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

• Kohler-Koch Beate (2009): Regieren in Europa: Auf dem Weg zur partizipativen Demokratie?, [ Fuldaer Abende, Hochschule Fulda, ]

• Kohler-Koch Beate (2009): Accountability and Democratic Representation in the EU: What Role for Civil Society, [ Research Seminar, University of Maastricht, ]

• Kohler-Koch Beate (2009): The Three Worlds of Civil Society, [ Workshop: Participation and Legitimation in International Organisations, Sonderforschungsbereich 597 ‚Staatlichkeit im Wandel’, Bremen, ]

• Kohler-Koch Beate (2009): Civil society and deliberative democracy in the EU, [ Lecture, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS), ]

• Schindler Steffen, David Reimer (2009): Differentiation and Social Selectivity in German Higher Education, [ EQUALSOC EDUC Research Team Meeting 'Differentiation in Higher Education', Kopenhagen, ]

• Schindler Steffen (2009): European perspectives for young researchers, [ Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA), Round Table 'Sociology in Europe - European Sociology', Lissabon, ]

• Müller Wolfgang C., Nikolaus Eder, Marcelo Jenny (2009): Party Democracy and Individualized Constituency Campaigning: Candidate Strategies and Behavior in the 2006 Austrian Elections, [ Conference: Candidates in Constituency Campaigns from a Comparative Perspective. Is Collectivist Representation in Established Party Democracy under Stress?, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, ]

• Ebbinghaus Bernhard (2009): Varieties of Pension Governance: The Regulation of Private Pensions in Europe, [ Pension Seminar, LSE, London, ]

• Ebbinghaus Bernhard (2009): Financing European workers' right to decent, predictable and adequate retirement: a review of the European landscape a year into the crisis, [ Capital Matters in Europe 2009, ETUI, Brussels, ]

• Zittel Thomas (2009): Legislators and their Representational Roles. Rational Calculus or Habits of the Heart?, [ Annual Meeting of the DVPW-Section „Comparative Politics“, TU Darmstadt, ]

• Zittel Thomas (2009): Electronic Constituency Communication in Comparative Perspective: Changing Media or Changing Democracy?, [ ECPR Conference 2009 Joint Sessions of Workshops, University Lissabon, ]

• Zittel Thomas (2009): Demokratie und Partizipation in Deutschland - Von der Wahl- zur Beteiligungsdemokratie, [ European Conference on „Democracy and Participation – Political Attachments in Decline?, Foundation Genshagen, ]

• Brüderl Josef (2009): Tracing Life Courses with Prospective Panel Surveys - Lessons from the German Family Panel Study, [ Internationale Konferenz des DFG Schwerpunktprogrammes Survey Methodology "Improving Survey Methods", Bremen, ]

• Abendschön Simone (2009): Family Influences on Political Value Orientations of Young Children. , [ Weltkongress der International Political Science Association, Santiago de Chile, ]

• Brüderl Josef, Ulrich Krieger (2009): Tracing Life-Courses with Prospective Panel Surveys: Lessons from the German Family Panel, [ Statcan XXV International Methodology Symposium: Longitudinal Surveys, Gatineau, ]

• Pforr Klaus (2009): Pairfam - Study description and DDI documentation targets, [ DDI: Support Preservation, Management, Acces and Dissemination Systems for Social Science Data, Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, ]

• Krieger Ulrich (2009): Beyond the Household: Accessibility of Partners and Parents Outside of the Household for Panel Studies, [ Nonresponse Workshop, Lausanne, ]

• Zittel Thomas (2009): Elektronische Wählerkommunikation von Abgeordneten. Deutschland, USA und Schweden im Vergleich, [ Departmental Seminar, Department of Political Science, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, ]

• Krieger Ulrich (2009): Beyond the Household: Kooperationsbereitschaft von Bezugspersonen im Familienpanel , [ IAB-Workshop Qualität von Großerhebungen, Nürnberg, ]

• Gebel Michael (2009): Does Temporary Employment Help to Reintegrate the Unemployed? Evidence from British and German Panel Data, [ ISA RC28 Summer Meeting "Mobility and Inequality: Intergenerational and Life Course Perspectives", Yale University, New Haven, CT, ]

• Mischke Monika (2009): Family policy in Europe: institutional change and its meaning for families (with Agnes Blome, WZB Berlin), [ TRALEG (EQUALSOC) Institutional Change Project Meeting, Amsterdam, ]

• Ebbinghaus Bernhard (2009): Author meets Critics: Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Reforming Early Retirement in Europe, Japan and the USA, [ Society of Advanced Socio-Economics (SASE) Conference, Science Po, Paris, ]

• Ebbinghaus Bernhard (2009): Pension Systems and Old Age Income in Europe, [ flexCAREER Workshop, Universität Bamberg, ]

• Ebbinghaus Bernhard (2009): Path Dependency and Departure in Public and Private Pensions in Europe, [ ESRC-Seminar Series: Coping with Uncertainty, Cambridge, ]