• Kohler-Koch Beate (2009): Civil Society: A Promoter of Multi-level Accountability?, [ Lecture given at the research seminar, Institute for Public Policy (IPP), Centre of Human and Social Sciences (CCHS), Spanish High Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Madrid, ]

• Kohler-Koch Beate (2009): Lessons of the past – for the research of the future - Beiträge aus dem deutschen Wissenschaftsdiskurs, [ Expertentagung– 50 Jahre Integrationsforschung, Institut für Europäische Politik, Berlin, ]

• Kohler-Koch Beate (2009): Regieren in Europa: Auf dem Weg zur partizipativen Demokratie?, [ Fuldaer Abende, Hochschule Fulda, ]

• Kohler-Koch Beate (2009): Accountability and Democratic Representation in the EU: What Role for Civil Society, [ Research Seminar, University of Maastricht, ]

• Kohler-Koch Beate (2009): The Three Worlds of Civil Society, [ Workshop: Participation and Legitimation in International Organisations, Sonderforschungsbereich 597 ‚Staatlichkeit im Wandel’, Bremen, ]

• Kohler-Koch Beate (2009): Civil society and deliberative democracy in the EU, [ Lecture, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS), ]

• Schindler Steffen, David Reimer (2009): Differentiation and Social Selectivity in German Higher Education, [ EQUALSOC EDUC Research Team Meeting 'Differentiation in Higher Education', Kopenhagen, ]

• Schindler Steffen (2009): European perspectives for young researchers, [ Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA), Round Table 'Sociology in Europe - European Sociology', Lissabon, ]

• Müller Wolfgang C., Nikolaus Eder, Marcelo Jenny (2009): Party Democracy and Individualized Constituency Campaigning: Candidate Strategies and Behavior in the 2006 Austrian Elections, [ Conference: Candidates in Constituency Campaigns from a Comparative Perspective. Is Collectivist Representation in Established Party Democracy under Stress?, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, ]

• Ebbinghaus Bernhard (2009): Varieties of Pension Governance: The Regulation of Private Pensions in Europe, [ Pension Seminar, LSE, London, ]

• Ebbinghaus Bernhard (2009): Financing European workers' right to decent, predictable and adequate retirement: a review of the European landscape a year into the crisis, [ Capital Matters in Europe 2009, ETUI, Brussels, ]

• Zittel Thomas (2009): Legislators and their Representational Roles. Rational Calculus or Habits of the Heart?, [ Annual Meeting of the DVPW-Section „Comparative Politics“, TU Darmstadt, ]

• Zittel Thomas (2009): Electronic Constituency Communication in Comparative Perspective: Changing Media or Changing Democracy?, [ ECPR Conference 2009 Joint Sessions of Workshops, University Lissabon, ]

• Zittel Thomas (2009): Demokratie und Partizipation in Deutschland - Von der Wahl- zur Beteiligungsdemokratie, [ European Conference on „Democracy and Participation – Political Attachments in Decline?, Foundation Genshagen, ]

• Brüderl Josef (2009): Tracing Life Courses with Prospective Panel Surveys - Lessons from the German Family Panel Study, [ Internationale Konferenz des DFG Schwerpunktprogrammes Survey Methodology "Improving Survey Methods", Bremen, ]

• Brüderl Josef, Ulrich Krieger (2009): Tracing Life-Courses with Prospective Panel Surveys: Lessons from the German Family Panel, [ Statcan XXV International Methodology Symposium: Longitudinal Surveys, Gatineau, ]

• Pforr Klaus (2009): Pairfam - Study description and DDI documentation targets, [ DDI: Support Preservation, Management, Acces and Dissemination Systems for Social Science Data, Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, ]

• Krieger Ulrich (2009): Beyond the Household: Accessibility of Partners and Parents Outside of the Household for Panel Studies, [ Nonresponse Workshop, Lausanne, ]

• Zittel Thomas (2009): Elektronische Wählerkommunikation von Abgeordneten. Deutschland, USA und Schweden im Vergleich, [ Departmental Seminar, Department of Political Science, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, ]

• Krieger Ulrich (2009): Beyond the Household: Kooperationsbereitschaft von Bezugspersonen im Familienpanel , [ IAB-Workshop Qualität von Großerhebungen, Nürnberg, ]

• Zittel Thomas (2009): Legislators and their Representational Roles. Rational Calculus or Habits of the Heart? and Local Campaigns in the German 2005 Elections: Motivations, Structures and Effects, [ 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Toronto, ]

• Neugebauer Martin, Steffen Schindler (2009): The German case: primary and secondary effects at the transitions to upper secondary school and to tertiary education, [ EQUALSOC EDUC Primary and Secondary Effects Team Meeting, Tallinn, ]

• Schmitt Hermann (2009): The Changing and Variable Meaning of 'left' and 'right', [ IPSA 2009 World Congress of Political Science, Santiago de Chile, ]

• Schmitt Hermann (2009): Determinants of Dyadic Correspondence in European Parliament Elections, [ 30 years of Elections to The European Parliament: an Assessment, McGill University, Montreal, ]

• Schmitt Hermann (2009): The "empirical" study of political representation in political science: a review, [ Conference "Portuguese MP's in comparative perspective", Portuguese Parliament Lissabon, ]