SITE Events
Ignoring antagonistic information threats: Costs and evidence from Ukraine
2026-02-12, 09:30 - 12:00
As democracies worldwide face mounting disinformation, influence operations, and hybrid threats, Ukraine’s experience offers an evidence base for understanding the consequences of underestimating - or ignoring - antagonistic information aggression. This high-level expert event brings together Ukrainian and international specialists to unpack the economic, political, and societal costs of these threats, and to discuss what Europe must learn from Ukraine’s decade on the front lines.
SITE Seminar | Networks of nation-building: Evidence from the Fennoman movement
2026-02-17, 12:00 - 13:00
Join us for the next SITE Seminar! On February 17, 2026, we welcome Jaakko Meriläinen to present new evidence on how elite networks shaped nation-building in 19th-century Finland, tracing the diffusion of nationalist adoption through social ties and its longer-run effects on identity formation and political development.
SITE Seminar | Refugees and entrepreneurship: Evidence from Ukrainians in Poland
2026-03-31, 12:00 - 13:00
Join us for the next SITE Seminar! On March 31, 2026, we welcome Pierre-Louis Vézina to discuss refugee entrepreneurship in Poland after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, examining firm creation, spillovers to domestic business formation, and underlying mechanisms using registry and survey data.
SITE Seminar | The political consequences of energy price shocks - Evidence from Germany
2026-05-12, 12:00 - 13:00
Join us for the next SITE Seminar! On May 12, 2026, we welcome Jan Christoph Steckel to discuss how household electricity price shocks shape democratic attitudes and party support in Germany during the 2022–2023 energy crisis, drawing on evidence from a four-wave panel survey and billing-system–driven variation.