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Faculty Teaching Award 2023/24

On 17 April 2024, the University of Augsburg’s Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences awarded its annual Faculty Teaching Awards for the academic year 2023/24. I was honoured to receive one of the three teaching awards for my lecture ‘Introduction to Comparative Politics’. The winners of this award are selected…

Talk at the Conference ‘(De)Constructing Europe. Tensions of Europeanization’ (DHI, Rome)

From 20 to 22 March 2024, an international group of historians, sociologists and political scientists met at the German Historical Institute in Rome to discuss a wide variety of approaches to ‘(De)Constructing Europe’ and the tensions arising thereof, with a focus at different actors from politics, administration, economy and civil…

‘Cover to Cover’ Book Talk at the EUI on ‘The Parliamentary Roots of European Social Policy’

I’m thrilled to return to the EUI on Friday, 23 February 2024, 15h00-16h00, to discuss my book ‘The Parliamentary Roots of European Social Policy: Turning Talk into Power’ (Palgrave) with Prof. Lorenzo Mechi (Università degli Studi di Padova) in this week’s Alcide De Gasperi ‘Cover to Cover’ book talk. In…

OUT NOW: ‘The EU under Strain?’ (De Gruyter)

Our new volume ‘The EU under Strain? Current Crises Shaping European Union Politics‘ has just been published with De Gruyter. It is the inaugural volume of our new book series ‘Europe under Strain‘, which I co-edit with the wonderful Daniel Schade (Leiden University). Daniel is also the co-editor of the…

Science Award 2023 of the German Bundestag for ‘Turning Talk into Power: The Parliamentary Roots of European Social Policy’

I am deeply honoured to be awarded the Wissenschaftspreis des Deutschen Bundestages (Science Award of the German Bundestag) 2023 for my book ‘Turning Talk into Power: The Parliamentary Roots of European Social Policy’ (alongside Oliver Haardt, for his volume ‘Bismarcks ewiger Bund. Eine neue Geschichte des Deutschen Kaiserreichs’). According to…

Meeting the European Health Risk Union with a European Health Rights Union

In the context of this year’s European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG), I was asked to comment on the question: Why do we need a true European Health Union? In a nutshell, I argue in my response that we are currently living in a European Health Risk Union where risks both…

The unreliability of compassion, and the European Parliament’s history of self-empowerment: Two columns at “Ideas on Europe”

Since October 2021, UACES and Euradio are together hosting a new editorial in which scholars from the broad area of European studies address and discuss current issues as well as long-term developments in and across Europe, its political, cultural, societal and economic landscapes. Given the chance to present some of…

OUT NOW: The Parliamentary Roots of European Social Policy (Palgrave, 2021)

My book The Parliamentary Roots of European Social Policy: Turning Talk into Power has been published with Palgrave Macmillan. This book brings together the main findings from my research project on the institutional evolution of the European Parliament prior to its first direct elections. Here’s the abstract of the book:…

Summer conference season 2021: Presentations on European social policy, national health and asylum policies & more

The summer conference season 2021 opened for me with this year’s annual conference of the Refugee Law Initiative, ‘Ageing Gracefully? The 1951 Refugee Convention at 70‘. What a splendid event, with an enormous variety of speakers from all parts of the world, inspiring keynotes and in-depth discussions! I was happy…