On Wednesday, 24 March, I will present a part of my research project “Migration and health policies in Europe” at the “Health in Europe” discussion forum hosted by the Centre for Law and Society, Lancaster Law School (UK). In my talk, I will shed light on the (construed) roles national…
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“National values” in asylum and health policies: Presentation at the RESPOND Conference in Cambridge (17-19 Oct 2019)
From 17 to 19 October 2019, I had the opportunity to be among a wide range of scholars from a variety of disciplines – political science, sociology, law, anthropology, history etc. – who gathered at Newnham College, Cambridge University, to discuss recent developments and new insights in the field of…
Continue ReadingJoining the UACES Executive Committee as elected member
UACES is a vibrant global organisation for academics, students and practitioners interested in all aspects of Europe and the European Union. Amongst its extensive activities, UACES holds and supports a wide range of conferences and events, co-publishes various journals and book series, supports research networks as well as individual fieldwork,…
Continue ReadingResearch scholarship at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
From February till April 2019, I have been granted a research scholarship at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main. As a guest researcher, I can use the Institute’s extensive library and its databases, as well as its beautiful working facilities – and I greatly…
Continue ReadingWorkshop on personal perceptions of the end of war – ‘War or Peace’ Festival
This weekend (17-21 October), 300 young people from all over the world met at the ‘War or Peace’ Festival in Berlin, organised by the German Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) and the Maxim Gorki Theatre Berlin. 100 years after the end of World War One, the participants investigated in…
Continue ReadingRunner-up to the 2018 Luke Foster Prize for Best JCER Article with ‘Far Beyond the Treaties’ Clauses’
The academic association for Contemporary European Studies UACES and the Journal of Contemporary European Research (JCER) have announced the winners of this year’s Luke Foster Prize for the best article by an early-career researcher published in JCER. My article ‘Far Beyond the Treaties’ Clauses: The European Parliament’s Gain in Power,…
Continue ReadingJoined the great data collection project V-Dem
Now it is official: I am very happy to take over the roll as country coordinator on Luxembourg at the great data collection project Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), which aims to provide a new approach to conceptualising and measuring democracy worldwide. It compiles “a multidimensional and disaggregated dataset that reflects…
Continue ReadingGood news: our proposal for the next special issue of JCER has been accepted
The activism of EU supranational institutions: this will be the topic of a special issue in the Journal of Contemporary European Research (JCER). David Howarth and I just won the bid for JCER’s 2017 special issue, and we will get to work swiftly, first publishing a call for abstracts in…
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