Contact

Prof. Dr. Simon Koschut

Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science

Freie Universität Berlin

Ihnestr. 22

14195 Berlin

Germany

Tel.: +49 (0)30 838 75792

Fax: +49 (0)30 838 54160

Email: simon.koschut@fu-berlin.de

Visit my profile at academia.edu

Twitter: @SimonKoschut

News

I will present my paper "Emotions, History, and International Relations" at the annual workshops organized by the BISA Historical Sociology and IR Working Group on December 7 at Sussex University and by the BISA Emotions in Politics and IR Working Group on December 17 at Aston University.

On November 22-23, I look very much forward to participating in a workshop on security communities, organized by the VITRI Violence, Trauma and Justice Project at Charles University Prague.

My book Normative Change and Security Community Disintegration (Palgrave Macmillan 2016) received the Ernst Otto Czempiel Award for the best postdoctoral monograph published in the field of peace research.

Simon was awarded with the prestigious Heisenberg fellowship by the German Research Council (DFG) to lead a research project on "Emotional Communities in World Politics"

On October 10-11, I participated in a workshop at the University of Hamburg on "Norms between Normality and Normativity" .

On September 27, I joined a panel on "Is there a limit to human rights?" at the DVPW Congress "Frontiers of Democracy" in Frankfurt/Main.

I presented my paper "Beyond stigmatization: Naming, shaming, and reintegration in world politics" at the ECPR General Conference in Hamburg (August 24) and the EISA Annual Conference in Prague September 15).

On August 3, I gave a talk on "Transatlantic Relations in the Trump Era" at the Summer School 2018, organized by the Atlantic Academy in Rhineland Palatinate.

On July 3, Simon participated in a workshop on "Emotions and Trust in NATO-Russia Relations" at the Gerda Henkel Forum at King's College Center for Strategic Communication in London.

On May 4/5, Simon co-organized the workshop "Norms and Agency" at the University of Potsdam.

On April 26, Simon gave a talk at the German Federal Academy for Security Policy.

On April 1, Simon joined the academic advisory board of the Cologne Forum for International Relations and Security Policy (KFIBS)

On April 6, Simon organized and chaired a roundtable at this year's ISA in San Francisco on "Emotions and Power in World Politics"

Simon gave a talk at an academic career workshop for the Fulbright scholars at the Berlin Seminar 19 March 2018.

On 6 February 2018, Simon gave a guest lecture on "Emotional communities: The case of NATO" at the University of Gießen.

Simon was appointed liaison lecturer (Vertrauensdozent) by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

My new journal article on "Emotions and the Social Construction of the Democratic Peace" is out now (Cooperation and Conflict)

The forum in International Studies Review on "Discourse and Emotion in International Relations" is out now, including contributions by Todd Hall, Reinhard Wolf, Ty Solomon, Emma Hutchison, Roland Bleiker, and myself.