- Die Europäisierung nationaler Beschäftigungspolitik – Europäische Konzertierung als Ausweg aus der Krise? Vortrag im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung “Beschäftigung in Europa in der Krise”. Oldenburg, 4. November 2009.
- Die Europäisierung nationaler Beschäftigungspolitik – Kurzvortrag zur Disputation . Oldenburg, 6. Juli 2009.
- Conceptualizing Europeanization: The Domestic Europeanization of Employment Policy. Effects, Mechanisms and Actors in the process of institutional change. JM-CETRO summer school 2009. The Domestic Europeanization of Labour Market and Employment Policies – Effects, Mechanisms and Actors in the Process of Institutional Change. Oldenburg, 29. August 2009.
- The Europeanization of Labour Market Reforms. The role of domestic institutional entrepreneurs in adopting the European Employment Strategy. Presented at the Cross-border influences in social policy. ESPAnet 2008 Conference. Helsinki, Finland, September 18–20, 2008.
- Activation Reforms in Continental and Southern Europe. Impacts of the European Employment Strategy on Exclusive Employment Regimes in Germany, Italy and France. International Conference, “Activation” policies on the fringes of society: a challenge for European welfare states, May 15th-16th, 2008 in Nuremberg, organized by the “Institute for Employment Research (IAB)” and the “Political Sociology” Section of the German Sociological Association.
- Die reflexive Modernisierung kontinental und südeuropäischer Beschäftigungsordnungen: Die Auswirkungen des Flexicurity Paradigmas der Europäischen Beschäftigungsstrategie in Deutschland, Italien und Frankreich. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Vereinigung für Sozialwissenschaftliche Arbeitsmarktforschung (SAMF e.V.) “Arbeitsmarkt und Sozialpolitik”: Kontroversen um Effizienz und Sicherheit. Berlin, 13./14. Dezember 2007
- Varieties of Flexicurity in Continental Europe. Impacts of the Flexicurity paradigm and the European Employment Strategy on employment regimes in Germany, Italy and France.ESPAnet Young Researchers Workshop “The European Social Model and Beyond”. Göttingen, December 6-8 2007.
- Varieties of European Flexicurity. Impacts of the European Employment Strategy on domestic institutions in Germany, Italy and France. Presentation at the Second joint Doctoral Workshop Development of Work and Welfare Reform in European Societies. ESPAnet and RECWOWE. October 5-6, 2007 University of Hamburg.
- Europeanization of Social Policies: The Influences of OMC/Inclusion on National Institutions in Germany, France and Italy. Presented at the ESPAnet Conference 2007,20 – 22 September. Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria.
- The OMC and the Reflexive Modernization of National Employment and Welfare Regimes: The German, Italian and French Experiences. Presented at the Conference Changing European Employment and Welfare Regimes. The Impact of the Open Method of Coordination on National Labour Market and Welfare Reforms, University of Bamberg, February 23 and 24, 2007.
- The impact of the European Employment Strategy on Labour Market Reforms in Germany and Italy. Workshop on the Impacts of the European Employment Strategy and the OMC/Inclusion in Germany, France and Italy. Ires Lucia Morosini , Torino, June 16, 2006.
- Learning within Fields: The Limited Success of the European Employment Strategy in Germany. Presented at the “Workshop concerning Options for the Applications of the ‘Open Method of Co-ordination (OMC)’ in European Spatial Development” 2nd September 2005. Bonn, Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR)