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Organization of Conferences, Workshops and Sessions (selected)

• Stream at ESPAnet Conference (together with Julia Höppner and Thurid Eggers): 'Providing Social Security for Older People: Interactions of Different Social Policies, their Drivers and Outcomes' University of Lisbon, Portugal, August 2026

• Forum Sozialpolitikforschung of the Sektion Sozialpolitikforschung at DGS Kongress (together with Katrin Menke and Hannah Zagel), University Duisburg/Essen, Germany, September 2025.

• Symposium at CES Conference (together with Birgit Pfau-Effinger): 'Social Citizenship and Protection for Older People in European Welfare States', University Lyon/Sciences Po Lyon, France, July 2024.

• PhD-Workshop (together with Katrin Menke, Julia Höppner and Sigrid Leitner): 'Mixed Methods in der Sozialpolitik und Sozialen Arbeit“, Technische Hochschule Köln, Germany,  May 2024.

• Panel at Transforming Care Conference (together with Thurid Eggers and Birgit Pfau-Effinger): 'The Role of Cultural Ideas in the Development of Childcare Policies and Long-Term Care Policies' University of Sheffield, UK, June 2023.

• Consortium Meeting of the EU Project EUROSHIP (together with Birgit Pfau-Effinger); University of Hamburg, Germany November 2022.

• Stakeholder Meeting of EU-Project EUROSHIP (together with Birgit Pfau-Effinger): 2nd National Stakeholder Meeting with delegates of BAGSO, BMAS, KDA, NAK and Ver.di. Virtual Meeting, January 2022.

• Stream at ESPAnet Conference (together with Julia Höppner): 'Social citizenship in old age: Linkages and Interrelations between pension and care policies?' Virtual Conference, August/September 2021.

• Stakeholder Meeting of EU-Project EUROSHIP (together with Birgit Pfau-Effinger): 1st National Stakeholder Meeting with delegates of BAGSO, BMAS, KDA, NAK and Ver.di. Virtual Meeting, December 2020.

• Panel at SASE Conference (together with Patricia Frericks, Julia Höppner and Birgit Pfau-Effinger): 'Developments in the Marketization of the Social: New Modes of Redistribution and Inequalities'. Network E 'Political Economy of Industrial Relations and Welfare States'; Virtual Conference, July 2020.

• International Symposium (together with Thurid Eggers, Ralf Och and Birgit Pfau-Effinger): 'Work, Welfare State and Social Inequality' University of Hamburg, Germany, Feburary 2020.

• Workshop for Application for DFG Collaborative Research Centre 'Forms of Work in Societal Context' (together with Birgit Pfau-Effinger): 'Causal Analysis and Historical, International and Regional Comparative Perspectives' Berlin, Germany, December 2019.

• Workshop for Application for DFG Collaborative Research Centre 'Forms of Work in Societal Context' (together with Birgit Pfau-Effinger): 'Theoretical Multi-Level-Approach: Explaining Forms of Work in Societal Context' Berlin, Germany, September 2019.

• Workshop for Application for DFG Collaborative Research Centre 'Forms of Work in Societal Context' (together with Birgit Pfau-Effinger): 'Analysis of Formal, Semi-Formal and Informal Forms of Work: Aims, Innovation and Synergies' Berlin, Germany, March 2019.

• Workshop for Application for DFG Collaborative Research Centre 'Forms of Work in Societal Context' (together with Birgit Pfau-Effinger): 'Forms of Work: Main Dimensions and Concepts' Berlin, Germany, September 2018.

Presentations (selected)

• 'Welfare State Experiences and Welfare State Criticism in Germany. A Mixed Methods Study' (together with Patrick Sachweh and Timo Wiesner), Presentation at SASE Conference, Bordeaux, France, July 2026.

• 'Between Intergenerational and State Solidarity: Unequal Recognition of Care Work in the German Welfare State' (together with Thurid Eggers), CES Conference, Dublin, Irland, June 2026.

• 'Zwischen staatlicher und intergenerationaler Solidarität: Die ungleiche sozialpolitische Anerkennung von Sorgearbeit im deutschen Wohlfahrtsstaat‘ (together with Thurid Eggers), Presentation at FIS Forum, Leipzig, Germany, November 2025.

• 'Germany’s Digital Transformation—Catching Up Despite the Obstacles of a Conservative Welfare State', ESPAnet Conference, Milan, Italy, September 2025.

• 'Resilience despite Poverty and Socio-Economic Insecurity in Old Age? An Analysis of Gaps in Social Citizenship across European Welfare States', Presentation at SASE Conference, Montreal, Canada, July 2025.

• 'Social Risks of Older Persons with Care Needs. Interrelations Of Pension and Long-Term Care Policies Among European Welfare States' (together with Thurid Eggers and Julia Höppner), Presentation at CES Conference, Lyon, France July 2024.

• 'Coping with old-age poverty – The role of agency and different forms of societal support' (together with Ralf Och), Presentation at CES Conference Reykjavik, Iceland, June 2023.

• 'Gaps in social citizenship over the life course: Overcoming poverty in old age', Presentation at EUROSHIP Consortium Meeting, Budapest, Hungary, April 2023.

• 'Lücken in der sozialen Sicherung für ältere Menschen mit Pflegebedarf? Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Renten- und Langzeitpflegepolitik in europäischen Wohlfahrtsstaaten' (together with Thurid Eggers and Julia Höppner), Presentation at DGS Kongress, Forum sozialpolitischer Forschung, Bielefeld, Germany, September 2022.

• 'The role of cultural ideas, actors and power relations for the path dependence of the German minimum income scheme since the mid-2000s' (together with Thurid Eggers and Birgit Pfau-Effinger), Presentation at ESPAnet Conference Vienna, Austria, September 2022.

• 'Informalizing childcare during the pandemic? Policies towards childcare during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in different types of care arrangements' (together with Thurid Eggers and Birgit Pfau-Effinger), Presentation at RC19/ISA Conference Vilnius, Lithuania, August 2022.

• 'A typology of institutional constellations in European long-term care policies' (together with Thurid Eggers). Presentation at CES Conference Lisbon, Portugal, June/July 2022.

• 'Family Care as a Form of Work? New Policies towards Care by Family Members in European Welfare States’. Presentation at ESPAnet Conference ONLINE, August/September 2021.

• 'Politik, Kultur und COVID-19: Erklärung von Differenzen in den wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Politiken zur Kinderbetreuung in der Pandemie' (together with Thurid Eggers and Birgit Pfau-Effinger), Presentation at Gemeinsamer Kongress der DGS und ÖGS Vienna, Austria, August 2021.

• 'Varieties of Marketization - A Typology of Long-Term Care Policies based on the Degree of Regulation on the Supply and Demand Side', Presentation at the 5th Transforming Care Conference. Venice, Italy, June 2021.

• 'Self-responsibility of the “active social citizen”: Different types of the policy concept of “active social citizenship” in different types of welfare states', Presentation at Virtual Conference of SASE (Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics), July 2020.

• 'The Institutional Design of Markets in the Field of Long-Term Care Policy – The Relationship between Supply and Demand', presentation at the Annual Conference of SASE (Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics), New York, USA, June 2019.

• 'Zum Verhältnis von De-familialisierung und Familialisierung - Ein Vorschlag zur Re-Konzeptionalisierung des Ansatzes am Beispiel der Pflegepolitik' (together with Thurid Eggers and Prof. Dr. Birgit Pfau-Effinger), presentation at the DGS Kongress, Göttingen, Germany, September 2018

• 'Re-Conceptualising the Relationship between De-Familialisation and Familialisation' (together with Thurid Eggers and Birgit Pfau-Effinger), paper presented XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, Canada, July 2018.

• 'A Classification of Care Policies Beyond the „Cash/Care“-Dichotomy' (together with Thurid Eggers and Birgit Pfau-Effinger), paper presented Annual ESPAnet Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2017.

• 'Marketization of Long-Term Care Policies - Explaining Differences in Reform Pathways in Conservative Welfare States' (together with Thurid Eggers and Birgit Pfau-Effinger), paper presented at 112th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association Montreal, Canada, August 12th-14th 2017.

• 'Explaining cross-national differences in long-term care policies - a historical study about the role of culture, institutions and actors' (together with Thurid Eggers and Birgit Pfau-Effinger), paper presented at 24th International CES Conference, Glasgow, UK, July 2017.

• 'Care Policies towards Familial Care and Extra-Familial Care – Their Interaction and Role for Gender Equality' together with Thurid Eggers and Birgit Pfau-Effinger), paper presented at 3rd Transforming Care Conference, Milan, Italy, June 2017.

• 'Explaining Cross-National Differences in Elderly People’s Behavior towards Care' (together with Thurid Eggers and Birgit Pfau-Effinger), poster presented at GSA Annual Scientific Meeting, New Orleans, USA, November 2016.

• 'The Marketization of Long-Term Care' (together with Thurid Eggers and Birgit Pfau-Effinger), paper presented at 4th International Conference on Evidence-based Policy in Long-term Care, London School of Economics, UK, August/September 2016.

• 'Elderly care in the Context of Culture and Care Policies' (together with Thurid Eggers and Birgit Pfau-Effinger), paper presented at the 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology, University of Vienna, Austria, July 2016.

• 'Interaction of Culture, Institutions and Actors in Explaining Cross-National Differences in Care Policy Marketization' (together with Thurid Eggers and Birgit Pfau-Effinger), paper presented at the 28th Annual Conference of SASE (Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics), University of California, Berkeley, USA, June 2016.

• 'Why Do Seniors Often Chose Family Care?' (together with Thurid Eggers and Birgit Pfau-Effinger), paper presented at the 23th annual CES Conference, Philadelphia, USA, April 2016.

• 'World Polity and Welfare State Changes' paper presentation at the 12th Workshop on New Institutionalism in Organization Theory, Lucerne, Switzerland, March/April 2016.

• 'New Policies towards Care by Family Members in Different Types of Welfare States' (together with Thurid Eggers and Birgit Pfau-Effinger), paper presented at the 2015 Annual ESPAnet Conference, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, September 2015.

• 'The Interaction of Culture, Institutions and Actors in Explaining Cross-National Differences in Care Policy Marketization' (together with Thurid Eggers and Birgit Pfau-Effinger, paper presented at the 22th annual CES Conference, Sciences Po, Paris, France, July 2015.

• 'Investing in children or care for senior citizens? The impact of local child/senior care configurations on social cohesion' (together with Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Patricia Frericks, Ralf Och and Nicola Schwindt), paper presented at Inclusive Europe Conference, Berlin, Germany, October 2014

• 'World Polity and Welfare State Changes' paper presentation at 2014 Annual ESPAnet Conference, Oslo, Norway, September 2014.