Conference Presentations, Talks & Lectures
06/05-06/2023
“The Political Leadership of Ursula von der Leyen: European Agenda-Setting and Media Evaluations in Times of Crisis;”
“Equality and Multi-Level Governance in the European Union: Conclusions from the von der Leyen Commission”
(co-authored with Michael W. Bauer)
Conference: The governance of gender equality policy in EU institutions: Assessing developments during the von der Leyen Commission Presidency (2019-2024)
University of Tübingen, Germany
05/25-26/2023
“Pathways to Leadership: Women’s Careers Across EU Institutions”
(co-authored with Ingeborg Tömmel)
EUGenDem Final Conference: European Politics, Equality and Democracy
University of Helsinki, Finland
05/05-06/2023
“Pathways to Leadership: Women’s Careers Across EU Institutions”
(co-authored with Ingeborg Tömmel)
Conference Careers of European Elites and their Representative Effects
University of Bamberg, Germany [remote]
09/08-10/2022
“The State of Women’s Leadership in EU Institutions“ (presentation of the book “Women and Leadership in the European Union“, co-edited with Ingeborg Tömmel), and “Women Leading the Opposition: Gender, Rhetoric, and Performance in the European Parliament” (co-authored with Pamela Pansardi)
Annual Conference, Italian Political Science Association (SISP), University La Sapienza, Rome
07/07-09/2022
“Women Leading the Opposition: Gender, Rhetoric, and Performance in the European Parliament”
(co-authored with Pamela Pansardi)
ECPR European Conference in Politics and Gender, University of Ljubljana
9/14-16/2021
“Strategic Leadership: Ursula von der Leyen as President of the European Commission”
(co-authored with Ingeborg Tömmel)
Online Convention of the German Political Science Association
06/10-12/2021
“Rhetoric and Leadership: A Comparison of Female Vice-Presidents of the European Commission”
(co-authored with Pamela Pansardi)
“Strategic Leadership: Ursula von der Leyen as President of the European Commission”
(co-authored with Ingeborg Tömmel)
ECPR Standing Group on the European Union Conference (SGEU), Online Format
11/15/2020
Talk: “Women and Leadership in the European Union”
Gender Brown Bag Seminar / New York University Abu Dhabi
08/26-28/2020
Women and the Press in GCC States: A Study of Saliency, Diversity and Valence of Women Empowerment
(co-authored with Christin Camia)
Annual Conference of the ECPR, Online Format
07/14-17/2020
“Women and the Press in GCC States: A Study of Saliency, Diversity and Valence of Women Empowerment”
(co-authored with Christin Camia)
Annual Meeting International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), Online Format
06/22/2020
“Between Rhetoric and Leadership: A Comparison of Female Vice-Presidents of the European Commission (1999-2019)”
(co-authored with Pamela Pansardi)
Gender and Sexuality Research Network, Online Conversations Program
07/12-15/2019
“Political Leadership Across Regime Types: Comparing the Performance of National Executives During Times of Economic Crisis”
Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), Lisbon
07/04-06/2019
“Mapping Female Leadership in the European Union”
European Conference on Politics and Gender (ECPG), University of Amsterdam
12/09/2018
“Women in the Public Sphere of GCC States: A Study of Media Attention and Attitudes towards Female Empowerment (2000-2017)” (together with Christin Köber, NYUAD)
Gender Brown Bag Seminar, New York University Abu Dhabi
04/19-20/2018
“Converging Patterns of Performance during Times of Economic Crisis. Political Leadership across Regime Types”
3rd PUPOL General Conference “Leadership in a Changing Environment”, Defence University Stockholm
04/10-14/2018
“What Makes Collaborative Leadership Successful? The Cognitive Dimension of European Integration”
(together with Femke van Esch)
ECPR Joint Sessions Workshop, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
03/28-29/2018
“The Politics of Women Empowerment: Female Leaders in the UAE”
(together with Rahma Abdulkadir)
Conference at the NYUAD Institute, “Varieties of Emirati Womanhood: Subjectivities, Creativities, and Confines”, Abu Dhabi, UAE
09/6-9/2017
“What Makes Collaborative Leadership Successful? The Cognitive Dimension of European Integration” (together with Femke van Esch)
ECPR General Conference, University of Oslo, Norway
07/12-14/2017
“What Makes Collaborative Leadership Successful?” The Cognitive Dimension of European Integration (together with Femke van Esch)
International Conference of Europeanists (CES), University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
03/20/2017
Lecture: “Unexplored Parallels: Political Leadership and Economic Growth in Democracies and Autocracies”
Utrecht School of Governance, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
03/15-17/2017
“Unexplored Parallels: Political Leadership and Economic Policy Across Regime Types”
DVPW Conference/Section Comparative Politics: “Unlike Twins?! Comparing Autocracies and Democracies”, University of Tübingen
04/7-8/2016
“Between Potential, Performance and Prospect: Political Leadership of the EU Commission President”
1st PUPOL Conference “Leadership Challenges in a Global World”, Radboud University, Nijmegen
11/20-21/2015
“How to Set a European Agenda? The Commission Presidents and the Quest for Leadership”
Workshop “Political Leadership in the EU”, University of Osnabrueck/University of Victoria
09/16-17/2014
“From Walter Hallstein to Jacques Delors and José Barroso: Leadership Potential and Performance of the EU Commission President”
Policy & Politics conference 2014: The challenges of leadership and collaboration in the 21st Century, University of Bristol
06/05-07/2014
“After Lisbon: Leadership Potential and Performance of the EU Commission President”
7th Pan-European Conference on the European Union (SGEU), The Hague
09/04-07/2013
“The Impact of the Commission Presidents on EU Policies. Analyzing the Political Leadership Performance in Supranational Governance”
ECPR General Conference, Bordeaux
05/30-06/01/2013
French-German Annual Doctoral Meeting
L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
01/26 – 27/2012
“The European Commission President in Crisis. Political Leadership in the European Union”
THESEUS Doctoral Seminar, Sciences Po Paris
12/15/2011
“Political Leadership in the European Union”
Talk given at the German Historical Institute, Washington DC
12/02/2011
“Political Leadership in the European Union”
Talk given at Georgetown University, Washington DC
05/20/2011