Simon Rothers
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- Simon Rothers
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Doctoral Researcher
at the Department for Political Science
- Address
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Justus Liebig University Gießen
Department of Political ScienceKarl-Glöckner-Strasse 21E
35394 Giessen
- Contact
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- Office Hour
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Summer term 2021: tuesday 12am - 2pm after previous appointment via mail
CV
- CV
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since April 2018
Junior Researcher at the Department of Political Science, Justus-Liebig University Giessen
October 2014 - March 2017
Student Assistant at the Department of Political Science (Prof. Dr. Andrea Gawrich & Prof. Dr. Breitmeier), Justus-Liebig University Giessen
April 2011 - March 2012
Student Assistant at the Department of Medical Sociology (Prof. Dr. Kuhlmey), Charité Medical School Berlin
Training
2015-2017
M.A. Democracy & Governance, Justus-Liebig- University Giessen (Erasmus+ Exchange with Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
2008-2011 and 2013-2015
B.A. Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin & JLU Giessen (Erasmus-Exchange with Sciences Po Toulouse)
2007
Abitur Hölderlin Gymnasium (High School), Heidelberg
Memberships
International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Giessen, member
Research areas: Research Area 3: Cultural Transformation and Performativity Studies and ETRG Religion in the Study of Culture
Section "Political Sociology" of the German Sociological Association (DGS), member
GGS section "International Security and Statehood", Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen, speaker
GGS section "Political Education", Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, member
Research colloquium on civil society by Maecenata Stiftung für Zivilgesellschaft, Berlin/München, member
Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung (IPB), Berlin, member
Research
- Research
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Dissertation project
--under revision--
Since February 2018
Fields of interest
- Civil Society / Social Movements
- Authoritarianism/totalitarianism
- MENA region (Middle-East-North-Africa)
- Political & sociological theory
- Religion/secularity from a social sciences perspective
Publications
Rothers, Simon (2018): The Role of Civil Society in the Tunisian Transformation Process, Opuscula 122, Berlin/München: Maecenata Institut für Philanthropie und Zivilgesellschaft. Online hier verfügbar.
Edward Djordjevic; Christoph Held; Rothers, Simon; Miriam Yosef (2021): “Conference Report on ‘Solidarity in Times of Crisis’”. KULT_online, no. 63 (April). https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2021.1080.
Conference contributions
Nasibov, Murad; Rothers, Simon (2019): Social Impetus for Political Activism within Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of Azerbaijan, presented at the workshop: “Why to fight against dictatorship at high personal costs? Studying political activism and its leadership in autocracies”, organized by Netzwerk External Democracy Promotion (EDP), HSFK Frankfurt am Main, 17. und 18. Januar 2019
Teaching
- Teaching
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Summer term 2022
Autoritarismus A & B
Winter term 2021/22
Einführung in die Politische Bildung A & B Schwerpunkt Politische Partizipation
Summer term 2021
Autoritarismus A & B
Winter term 2020/21
Autoritarismen im Vergleich (LA PoWi)
Einführung in die Politische Bildung A Schwerpunkt Partizipation (teachers' basic political education)
Einführung in die Politische Bildung B Schwerpunkt Partizipation (teachers' basic political education)
Summer term 2020
Autoritär, Autorität, Autoritarismus A (teachers' basic political education)
Autoritär, Autorität, Autoritarismus B (teachers' basic political education)
Winter term 2019/20
- Einführung in die Politische Bildung A Diversität & postmigrantische Gesellschaft
- Einführung in die Politische Bildung B Diversität & postmigrantische Gesellschaft
Summer term 2019
- Politische Ideologien in der Spätmoderne A (Grundwissenschaften Lehramt Aufbaumodul)
- Politische Ideologien in der Spätmoderne B (Grundwissenschaften Lehramt Aufbaumodul)
Winter term 2018/19
- Europäische (Zivil)gesellschaften (Bachelor Social Sciences)
- Einführung in die politische Bildung Schwerpunkt Europa (Grundwissenschaften Lehramt Grundmodul)
Summer term 2018
- Liberalismus eine Einführung A (Grundwissenschaften Lehramt Grundmodul)
- Liberalismus eine Einführung B (Grundwissenschaften Lehramt Grundmodul)
Teaching abroad
Seminar "The role of civil society for democratization. Comparing Northern Africa and Central-Eastern-Europe" as part of the Erasmus Staff Teaching Week at the Catholic University Lille / France (18/11/2019 - 22/11/2019