• Faas Thorsten, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (2008): Voters? Political Conversations during the 2005 German Parliamentary Election Campaign: Causes and Consequences, [ Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (EPOP) Annual Conference, Manchester, ]

• Rittberger Berthold (2008): Explaining the Constitutionalization of the EU, [ Conference on Global Constitutionalism: Process and Substance, Swiss National Center for Competence in Research (NCCR), Kandersteg, ]

• Castiglioni Laura, Josef Brüderl, Ulrich Krieger, Klaus Pforr (2008): Konzeption des Beziehungs- und Familienentwicklungs-Panel, [ Ordentliche Schwerpunkttagung, DFG SPP 1611, München, ]

• Krieger Ulrich (2008): 'Who did you reside with when you were a child?' The Calendar Instrument on Childhood and Adolescence, [ 7th International Conference on Social Science Methodology, RC33 - Logic and Methodology in Sociology (ISA), Naples, ]

• Becker Birgit (2008): The Transfer of Cultural Knowledge. Social and Ethnic Disparities at an Early Childhood Stage and the Mediating Role of Familial Activities, [ Cultural Capital and Educational Inequalities: Concepts, methods, strategies and new configurations, Brno, ]

• Wiß Tobias (2008): From Above or from Below? State Regulation and Social Partners in Occupational Pensions in Germany, [ 6th Annual ESPAnet Conference 2008: Cross-Border Influence in Social Policy, Helsinki, ]

• Noelke Clemens (2008): Vocational education in transition countries, [ 16th Annual Workshop of the European Research Network on Transitions in Youth, Bamberg, ]

• Gebel Michael (2008): Early Career Consequences of Temporary Employment: Evidence from British and German Panel Data, [ 16th Annual Workshop of the European Research Network on Transitions in Youth, Bamberg, ]

• Gebel Michael, Irena Kogan (2008): Education and Labour Market Entry in Ukraine, [ 16th Annual Workshop of the European Research Network on Transitions in Youth, Bamberg, ]

• Weiss Felix (2008): Social Origin and Late Enrolment in Higher Education in Germany and the US, [ ECSR/EQUALSOC Summer School. Social inequalities in contemporary societies - new empirical evidence and methodological innovation, Trento, ]

• Reimer David (2008): The Social Consequences of the Bologna Reforms: Developments in Inequality in Access to Tertiary Education in Germany, [ Conference of the Nordic Sociological Association, Aarhus, ]

• Gschwend Thomas, Michael F. Meffert (2008): Strategic Coalition Voting: Evidence from Austria, [ Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Boston, Mass., ]

• Bäck Hanna, Patrick Dumont, Marc Debus (2008): Who Gets What in Coalition Governments? Predictors of Portfolio Allocation in Parliamentary Democracies, [ Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Boston, Mass., ]

• Debus Marc (2008): The Impact of Pre-Electoral Alliances and Coalition Rejections on Government Formation, [ Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Boston, Mass., ]

• Gebel Michael, Irena Kogan (2008): Education and Labour Market Entry in Ukraine, [ ISA RC28 Summer Meeting "Work, Poverty and Inequality in the 21st Century", Stanford University, Palo Alto, ]

• Gebel Michael (2008): Early Career Consequences of Temporary Employment: Evidence from British and German Panel Data, [ ISA RC28 Summer Meeting "Work, Poverty and Inequality in the 21st Century", Stanford University, Palo Alto, ]

• Schindler Steffen (2008): Primäre und sekundäre Effekte beim Übergang zur Hochschule. Eine Analyse mit den HIS-Studienberechtigtenpanels 1983, 1990, 1994 & 1999, [ Vortrag bei der Hochschul-Informations-System GmbH, Hannover, ]

• Noelke Clemens, Daniel Horn (2008): Education and labour market entry - theoretical background for empirical analyses; Changing labour market entry dynamics in post-communist Societies - consequences of changes in the apprenticeship system, [ Education Systems and Labour Markets in Central and Eastern Europe, Ljubljana, ]

• Noelke Clemens (2008): Educational Expansion, Technological Change and Youth Unemployment, [ ISA RC28 Summer Meeting "Work, Poverty and Inequality in the 21st Century", Stanford University, Palo Alto, ]

• Schindler Steffen, David Reimer (2008): Primary and Secondary Effects in Class Differentials: The Transition to Tertiary Education in Germany., [ EQUALSOC Midterm Conference, Berlin, ]

• Schindler Steffen (2008): Primäre und sekundäre Effekte beim Hochschulzugang: Die Bedeutung von Noten und Klassenherkunft von 1983 bis 1999, [ Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Hochschulforschung, Hamburg, ]

• Weiss Felix, Marita Jacob (2008): Social Origin and Discontinuities in Higher Education in Germany and the US, [ Work, Poverty, and inequality in the 21st century, ISA Research Comittee 28 ("Social Stratification & Mobility") Meeting, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA, ]

• Schmitt Hermann (2008): Determinants of Dyadic Correspondence in European Parliament Elections, [ Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Boston, Mass., ]

• Kohler-Koch Beate (2008): Civil Society in EU governance: Towards a more efficient and democratic Union?, [ Manchester Jean Monet Centre of Excellence Annual Lecture, University of Manchester, ]

• Gebel Michael (2008): Empirical Analyses of School-to-Work Transition, [ Workshop on Educational Systems and Labour Markets in Central- and Eastern Europe, Ljubljana, ]