From 6 to 8 November 2024, scholars and various stakeholders from politics, welfare administration, civil society and beyond met in Berlin at this year’s FIS Forum and Social Policy Biennale. Under the overarching theme ‘Lost in Social Policy? Research for an Integrated Welfare State’, they discussed cutting-edge research and current…
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Presentations at the UACES Conference 2024 in Trento
The 54th Conference of UACES took place from 1 to 4 September 2024 in the beautiful Italian city of Trento. Apart from joining a range of excellent and thought-provoking panels, and enjoying surreally beautiful receptions, coffee and lunch breaks and the grand conference dinner, I was glad to contribute three…
Continue ReadingFaculty 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…
Continue ReadingTalk 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…
Continue Reading‘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…
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Conference: ‘Social Europe and the Making of EMU: Contradiction in Terms or Missed Opportunities? (1957-1992)’
On 25-26 May, a group of scholars from across Europe studying the history of European social policy and Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) came together at the EUI’s Villa Salviati to explore the interrelations between Social Europe and EMU. In three panels and an engaging final round of discussion, the…
Continue ReadingScience 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…
Continue ReadingSummer 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…
Continue ReadingTalk on the roles attributed to the EU in German and Swedish regulation of asylum seekers’ and refugees’ access to health care
Following my presentation on the (construed) role of the EU in national policies on asylum seekers’ and refugees’ access to health care at the “Health in Europe” discussion forum hosted by the Centre for Law and Society, Lancaster Law School (UK), in late March, I worked further on the underlying…
Continue ReadingConference talk: ‘Democratisation through Deliberation’
The European Parliament’s (EP) primary raison d’être is the representation of the EU citizens, providing its members with the necessary argumentative basis to claim: There is no democratic legitimacy in EU politics without us! – Whereas this claim is the same today as it was almost 70 years ago, the…
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