Conferences

31.12.2001 

"Everyday and Everydayness" - German Immigrants (Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel)

8. - 11.09.2005

"Political Socialization of German Jews in Israel" (3rd Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research [ECPR], the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary)

23. - 26.03.2006

"The Holocaust Discourse and -Memory in Israel and its Political Value" ("Trajectories of Memory: Intergenerational Representations of the Holocaust in History and the Arts", the State University of Bowling Green, OH)

23. - 29.07.2006

"Political Socialization, Biographical Experiences and State Agencies of Alienation" (The XVI World Congress of Sociology of the International Sociological Association (ISA): The Quality of Social Existence in a Globalizing World, in Durban/South Africa)

"Biographical Experiences and Politicization of German Jews in Israel" (The XVI World Congress of Sociology of the International Sociological Association (ISA): The Quality of Social Existence in a Globalizing World, in Durban/South Africa)

Scholarships

1999        

Leo Baeck Institut (Jerusalem), "Association Friends of Beer-Sheva" (Wuppertal) and the City of Wuppertal to participate in a Summer School to learn Hebrew at the Ben-Gurion University/Beer Sheva (Israel)

2003 -   2006  

Ph.D.-Scholarship: Hans-Böckler-Foundation to conduct the empirical Ph.D. research: Biography and Politicization: Political Attitudes of German Zionists and Holocaust Survivors in Israel

Memberships

Member of the German-Israeli Working Group for Peace in the Middle East (DIAK)

Member and Assistant Managing Director of the Wuppertal Institute of Social Science

Member of the American Sociological Association (ASA)

Member of the International Sociological Association (ISA), Research Committee on Alienation Theory and Research (RC 36)

Member of the International Sociological Association (ISA), Research Committee: Biography and Society (RC 38)