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From 06 to 07 November 2019, an international conference of the Regional Studies Association took place in Leipzig. Ann Hipp has participated in the conference by presenting current research results from the Mod-Block-DDR project. The Regional Studies Association hosted a workshop about „Future…

On the occasion of the event "30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall" the Bremen regional TV magazine "buten un binnen" dealt with the question of the social and economic integration of East and West Germany. Jutta Günther was invited as a studio guest and answered the questions of the…

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and in view of current attempts to politically take over the "Wende", the panel discussion at the Viadrina Center "B/ORDERS IN MOTION" reminds us of the future drafts of that time and balances the consequences of the opening of…

On 9 October 2019, in preparation for its next annual report (2020), the Expert Commission on Research and Innovation conducted a hearing of experts on the East German innovation system and the technological performance of the New Länder 30 years after German re-unification. The hearing also focused…

On October 25-26, 2019 the international ICSID workshop about “Quality of Governance and the Legacy of Socialism” jointly organised by the University of Bremen and Higher School of Economics Moscow (HSE) will take place in Bremen for the first time.

The working groups of Michael Rochlitz and Jutta…

The second consortium meeting of "Mod-Block-DDR" took place on 16 September 2019 at the TU Berlin. On the agenda were the presentation of the current projects, the organisation of two conferences in the jubilee year 2020 and the discussion of a new perspective on the development in the GDR and the…

From 16 to 29 September 2019, Ksenia Gonchar from the Higher School of Economics visits the University of Bremen. Ksenia Gonchar is a leading researcher at the Institute for Institute for Industrial and Market Studies (IIMS) at HSE and has been working with Jutta Günther and her team for many years.…

Three members of the BMBF's research consortium will work on their doctorates in close connection with the Bremen International Graduate School for Social Sciences (BIGSSS). Jarina Kühn, Mareike zum Felde and Charlotta Cordes started the program this week together with the other newly affiliated…

In WDR 5 Morgenecho, Michael Rochlitz answers questions about the regional elections in Russia. According to Russia expert and institutional economist Michael Rochlitz, the rejection of the admission of opposition candidates by the election commission, which led to mass demonstrations, impedes the…

From 26 to 30 August 2019 Heiko Pleines, Mareike zum Felde and Charlotta Cordes participated in the Summer School of the Network for Russian and Eurasian Studies in Orilampi (Finland). This year's topic was the radical changes since the beginning of the 1990s in the former socialist states.