• 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, ]

• Wiß Tobias (2008): Die Rolle der Sozialpartner im System der Alterssicherung in Deutschland, [ 7. Graduiertenkolloquium des Forschungsnetzwerkes Alterssicherung, Erkner, ]

• Kneip Thorsten, Christian Hunkler (2008): Die Stabilität von Ehen und nichtehelichen Lebensgemeinschaften. Ein Test des Modells der Frameselektion, [ Ordentliche Schwerpunkttagung, DFG SPP 1611, München, ]

• Gebel Michael, Johannes Giesecke (2008): Employment Insecurity and the Transition to Parenthood, [ 8th International GSOEP User Conference, Berlin, ]

• Babajew Aser (2008): Geopolitische Bedeutung und Kulturen des Kaukasus, [ Interkulturelle Kommunikation, Schloss Wendgräben (Bildungszentrum der KAS), bei Loburg, ]

• Wonka Arndt, Berthold Rittberger (2008): The politics of mobilisation: National parties and EU decision-making , [ Political institutions in the European Union: Theoretical and empirical innovations in current research, Universität Konstanz, ]

• Bauer Gerrit, Thorsten Kneip (2008): Scheidungsrecht, Scheidungsrisiko und Fertilitätsentscheidungen, [ Fachtagung "Partnerschaft und Fertilität", Institut für Soziologie, Universität Heidelberg, ]

• Gebel Michael (2008): Labor Market Flexibility and Inequality: The Changing Risk Patterns of Temporary Employment in Europe, [ ISA-RC02 Midterm Conference "Inequality beyond Globalization: Economic Changes and the Dynamics of Inequality", Neuchâtel, ]

• Gronwald Mareike (2008): Supplementary pension systems in Europe: Germany in comparison, [ ESPAnet Doctoral Research Workshop "The Politics of Recalibration: Welfare Reforms in the Wider Europe", Bologna, ]

• Larat Fabrice (2008): Round table "Gains and disadvantages of large research projects/ EU research policy and the experience of NEWGOV and CONNEX", [ CONNEX/NEWGOV Dissemination Conference "EU Governance: Are we on the right track?", European Commission, Brussels, ]

• Larat Fabrice (2008): Opening the black box: Reflexions on the nature and function of research integration, [ "How does research integration work?", Brussels, ]

• Biedinger Nicole (2008): Early Developmental Inequality: The Influence of Resources at Home for Preschool Children, [ ESF-LiU Conference "The Transfer of Resources across Generations: Family, Income, Human Capital and Children’s Wellbeing", Vadstena, ]

• Biedinger Nicole (2008): Early Developmental Inequality: The Influence of Ethnicity, Poverty and Education, [ ICYRNet Conference: Child and Youth Research in the 21st Century. A Critical Appraisal, Nicosia, ]

• Becker Birgit (2008): The Transfer of Cultural Skills. Social and Ethnic Disparities at an Early Childhood Stage, [ ESF-LiU Conference 'The Transfer of Resources across Generations: Family, Income, Human Capital and Children’s Wellbeing', Vadstena, ]

• Babajew Aser (2008): Die Positionen der meinungsbildenden Eliten Aserbaidschans zum Thema Berg-Karabach im Überblick, [ Die Positionen der meinungsbildenden Eliten in Armenien und Aserbaidschan im Zusammenhang mit dem Berg-Karabach-Konflikt, Landesverteidigungsakademie, Wien, ]

• Schmitt Hermann (2008): Vorstellung eines Buchprojektes und zweier Kapitelentwürfe, [ InTune Mass & Elite Working Group Meeting, University of Granada, ]

• Wiß Tobias (2008): Changing Pension-Mix and Coordinated Market Economy, [ ECPR Standing Group Regulatory Governance: (Re)-Regulation in the Wake of Neoliberalism, Utrecht, ]

• Noelke Clemens, Daniel Horn (2008): Labour market entry in post-socialist countries: consequences of institutional change in the apprenticeship system, [ ISA RC28 Spring Meeting, European University Institute, Florence, ]

• Ludwig Volker, Josef Brüderl (2008): The Male Marital Wage Premium: Further Results on an Enduring Puzzle., [ 8th International GSOEP User Conference, Berlin, ]

• Schindler Steffen, Felix Weiss (2008): The Class Gap in Lifelong Learning, [ EQUALSOC EDUC Research Team Meeting 'The Training Gap in Lifelong Learning', Barcelona, ]

• Tausendpfund Markus (2008): „Demokratie Leben Lernen – Politische Orientierungen von Kindern im vierten Grundschuljahr“, [ Vortrag an der Pädagogischen Hochschule, Abteilung Politikwissenschaft, Karlsruhe, ]

• Noelke Clemens (2008): "Education and labor market entry in Central- and Eastern Europe", "Institutions and youth unemployment in East and Western Europe", [ Education Systems and Labour Markets in Central and Eastern Europe, Bamberg, ]