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The Voting & Democracy Research Group at KU Leuven welcomes Ansgar Hudde for a talk on why young Americans avoid cross-partisan dating, combining survey experiments, qualitative responses, and LLM-assisted text analysis. 🗓 7 October 2026, 14:00 📍 KU Leuven, Parkstraat 45 Registration by 5 October.

The Political Communication Division of NeFCA invites you to an online seminar with Prof. Alessandro Nai (@UvA_Amsterdam) on “(Negative) Campaigning,” as part of the PolCom Classics webinar series. 🗓 24 September 2026 ⏰ 12:00–13:00 💻 Online

📢 Call for papers: The State of the Federation will take place on 21 January 2027 at BrIAS, jointly hosted by ULB and VUB. Contributions from all subfields of political science are welcome. 🗓 Abstract deadline: 16 October 2026 ✉️ stateofthefederation2027@gmail.com

📢 GASPAR at Ghent University welcomes you to a lecture by Ryan Carlin (Georgia State University) & Gregory Love (University of Mississippi): “Populist Popularity: Baselines, Dynamics, and Accountability” 🗓 May 22, 2026 🕑 14:00 📍 Room 2.1, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41 (Technicum), 9000 Ghent

📢 Join us at KU Leuven for a lecture (in Dutch) by Prof. Dr. Mark Bovens & Prof. Dr. Anchrit Wille: “Diplomademocratie: Opleiding als nieuwe politieke breuklijn en vorm van ongelijkheid” (in Dutch) 🗓 April 28, 2026 🕑 14:00 📍 Auditorium 00.85, Naamsestraat 69, Leuven

📣 ONE WEEK LEFT: best master thesis in political science! The Daniel Heinsius Thesis Prize is open to master’s theses submitted in 2025 with a score of ≥8 (NL) or ≥16 (BE). 📨 Send your thesis + proof of grade before March 1 to marthe.walgrave@uantwerpen.be

📣 ONE WEEK LEFT: Call for nominations — Politicologenetmaal prizes! 🏆 The Els Witte Annual Prize for Political Science 2025 honors the best PhD dissertation defended in 2025 (Belgian/Dutch university or relevant to Belgian/Dutch politics). 📩 Submit before March 1 to elswitteprijs@politicologie.nl

📢 The Voting & Democracy Research Group (KU Leuven) invites you to a seminar with Prof. Bjørn Høyland (University of Oslo) on “Dimensions of Politics and Dynamic Ideal Points of Members of the European Parliament” 🗓️ 20 Oct 2025 | 🕑 14:00–15:30

📅 Politicologenetmaal 2026 — the Annual Political Science Workshops of the Low Countries — will be hosted by Ghent University, 11–12 June 2026. More info soon!

📅 State of the Federation 2026 will take place on 6 February 2026 at the University of Antwerp. A great opportunity to present your work and meet colleagues in Belgium!