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Land and Food. Lecture delivered at the Interdisciplinary Autumn Research School ‘Rethinking Extractivist Capitalism’, 30 Oct. 2021, University of Bremen and online.

The State Formation Effects of Social Protection: Some Findings from Zambia. Presentation at the Annual Conference of the Southern African Social Protection Experts Network (SASPEN), Johannesburg, 5-6 Oct. 2021.

Representation without a state: studying the long-term political consequences of neoliberalism in the countryside. Paper presented at the ECPR General Conference 2021, 30 Aug. – 03 Sept. 2021, online.

Welfare, labour and taxation: Redistribution during globalisation. Panel organised and chaired with Klaus Schlichte (University of Bremen); took place at the ECPR General Conference 2021, 30 Aug. – 03 Sept. 2021, online.

Globalization and Social Questions in the Countryside. Panel organised and chaired with Klaus Schlichte (University of Bremen); took place at the ECPR General Conference 2021, 30 Aug. – 03 Sept. 2021, online.

Social Policy and State Formation: Comparative insights from the Social Cash Transfer and ‘FISP’ in Zambia. Paper presented at the 22nd Biennial Conference of the International Consortium for Social Development, University of Johannesburg, 13-16 July 2021, online.

How Evidence-based Policymaking forms the State – Some Insights from Social Protection Programmes in Zambia. Paper presented at the European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS), 30 June – 02 July 2021, online.

Are we so strange after all? Self-Reflexivity in Global Social Policy. Workshop organised together with John Berten (University of Tübingen); European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS), 30 June – 02 July 2021, online.

State Formation and Social Policy in Zambia. Invited talk at the Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town, online, 22 June 2021.

How social protection makes the state - insights from Zambia. Invited talk at the AEGIS Collaborative Research Group African Politics and International Relations, #Exchange event series, online, 16 June 2021.

Knowing and unknowing the countryside – epistemological implications of rural social policy in Zambia. Invited talk at the Centre for Global Knowledge Studies (gloknos), Cambridge, online, 03 June 2021.

Representation without a state: studying the long-term political consequences of neoliberalism in the countryside, paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, online, 04/2021.

The ‘Double Translation’ of Social Protection: The role of agents and coercive learning in social policy diffusion in Sub-Saharan Africa, paper presented at the International Conference on Policy Diffusion and Development Cooperation (ICPDDC), online, 02/2021, with Stephen Devereux (IDS).

Constructing history: The multiple narratives about the post-independence Zambian state in social policy, Papier präsentiert in Vorab-Workshop zum EWIS Workshop 2021 'Self-reflexivity in Global Social and Development Policy', online, 07/2020.

Government by community and the effects on the state: Findings from social policy in Zambia, Papier präsentiert im Internationalised Politics Kolloquium, online, 06/2020.

The legacy of economic dualism and the de-politicisation of social policy in Zambia, Papier präsentiert im InIIS-BIGSSS Kolloquium, Universität Bremen, 11/2019.

Studying welfare states – a case for re-politicising social policy research on Africa, Papier präsentiert auf der NordWel Summer School, Bremen, 08/2019.

Social Policy and Statehood in Zambia, Präsentation im qualitative social policy colloquium, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, 03/2019.

Activation or Protection? Social Policy Dynamics under a Development Imperative – the Zambian Case, Papier präsentiert im InIIS-BIGSSS Kolloquium, Universität Bremen, 12/2018.

Social Policy and Statehood in Zambia, Papier präsentiert auf der Jahreskonferenz der Development Studies Association (DSA), Manchester, 06/2018.

Social Policy and Statehood in Zambia, Papier präsentiert in der Forschungswerkstatt BGHS Global Social Policy, Universität Bielefeld, 06/2018

How is the Zambian state formed in social policy? My PhD project with some tentative conclusions, Präsentation im Southern African Institute for Policy and Research, Lusaka, Zambia, 03/2018.

Getting to know the poor: why evidence matters in (global) social policy in Zambia, Papier präsentiert auf der IB Sektionstagung der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW), Universität Bremen, 10/2017.

The State in Social Policy in Zambia – Methods and State of the Project, Papier präsentiert im InIIS-BIGSSS Kolloquium, Universität Bremen, 01/2017.

Potentials and Challenges of the use of ethnographic methods in an IR project, Papier präsentiert auf der Indemini Summer School, Indemini, Schweiz, 08/2016.

Can Social Protection be Transformative? Findings from Zambia, Präsentation auf der Jahreskonferenz des Southern African Social Protection Experts Network (SASPEN), Johannesburg, Südafrika, 10/2015.

The power of international organisations: how can pragmatist thought shed light on the agency of individuals within the structures of the peace-building regime?, Papier präsentiert auf der Second Annual Conference of the International Association for Peace and Conflict Studies and the ECPR standing group on Critical Peace and Conflict Studies, Manchester, UK, 09/2013.