I’m delighted to announce that I will be a guest researcher at the Institute for Comparative Federalism, EURAC Research (Bozen/Bolzano, Italy) from May until August 2018.
I will be conducting field work for my research project on the political participation of persons with disabilities at the regional level, and I’m looking forward to discuss my findings with the experts at EURAC Research!
On March 22th, 2018 I gave a presentation at the kick-off event for the 2018 “Buddies for Refugees” program at TUM. I had already taken part in the first program in 2015, so I was very happy to be invited back for another talk, focusing on the political and societal events that took place in the three years since my first presentation in the buddy program.
More information on “Buddies for Refugees” can be found here.
Photo credit: Junge Akademie / Dennis Rivera
The article I’ve written together with my former Max Planck colleague, Dr. Laura Dobusch, has now been published by the Zeitschrift für Führung und Personalmanagement in der Gesundheitswirtschaft.
Our paper talks about the challenges posed to health care systems by migratory movements and increasingly diverse societies, and looks at how diversity management practices may be helpful in dealing with these issues. The full issue of the ZFPG can be found here.
I’m very happy to announce that my paper “A Common Commitment: Civil Society and European Solidarity in the ‘Refugee Crisis'” has just been published in a volume edited by Timofey Agarin and Nevena Nancheva titled A European Crisis: Perspectives on Refugees, Solidarity and Europe (Ibidem Press, 2018).
The book analyzes the links between refugee migration and the perception of Europe in crisis, by looking at the construction of crisis narratives and the erosion of European core-concepts like solidarity. My article can be found here. The edited volume is available for purchase in all online bookstores, e.g. here.
My colleague Isabella Bertmann and I are organizing a panel at the DVPW Congress 2018 “Grenzen der Demokratie / Frontiers of Democracy”, to be held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from September 25-28, 2018.
Our panel is called “Demokratie, politische Partizipation und Diversität – Grenzen und Potentiale sozialpolitischer Rahmenbedingungen”; we welcome contributions on the relationship between social policy, diversity (e.g. migrants, national minorities, persons with disabilities) and political participation.
Papers may be presented in German or English. The complete call can be found here. Please send your abstract to both Isabella Bertmann and myself by January 31st, 2018 if you’re interested in participating.
The Neue Südtiroler Tageszeitung recently featured me in a portrait series called Südtiroler in der Welt – South Tyroleans in the World.
I’d like to thank the KVW, the organizer of the series, and the Tageszeitung for their interest in me and my work!
I had the pleasure of organizing a joint workshop for the Fellow-Group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, the Chair of Sociology of Diversity, and the EURAC Institutes for Comparative Federalism and for Minority Rights, together with Elisabeth Alber from the Institute for Comparative Federalism.
The workshop took place from September 25 – 27, 2017 at EURAC Research in Bozen/Bolzano, and dealt with issues of “participation and governance”. The workshop program can be found here. We’re very grateful for the interesting exchange and look forward to possible collaborations, joint publications or research projects!
I had the pleasure of attending two very interesting events commemorating the 40th anniversary of the abduction and assassination of Hanns Martin Schleyer by the RAF.
I’m very grateful to the Schleyer Foundation for granting me the possibility to participate in a commemoration ceremony held by the German Federal President at Schloss Bellevue on October 18th, and in a Symposium at the Elisabethkirche in Berlin on October 19th, which tackled freedom and democracy and how to preserve these values in a world of increased security threats.
More information on both the commemoration and the symposium can be found here.
As previously posted here, I was awarded the Friedwart Bruckhaus Prize for young researchers 2015/2016, and I recently went to Berlin to receive the prize during the Schleyer Foundation’s “Forum Berlin” event. The award ceremony was a very illustrous event, held in the Allianz Forum directly at the Pariser Platz in Berlin, just across the square from the Brandenburg Gate.
The atmosphere was celebratory and elegant, but also very friendly, and during the ceremony and the following dinner I was able to talk to a great number of very interesting people from the world of academia and beyond. Here are some impressions from the ceremony. Photo credit: Axel Joerss
I’ve also done an interview about the prize and my research in general with the colleagues from TUM’s press department (unfortunately, it’s only available in German). You can read the interview here.
I’m delighted to announce that I will be awarded the Friedwart-Bruckhaus-Förderpreis (Friedwart-Bruckhaus-Prize) “Europa neu gestalten?” (New ways of shaping Europe) for young scientists by the very renowned Hanns-Martin Schleyer-Stiftung. As a scholar of European Integration, a prize for research on potential future paths for Europe is an especially big reward and honor, and also represents a commitment to the spirit of a connected Europe in times of national borders being reinstalled.
The award ceremony will take place on December 2nd, 2016, in Berlin. You can find information about the prize on the Schleyer-Stiftung’s website. The detailed program for the evening can be found here.