Presentations & Outreach
2023
January 2023: Interview, WEB.DE, "Hat Putin eine langfristige wirtschaftliche Strategie?"
January 2023: SPSA Annual Convention, St. Pete Beach, Florida (Program)
2022
December 2022: Interview, Deutschlandfunk, "Die Rolle der Oligarchen in Russland"
December 2022: Interview, ZDF, on the effect of the sanctions on Russia's economy
December 2022: Arbeitskreis Russland, SWP, Berlin
December 2022: Podcast Zaren.Daten.Fakten, "Zwischenbilanz: 10 Monate Sanktionen"
November 2022: Seminar on Analytical Sociology, LMU Munich, San Servolo, Venice
November 2022: Interview on buten un binnen about the effect of the war in Ukraine on scientific collaboration with Russia (text and video)
October 2022: DGO-Congress of Central and East European Studies, FU Berlin (co-organizer, chair of the opening panel)
September 2022: Workshop "Topics in the Political Economy of Development", Harriman Institute, Columbia University (Columbia Global Center Istanbul)
September 2022: Podcast on the Consequences of Russia's War in Ukraine on Trade Relations in Europe, Bremen Chamber of Commerce
September 2022: Workshop "The Future of Social Research in and on Russia and Ukraine" (co-organizer, with Jan Matti Dollbaum), Delmenhorst, Germany
September 2022: Workshop "Russian Regional Politics: The Kremlin, Regional Actors and Regime Longevity prior to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine", University of Uppsala
August 2022: Lecture at the European Summer Academy of the German Studienstiftung, about Artificial Intelligence in Authoritarian Regimes (Vilnius)
July 2022: Interview with the Chinese TV Channel Phoenix Television
July 2022: Podcast of the German Chamber of Commerce in Moscow, about the effect of the sanctions on the Russian economy
July 2022: Public Lecture at the "House of Science" in Bremen, about Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Authoritarian Regimes
June 2022: Lagerfeuergespräch ("camp fire talk") about the war in Ukraine, Universum, Bremen
June 2022: Presentation about the economic consequences of the war in Ukraine, Industrieclub Bremen
June 2022: Presentation about the implications of the sanctions against Russia for German SMEs, Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau (VDMA), Frankfurt am Main
May 2022: Interview in “The Sun” about Putin’s inner circle, together with Daniel Treisman
May 2022: Interview in “Frankfurter Neue Presse“ about the war in Ukraine
May 2022: Discussion on the Algerian TV Channel Al24news about the war in Ukraine
April 2022: Presentation about the war in Ukraine and the economic consequences for Russia, Ukraine and Germany, Bremen Chamber of Commerce
April 2022: Online Presentation about the war in Ukraine and its economic consequences at the Volkshochschule Delmenhorst
April 2022: Interview on RadioEins RBB about the effect of the sanctions on Russia’s economy
April 2022: Interview on SWR 2 about the role of the oligarchs in Putin’s Russia
April 2022: Expert Interview on the TV Show “Galileo” (Pro 7), about Putin’s inner circle and the influence of the siloviki and the oligarchs on politics in Russia
April 2022: Podcast with Norbert Häring (“Die Zukunftsmacher“) about Russian politics
April 2022: MPSA, Chicago
April 2022: Invited Seminar, Faculty of Political Science, University of Wisconsin / Madison
March 2022: Special edition of the Podcast “In der Wirtschaft” about the war in Ukraine
March 2022: Interview in buten un binnen, about the effect of the sanctions on Russia’s economy
March 2022: 2 interviews on RBB Kultur and RadioEins RBB about Russia’s war in Ukraine
March 2022: Interview on Swedish national radio for a special issue of the program "Konflikt"
March 2022: Television interview about the role of the oligarchs in Russian politics (Spiegel TV)
March 2022: Interview in the Weser-Kurier about the effect of the Ukraine war on Russia’s economy
March 2022: Roundtable Discussion, "What is Happening in Ukraine? Facts and Critical Reflections", Almaty Management University, Kazakhstan (online)
March 2022: Interview in Deutsche Welle about the risk of the nationalization of foreign firms in Russia
January 2022: SPSA, San Antonio (online, mini-conference on "The Politics of Authoritarian Regimes")
2021
December 2021: FU Berlin, Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science (invited lecture)
November 2021: ASEEES, New Orleans
November 2021: LMU Munich / German Academy of Sociology, Annual Seminar ‘Analytical Sociology: Theory and Empirical Applications’, San Servolo, Venice
November 2021: ICSID / Harriman Workshop (Higher School of Economics / Columbia University), "Emerging Topics in Russian and Eurasian Studies" (online)
September 2021: Podcast "Der Nachhaker" (about the Russian Duma elections)
June 2021: 10th ICSID Conference (online)
June 2021: Podcast "In der Wirtschaft" (about Russia's economic transformation)
May 2021: Book presentation, Södertörn University (online)
May 2021: Podcast "Roundtable Osteuropa" (about Russia and Belarus)
April 2021: Panel discussion, German Historical Institute, Moscow (online, about the 1990s in Russia)
April 2021: Podcast "EuropaPunktBremen" (on 35 years Chernobyl)
March 2021: Keynote Lecture, "International Conference on Federalism, State and Society", Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan (online)
March 2021: Guest Lecture, Center for Eastern European Studies (CEES), University of Zurich (online)
January 2021: TriECON Workshop Medienökonomie, University of Trier (online)
January 2021: Diginomics Conference, University of Bremen (online)
January 2021: Interview "Bilanz am Abend", Saarländischer Rundfunk (about Biden's new China policy)
2020
November 2020: LMU Munich / German Academy of Sociology: Annual Seminar ‘Analytical Sociology: Theory and Empirical Applications’ (online)
November 2020: ASEEES (online)
November 2020: Podcast "Day of Silence" (about the role of collective memories in Russian politics, in Russian)
September 2020: Virtual Workshop on Authoritarian Regimes (VWAR)
June 2020: Mod-Block-DDR Kolloquium (online)
June 2020: Invited Seminar, Bank of Finland (BOFIT), online
February 2020: Invited Seminar, University of Groningen
January 2020: IERP Seminar, Faculty of Business Studies and Economics, University of Bremen
2019
December 2019: Inaugural Lecture, University of Bremen
November 2019: ASEEES, San Francisco
November 2019: Bremen-Shanghai Workshop, University of Bremen
November 2019: Invited Seminar, University of Urbino, Italy
November 2019: Third Ghent Russia Colloquium, University of Ghent, Belgium
October 2019: ICSID / University of Bremen Workshop "Quality of Governance and the Legacy of Socialism", Bremen (co-organizer, together with Jutta Günther)
October 2019: Book Presentation, Department of Social Sciences, HSE St. Petersburg
October 2019: Book Presentation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Far Eastern Branch - Economic Research Institute (Khabarovsk)
September 2019: Interview, WDR 5 Morgenecho (about the Moscow City Duma elections)
August 2019: Podcast, Morning Briefing by Gabor Steingart (about economic development in Russia and China)
June 2019: SIOE 2019, Stockholm School of Economics
June 2019: 8th ICSID Conference, HSE Moscow
February 2019: Workshop "Eastern European Politics and Society ", LMU Munich
February 2019: Invited Seminar, Department of Political Science, Central European University, Budapest
2018
December 2018: ASEEES, Boston
November 2018: LMU-ChAN 4th Scientific Forum, Peking University, Workshop "The Political Economy of Institutional Change in China" (workshop convener)
November 2018: Research Colloquium, Research Center for East European Studies, University of Bremen
November 2018: UAEU-HSE-NYUAD Workshop, Abu Dhabi
October 2018: UAEU-HSE Workshop "Political Economy of Development: Challenges and Perspectives", Al Ain, United Arab Emirates (keynote speaker)
July 2018: University of Freiburg, Faculty of Economics (invited seminar)
July 2018: Workshop "Dynamics of Russian Authoritarianism", LMU Munich
June 2018: Panel "China's Role and Interest in East and Southeast Europe", Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, LMU Munich
June 2018: 7th ICSID Conference, HSE Moscow
April 2018: University of Passau, Faculty of Economics (invited seminar)
March 2018: Workshop “Russia’s 2018 Presidential Elections through the Regional Lens”, King’s College London
February 2018: Forschungskolloquium "Osteuropa", IfS & GSI, LMU München
January 2018: IOS Regensburg (invited seminar)
2017
December 2017: Oberseminar, Institut für Soziologie, LMU München
November 2017: Workshop „Growth and Redistribution in Limited Access Orders”, LMU München (co-convener)
November 2017: Workshop „Analytische Soziologie: Theorie und Empirische Anwendungen“, San Servolo, Venice
November 2017: ASEEES, Chicago
October 2017: Summer School "Erinnerungskultur und lokale Politik in Russlands Norden" (co-organizer, together with Franziska Davis)
June 2017: 2nd World Congress of Comparative Economics, HSE St. Petersburg
June 2017: 6th ICSID Conference, HSE Moscow
May 2017: Workshop "Institutional Change in Political Economies", Graduate School of East and Southeast European Studies, LMU Munich
April 2017: Workshop, Department of Politics, University of Oxford, UK
April 2017: BASEES Conference, Cambridge, UK
February 2017: HSE-NES Seminar in Political Economy, Moscow
February 2017: International Student Conference, HSE St. Petersburg (keynote speaker)
January 2017: Seminar, Center for Strategic Development (Центр Стратегических Разработок), Moscow
2016
November 2016: Seminar, School of Sociology, HSE Moscow
November 2016: ASEEES, Washington, DC
October 2016: ICSID workshop, Columbia University, New York
July 2016: RSSIA 2016, Russian Summer School on Institutional Analysis (faculty)
June 2016: 5th ICSID Conference "Political Economy of Inequality", HSE Moscow
June 2016: SIOE 2016, Sciences Po, Paris (Ronald Coase Institute Alumni Panel)
June 2016: Invited Talk, Rotary Club International, Moscow
June 2016: "Russia's Changing Political Order", workshop, New York
May 2016: Invited Talk, Rotary Club Moscow Metropol, Moscow
May 2016: Invited Seminar, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore
May 2016: Invited Talk, Taicang Roundtable, Jiangsu Province, China
May 2016: Research Seminar, School of Advanced International and Area Studies, ECNU, Shanghai
February 2016: Invited Seminar, IMT - Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy
2015
November 2015: ASEEES Convention, Philadelphia
September 2015: Workshop on Comparative Studies of Regional Governance in China and Russia, HKUST, Hong Kong
August 2015: IAPP Summer School on Multiple Moralities and the Shadow Economy (Zagreb, Croatia)
August 2015: IX ICCEES World Congress (Makuhari, Tokyo, Japan)
June 2015: ICSID Conference "Institutions, Elites and Collective Action in the Developing World", Higher School of Economics, Moscow
June 2015: World Congress of Comparative Economics (University Roma Tre, Rome)
June 2015: ISNIE 2015, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
March 2015: "Performance Incentives and Economic Growth: Regional Officials in Russia and China, joint HSE-NES Seminar, Moscow
March 2015: "The Logic of Power in Russia's Changing Political Order", workshop, UCLA, Los Angeles
2014
December 2014: Graduate Conference in Political Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
October 2014: Aleksanteri Conference, Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki
September 2014: ICSID Workshop, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York
Mai 2014: ICSID Conference "Regional Heterogeneity and Incentives for Governance", Pushkin, St. Petersburg
Mai 2014: European School on New Institutional Economics (ESNIE), Cargèse, France
Mai 2014: Workshop "Political Economy of Second-Best Institutions in the Emerging Markets", King's Russia Institute, King's College, London
April 2014: 15th International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
March 2014: Invited Seminar, IMT - Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy
2013
December 2013: ICSID Research Seminar, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
November 2013: Workshop “Comparing Theory and Practice of Development in the Post-Socialist World”, Tallinn University, Estonia
November 2013: Invited Seminar, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
October 2013: 3rd International Conference “Institutional Transformation of the Economy”, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Russia
August 2013: 1st CIdE / Bank of Italy workshop in Econometrics and Empirical Economics, Perugia, Italy
May 2013: 1st Workshop on Institutional Economics, Xiamen University, China
April 2013: Research Seminar, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
April 2013: Invited Seminar, State University - Higher School of Economics, Perm, Russia
April 2013: 14th International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
February 2013: 2nd Russian Economic Congress, Suzdal, Russia
2012
September 2012: Russian-Sino Joint Conference, Yekaterinburg, Russia
June 2012: 20. Tagung Junger Osteuropa-Experten, Tutzing, Germany
May 2012: Coase Workshop on Institutional Analysis, Beijing
2011
August 2011: Changing Europe Summer School, HSE Moscow
July 2011: Soviet Legacies Summer School in Ostroh, Ukraine
April 2011: 8th International Conference on the Development of Russian Regions, Yekaterinburg, Russia
April 2011: EACES-HSE PhD seminar, 12th HSE International Academic Conference, Moscow
2010
August 2010: 10th World Congress of the Econometric Society, Shanghai
August 2010: VIII ICCEES World Congress, Stockholm
May 2010: EBES 2010 Conference, Istanbul
March 2010: BASEES Conference, Cambridge, UK