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Is Justice only Meant to be Advantageous for the Stronger: Inequality and populist authoritarianism

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First CONGENIAL Hybrid Space on ‘Anti-Gender Rights Backlash’ creates a powerful transnational space for dialogue and solidarity
This ISS-hosted transnational conversation aimed at countering global anti-gender movements by looking at the contexts of Turkey, Pakistan and the Netherlands
- Wednesday 29 Oct 2025
- General
How do organizations understand transactional sex and how does that shape which services they offer?
The results of research by an ISS team into how institutional responses are shaped by how transactional sex is understood
- Tuesday 28 Oct 2025
- General
Risks and rewards: Why do African graduates in Slovakia stay or move on?
In a new PACES Perspectives blog, researchers Terézia Zemeníková and Lucia Mýtna Kureková explore the experiences of African students in Slovakia
- Tuesday 28 Oct 2025
- Blogpost

Seeing Like a Racial State
The 1st of five ACE Dialogues: Going Back to Go Forward by the Ancestral Citizenship in Europe project
- Tuesday 4 Nov 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
- Webinar
Discussion on challenges and opportunities of evaluation research
Co-organized with ISS, the International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice will welcome Professor Elliot Stern to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary
- Thursday 6 Nov 2025, 14:30 - 16:30
- Presentation
PhD defence by Emma Lynn Dadap-Cantal
In her PhD thesis Emma Cantal reassesses the role of external influence in policy diffusion and social protection expansion in the Philippines and Cambodia
- Thursday 6 Nov 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
- PhD defence