Presentations

2018

09/2018: Roundtable-Participant "Perspectives for Humanitarian Research in IR", 12^th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, 9/13/2018, Prague (Czech Republic).

09/2018: Lecture "Reconsidering the Political Role of Humanitarian NGOs", 12^th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, 9/13/2018, Prague (Czech Republic).

04/ 2018: Lecture "Politicization of Humanitarian NGOs: Doctors without Borders during the European 'Refugee Crisis'", World Politics Research Seminar, Department of Political Science, Indiana University, 4/27/2018, Bloomington (USA).

04/2018: Roundtable-Participant "Exploring Inter-Agency Interaction: How, Why, and to What Effect Do NGOs Collaborate with Other NGOs or IOs?", ISA Annual Convention, 4/4-4/7/2018, San Francisco (USA).

2017

03/2017: Lecture "NGOs as norm-takers. Translating vague international norms as expression of NGO autonomy", Workshop 'Zu Begriff und Phänomen der Norm', 3/30/2017, Frankfurt (Germany).

02/2017: Lecture "Politicization of Humanitarian Action during the ‚Refugee Crisis‘: Interactions between Doctors Without Borders and the EU", ISA Annual Convention, 2/22/2017, Baltimore (USA).

2016

09/2016: Invited Lecture "Politicization of Humanitarian Aid through the R2P: Stakeholder Concerns and Consequences for Humanitarian Assistance", Konferenz "Protecting the Unprotected. Humanitarian Action and Human Rights After the WHS", 9/21-9/22/2016, Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV), Bochum (Germany).

06/2016: Workshop Contribution "R2P als Politisierung humanitärer Hilfe – und die Folgen am Beispiel Myanmar/Zyklon Nargis 2008", Workshop ‚Aktuelle Entwicklungen und Herausforderungen der Forschung zu humanitärer Hilfe‘, 6/29-6/30/2016, University of Siegen (Germany).

04/2016:Workshop Contribution "Inequality in Mulsti-Stakeholder Internet Governance Processes", 3rd European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS), WS C Institutionalized Inequalities - How International Organizations Shape Global Order, 4/6-4/8/2016, Tübingen (Germany).

03/2016: Lecture "No, thanks! Why Myanmar, Japan, India and the USA rejected humanitarian aid after natural disasters", ISA Annual Conference, 3/16/2016, Atlanta (USA).

2015

05/2015: Lecture "The Politics of Rejecting Humanitarian Aid: Lessons from Myanmar, Japan, India, and the United States", Wednesday Evening Lecture with IZO’s research project “Protecting the Weak. Entangled Processes of Framing, Institutionalization and Mobilization in East Asia” funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, 5/13/2015, Goethe-University Frankfurt (Germany).

01/2015: Lecture "Increasing Inequalities: The Janus-Face of NGO Participation in Internationale Negotiations", Workshop Inequalities and Global Institutional Order. The Case for a New Research Agenda, 1/22-1/24/2015, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Frankfurt (Germany).

2014

09/2014: Lecture "Privatisierung und Politisierung humanitärer Hilfe in der Europäischen Union", 4. Offene Sektionstagung Internationale Politik der DVPW, 9/25-9/27/2014, Magdeburg (Germany).

08/2014: Lecture "Beyond Principles vs. Politics: Politicization of Humanitarian Aid in the European Union", ARENA Tuesday Seminar, ARENA Center for European Studies, University Oslo (Norway).

2013

09/2013: Lecture "Why is humanitarian aid rejected? Comparing the motives of autocratic and democratic states", 7th ECPR General Conference, Bordeaux (France).

04/2013: Lecture "Global Governance and the Myth of Civil Society Participation", ISA Annual Conference, 4/3-4/6/2013, San Francisco (USA) (together with Dr. Katja Freistein).

2012

10/2012: Panel Discussion „Entwicklung durch Sicherheit oder Sicherheit durch Entwicklung?“ (with BrigGen Frank Leidenberger und Christine Toetzke, BMZ), Heidelberger Dialog zur internationalen Sicherheit 2012 „Kooperation im Spannungsfeld: Zum Verhältnis von Entwicklungs- und Sicherheitspolitik“,10/19-10/21/2012, Heidelberg (Germany).

05/2012: Lecture „Legitimität in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Zwischen Partnerschaft und Paternalismus“, STUBE-Sommerakademie „Besser Süd-Süd als Nord-Süd? Zur Zukunft einer nachhaltigen EZ“, 5/9-5/13/2012, Darmstadt (Germany).

2010

12/2010: Lecture “Konkurrierende Legitimitätskonzeptionen in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit – Ursachen für Konflikte und Ineffektivität?“, 2. Nachwuchskonferenz des Exzellenzclusters ‚Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen’ „Normen im Konflikt“, 12/3-12/5/2010, Frankfurt (Germany).

09/2010: Lecture “Participation as input-legitimacy? The ambivalent effects of multistakeholder governance”, SGIR 7th Pan-European Conference on IR, Stockholm (Sweden).

06/2010: Lecture “Civil Society Participation as a Constitutive Myth of Global Governance“, 5thInterpretative Policy Analysis Conference, Grenoble (France) (together with Katja Freistein).

2007

11/2007: Lecture "Structural Power in Internet Governance. Enabling and Constraining Effects of the Institutionalization of NGO Participation at the WSIS", GigaNet Symposium at the UN Forum on Internet Governance, 11/11/2007, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).

06/2007: Lecture "Power and NGOs. Overcoming the Agency-Structure Divide", Workshop Macht - Ohnmacht - Gegenmacht: Nichtstaatliche Akteure im Globalen Regieren, 6/15-6/16/2007, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst (Germany).

2006

12/2006: Lecture "Grenzen Zivilgesellschaftlicher Einflussnahme. Eine Agency-Structure Perspektive auf den UN-Weltgipfel zur Informationsgesellschaft", 3-Länder-Tagung Politik und Persönlichkeit, ÖGPW/SVWP/DVPW, 11/30-12/2/2006, Vienna (Austria).

07/2005: Lecture "Demokratie und Entwicklung in Botsuana - Ein Vorbild für andere afrikanische Staaten?" in the seminar "Im Blickpunkt Afrika - Kollektive Verantwortung für nachhaltige Entwicklung" organized by the Initiative Südliches Afrika (INISA) e.V., 7/15-7/17/2005, Königswinter (Germany).