Events at the MPIfG

Matthias Thiemann is Professor of European Public Policy at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Sciences Po, Paris, and the MPIfG Scholar in Residence 2025. During his stay at the Institute, he presents a lecture series entitled "Technocrats, State Agency, and the Rise and Continued Expansion of the Shadow Banking System." The three lectures will take place on April 29, May 6, and May 13, 2025. [more]

Matthias Thiemann is Professor of European Public Policy at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Sciences Po, Paris, and the MPIfG Scholar in Residence 2025. During his stay at the Institute, he presents a lecture series entitled "Technocrats, State Agency, and the Rise and Continued Expansion of the Shadow Banking System." The three lectures will take place on April 29, May 6, and May 13, 2025. [more]

Beliefs about the future shape attitudes, experiences, and priorities in the present. This lecture explores the relationship between democracy and the expected world to come. [more]

Matthias Thiemann is Professor of European Public Policy at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Sciences Po, Paris, and the MPIfG Scholar in Residence 2025. During his stay at the Institute, he presents a lecture series entitled "Technocrats, State Agency, and the Rise and Continued Expansion of the Shadow Banking System." The three lectures will take place on April 29, May 6, and May 13, 2025. [more]

The Max Planck Online Workshop in Comparative Political Economy (MAX CPE) is an online seminar series in Comparative Political Economy, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and coordinated by Lucio Baccaro, Sinisa Hadziabdic, Pálma Polyák, and Dustin Voss. [more]

The objective of the conference is to theorize about the role of imagined futures in social dynamics from the perspective of the Global South. There is a vibrant theoretical literature on imagined futures and MPI scholars have contributed to our understanding of the significance of uncertainty and credible expectations in capitalist dynamics. [more]

In her lecture, Valeria Pulignano introduces a theory of the politics of unpaid labor, advancing our understanding of inequality within the context of precarious work. She establishes a crucial link between unpaid labor’s political dimensions and its role in fueling emerging forms of precarious work that are characterized by persistent inequalities in a context of labor market reforms, societal shifts, and technological changes. [more]

The Max Planck Online Workshop in Comparative Political Economy (MAX CPE) is an online seminar series in Comparative Political Economy, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and coordinated by Lucio Baccaro, Sinisa Hadziabdic, Pálma Polyák, and Dustin Voss. [more]

Conference organized by Carola Westermeier.

The European constitutional navigation of the noughties succeeded in stipulating that European integration had ushered in European society (Article 2 TEU). This choice remains underexplored. In light of current European uncertainty, the lecture explores the meaning and promise of European society. [more]

After an exceptionally successful first installment, the Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy will be held for the second time in September 2025 to address the continued underrepresentation of women in the field of comparative and international political economy. [more]