Conferences, Workshops & Talks

details of the presentations can be found in the CV.

2025 (upcoming)
  • Section Chair: The Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of Fragmented World Order (with S. Schirm), 18th Pan-European Conference on International Relations (EISA-PEC). 25-29 August 2025, Bologna, Italy.
  • Conference Paper: International Political Economy (IPE) meets Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA): How institutions, interests and ideas interact in decision-making processes, International Studies Association (ISA) 2025 Annual Convention. 2-5 March 2025, Chicago, USA.
  • Conference Paper: Populist narratives and personalized national role conception in middle powers: The cases of Mexico and Turkey during the COVID-19 Pandemic, ISA 2025 Annual Convention. 2-5 March 2025, Chicago, USA.
2024
  • Conference Paper: The changing role and identity of international organizations: The OECD’s strategy between a universal actor and a Western club, 29th DVPW Convention, 24-27 September 2024. Göttingen, Germany.
  • Conference Paper: Domestic drivers of development policy decision-making in emerging middle powers: A comparative analysis of Mexico and Turkey, 7th World International Studies Committee (WISC) Global International Studies Conference, 24-26 July 2024. Warsaw, Poland.
  • Conference Paper: The changing role and identity of international organizations: The OECD’s strategy between a universal actor and a Western club, 7th WISC Global International Studies Conference, 24-26 July 2024. Warshaw, Poland.
  • Roundtable: The Changing Dynamics of International Institutions in an Era of Multiple Crises, co-organized by Marmara University and IDOS, 12 June 2024, virtual.
  • Conference Paper: Established and emerging powers in international cooperation: Domestic driving forces on German and Korean positions towards international climate finance, ISA 2024 Annual Convention. 3-6 April 2024, San Francisco, USA.
  • Conference Paper: Preference formation in foreign aid policies of emerging donors: The cases of Mexico and Turkey, ISA 2024 Annual Convention. 3-6 April 2024, San Francisco, USA.
  • Discussant: Panel Social Data Insights in Foreign Aid, ISA 2024 Annual Convention. 3-6 April 2024, San Francisco, USA.
2023
  • Conference Paper: The political economy of emerging donors‘ aid preferences: The cases of Mexico and Turkey, 16th Pan-European Conference on International Relations (EISA-PEC). 5-9 September 2023, Potsdam, Germany.​
  • Conference Paper: The political economy of South Korean development aid: Ideas and Interests shaping the preferences of the Lee Government’s Green and Climate ODA, 3rd Workshop of the Korean-German Research Network organized by Ewha Womans University & German Institute for Development and Sustainability (IDOS), 12-13 June 2023, Seoul, South Korea.
2022
  • Conference Paper: Aid-climate nexus: Domestic driving forces on Korean development policy preferences during the President Lee administration, 2nd Workshop of the Korean-German Research Network organized by Ewha Womans University & IDOS. 17-18 October 2022, Bonn, Germany.
  • Conference Paper: Domestic politics of development aid: Interests and ideas in bilateral development aid preferences of South Korea and Turkey, ISA 2022 Annual Convention. 28 March-2 April 2022. Nashville, United States.
  • Conference Paper: Shaping policy responses of middle powers to the covid-19 crisis: The role of populist leaders in Mexico and Turkey, ISA 2022 Annual Convention. 28 March-2 April 2022. Nashville, United States.
2021
  • Conference Paper: Societal influences on foreign aid preferences: Diverging governmental positions of South Korea and Turkey in international development cooperation, 14th EISA-PEC. 13-17 September 2021, virtual.
  • Conference Paper: Societal influences on emerging donors‘ development assistance preferences: A comparative analysis of Mexican and Turkish governmental positions, 8th European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS). 30 June-3 July 2021, virtual.
  • Discussant: Workshop Non-Western Agency in World Politics: Decentering practices, Actions and Perceptions at the 8th European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS). 30 June – 3 July 2021, virtual.
  • Workshop Organization: PhD training workshop Qualitative Methods in Political Science. Keynote Speaker: Derek Beach (Professor, University of Aarhus) “Process tracing methods,” 28 April 2021, virtual.
  • Conference Paper: Diverging positions of middle-sized emerging donors in international development cooperation: The cases of Mexico and Turkey, ISA 2021 Annual Convention. 6-9 April 2021, virtual.
  • Discussant: Panel Globalization and Poverty at the ISA 2021 Annual Convention. 8 April 2021, virtual.
2020
  • Workshop Organization: The GSPC workshop Political cohesion and societal division (with Daniel Beck and Daniel Gloris). 18 & 24 November 2020, virtual.
  • Discussant: Webinar How can middle powers sharpen the global development cooperation discourse? A discussion between representatives of MIKTA development agencies and academia organized by the UNDP Seoul Policy Centre. 27 October 2020, virtual.
  • Presentation: Mexico’s development cooperation: The impact of material interests and societal ideas on governmental preferences, Conversatorio „International Cooperation of Emerging Countries: Perspectives on Foreign Policy and Forced Migration“organized by El Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora (Instituto MORA). 13 March 2020, Mexico City, Mexico.
2019
  • Presentation: The role of development cooperation in migration management: Between donor interests and development concerns, International Forum on Refugee Protection & Migration Issues (IFRP). 28-29 November 2019, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.
  • Conference Paper: Emerging donors’ development policy preferences: An analysis of value-based ideas and material interests shaping the Mexican governmental position, 13th EISA-PEC. 11-14 September 2019, Sofia University, Bulgaria.
  • Conference Paper: Middle powers in international development cooperation: Assessing South Korea and Turkey, Workshop „Development Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda“ organized by the German Development Institute/Deutsche Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and the Network for Southern Think Tanks (NeST) for a handbook project at the margins of the 2019 Second High-level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation (BAPA+40). 19 March 2019. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2018
  • Conference Paper: Forum shopping for rising powers in proliferation of club governance formats: The rationale for Turkey, Conference „The G20@10: Benefits, Limitations and the Future of Global Club Governance“, organized by DIE, Chatham House, and the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS). 23 October 2018, Bonn, Germany.
  • Conference Paper: A Middle Way towards Development Cooperation: Foreign Aid Discourse of South Korea and Turkey in Relation to the OECD DAC, Expert Workshop “Development Cooperation for achieving the 2030 Agenda: The Way Forward”, organized by DIE at the margins of the 2018 High-Level Meeting of the United Nations Development Cooperation Forum, 23 May 2018, New York, United States.
2017
  • Conference Paper: Middle Powers and International Development Architecture: The Cases of Turkey and Korea, 4th European Workshops in International Studies (EISA), 7-10 June 2017, University of Cardiff, United Kingdom.