Democratic Transition - TRANSDEM

These seminars will focus on how current institutional, economic, environmental and migratory tensions are transforming and challenging the way our democratic regimes function.

• March 19, 2025: Will Daniel & Elena Frech - Gendered exits: The role of parliamentarians, parties and voters
• April 23, 2025: Jeremy Dodeigne, Nelson Santos & David Talukder - Analyzing Political Communication Styles
• May 6, 2025: François Debras - Les jeunes face à l'extrémisme : comprendre pour agir
• May 28, 2025: Vincent Jacquet & Damien Pennetreau - Comparing Discourses about Citizens' Assemblies in Six National Public Debates: One Design for Multiple Political Conceptions
   

YOUNG RESEARCHERS.SES

It gives doctoral students.e.s members of the Institute to present their research in a benevolent and interdisciplinary setting.

• October 22, 2024: Sarah Larielle (UNamur) - "Does physical and psychological integrity deserve enhanced protection, through a right to information for victims of personal injury?"
• March 11, 2025: Hélène Cocriamont (UNamur) - "Experiential experience of dissection by medical students"
• April 10, 2025: Dominique Henrion (UNamur) - "Factors influencing the installation of general practitioners in rural areas, and more specifically academic levers"

AGES

They will question how age articulates with other criteria of discrimination in our current societies, giving rise to a panoply of configurations, experiences and lived experiences at different stages of the life course.

• November 5, 2024: Stéphanie Gaudet (University of Ottawa) - "Citoyenneté(s) des jeunes"
• December 3, 2024: Nathalie Burnay (UNamur) - "Parcours de vie: De quoi parle-t-on?"
• January 21, 2025 - Stéphanie Vandervost (UNamur) - "Liminalité(s)?"
• February 28, 2025: Romane Lecharlier (UCLouvain) - "La méthodologie des calendriers de vie"
• March 25, 2025: Louise Salladin (UNAmur and CRA-W) - "La transmission agricole : re-négociation de l'identité des agriculteurs cédants"
• April 22, 2025: Amélie Pierre and Éléonore Robinson (UNamur) - "Fins de carrière dans l'informatique : Age norms, class advantages and gender affirmation"

METHODS SEMINAR

Designed to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge exchange, they will focus on advanced methodological approaches, particularly in natural language processing (NLP), artificial intelligence (AI), video and image analysis, and multimodal analysis.

• March 20, 2025: Nelson Santos and Auguste Debroise (UNamur) - Introductory overview of research methods, brief review of the state of the art highlighting recent applications in political science, economics and social sciences more generally.
• April 3, 2025: Michael Heseltine (University of Amsterdam) - "Going Local? Localized Rhetoric in Congressional Communications"
• April 30, 2025: Christopher Klamm (University of Mannheim and researcher at the Cologne Center of Comparative Politics) - Title to be confirmed
• May 15, 2025: To be determined