Democratic Challenges in Europe Joint Lecture Series "Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Baltic Sea Region" Summer 2026 Thursdays, 18.15–19.45 University of Greifswald Domstraße 9a, Room 3.07 For online participation, please write to: baltic-peripeties@uni-greifswald.de Organised by Oksana Alekseev & Prof. Dr. Jochen Müller Department of Political Science and Communication Studies 23 Apr Andres Reiljan (Tartu) Affective Polarization in Contemporary Democracies: Measurement, Implications and Remedies 7 May Josefina Erikson (Uppsala) Populist Radical Right Parties and Challenges to Gender-Balanced Representation: Evidence from Sweden 21 May Marc Helbling (Mannheim) Liberal Democratic Values among Immigrants in Europe: Socialization and Adaptation Processes 4 Jun Kira Renée Kurz (Greifswald) The Politics of Age: Youth Political Representation in Comparative Perspective 2 Jul (online only) Vicente Valentim (IE Madrid) The Normalization of the Radical Right 7 Jul (Tuesday) Hanna Folsz (Stanford) Economic Retaliation and the Decline of Opposition Quality in Democratic Backsliding 9 Jul Vello Pettai (ECMI, Flensburg) Ethnic Domination and its Reversal: Soviet and Post-Soviet Estonia |
