• Drahokoupil Jan, Stefan Domonkos (2011): East European Pension Politics 2.0: The emergence of diversity in Eastern European pension reforms after the crisis of 2008, [ The Global Economic Crisis and the Welfare State: Short-Term Responses and Long-Term Effects, University of Bremen, ]

• Heyne Stefanie (2011): Poverty and income dynamics: Consequences of job loss in European welfare states, [ ECSR 20th anniversary conference: European society or societies? A 20 year perspective, Dublin, ]

• Heyne Stefanie (2011): Unemployment and poverty: consequences of labour market exclusion in European welfare states, [ ECSR, EQUALSOC & University of Trento Joint Summer School 2011 "Poverty, Deprivation and Social Exclusion", Trento, ]

• Gebel Michael (2011): Does temporary employment help to reintegrate unemployed workers? A comparison based on British, German and Swiss panel data, [ Invited talk in research seminar “Life course and inequality”, Lausanne, ]

• Ebbinghaus Bernhard (2011): The Governance of European Pension Fund Capitalism in Times of Uncertainty, [ Economic Sociology Seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, ]

• Ebbinghaus Bernhard (2011): The Role of Trade Unions in Pension Policy-making and Private Pension Governance in Europe, [ “Public-Private Pension Mix” Workshop, ETUI, Brussels, ]

• Ebbinghaus Bernhard, Tobias Wiß (2011): Regulating funded pensions in times of crisis: A western European comparison, [ 18th International Conference of Europeanists, Barcelona, ]

• Ebbinghaus Bernhard (2011): The role of trade unions in European pension reforms: From old to new politics?, [ RECWOWE final conference: “Work and welfare in Europe: New compromises or ongoing demise?”, Brussels, ]

• Ebbinghaus Bernhard (2011): Pension Reforms in Europe: Global and National Challenges, [ Toward 'Social Europe'? National Welfare States and European Union Social Policy, Seattle, University of Washington, ]

• Giger Nathalie (2011): Salience and representation. An integral approach and some empirical evidence, [ Issue-Congruence and Political Communication in Representative Democracies, Dornburg/Saale, ]

• Giger Nathalie (2011): Why is there no modern gender gap in Finland?, [ International Workshop "Education, Religion, and the Gender-vote Gap - The Institutional Heritage of Western Europes´ Confessional Conflict, Bremen, ]

• Giger Nathalie (2011): Political representation of the poor and economic inequality: a comparative analysis, [ HumVIB Final Conference, Berlin, ]

• Giger Nathalie (2011): Are parties responsive to group turnout? Relative turnout of the poor and the responsiveness of parties in Western Europe, [ 6th ECPR General Conference, Reykjavik, ]

• Weiss Felix, Marita Jacob (2011): Inequalities beyond access? Labour market conditions and social differences in students’ jobs, [ American Sociological Association 106th Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, ]

• Kühhirt Michael, Marita Jacob, Gerrit Bauer (2011): Family Formation in Germany: Partners‘ education and local conditions, [ Changing Work Family Equilibria, Trento, ]

• Hörisch Felix (2011): Partisan Differences, Varieties of Capitalism and the International Financial Crisis: Political Determinants of the Fiscal Political Crisis Reaction of the OECD States, [ Workshop 'The Global Economic Crisis and the Welfare State' Short-Term Responses and Long-Term Effect”, Universität Bremen, ]

• Schumann Nina (2011): Das Beziehungs- und Familienpanel (pairfam). Design, Feldverlauf und Methodik, [ SOEP Brown Bag Seminar, DIW Berlin, ]

• Neugebauer Martin (2011): Wer entscheidet sich für das Lehramt? Eingangsmerkmale und Studienmotive von Lehramtsstudierenden im Vergleich, [ 76. Tagung der Arbeitsgruppe für Empirische Pädagogische Forschung (AEPF), Klagenfurt, ]

• Müller Jochen, Marc Debus (2011): The 'Second-orderness’ of Voting Behaviour in State Elections: Evidence from the German Multi-level System, [ Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Seattle, ]

• Blumenstiel Jan Eric (2011): Measuring Voter Heterogeneity to Improve the Michigan Model of Voting Behaviour, [ 6th ECPR General Conference, Reykjavik, ]

• Pötzschke Jana, Hans Rattinger, Harald Schoen (2011): Personality, Values and Attitudes toward Foreign and Security Policies, [ APSA 2011 Annual Meeting, Seattle, ]

• Biegert Thomas (2011): Labor Market Trajectories after Non-employment: A Comparison of Germany and the United Kingdom Using Sequence Analysis, [ 9th Annual ESPAnet Conference, Valencia, ]

• Köhler Sebastian (2011): Interest Group Communication Strategies in Bicameral Political Systems, [ Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Seattle, WA, ]

• Debus Marc, Christoph Knill, Jale Tosun (2011): Why should gay couples pay more? An analysis of fees for same-sex unions in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, [ 6th ECPR General Conference, Reykjavik, ]

• Debus Marc, Jochen Müller (2011): Coalition preferences of voters and government formation in European multi-level systems: Evidence from Germany, [ 6th ECPR General Conference, Reykjavik, ]