Organized Conferences, Workshops, and Panels

“Democracy—Democratization,” conference at the University of Minnesota (in coope­ration with the German Academic Exchange Service, and the Midwest Center for German and European Studies at the University of Minnesota), Minneapolis, May 7-9, 2004.

“The European Constitution: Problems and Challenges,” panel at the University of Minnesota (in cooperation with Midwest Center for German and European Studies), participants: Professor Ingeborg Tömmel (University Osnabrück), and Professor Michael Gehler (University Innsbruck), University of Minnesota, January 20, 2004 (co-organizer and chair).

“The Spirit of the Berlin Republic,” panel at the University of Minnesota (in coope­ration with the German Academic Exchange Service and the Midwest Center for German and European Studies at the University of Minnesota), participants: Dr. Dieter Dettke (FES Washington, USA), Professor Ton Nijhus (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), and Professor Kurt Hübner (York University, Canada), University of Minnesota, October 20, 2003 (co-organizer and chair).

“The Government of the Red-Green Coalition in Retrospect,” panel at the 26th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, participants: Professor Eckhard Schroeter (University of California, Berkeley), Dr. Kristine Kern (Wissenschafts­zentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung), Professor Silke Roth (University of Penn­sylvania), and Professor Oliver Schmidtke (University of Victoria, B.C., Canada), San-Diego (USA), October 3-6, 2002 (organizer and chair).

“Federal Elections in Germany 2002. The Red-Green Coalition after four Years in Office,” conference at the University of Minnesota—Twincities (in cooperation with John Freeman, University of Minnesota, Department of Political Science), Minneapolis, September 26-29, 2002 (co-organizer).