On Thursday evening , December 11, as part of the concluding conference of the Horizon Europe--RED Spinel project, I took part in a panel discussion with Judge Iulia Motoc of the International Criminal Court.

On December 10, I gave a talk for the Institute of European Studies at the Free University of Brussels on my forthcoming book, The Power of Ideas and Discourse in Political Analysis: A Discursive Institutionalist Perspective, due out in April.

I gave a keynote presentation on “Political Trust and Legitimacy in the Age of Populism” for the Conference on Political Trust organized by CEVIPOF at the French Political Science School, Sciences Po, Paris (December 5-6, 2025).

Yesterday, June 24, I joined Federico Fabbrini and Kalypso Nicolaidis on a keynote panel for the EU Horizon 2020 project REGROUP investigating the effects of Covid 19.

I was honored to delivery a keynote talk for the European Academy of Management’s EURAM 25 Conference at the University of Florence’s School of Economics and Management from June 22-25.

On April 11, 2025, I gave a talk at the University of Bologna’s Political Science Department on “The Power of Ideas and Discourse in the Rise of Populism: A Transatlantic Perspective.”

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.”