Conference Presentations, Talks & Lectures

07/08-10/2024

“Gender and Leadership in Times of Crisis: Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Agenda-Setting”
ECPR European Conference in Politics and Gender, University of Ghent


06/19-21/2024

“Gender and Leadership in Times of Crisis: Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Agenda-Setting” and
“The Political Opposition of the European Parliament: A Rhetorical Analysis of Parliamentary Debates” (co-authored with Pamela Pansardi)
ECPR Conference by the Standing Group on the European Union (SGEU), University of Lisbon


05/15-17/2024

“(Gender+) Equality and Political Leadership: Von der Leyen’s Agenda-Setting and Media Evaluations during Times of Crisis”
Interdisciplinary Conference on European Advanced Studies (IDEAS), Institut d’études européennes de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles


06/05-06/2023

“The Political Leadership of Ursula von der Leyen: European Agenda-Setting and Media Evaluations in Times of Crisis;
“Equality and Multi-Level Governance in the European Union: Conclusions from the von der Leyen Commission”
(co-authored with Michael W. Bauer)
Conference: The governance of gender equality policy in EU institutions: Assessing developments during the von der Leyen Commission Presidency (2019-2024)
University of Tübingen, Germany


05/25-26/2023

“Pathways to Leadership: Women’s Careers Across EU Institutions”
(co-authored with Ingeborg Tömmel)
EUGenDem Final Conference: European Politics, Equality and Democracy
University of Helsinki, Finland


05/05-06/2023

“Pathways to Leadership: Women’s Careers Across EU Institutions”
(co-authored with Ingeborg Tömmel)
Conference Careers of European Elites and their Representative Effects
University of Bamberg, Germany [remote]


09/08-10/2022

“The State of Women’s Leadership in EU Institutions“ (presentation of the book “Women and Leadership in the European Union“, co-edited with Ingeborg Tömmel), and “Women Leading the Opposition: Gender, Rhetoric, and Performance in the European Parliament” (co-authored with Pamela Pansardi)
Annual Conference, Italian Political Science Association (SISP), University La Sapienza, Rome


07/07-09/2022

“Women Leading the Opposition: Gender, Rhetoric, and Performance in the European Parliament”
(co-authored with Pamela Pansardi)
ECPR European Conference in Politics and Gender, University of Ljubljana


 9/14-16/2021

“Strategic Leadership: Ursula von der Leyen as President of the European Commission”
(co-authored with Ingeborg Tömmel)
Online Convention of the German Political Science Association


06/10-12/2021

“Rhetoric and Leadership: A Comparison of Female Vice-Presidents of the European Commission”
(co-authored with Pamela Pansardi)
“Strategic Leadership: Ursula von der Leyen as President of the European Commission”
(co-authored with Ingeborg Tömmel)
ECPR Standing Group on the European Union Conference (SGEU), Online Format


11/15/2020

Talk: “Women and Leadership in the European Union”
Gender Brown Bag Seminar / New York University Abu Dhabi


08/26-28/2020

Women and the Press in GCC States: A Study of Saliency, Diversity and Valence of Women Empowerment
(co-authored with Christin Camia)
Annual Conference of the ECPR, Online Format


07/14-17/2020

“Women and the Press in GCC States: A Study of Saliency, Diversity and Valence of Women Empowerment”
(co-authored with Christin Camia)
Annual Meeting International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), Online Format


06/22/2020

“Between Rhetoric and Leadership: A Comparison of Female Vice-Presidents of the European Commission (1999-2019)”
(co-authored with Pamela Pansardi)
Gender and Sexuality Research Network, Online Conversations Program


07/12-15/2019

“Political Leadership Across Regime Types: Comparing the Performance of National Executives During Times of Economic Crisis”
Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), Lisbon


07/04-06/2019

“Mapping Female Leadership in the European Union”
European Conference on Politics and Gender (ECPG), University of Amsterdam


12/09/2018

“Women in the Public Sphere of GCC States: A Study of Media Attention and Attitudes towards Female Empowerment (2000-2017)” (together with Christin Köber, NYUAD)
Gender Brown Bag Seminar, New York University Abu Dhabi


04/19-20/2018

“Converging Patterns of Performance during Times of Economic Crisis. Political Leadership across Regime Types”
3rd PUPOL General Conference “Leadership in a Changing Environment”, Defence University Stockholm


04/10-14/2018

“What Makes Collaborative Leadership Successful? The Cognitive Dimension of European Integration”
(together with Femke van Esch)
ECPR Joint Sessions Workshop, University of Nicosia, Cyprus


03/28-29/2018

“The Politics of Women Empowerment: Female Leaders in the UAE”
(together with Rahma Abdulkadir)
Conference at the NYUAD Institute, “Varieties of Emirati Womanhood: Subjectivities, Creativities, and Confines”, Abu Dhabi, UAE


09/6-9/2017

“What Makes Collaborative Leadership Successful? The Cognitive Dimension of European Integration” (together with Femke van Esch)
ECPR General Conference, University of Oslo, Norway


07/12-14/2017

“What Makes Collaborative Leadership Successful?” The Cognitive Dimension of European Integration (together with Femke van Esch)
International Conference of Europeanists (CES), University of Glasgow, United Kingdom


03/20/2017

Lecture: “Unexplored Parallels: Political Leadership and Economic Growth in Democracies and Autocracies”
Utrecht School of Governance, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands


03/15-17/2017

“Unexplored Parallels: Political Leadership and Economic Policy Across Regime Types”
DVPW Conference/Section Comparative Politics: “Unlike Twins?! Comparing Autocracies and Democracies”, University of Tübingen


04/7-8/2016

“Between Potential, Performance and Prospect: Political Leadership of the EU Commission President”
1st PUPOL Conference “Leadership Challenges in a Global World”, Radboud University, Nijmegen


11/20-21/2015

“How to Set a European Agenda? The Commission Presidents and the Quest for Leadership”
Workshop “Political Leadership in the EU”, University of Osnabrueck/University of Victoria


09/16-17/2014

“From Walter Hallstein to Jacques Delors and José Barroso: Leadership Potential and Performance of the EU Commission President”
Policy & Politics conference 2014: The challenges of leadership and collaboration in the 21st Century, University of Bristol


06/05-07/2014

“After Lisbon: Leadership Potential and Performance of the EU Commission President”
7th Pan-European Conference on the European Union (SGEU), The Hague


09/04-07/2013

“The Impact of the Commission Presidents on EU Policies. Analyzing the Political Leadership Performance in Supranational Governance”
ECPR General Conference, Bordeaux


05/30-06/01/2013

French-German Annual Doctoral Meeting
L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris


01/26 – 27/2012

“The European Commission President in Crisis. Political Leadership in the European Union”
THESEUS Doctoral Seminar, Sciences Po Paris


12/15/2011

“Political Leadership in the European Union”
Talk given at the German Historical Institute, Washington DC


12/02/2011

“Political Leadership in the European Union”
Talk given at Georgetown University, Washington DC


05/20/2011

“Political Leadership in Germany”
Interdisciplinary Conference, Konvent für Deutschland, Berlin