22 Sept 2021: I will give a presentation on transnational political interest of Germans of Turkish descent at the DEZIM Institute Berlin remotely (with Jonas Elis).
Aug 2021: I will be visiting professor at the GESIS – Leibniz Institute forthe Social Sciences in Cologne for 7 weeks hosted by Prof Alexia Katsanidou.
Aug 2021: I am promoted to the most senior level of full professorship at the University of Duisburg-Essen, 10 years after I started working in Duisburg.
June 2021: we have to mourn the passing of Prof Dennis Spies, Heisenberg Professor of Political Economy at the University of Düsseldorf. He passed away totally unexpectedly, aged 40. Read our tribute here .
June 2021: Gut genug, nicht optimal. Wie man Lernvideos zuhause produziert, Präsentation an der Uni Duisburg-Essen. Memo available:Lernvideos zuhause Achim Goerres 20210615 The talk was spontaneously recorded. Like a bootleg. Video
May 2021: New working paper with Jonas Elis, Sabrina Mayer and Dennis Spies How to Increase Survey Response and Manage the Postal and Face-to-Face Field Work of Participant Recruitment during the Covid-19 Pandemic
April 2021: I accepted the counter offer by the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Februar 2021: Sabrina J. Mayer, Dennis C. Spies and I received funding by the German Research Foundation for the Immigrant German Election Study 2 .
Dec 2020: I received the offer for the Chair of Political Sociology at the University of Bamberg.
27 Nov 2020: Presentation “Mehr füreinander und mehr gegeneinander? Politische Solidaritäten während der Corona-Pandemie” at the Annual Meeting at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies Cologne. Goerres_MPIfG_Institutstag_20201127
Find a pre-recorded presentation here