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Moritz Sommer M.Sc.

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Freie Universität Berlin

Department of Political and Social Science / Institute of Sociology

Sociology of European Societies

Former Research Associate in the finished project "GGCRISI"

Moritz Sommer (M.Sc. in Political Sociology, LSE; M.A. in Research Training, HU Berlin) is a PhD-student and a former research assistant in the finished Greek-German project GGCRISI. His main research interests include (European) political sociology and social movement studies.

Education

10. – 12.2019

Research Stay at Columbia University, Institute for European Studies. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sheri Berman.

04. – 06.2017

Research Stay at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Institute for Social Sciences. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Juan Diéz Medrano.

Since 08.2015

Doctoral Studies: Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Sociology

Working title: European Blame Games? The Politicization of  the Eurozone Crisis in Germany, Greece and Spain from 2009 to 2016

First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jochen Roose, Freie Universität Berlin

2012 – 2016

M.A. Research Training Program: Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

2011 – 2012

M.Sc. Political Sociology: London School of Economics and Political Science

02.2009 – 07.2009

Term Abroad: Istanbul Kültür-University

2007 – 2011            

B.A. Public Administration, Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster / B.Sc. European Studies, University of Twente

Scientific Work Experiences

Since 01.2020

Research Associate: German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM-Institute)

07.2016 - 12.2019

Scientific Coordinator: Institute for Protest- and Social Movement Research

02.2014 - 10.2016

Research Associate: Greek-German research project GGCRISI (The Greeks, the Germans and the Crisis), Institute of Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin

07.2013 – 02.2014

Student Assistant: PD Dr. Paula Diehl, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Chair in political theory, research unit: Democratic Symbolism

05.2013 – 02.2014

Student Assistant: Prof. Dr. Jochen Roose, Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of sociology, research unit: Sociology of European Societies

12.2012 – 04.2013

Student Assistant: Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies

Research Projects

2018

Mapping #NoG20. Dokumentation und Analyse der Gewaltdynamik im Kon-text der Proteste gegen den G20-Gipfel in Hamburg 2017 [Mapping #NoG20. Documentation and analysis of dynamic of violence during the protests against the G20-summit in Hamburg], Project Website 

2016 – 2017

‚Pharmaunternehmen – Werbung und Proteste‘ [Pharmaceutical industries – between advertisement and protest]

Cross-sectional project within the program for the promotion of young researchers at Freie Universität Berlin. Partner: Dr. Viorela Dan, Institute for Media and Communication Studies 

2016

‚Großdemonstrationen in den Medien‘ [Large scale demonstrations in media reporting]

Institute for protest and social movement studies, Project Website

 2014 – 2016

‚The Greeks, the Germans and the Crisis (GGCRISI)’

Bilateral research project: Institute for Sociology at Freie Universität Berlin, and Institute for Sociology at University of Crete, Project Website

 Since  2015

Demonstration Surveys

Institute for protest and social movement studies, Project Website

Professional Services and Memberships

  • Co-Editor Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen (FJSB) / www.forschungsjournal.de
  • Board Member of the Institute for the study of protest and social movements, www.protestinstitut.eu
  • Memberships (i.a): German Sociological Association (DGS)m sections Political Sociology and Sociology of Europe
  • Research Affiliate: Berlin Graduate School for Global and Transnational Studies (BTS)

Scholarships

2016 – 2020

Doctoral Studies Scholarship: Friedrich Ebert Foundation

2009 – 2013

Graduate Studies Scholarship: Friedrich Ebert Foundation

Publications

Edited Volumes

2020

Daniel, Antje; Deutschmann, Anna; Kocyba, Piotr and Sommer, Moritz (Eds.; 2020): Spannungsfeld Umwelt – Aktivismus weltweit  [Global Environmental Activism]. Special issue of Forschungsjournals Soziale Bewegungen, Vol. 33, 4.

2020

Haunss, Moritz and Sommer, Moritz (Eds; 2020): Fridays for Future – Die Jugend gegen den Klimawandel: Konturen der weltweiten Protestbewegung [Fridays for Future - Youth against climate change: contours of the global protest movement]. Transcript. Open Access.

2019

Grimm, Jannis; Wienkoop, Nina-Kathrin, and Sommer, Moritz (Eds.; 2019): Konflikt, Kompromiss, Konsensus – das Verhältnis von Bewegungen und Institutionen [Conflict, Compromise, Consensus – The relationship of social movements and institutions]. Special issue of Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen. Vol. 31, 2.

2018

Roose, Jochen; Sommer, Moritz, and Scholl, Franziska (Eds.; 2018): Europas Zivilgesellschaft in der Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise. Protest, Resilienz und Kämpfe um Deutungshoheit [Europe's Civil Society in the Financial Crisis. Protest, resiliance and framing struggles]. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

2017

Lewicki, Aleksandra; Schmidt, Gabriele and Sommer, Moritz (Eds.; 2017): Wer schafft das? Neue Akteurskonstellationen im Engagement für Geflüchtete [Who does it? New actor constellations in refugee activism]. Special issue of the Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen. 3/2017.

2016

Roose, Jochen; Scholl, Franziska and Sommer, Moritz (Eds.). Aufbruch am Abgrund? Europas Bewegungslandschaft in der Eurozonenkrise [New departures on the edge? - Social movements in the Eurozone Crisis].Special issue of the Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen. I/2016.

Journal Articles

 2020 Roose, Jochen; Sommer, Moritz und Kousis, Maria (2020): Looking for the Way Out. The Attribution of Treatment Responsibility among Greek and German Actors in the Eurozone Crisis Debate. German Politics and Society, Jg. 38, Heft. 3, S. 25–53.
2020   Sommer, Moritz (2020): Blame Shifting in Times of Permanent Austerity – Evidence from Spain and Greece in the Eurozone Crisis. Journal of Common Market Studies, S. 562-579.

2019

Rucht, Dieter and Sommer, Moritz (2019): Fridays for Future – Zwischenbilanz eines Höhenflugs [Fridays for Future – interim balance of a success story]. In: Internationale Politik. July/August 2019, pp. 121 – 125. Online.

2019

Sommer, Moritz and Teune, Simon (2019: Sichtweisen auf Protest – Die Demonstrationen gegen den G20-Gipfel in Hamburg 2017 im Spiegel der Medienöffentlichkeit  [Perspectives on Protest - The Demonstrations against the G20 Summit in Hamburg 2017 in the Reflection of the Media]. In: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, No. 31, issue 2, Pp. 149 – 162.

2018

Roose, Jochen; Kousis, Maria; Sommer, Moritz; Scholl, Franziska; Kanellopoulos, Kostas; Loukakis, Angelos and Papanikolopoulos, Dimitris (2018): New Rage, New Perspectives? Protest in the Eurozone Crisis in Greece and Germany. In: Kölner Zeitschrift Für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Special issue: Finanzmarkt, Demokratie und Gesellschaft [Financial markets, democracy and society], edited by Jürgen Beyer and Christine Trampusch. Pp. 697–714.

2017

Zajak, Sabrina; Haunss, Sebastian; Daphi, Priska; Gauditz, Leslie; Micus Matthias, Sommer, Moritz und Teune, Simon (2017). Zwischen Reform und Revolution: Ergebnisse Der Befragung von G20-Demonstrierenden am 02. und 08. Juli 2017 in Hamburg [Between reform and revolution. Results of demonstration surveys at the G20-protests in July 2017 in Hamburg. In: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, 4. S. 20 – 29.
2017 Roose, Jochen; Kanellopoulos, Kostas and Sommer, Moritz (2017): National anti-austerity protests in a European Crisis. Comparing the Europeanizing Impact of Protest in Greece and Germany During the Eurozone Crisis. In: Journal of Civil Society, Vol. 14, Special issue: Social Movements as ‘arenas’ and ‘actors’ in transnationalizing public spheres, edited by Angela Bourne. Pp. 284 – 306.

2017

Lewicki, Aleksandra; Schmidt, Gabriele and Sommer, Moritz (2017): Editorial. Wer schafft das? Neue Akteurskonstellationen im Engagement für Geflüchtete [Editorial. Who does it? New actor constellations in refugee activism]. In: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, Vol. 30, 3, Pp. 3 – 7.

2016

Roose, Jochen; Scholl, Franziska and Sommer, Moritz (2016): Schuldenkrise und Schuldfrage. Verantwortungszuschreibungen zwischen Deutschland und Griechenland in der Eurozonen Krise [Debt crisis and questions of guilt. Attributions of responsibility between Germany and Greece in the Eurozone Crisis.] In: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, Vol. 29, 1, Pp. 39 – 50.

2016

Daphi, Priska; Haunss, Sebastian; Sommer, Moritz; Stuppert, Wolfgang; Teune, Simon and Zajak, Sabrina (2016). Größtenteils links und protesterfahren – Befragung der Teilnehmenden der TTIP-Demonstration in Berlin [Mainly left-oriented and protest-experienced. Surveying Anti-TTIP-Demonstrators in Berlin]. In: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, Vol. 29, 1, Pp. 123 – 128.

Articles in Edited Volumes

2020

Sommer, Moritz and Haunss, Sebastian (2020): Fridays for Future. Eine Erfolgsgeschichte vor neuen Herausforderungen [Fridays for Future. A success story facing new challenges]. In: Haunss, Moritz and Sommer, Moritz (Eds.): Fridays for Future – Die Jugend gegen den Klimawandel: Konturen der weltweiten Protestbewegung [Fridays for Future - Youth against climate change: contours of the global protest movement]. Transcript, pp. 237 – 252.

2020

Sommer, Moritz; Haunss, Sebastian; Gardner, Beth Gharrity; Neuber, Michael and Rucht, Dieter (2020): Wer demonstriert da? Ergebnisse von Befragungen bei Großprotesten von Fridays for Future in Deutschland im März und November 2019 [Who is demonstrating? Results of surveys at large-scale Fridays for Future protests in Germany in March and November 2019]. In: Haunss, Moritz and Sommer, Moritz (Eds.): Fridays for Future – Die Jugend gegen den Klimawandel: Konturen der weltweiten Protestbewegung [Fridays for Future - Youth against climate change: contours of the global protest movement]. Transcript, pp. 15 – 66.

2020

Haunss, Sebastian; Sommer, Moritz and Fritz, Lisa (2020): Fridays for Future. Konturen einer neuen Protestbewegung [Friday for Future. Contours of a New Protest Movement]. In: Haunss, Moritz and Sommer, Moritz (Eds.): Fridays for Future – Die Jugend gegen den Klimawandel: Konturen der weltweiten Protestbewegung [Fridays for Future - Youth against climate change: contours of the global protest movement]. Transcript, pp. 7 – 14.

2018 

Roose, Jochen; Sommer, Moritz and Scholl, Franziska (2018): Verantwortungszuschreibungen in der Eurozonen-Krise. Das Kommunikationsverhalten von Politik und Zivilgesellschaft im Deutsch-Griechischen Vergleich [The attribution of responsibility in the Eurozone Crisis. A comparison of communication patterns by political and civil society actors]. In: Roose, Jochen; Sommer, Moritz, and Scholl, Franziska (Eds.; 2018). Europas Zivilgesellschaft in der Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise. Protest, Resilienz und Kämpfe um Deutungshoheit [Europe's Civil Society in the Financial Crisis. Protest, resiliance and framing struggles]. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

2018 Roose, Jochen; Sommer, Moritz and Scholl, Franziska (2018): Verantwortungszuschreibungen in der Eurozonen-Krise. Das Kommunikationsverhalten von Politik und Zivilgesellschaft im Deutsch-Griechischen Vergleich [The attribution of responsibility in the Eurozone Crisis. A comparison of communication patterns by political and civil society actors]. In: Roose, Jochen; Sommer, Moritz, and Scholl, Franziska (Eds.; 2018). Europas Zivilgesellschaft in der Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise. Protest, Resilienz und Kämpfe um Deutungshoheit [Europe's Civil Society in the Financial Crisis. Protest, resiliance and framing struggles]. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

2016 

Roose, Jochen; Scholl, Franziska; Sommer, Moritz; Kousis, Maria and Kanellopoulos, Kostas (2017): Debating Responsibility on the Eurozone Crisis in Traditional Media: Newspaper Reporting in Greece and Germany under a Social Media Lense. In: Michailidou, Asimina and Barisione, Mauro (Eds.): Social Media and European Politics. Rethinking Power and Legitimacy in the Digital Era. London: Pelgrave Macmillan. Pp. 267 – 290.

2015

Sommer, Moritz; Roose, Jochen; Scholl, Franziska and Papanikolopoulos, Dimitris (2015): Party Conflict in the Eurozone Crisis. In: Krieger, Tim; Neumärker, Bernhard and Panke, Diana (Eds.): The Eurozone Crisis – the Conflict-Theoretical Perspective. Baden-Baden: Nomos. Pp. 87 – 110.

2013

Ullrich, Peter and Sommer, Moritz: Rassismus in der deutschen Linken [Racism in the German Leftist movement]. In: Ullrich, Peter (2013): Deutsche, Linke und der Nahostkonflikt Politik im Antisemitismus- und Erinnerungsdiskurs. [Germans, Leftists, and the Middle East Conflict. Politics and discourses of national memory and anti-semitism]. Wallstein. Pp. 91 – 112.

Research Reports 

2019

Sommer, Moritz; Rucht, Dieter; Haunss, Sebastian und Zajak, Sabrina (2019): Fridays for Future. Profil, Entstehung und Perspektiven der Protestbewegung in Deutschland [Fridays for Future. Profile, Emergence and Perspective of the protest movement in Germany]. Working Paper, Institute for protest and social movement studies. Online.

2019

Wahlström, Mattias; Sommer, Moritz; Kocyba, Piotr; De Vydt, Michiel; De Moor, Joost and Davies, Stephen (2019). Fridays For Future: a new generation of climate activism. Introduction. In: Wahlström, Mattias; Kocyba, Piotr; De Vydt, Michiel and De Moor, Joost (Eds.). Protest for a future: Composition, mobilization and motives of the participants in Fridays For Future climate protests on 15 March, 2019 in 13 European cities. Online.

2019

Haunss Sebastian; Rucht, Dieter; Sommer Moritz and Zajak, Sabrina (2019). Germany. In: Wahlström, Mattias; Kocyba, Piotr; De Vydt, Michiel and De Moor, Joost (Eds.). Protest for a future: Composition, mobilization and motives of the participants in Fridays For Future climate protests on 15 March, 2019 in 13 European cities.Online.

2018

Malthaner, Stefan; Teune, Simon; Ullrich, Peter; […] Sommer, Moritz (2018): Eskalation: Dynamiken der Gewalt im Kontext der G20-Proteste in Hamburg 2017 [Escalation. Dynamics of Violence during the G20-Protests in Hamburg 2017. Berlin, Hamburg: Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung / Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung. Online

2018

Sommer, Moritz and Haunss, Sebastian (2018): Grenzen von Protest. Auswertungen von G20-Demonstrationsbefragungen [Limits of Protest. Analysis of G20 protest surceys]. Research report to Malthaner, Stefan et al. (2018): Eskalation: Dynamiken der Gewalt im Kontext der G20-Proteste in Hamburg 2017 [Escalation. Dynamics of Violence during the G20-Protests in Hamburg 2017. Online.

2018

Sommer, Moritz; Teune, Simon and Harsch, Corinna (2018): Journalistische Spielräume. Unterschiede in der Berichterstattung zu #NoG20 [Journalistic leeways. Differences in G20-protest reporting]. Research report to Malthaner, Stefan et al. (2018): Eskalation: Dynamiken der Gewalt im Kontext der G20-Proteste in Hamburg 2017 [Escalation. Dynamics of Violence during the G20-Protests in Hamburg 2017. Online.

2017

Haunss, Sebastian; Daphi, Priska; Gauditz, Leslie; Knopp, Philipp; Micus, Matthias; Scharf, Philipp; Sommer, Moritz; Teune, Simon; Thurn, Roman; Ullrich, Peter and Zajak, Sabrina. (2017): #NoG20. Ergebnisse der Befragung von Demonstrierenden und der Beobachtung des Polizeieinsatzes [#NoG20. Results of demonstration surveys and police observations].  Working Paper, Institute for protest and social movement studies. Online

 2017 Teune, Simon; Sommer, Moritz and Rucht, Dieter (2017): Zwischen Emphase und Aversion. Großdemonstrationen in der Medienberichterstattung [Between emphasis and aversion. Large scale demonstrations in media reporting].  Working Paper, Institute for protest and social movement studies. Online
2015 Daphi, Priska; Haunss, Sebastian; Sommer, Moritz; Stuppert, Wolfgang; Teune, Simon and Zajak, Sabrina (2015). Für Demokratie und gegen die Macht der Konzerne. Motive und Merkmale der Teilnehmenden der Demonstration „TTIP & CETA stoppen. Für einen gerechten Welthandel!“ am 10. Oktober in Berlin. [For Democracy and against commercial power. Motives and characteristics of participants of the Anti-TTIP/CETA demonstration in Berlin. Working Paper, Institute for protest and social movement studies. Online.

2015

Daphi, Priska; Kocyba, Piotr; Neuber, Michael; Roose, Jochen; Rucht, Dieter; Scholl, Franziska; Sommer, Moritz; Stuppert, Wolfgang and Zajak, Sabrina (2015). Protestforschung am Limit. Eine soziologische Annäherung an Pegida. [Protest research at the limit. A sociological approach to ‚Pegida‘]. Working Paper, Institute for protest and social movement studies. Online

Conference Reports and other Publications

2019

Sommer, Moritz (2019). „Auf die Strassse!“ – Fachtagung der Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung [On the streets! Conference of the Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung]. In: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, Vol. 31, 3,

2019

Sommer, Moritz; Haunss, Sebastian and Zajak, Sabrina (2019). „Der Kontext lokaler Proteste“ – Jahrestagung des Instituts für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung 2018 [The Context of Local Protests - Annual Conference of the Institute for Social Movement Research 2018. In: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, Vol. 31, 1, Pp. 88 – 92. 

2017

Sommer, Moritz (2017): „Rechtspopulismus als Bewegung?“ - Jahrestagung des Instituts für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung am 24. November 2016. [Right wing populism – a movement? Annual conference of the Institute for protest and social movement studies].  In: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, Vol. 30, 2. Online.

2016

Sommer, Moritz (2017): PEGIDA: Entwicklung, Zusammensetzung und Deutung einer Empörungsbewegung (Book Review). In: German Politics, Vol 26, 1, Pp. 187 – 188.

2015

Amelung, Nina; Edinger, Eva-Christina; Keil, Maria; Rogge, Jan-Christoph; Sommer, Moritz; Ullrich, Peter and Weber, Tina (2015): Die Fachgesellschaften politisieren und mobilisieren! [Politicizing and mobilizing the scientific societies]. In: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, 3, pp. 100 – 105.

2014

Sommer, Moritz: European Crisis Discourses – the Case of Germany (2014). In: Murray-Leach, Tamsin: Crisis Discourses in Europe. Media EU-phemisms and Alternative Narratives. Background Paper for the Research Project The Subterranean Politics in Europe, Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science. Pp. 11 – 15.

2014

Roose, Jochen, Sommer, Moritz and Scholl, Franziska (2014): Die Griechen, die Deutschen und die Krise (GGCRISI). Projektvorstellung. [The Greeks, the Germans, and the Crisis (GGCRISI). Project presentation]. In: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, 1, pp. 96 – 100.

Conference Papers and Presentations

11.2019

A new generation of climate activism in Europe - A survey of FridaysForFuture-Protesters in Germany and beyond”. Public Lecture at the University of Maryland . Invitation: Prof. Dr. Dana Fisher. 

08.2018

Linking the Micro- and Meso-Level in the Study of Mass Demonstrations – The Case of G20”. Paper presented in the panel „Heuristic and Methodological Challenges of Understanding Large Protest Events” at the ECPR General Conference 2018 in Hamburg.

08.2018

Blame avoidance in times of permanent austerity – Greek and Spanish parties in the Eurozone crisis”. Paper presented in the section „Southern Europe – Mapping Change an Moving on“ of the Standing Group on Southern European Politics at the ECPR General Conference 2018 in Hamburg.

03.2018

Blame Avoidance in the Eurozone Crisis – Debating Responsibility Among Greek and German Parties, 2009 – 2016”. Paper presented at the 25th International Conference of Europeanists’ of the Council for European Studies, Chicago, IL. 

12.2017

“Großdemonstrationen in der Medienberichtertattung“ [Large scale demonstations in media reporting]. Presentation and lecture at the  Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Division of Communication Theory and Media Effects, Freie Universität Berlin. 

11.2017

Einblicke in die Ergebnisse der Demonstrationsbefragungen bei G20-Demonstrationen“ [Insights into the results of two demonstration surveys at the G20-protests. Presentation at the Workshop „Selektivität im Protest Policing: Gruppen, Situationen, Kontexte“ [Selectivity in Protest Policing: Groups, Situations, Contexts], Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin.

09.2016

Chair Panel and Discussant of the section “Southern Europe and the EU – A Relationship under Stress“ at the UACES 46th Annual Conference, Queen Mary University of London.

09.2016

The Differentiated Politicization of Eurozone Crisis Policies.” Paper presented in the section “Southern Europe and the EU – A Relationship under Stress“ at the UACES 46th Annual Conference, Queen Mary University of London. 

04.2016

"The Politicization of Eurozone Crisis Policies in Greece and Germany – Insights from the Public Attribution of Responsibility Between 2009 and 2014”. Paperpresented at the 23rd International Conference of Europeanists’ of the Council for European Studies, Philadelphia, PA.

10.2015

Narrative dimensions of stability and solidarity in the Euro Crisis”. Paper presented in the Workshop “A narrative turn in EU studies?“ at the College of Europe, Bruges (Kostas Kanellopoulos, Angelos Loukakis, Moritz Sommer).

10.2015

Wenn die Sozialpolitik an ihr Ende kommt. Verantwortungszuschreibung in der Eurozonenkrise“. [At the End of Social Policy. Attributions of responsibility in the Eurozone Crisis]. Presentation at the Conference “Zwischen De- und Re-Nationalisierung. Soziale Sicherung in Zeiten europäischer Krisen“ [Between De-Nationalization and Re-Nationalization. Social Welfare in Times of European Crises] of the sections Social Policy and Sociology of Europe of the German Sociological Association (DGS), Flensburg (Jochen Roose, Franziska Scholl, Moritz Sommer).

07.2015

In the Eye of the Storm. European Commission and ECB in the ‘Battle’ of Attributing Responsibility in the Eurozone Crisis”. Paper presented in the section: “The Public Attribution of Responsibility in Politics: Structures of Public Sense Making” at the International Conference of Europeanists, Council for European Studies, Paris (Jochen Roose, Moritz Sommer, Franziska Scholl).

03.2015

Blame Shifting and Credit Claiming – Comparing Strategies of Communicative Self-Legitimation in the Eurozone Crisis Debate”. Paper presented in the section: “The Quest for Legitimacy in World Politics – International Organizations’ Self-Legitimations” at the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops 2015, Warsaw (Moritz Sommer, Jochen Roose).

03.2015

Comparing Greek and German Interest Groups in the Eurozone Crisis through Discursive Actor Attribution Analysis”. Paper presented in the section “Conceptualising and Comparing Interest Groups and Interest Group Systems“ at the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops 2015, Warsaw (Maria Kousis, Jochen Roose, Franziska Scholl, Marina Papadaki, Moritz Sommer, Kostas Kanellopoulos).

11.2014

Crisis framing and the attribution of responsibility. A Discursive Actor Attribution Analysis of the Eurozone crisis in Greek and German newspapers”. Paper presented in the section: “The European Socio-cultural Space and the New Global Order” at the Midterm Conference of the European Political Sociology Research Network of ESA, Copenhagen (Moritz Sommer, Jochen Roose, Kostas Kanellopoulos, Maria Kousis, Franziska Scholl).

10.2014

Verantwortungszuschreibungen in der Eurozonen-Krise. Erste Ergebnisse einer Discursive Actor Attribution Analysis von deutschen und griechischen Zeitungen” [Attribution of responsibility in the Eurozone crisis. First results from a discursive actor attribution analysis of German and Greek newspapers]. Paper presented in the section: Aktuelle Forschung zur Politischen Soziologie [Current research in Political Sociology] at the Conference of the German Sociological Association (DGS), Trier (Franziska Scholl, Jochen Roose, Moritz Sommer).

10.2014

Attributing the Crisis. A Greek-German comparison”. Paper presented at the interdisciplinary workshop “Europe‘s Crisis: The Conflict-theoretic Perspective”, Freiburg (Moritz Sommer, Jochen Roose).

09.2014

Attributing Responsibility in the Debate on the Eurozone Crisis: Nationally confined or Europeanized?“. Paper presented at the ESA Interim Conference of the Disasters, Conflicts and Social Crises Research Network, Rethymno (Franziska Scholl, Moritz Sommer, Maria Kousis, Maria Kousis, Marina Papadaki, Kostas Kanellopoulos, Dimitris Papanikolopoulos).

09.2014

Discursive Actor Attribution Analysis: A Tool to Analyze How People Make Sense of the Crisis”, Paper presented in the section: “Citizens’ Resilience in Times of Crisis“ at the ECPR General Conference, Glasgow (Jochen Roose, Maria Kousis, Moritz Sommer).

09.2014

Assessing legitimacy in the Southern Eurozone crisis through Discursive Actor Attribution Analysis of media reports, 2009-2013”. Paper presented in the sectionDemocracy Under Stress in Southern Europe” at the ECPR-General Conference, Glasgow (Moritz Sommer, Jochen Roose, Franziska Scholl, Maria Kousis, Kostas Kanellopoulos).

11.2013

 “German Crisis Discourses”, Presentation at the OSIFE-Workshop “The Crisis Discourse Across Europe: Absent but Everywhere”, OSIFE, Barcelona (Moritz Sommer).

09.2013

The Discursive Management of Dissent”. Paper presented at the ECPR-Summer School on Methods for the Study of Political Participation and Mobilization, European University Institute, Florence (Moritz Sommer).

09.2012

“Re-reading the Riots”. Paper presented at the 7th International Conference of the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics, Brighton (Moritz Sommer).

2015/2016
(Winter Term)

“Protesting the Crisis“. Master-Course. Institute of Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin. Together with Jochen Roose. (In English).

2014/2015
(Winter Term)

“The Political Sociology of Europe in Crisis“. Master-Course. Institute of Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin. (In English).

2014

Crisis Protests in the Eurozone”. Presentation at the Summer School “Social Movements in Global Perspectives: Past, Present and Future”. Ruhr Universität Bochum. (In English).