Past Activities
In the past, the following activities were organized within the framework of Democracy Studies:
2025
| Activity | Date | Instructor | Location | Evaluation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democracy Studies Research Colloquium | 4 March 2025 | Doreen Spörer-Wagner | AFL F 101 | Democracy Studies Curriculum- Core Module (members only) |
| 11th Swiss Summer School in Democracy Studies and 8th Deliberative Democracy Summer School - Inequality and Deliberation | 23-27 June 2025 |
Prof. Cristina Lafont, Northwestern University Prof. John Dryzek, University of Canberra Prof. Thamy Pogrebinschi, Berlin Social Science Center |
UZH KOL | |
| Democracy Studies Module II - Empirical Approaches to Democracy | 6-7 November 2025 | Daniel Kübler | AFL F 101 | Democracy Studies Curriculum - Core Module |
| Democracy Studies Annual Lecture | 6 November 2025 | Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, University of Essex | UZH AFL F121 | |
| Democracy Studies Research Colloquium | 9 December 2025 | Doreen Spörer-Wagner | AFL F 101 | Democracy Studies Curriculum- Core Module (members only) |
2024
| Activity | Date | Instructor | Location | Evaluation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democracy Studies Research Colloquium | 30 May 2024 h.09:00-14:00 |
Doreen Spörer-Wagner | AFL F 101 | Democracy Studies Curriculum- Core Module (members only) |
| Democracy Studies Advanced Module "Democracy and the Climate Crisis" | 20-21 June 2024 h. 09:00-17:00 |
Hannah Werner | AFL F 101 | FS24_DSAM |
| 09.09.2024 h.14.30 |
Anja Neundorf | UZH KOL E 18 | Keynote of the Swiss Summer School in Democracy Studies | |
| 10th Swiss Summer School in Democracy Studies | 09-13.09.2024 | Natasha Wunsch | Uni Fribourg | Democracy Studies Curriculum - Core Module |
| Democracy Studies Research Colloquium |
30.10.2024, h. 9-12 13.11.2024, h.9-12 |
Doreen Spörer-Wagner | AFL F 101 | Democracy Studies Curriculum- Core Module (members only) |
| Democracy Studies Module I | 21-22.11.2024 | Dr. Hwa Young Kim | AFL F 172/173 | Democracy Studies Curriculum - Core Module |
| Democracy Studies Workshop Democracy in Practice - Democracy Goes to School | 25.10.2024 and 20.11.2024 |
Monika Walids (FHNW) | AFL F 101 Bern Bundeshaus |
Democracy Studies Curriculum - Advanced Module |
| Democracy Studies Forum | 28.11.2025 h.14.00 |
Swiss PhD Network in Democracy Studies | AFL F 150 / E 22 | Extended Research Colloquium |
| Democracy Studies Annual Lecture | 28.11.2024 h.18.30 |
Ross Mittiga | AFL F 121 | Public Lecture |
2023
| Activity | Date | Instructor/s | Evaluation |
| Democracy Studies Module I - Democratic Theory | 4-5 May 11-12 May |
Francis Cheneval and Hwa Young Kim |
FS23_DSMI |
| Democracy Studies Research Colloquium | 23 March 1 June |
Doreen Spörer-Wagner |
| 9th Swiss Summer School in Democracy Studies "Democracy and Peace" | 11-15 September 2023 | Daniele Caramani (UZH) | UZH, KOL and PEA | S3DS2023 |
| Democracy Studies Research Colloquium | 28 September 2023 h.09:00-12:00 |
Doreen Spörer-Wagner (UZH) | AFL F 172/173 | |
| Democracy Studies Module II - Empirical Approaches to Democracy | 2-3 November 2023 h.09:00-17:00 |
Daniel Kübler (UZH) | AFL F 172/173 | DSMII_23 |
| Democracy Studies Workshop Democracy in Practice - Democracy Goes to School | 27 October 2023 h.09:00-17:00 29 November 2023 |
Monika Walids (FHNW) | AFL F 172/173 Bern Bundeshaus |
DSPWS_23 |
| The Dragon After the Pandemic | 15 November 2023 |
Daniel Kübler (UZH) |
KOL - G - 217 | CIS Workshop |
| Democracy Studies Annual Lecture |
30 November 2023 h. 17.30 |
Gwendolyn Sasse Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) Berlin | AFL F 121 | UZH Agenda |
2022
| Activity | Date |
Instructor/s |
Evaluation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Democracy Studies Module II: Empirical Approaches to Democracy |
07-08.04.2022 | Daniel Kübler | FS22_DSMII | |
| 12 September 2022 h 16.15 |
Stefano Bartolini | |||
| 8th Swiss Summer School in Democracy Studies | 12 - 16 September 2022 | S3DS 2022 Programme | S3DS2022 |
| Democracy in Practice Workshop: Democracy goes to School | 21 October 2022 and 9 November 2022 |
Monika Waldis |
DSPWS_HS22 |
|
10 - 11 |
Daniel Bochsler | DSAM_HS22 | |
| Democracy Studies Research Colloquium |
24 |
Doreen Spörer-Wagner | |
| Liquid Democracy Workshop | 15 - 16 December 2022 |
DemocracyNet |
2021
| Activity | Date |
Instructor/s |
Evaluation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08-09.04.2021 | Francis Cheneval | DS_FS21 | ||
| Discuss Democracy in Public |
07-14.06.2021 | Sarah Bütikofer and Pascal Krauthammer | ||
|
Swiss Summer School of Democracy Studies "Frontiers of Democratic Innovations" |
15.06.2021- 01.07.2021 | |||
| Praxis Workshop: Democracy in the Time of Covid-19: Implications for Politics, Markets and Society |
09-10.09.2021 | Lea Heyne Christian Ewert |
DSWS_HS21 | |
| Inaugural Annual Lecture | 28.10.2021 | Bo Rothstein | ||
| Democracy Studies Module I: Democratic Theory |
04-05.11.2021 11-12.11.2021 | Francis Cheneval | DSMI_HS21 | |
| PhD Research Workshop "Vested Interests and Democracy" |
09-10.12.2021 | Odile Ammann | RWS_HS21 | |
| Democracy Studies Launching Events Series | HS21 |
2020
| Activity | Organizer | Participants | Evaluation |
|---|---|---|---|
| U of Zurich | U of Zurich | results | |
| Argumentation and Decision-Making in Citizenship Education for Digital Democracy | U of Zurich | U of Zurich, Basel | results |
| Revisiting the Challenges of Democratic Inclusion in Theory & Practice (Applied Research Workshop) | U of Zurich, DemocracyNet, Mercator Foundation Switzerland | U of Zurich, Lausanne, Basel, Geneva, other international universities | DSWS_HS20 |
| Managing the Transition: Clarifying, Designing and Presenting your Career after the PhD | U of Zurich | U of Zurich, St. Gallen, ETH | results |
2019
| Activity | Organizer | Participants | Evaluation |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Workshop "Thesis Writing in Social Sciences" |
U of Zurich | U of Zurich, Basel | results |
| Workshop "Publish or Perish: Designing Social Science Research for Publication" | U of Zurich | U of Zurich | results |
| Workshop "Methodologies of Analyzing Political Thought" | U of Zurich | U of Zurich, Basel, | results |
| Workshop "Case Study Design in the Social Sciences" | U of Zurich | U of Zurich | results |
| Mercator workshop "Transfer of Democracy Discourses to Society" | U of Zurich and Mercator Foundation Switzerland | U of Zurich, Basel, ZDA | results |
|
Research workshop "Political Representation in Democratic Systems" with public lecture (Prof. Mansbridge) |
U of Zurich, democracy net.eu |
U of Zurich, Fribourg, Geneva, Lausanne, Lucerne, from abroad | results |
| Workshop "How to apply for an academic staff position in the social sciences?" | U of Zurich, external expert | U of Zurich, Basel, Geneva, Lucerne | results |
| 6th Swiss Summer School of Democracy Studies "Politics and democracy in the digital age" | U of Lucerne (Mercator Foundation Switzerland) | U of Zurich, Geneva, ZDA, FHNW, from abroad | results |
| Workshop "The Power of Playful Learning in Democracy Studies" | U of Zurich, external experts | U of Zurich, Basel | results |
| U of Zurich (swissuniversities, TP2) | U of Zurich, U of Basel, FHNW, PH Bern, PHZH | ||
| Course "Conceptualization and measurement of democracy" | U of Zurich | U of Zurich, U of St. Gallen | results |
2018
| Activity | Organizer | Participants | Evaluation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercator workshop "Democratic innovations in theory and practice" incl. public lecture | U of Zurich and Mercator Foundation Switzerland | U of Zurich, Lausanne, Bern, from abroad | results |
| Workshop "Project Design" | U of Zurich, EU relations | U of Zurich | results |
| Research workshop "Democratic participation: theoretical and empirical perspectives" incl. public lecture (Prof. Gagnon) | U of Zurich, democracynet.eu | U of Zurich, Geneva, Lausanne, from abroad | results |
| 5th Swiss Summer School of Democracy Studies "Populism" | U of Zurich | U of Zurich, Geneva, Lucerne, St. Gallen, from abroad | results |
| Workshop ‘Playful learning’ and democracy | U of St. Gallen | U of Zurich, St. Gallen | results |
|
Workshop "Scientific English Writing" |
U of Zurich |
U of Zurich |
2017
| Activity | Organizer | Participants | Evaluation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workshop "Key elements of democracy: participation rights I" and "Key elements of democracy: participation rights II" |
U of Lucerne, democracynet.eu |
U of Zurich, Bern | results I, results II |
| WS "Citizenship and Democracy" | U of Zurich, democracynet.eu | U of Zurich, Lausanne, from abroad | results |
| 4th Swiss Summer School of Democracy Studies "Democratization in a globalized and mediated world" | U of St. Gallen | U of Zurich, Fribourg, St. Gallen, from abroad | results |
| Workshop "Let's play - Brettspiele in der Universitätslehre" | U of Zurich, external partner | U of Zurich, ETHZ | results |
| Workshop "Media and Democratization: Chances and Risks" | U of Zurich | U of Zurich, St. Gallen, Lucerne, from abroad | results |
| Workshop "Didaktik nach Mass: Innovative und interaktive Methoden in der Lehre" | U of Zurich | U of Zurich, ETHZ | results |
| Workshop "Instruments of Effective Career Management" | U of Zurich | U of Zurich, ETHZ, Lucerne, Geneva | results |
2016
| Activity | Organizer | Participants | Evaluation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Method course "Qualitative Content Analysis" | U of Zurich | U of Zurich, ETHZ, from abroad | results |
| Workshop "Demokratiemodelle, Funktionen und Institutionen - Gestaltung eines Demokratiespiels" | U of Zurich | U of Zurich | results |
| 3rd Swiss Summer School of Democracy Studies "Representation and Governance" | ETHZ | U of Zurich, Bern, Lucerne, ETHZ, from abroad | results |
| Workshop "Media, Democracy and Digitalization" | U of Fribourg | U of Zurich, Fribourg | results |
2015
| Activity | Organizer | Participants | Evaluation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course on "Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy" | U of Zurich | U of Zurich, Geneva, St. Gallen, from abroad | results |
| Workshop "Doing social and political research in the digital age" | U of Zurich (WIDE) | U of Zurich, Fribourg, Lucerne, Lausanne | |
| 2nd Swiss Summer School of Democracy Studies "Democratic Innovations" | U of Zurich | U of Zurich, Fribourg, Geneva, Lausanne, from abroad | results |
| Workshop "Effective Presentations" | U of Zurich | U of Zurich, Fribourg | results |
| Method course "Case Study Designs" | U of Lucerne | U of Zurich, Lucerne, Geneva | results |
| Method course "Multilevel Analysis" | U of Zurich | U of Zurich, Fribourg, Lucerne | results |
2014
| Activity | Organizer | Participants | Evaluation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workshop "Coping with the challenges of a PhD" | U of Zurich | U of Zurich, Lausanne, ETHZ | results |
| Swiss Asian Summer School | U of Lausanne | U of Lausanne, Zurich, from abroad | |
| 1st Swiss Summer School of Democracy Studies "Democracy and Globalization" | U of Lucerne | U of Zurich, Bern, Fribourg, Lausanne, Lucerne, Neuchatel, from abroad | results |
| Guest lectures on "Denationalization and Mediatization of Politics as Challenges to Democracy" | U of Zurich | U of Zurich, Fribourg, Lausanne, Lucerne, St. Gallen, ETHZ | |
| Workshop "Promotion of Information Literacy" | ETHZ | U of Zurich, Fribourg | results |
2013
| Activity | Organizer | Participants | Evaluation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workshop "Promotion of Information Literacy" | ETHZ | U of Zurich, Lausanne, St. Gallen | results |