conferences

Organization of Conferences, Workshops and Public Lecture Series

Since 2014, I have (co-)organized several conferences, workshops and lecture series in Heidelberg, Hamburg, Kiel and Göttingen.

Global China Conversations

Since August 2021, online event
Goal: provide a 60-minute online discussion forum that fosters the exchange of ideas between research and practice on China in the global economy
Jointly organized with Dietmar Baetge, Vera Eichenauer, and Wan-Hsin Liu and co-hosted by the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen, the Kiel Institute China Initiative, TH Wildau, and KOF Swiss Economic Institute at ETH Zurich

17th Annual Workshop of the Households in Conflict Network "Conflict, Migration, and Displacement"

October 11-12, 2021, University of Göttingen [online event]
Goal: discuss creative and innovative papers analyzing violent conflict on any topic within the empirical, micro-level analysis of the intersection of violent conflict and socio-economic development
Keynote speaker: Mathias Thoenig (University of Lausanne)
Organized by Sarah Langlotz together with a local program committee, which includes Marcela Ibanez, Lennart Kaplan, Krisztina Kis-Katos, and me
Generously supported by Unibund Göttingen

Lecture Series "China's Economic Rise - Political Transformations in Asia and Beyond"

January-April 2021, University of Göttingen
Goal: discuss recent research by national and international scholars on the effects of China's economic rise on political transformations
Jointly organized with Anja Jetschke and co-hosted by the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen and the Kiel Institute China Initiative

Online Opening Conference of the Kiel Institute Africa Initiative and the Kiel Institute China Initiative “China’s Economic Engagement in Africa”

September 3, 2020, IfW Kiel [online event]
Goal: discuss the chances and risks that China’s growing economic engagement has on Africa's economic development and how this changes the continent's international economic relations with Europe.
Jointly organized with Rainer Thiele

Development Economics Poster Workshop

November 15, 2019, University of Goettingen
Goal: in the context of Stephan Klasen's Farewell Lecture, bring together some of Stephan Klasen's former international Ph.D. students with the current research group in Development Economics at the University of Goettingen
Jointly organized with Samuel Siewers

Beyond Basic Questions Workshop

June 28-29,2019, Haus Weltclub (HWC) of IfW Kiel
Goal: promote the exchange of ideas, discuss research in a friendly atmosphere, and give young researchers priority in presenting their work
Jointly organized with Sebastian Schmidt and hosted by the IfW Research Area “Poverty Reduction, Equity, and Development”

HSU Empirical Research in Economics (HERE) Seminar

Winter and spring term 2019, HSU Hamburg
Goal: discuss latest empirical work of researchers from different fields of economics
Jointly organized with Michael Berlemann, Timur Eckmann and Erik Haustein

2nd HSU-IfW-Workshop in Development and Environmental Economics

June 7, 2019, Haus Weltclub (HWC) of IfW Kiel
Goal: brings together researchers from HSU Hamburg and IfW Kiel for two days to discuss research in development economics, environmental economics, and climate economics
Jointly organized with Sebastian Schmidt

1st HSU-IfW-Workshop in Development and Environmental Economics

November 22-23, 2018, Offizierheimgesellschaft (OHG) of HSU Hamburg
Goal: brings together researchers from HSU Hamburg and IfW Kiel for two days to discuss research in development economics, environmental economics, and climate economics
Jointly organized with Sebastian Schmidt

Talks on Migration Policy (Migrationspolitische Gastvorträge)

November 6 and 27, 2018, HSU Hamburg
Event 1: "Handlungsoptionen für eine wirksame Asyl- und Zuwanderungspolitik in der EU: Zentralisierung des Asylsystems, legale Arbeitsmigration aus
Drittländern, flexible Solidarität zwischen den EU-Mitgliedstaaten" (with Matthias Lücke and David Benček, Kiel Institute for the World Economy)
Event 2: "Migration als unwahrscheinlicher Normalfall: Geschichte und Gegenwart" (with Jochen Oltmer, Osnabrück University)
Jointly organized with Annette Jünemann and Max Steinhardt

3rd FHM Development Economics Workshop: Globalization and Distributional Conflict in Developing Countries

October 20, 2017, Heidelberg University
Goal: bring together scholars from Frankfurt, Heidelberg and Mannheim for one day to discuss their work in development economics and development issues more broadly
Jointly organized with Sarah Langlotz and Michael Schleicher
Generously funded by the German Excellence Initiative as part of Heidelberg University's Field of Focus 4 "Self-Regulation and Regulation: Individuals and Organisations" and the Department of Development Economics of the Heidelberg University's South Asia Institute

Workshop "Tracking International Aid and Investment from Developing and Emerging Economies"

September 22-23, 2017, Heidelberg University
Goal: engage with new datasets on emerging donors’ aid and investments around the world
Keynote speakers: David Dollar (Brookings Institution) and Helen Milner (Princeton University)
Jointly organized with Gerda Asmus, Axel Dreher, Vera Eichenauer, and Angelika Müller
Generously funded by AidData, the German Excellence Initiative as part of Heidelberg University's Field of Focus 4 "Self-Regulation and Regulation: Individuals and Organisations" and the German Research Foundation

Public lecture series “The End of Globalization? Understanding Challenges to International Cooperation”

Winter term 2016/17, Heidelberg University
Goal: discuss challenges to international cooperation, including the prospects for development cooperation, global terror risks, the European Monetary Union, the Brexit, and the refugee crisis
Jointly organized with Sebastian Ziaja
Generously funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of Heidelberg University's Field of Focus 4 "Self-Regulation and Regulation: Individuals and Organisations"

Symposium "Geospatial Analysis of Disasters: Measuring Welfare Impacts of Emergency Relief"

July 18-19, 2016, Heidelberg University
Goal: stimulate and advance the debate about reliable geospatial measures of welfare impacts of emergency relief, including measures of economic recovery, their comparability, and to foster research collaborations
Jointly organized with Vera Eichenauer and Sven Kunze in collaboration with the GIScience Group of Heidelberg University
Generously funded by AidData, the U.S. Global Development Lab powered by USAID and the German Research Foundation

Workshop “South-South Development Cooperation: Chances and Challenges for the International Aid Architecture”

September 26-27, 2014, Heidelberg University
Goal: bring together economists, political scientists, sociologists, geographers and other researchers to give them a forum to present their research on South-South Development Cooperation
Invited speakers: Emma Mawdsley (Cambridge University), Rani D. Mullen (CPR New Delhi), Bradley Parks (AidData), and Mike J. Tierney (College of William & Mary)
Jointly organized with Dana de la Fontaine, Katharina Richert and Jivanta Schöttli
Generously funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of Heidelberg University's Field of Focus 4 "Self-Regulation and Regulation: Individuals and Organisations"