cases, these courses will not have online alternative formats.

In order for courses to take place in this way, however, students and
teachers *are required to provide proof of vaccination, recovery from
COVID-19 or a current negative test result (3G-rule)*. If you are *fully
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Die Ausnahmeregeln die für An- und Abmeldung der Prüfungen im Wintersemester eingeführt wurden, haben für die Prüfungen im aktuellen Sommersemester keine Gültigkeit mehr. Für die anstehenden Prüfungen gelten wieder die regulären Anmeldefristen.