Democratic Transformations - TRANSDEM

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

• October 07, 2025: Magni Szymaniak-Arnesen - Does the formulation of Citizens' Assemblies' proposals matter for their implementation? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of policy recommendations from local CAs in Poland
• November 04, 2025: Markus Hermann Meckl - Victimhood and identity: the Post-Heroic Society
• December 09, 2025: (TBC) Kristof Jacobs - Have a little faith in deliberation? Examining the effect of participation in a citizens' assembly on populist attitudes
• 03 February 2026: Céleste Bonammy - Democracy Versus Diplomacy? The Involvement of External Actors in Trilogue Negotiations
• 03 March 2026: Nathalie Brack - Disensus over liberal democracy: concept, typology and effects on policies and polity
  

JEUNES CHERCHEURS.SES

It gives doctoral students who are members of the Institute the opportunity to present their research in a benevolent, interdisciplinary setting.

• October 14, 2025: Emma Bourcelet (Law) - Online sexual exploitation: the balance between child protection and user privacy
• November 20, 2025: to be confirmed
• April 14, 2026: Louise Salladin (Sociology) - to be confirmed
• May 12, 2026: Nathalie Vanaubel (Political Science) - tbc

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.

• September 23, 2025: Miklós Sebők - Solving classification problems for social and economic research with the Babel Machine
• September 24, 2025: Miklós Sebők - Workshop: Using advanced AI solutions for text-based social and economic research
• October 16, 2025: to be confirmed
• May 3, 2026: to be confirmed

MIDIS DE LA POLITIQUE

• October 23, 2025: André Sapir - L'impact économique pour l'Europe des changements géopolitiques à l'échelle mondiale
• December 4, 2025: Jérémy Dodeigne - The rise of political polarization and violence in democratic countries
• December 11, 2025: Boris Najman - The positioning of European countries vis-à-vis the war in Ukraine

AGES

They will question the way in which 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. Organized on a monthly basis and primarily aimed at sociology researchers, the seminars are regularly open to other members of the Institute. This year, these seminars will be coordinated by Romane Lecharlier (sociology) and Louise Salladin (sociology).

• October 23, 2025: Julie Aglave (Assistant and PhD student UCLouvain)- La bifurcation professionnelle : un changement radical à 180° (title to be confirmed)