• Drahokoupil Jan (2009): What difference has the financial crisis made for the welfare-state regimes in Eastern Europe and the CIS? , [ Debatte conference ‘1989−2009: the East European revolutions in perspective’, London, ]

• Drahokoupil Jan (2009): Global Financial Crisis and its Impacts in Eastern Europe, Russia, and the CIS: Crisis of and crisis in the varieties of dependent capitalism, [ EAEPE & University of Hertfordshire symposium ‘The transformation of post-Soviet economies twenty years on’, Offley Place Country House, ]

• Drahokoupil Jan (2009): Service Sector Outsourcing in the Visegrád Four: Transforming the European Assembly Platform into a Knowledge-Based Economy?, [ RSA Research Network Seminar ‘The Role of Business Services and Knowledge Transfer in Cluster Formation in Central and Eastern Europe’, Jagiellonian University, Krakau, ]

• Wonka Arndt, Berthold Rittberger (2009): Paths to independence: Determinants of institutional independence of twenty-nine EU agencies, [ European Union Studies Association (EUSA), Los Angeles, ]

• Rittberger Berthold (2009): The problem of delegation, democracy and accountability, [ RECON Midterm Conference, Prague, ]

• Rittberger Berthold (2009): Presentation to Constitutional Law Class: “Legal Integration in the European Union” and seminar on: “Cure or Placebo? The Lisbon Treaty and the EU’s Democratic Deficit, [ Vortragsreihe in Neuseeland,, University of Hamilton, ]

• Rittberger Berthold (2009): Paths to Independence: Explaining the Institutional Design of EU Agencies, [ Vortragsreihe in Neuseeland, University of Christchurch, NCRE, ]

• Schmitt-Beck Rüdiger, Evelyn Bytzek, Hans Rattinger, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Bernhard Weßels (2009): The German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES), [ Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Chicago, IL, ]

• Schmitt-Beck Rüdiger (2009): Better late than never: Campaign Deciders at the 2005 German Parliamentary Election, [ ECPR General Conference, Potsdam, ]

• Schmitt-Beck Rüdiger (2009): Einstellungsänderungen im Verlauf von Wahlkampagnen, [ Statistische Woche 2009, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, ]

• Müller Walter (2009): Measuring educational qualifications and their returns on labor markets, [ Conference on Education, Media and Human Development of Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, Abu Dhabi, New York University Abu Dhabi Campus, ]

• Müller Walter (2009): Der Mehrwert des Nationalen Bildungspanels für Wissenschaft und Praxis, [ Auftaktveranstaltung und Fachtagung anlässlich des Starts des Nationalen Bildungspanels (NEPS), Bamberg, University of Bamberg, ]

• Müller Walter, Markus Klein (2009): Educational inequality in international comparisons: How data aggregation produces artefacts, [ European User Conference for EU-LFS and EU-SILC, Mannheim, GESIS, ]

• Müller Walter (2009): Expansion, Differenzierung und Ungleichheit der Tertiärbildung im internationalen Vergleich, [ Seminar am Soziologischen Institut der Universität Zürich, Zurich, ]

• Müller Walter (2009): Über den großen Wandel im kleinen Unterschied beim Erwerb höherer Bildung, [ Promotionsfeier der Philosophisch-Humanwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Bern, Bern, ]

• Müller Walter, Silke L. Schneider (2009): Measurement of education in EU-SILC: preliminary evaluation of measurement quality, [ EQUALSOC EDUC/INCDIS Meeting on the Potential of the EU-SILC Intergenerational Module, Dublin, Institute for Economic and Social Research (ESRI), ]

• Gebel Michael (2009): Informal employment at labour market entry. A comparative study of Croatia, Poland and Ukraine., [ Conference "Youth Transitions at Risk?" of the European Research Network on Transitions in Youth, Dijon, ]

• Debus Marc, Hanna Bäck, Wolfgang C. Müller (2009): The Ideological Cohesion of Political Parties: An Analysis of Parliamentary Speeches in Austria and Germany, [ ECPR General Conference, Potsdam, ]

• Wiß Tobias, Bernhard Ebbinghaus (2009): Varieties of Pension Governance: The Regulation of Private Pensions in Europe, [ 5th ECPR General Conference, Potsdam, ]

• Trüb Bettina (2009): Consequences or Culture? The Making of Latin America Policy in Europe., [ 10th Annual Conference of the UACES Student Forum, Salford, ]

• Rittberger Berthold (2009): Cure or Placebo? The Lisbon Treaty and the EU’s Democratic Deficit, [ Vortragsreihe in Neuseeland, University of Christchurch, NCRE, ]

• Proksch Sven-Oliver (2009): The Dynamics of the Party System in Postwar Japan: A Quantitative Content Analysis of Electoral Pledges and Manifestos" and "Institutional and Electoral Foundations of Parliamentary Speeches, [ 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Toronto, ]

• Klein Markus (2009): Mechanisms for the Effect of Field of Study on the Transition from Higher Education to Work: a Test of the Training Costs Model, [ Equalsoc & ECSR joint Summer School 2009, Trento, ]

• Dollmann Jörg, Cornelia Kristen (2009): Secondary effects of ethnic origin? Turkish children at the transition from primary to secondary education in the German school system, [ RC28 Summer Meeting: "Mobility and Inequality: Intergenerational and Life Course Perspectives", Yale University, New Haven, ]

• Gronwald Mareike (2009): Institutional Change and the 'Multipillarisation' of Pension Systems in Germany and the Netherlands, [ Institutional Change. EQUALSOC/TRALEG Workshop, Amsterdam, ]