Is the Financial Crisis a Crisis of Democracy?

Keynote-Lecture beim POLITU international doctoral course, Paris, October 15th -18th

Changes of a Parliamentarisation of the EU

Paper at international workshop "Parliament and Parliamentarism: A Comparative History of Dispute on a European Concept", University of Jyväskylä, Finnland,  August 27th-29th

European Integration and Conceptual History

Opening Lecture"Conceptual History Approaches to European integration" der "15th international conference of the History of Social and Political Concepts Group", Helsinki,  August 23rd-25th

Conceptual History and European Integration

Keynote lecture, "CONCEPTA International Summer School", Helsinki, August 21th

The European Parliament as a Special Parliament

Paper, IPSA World Conference 2012, Section: Political Theory, Panel: Parliamentarism, Rhetoric, and Political Theory Madrid, July 8th-12th

The European Parliament as a Dynamic and Changing Parliament

Paper, 6th Jyväskylä Annual Symposium on Political Thought and Conceptual Change, Finland, June 8th-9th

European Citizenship, Social Rights, and Democracy in the EU

Paper, University Utrecht, May 15th

National European Debates - a Means of European Identity Formation and EU Democatisation?

Paper, NCCR Democracy, ETH Zurich, March 5th

European Citizenship - an Analysis

Paper, "Jyväkylä seminar on political thought", University of Jyväskylä, Finland, January 17th