Citizens, Participation and the Quality of Democracy

Discussant Statement, International Conference "Measuring Democracy", IPSA RC 34, Frankfurt,  September 29th- October 1st 

Qualititative Methoden in der Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft

(Qualitative Methods in comparative politics), Paper Held at the "Dreiländertagung" of DVPW, ÖGPW and SVPW, Innsbruck,  September 19th-21st

Nationale Europadiskurse und individuelle Einstellungen zur EU

(European Identity: National European Discourses and Individual Orientations Towards the EU), Paper held at the "Dreiländertagung", DVPW, ÖGPW und SVPW, Innsbruck,  September 19th-21st

Ist die Finanzkrise auch eine Demokratiekrise?

(Is the Financial Crisis a Crisis of Democracy?) Paper and Discussion, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Sachsen / Weiterdenken, Leipzig, September 13th

Conceptual change and European integration: introductory reflections and research agenda

Lecture held at the ECPR general conference, Bordeaux, 5th-7th September

Rhetoric and the Micro-politics of Conceptual Change in European Integration

Paper at the "16th International Conference on the History of Concepts - Concepts on the Move", Bilbao,  August 29th-31st

Influencing the EU-regime by Parliamentary Politics: The case of the EP

Paper at the "16th International Conference on the History of Concepts - Concepts on the Move", Bilbao,  August 29th-31st

Conceptual History Approaches to European integration: Methodological Reflections and Research Agenda

Paper at the International Conference "CONTINGENCY, RHETORIC AND LIBERTY. QUENTIN SKINNER AS EUROPEAN THINKER"; Eighth Jyväskylä Symposium on Political Thought and Conceptual History; Finland, June 14th-15th

Euro Crisis as Democracy Crisis?

Paper at international conference "How Far Can European (Democratic) Integration Travel", Lahore University of Management Sciences Pakistan, May 23rd

State-Government-Parliament-Citizenship: Concepts and Challenges to Democratizing the European Union

Paper at International Conference"Challenges to European Democracy Meets South-Asian Realities", Quaid-i-Azam University, Isalamabad, Pakistan, May 22nd

Jugend und Europa - eine Beziehung mit Zukunft?

(Youth and Europe - a Relationship Built to Last?), Lecture at international conference of "Youth in Action", Bonn, May 7th and 8th

Discourse Analysis, Qualitative Data Analysis, and Text Analysis in EU Integration Studies

Paper at ECPR Joint Sessions 2013, Workshop 33: What We Talk About Europe - Methodologies of European Studies, Mainz, March 11th-16th

Union Citizenship and the Europeanisation of Citizenship: Interrelations of Conceptual, Legal and Political Changes

Paper at Finnish Political Science Association Annual Conference, Rovaniemi, Finland, March 7th and 8th

European Citizenship, Democracy, and Social rights

Keynote lecture. international conference seminar (DAAD) "Über die Demokratie"(On Democracy) Philipps-University Marburg and Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad

Protest, Emancipation, and Counter-Movements - Political Groups and the Unwitten Rules of Democracy

Paper, international workshop "Europe and Asia" - Democracy in Entangled Modernities", Philipps-University Marburg,  January 18th and 19th