Current CIS Events
CIS Colloquium
The CIS Colloquium is a speakers series which takes place every Thursday* from 12:30 to 14:00 during the semester. 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.
The Spring 2025 CIS Colloquia will take place at ETH Zurich, IFW Building, Haldeneggsteig 4, Room E 42.* The program will be upated regularly.
** We will exceptionally have an extra speaker on Wednesday, the 19th of March from 12:30 to 14:00 and this session will be held at the University of Zurich IPZ AFL Buiiding, Affolternstrasse 56, Room E 009.
Zurich Political Economy Seminar Series (ZPESS)
ZPESS brings together researchers in political economy and related fields from the ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich.
Former and current PhD students, Post-docs and young faculty present their research and receive constructive feedback from a peer group. The seminar is open to participants from diverse backgrounds.
Date: Wednesdays during the semester
Time: 1:30-2:30 pm
Location: Immigration Policy Lab, Leonhardshalde 21
To receive all information on the seminar and the papers ZPESS circulates, please sign up to the ZPESS mailing list: https://sympa.ethz.ch/sympa/info/zpess
Please find the Spring 25 program below. You can click on the image to enlarge it.
ISTP Colloquium Science, Technology and Policy
During the semester, the Institute of Science, Technology and Policy regularly holds colloquia talks with presentations by invited guest speakers from academia and practice/policy. The series is open to the public. Lectures last about 30 minutes followed by a Q&A session.
Check the schedule for location and please register at least 2 hours before each session.
ECR FORUM
The ECR Forum seeks to provide guidance on various aspects of academic career development and creates opportunities for early-career researchers to discuss concerns related to “surviving” academia with faculty and invited experts. PhDs and Postdocs at CIS (UZH and ETH) are invited to attend.
Download Spring 2025 Program (PDF, 476 KB)
6th Annual Digital Democracy Workshop
University of Zurich, 13-14 November 2025
Paper submissions can now be presented on the relationship between digital technology and democracy, broadly understood which will be selected for this workshop organized by the Democracy Community of the Digital Society Initiative (external page https://democracy.dsi.uzh.ch) . We are particularly interested in topics such as the role of social media and AI in political communication and public opinion, e-government and public administration, AI and governance, civic tech and political participation, the regulation of tech platforms, and state repression and digital surveillance, among others. We welcome submissions using different methodological approaches to study these topics.
You can find more information here: external page https://democracy.dsi.uzh.ch/app/uploads/2025/04/CfP-Digital-Democracy-Workshop-2025-2.pdf
The deadline to submit paper abstracts (up to 500 words) for the workshop is 31 May 2025. Find the submission page at this link: external page https://forms.gle/msXAbySJcavm2Z1e9.