Conferences and externally funded Projects
Current and past externally funded projects, as well as conferences
Conference: Enabling Democracy
In recent years, the rise of authoritarian and populist tendencies within democracies once considered stable has become a matter of deep concern. Despite the urgency of this development, systematic knowledge of the underlying causes and the mechanisms capable of countering this development remains fragmented and incomplete. This points to a pressing need for reflection on what enables democracy to function and endure. The conference takes this challenge as its starting point. It seeks to identify the social, institutional, and normative foundations that sustain democratic governance and to explore how these can be strengthened. Therefore it seeks a dialog between political science, sociology, law, philosophy, and related disciplines to chart new pathways for the renewal of democracy.
Project: National Insurance Agency
For two decades many institutions are processing their history during National Socialism. Besides many top-level federal departments, many other federal agency like the Foreign Intelligence Service, the domestric intelligence service or, in the judical department, the solicitors general office and the Federal Court of Justice, have independent positions in order to process their history during National Socialism.
The National Office for Social Security (BAS) has also undertaken to do this important work. With the goal of a scientific study in the form of a monograph, to process the work of their predecessor agency, the National Insurance Agency (Reichsversicherungsamt) in the institutional design of the National Socialist dictatorship. In this interdisciplinary research project, under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Friedrich Kießling and Prof. Dr. Laura Münkler, the working of the National Insurance Agency, its role as a supervisory and participatory agency, as well as the ultimate arbiter in legal disputes during the time of national socialism is to be researched. To do this, the institutional history, policy, personell politics and the senior staff, as well as the judicial opinions of the agency will be the focus.
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PhD
Prof. Dr. Laura Münkler is currently supervising various PhD projects