On Feb. 27, 2025, I gave a keynote presentation for The New Institute in Hamburg, a center for innovative thinking on the main challenges facing Europe and the world today.

I was delighted to take part in an EU-VALUES Network event featuring Dr. Tom Theuns of Leiden University, who presented key insights from his latest book, Protecting Democracy in Europe. Theuns explores the critical challenges of safeguarding democracy in the EU, including the rise of autocracy, threats to pluralism, and the tensions shaping European governance.

On Nov. 20, I went to the University of Padua to give a talk for the seminar series of the Department of Political Science on economic governance in the EU, with a focus on the reform of the fiscal rules. 

On November 7, 2024, I gave a talk at the Vienna University of Economics and Business on “The Power of Ideas and Discursive Interaction” for management faculty interested in applying my analytic framework of “Discursive Institutionalism” to management practice, and in particular to questions of sustainability management.

I was at the Institute of International Peace in Vienna on Monday, November 11, recording a special podcast with on the implications of the Trump Presidency for Europe, Echoes Across the Atlantic: The Trump Election and Its Impact on Europe, and participating in a panel discussion on the election, America Votes, Europe Watches: The Future of Transatlantic Relations.

On Monday, November 11, Jolyon Howorth and I were at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies for an in-house discussion of Trump’s victory and its implications. We posit that Europe is set to face a tough time, both politically and economically.

On October 23, 2024, I gave a presentation entitled ”Power and Legitimacy during Emergency Politics: A Democratic Audit of Responses to the Covid-19 Crisis” for the Research Seminar Series of the Department of Political Science at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome.

I visited the island of Hydra in September to take part in the 18th European Seminar: “Is the EU Ready to Become a Political Adult?”

I was invited to Athens to deliver the keynote address for the Europe in Discourse IV Conference on September 26-27, 2024. My talk was titled “Europe’s Polycrisis in Discourse: Normative Challenges, Discursive Dynamics, and Political Dilemmas.”

I presented a talk on “Political Governance in the European Monetary Union” for the conference on the “25th Anniversary of the Euro: Past Achievements and Improvements ahead” organized by the Euro 50 Group.

On May 22, I gave a keynote for the workshop “Rules and Laws of European Economic Governance,” an international research event organized by the Centre de Recherche en Droit Public (CRDP) at Université de Montréal.

On May 14, I gave a presentation entitled “EU Economic Governance: Still not fit for Purpose” for the Axis on the Transformation of Capitalism of the European Studies Center at Sciences Po-Paris.

I was in Brussels on April 30 for two events, one at the Foundation for European Progressive Studies, and another at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

I gave a talk online April 9, 2024, for the Yale Macmillan Center’s European Studies Council in their series: Rethinking Democracy in and for the European Union. My talk was entitled “The Future of Democracy in the EU: From the Eurozone Crisis to the Covid 19 Crisis and Beyond.”

On Tuesday, February 22, I took part in a “Power to the People” webinar entitled Who decides in Europe? … For Farmers, Nature & Consumers?.

I delivered this lecture on “The Rhetoric of Discontent” last Tuesday, December 5, at Boston University’s Rajen Kilachand Center.

Earlier this week, I spoke on a keynote panel on “New Directions for the Future of the EU” at the UACES Annual Conference in the historic city of Lille, France.

On June 22, 2022, I took part in a panel discussion on “EU socio-economic governance for equal society in times of crisis” at the European Trade Union Institution (ETUI) and European Trade Union Confederation’s (ETUC) conference A Blueprint for Equality.