The CIS Colloquium is a speakers series which takes place on Thursdays from 12:30 to 14:00 during the semester. In the Spring it takes place at the ETH iand in the Fall it takes place at the UZH. The target audience is all CIS participants including PhDs, Postdocs, Researchers and Professors.
The Spring 2024 colloquia will take place at CLA J 1, ETH, Tannenstrasse 3, 8092 Zürich
CIS supports DeFacto
external pageDeFactocall_made 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
Vally Koubi is Professor (Titular) and Senior Scientist at the Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS) at the ETH Zurich and Professor at the Institute of Economics at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She was formerly the Director of CIS from 2020 - 2022. She will take over as interim Director of Studies at the MACIS Programme from 1 February 2024 to 31 January 2025, while Prof. Dr. Dominik Hangartner is on leave.
Data quality in European law enforcement and border control cooperation: Findings from survey research by Matthias Leese and Fintan Marugg, published here: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000609825 65 national-level law enforcement and border control organizations in the European Union/Schengen area were studied in the survey.
Giorgio Malet and Stefanie Walter have been awarded the 2022 Best Conference Paper Prize by the European Union Studies Association for their paper "Have your cake and eat it, too? Switzerland and the feasibility of differentiated integration after Brexit." https://www.eustudies.org/uploads/repository-documents/EUSA-AWARDS