Institute for Social Sciences

During the break between semesters, the student conference “Contemporary Trends” was held for the first cohort of the Master’s program in Sociological Diagnosis of the Present Time. Over the course of two days, more than 40 participants—some of whom had traveled from far away—discussed the signs of [...]

Osnabrück University is strengthening its profile in migration research. As of September 1, Dr. Zeynep Şahin-Mencütek has assumed the newly established professorship in “Global Migration and Politics.” An internationally connected scholar, Dr. Şahin-Mencütek joins the university with a prestigious [...]

Ever since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, at the very latest, talk of “geopolitics” has dominated the discourse. Ulrich Schneckener discusses with political scientist Klaus Schlichte his new book The Misery of Geopolitics and, with it, the evolution of a term that obscures more than it explains.   [...]