SITE Events
SITE Seminar | Refugees and entrepreneurship: Evidence from Ukrainians in Poland
3/31/2026, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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 | Networks of nation-building: Evidence from the Fennoman movement
4/7/2026, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join us for the next SITE Seminar! On April 7, 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 | Propaganda and disinformation as components of hybrid warfare: The case of the Russian–Ukrainian war
4/14/2026, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join us for the next SITE Seminar! On April 14, 2026, we welcome Nina Khairova to discuss how misinformation escalates into coordinated propaganda campaigns in digital environments, and what this implies for detecting manipulative information in the context of hybrid warfare. The seminar introduces a framework for AI-based misinformation detection and uses the Russian–Ukrainian war as a case study to illustrate why context-aware approaches are essential.
SITE Seminar | The political consequences of energy price shocks - Evidence from Germany
5/12/2026, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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.