Shifting Nationalism: From German to European

Paper at the International Conference "Scaling the Nation-State - Relgion, Language and Ethnicity in Contemporary Japan and Germany", Berlin, October 10th and 11th

Demokratie und Gewaltenteilung in der Finanzkrise

(Democracy and the Balance of powers in the Financial Crisis), Paper at the conference  "Gewaltenteilung und Demokratie im Mehrebenensystem der EU: neu, anders - oder weniger legitim?"(Balance of powers in the EU multilevel System: new, different, or less legitimate?), Section Comparative Politics and Working Group on EU Integration of DVPW, Berlin, October 9th and 10th

Head of State, Government, Parliament or what? Discussing the EU's Institutional Setting in Terms of Analysis of Political Regimes

Paper at the ECPR General Conference, Glasgow, September 3rd-6th

Conceptual Politics in the EU Multilevel System

Paper at the 17th international Conference on the History of Concepts Bielefeld, August 28th-30th

Conceptual Approaches to the European Parliament: Methodological Reflections and Research Agenda

Paper at the international conference "Parliaments and Methodology", Helsinki and Jyväskylä, June 12th-14th

National Discourses on European integration: a Franco-German Comparison

Guest Lecture, Institut des Études Politiques de Strasbourg

Europa hat die Wahl

Paper within discussion with Robert Menasse, Mainz, May 13th

Comparing France and Germany in Debating the European Union

Guest Lecture, Institut des Études Politiques de Paris

From Safeguarding Peace in Europe to Financial Crisis

Paper at the Finnish Political Science Association Annual Conference, Tampere, Finland, March 6th-7th

Citizenship and Democracy in the European Union

Paper at the Finnish Political Science Association Annual Conference, Tampere, Finland, March 6th-7th

Conceptual Change and European Integration: A Research Agenda

Paper at the international workshop "Conceptual History and European Integration", Jyväskylä, Finland, March 5th