The CIS Colloquium is a speakers series which takes place during the semester on Thursdays from 12:30 to 14:00. In the Spring it takes place at the ETH and in the Fall it takes place at the UZH. The target audience is all CIS participants including PhDs, Postdocs, Researchers and Professors.
You can find the Spring 25 program on the Current Events page. Our Fall 25 program will be published soon.
CIS supports DeFacto
external page DeFacto features abstracts of papers published in journals, summaries of book chapters and other research reports, as well as analyses and commentaries written especially for the platform by scholars in the context of current events. Advanced students are also given the opportunity to present outstanding research. The articles on DeFacto appear exclusively in German, French or Italian. They are written in a short and comprehensible way, but at the same time show which methodology they are based on and which theories they refer to.
Women at CIS is a peer-group consisting of PhD students and postdocs at the Political Science Department of the University of Zurich and the political science areas of the ETH Zurich who identify as women. The group organizes different events and activities to increase the confidence, exposure, and (international) networks of women at CIS
Congratulations to Daniele Caramani on being awarded a Horizon grant from the European Research Council for his project Global Cleavages: The Shape of Political Conflict across World Regions in Historical Perspective (GLOBAL) and to Enzo Nussio for receiving a SNSF Consolidator Grant which will start in 2025.
A global ranking of the research productivity of political science departments puts the CIS at the top of European departments per number of faculty members.
