• Becker Birgit (2008): Which Children Attend the More Beneficial Preschools? A Comparison of Immigrant and Native Parents’ Preschool Choice in Germany, [ ICYRNet Conference: Child and Youth Research in the 21st Century. A Critical Appraisal, Nicosia, ]

• Becker Birgit (2008): Who takes the last step towards inclusion? Turkish Parents’ Naming Practices in Germany as an Example of Immigrants’ Emotional Identification, [ RC 28 Spring Meeting "Social Stratification and Insiders/Outsiders: Cross-national Comparisons within and between Continents", Florenz, ]

• Gebel Michael, Johannes Giesecke (2008): Labor Market Flexibility and Inequality: The Changing Risk Patterns of Temporary Employment in Europe, [ ISA-RC28 Spring Meeting "Social Stratification and Insiders/Outsiders: Cross-national Comparisons within and between Continents", Florence, ]

• Saalfeld Thomas, Andreas M. Wüst (2008): Immigrants and Ethnic Minority MPs in Britain, Germany, France and Sweden: Political Representation and Representational Roles, [ ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Rennes, ]

• Pfeifer Michaela (2008): Mapping European Minimum Income Schemes, [ EQUALSOC Midterm Conference, WZB, Berlin, ]

• Gebel Michael, Johannes Giesecke (2008): Atypical Employment and Welfare States: the Case of Germany (Research Group Presentation), [ EQUALSOC Midterm Conference, Berlin, ]

• Becker Birgit (2008): Turkish Parents’ Naming Practices in Germany (Poster Presentation), [ EQUALSOC Midterm Conference, Berlin, ]

• Biedinger Nicole (2008): Early Developmental Inequality. The Influence of Activities at Home for Preschool Children, [ EQUALSOC Midterm Conference, Berlin, ]

• Herrmann Michael (2008): Weighting Preference against Performance: Voter Behavior in Parliamentary Democracies, [ Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, ]

• Herrmann Michael (2008): Estimating Uncertainty in Strategic Voting, [ Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society, Jena, ]

• Bauer Gerrit (2008): Poster Presentation: Did Unilateral Divorce Laws Raise Divorce Rates in Europe?, [ EQUALSOC Midterm Conference, Berlin, ]

• Babajew Aser (2008): Einführung in den Bergkarabach-Konflikt - aus der Sicht Aserbaidschans , [ Konfliktmanagement Berg-Karabach, Schloss Rothschild, Reichenau (Ausbildungszentrum des Österr. Bundesheeres), ]

• Dollmann Jörg, Cornelia Kristen (2008): Bildungsentscheidungen in türkischen Familien - Sekundäre Effekte der ethnischen Herkunft?, [ 'Kulturen der Bildung' – 21. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (DGfE), Dresden, ]

• Wiß Tobias, Mareike Gronwald (2008): Germany - Departing from Bismarckian Pensions?, [ Governance of Supplementary Pensions in Europe (GOSPE): Cross-national Variations in Participation and Social Inequality (GOSPE-workshop), Mannheim, ]

• Gschwend Thomas (2008): Vorhersagen müssen keine Hexerei sein, [ Gastvorlesung Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, ]

• Gschwend Thomas, Thomas Zittel (2008): Presentation of Country Database Issues: Germany, [ Workshop on “Electoral Systems and Party Personnel, Del Mar, CA, ]

• König Thomas (2008): Why do Veto players use their Power?, [ The Political Economy of International Organizations, PEIO Conference, Ascona, ]

• Rittberger Berthold (2008): The Constitutionalization of the European Union, 1951-2004 , [ Presentation, Central European University, Budapest, ]

• Rittberger Berthold (2008): The Historical Origins of the EU's System of Representation, [ Presentation, ETH / University Zurich, ]

• Rittberger Berthold (2008): Path dependency in the development of the EU's representative system, [ Presentation, University of Reading, ]

• 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, ]

• Krieger Ulrich (2008): Beyond the household - accessibility of Partners and Parents outside of the household for panel studies , [ 7th International Conference on Social Science Methodology, RC33 - Logic and Methodology in Sociology (ISA), Naples, ]