The Max Weber Programme for post-doctoral studies : annual report on academic year 2014-2015.
Date: 2016-07-18
Institutions: European University Institute
Subjects: EU programme, activity report, education grant, postgraduate education, professional career, social sciences, teaching curriculum

annual report
academic year 
2014-2015

the max Weber
programme for
postdoctoral
studies

annual report
academic year 
2014/15

max Weber programme for postdoctoral studies
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Published in Italy in October 2015
© European University Institute, 2015

Print: 10.2870/102586 

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ISSN  Print: 1831-9203 
ISBN  Print: 978-92-9084-344-3  Digital: 978-92-9084-345-0

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Directing the Max Weber Programme is a tremendous privilege, giving me the 
opportunity to meet and learn from some of the brightest young academics in 
the  social  sciences  in  the  world  doing  some  of  the  most  interesting  research. 
This  year  was  no  exception.  The  selection  process  of  2013,  when  this  cohort 
of  Fellows  was  chosen,  was  the  most  competitive  of  the  Programme’s  history, 
with 1277 applicants from all over the world for 38 Fellowships. The predictable 
result was an exceptional group of Fellows. This academic year also witnessed a 
number of changes to the programme’s structure – notably, the introduction of 
interdisciplinary thematic groups, the linking of these groups to master classes by 
the Max Weber Lecturers, who also were interviewed about their work and careers 
by Fellows, and a number of additional Occasional Talks by Visiting Professors. 
As  the  reports  of  the  Fellows  below  indicate,  these  innovations  were  seen  by 
most Fellows as welcome additions to the Programme, and will be continued and 
further refined in response to their suggestions in the coming year. At the same 
time, appreciation of long-standing aspects of the programme, such as course 
preparation,  support  for  all  all  aspects  of  academic  communication,  and  help 
with the job market, has increased. The proof of the Programme’s value remains 
its tremendous success in promoting the careers of the Fellows – at the time of 
writing  35  of  the  39  Fellows  on  the  job  market  this  academic  year  have  been 
successful in finding a position. I wish all of them further success in the future, 
and I look forward to welcoming them back at one of our June Conferences. Last 
but far from least, I (and, I am confident in saying, all the Fellows as well) am 
grateful to the Max Weber team for their tremendous efforts in delivering the 
Programme, along with those of many colleagues among the Faculty and Staff of 
the EUI more generally and of our various external collaborators. 

Richard Bellamy 
Director, Max Weber Programme

foreWord

Richard Bellamy

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statistics

applications to the max Weber programme

The  main  trend  in  the  MWP  applications  in  2014,  compared  to  2013,  was  a  slight  decrease  in  the  overall  number  of 
applicants, paralleled by a decrease in the number of applications across all regions except North America. While the 
number of applications was lower than the previous year, 2013 had seen the highest ever number of applications and 
this comparison should take into account changes in the criteria for eligibility, particularly the introduction of a formal 
English language requirement which reduced the number of Italian applicants in particular. The majority of applications 
still came from Europe (675), followed by North America (208), Asia (173), South and Central America (48), Africa (26) 
and Oceania (15). Most applicants also expressed their affiliation with a specific thematic group, a novelty introduced to 
the Max Weber Programme in 2014.  

figure 1.

Number of 
applications 
to the MWP in 
2013 and 2014, 
by region

In 2014, the MWP introduced a number of Thematic Research Groups to provide an interdisciplinary forum for Fellows 
to present their on-going research. MWP applicants could select from among five different thematic groups; a sixth group, 
the “no group”, was an option for applicants who could not see their research fitting into the five available groups. Data on 
the applications show a large number of applications (382) to the “no group”, particularly in Social and Political Science 
and History. Of the other available groups, the largest number of applicants (293 in total) was attracted by the Governance, 
Constitutionalism and Democracy group, followed by Citizenship and Migration (178), Europe in the World: Foreign 
Relations, International Security, World Politics (170), Inequality and Efficiency in Education and Labour Markets (72) 
and Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa: The Design, Regulation and Governance of Fiscal and Monetary Policies in the EU (50).

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figure 2.

Applications 
to the MWP 
for 2014, 
by thematic 
groups

The distribution of applications across disciplines shows that applications in Political and Social Science led the way, with 
almost half of all applicants, 41.40%, applying for a Fellowship in this discipline. Applications in History were the second 
most frequent, 30.90%, and were followed by applications in Economics and Law, with 9.90% for each discipline. 7.90% of 
applications were to the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), which was a new option for the MWF 
candidates introduced in 2014.

figure 3.

Applications 
to the MWP 
for 2014, 
percentage by 
department

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In terms of gender distribution, the highest number of male applicants was in Economics, while the highest number of 
female applicants was to the RSCAS. Overall, there were more men, 54%, than women, 46%, applying for the Max Weber 
Programme in 2014.

figure 4.

Applications 
to the MWP 
in 2014, 
percentage by 
gender across 
departments

max Weber felloWs, the 2014-2015 cohort

Out of 1,145 applications, 38 Fellows were selected for entry to the MWP, which means a 3.32% success rate. In addition to 
these 38 Fellows, twelve Fellows stayed on for a second year, which resulted in a cohort of 50 Max Weber Fellows in total. 

figure 5.

Max Weber 
Fellows 2014-
2015 cohort, 
1st and 2nd 
year

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There were eighteen applicants who withdrew from the Fellowship, in most of these cases because they had another offer 
for a position with a longer term perspective. Two applicants postponed their Fellowship offer and will join the MWP 
2015-2016 cohort. Compared to the previous four years, the eleven MWF withdrawals in 2013-2014 was low.

figure 6.

MWF 
withdrawals, 
2009-2014

Distribution of withdrawals across the departments shows that in 2014-2015, in comparison with the previous year, the 
withdrawals were less evenly distributed across the departments. It also shows that, as in 2012-13, the highest number of 
withdrawals in 2014-2015 was in the Economics and Social and Political Science departments. However, the number of 
withdrawals from Economics, traditionally the department with the highest drop out rate, would seem to be declining.

figure 7.

MWF 
withdrawals by 
departments, 
2009-2014

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In terms of gender distribution, eleven male and seven female applicants withdrew from the MWP in 2014-2015, which 
resulted in a less even gender distribution of MWF withdrawals in comparison to the previous year.

figure 8.

MWF 
withdrawals by 
gender, 2009-
2014

The distribution of Fellows across the departments was as follows: the highest number of Fellows, sixteen in all, were in 
Political and Social Science, twelve in History, eleven in Economics, and eleven Fellows in Law. The gender distribution of 
the 2014-2015 MWF cohort was almost even, 46% of MWF were women and 54% were men. Finally, the 2014-2015 cohort 
of MWF was very international, with Fellows coming from 24 different countries. The distribution of Fellows according to 
the country of their PhD shows somewhat different results; the largest number of Fellows awarded a PhD degree in a single 
country was fifteen, from the United States. 

figure 9.

Fellows by 
department

50	  

50	  

45	  

40	  

35	  

30	  

25	  

20	  

15	  

10	  

5	  

0	  

16	  

12	  

11	  

11	  

Total	  

SPS	  

HEC	  

ECO	  

LAW	  

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figure 10.

Fellows by 
gender

46%

54%

Male

Female

figure 11.

Fellows by 
nationality

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table 1: Institutional provenance of Max Weber Fellows cohort 
2014-15, by country

Austria (1)

Belgium (1)

France (9)

Germany (5)

University of Vienna 

University of Louvain 

University of Orléans 
Paris School of Economics 
Sorbonne University 
Science Po Paris 
University Paris-Ouest 

Hertie School of Governance 
Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences 
Humboldt University Berlin 
University of Konstanz 
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies Cologne 

Israel (1)

Hebrew University Jerusalem 

Italy (6)

University of Bologna 
LUISS Guido Carli University 
University of Pavia 
Catholic University of Milan 

Netherlands (1)

Vrije University Amsterdam 

Poland (1)

Slovenia (1)

Spain (3)

UK (7)

USA (15)

Polish Academy of Science 

University of Ljubljana 

Universidad Carlos III 
University of Pompeu Fabra 

University of Cambridge 
University of Sheffield 
University of Sussex 
University of Oxford 
University College London 
University of Manchester 
University of York 

University of Texas Austin 
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 
University of Chicago 
Columbia University 
University of Wisconsin-Madison 
Harvard University 
Yale University 
Stony Brook University 
Princeton University 
Stanford University 
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

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1
2
4
1
1

1
1
1
1
1

1

1
2
1
2

1

1

1

 2
1

1
1
1
1
1
1
1

1
1
1
3
2
1
2
1
1
1
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max Weber felloWs on the Job market 

Among the 2014-2015 cohort of the MWF, eleven Fellows are staying on for another year, while 39 Fellows are moving on 
to other institutions. At the time of writing, 1 August, all but four Fellows have an academic job for the next academic year 
and, of those with a job, eighteen are continuing their careers in a different country, while seventeen are returning to the 
country of their PhD. 

figure 12.

Number of 2nd 
year Max Weber 
Fellows and 
of Fellows 
with a job 
in the same 
or different 
country of 
their PhD

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max Weber programme  
activities

two  core 

The activities of the Max Weber Programme are concentrated 
around 
themes:  Academic  Practice  and 
Multidisciplinary Research. Over the years of the Programme, 
the objectives of the activities have become more structured 
and focused. An important lesson has been that the practice 
skills  are  best  learned  when  working  with  individuals,  and 
thus a strong focus on tutorials and individual feedback based 
on  different  needs  is  now  a  central  part  of  the  Programme. 
The  research  activities,  on  the  other  hand,  demand  a 
multidisciplinary focus and a strong level of participation from 
as many Fellows as possible to reach their aim of enhancing 
and fostering multidisciplinary understanding. 

academic practice activities

Based  on  the  experience  gained  in  the  first  few  years,  the 
Academic  Practice  activities  programme  is  organised  into 
three  Modules:  i)  Job  Market    ii)  Publishing  and  Writing 
and  iii)  Teaching.  The  modules  overlap  in  time  to  allow 
for  continuity  and  follow-up  sessions  on  activities  within 
the discipline groups (Academic Practice Groups) and the 
Academic  Communication  Skills  support,  offered  within 
the programme throughout the academic year.

Job Market Module
The  Max  Weber  Programme  actively  supports  Fellows 
seeking  an  academic  position.  First,  in  addition  to  the 
workshops in which Fellows discuss and develop their CVs, 
cover  letters,  bio-sketches  and  web  pages,  they  also  share 
information and discuss job market strategies in their fields. 
Second,  Fellows  receive  professional  feedback  on  their 
presentation  and  interviewing  skills.  Mock  interviews  are 
filmed  and  assessed  by  professionals  and  provide  Fellows 
with the opportunity for further individual self-assessment 
on interview techniques.

been set up which is very easy for Fellows to use, and offers 
a  space  where  they  can  upload  their  publications,  their 
research agendas and their teaching experience and present 
themselves in a professional manner (http://www.mwpweb.
eu/). Max Weber Fellows can take their personal websites 
to  their  new  academic  institutions  when  their  Fellowship 
comes to an end.

The  MWP  is  also  a  platform  for  obtaining  information 
about, and reflecting on, the current state of the academic 
job market. In particular, the Academic Careers Observatory 
(ACO) offers a unique resource for researchers looking for a 
job in academia and, in general, for people interested in the 
international comparison of academic careers (see chapter 
on ACO).

The 2014-2015 MWP activities on the job market were:

•	

September presentations, filmed and followed up with 
individual  feedback  sessions  by  the  EUI  Language 
Service

•	 Departmental presentations by Fellows in seminars 
•	
Job market session with ACO and the MWP Team
•	 Advancing  a  personal  Academic  File  with  a  draft 
Research  Grant  Proposal  and  a  new  Course  syllabus 
outline
Building  personal  websites,  workshops  and  tutorials 
(with Jens Hofmeister)

•	

•	 Mock  interviews  by  EUI  Faculty  and  Fellows,  filmed, 

•	

with direct feedback from EUI Faculty 
Engagement    with  Academic  Careers  Observatory 
activities

•	 Time-management  course,  with  Sarah  Shephard 

•	

•	

(University of Zurich)
Job  talks  by  the  Fellows,  with  feedback  from  MWP 
peers and EUI Faculty
Fellows’  June  Conference:  organization  and  on-going 
research presentations

An  increasingly  vital  part  of  the  job  market  is  self 
presentation  on  the  internet.  To  assist  the  Fellows  in 
presenting  themselves  and  their  research  in  the  best 
possible  way,  the  MWP  offers  all  Fellows  the  opportunity 
to construct their own website. A special CMS system has 

The Max Weber Programme proves to be very successful in 
the placement of its Fellows in an increasingly competitive 
academic job market: of the 2014-2015 Max Weber Fellows 
all  but  four  Fellows  moved  on  to  an  academic  position 
following their Max Weber Fellowship.

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AnnuAl RepoRt AcAdemic YeAR 2014-2015The 2014-2015 activities on publishing and writing were:

•	 Workshop,  ‘Research  and  Grant  application:  how  to 

write a research proposal’ (with EUI Faculty)

•	 Workshop,    ‘Publishing  strategies,  Refereeing  Peers 
and  Citation  Indexes’  (with  MWP  Director  Richard 
Bellamy)

•	 Research Grant Proposal (with written feedback from 

EUI Faculty)

•	 MWP Working Paper, to be published in Cadmus (with 

written feedback from EUI mentor)

•	 Taught module, ‘Academic Writing in English’
•	 Writers’ Groups, both by discipline and interdisciplinary
Individual tutorials on written work: research proposal, 
•	
working  paper,  book  proposal,  course  syllabus,  job 
talks, PowerPoint presentations, etc.

teaching Module
The Max Weber Programme aims to improve and develop 
standards of excellence in Fellows’ teaching skills. 

The 2014-2015 MWP activities on Teaching were:  

•	

Preparatory meetings for the Humboldt , UPF and LSE 
Teaching Exchanges  (Matt Plews and David Bowskill 
from  Humboldt  University  in  Berlin,  Mireia  Trenchs 
from  UPF  Barcelona,  and  Nick  Byrne  from  the  LSE, 
London)

•	 Workshop,  ‘Curriculum  and  Course  Development’ 

with Lynn McAlpine (Oxford)

•	 Workshop,  ‘Learning  outcomes  and  strategies’  with 

Lynn McAlpine (Oxford)

•	 Workshop,  ‘How  to  structure  a  lecture’  with  Neil 

McLean (LSE)

•	 Workshop, 

‘Small-group  teaching.  Preparation  for 
Micro-Teaching  and  Teaching  Practice  Weeks’  with 
Neil McLean (LSE)

•	 Microteaching  sessions,  filmed  and  followed  with 
individual feedback by the EUI Language Department 
•	 Workshop  and  individual  feedback  on  the  micro-
teaching  sessions  with  Angela  O’Neill  (Collège  de 
Bruges)

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Academic Practice instructor Lynn McAlpine with 
MWFs Lukas Haffert, Denisa Banulescu and Barbara 
Bottalico

Publishing and Writing Module 
The MWP considers writing and publishing a core element 
of academic advancement. Two sets of activities are carried 
out  to  support  the  Fellows  in  this  area;  the  workshops 
organised  by  the  Programme  and  the  writing  activities 
offered  by  the  EUI  Language  Centre/FIESOLE  Group. 
The  activities  are  designed  not  only  to  assist  non-native 
Fellows  in  fine-tuning  their  English  language  skills  but 
also to support the writing process for all members of the 
Programme  and  for  them  to  excel  in  English  academic 
writing. The activities are organised into three components: 
i)  an  academic  writing  course,  offered  in  the  First  Term, 
ii) individual tutorials and iii) disciplinary writers’ groups, 
the  latter  two  continuing  throughout  the  year.  The  EUI 
Language  Unit  and  the  Max  Weber  Programme  also 
offer  the  Fellows  an  extensive  language  revision  service. 
English language revision is offered to all Fellows for their 
publications and working papers. Several Fellows also use 
the  revision  service  for  their  Power  Point  slides,  CVs  and 
cover letters.

max weber programme for postdoctoral studies•	 Workshop, ‘Teaching at University from a cross-cultural 
perspective’  with  Mireia  Trenchs  (UPF),  followed  by 
tutorials for UPF teaching exchange Fellows

•	 Curriculum  and  Course  development  sessions  with 

Faculty

•	 Workshop, ‘Examining supervision: an individual and 
collective responsibility’ with Lynn McAlpine (Oxford)

•	 UPF Teaching Exchange (see below for details)
•	
LSE Teaching Exchange (see below for details )
•	 Humboldt Teaching Exchange (see below for details)

Actual  teaching  by  Fellows  is  not  a  MWP  requirement 
but  taking  into  account  that  Fellows  arrive  with  differing 
teaching  experience,  and  that  teaching  methods  differ 
across  fields  and  university  systems,  the  MWP  offers 
different options for gaining practical teaching experience. 
This  supports  Fellows  in  their  search  for  an  academic 
position.  It  is  the  strategy  of  the  Max  Weber  Programme 
to  offer  opportunities  not  only  outside  the  EUI  (where 
undergraduate teaching is possible) but also within the EUI.

Within the EUI, where mainly research-oriented seminars, 
master classes and workshops are ‘taught’, there is widespread 
opportunity  to  gain  teaching  experience  at  a  high  post-
graduate 
level.  Post-graduate  teaching,  tutoring  and 
advising PhD researchers, as well as co-organising seminars 
and  workshops,  are  activities  very  much  appreciated  by 
Max  Weber  Fellows.  Fellows  are  also  put  in  charge  of 
organizing some of the summer schools for European MA 
students in the Social Sciences. The intended status of Max 
Weber Fellows as junior faculty is a core strategy of the Max 
Weber  Programme.    Departments  hold  Fellows’  seminars 
on a regular basis. Considering the standards of excellence 
of  the  Max  Weber  Programme,  and  the  highly  selective 
appointment  of  its  Fellows,  a  systematic  collaboration 
between EUI Professors and the MWP postdoctoral Fellows 
promotes the European and global academic reputation of 
all Departments and the appeal of the EUI as a whole. 

Local  Universities:  Over  these  seven  years,  the  MWP  has 
expanded its network of collaboration with local universities 
and has established links with many of the Florence-based 
American  campuses,  and  Italian  Universities  offering 
undergraduate  or  MA  level  courses.  Among  these  are 
James Madison University, Gonzaga University, New York 
University  at  La  Pietra,  FIT/Polimoda  and  IMT  Lucca. 
Max  Weber  Fellows  are  offered  teaching  and/or  lecturing 
opportunities  at  several  of  these  universities.  The  MA  in 
European Union Policy Studies offered by James Madison 

University  in  Florence,  for  example,  guarantees  priority 
in  the  selection  process  to  Max  Weber  Fellows  with 
competences  in  line  with  James  Madison  University’s 
teaching  needs.  Courses  can  also  be  team-taught.  Fellows 
are  requested  to  use  state-of-the-art,  interactive,  teaching 
methods  and  are  monitored  and  supervised,  in  order  to 
improve their performance. Grading methods and tutoring 
of  papers,  as  well  as  assessment  skills,  are  developed  in 
conjunction with the academic coordinator. Fellows receive 
professional feedback on their performance and an overall 
written evaluation of their teaching skills by the end of each 
course. For an overview  see:

http://w w w.eui.eu/Prog rammesAndFel lowships/
MaxWeberProgramme/TeachingatEUIAndAbroad/
Teaching.aspx#opportunities

Teaching Abroad: In 2008, the Max Weber Programme set 
up a ‘teaching abroad’ programme with the London School 
of Economics in which Max Weber Fellows were offered the 
possibility of one week’s teaching experience. In May 2008 
five Fellows visited the LSE where they each gave a public 
lecture  and  a  seminar  and  received  professional  feedback 
on their performance from Nick Byrne, Director, and Neil 
McLean,  Professor,  at  the  LSE  Teaching  and  Learning 
Centre.  In  addition,  the  Fellows  had  meetings  with  LSE 
faculty  members  in  their  fields.  Based  on  the  success  of 
this experience the Max Weber Programme continued the 
development of this exchange and in 2009 a selected group 
of sixteen Fellows had the opportunity to go either to the LSE 
in London or to Humboldt University in Berlin, for intensive 
teaching training practice for a week. For the academic year 
2009-2010 an agreement was made between the EUI-MWP 
and the University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, to set up 
a teaching exchange for a maximum of another eight Max 
Weber Fellows. In the academic year 2014-2015 a total of 
twentyfive  Max  Weber  Fellows  participated  in  a  teaching 
practice  week  and  obtained  a  Teacher  Training  Certifcate 
as a result.

On the LSE Exchange 

The  exchange  was  set  up  by  the  Max  Weber  Programme 
and the LSE Teaching and Learning Centre and took place 
from  2-6  March  2015.  Each  Fellow  had  a  teaching  input 
session  with  Neil  McLean,  observed  three  lectures  and 
gave  feedback  on  them  and  each  Fellow  then  co-teach 
three  60  minute  classes,  on  each  of  which  they  received 
30  minutes  feedback.  In  addition  the  Fellows  had  lunch 

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Max Weber Fellows Michael Kozakowski, Lukas Haffert, Barbara Bottalico and Federica Romei

meetings with LSE faculty members in their fields and had 
an exchange meeting with LSE Fellows at a similar stage in 
their academic careers.

Seven Fellows  went out to UPF: Eileen Keller (SPS), Michael 
Kozakowski  (HEC),  Julia  McClure  (HEC),  Eric  O’Connor 
(HEC), Meha Priyadarshini (HEC), Florian Stoeckel (SPS) 
and Nan Zhang (SPS).

Eleven Max Weber Fellows went to the LSE: Axelle Arquié 
(ECO),  Or  Bassok  (LAW).  Juliana  Bidadanure  (SPS), 
Emmanuel  Comte  (HEC).  Elena  Esposito  (ECO)  Damien 
Gerard  (LAW),  Antonio  Marzal  Yetano  (LAW),  Michal 
Onderco (SPS), Federica Romei (ECO), Julija Sardelic (SPS) 
and Silvana Tarlea (SPS).

On the UPF Exchange

The  UPF-MWP,  Barcelona  teaching  exchange  took  place 
from 11-15 May 2015, and was set up in collaboration with 
the  coordinators  of  the  MWP  exchange  at  UPF,  Pau  Solà,  
Marina  Muñoz  and  Lucia  Gil  Royuela,  of  the  Teaching 
Quality  and  Innovation  Center  (CQUID)  and  the  Dean 
of  the  Faculty  of  Humanities,  Mireia  Trenchs.  All  Fellows 
taught a couple of sessions within the undergraduate courses 
and  each  gave  a  talk  on  a  topic  related  to  their  research. 
They were also in contact with MA and PhD students and 
professors  of  the  respective  Faculties  and  Departments 
hosting their teaching.  

On the Humboldt exchange:

The exchange took place from 18-22 May 2015, and was set 
up by agreement between the Max Weber Programme and 
the English Department of the Language Centre, Humboldt 
University,  Berlin. The  Humboldt  staff  responsible  for  the 
organisation of the module were Connie Hacke and David 
Bowskill.  The  module  included  three  components:  class 
observance (prior to teaching), MWP Fellows observed the 
group that they were going to give the tutorial to during a 
language class (English for Specific Purposes), the colleague 
teaching  the  class  afterwards  discussed  all  technical  and 
other  details  of  the  tutorial  to  be  taught  by  the  Fellow; 
tutorial,  three  convenors  observed  the  tutorial  and  gave 
feedback  to  the  Fellow,  students  filled  out  feedback  forms 
which were discussed in the feedback session, other Fellows 
attended  the  tutorial  and  the  feedback  session;  lecture, 
MWP Fellows gave an open undergraduate lecture in their 
own  discipline,  the  convenors  attended  the  lecture  and 

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max weber programme for postdoctoral studiesthere  was  a  feedback  session,  other  Fellows  attended  the 
lecture and the feedback session.

Seven Fellows went out to Humboldt:  Lian Allub (ECO), 
Barbara  Bottalico  (ECO),  William  Carruthers  (HEC), 
Ricardo Estrada Martinez (ECO), Diane Fromage (LAW), 
Lukas Haffert (SPS) and Martijn Schoonvelde (SPS).

academic practice groups

The  discipline-bound  Academic  Practice  Groups  were 
initiated in the second year of the Max Weber Programme. 
The Practice Groups complement the Practice Workshops 
and  serve  as  follow-up  or  preparatory  sessions  for  the 
existing workshops. Additional topics and themes are  also 
discussed in the groups. The Practice Groups allow for more 
discussion and in-depth exchange of ideas and experience 
within the disciplines. It is the Fellows’ experience that the 
groups help establish very close working and personal ties.

Some of the topics discussed within the Academic Practice 
Groups 2014-2015 and as a collective were:

•	

Publishing and refereeing: i) improving our under-
standing: main journals (publishers) in the relevant 
field/discipline; ii) effective use of citation indexes; 
iii) strengths and weaknesses of current peer-review 
practices and the ethics of peer-reviewing; iv) design-
ing a publishing and refereeing strategy; v) writing a 
book proposal, etc

•	 Developing new course curricula. Best experiences or 

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practices in teaching
Ethical issues on sharing knowledge and ideas: being a 
mentor, and copyrights

•	 Making a research proposal and strategies for getting 

funding

•	 Analysing supervision

acadeMic Practice grouPs rePorts
eco acadeMic Practice grouP, 2014-2015
The ECO Academic Practice Group’s activities for the year 2014-
2015 mainly focused on the strengthening of academic writing 
skills. The main set of activities consisted of a series of meetings 
(held on average twice a month) of an Academic Writing Group, 
facilitated by Laurie Anderson. During each meeting, a paper 
of one of the participants – circulated before the meeting – was 
discussed and commented upon. On top of this, other meetings 

were dedicated to the publication process (i.e. how to address 
comments from a referee report), or to the exploration of tools 
for  checking  wordings,  doubts  about  grammar  and  style  (i.e. 
Using AntConc, an open-source concordance programme).

For what concerns activities related to publications and the 
job market, the group relied on the activities offered by the 
ECO department, which included several meetings dedicated 
to:  understanding  the  market  of  economics 
journals; 
understanding the economics job market; how to prepare a 
job market interview; how to prepare a job market seminar.

history and civilization acadeMic Practice 
grouP, 2014–15
As  in  previous  years,  the  History  and  Civilization  (HEC) 
Max Weber Programme (MWP) Fellows preferred to follow 
an Academic Practice Group (APG) format of formal and 
informal activities geared towards discipline-specific needs 
in  history.  These  activities  also  involved  interaction  with 
mentors within HEC.

Some notable (and more formal) activities throughout the year:

•	 October  2014:  Day  spent  by  Fellows  presenting  their 
research projects to HEC faculty, researchers and other 
audience members.

•	 May 2015 (1): Meeting to discuss draft course outlines 
that  HEC  Fellows  had  submitted  for  review  by  their 
peers and with the HEC Max Weber liaison, Dirk Moses.

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•	 May 2015 (2): Meeting to discuss draft book proposals 
that  HEC  Fellows  had  submitted  for  review  by  their 
peers and with the HEC Max Weber liaison, Dirk Moses.

These activities were well received by Fellows because of the 
opportunity they provided to discuss work in a rigorous but 
friendly context. Fellows felt that the two June 2015 sessions 
were  particularly  helpful,  because  they  helped  them  to 
grapple with the nuances of discipline specific practices: the 
book proposal, in particular, is essential to academic careers 
in  history.  The  mock  job  talks  and  interviews  that  were 
arranged throughout the year were also particularly helpful 
in this respect, and the Fellows would like to extend their 
thanks to the HEC and MWP faculty and staff involved in 
this  work,  in  addition  to  the  substantial  amount  of  time 
spent  by  HEC  faculty  mentors  on  reading  and  providing 
feedback  on  the  draft  course  outlines  and  book  proposals 
before the two June 2015 sessions.  

HEC Fellows also attended and contributed to many other 
MWP  academic  practice  activities  throughout  the  year, 
including  the  course  design  workshop  in  November  2014 
and  the  various  teaching  practice  weeks.  Fellows  also 
attended  the  book  proposal  sessions  that  took  place,  led 
by  Richard  Bellamy  and  editors  from  academic  presses. 
Additionally,  HEC  Fellows  were  represented  in  all  of  the 
MWP thematic groups.

Informally, Fellows appreciated the chance to discuss their 
work  together  in  various  venues,  whether  within  the  EUI 
or beyond. 

Suggestions for the future:

Reflecting on their MWP year, HEC Fellows also have some 
suggestions for the future (not necessarily unanimously, but 
the following are some of the ideas that arose after a call for 
suggestions):

The MWP working paper (as was noted in the HEC APG 
report  last  year)  is  a  slightly  odd  concept  for  historians, 
because ‘working papers’ are not common (or even present?) 
within the discipline.

It  was  suggested  that  interaction  between  mentors  and 
mentees could have been greater/more consistent (although 
this is probably a more general MWP issue, and many HEC 
Fellows were perfectly happy with the amount of interaction 
they  had).  Additionally  (and  for  the  sake  of  variety  more 
than anything else), it might have been useful to have had 
a wider selection of HEC faculty involved in more general 
MWP activities.

It was also suggested that the APG could have involved two 
extra sessions: one on the history specific job market; one 
on writing history papers aimed at peer-reviewed journals 
(and also on targeting which journals to publish in).

The  initial  APG  meeting  in  September  2014  was  not 
well  attended,  at  least  partially  due  to  a  scheduling  clash, 
meaning  that  the  APG  only  had  a  (well  attended)  initial 
meeting later in the autumn. 

It  was  clearly  more  difficult  for  some  HEC  Fellows  to 
demonstrate  the  relevance  of  their  work  to  other  Fellows 
within  the  MWP  more  generally,  even  in  the  thematic 
groups.  This  issue  seemed  to  stem  from  the  range/sort  of 
disciplines represented by the programme and the specific 
thematic  group  topics  rather  than  actual  irrelevance  of 
the work. Future thematic groups could perhaps therefore 
be  more  geared  towards  historians’  interests  –  so  perhaps 
history Fellows could be involved in discussion of what sort 
of themes might be covered.        

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max weber programme for postdoctoral studieslaW acadeMic Practice grouP, 2014-2015
Meetings of the group

book  chapters,  inter-  multi-disciplinarity,  neutrality 
and bias in the peer-review exercise. 

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The  group  met  on  an  irregular  basis  from  October  2014 
to June 2015. All the meetings have shown a high turnout 
and the active participation of all members. Meetings have 
been held also informally for discussing issues of common 
concern in the light of the prospective activities of the MWP. 

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14  November  2014:  Meeting  with  Ingo  Linsenmann, 
member  of  the  Global  Governance  Project  at  the  EUI’s 
Robert  Schuman  Centre,  to  draw  from  his  experience 
on  Research  grants  and  general  strategies  for  obtaining 
funding  for  academic  purposes,  focusing  on  the 
particularities  of  the  Law  department,  research  funding 
opportunities for post-docs (Marie Curie fellowship, ERC 
grants, national grants), the EUI internal selection process, 
if any, people to contact for administrative support within 
the  EUI,  tips  on  how  to  draft  a  successful  ERC  grant 
application, and the selection process at European level.

3  December  2014:  Meeting  with  Nehal  Bhuta  (Law 
Department), on publishing strategies, peer-reviewing 
and on our profiles as law researchers. Issues discussed 
have been how to turn the PhD thesis into a monograph 
– whether this is also desirable and when, how to draft 
a book proposal, and how to write an article that can 
be  appealing  for  legal  journals,  how  to  target  a  legal 
journal  (American  and  European  journals),  writing 

18  February  2015:  Meeting  of  the  Academic  Practice 
Group  to  discuss  the  European  Court  of  Justice’s 
Opinion 2/13 of 18 December 2014, on the accession 
of  the  European  Union  to  the  European  Convention 
of  Human  Rights.  The  group,  which  included  Jean 
Monnet  Fellow  Ronan  McCrea,  engaged  in  a  deep 
reading of the text of the decision, identifying its most 
controversial  aspects  and  exchanging  differing  views 
on its merits and consequences. 

25 May 2015: Meeting with Nehal Bhuta as convenor 
on  law  curriculum  and  course  assessment,  where 
we  engaged  in  a  discussion,  drawing  from  Professor 
Bhuta’s experience in teaching, on teaching techniques, 
the  demands  of  today’s  law  students  and  universities, 
appropriate strategies for course design and the values 
and principles at stake for modern Law professors. 

8 July 2015: Meeting of the Academic Practice Group to 
discuss the European Court of Justice’s recent decision 
approving the legality of the European Central Bank’s 
Outright  Monetary  Transactions  programme,  thus 
allowing the ECB to buy bonds from Member States in 
financial distress. The meeting will, like with Opinion 
2/13 on EU accession to the ECHR, engage in a deep 
reading  of  the  decision  and  a  discussion  of  its  more 
controversial aspects. 

Involvement  of  members  of  the  group  in  the  Workshops, 
Conferences, and other events of the MWP

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19-21 September 2014: Max Weber Getaway organized 
by Robert Lepenies for all Fellows in Castel D’Acone

5 December 2014: Poverty Research Workshop. Robert 
Lepenies presented paper.

19  February  2015:  “Ideal  Normative Theory  and  Real 
World  Data”  with  Claus  Offe.  Chaired  by  Robert 
Lepenies.

12  March  2015:  Law  and  War:  Uneasy  Relationship, 
MW  workshop,  Or  Bassok  and  Pablo  Kalmanovitz 
presented papers.

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19  March  2015:  Mapping  Mutual  Trust  -  the  role  of 
mutual trust in EU law, MW multidisciplinary research 
workshop organized by Damien Gerard. 

24  March  2015: 
  Interview  with  Professor  John 
McCormick, conducted by Pablo Kalmanovitz and Or 
Bassok.

24  March  2015:  MW-RSCAS  Multidisciplinary 
Conference  on 
‘Parliaments  and  parliamentary 
elections  in  Europe’,  organised  by  Cristina  Fasone, 
Diane  Fromage  and  Zoe  Lefkofridi  (SPS  and  Univ. 
of  Salzburg).  Cristina  Fasone  and  Diane  Fromage 
presented  papers.  Conference  proceedings  to  be 
published in a MW collective Working Paper, 2015.

22 April  2015: Interview of Professor Grainne de Búrca, 
prior to her MW lecture, conducted by Cristina Fasone 
and Antonio Marzal and focusing on the challenges of 
her transatlantic academic career and engagement with 
the field of European Union Law.

22 April  2015: Lecture by Professor Grainne de Búrca 
chaired by Diane Fromage

8  May  2015:  MW  Workshop  on  ‘Constitutions.  How 
they change and evolve through institutional practice’, 
organised by Cristina Fasone.

27  May  2015:  Workshop  on  ‘Aesthetics  of  Academic 
practice’, Antonio Marzal presented on ‘The Aesthetics 
of EU Law’

10-12  June  2015:  9th  Max  Weber  June  Conference. 
Annika  Wolf  and  Cristina  Fasone  participated  in  the 
activities  of  the  organising  committee,  Annika  Wolf 
chaired lecture by honorary doctorate Getrude Lübbe-
Wolff. Everyone presented.

26  June  2015:  Future  of  Basic  Income  Research 
Conference. Organized by Robert Lepenies and Juliana 
Bidadanure  (SPS)  &  sponsored  by  a  Young  Scholar 
Event Grant of the Institute for New Economic Thinking 
(INET),  as  well  as  by  the  Max  Weber  Programme  at 
the  EUI,  The  Robert  Schuman  Centre  for  Advanced 
Studies  and  Prof.  Rainer  Bauböck  (SPS),  Prof.  Arpad 
Abraham  (ECO),  Prof.  Fabrizio  Bernardi  (SPS),  Prof. 
Hans  W.  Micklitz  (LAW)  and  Prof.  Robert  Hoekman 
(RSCAS). Robert Lepenies also presented paper.

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27  June  2015:  Book  workshop  on  “The  Instrument 
of  Freedom”  by  Philippe  van  Parijs  and  Yannick 
Vanderborght, organized by Juliana Bidadanure (SPS) 
and Robert Lepenies.

ongoing,  with  more  than  six  meetings  throughout 
the  year:  Economics  and  Philosophy  Reading  group: 
Robert Lepenies and Magdalena Malecka as organizers 
and presenters 

ongoing,  with  several  meetings  throughout  the  year: 
Science  and  Technology  Studies  reading  group: 
Antonio Marzal Yetano as participant

Involvement of members of the groups in the activities of the 
Law Department

All the members of the group have participated, although to 
a different extent, in the activities of the Law Department to 
teach during one of the seminars offered to Law Researchers, 
to discuss doctoral students’ papers, to coordinate research 
projects, and to present papers during the meetings of the 
working groups, as well as they participated in the Faculty 
Seminars.  However,  Law  Fellows  as  a  group  of  Post-Docs 
have  not  been  systematically  involved  in  the  work  of  the 
Law Department, but rather on individual basis, according 
to the input of each fellow. 

Strengths  of  the  MWP  from  the  point  of  view  of  the  Law 
Group

•	 The chance to build up a community of young scholars 
and  professionals,  and 
to  exchange  experiences 
with  postdocs  from  different  national  academic 
communities and social science disciplines

•	 The  possibility  to  do  postdoctoral  research  in  the 
presence  of  high-level  professors/researchers  in  the 
LAW department and the MWP

•	 The teaching module and the teaching exchange

•	 The 

of 

training 

existence 

about 
communication and language skills, including editing 
and  English  language  revision  of  publications  and 
grant applications

activities 

•	 High degree of academic freedom

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max weber programme for postdoctoral studies•	 A number of Fellows felt that the Max Weber lectures 
were,  with  some  exceptions,  underwhelming.  The 
explanation  for  this  remains  mysterious.  Perhaps  it 
is  simply  a  chance  occurrence,  perhaps  it  is  due  to 
some  structural  problem  that  should  be  addressed. 
Other  fellows,  however,  were  more  positive  and 
felt  that  the  lectures  had  improved  from  last  year. 
Nevertheless,  practically  all  the  LAW  fellows  felt  that 
the  workshops/“master  classes”  organised  with  the 
speakers proved to be a great idea, even if it was also 
suggested that they should be advertised to all fellows 
(and  possibly  even  researchers)  instead  of  only  to  a 
specific thematic group. 

•	 The teaching exchanges were in general welcomed by 
the Fellows but a number of problems were reported, 
which differed a lot depending on the country where 
the exchange happened. Some fellows felt that it was 
a problem that they had to teach to English language 
students,  instead  of  actual  law  students.  Other 
fellows complained about a lack of clear indications 
prior to the exchange as to what was expected. 

sPs acadeMic Practice grouP, 2014-2015
In  the  academic  year  2014-2015,  there  were  16  SPS 
Fellows  at  the  Max  Weber  Programme  (MWP).  Their 
representatives were Eileen Keller and Julija Sardelić, who 
were responsible for the organization of the SPS Academic 
Practice  Group  (APG).  The  SPS  APG  had  altogether  6 
formal  sessions  with  the  whole  SPS  MWFs  invited  and 

 What can be improved

•	 There  is  a  perception  that  the  Law  MW  Fellows 
are  not  well  integrated  in  the  activities  of  the  Law 
Department.  We  suggest  that  the  Law  Department 
takes  a  greater  interest  in  actively  including  MW 
Fellows  in  planning/activities.  There  are  various 
manifestations of this lack of integration, such as the 
fact that MW Law Fellows had to request being added 
to the mailing list of the Law Department, there were 
no  integration  events  throughout  the  year,  the  Law 
faculty seminars tended to coincide with the activities 
of  the  MW  program,  etc.  This  situation  should  be 
remedied,  for  the  benefit  of  the  Law  department 
as  well  as  of  the  MW  Fellows.  Various  suggestions 
were  made  to  remedy  this  situation,  including:  (i) 
organizing a separate meeting at the beginning of the 
year  in  which  Law  MWs  can  present  their  research 
to  the  faculty  and  faculty  members  may  present  the 
department and the possibilities of involving Fellows 
in departmental activities; and (ii) allowing MWFs to 
present in faculty workshops. 

•	 This academic year a positive development has been 
the  involvement  of  MWFs  in  workshops  with  LLM 
and 1st year PhD researchers to discuss methodology 
and research questions and first drafts of their papers. 
This practice should be repeated in the coming years, 
since  it  has  been  a  very  positive  experience,  but 
some  of  the  fellows  felt  that  it  was  not  sufficiently 
well  coordinated  and  organised  (e.g.  there  was  little 
information  as  to  how  the  fellows  were  supposed  to 
participate). 

•	 The Law Academic Practice Group was overshadowed 
by  the  multi-disciplinary  Thematic  Groups,  which 
met  with  greater  frequency  throughout  the  year 
and  received  greater  encouragement  from  the  MW 
programme  and  various  faculty. The  offshoot  of  this 
preference is that this year’s Law Fellows have engaged 
in  comparatively  less  exchanges  with  other  lawyers. 
There is some disagreement between the fellows as to 
whether this is a problem in itself since the program 
is  geared  towards  interdisciplinarity,  but  it  could 
perhaps  be  compensated  by  guaranteeing  a  greater 
integration of the fellows in the LAW department (as 
mentioned above). 

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SPS Academic Practice Group

many  more  informal  sessions  based  on  peer-to-peer 
advice among individual MWFs (on CVs, book proposals, 
journal  articles,  etc.).  Besides  the  above-mentioned 
activities, SPS Max Weber Fellows also regularly attended 
practice job talks of other colleagues, before these had an 
interview for an academic position.

In  addition  to  self-organized  sessions  by  the  SPS  MWF 
Representatives  in  coordination  with  other  SPS  MWFs  , 
the APG group also participated in the Course Curriculum 
evaluation session with Professor Phillippe Schmitter.

Written by Eileen Keller and Julija Sardelić (2014-2015 SPS 
Max Weber Fellows Representatives)

The formal APG sessions were as follows: 

In  an  introductory  session,  the  SPS  APG  agreed  on  the 
representatives of the group and a preliminary list of topics 
for  APG  sessions.  We  decided  to  take  upon  the  following 
activities:  peer  comments  on  research  statements/cover 
letters,  peer  exchange  of  experiences  on  academic  job 
interviews in different contexts, peer evaluation of research 
grant proposals, peer consultation on the book publishing 
process. 

In the session on research statements and cover letters for 
academic  job  applications,  MW  Fellows  commented  on 
each others’ documents in smaller groups of three people. 
Afterwards, each group reported back the main insights of 
this exercise to the plenary group. 

The  next  session  focused  on  job  interviews.  Here,  the 
Fellows  exchanged  their  own  experience  from  interviews 
and job talks. Fellows highlighted how the interviews and 
job  talks  differed  depending  on  the  context  (e.g.  various 
positions, countries). There was also a discussion on how to 
deal with challenging questions during the interview or the 
job talk and also what to ask the interviewers afterwards. 

Similarly to the session on research statements/cover letters, 
in  the  session  on  research  grants,  Fellows  acted  as  the 
evaluators of each others’ grant proposals. Each SPS MWF 
was supposed to read the research grant proposal of one of 
his/her colleagues beforehand in order to give their insights 
on the proposal. 

While  the  whole  MWF  cohort  participated  in  the  book 
proposal  workshop,  the  SPS  APG  organized  a  session  on 
the book publishing process, where two MWFs, who have 
recently  undergone  the  process,  shared  their  particular 
experience with different publishers.

Besides  these  sessions,  the  SPS  MWF  representatives  (in 
collaboration  with  SPS  researchers  reps)  organized  an 
aperitivo for Max Weber Fellows with the SPS Faculty and 
researchers in order to fully integrate MWFs into the wider 
SPS EUI Community. 

thematic research groups reports

citizenshiP and Migration theMatic grouP 
This report was written with the help of the comments and 
input from several Max Weber members of the Migration 
and  Citizenship  Thematic  Group,  both  over  the  course  of 
the year and as it was prepared in June 2015. This document 
attempts  to  balance  and  represent  the  diverse  opinions  of 
various Fellows, though it does so imperfectly.

Overall,  Max  Weber  Fellows  (MWFs)  had  different 
experiences and opinions of the group, as well as different 
preferences  for  improving  it  in  the  future.  Some  Fellows 
ultimately  enjoyed  the  group  and  found  it  very  useful; 
others found it to only be of occasional interest or benefit. 
Most agreed that some aspects of the group worked better 
than others. Generally speaking, most Fellows appreciated 
the  opportunity  the  group  provided  for  collaborating 
across academic ranks, e.g., PhD researchers, postdoctoral 
fellows,  and  faculty.  Opinions  were  more  mixed  about 
the  contributions  of  interdisciplinarity.  There  was  some 
skepticism  about  the  ability  to  achieve  sustainable  and 
meaningful  interdisciplinary  dialogue  in  the  sense  of  not 
just  partaking  in  a  common  discussion,  but  generating 
insights that changed the way others thought or approached 
their  research.  That  said,  some  Fellows  found  benefit, 
despite the challenges. Skepticism was also expressed about 
whether the activities of the group always made the best use 
of Fellows’ limited time at the EUI, though opinions again 
diverged as to the extent this was an issue.

One  of  the  remarkable  aspects  of  the  Migration  and 
Citizenship  Thematic  Group  was  its  membership,  which 
included  six  Max  Weber  Fellows,  perhaps  a  dozen  PhD 
researchers,  two  faculty  mentors,  and  several  fellows  with 
other  appointments,  for  example,  through  the  Marie  Curie 
programme  or  with  the  Schumann  Centre.  Most  MWFs 
viewed  this  broad  membership  positively,  particularly 
the  opportunity  to  collaborate  with  PhD  researchers,  as 

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max weber programme for postdoctoral studieswell  as  to  build  relationships  with  faculty  members.  That 
said,  attempting  to  serve  the  diverse  needs  of  the  different 
constituent stakeholders may have contributed to some of the 
frustration many MWFs felt with the format and activities of 
the group as initially proposed, which was tellingly referred 
to as a seminar. These activities included assigned readings 
of  secondary  literature,  as  well  as  reaction  paragraphs  on 
the  readings,  due  the  night  before  the  group’s  meeting. 
Many  Fellows  were  familiar  with  such  activities  from  their 
undergraduate  or  graduate  studies  and  felt  strongly  that 
such  activities  and  the  skills  they  foster  were  not  the  most 
appropriate use of time at the postdoctoral level. 

That  said,  the  faculty  mentors  of  the  group  proved 
themselves  open  to  dialogue  and  to  the  evolution  of 
the  group.  The  reaction  paragraphs,  for  example,  were 
ultimately  abandoned  during  the  course  of  the  year.  Such 
assignments  can  (and  probably  should)  be  omitted,  with 
little resulting impact on the group and the goals it serves. 
However,  should  future  thematic  groups  serve  members 
across academic ranks – as many group members hope – it 
will  likely  prove  necessary  both  to  avoid  shoehorning  the 
thematic group into existing formats (such as PhD research 
seminars) and to create a format that is at least as valuable or 
more than other activities researchers, Fellows, and faculty 
would otherwise engage in.

The thematic group commenced with three initial sessions of 
assigned secondary readings on broad themes of migration, 
citizenship,  and  social  protection,  featuring  both  classic 
texts  and  recent  articles  of  the  faculty  mentors.  Another 
three  sessions  over  the  course  of  the  year  were  workshops 
with  Max  Weber  lecturers  or  other  guest  speakers.  Finally, 
approximately  seven  sessions  were  designed  by  groups  of 
two  or  three  Fellows  and  researchers  who  facilitated  the 
discussion  and  selected  readings.  Some  Fellows  expressed 
a  preference  to  read  secondary  literature;  more  desired  to 
receive  feedback  on  their  own  research  (generally,  article 
drafts  or  working  papers).  Few  PhD  researchers  wished 
for feedback on original work, as they have well-structured 
opportunities  in  their  own  departments.  In  the  end,  most 
member-organized  sessions  included  one  or  two  drafts  of 
articles/working papers by Fellows, along with key secondary 
texts  that  addressed  similar  questions.  The  session  usually 
commenced with the Fellow(s) and/or researcher(s) in charge 
presenting  the  genesis  and  main  themes  of  their  research, 
even if said research was not part of the readings. Questions 
and answers for the facilitators followed, as did a broad group 
discussion of the themes, led by the session facilitators.

Meaningful  feedback  on  the  working  papers,  however, 
was  sometimes  challenging  because  of  the  timing  of 
the  sessions  (e.g.,  too  early  or  late  in  the  working  paper 
cycle),  or  because  of  the  challenges  of  interdisciplinarity. 
Concretely,  while  there  were  often  lively  and  interesting 
exchanges  across  disciplines,  conversation  often  strayed 
from the working paper. The reasons for this could be many, 
but  one  reason  was  that  it  proved  hard  for  some  outside 
a  given  discipline  to  engage  with  the  discipline-specific 
methodologies,  topical  concerns,  and  conventions  that 
ultimately determine whether an article will be accepted for 
publication or not. Debating the big ideas was often easier 
for  participants,  but  sometimes  of  less  tangible  benefit  to 
the  authors  of  working  papers.  Moreover,  several  Fellows 
felt that their research was only partly related to the themes 
of the group, let alone any given session, making it all the 
harder  to  provide  and  receive  meaningful  feedback  both 
outside  their  discipline  and  outside  their  topic.  For  some 
Fellows,  these  circumstances  made  benefits  indirect  and 
seldom,  whereas  for  others,  this  environment  nonetheless 
created real and often unexpected insights.

In  the  future,  it  will  be  necessary  to  continue  to  clarify 
and  experiment  with  the  purpose  of  the  working  groups 
and  to  ask  bold  questions,  such  as  whether  the  thematic, 
interdisciplinary  group  is  the  best  format  for  helping 
Fellows  (or  researchers)  move  from  working  paper  or 
draft  to  publishable  article,  given  that  publication  is 
generally  controlled  by  discipline-specific  journals  and 
sub-specialized  referees.  If  not  (or  if  the  thematic  groups 
are  actually  better  tailored  to  other  purposes),  what 
purposes should the groups serve? One Fellow, for example, 
suggested  that  the  thematic  group  was  most  effective  in 
introducing members of the university working on similar 
issues to each other, laying the ground for future, less formal 
collaboration between individual members. Another Fellow 
suggested that the group meetings could be an opportunity 
for mock job talks and/or formally mentoring researchers, 
as well as presenting working papers/thesis chapters. These 
working  papers,  it  was  further  suggested,  could  be  co-
authored  across  disciplines  or  academic  ranks.  Regardless 
of the purpose, what structures and activities should be in 
place to make this dialogue the most productive possible? 
Should  they  take  the  present  form  of  ten  or  more,  two-
hour  sessions,  or  would  half-day  workshops,  conferences, 
or other formats better serve these purposes? Should there 
be minimum hours so PhD researchers can receive credit, 
or can the number or format of sessions be tailored to the 
needs  of  the  individual  group?  Should  interdisciplinary 

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exchanges  be  formalized  in  large  groups,  or  are  they  best 
left to informal or smaller configurations? How should the 
themes  of  such  groups  be  selected,  and  by  whom  in  the 
EUI? How do they relate to other groups in the university? 
For example, one faculty member (not affiliated with either 
group)  asked  why  there  was  a  Migration  and  Citizenship 
Thematic Group when another Migration Working Group 
already  exists  through  the  Schumann  Centre.  In  practice, 
given  limited  time,  some  group  members  had  to  choose 
between activities of the two groups. How does one avoid 
the temptation of trying to box all the intellectual activities 
of  an  extremely  diverse  and  rapidly  changing  group  of 
Fellows,  researchers,  and  faculty  at  the  EUI  (many  of 
whom pursue multiple projects, simultaneously) into a few 
themes? There is substantial concern among several Fellows 
and faculties that in the future, the EUI and/or Max Weber 
Programme  may  try  to  select  Fellows  or  other  members 
of  the  university  based  on  their  ability  to  contribute  to  a 
few  thematic  groups,  ignoring  their  academic  potential 
and  the  myriad  other  faculty  resources  and  activities  the 
university offers for growth and success. In short, as with 
all  activities,  given  the  limited  duration  of  Fellowships, 
how does one ensure that the thematic groups maximally 
contribute  to  the  professional  success  of  those  who  elect 
to  participate  while  preserving  the  freedom  of  those  who 
seek interdisciplinary and cross-rank collaboration in other 
formats?  The  Migration  and  Citizenship  Thematic  Group 
has  made  several  contributions,  both  to  the  research, 
thinking, and collaboration of many of its members, as well 
as to this broader and ongoing conversation about thematic 
groups. For this, the Fellows would like to thank the faculty 
mentors for their involvement, and to the audience of this 
report for its kind attention.

2015.  Presenters included distinguished outside speakers 
(Robert Keohane, Mark Pollack), visiting senior scholars 
(Stefan  Schirm,  Thomas  Christiansen),  postdoctoral 
fellows and PhD researchers at the EUI. Topics varied from 
European crisis to institutional learning within NATO.

The  two  conferences  organized  within  the  framework 
of the programme took place on 29 September 2014 (on 
China), and on 20-21 April 2015 (on Gulf). Both of these 
well-attended conferences were organized by the RSCAS, 
and were open to the wide EUI community. Last but not 
least, the research area was responsible for a one session 
at  the  State  of  the  Union  conference  organized  by  the 
EUI,  the  theme  of  which  was  ‘Confronting  the  Future 
of Europe.’

In addition, the programme organized a workshop on 18 
October  2015,  titled  ‘Structural  Power  in  International 
and Comparative Politics’, with senior scholars from all 
over  the  world,  during  which  I  acted  as  a  discussant.  
The research area also organized the Executive Training 
Seminar  ‘Europe  in  the  World’  on  15-17  April  2015. 
In  this  ETS,  the  faculty  included  prominent  American 
and  European  researchers  and  practitioners  from  the 
area  of  international  relations,  and  security.  These 
included  Andrew  Moravcsik,  Anne-Marie  Slaughter, 
Robert Cooper, and James Sperling. The ETS was open 
to the whole EUI community, and was attended mostly 
by young academics and professionals from the area of 
international relations.

In  addition  to  these  formal  events,  there  has  been  a 
plentitude  of  informal  meetings,  where  junior  and  senior 
researchers and professors associated with the research area 
met to discuss both research, and professional development. 

euroPe in the World: Foreign relations, 
international security, World Politics 
theMatic grouP
In  the  academic  year  2014-2015,  only  one  Max  Weber 
Fellow  took  part  in  the  thematic  group  ‘Europe  in  the 
World’.  The  thematic  group’s  activities  consisted  of  those 
organized by the Europe in the World research area at the 
Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the EUI. 
The activities research seminars and conferences organized 
throughout  the  year;  as  well  as  an  Executive  Training 
Seminar organized on April 2015.

The research seminars took place on 23 October 2014, 20 
November 2014, 11 December 2014, 11 February 2014, 25 
February 2015, 18 March 2015, 7 May 2015 and 11 June 

governance, constitutionalisM and deMocracy 
theMatic grouP 
This  thematic  group  involved  seven  MW  Fellows:  three 
lawyers (Or Bassok, Cristina Fasone and Diane Fromage), 
three  political 
(Zoe  Lefkofridi,  Martijn 
Schoonvelde  and  Florian  Stoekel)  and  one  historian  (Eric 
O’Connor).  On  a  few  occasions,  externals  among  which 
Jean Monnet Fellows also attended.

scientists 

It  met  on  eleven  occasions  between  September  2014  and 
May  2015.  Of  these  eleven  sessions,  one  was  dedicated  to 
preparation,  three  to  reading  ‘brilliant  pieces’  in  relation 
to  the  three  themes  of  our  thematic  group,  one  was 
devoted to comments on (already published) pieces of the 
conveners  and  3.5  to  commenting  on  the  Fellows’  pieces. 

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max weber programme for postdoctoral studiesOne additional session consisted in a workshop led by Prof. 
G. de Búrca in the framework of the MW lecture she gave 
at the Institute and the 1.5 session left was devoted to the 
discussion of the Fellows’ research projects.

A  majority  of  the  participating  Fellows  appears  to  have 
enjoyed this experience overall. The debates generated were 
felt  to  be  most  interesting  and  sometimes  even  too  short. 
Some particularly valued the feedback they received on their 
work-in-progress  and  the  session  with  the  guest  lecturer 
was also very much liked. The number of participants was 
considered to be fine, although some expressed the opinion 
that  it  could  be  slightly  increased.  The  interdisciplinary 
focus  was  particularly  enriching  and  useful  at  the  time 
of  organizing  multidisciplinary  workshops.  Also,  this 
framework  constituted  a  unique  opportunity  to  get  to 
know  some  of  the  Fellows  and  their  work  better.  Besides, 
it  allowed  the  participants  to  gain  inside  knowledge  of 
the  differences  among  disciplines  in  terms  of  publishing 
strategies,  publication  styles  and  reviewing.  It  provided 
information  regarding  publishing  strategies  and  how  to 
handle reviewers’ comments.

However,  acknowledging  that  this  thematic  group  was 
convened  for  the  first  time,  the  participants  consider 
there is room for improvement and some suggestions will 
be  made  here.  Firstly,  there  is  a  strong  request  for  more 
involvement  in  the  design  of  the  activities;  Fellows  would 
very  much  welcome  a  more  bottom-up  approach  instead 
of  the  top-down  one  which  they  felt  prevailed  this  year. 
In  the  same  spirit,  conveners  should  intervene  to  redirect 
the debate or add input instead of sometimes truly leading 
and  monopolizing  the  discussion.  While  their  input  is 
obviously  always  valuable,  they  may  have  a  specific  pre-
conceptualized  idea  of  what  is  of  interest  to  the  Fellows 
without really asking them. Also, some flexibility could be 
introduced in terms of attendance, the sessions could have 
been less numerous in some Fellows’ view (especially since 
preparation  time  is  important  and  there  are  many  more 
activities)  and  in  any  case  better  spread  over  the  year,  i.e. 
from December onwards.

With regard to content, the initial sessions, and in particular 
the ‘classics sessions’ organised at the beginning, were not 
found  to  be  particularly  stimulating.  The  participants 
strongly  preferred  reading  each  other’s  work-in-progress 
rather than established scholars’ published pieces. Hence, 
this part, if maintained, could be reduced to one session 
and,  instead,  Fellows  who  wished  to  could  for  instance 
be given the opportunity to present more than one piece, 
especially given the high value of the comments received. 

Same  goes  for  the  sessions  devoted  to  the  research 
proposals  which  should  be  reserved  to  the  Fellows  who 
really  plan  to  apply  for  funding  and  do  need  feedback 
instead of obliging all Fellows to present a proposal they 
may never use elsewhere.

inequality  and  eFFiciency  in  education  and 
labour Markets theMatic grouP

The  Max  Weber  Fellows  part  of  the  Thematic  Research 
Group  Inequality  and  Efficiency  in  Education  and  Labour 
Markets are satisfied by the experience this year in the group. 
The  present  report  highlights  the  positive  aspects  of  this 
experience, before turning to the suggestions for the future. 

Positive aspects:

The  Max  Weber  Fellows  particularly  appreciated  the  way 
Professors  Bernardi  and  Ichino  designed  the  group  as  a 
research-oriented  seminar,  and  the  homogeneity  of  the 
group this year.

A research-oriented seminar:

Professors  Bernardi  and  Ichino  did  a  very  good  job 
of  organizing  the  group  with  the  focus  on  helping  the 
Fellows  advance  their  research.  We  liked  the  research-
seminar oriented structure of the group. Meetings gave the 
opportunity to each Fellow to present work in progress and 
get  feedback.  One  of  us  served  each  time  as  a  discussant. 
The discussion was animated, everybody always taking part 
in  it.  The  TRG  was  thus  an  occasion  to  present  our  work 
to a mixed audience of economists, historians, sociologists 
and political scientists. Except the work of discussants, the 
TRG  did  not  imply  for  us  other  work  than  preparing  our 
presentations to the group and we consider this as a great 
advantage.

A homogenous group:

The  second  positive  aspect  of  this  year  was  that  we  had 
close research practices, using quantitative and qualitative 
analyses,  along  with  theoretical  instruments  for  applied 
purposes.  Furthermore,  we  shared  a  strong  thematic 
interest across disciplines. The theme of inequality has been 
a major backbone for the group, making the Piketty visit in 
particular a central moment, which we all enjoyed.

Suggestions for the future:

The  Max  Weber  Fellows  of  the  group  would  like  to  make 
some  suggestions  for  the  future,  in  order  to  organise 
interdisciplinarity and to maintain the homogeneity of the 
group.

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Organising interdisciplinarity:

To  help  realise  the  aim  of  the  TRG,  which  is  to  foster 
it  would  be 
interdisciplinary  activities,  we  consider 
appropriate to design some guidelines on how to do work in 
an interdisciplinary manner. In an introductory meeting, it 
would be helpful that the representatives of each discipline or 
sub-discipline among us define what their discipline values 
in terms of research, which research questions and methods 
are central in that discipline, and what is the structure of the 
final product in that discipline used to disseminate research 
(papers, journal articles, books). This would help each of us 
better understand the standards against which to comment 
on the various presentations throughout the year.

Maintaining the homogeneity of the group:

With more individuals with different interests and methods 
next  year,  the  group  might  have  less  success  than  this 
year.  Adding  people  with  less  interest  in  quantitative  and 
qualitative methods, and in applying theoretical instruments 
could diminish the efficiency and the interest of the work 
done together.

legal, social and Political theory and 
history oF thought
At  the  start  of  the  year  our  group  met  and  was  given  the 
opportunity to decide the group’s agenda for the year. We 
opted to use the sessions to gather feedback on our work. 
The  sessions  were  of  strategic  importance  to  us  since  we 
received detailed feedback from academic experts on how 
to  write  a  good  academic  paper,  and  gathered  comments 
across  the  disciplines.  The  sessions  were  also  important 
intellectually.  We  gained  insight  into  the  debates  in  other 
disciplines  and  learned  about  different  approaches  and 
methodologies to important questions. 

the 

that 

agreed 

sessions,  which 

We 
generated 
interdisciplinary debate, were important to the intellectual 
life  of  the  Max  Weber  programme.  We  might  have  been 
able to organise things even more efficiently at the start if 
we had more information about the agenda of the groups. 
It is important that this agenda is both complementary to 
the development of our careers (through developing good 
publications  and  research),  but  also  to  our  intellectual 
development.  It  is  important  to  engage  with  other  modes 
of analysis and systems of thought. It is also important that 
people have discussions across different approaches to the 
same discipline, i.e. qualitative and quantitative. Exposure 
to different ideas and critical thinking are key components 
of our intellectual endeavors. 

We  appreciated  the  input  of  our  leads  and  agreed  that  it 
would also be helpful for them to participate so that we were 
able to see their papers and review their work. 

Additionally  we  had  two  master  classes  with  Max  Weber 
Speakers. Our meeting with Quentin Skinner was a unique 
opportunity  to  engage  with,  and  learn  from,  the  world 
leading expert in intellectual history. 

toMMaso Padoa-schioPPa: the design and 
governance oF Monetary and Fiscal Policies 
and Financial regulation in the euroPean 
union theMatic grouP
The  theme  of  this  thematic  research  group  is  inspired  by 
the  work  of  Tommaso  Padoa-Schioppa  (1940-2010),  a 
central banker and Minister of the Economy and Finance 
in Italy (2006-08) who is often credited as the father of the 
European  single  currency.  This  year,  the  research  group 
brought together economists working on monetary policies, 
international  macroeconomics  and  finance,  economic 
historians,  political  economists,  and  lawyers  interested  in 
financial regulation and constitutionalism.

Members: Axelle Arquie (ECO Fellow), Georgina Banulescu 
(ECO Fellow), Federica Romei (ECO Fellow), Lukas Martin 
Haffert  (SPS  Fellow),  Eileen  Keller  (SPS  Fellow),  Thomas 
Raineau  (HEC  Fellow),  Damien  Gerard  (LAW  Fellow), 
Pierre Schlosser (Res. SPS)

Leads: Prof. Pepper Culpepper (SPS), Prof. Richard Portes 
(London  Business  School  and  CEPR).    Prof.  Portes  is  the 
inaugural  holder  of  the  Tommaso  Padoa-Schioppa  Chair 
at the European University Institute, which focuses on the 
analytical challenges and policy responses of international 
macroeconomics and finance in Europe.

After  an  introductory  session  in  September  2014,  the 
Thematic Research Group met on nine occasions during the 
academic year 2014-2015, as follows: 

•	

•	

20 October 2014: presentation and discussion of papers 
by (i) Eileen Keller (‘Forging a new SME-compromise. 
Lobbying  success  and  business  influence  after  the 
financial crisis – A case study on capital requirements 
for SME lending’); and (ii) Damien Gerard (‘Managing 
the financial crisis in Europe: the role of State aid law 
enforcement’). 

27 October 2014: presentation and discussion of papers 
by (i) Lukas Haffert (‘Starving the Beast or Overfeeding 
the Beast? Conservative Parties and Budget Surpluses’); 
and (ii) Axelle Arquié (‘Fire sales, inefficient  banking 
and liquidity ratios’).

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•	

•	

•	

•	

•	

20  November  2014:  presentation  and  discussion 
of  papers  by  (i)  Denisa  Banulescu  (‘Which  Are  the 
SIFIs?    A  Component  Expected  Shortfall  Approach 
to Systemic Risk’); (ii) Federica Romei (‘Need for (the 
Right) Speed: The Timing and Composition of Public 
Debt Deleveraging’).

27  November  2014:  presentation  and  discussion  of 
a  paper  by  Pierre  Schlosser  (‘The  expansion  of  fiscal 
surveillance in EMU: an actor-centric analysis’).

22  January  2015:  presentation  and  discussion  of  a 
paper  by  Thomas  Raineau  (‘From  Whitehall  to  the 
governo degli economisti: Elements for a comparative 
history  of  national  administrations  and  European 
monetary integration’), followed by an interdisciplinary 
discussion of C. Teulings and R. Baldwin’s VOX eBook 
on Secular stagnation: Facts, causes, and cures, with the 
participation of Prof. Claus Offe.

19  February  2015:  discussion  of  the  Max  Weber 
Fellows’  individual  research  proposals  and  of  more 
general  issues  involving  grants  applications,  followed 
by an interdisciplinary discussion of Marion Fourcade 
et al.’s paper on ‘The Superiority of Economists’ (www.
maxpo.eu/pub/maxpo_dp/maxpodp14-3.pdf). 

7  April  2015:  interdisciplinary  discussion  on  the 
situation  of  Greece,  including  Greek  political  and 
economic history, the on-going crisis and the austerity 
response,  the  new  ruling  coalition  and  possible 
solutions to the current situation. 

21  April  2015: 
interdisciplinary  discussion  on 
the  future  of  the  Eurozone,  including  recent  EU 
Commission  proposals,  implications  in  terms  of 
political  integration  and  limitations  put  by,  e.g., 
Member States’ constitutional courts. 

June 17 2015: master class with Prof. and Max Weber 
Lecturer  Wendy  Carlin  (UC  London)  on  the  CORE 
project designed to rethink the teaching of economics  
(http://www.core-econ.org/)  by  integrating  the  micro 
and  macro  perspectives  and  developing  a  more  case-
oriented  approach  (e.g., 
inequality,  environment, 
growth, unemployment, instability).

In  addition,  members  of  the  Thematic  Research  Group 
actively  participated  in  activities  of  the  Tommaso  Padoa-
Schioppa  Chair  and  other  events  held  at  the  EUI  on  the 
Euro Area Crisis and the Banking Union.  

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multidisciplinary research 
activities

max Weber lectures 

The 2014-2015 Max Weber Lectures were given by:

Peter  Ghosh,  Jean  Duffield  Fellow  in  Modern  History, 
University  of  Oxford.  His  lecture  ‘Why  Should  We  Read 
Max  Weber?  The  Case  of  Wissenschaft’  took  place  on  15 
October 2014.

Abstract: In 1964 this question was open and was passionately 
debated, but in 2014 Weber’s canonical position is so secure 
that it seems superfluous.  Nonetheless, the question should 
be asked, because if it is not, then any view of Max Weber as 
an integral thinker recedes into the distance, and he dissolves 
into a series of specialized fragments.  The lecture suggested 
that Weber is perhaps unique in his identity as a universalist 
thinker capable of operating under modern conditions, such 
as specialization and cultural difference, which are radically 
hostile to universalist thought.  To answer this question, Peter 
Ghosh considered, first, the more obviously universalist areas 
of his thought (academic ‘science’ or Wissenschaft, religion, 
law)  and  then  one  that  is  not  (politics).    However,  this  is 
matter for four lectures at least.  So here Ghosh began at the 
beginning: with Wissenschaft.  

Oriana Bandiera, Professor of Economics, London School 
of  Economics.  Her  lecture  ‘Incentives  for  Public  Service 
Delivery’ took place on 19 November 2014.

Abstract:  The  public  sector  provides  several  inputs  to 
economic growth and their effectiveness ultimately relies on 
the effort and skills of the agents hired to deliver them. How 
can the State use incentives to recruit, motivate and retain 
talented agents? Do material incentives attract talent or do 
they discourage altruism? Do material incentives motivate 
agents to perform better or do they crowd-out their intrinsic 
motivation and reduce performance? This lecture provided 
some answers from recent field experiments.

Dagmar  Herzog,  Distinguished  Professor  of  History,  The 
Graduate  Center,  The  City  University  of  New  York.  Her 
lecture ‘On Aggression: Psychoanalysis as Moral Politics in 
Post-Nazi Germany’ took place on 10 December 2014.

intellectual  and  popular 
Abstract:  The  heyday  of 
preoccupation with psychoanalysis in the West reached from 
the  1940s  to  the  1970s,  from  post-Nazism  through  Cold 
War consumerism to the anti-Vietnam War movement and 
the  sexual  revolution.  In  each  country  the  ensuing  debates 
over  the  truth  about  how  human  beings  are  took  unique 
form.  Only  in  West  Germany  did  debates  about  the  value 
of psychoanalysis as a system of thought circle so intensely 
around  the  question  of  whether  or  not  aggression  was  an 
ineradicable  aspect  of  the  human  animal  and  whether  or 
not  it  might  best  be  conceived  as  a  ‘drive’  comparable  in 
strength and form to libido. This paper analyzed the wholly 
unexpected  consequences  set  in  motion  by  the  publication 
of  ethologist  Konrad  Lorenz’s  On  Aggression,  not  only  on 
the  oeuvre  of  the  preeminent  West  German  psychoanalyst 
Alexander Mitscherlich, but also on the eventual shape taken 
by the New Left’s politics and theories of human nature.

Thomas Piketty, Director of the Paris School of Economics. 
His lecture ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ took place 
on 21 January 2015.

Abstract: This lecture drew on Thomas Piketty’s latest book 
Capital  in  the  Twenty-First  Century.    The  Author  asked 
the  question:  What  are  the  grand  dynamics  that  drive  the 
accumulation  and  distribution  of  capital?  Questions  about 
the  long-term  evolution  of  inequality,  the  concentration  of 
wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart 
of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard 
to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. 
Based  on  a  unique  collection  of  data  Picketty  showed  that 
modern  economic  growth  and  the  diffusion  of  knowledge 
have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale 
predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep 
structures of capital inequality as much as we thought in the 
optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver 
of inequality – the tendency of returns on capital to exceed 
the  rate  of  economic  growth  –  today  threatens  to  generate 
extreme  inequalities  that  stir  discontent  and  undermine 
democratic values. But economic trends are not acts of God. 
Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past 
and may do so again.

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Claus Offe, Professor of Political Sociology, Hertie School of 
Governance. His lecture ‘Doubts on Growth: The Discourse 
on ‘Secular Stagnation’ in the Social Sciences’ took place on 
18 February 2015.

Abstract:  The  experience  of  declining  growth  rates,  near-
stagnation  and  deflationary  dangers  in  much  of  the 
OECD  world  has  triggered  an  intense  debate  on  both 
the  feasibility  and  desirability  of  economic  growth  being 
restored  through  the  adoption  of  promising  policies  and 
institutional  reforms.  In  particular,  the  current  crisis  of 
the  Eurozone  leads  a  majority  of  academic  and  political 
observers to believe that strengthening economic growth is 
the key strategic objective for overcoming the crisis through 
the achievement of fiscal stability, the improvement of the 
employment situation, and the general social and political 
integration of capitalist democracies.

At  the  same  time,  there  is  a  growing  camp  of  those  who 
doubt  either  the  feasibility  and/or  the  desirability  of 
restoring patterns of economic growth that prevailed in the 
West throughout most of the post-war period. The lecture 
outlined  five  sets  of  analytical  arguments  and  normative 

point of view that drive current controversies on the future 
of economic growth.

Lucia  Zedner,  Professor  of  Criminal  Justice,  University 
of  Oxford.  Her  lecture  ‘Enemies  of  the  State.  Curtailing 
Citizenship Rights and Counterterrorism’ took place on 18 
March 2015.

Abstract:  Recent  estimates  suggest  that  more  than  3,000 
Europeans have travelled to Syria to fight for the ‘Islamic State’ 
(IS). UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, has argued ‘It is not 
only the full force of the law that these people should face…
when they take up arms in this way in another country, they 
become enemies of the state.’ In accordance with this view, 
current counterterrorism policy seeks to curb the citizenship 
and  mobility  rights  of  those  suspected  of  involvement  in 
terrorism.  Exclusion  orders,  flight  bans,  passport  seizure, 
and forcible relocation are defended as essential to national 
security. For some, citizenship appears no longer as a right 
but conditional upon conduct or a privilege to be diminished 
or  denied.  This  paper  examined  these  developments  and 
considers the risks to justice, to human rights, and, not least, 
to  security,  when  citizenship-stripping  is  used  as  a  tool  of 

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in  common  with  the  hubris  of  development  economics 
the  attempt  of  western  institutions  to  impose  top-down 
solutions  on  developing  countries’.  This  lecture  suggested 
a  very  different  reading.  Applying  an  experimentalist 
perspective,  and  drawing  on  evidence  from  the  actual 
practice  of  the  UN  treaty  regimes,  Prof.  De  Burca  argued 
that  the  system  is  much  more  dynamic  and  multi-faceted 
than its detractors (and often also its defenders) suggest and 
that, in particular, one of the great strengths of the human 
rights treaty regimes is precisely that they operate in ways 
that are not at all top-down. 

Quentin  Skinner,  Barber  Beaumont  Professor  of  the 
Humanities,  Queen  Mary  University  London.  His  lecture 
‘Thomas Hobbes and the Person of the State’ took place on 
20 May 2015.

Abstract:  Nowadays  when  we  speak  about  the  state  we 
generally  use  the  term  simply  to  refer  to  an  apparatus 
of  power.    As  a  result  –  at  least  in  Anglophone  political 
theory  –  ‘state’  and  ‘government’  have  become  virtually 
synonymous  terms.    Prof.  Skinner’s  lecture  began  by 
tracing the emergence in modern western political theory 
of the strongly contrasting view that the state is the name 
of  a  distinct  Person.    Thomas  Hobbes  is  taken  to  be  the 
leading contributor to this development, and in the central 
section  of  his  lecture  Quentin  Skinner  analysed  Hobbes’s 
understanding  of  the  state  as  a  ‘person  by  fiction’.    His 
lecture  ended  by  attempting  an  assessment  of  the  idea  of 
state personality.  Has anything of significance been lost as a 
result of the abandonment of the belief, central to so much 
early-modern and Enlightenment discourse, that the state is 
the name of a moral Person distinct from both government 
and the governed?

Wendy Carlin, Professor of Economics, University College 
London  and  Centre  for  Economic  Policy  Research.  Her 
lecture  ‘Institutions,  Integration  and  Divergence:  Lessons 
from Europe’ took place on 17 June 2015.

Abstract:  Economists  frequently  assume  that  deeper 
integration  promotes  the  convergence  of 
economic 
economic regions or countries. To address the connection 
between institutions, markets and economic development, 
Prof. Carlin began with the thesis that within an integrated 
area,  two  ‘institutions-culture’  conventions  can  co-exist. 
Deeper  integration  can  raise  the  costs  of  exiting  the 
weaker ‘Southern’ convention because the South benefits 
from  gains  from  trade.  The  second  thesis  was  that  more 

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Max Weber Lecturer Lucia Zedner  speaks on ‘Enemies 
of the State. Curtailing Citizenship Rights and 
Counterterrorism‘

counterterrorism. In so doing, it asked: what does the duty of 
the state to protect its people permit?

Gráinne de Búrca, Professor of Law, New York University. 
‘Reframing  International  Human  Rights 
Her 
Regimes’ took place on 22 April 2015.

lecture 

Abstract: International human rights regimes – the array of 
UN human rights treaties and their monitoring mechanisms 
– have come under attack in recent years from all sides.  Eric 
Posner says bluntly that ‘[h]uman rights law has failed … 
and it ought to be abandoned.’  

Samuel  Moyn  has  advanced  a  range  of  critiques,  mostly 
premised  on  the  argument  that  the  regimes  have  been 
singularly ineffective, and are doomed to extinction before 
long.    Even  their  defenders  acknowledge  that  UN  human 
rights  regimes  are  poorly  equipped  to  handle  many  of 
the challenges that confront them.  They are inadequately 
resourced,  lack  expertise,  and  governments  ignore  their 
recommendations.    One  consistent  theme  of  the  many 
criticisms  is  that  the  treaty  body  regimes  have  failed 
because they operate in a determinedly top-down manner.  
In  Posner’s  words:  ‘the  human  rights  movement  shares 

max weber programme for postdoctoral studiesintegration  brings  economic  advantages  but  it  does  not 
necessarily  bring  with  it  the  reform  of  the  underlying 
convention.  The  gains  from  trade  mean  the  South 
specializes  more  in  activities  that  reinforce  its  inferior 
convention.  The  third  thesis  was  that  strong  institutions 
are  the  precondition  for  long  term  convergence  and 
facilitate adjustment to shocks. To illustrate these theses, 
Prof.  Carlin  used  evidence  from  post-unification  Italy, 
post  re-unification  Germany  and  from  the  economic 
integration of the Eurozone.

Lectures  are  eventually  published  in  the  Max  Weber 
Lectures  Series  and  are  available  as  pdf  files  from  the 
EUI  Publications  database  CADMUS  (http://cadmus.eui.
eu/dspace/index.jsp).  The  Max  Weber  Lectures  are  also 
filmed  and  can  be  viewed  on:  http://www.youtube.com/
MaxWeberProgramme. 

intervieWs of lecturers by mW felloWs

Peter Ghosh interviewed by Franz Fillafer (HEC)
Part  of  the  Max  Weber  Programme  celebrations  for  the 
150th  Anniversary  of  Max  Weber’s  birth,  Peter  Ghosh, 
University  of  Oxford,  was  interviewed  by  Franz  Fillafer 
(HEC  MW  Fellow  2014-2015)  on  15  October  2014  at  the 
European University Institute.

https://youtu.be/Nq13hRtG8_A?list=PLra9SpLONBtIQ8n
H1cIrSNXqNhRzZChSX

Oriana Bandiera interviewed by Ylenia Brilli (ECO)
Oriana  Bandiera,  London  School  of  Economics,  was 
interviewed by Ylenia Brilli (ECO MW Fellow 2013-2015) 
on 19 November 2014 at the European University Institute.

https://youtu.be/_XKqOWbHg10?list=PLra9SpLONBtIQ8
nH1cIrSNXqNhRzZChSX

Dagmar Herzog interviewed by Fran Meissner (SPS)
Dagmar Herzog, CUNY, was interviewed by Fran Meissner 
(SPS MW Fellow 2013-2015), on 11 December 2014 at the 
European University Institute

https://youtu.be/X8KVwOmwMQ4?list=PLra9SpLONBtI
Q8nH1cIrSNXqNhRzZChSX

Thomas Piketty interviewed by Emmanuel Comte (HEC)
On  21  January  2015  Thomas  Piketty,  Paris  School  of 
Economics,  visited  the  European  University  Institute  to 
deliver  a  MW  Lecture  on  his  latest  book  ‘Capital  in  the 
Twenty-First Century’. On this occasion he was interviewed 
by Emmanuel Comte (HEC MW Fellow 2014-2015) on the 
intricacies of his work. 

https://youtu.be/-x6e0DbB3a0?list=PLra9SpLONBtIQ8nH
1cIrSNXqNhRzZChSX

Claus Offe interviewed by Julija Sardelic (SPS)
The interview was filmed on 20 February 2015, the day after 
Claus Offe’s MW Lecture ‘Doubts on Growth: The Discourse 
on ‘Secular Stagnation’ in the Social Sciences’. The interview 
by  Julija  Sardelic  (SPS  MW  Fellow  2014-2015)  touches 
on  Offe’s  intellectual  biography  and  his  relationship  with 
the  Frankfurt  School,  secular  stagnation,  migration  and 
citizenship, universal basic income and social justice.

https://youtu.be/GaxI6KDkbrI?list=PLra9SpLONBtIQ8nH
1cIrSNXqNhRzZChSX

Lucia Zedner interviewed by Michael Kozakowski (HEC)
Lucia  Zedner,  University  of  Oxford,  was  interviewed  by 
Michael Kozakowski (HEC MW Fellow 2014-2015), on 18 
March 2015 at the European University Institute.

https://youtu.be/uoxboa5OrvE?list=PLra9SpLONBtIQ8n
H1cIrSNXqNhRzZChSX

Grainne de Burca interviewed by Cristina Fasone (LAW) 
and Antonio Marzal Yetano (LAW)
On 22 April 2015 Grainne De Burca, New York University, 
was  interviewed  by  Cristina  Fasone  (LAW  MW  Fellow 
2013-2015) and Antonio Marzal Yetano (LAW MW Fellow 
2014-2015)  on  how  changing  academic  environments 
shaped her as a scholar and much more.

https://youtu.be/JvfzE7nVqUk?list=PLra9SpLONBtIQ8nH
1cIrSNXqNhRzZChSX

Quentin Skinner interviewed by Julia McClure (HEC) and 
Franz Fillafer (HEC)
On 20 May 2015 Quentin Skinner, Queen Mary University 
of  London,  was  at  the  Max  Weber  Programme  in  San 
Domenico  di  Fiesole.  Here  he  was  interviewed  by  MW 
Fellows  Franz  Fillafer  (HEC  MW  Fellow  2014-2015)  and 

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Julia McClure (HEC MW Fellow 2014-2015) who worked 
hard to ask questions yet unexplored by previous interviews.

https://youtu.be/TIN_8aYzjRU?list=PLra9SpLONBtIQ8n
H1cIrSNXqNhRzZChSX

Wendy  Carlin  interviewed  by  Eileen  Keller  (SPS)  and 
Silvana Tarlea (SPS)
On 17 June 2015 Wendy Carlin, University College London 
and Centre for Economic Policy Research was interviewed 
by Eileen Keller (SPS MW Fellow 2014-2015) and Silvana 
Tarlea  (SPS  MW  Fellow  2014-2015)  on  her  work,  her 
academic  career  and  advice  to  young  academics  starting 
their careers.

https://youtu.be/UWdze2r28qQ?list=PLra9SpLONBtIQ8n
H1cIrSNXqNhRzZChSX

mWp occasional talks

Paul  Ginsborg,  Professor  of  Contemporary  European 
History, University of Florence.  His occasional talk ‘Recent 
Italian  Politics  in  Historical  Perspective’  took  place  on  14 
January 2015.

Abstract: By whatever measuring rod one cares to adopt 
– economic, political, cultural – the Italian Republic has 
undoubtedly been in increasing difficulty since the early 
1990s. The long dominion of Silvio Berlusconi in Italian 
politics  has  been  only  one,  albeit  highly  significant, 
expression  of  a  general  decline,  which  has  been 
accelerated by the global crisis from 2008 onwards. Faced 
with  this  situation,  many  distinguished  commentators, 
both  internal  and  external,  have  expressed  doom-laden 
sentiments about Italy’s destiny. It is difficult to disagree 
with much of what they say, but Ginsborg urges caution. 
The  Italian  Republic  –  references  to  a  second  or  third 
Republic seem to me to be rather spurious – has shown 
a remarkable capacity to survive. To explain why this is 
so,  Prof.  Ginsborg  adopted  a  predominantly  historical 
perspective,  concentrating  on  three  areas  of  enquiry: 
Italy’s cultural specificity as a Catholic and Mediterranean 
country;  the  perennial  role  of  strong  families  acting  as 
buffers  against  crises  of  varying  dimensions;  and  the 
long-term  European  performance  of  Italy  in  relation 
to  what  Edward  Thompson  once  called  ‘the  great  arch 
of  bourgeois  revolution’.  The  picture  that  emerged  was 
neither comforting nor cataclysmic.

John McCormick, Professor of Political Science, University 
of Chicago. His occasional talk ‘The Rhetoric and Reality of 
Class Politics in Machiavelli’s Istorie Fiorentine’ took place 
on 16 March 2015.

Abstract:  In  this  talk,  Prof.  McCormick  wanted  to 
demonstrate  that  the  specific  details  of  Machiavelli’s 
historical account of the respective actions of the Florentine 
people and nobles within the Histories decisively undermine 
any  general,  evaluative  statements  on  Machiavelli’s  part 
that overtly criticize the people and that signal a newfound 
sympathy for the nobles.

He  suggested,  therefore,  that  proponents  of  the  ‘late-
conservative  Machiavelli’  thesis  err  when  they  rely 
overwhelmingly  on  the  latter  to  the  utter  neglect  of  the 
former in their analyses of the Histories. They consistently 
ignore the blatant discontinuity between, on the one hand, 
Machiavelli’s  demonstration  of  how  peoples  and  nobles 
behave throughout the book, and, on the other, what he says 
about the behaviour of these respective groups in the work.

He argued that the former contravene the latter, and that the 
literary-rhetorical  method  deployed  by  Machiavelli  in  the 
Histories – a mode of writing through which, even more so 
than in The Prince and the Discourses, deeds trump words 
– serves to substantially reinforce, rather than in any way 
undermine, Machiavelli’s previously expressed democratic 
republicanism  in  his  later,  seemingly  more  conservative, 
political writings.

Cecile  Laborde,  Professor  of  Political  Theory,  University 
College London.  Her occasional talk ‘Is Liberalism Secular?’ 
took place on 23 April 2015.

Abstract: In this talk, Prof. Laborde asked whether liberal 
legitimacy requires secularism – or separation between state 
and  religion.  She  argued  that  the  best  way  to  answer  this 
question  is  to  ‘disaggregate’  religion  into  four  constituent 
elements;  and  she  argued  that  the  liberal  state  is  secular 
in four distinct senses. The aim was to identify a universal 
minimal  secularism,  one  not  tied  to  a  particular  western 
history  of  secularization,  yet  one  that  meets  basic  liberal 
democratic desiderata.

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max weber programme for postdoctoral studiesDavid  Armitage,  Lloyd  C.  Blankfein  Professor  of  History 
and  of  the  Department  of  History,  Harvard  University. 
His occasional talk ‘Worlds of Civil War: Globalizing Civil 
War in the Late Twentieth Century’ (jointly organized with 
HEC) took place on 21 May 2015.

Abstract:  The  talk  critically  examined  the  ‘globalization’ 
of  civil  war  in  three  distinct,  but  overlapping,  ways.  First, 
civil wars became global phenomena, seemingly distributed 
across  all  parts  of  the  world  and  then  gradually  coming 
to  supplant  international  or  inter-state  wars  as  the  most 
characteristic  form  of 
large-scale  organized  violence 
around  the  globe.  Second  and  closely  related  to  the  first, 
civil war was increasingly brought under the jurisdiction of 
international and global institutions, especially international 
humanitarian  law.  And  third,  the  communities  within 
which civil wars were imagined as taking place became ever 
wider and more capacious, expanding from ‘European civil 
war’ to various conceptions of ‘global civil war’ early in the 
twentieth century.

Fred Cooper. Professor of History, New York University. His 
occasional  talk  ‘Citizenship  Between  Empire  and  Nation: 
Remaking France and French Africa, 1956-1960’ took place 
on 9 June 2015.

Abstract: As the French public debates its present diversity 
and  its  colonial  past,  few  remember  that  between  1946 
and 1960 the inhabitants of French colonies possessed the 
rights  of  French  citizens.  Moreover,  they  did  not  have  to 
conform  to  the  French  civil  code  that  regulated  marriage 
and inheritance.  One could, in principle, be a citizen and 
different  too.  This  talk  examined  momentous  changes  in 
notions of citizenship, sovereignty, nation, state and empire 
in a time of uncertainty about the future of a world that had 
earlier been divided into colonial empires.

Agata Bielik-Robson, Professor of Jewish Studies, University 
of Nottingham. Her occasional talk ‘The Postsecular Turn: 
Enlightenment,  Tradition,  Revolution’  (jointly  organized 
with the project ReligioWest) took place on 14 May 2015.
Abstract: The aim of this lecture was to give a general and 
accessible  overview  of  the  so-called  ‘post-secular’  turn  in 
contemporary humanities.

The  main  idea  behind  the  post-secular  turn  is  that  it 
constitutes an answer to the crisis of secular grand narratives 
of modernity: in Rosenzweig’s case – the Hegelian narrative 
of  the  immanent  progress  of  the  Spirit;  and  in  case  of 
Adorno,  Horkheimer,  and  Habermas  (all  representatives 
of  the  Frankfurt  School)  –  the  Enlightenment  narrative 
of  universal  emancipation.  All  these  thinkers  want  to 
rethink  the  place  of  religion  in  the  seemingly  secularized 
modern paradigm and see if revelation can cooperate with 
Enlightenment, i.e. whether it can support Enlightenment 
values in times of their ‘crisis of legitimacy.’

But  this  is  not  the  only  meaning  of  late-modern  post-
secularism. A parallel interpretation, coined more or less at 
the same time as Habermas, by John Milbank and his pupils, 
Philip Blond and Conor Cunningham insists on the return 
of theology in the hard-core version of Radical Orthodoxy. 
Radical  Orthodoxy’s  merit  lies  in  gathering  all  theologico-
conservative  critiques  of  modern  nihilism  under  the  one 
heading  of  the  post-secular  reconquest  of  the  West  in  the 
name  of  tradition.  And,  finally,  the  third  use  of  religious 
terminology today: this time in favour of the revolution. This 
variant  of  the  post-secular  debate,  which  revolves  mostly 
around  the  ‘revolutionary  figure’  of  Saint  Paul  (Taubes, 
Agamben, Badiou, Zizek), constitutes a radically left answer 
to  the  crisis  of  Marxism  as  the  allegedly  scientific  insight 
into  the  objective  laws  of  history.  Despite  irreconcilable 
differences between these three options, there is also a clear 
sense of affinity: in all three cases, religion is recollected in 
order to counteract the detrimental tendency, characteristic 
of  a  purely  secular  modernity,  to  reduce  human  existence 
to  a  monotonous  quasi-natural  cycle  of  life  and  death  in 
which  radically  new  political  decisions  either  count  for 
nothing or simply become impossible. But the post-secular 
use  of  religion  may  also  be  accused  of  such  reductive 
instrumentality itself, summoning elements of transcendent 
faith merely in order to change the immanent conditions of 
our social life. It was also her aim to assess this objection and 
see if such a pragmatic use of transcendence for the sake of 
immanence, which post-secular thought advocates, could be 
justified from the theological point of view.

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multidisciplinary research Workshops

The Multidisciplinary Research Workshops 2014-2015 were 
as follows.

Master classes With the MW lecturers 

19 February 2015
Claus Offe, Hertie School of Governance – ‘Ideal Normative 
Theory and Real World Data’
Thematic groups: Citizenship and Migration; Governance, 
Constitutionalism  and  Democracy;  Legal,  Social  and 
Political Theory

16 October 2014
Peter Ghosh, University of Oxford – ‘Reading the Protestant 
Ethic: A Master Class with Peter Ghosh’ 
Thematic group: Legal, Social and Political Theory and the 
History of Thought  

19 March 2015
Lucia  Zedner,  University  of  Oxford  –  ‘Migration  and 
Citizenship from a Criminal Law Perspective’
Thematic group: Citizenship and Migration

20 November 2014
Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics – ‘Incentives 
for Public Service Delivery: Further Discussion’
Thematic  group:    Inequality  and  Efficiency  in  Education 
and Labour Markets

22 April 2015
Grainne  de  Burca,  New  York  University  –  ‘The  EU  and 
Human Rights’
Thematic  group:  Governance,  Constitutionalism  and 
Democracy

11 December 2014
Dagmar Herzog, City University of New York – ‘Sex after 
Fascism’
GRaSE (in conjunction with RSCAS and HEC)

21 May 2015
Quentin Skinner, Queen Mary University London – ‘Moral 
Principles and Social Change’
Thematic group: Legal, Social and Political Theory and the 
History of Thought

21 January 2015
Thomas Piketty, Paris School of Economics – ‘Capital in the 
Twenty-First Century: Inequalities among Countries’
Thematic group: Inequality and Efficiency in Education and 
Labour Markets

17 June 2015
Wendy Carlin, UCL
Thematic  group:  Tommaso  Padoa-Schioppa:  The  Design, 
Regulation and Governance of Fiscal and Monetary Policies 
in the European Union

Claus Offe teaching the master class ‘Ideal Normative Theory and Real World Data’

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MWP events by MW FelloWs
5 December 2014
Poverty Research Workshop
Organiser: Julia McClure (HEC)
The  Poverty  Research  Workshop  aimed  to  establish  an 
inter-disciplinary discussion on poverty research, the future 
directions and uses of a poverty research network, and ways 
in which academic practice can be linked to society today. A 
number of speakers from a range of disciplines from inside 
and  outside  the  EUI,  and  a  roundtable  discussing  setting 
up a poverty research network, focused on poverty and its 
many facets.

10 February 2015
European  Security:  A  Talk  with  Baroness  Pauline  Neville 
Jones
Organisers:  Damien  Gerard  (LAW),  Thomas  Raineau 
(HEC), Garvan Walshe (SPS)
Baroness  Neville  Jones  of  Hutton  Roof  has  been  National 
Security Adviser to David Cameron, and Security Minister 
in  Her  Majesty’s  Government.  Formerly  Chairman  of  the 
UK’s Joint Intelligence Committee, Lady Neville Jones has 
also  been  Political  Director  at  the  Foreign  Office  and  a 
governor  of  the  BBC.  She  was  Britain’s  chief  negotiator  at 
the Dayton Accords which brought an end to the Bosnian 
War.  Earlier  in  her  career  she  was  deputy  chef  de  cabinet 
to  Commissioner  Christopher  Tugendhat  and  served  the 
Foreign Office in Singapore and Bonn.
She  delivered  her  address  at  a  time  when  dangers  to 
European  security  are  particularly  acute.  In  particular, 

the  recent  terrorist  attacks  in  France  have  raised  again 
the  question  of  a  more  ambitious  anti-terrorist  policy  at 
EU  level;  Russia’s  actions  in  Ukraine  present  the  EU  with 
a  further  set  of  serious  security  challenges;  and  some 
European states, and the EU itself, are engaged militarily on 
different fronts beyond the EU, from Mali to ISIS.

vs 

Inequalities:  Multculturalism 

11 February 2015
Diversities 
and 
Interculturalism Debate
Organiser: Julija Sardeliç (SPS)
According  to  many  scholars  contemporary  society  is 
becoming  increasingly  diverse,  especially  in  the  age  of 
global  migration.  People  with  different  (often  externally 
ascribed)  identities,  backgrounds  and  statuses  are  living 
in a common space co-creating the pluralistic society with 
their  own  experience  as  well  as  engagement.  However, 
at  the  same  time,  many  academics  have  argued  that 
diversities are necessarily interrelated with certain societal 
hierarchies, which go hand-in-hand with the production of 
an  individual’s  social  inequalities.  Throughout  history,  as 
well as in the present, members of pluralistic societies have 
developed  various  measures  to  ‘manage’  their  diversities 
and  hence  also  address  inequalities  (even  in  cases  where 
this produced even deeper exclusion of certain populations, 
such as migrants and minorities). The question of managing 
diversity and addressing inequalities is also currently in the 
spotlight  because  of  the  on-going  economic  crisis  and,  to 
a certain extent, the decline of the welfare state as well as 
growing  intolerance  towards  marginalized  populations. 

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This  workshop  compared  and  critically  evaluated  two 
theoretical approaches (as well as their implementation in 
practice)  that  address  these  challenges:  multiculturalism 
and interculturalism. 

The keynote speaker was Professor Will Kymlicka (Queens 
University  at  Kingston),  who  presented  his  view  on  the 
multiculturalism  versus 
interculturalism  debate.  His 
presentation was followed by a roundtable with Max Weber 
Fellows and open discussion.

2 March 2015
Law and War: An Uneasy Relationship
Organisers: Or Bassok (LAW), Pablo Kalmanovitz (LAW), 
Michal Onderco (SPS)

•	

•	 Are so-called killer robots – machines that can decide 
autonomously  on  the  use  of  lethal  force  –  inherently 
unlawful?
Labeling states as ‘rogue’ does not lead to a change of 
their behaviour. But what if there is a different point to 
such labeling?
If  combatants  follow  orders  approved  by  military 
lawyers, can they still refuse to obey these orders if they 
find them manifestly unlawful?  

•	

•	 Are  crimes  against  humanity  an  extension  of  war 
crimes  or  a  distinct  moral  and  legal  category  in  the 
context of international criminal law?

These and other questions were discussed in the Law and 
War Workshop.

13 March 2015
Mapping Mutual Trust
Organisers: Megan Andrew (SPS), Franz L. Fillafer (HEC), 
Damien Gerard (LAW)

While  mutual  trust  has  been  brought  up  with  increased 
frequency in the European political/legal debate over recent 
years,  the  literature  has  repeatedly  pointed  to  a  lack  of 
conceptualization  of  mutual  trust  as  a  significant  lacuna. 
That  lacuna  reflects  a  difficulty,  that  of  circumscribing  a 
notion that appears to defy easy categorization. As a result, 
discussions of mutual trust in the current EU context tend to 
refrain from defining trust and rather focus on its apparent 
manifestations. The lack of conceptualization of mutual trust 
is problematic because it prevents a systematic discussion of 
the significance and limits of that notion, whereas the Union 
is keen to incorporate within its regulatory mechanisms a 

conclusive  presumption  of  mutual  trust  between  Member 
States and mutual trust has been hailed by the EU Court of 
Justice as nothing else than a ‘raison d’être of the European 
Union’  (Case  C-411/10,  N.S.,  para.  83).  The  workshop 
engaged in a process of ‘mapping mutual trust’ in order to 
inform ultimately a possible rationalization of that notion 
in the current EU context.

24 March 2015
Parliaments and Parliamentary Elections in Europe – MWP-
RSCAS joint conference
Organisers: Cristina Fasone (LAW), Diane Fromage (LAW), 
Zoe Lefkofridi (MW-JM Fellow and University of Salzburg)

How has the role of parliaments – the European Parliament 
(EP) and national parliaments – evolved since the beginning 
of  the  European  integration  process?  What  is  the  current 
state of the art in terms of functions performed and powers 
and  of  their  democratic  elections?  In  pursuit  of  these 
questions,  this  Joint  MWP/RSCAS  conference  brought 
together  scholars  from  different  disciplines  –  history,  law, 
and  political  science.  Such  an  interdisciplinary  reflection 
is  particularly  necessary  now  given  the  tensions  to  which 
parliaments in Europe are currently subject: more and more 
complex decision-making processes between the European 
and  the  national  level;  increasing  rule-making  powers  of 
the executives and administrations; the powers of national 
parliaments under the Treaty of Lisbon; the judicialization 
of  politics;  the  populist  challenge  and  the  role  of  media; 
channels  of  direct  and  of  participatory  democracy;  low 
voter  turnout  and  political  disaffection.  Issues  that  were 
addressed during the conference were:

•	
•	 Democratic 

Parliamentary accountability and its crisis in Europe
elections:  making 

sense  of 

the 

parliamentary mandate
Parliamentary functions

•	
•	 The inter-institutional balance in trouble
Political constitutionalism in the EU 
•	
Parliaments  and  the  control  of  compliance  with  the 
•	
principle of subsidiarity

22-23 April, 26 May 2015
Multidisciplinary Research Workshop on data scraping with 
Python (coorganized by MWP, SPS and ECO)
Organisers: Scott Abramson (SPS), Elena Esposito (ECO)

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Urban Politics, Migration, Diversity
Organiser: Fran Meissner (SPS)

Cities  are  hubs  in  global  migration  patterns  and  arguably 
the place where the most mobile populations meet the least 
mobile.  This  graduate  workshop  aimed  to  bring  together 
researchers  who  are  working  on  issues  linked  to  the  city, 
migration or both. The focus of the workshop was on issues 
related  to  urban  diversity.  Understanding  urban  migration 
driven  diversity  calls  for  dynamic  analysis  of  the  issues 
involved. While some headway has been made with a recent 
diversity turn in the migration literature there is ample room 
to  further  our  understanding  of  the  migration-city  nexus. 
Particularly we face some conceptual and empirical hurdles 
in starting to think urban politics in more complex ways. 

Keynote  speaker:  Fran  Tonkiss  (London  School  of 
Economics, Director of the Cities Programme)

8 May 2015
Constitutions:  How  They  Change  and  Evolve  Through 
Institutional Practice
Organiser: Cristina Fasone (LAW)

in  national  and 
What  role  do  Constitutions  play 
supranational  polities?  How  do  they  evolve  over  time? 
This  workshop  aimed  to  discuss  issues  like  the  legitimacy 
of  constitutional  amendments  and  their  limits,  the  actors 
who drive constitutional change, the constitutional nature 
of  conventions,  the  relationship  between  politics  and 
Constitutions  and  the  actual  functioning  of  institutions 
despite  formal  rules,  within  a  comparative  and  EU 
perspective.

Speakers: Richard Albert (Boston College Law School) and 
former  MW  Fellow  Thomas  Beukers  (Dutch  Ministry  of 
Foreign Affairs and EUI Law Department)

13 May 2015
The  Politics  of  Law  and  Behavioural  Sciences.  Historical 
Contexts and Conceptual Sources
Organisers: Magdalena Malecka (LAW), Franz L. Fillafer (HEC)

The  aim  of  this  workshop  was  to  study  the  relationship 
between  legal  norms  and  the  laws  of  nature.  Intellectual 
historians, 
legal  historians,  philosophers 
and  political  theorists  will  look  at  the  historical  and 

lawyers, 

MWFs Magdalena Malecka and Franz Fillafer in the 
workshop on ‘The Politics of Law and Behavioural 
Sciences. Historical Contexts and Conceptual Sources’

contemporary  dimensions  of  this  relationship.  Today 
‘behavioural regularities’, mainly based on the ‘discoveries’ 
of  the  cognitive  sciences,  loom  large  in  both  policy-  and 
lawmaking. They lend legitimacy to legislation and serve as 
a conceptual resource that permits governments to fine-tune 
their policing of society by adjusting it to citizens’ ostensible 
behavioural  patterns  and  routines.  The  contributions  to 
the  workshop  retrieved  the  recurrent  tropes,  schemes, 
and  modes  employed  in  the  modeling  of  the  relationship 
between  law  and  the  study  of  nature  since  early  modern 
times.  This  historical  reconstruction  of  the  ties  between 
legal  norms  and  the  laws  of  nature  will  enable  us  to  view 
afresh the contemporary dilemmas caused by the reliance 
on cognitive and behavioural studies.

27 May 2015
Aesthetics of Academic Practice
Organiser: Meha Priyadarshini (HEC)

This  workshop  investigated  the  many  ways  in  which 
aesthetics are important to us in our work and in the way 
we  fashion  ourselves  as  academics,  both  at  the  individual 
and  institutional  levels.  The  goal  of  the  workshop  was  to 
use the idea of aesthetics as a means to question what we 
do in society as academics and academic institutions. The 
workshop  also  wanted  to  historicize  the  aesthetic  norms 
that have become entrenched in our practice and question 
their validity.

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26-27 June 2015
The Future of Basic Income Research
Organisers:  Juliana  Bidadanure  (SPS  Fellow),  Robert 
Lepenies (LAW Fellow)

The past three decades have seen the elaboration of a vast 
body  of  literature  on  universal  basic  income  –  a  policy 
proposal  Philippe  Van  Parijs  referred  to  as  a  ‘disarmingly 
simple idea’. It consists of a monthly cash allowance given to 
all citizens, regardless of personal desert and without means-
test.  Basic  income  studies  are  an  example  of  successful 
interdisciplinary research, involving philosophers, political 
scientists, economists and sociologists, among many others. 
Basic  income  proponents  have  identified,  evaluated  and 
deconstructed many potential and actual objections against 
this radical proposal. 

The  one-day  conference  on  26th  June  was  the  result  of  a 
competitive call for abstracts that yielded twenty-two new 
contributions  to  discuss  the  philosophical,  economic  and 
political aspects of the basic income proposals. By pulling 
together  academics,  activists  and  critics,  the  organisers 
aimed  to  identify  what  should  be  on  the  agenda  for  the 
future of Basic Income research.

conferences

In  2014-2015  the  Max  Weber  Programme  organized  the 
following conferences.

9th MWP-ACO Conference
On 26th November 2014 ACO organized a conference titled 
‘Exploring European and National Funding Opportunities’. 
The  Observatory  hosted  representatives  from  European 
and  national  research  agencies  in  order  to  provide  an 
overview  of  various  research  and  funding  schemes 
available  to  both  researchers  and  Fellows.  The  agencies 
highlighted  in  particular  those  opportunities  that  are 
directly aimed at early-career scholars. Delegates explained 
their  programmes  and  offered  advice  and  insights  on  the 
application progress. The meeting included representatives 
from  the  European  Research  Council,  Research  Executive 
Agency; representatives from the national research agencies 
of  the  UK,  Ireland,  France,  Germany,  Switzerland  and 
funding bodies such as the DAAD.

8th JMU-MWP Graduate Symposium
Moving  beyond  the  Crisis:  Internal  and  External  Policy 
Challenges  of  the  European  Union  16  April  2015,  joint 
conference by JMU and the MWP.

On  27th  June  the  conference  was  complemented  by  a 
workshop  discussing  the  new  book  on  basic  income  by 
Philippe  Van  Parijs  and  Yannick  Vanderborght  (under 
contract with Harvard University Press).

The  EUI’s  Max  Weber  Programme  and  James  Madison 
University’s MA Program in European Union Policy Studies 
held their 8th Joint Graduate Symposium.

The  event  was  generously  sponsored  by  a  Young  Scholar 
Event  Grant  of  the  Institute  for  New  Economic  Thinking 
(INET), as well as by the Max Weber Programme at the EUI, 
The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and Prof. 
Rainer Bauböck (SPS), Prof. Arpad Abraham (ECO), Prof. 
Fabrizio Bernardi (SPS), Prof. Hans W. Micklitz (LAW) and 
Prof. Robert Hoekman (RSCAS).

max  Weber  felloWs  reading  groups  
2014-2015

Reading group on Economics and Philosophy
Coordinator: Robert Lepenies (LAW)
The  Reading  Group  on  Philosophy  and  Economics  is  an 
interdisciplinary, friendly, community that meets regularly 
throughout the year. They read and discuss texts from the 
field of Philosophy & Economics very broadly understood.

The symposium gave JMU’s MA students in European Union 
Policy  Studies  an  opportunity  to  present  and  discuss  their 
own  research  with  Max  Weber  Fellows  and  the  wider  EUI 
community, in what was for most of them the first academic 
conference they actively participated in. While the European 
Union  is  gradually  moving  beyond  the  crisis,  symposium 
papers this year discussed the policy challenges that lie ahead, 
such  as:  energy  security,  migration  and  asylum,  counter-
terrorism action, youth unemployment and EU enlargement.

As two institutions promoting academic excellence, the EUI 
and JMU granted an award for the best paper produced for 
the conference. The award was given to the paper after its final 
submission, following the comments of the discussants and 
the Q&A session at the symposium, and further elaboration in 
agreement with the JMU professors. The scientific committee 
was comprised of Eileen Keller, Julija Sardelić, Trajche Panov 
and Chiara Steindler. The award was announced at the JMU 
Commencement Ceremony on 19 June 2015.  

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social issues for social sciences 
10-12 June 2015

The  annual  June  Conference  of  the  Max  Weber  Pro-
gramme  provided  an  interdisciplinary  perspective 
on  cutting-edge  debates  in  research  and  academia.  It 
brought  together  scholars  in  Economics  (ECO),  His-
tory (HEC), Law (LAW), and Social and Political Sci-
ence (SPS). As a forum committed to fostering inter-
cohort academic collaboration and cross-institutional 
exchange,  the  June  Conference  featured  the  work  of 
current Max Weber Fellows (MWFs), former MWFs, 
and  postdocs  who  currently  hold  EUI  Jean  Monnet 
Fellowships  or  Marie  Skłodowska-Curie  grants.  This 
year, the entire EUI Community welcomed Jean Tirole 
and Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff as distinguished speakers.

Organising Committee:
Ylenia Brilli (MWF ECO)
Aranzazu Crespo Rodriguez (MWF ECO)
Cristina Fasone (MWF LAW)
Michael Kozakowski (MWF HEC)
Zoe Lefkofridi (RSCAS-MWF SPS/Salzburg)
Fran Meissner (MWF SPS)
Michal Onderco (MWF SPS)
Martijn Schoonvelde (MWF SPS)
Annika Wolf (MWF LAW)

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Wednesday
10 June 2015

panel 1.1 
the eu post-lisbon and after 
the crisis: challenges for 
the eu, national and regional 
levels of government
The panel aimed to analyse new consti-
tutional developments triggered by the 
Treaty of Lisbon and the legal reaction 
to the Eurozone crisis. Issues like the 
mutation of the constitutional structure 
in the EU, national constitutional condi-
tions posed to European integration, 
the place of the democratic principle in 
shaping national constitutional identi-
ties and the role of regional parliaments 
in the EU were discussed.

Coordinator: 
Cristina Fasone (MWF LAW)

Chair: 
Martijn Schoonvelde (MWF SPS)

Papers:  
Giuseppe Martinico (Scuola Superiore 
Sant’Anna, Pisa), ‘The Constitutional 
Implications of the European Union 
Crisis’

Thomas Beukers (Dutch Ministry 
of Foreign Affairs), ‘The Eurozone 
Crisis and National Constitutional 
Conditions to Institutional Change’

Cristina Fasone (MWF LAW), 
‘Do Constitutional Courts Care 
about Parliaments in the Eurozone 
Crisis? On the Precedence of the 
Constitutional Identity Review’

Diane Fromage (MWF LAW), 
‘Regional Parliaments in the Post-
Lisbon Era’

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labour inequalities and 
migration
This panel analysed the relationship 
between inequalities in the labour 
market and migration. The papers 
focused in particular on questions 
of migrants’ different skills, uneven 
access to legal protection, and 
complicated relationships to other 
workers.

Coordinator: 
Michael Kozakowski (MWF HEC)

Chair: 
Koen Docter (HEC Researcher)

Papers:  
Michael Kozakowski (MWF HEC), 
‘Vectors of Modernity? The Industrial 
Ideal and Vocational Training for 
Migrants in France, 1945-1974’

Gabrielle Clark (Charles Warren 
Centre, Harvard University), 
‘Guestwork on Trial: Who Comes Out 
Ahead When Temporary Migrant 
Labour Goes to Court?’

Emmanuel Comte (MWF HEC), 
‘The Origins of the May 1968 Labour 
Crisis in France’

panel 2.1 
individual attitudes and 
policy in a globalized World
Papers in this panel explored how 
individual attitudes change in 
response to diverse policy challenges 
nowadays. Drawing on a variety 
of material and methodological 
approaches, this panel addressed 
the main questions of individuals’ 
positions towards issues of domestic 
and transnational nature. 

panel 2.2 
governing movement
This panel brought together 
scholars engaging with the rules 
and regulations that are created to 
govern the movement of people. The 
formation of migration regimes, the 
aesthetics of the texts that underlie 
them and the social implications of 
the multiple legalities they result in 
were discussed from different vantage 
points and by spanning a number of 
different case studies. 

Coordinator:  
Michal Onderco (MWF SPS)

Chair: 
Michal Onderco (MWF SPS)

Papers:  
Diego Muro (Institut Barcelona 
d’Estudis Internacionals, Universitat 
Pompeu Fabra), ‘Do International 
Factors Influence Support for 
Secession? EU Membership in the 
Cases of Catalonia and Scotland’

Michal Onderco (MWF SPS), ‘How 
Much Damage Did the Crisis Make? 
A Probe into Foreign Policy Public 
Opinion in Europe’

Phillip Ayoub (Drexel University) 
and Jeremiah Garretson (Stony Brook 
University), ‘Getting the Message Out: 
Globalization, Media Context and 
Changes in National Attitudes toward 
Homosexuality’

Hent Kalmo (MWF LAW), ‘One Size 
Fits All’

Coordinator:  
Fran Meissner (MWF SPS)

Chair: 
Rutger Birnie (SPS Researcher)

Papers:  
Halit Mustafa Tagma (Ipek 
University) and Bezen Balamir 
(Zirve University), ‘EU’s Multilateral 
Engagement on Migration: 
Agenda Setting Through Norm 
Entrepreneurship’

Julija Sardelic (MWF SPS), ‘Circular 
Mobilities and Liminal Legal Statuses: 
Reconsidering Migration of Romani 
Minorities in Europe’

Inés Valdez (Ohio State University), 
‘Sovereign Law and US Immigration 
Enforcement: Punishment, Race and 
the Organisation of Latino/Immigrant 
Exclusion’

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10 June 2015

panel 3.1 
monetary policy and 
financial stability
Using a variety of methods and case 
studies (both within countries and 
across the EU), this panel explored 
the underpinnings, consequences, 
and tools of monetary policy in 
modern economies. 

panel 3.2 
contracts, authority and 
information
This panel used formal principal-
agent models to explore how 
ambiguous information, competitive 
insurance or social protests affect the 
bargaining processes that take place 
with firms and with the government. 

panel 3.3 
knoWledge, authority and 
globalisation
This panel examined the production 
of knowledge in globalised contexts. 
It critically analysed the making of 
scientific authority, particularly its 
relationship to imperial and other 
political forces. 

Coordinator:  
Martijn Schoonvelde (MWF SPS)

Coordinator:  
Aranzazu Crespo (MWF ECO)

Coordinator:  
Michael Kozakowski (MWF HEC)

Chair:  
Lukas Haffert (MWF SPS)

Papers:  
Jan Klingelhoefer (RWTH Aachen 
University), ‘The Renaissance of 
Macroprudential Monetary Policy 
Tools: Evidence from China’

Eileen Keller (MWF SPS), 
‘Negotiating the Future of Banking’

Damien Gerard (MWF LAW), 
‘Beyond Appearances: Making Sense 
of the SSM’s Regulatory Design’

Axelle Arquié (MWF ECO), 
‘Monetary Policy’

Chair:  
Agustin Casas (Universidad Carlos III 
de Madrid)

Chair:  
Franz Leander Fillafer (MWF HEC)

Papers: 
Vitor Farinha Luz (MWF ECO), 
‘Characterization and Uniqueness 
of Equilibrium in Competitive 
Insurance’

Martin Dumav (MWF ECO), ‘Long-
term Contracts with Ambiguous 
Perceptions’

James Cross and Derek Greene 
(University College Dublin), 
‘Tracking Negotiation Flows in the 
Council of the European Union: A 
Social Network Analysis’

Agustin Casas (Universidad Carlos III 
de Madrid), ‘Ideological Extremism 
and Primaries’

Papers: 
Julia McClure (MWF HEC), 
‘Modelling the World: A Brief History 
of the Geopolitics of the Global 
Concept’

Robert Lepenies (MWF LAW) and 
Magdalena Malecka (MWF LAW), 
‘Authority of Scientific Knowledge: 
The Case of the Behavioural Sciences 
in Law and Policy’ 

Thibaud Boncourt (Centre Européen 
de Sociologie et de Science Politique, 
Paris), ‘Does Globalisation Mean 
Knowledge Convergence? A 
Comparative Perspective on the 
History of European Social Science 
Organisations’

Silvana Tarlea (MWF SPS), 
‘Government Composition and 
Higher Education Development: Is 
there a Left-Right Divide in New 
Democracies?’

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panel 4.1 
technology and innovation
This panel explored the transmission 
of technology, patent rights and the 
role of new technologies to understand 
issues such as growth, development, 
political participation or access to 
knowledge and its regulation. 

Coordinator: 
Aranzazu Crespo (MWF ECO)

Chair:  
Gianluigi Fioriglio (University of 
Rome La Sapienza)

Papers: 
David Pretel (Universitat Pompeu 
Fabra), ‘Expert Knowledge and 
Colonialism: Sugar Production under 
American Rule (1900-1930)’

Michalis Rousakis (University of 
Oxford), ‘The Length of Patents and 
the Timing of Innovation’

Martijn Schoonvelde (MWF SPS), 
‘Media Systems and Voter Knowledge: 
An Agent-Based Model’

Gianluigi Fioriglio (University of 
Rome La Sapienza), ‘Freedom, 
Authority and Knowledge On-Line: 
The Dictatorship of the Algorithm’

panel 4.2 
international trade
Globalisation is the process of 
international diffusion arising from 
the interchange of world views, 
products, ideas and other aspects 
of culture. From the beginnings of 
globalisation to modern multinational 
production, this panel explored how 
increased connectivity has changed 
health, growth and the formation of 
political identities. 

Coordinator:  
Aranzazu Crespo (MWF ECO)

Chair:  
Lian Allub (MWF ECO)

Papers:  
Meha Priyadarshini (MWF HEC), 
‘International Trade in the Early 
Modern Period’

Yarine Fawaz (CEMFI), ‘Trade-
induced Mortality’

Aranzazu Crespo (MWF ECO) 
and Marcel Jansen (Universidad 
Autonoma de Madrid), ‘The Role 
of Global Value Chains during the 
Crisis: Evidence from Spanish and 
European Firms’

Lian Allub (MWF ECO), ‘Asymmetric 
Effects of Trade and FDI’

panel 4.3 
the city and its migrants
Cities are hubs for international 
migration and questions of how to 
understand the social and political 
consequences of people moving 
to and in cities are at the forefront 
of migrant research. This panel 
presented three perspectives on 
the nexus between the city and 
its migrants by focusing on the 
complementary issues of citizenship, 
diversity and trade and their role in 
social bonding in the city. 

Coordinator: 
Fran Meissner (MWF SPS)

Chair:  
Julija Sardelic (MWF SPS)

Papers: 
Dirk Gebhardt (GRITIM-Universitat 
Pompeu Fabra), ‘The Role of Cities in 
Regulating Immigrant Citizenship – 
in the Case of Barcelona’

David Do Paço (HEC), ‘The Lucky 
Condition of Being a Foreigner: 
Ottoman Merchants in 18th-Century 
Vienna’

Fran Meissner (SPS), ‘Towards 
Relational Diversity: Rethinking 
Migrant Networks’

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11 June 2015

panel 5.1 
minorities and limited 
citizenship
This panel discussed the causes and 
implications of citizenship rules 
in different national contexts and 
moments in history with a special 
focus on the treatment of minority 
groups and their integration. The 
papers presented addressed problems 
surrounding the recognition, de jure 
or de facto, of limited citizenship 
during war time, under authoritarian 
regimes and in a democratic system. 
The contributions highlighted the 
role of ethnicity, self-government and 
individual and collective rights. 

Coordinator:  
Cristina Fasone (MWF LAW)

Chair:  
Julija Sardelic (MWF SPS)

Papers:  
Valerie McGuire (New York 
University), ‘At the Borders 
of Belonging: Italian Imperial 
Citizenship, Jus Sanguinis and 
Fascism’s Mediterranean Empire 
(1912-47)’

Sofiya Grachova (MWF HEC), 
‘Jewish Health Care and Citizenship 
in Russia through the First World War 
(1914-1921)’

Jean Beaman (Purdue University), 
‘Boundaries of Citizenship: Social 
Marginalization among France’s 
Ethnic Minorities’

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panel 5.2 
determinants and perception 
of inequality
The papers in this panel adopted 
different methodologies to uncover 
how institutional settings, culture 
and historical events contribute to 
redistribution and (the perception 
of) inequality and to provide a 
novel normative framework for 
redistributive justice.

panel 5.3 
fiscal policy
This panel studied fiscal (and 
some monetary) policy using both 
theoretical models and empirical 
data. Questions addressed, among 
other issues, the persistence of budget 
surpluses, the optimal speed for 
economies to reduce their public 
debt and the existence ‘self-fulfilling 
recessions’.

Coordinator:  
Ylenia Brilli (MWF ECO)

Coordinator:  
Martijn Schoonvelde (MWF SPS)

Chair:  
Robert Lepenies (MWF LAW)

Chair:  
Lian Allub (MWF ECO)

Papers:  
Juliana Bidadanure (MWF SPS), 
‘Free to Steal: The Ethics of Social 
Banditism’

Elena Esposito (MWF ECO) and 
Scott Abramson (MWF SPS), ‘The 
Resource Curse in the Long Run. 
Evidence from Nineteenth-Century 
Coal Extraction in European Regions’

Nan Zhang (MWF SPS), ‘Anti-
Corruption Efforts and Public 
Opinion in China: Evidence from a 
Natural Experiment in an Autocratic 
Regime’

Papers:  
Florian Stoeckel (MWF SPS), ‘Left-
wing but Unwilling to Support 
Redistribution? The Case of Public 
Support for Transnational Fiscal 
Transfers in the EU’

Federica Romei (MWF ECO), ‘The 
Need for (the Right) Speed’

Lukas Haffert (MWF SPS), ‘Between 
Distribution and Allocation: The 
Politics of Indirect Taxation Revisited’

Plenary Session
Keynote lecture by Jean Tirole, 
Toulouse School of Economics: 
‘Narratives, Imperatives and Moral 
Reasoning’

 Ramon Marimon (ECO 

Chairs: 
Professor) and Martin Dumav (MWF 
ECO)

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panel 6.1 
Justification and 
implications of War
This panel addressed the interlinked 
relationship between politics and 
international law in the area of war. 
Papers, adopting diverse theoretical 
approaches from both political 
psychology and legal theory, offered 
arguments based both in theory and 
in the rigorous study of historical 
material.

panel 6.2 
youth and family life: 
socialisation and rights
The papers in this panel addressed 
youth and family organization and 
identity creation. By examining the 
choices and strategies youth and 
family members face in light of new 
political regimes or recent migration, 
these papers analysed the production 
of memory, forms of socialisation 
with authorities.

Coordinator:  
Michal Onderco (MWF SPS)

Coordinator:  
Michael Kozakowski (MWF HEC)

Chair:  
Garvan Walshe (MWF SPS)

Chair:  
Michael Kozakowski (MWF HEC)

Papers:  
Pablo Kalmanovitz (MWF LAW), 
‘Regular War, Jus in bello, and the 
Ideal of Limited War’

Papers:  
Sayaka Chatani (MWF HEC), ‘Youth 
and the Dual Peripheries: Okinawan 
Youth and Japan’s Nation-Empire’

Garvan Walshe (MWF SPS), ‘Against 
Revisionist Just War Theory’

Franziska Exeler (Higher School of 
Economics, Moscow), ‘Soviet Justice, 
International Law, and Treason Trials’

Hassan Malik (Toulouse School 
of Economics), ‘The Logic of 
Revolutionary Default in a Globalized 
World’

Diana Georgescu (MWF HEC), 
‘Between Trauma and Nostalgia: The 
Politics of Generational Memory in 
Postsocialist Romania’ 

Can Aybek (Bremen University 
of Applied Sciences), ‘Risk and 
Uncertainty in Migration Processes: 
Transnational Couples and 
Regulations for Spousal Migration’

panel 6.3 
participatory and direct 
democracy in the european 
space and beyond
This panel addressed four important 
aspects related to democratic 
participation: the role played by 
exogenous factors (including weather 
conditions) on voter turnouts; the 
effects of alcohol bans implemented on 
election day; the importance of other 
forms of citizens’ participation besides 
electoral turnout; and the debates 
surrounding local referendums on 
Britain’s European Union membership.

Coordinators: 
Ylenia Brilli (MWF ECO) and Zoe 
Lefkofridi (RSCAS-MWF SPS/
Salzburg)

Chair:  
Zoe Lefkofridi (RSCAS-MWF SPS/
Salzburg)

Papers:   
Akis Psygkas (University of Bristol), 
‘The Participatory Democracy Index’

Eric O’Connor (MWF HEC), ‘We’ll hold 
Our Own Vote: Local Referendums in 
Great Britain on Joining the European 
Community, 1971’

Anna Lo Prete and Federico Revelli 
(University of Torino), ‘Voter turnout 
and City Performance’ 

Brandon Restrepo (U.S. Food and 
Drug Administration), ‘Unintended 
Benefits of Election Day Alcohol 
Bans: Evidence from Road Crashes 
and Hospitalizations in Brazil’

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history of knoWledge and 
social theory
This panel revisited ontological 
and epistemological debates by 
contextualising, locating and 
historicising knowledge production, 
the conceptualisation of law, the 
interpretation of Marxist theory 
and the development of Hobbes’s 
philosophy. 

panel 7.2 
international laW
This panel brought together scholars 
from different disciplines. The main 
focus of the papers researched 
European and international law, 
discussing legal emulation and 
the evolution of legal norms and 
structures concerning international 
business, international politics and 
international relations.

Coordinator: 
Zoe Lefkofridi (RSCAS-MWF SPS/
Salzburg)

Coordinator:  
Annika Wolf (MWF LAW)

Chair:  
Matthew Hoye (Maastricht 
University)

Papers:  
William Carruthers (MWF HEC), 
‘Locating and Materialising 
Knowledge’

Takahiro Chino (MWF SPS), 
‘Marxism in the ‘Periphery’: The 
Cases of Gramsci and Tosaka’

Franz Leander Fillafer (MWF HEC) 
and Magdalena Malecka (MWF 
LAW), ‘Law and Nature: From 
Natural Drives to Behavioural 
Regularities’

Matthew Hoye (Maastricht 
University), ‘Epistemology, Natural 
Justice and Sovereignty in Hobbes’

Chair:  
Migle Laukyte (EUI)

Papers: 
Annika Wolf (MWF LAW), 
‘Forum Shopping for Corporate 
Restructurings in Europe and the US’

Elaine Fahey (City Law School, City 
University London), ‘The Global 
Reach and the Effects of EU Law: 
Text, Forms and Causes’

Adam Bower (University of Oxford), 
‘Towards a Research Agenda on Non-
Party States and International Law’

Geraldo Vidigal (EUI Jean Monnet 
Fellow/Max Planck Institute 
Luxembourg), ‘Global Regulators? 
The Shifting Role of International 
Courts’

panel 7.3 
public support and the 
sources of legitimacy of 
political and Judicial 
institutions
To what extent is public support 
needed for the legitimate operation 
of European and national institutions 
and how has its role changed in 
the EU and beyond? The papers 
presented in this panel tackled these 
questions from different perspectives, 
namely as regards transnational fiscal 
transfers in the EU, the effects of the 
euro-crisis, the relationship between 
Europeanisation and the politicisation 
of debates on European integration, 
and the legitimacy of judicial actors.

Coordinator:  
Cristina Fasone (MWF LAW)

Chair:  
Cristina Fasone (MWF LAW)

Papers: 
Alexia Katsanidou (GESIS - Leibniz 
Institute for the Social Sciences), 
‘Beyond Kriesiland: The Relationship 
between Economic, Cultural and 
European Issues in Europe After the 
European Debt Crisis’

Swen Hutter (European University 
Institute) and Edgar Grande (Ludwig-
Maximilians-Universität München), 
‘Beyond Authority Transfer: 
Explaining the Politicisation of 
Europe in Public Debates’

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plenary session
Keynote lecture by Gertrude Lübbe-
Wolff, Federal Constitutional Court of 
Germany: ‘Transnational Democracy: 
Jeopardised by Judges?’

Chair: Annika Wolf (MWF LAW)

poster session 
Denisa Banulescu (MWF ECO), 
‘Volatility During the Financial Crisis 
Through the Lens of High Frequency 
Data: A Realized GARCH Approach’

Barbara Bottalico (MWF LAW), ‘Law 
and Neuroscience’

Zoe Lefkofridi (RSCAS-MWF 
SPS/Salzburg) and Michael J. 
Donnelly (University of Toronto), 
‘European Integration and Policy 
Responsiveness’

Ylenia Brilli (MWF ECO), ‘Mother’s 
Time Allocation, Child Care and 
Child Cognitive Development’

Antonio Marzal Yetano (MWF LAW), 
‘The Cultural Study of EU Law’

‘Deaf Education – the Rhetoric and 
Realities of the Language of Inclusion’

Or Bassok (MWF LAW), ‘The 
Changing Understanding of Judicial 
Legitimacy’

friday 
12 June 2015

panel 8.1
 education and inequality
The papers in this panel explored the 
role played by schools, institutions 
and families for the development of 
education systems, the achievement 
and acquisition of further education, 
and the integration of physically 
disabled individuals, by drawing 
on a variety of material and 
methodological approaches. 

Coordinator:  
Ylenia Brilli (MWF ECO)

Chair: 
Brandon Restrepo (U.S. Food and 
Drug Administration)

Papers: 
Thomas Raineau (MWF HEC), 
‘Portraying French Academe in the 
Late 1990s: Public Representations, 
Oddities and Inequalities in the 
‘Collection Premier Cycle’

Ruth Kitchen (École des hautes 
études en sciences sociales, Paris), 

Megan Andrew (MWF SPS), 
‘The Difference a Degree Makes? 
Traditional and Non-Traditional 
Credentials in the Intergenerational 
Transmission of Maternal Education’

Ricardo Estrada Martinez (MWF 
ECO), ‘Rules Rather than Discretion: 
Teacher Hiring and Rent Extraction’

panel 8.2 
norms, institutions and 
mechanism design
This panel used formal models and 
experimental data to understand 
issues, such as whistle-blowing on 
corruption, state formation, in-group 
bias and domestic judicial compliance 
with international regimes. 

Coordinator: 
Martijn Schoonvelde (MWF SPS)

Chair: 
Elena Esposito (MWF ECO)

Papers: 
Scott Abramson (MWF SPS), ‘An 
Institutional Common Score of 
National Constitutions’

Moti Michaeli (MWF ECO), ‘From 
Peer Pressure to Biased Norms’

Arthur Dyevre (KU Leuven), 
‘Domestic Judicial Defiance and 
the Authority of International Legal 
Regimes’

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max Weber programme activities
evaluation survey

In April 2015, we conducted a survey among the Max Weber Fellows in which we asked them to evaluate the programme’s 
activities. We then compared this year’s survey results with the results of a similar survey made in the past two years.  This 
section shows some of the main findings of this comparison.

For every cohort of Max Weber Fellows, the MWP organizes a workshop on course design, completion of which is one 
of  the  conditions  for  obtaining  a  Max  Weber  Programme  Teaching  Certificate.    In  2014-2015,  the  workshop  attracted 
Fellows’ interest, reaching the highest participation rate over the past three years (66% of survey respondents). Satisfaction 
with the workshop was also high, with the large majority of those who participated finding the workshop a useful activity. 

figure 13.
Did you 
participate 
in the 
Course Design 
workshop?

figure 14. 
Did you 
consider the 
Course Design 
workshop 
useful?

*The 2014-2015 survey covered the period of MWP activities from 1 September 2014 to 1 April 2015; the 2012-2013 
and 2013-2014 surveys covered the period between 1 September and 1 February of those academic years. 

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 The Max Weber Lectures, another major activity of the programme, were very positively evaluated by Fellows. Up until 
April 2015, the MWP had organized six lectures and the survey results show that the 2014-2015 Fellows considered these 
lectures relevant (19% considered them highly relevant, 26% very relevant and 44% simply relevant). When compared with 
the previous two years, the Max Weber Lectures are gaining in importance. A high percentage of surveyed fellows (84% in 
total) believe that the lectures enhance understanding between the four disciplines.

figure 15. 
Please rank 
the overall 
relevance of 
the Max Weber 
Lectures

figure 16. 
Do you consider 
Max Weber 
Lectures useful 
for enhancing  
multi-
disciplinary  
understanding? 

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The survey also covered other specific activities of the 2014-2015 academic year. The September presentations, in which 
all Fellows give a short presentation of their work, by way of introduction to the EUI community and their respective 
departments, was one such. More than three quarters of the Fellows (76%) attended all the presentations, and Fellows 
also considered them a helpful way to introduce themselves and their research to the EUI community. Compared to the 
previous academic year, the 2014-2015 survey results show a slightly lower attendance at the September presentations, but 
this was nevertheless higher than attendance in 2012-2013. Results also show that a very high majority of Fellows (96% 
overall) consider these presentations useful. A large of majority of the Fellows (90%), the highest in comparison to the past 
two years, were satisfied with the feedback they received on their presentations from MWP staff.

figure 17.

September 
presentations. 
Did you 
participate 
in all the 
presentations?

figure 18.

Did you 
consider the 
format to be 
helpful in 
introducing 
yourself and 
your research 
to your 
colleagues 
and the EUI 
faculty?

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The Thematic Groups, introduced to provide an interdisciplinary forum for Fellows to present their on-going research, were 
also evaluated in the survey. Survey results show that more than half of the Fellows (52%) considered the Thematic Groups 
to be an added value to their Max Weber Fellowship. Cross-group interaction also seem to be very active, since more than 
three quarters of the Fellows (78%) say they had significant intellectual exchange with the members of a Thematic Group 
different to their own. At the same time, Fellows who did not belong to any group appeared to be satisfied, although some 
(20%) who were not members of Thematic Groups felt disadvantaged in comparison to those in Thematic Groups. 

Overall, the 2014-2015 survey results confirmed the expectation that the new element of the Max Weber Programme, 
Thematic Groups, was an especially useful activity for an interdisciplinary exchange among Fellows. Results also showed 
that some of the core activities of the Programme, such as the course design workshop and the Max Weber lectures, continue 
to be highly valued by the Fellows and considered a substantial contribution to their participation in the Programme.

figure 19.

Were you 
satisfied with 
the individual 
feedback 
session 
on your 
presentation 
with Nicky 
Owtram, Nicki 
Hargreaves 
and Laurie 
Anderson?

figure 20.

Do you think 
participation 
in your group 
enhanced the 
value of your 
Fellowship?

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figure 21.

Did you 
have any 
significant 
intellectual 
interaction 
with one or 
more MWFs 
who were not 
members of 
your group?

figure 22.

For “No group” 
members: would 
you have liked 
to be a member 
of a group?

figure 23.

For “No group” 
members: did 
you feel 
disadvantaged 
relative to 
those Fellows 
who were in a 
group?

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max Weber programme academic 
careers observatory

in  March  2007, 

the  Academic  Careers 
Established 
Observatory (ACO) of the Max Weber Programme is now 
in its eighth year of activity. The Observatory is funded by 
the  European  Commission  and,  in  line  with  the  overall 
objective  of  the  MWP,  it  provides  online  information  on 
academic careers in Europe and beyond to early and mid-
career scholars. Using the resources available within the EUI 
and the MWP, the Observatory compiles information for a 
wider  internet  public.  In  a  dual  capacity,  the  Observatory 
also provides a comparative framework for reflection on the 
situation, problems and perspectives of academic careers in 
the humanities and social sciences in Europe and elsewhere. 
As this report on its activity shows, in the year 2014-2015 
ACO  has  expanded  the  way  in  which  it  interprets  and 
performs comparative monitoring of academic careers. 

young and mid-career scholars in the Social Sciences and 
Humanities. The conference, which hosted representatives 
from  the  European  Research  Council  and  European 
Executive  Agency,  was  split  into  three  panels,  running 
consecutively, and covered funding opportunities available 
at  the  European  level,  and  opportunities  available  from 
national funding agencies in the UK, France, Switzerland, 
Ireland, and Germany. 

On  13  February  2015  ACO,  with  the  EUI  Department 
for  History,  co-organized  a  roundtable  at  the  workshop 
on  public  history  and  the  media.  This  roundtable  was 
dedicated to public history as an alternative career for EUI 
Alumni and looked at opportunities for public history jobs 
in museums and exhibitions.

aco Workshops and conference 

testimonials  about  the  Job  market 
experience 

On 19 November, ACO offered an informal workshop on 
funding opportunities for the postdoctoral fellows of the 
European  University  Institute.  The  main  purpose  of  this 
workshop  was  to  provide  the  fellows  with  some  useful 
insights  into  European  funding  opportunities  aimed 
directly  at  early-career  scholars.  Particular  attention  was 
given  to  such  topics  as:  Horizon  2020  and  its  impact 
on  European  funding  schemes  for  early-career  fellows; 
applying  for  Marie  Curie  Individual  Fellowships  and 
ERC  Starting  Grants;  host  institution  support;  and  the 
application review process. Participants in this workshop 
were Rasmus Hoffmann (an ERC grant holder at the EUI 
and  former  Max  Weber  Fellow),  Jelena  Džankić  (Marie 
Curie  Fellow  at  the  EUI),  Andrea  Calderaro,  (Robert 
Schuman  Centre  for  Advanced  Studies  at  the  EUI)  and 
Ingo Linsenmann (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced 
Studies  at the EUI).

A  week  later,  on  26  November  2014,  ACO  organized  its 
annual conference on funding opportunities for young and 
mid-career  scholars.  At  this  conference,  representatives 
from  both  European  and  national  agencies  provided  an 
overview of the available research and funding schemes for 

During 2014-2015, ACO continued carrying out interviews 
on  the  job  market  experience:  interviewees  were  former 
Max  Weber  Fellows  (MWF),  both  early-  and  mid-career 
scholars,  and  of  Fellows  from  the  2014-2015  cohort.  The 
main  purpose  of  these  interviews  is  to  hear  about  the 
Fellows’  experience  on  the  job  market,  compare  these 
experiences  across  countries  and  disciplines,  and  provide 
first-hand  information  about  the  different  job  markets 
to  all  those  interested  in  academic  careers  in  the  social 
science  and  humanities.  The  questions  ranged  from  the 
more general, focused on current trends and characteristics 
in the job market in a given country and discipline, to the 
more specific, concentrated on the details of the application 
process and individual experiences in job interviews. 

Like in previous years, the interviews conducted during the 
2014-2015 academic year cut across all four disciplines, Law, 
Economics,  History  and  Social  and  Political  Science,  and 
documented  job  market  experiences  in  countries  such  as 
Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Austria and 
the  South  American  region.  These  testimonials  are  useful 

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with  one’s  own  experience,  but  they  are  also  a  precious 
source of information for all those who will be on the job 
market  next  Fall.  They  give  a  great  opportunity  to  young 
scholars preparing for the job market to read about different 
experiences  and  Fellows’  tips  on  how  to  best  prepare  an 
application,  do  a  job  talk  or  negotiate  the  conditions  of  a 
new job. Here is, for example, one of the Fellow’s views on 
the job market in Law:

The first thing is that you need to decide where you want 
to live and to apply. The US and Europe are completely 
different,  particularly  in  terms  of  publications.  If  you 
target  a  market  like  the  Italian,  Spanish,  French,  or 
German  market,  establish  and  maintain  a  relationship 
with the existing academic environment. Be involved in 
the research networks and national associations to show 
your commitment to the academic community, and try to 
publish in the respective language. In terms of interviews, 
study  the  place  as  well  as  the  position  which  they  are 
opening. For example, see if they want someone similar to 
whoever they had selected in the past or want to change 
the  profile  of  the  position.  Look  a  bit  at  the  audience 
in  terms  of  the  students  that  the  university  has.  Many 
universities  in  Italy  want  to  be  ranked  in  international 
university  rankings,  so  they  are  interested  in  someone 
who  can  strengthen  the  international  side  of  that 
university in terms of connections with other universities, 
as  there  is  now  an  interest  in  creating  double-degree 
programmes.  So  I  see  a  general  trend  here  in  terms  of 
university  internationalization,  yet  it  is  important  to 
target the specific position.

If you would like to read more, please visit 
www.eui.eu/ProgrammesAndFellowships/
AcademicCareersObservatory/CareerTips/Index.aspx

Webpage updates

During 2014-2015 ACO also carried out updates of its country 
pages. Profiles of the following countries have been updated: 
France,  Austria,  the  United  Kingdom,  Greece,  Norway  and 
Denmark. Croatia, as a new EU Member State, saw its profile 
on  ACO’s  Country  Comparison  webpage.  The  Career  Tips 
section of the ACO webpage was updated with new interviews 
on the job market experience of the new Fellows. Finally, the 
Max Weber Fellows’ map has also been updated, to include the 
current positions of the former Fellows.

plans for 2015-2016

As  it  continues  into  its  9th  year,  ACO’s  research  agenda  will 
become more expansive. In 2015-2016, ACO intends to develop 
its  function  as  a  job  resource  platform.  It  plans  to  enhance 
cooperation with the EUI Researchers and Max Weber Fellows 
through a more regularised feedback process and to strengthen 
the network of ACO collaborators who act as ‘in situ’ observers 
of the evolution of different academic systems.

In December 2016, ACO will organize its annual conference 
on  European  and  national 
funding  opportunities. 
Throughout  the  year,  it  will  also  continue  with  its  regular 
webpage  updates  in  order  to  keep  its  audience  informed 
about  academic  careers  and  research  opportunities  in 
Europe and beyond.

Please visit the Max Weber Programme – Academic 
Careers Observatory website:  
www.eui.eu/ProgrammesAndFellowships/
AcademicCareersObservatory/Index.aspx

figure 24.

Monthly hits 
on the ACO 
web page, 
September 
2014-June 
2015.

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max Weber programme steering 
committee and staff

mWp steering committee 2014-2015

mWp staff 2014-2015

Joseph Weiler, Steering Committee President and 
President of the EUI

Richard Bellamy, Max Weber Programme Director

Veerle Deckmyn, Head of Academic Service, EUI

Brigid Laffan, Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for 
Advanced Studies, EUI 

Pepper Culpepper, Professor in the Political and Social 
Science Department, EUI 

Ruth Rubio Marin, Professor in the Law Department, EUI 

Dirk Moses, Professor in the Department for History and 
Civilization, EUI

Andrea Ichino, Professor in the Economics Department, 
EUI

Richard Bellamy, Director of the Max Weber Programme

Karin Tilmans, Academic Programme Coordinator

Sarah Simonsen, Administrative Coordinator

Ognjen Aleksic, Administrative Assistant

Valeria Pizzini Gambetta, Communications and Social 
Media Coordinator

Tamara Popic, MWP Academic Career Observatory 
Coordinator

Alyson Price, Language Revision and Publishing (Working 
Papers)

Laurie Anderson, Academic Communication Skills 
Coordinator

Diane Fromage, Max Weber Fellow Representative 2014-
2015 

Annarita Zacchi, Italian Teacher

Francesca Grassini, Trainee

Karin Tilmans, Max Weber Programme Coordinator, 
Secretary to the MWPSC  

The Programme also draws on the expertise and 
collaboration of Nicky Otrawn and Nicki Hargreaves, EUI 
Language Centre, and David Barnes (freelance)

MWP Steering Committee

MWP Staff

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2014-2015

2014-2015 Max Weber Programme Fellows

scott abramson  
(american)

Scott received his PhD from 
Princeton University, in December 
2014. His main research interests 
are in international relations and 
comparative politics with a focus 
on state formation and political 
development. From September 
2015, Scott will take-up an assistant 
professorship in the Political Science 
Department at the University of 
Rochester. 

Email: scott.abramson@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of Social 
and Political Sciences
EUI Mentor: Diego Gambetta

activities during max Weber felloWship

publications
‘The Historical Origins of Territorial Conflict’ (with David Carter), revise and 
resubmit at The American Political Science Review. 
‘The Economic Origins of the Territorial State’, revise and resubmit at 
International Organization.
‘Time is Power: The Non-Institutional Sources of Stability in Autocracies’ 
(with Carlos Velasco-Rivera), revise and resubmit at The Journal of Politics. 

Working papers 
‘The Roots of the Industrial Revolution Political Institutions or (Socially 
Embodied) Know-How?’ (With Carles Boix), under review. 
‘The Resource Curse in the Long-Run: Evidence From Nineteenth Century 
Coal Extraction in European Regions’ (with Elena Esposito).
‘Conflict, Cooperation, and Exit: a Mechanism Design Approach to the 
Origins of the State’ (With Jee Seon Jeon).

mWp Working paper
‘An Institutional Common Score of National Constitutions’ (with Michael 
Barber), MWP WP RNS 2015/05.

conference/invited presentations
‘An Institutional Common Score of National Constitutions’ The Southern 
Political Science Association Meetings. New Orleans, Louisiana.  15-19 
January  2015.
‘The Roots of the Industrial Revolution Political Institutions or (Socially 
Embodied) Know-How?’ Bocconi University, 20 April  2015.
‘The Resource Curse in the Long-Run: Evidence From Nineteenth Century 
Coal Extraction in European Regions’ Harvard University 15 May 2015.
‘An Institutional Common Score of National Constitutions.’ Max Weber 
Fellows Conference. Villa la Fonte, EUI, 8 June 2015.
Other Academic Activities/Achievements
Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Award in European Politics and Society 
(American Political Science Association). 

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mohamed-ali adraoui  
(french)

Mohamed-Ali received his PhD from 
Sciences Po, France, in November 
2011. His main research interests are 
in international relations and Middle 
Eastern politics. From September 
2015, Mohamed-Ali will take up 
a thirteen month senior visiting 
research fellowship at the Middle 
East Institute, National University of 
Singapore.

Email: mohamed-ali.adraoui@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of Social 
and Political Sciences
EUI Mentor: Olivier Roy

activities during max Weber felloWship

books
Les islamistes et le monde. Islam et politique et Relations internationales (editor 
and author of introductory chapter), L’Harmattan, Comprendre le Moyen-
Orient, Paris, 2015.

selected publications in refereed Journals
‘Le chercheur, l’évènement et les médias. Du 11 septembre 2001 aux 
révolutions arabes, in Revues des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée, The 
Arab Revolutions: an Event for Social Sciences, n°138, December 2015.
‘Partir au nom de Dieu ? L’exemple de la hijra dans le salafisme français’, in 
Migrations Société, vol.27, n°159-160, May-August 2015.
‘Du Golfe aux banlieues ? Variations sur le thème de « l’islamisation de 
l’Occident , in Pouvoirs, Emirates and Monarchies in the Gulf, n°152, January 
2015, p.123-135.

chapters in books
‘One Islam to Exit Another? How does Quietist Salafism Reflect a Modality of 
Post-Islamism in Contemporary Times? Conceptualizing the Exit of Political 
Islam between Geopolitics and Socio-Anthropology’, in Islamism and Post-
Islamism. Religious and Political Transformations in Muslim Societies (eds Asef 
Bayat and Mehmet Kerbala), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2016.
‘Les mobilisations pro-palestiniennes de l’été 2014 dans le monde arabe. 
Ruptures et continuités à l’heure des révolutions arabes, in Les opinions 
publiques arabes à l’épreuve des révolutions’ (ed. Mohammed El Oifi), Karthala, 
Paris, 2016.

mWp Working paper
Salafism and Power: From Religion to Politics. A History of the Search for 
Orthodoxy, MWP WP RNS 2015/14.

conference presentations
‘Salafism and Power: From Religion to Politics. A History of the Search for 
Orthodoxy’. American University of Beirut, 4th International Conference on 
Social Theory and Thought in the Middle-East-North Africa Region, Beirut, 
Lebanon, April 2015.
‘Costs and Benefits of the Revolution. A Utilitarian Vision of the Arab 
Spring’. Italian Society For Middle Eastern Studies, 12th Annual Conference, 
University Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy, January 2015.
‘Islamism and Islamophobia: the Orientalist Motivations of the Definition 
and Struggle against “the New Totalitarianism”. A French-US Comparison’. 
University of Berkeley/School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, 
International Symposium, EHESS Paris, France, December 2014.

other academic activities/achievements
I organized the visit of Azmi Bishara at the EUI in January 2015. 

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lian allub  
(argentinean)

Lian received his PhD from 
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 
Spain, in September 2014. His main 
research interests are in quantitative 
macroeconomics and international 
trade. 

Email: lian.allub@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of 
Economics
EUI Mentor: Ramon Marimon

activities during max Weber felloWship

mWp Working paper
‘Asymmetric Effects of Trade and FDI: South-America versus Europe’. MWP_
WP 2015/16.

conference presentations
‘Asymmetric Effects of Trade and FDI South America versus Europe.’ 7th FIW 
Research Conference, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna. 
12-13 December 2014.
‘Financial Frictions, Occupational Choice and Economic Inequality.’ European 
Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, CEMFI, Madrid, 15-16 December 
2014.
‘Financial Frictions, Occupational Choice and Economic Inequality.’ 19th 
Conference Theory and Methods in Macroeconomics, Humboldt University, 
Berlin, 26–27 March 2015.
‘Financial Frictions, Occupational Choice and Economic Inequality.’ VI IIBEO 
WORKSHOP, CRENoS LEF Centro Ricerche, Alghero, 20-28 June 2015.

seminar presentations
‘Financial Frictions, Occupational Choice and Economic Inequality.’ 
Macroeconomic Seminar, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 5 November 
2014.
 ‘Asymmetric Effects of Trade and FDI South America versus Europe.’ Macro 
Research Workshop, European University Institute, Florence. 20 November 
2014.
‘Asymmetric Effects of Trade and FDI South America versus Europe.’ 9th Max 
Weber June Conference, European University Institute, San Domenico di 
Fiesole, 10-12 June 2015.

other academic activities/achievements
Awarded the ‘Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado 2013-2014, Universidad 
Carlos III de Madrid’.
Organizer of the Macro Reading Group in the Economics Department.

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megan andreW  
(american)

Megan received her PhD from 
the University of Wisconsin, 
Madison, in August 2009. She is 
a sociologist primarily interested 
in the intergenerational and social 
psychological sources of young adults’ 
educational attainments.  From 
August 2015, she will return to her 
position as assistant professor of 
sociology at the University of Notre 
Dame.  

Email: megan.andrew@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of Social 
and Political Sciences
EUI Mentor: Fabrizio Bernardi

activities during max Weber felloWship

publications in refereed Journals
Megan Andrew. ‘The Scarring Effects of Primary Grade Retention?  A Study of 
Cumulative Advantage in the Educational Career.’  Social Forces 93(2):653-685, 2014.
John Robert Warren, Emily Hoffman, and Megan Andrew.  ‘Patterns and Trends 
in Grade Retention, 1995-2010.’  Educational Researcher 43(9):433-443, 2014.  
Megan Andrew. ‘Effectively Maintained Inequality in U.S. Post-Secondary 
Progress: The Importance of Institutional Reach.’  American Behavioral 
Scientist, forthcoming.

other publications
Megan Andrew and Jennifer Flashman.  ‘Peer Influence on Adolescent 
Educational 
Expectation Formation and Its Tipping Points.’ Revise and resubmit.

mWp Working paper
‘The Difference a Mother’s Degree Makes? The Role of Traditional and Non-
Traditional Credentials in the Intergenerational Transmission of Education’. 
MWP 2015.

conference presentations
‘The Scars of School Discipline? A National Study in the Effects of 
Exclusionary School Discipline.’ American Educational Research Association 
Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2015.  
‘Mapping Mutual Trust: A Conversation with Diego Gambetta.’ Max Weber 
Fellows Mutual Trust Workshop. Badia Fiesolana, EUI, 13 March 2015.
‘Education Policy as Poverty Policy: Promises and Perils.’ Max Weber Fellows 
Poverty Research Workshop. Badia Fiesolana, EUI, 5 December 2014.
Seminar Presentations
‘Reproduction, Mobility, and Inequality in the Intergenerational Transmission 
of Mothers’ College Quality.’  Department of Political and Social Sciences, 
Working Group on Social and Economic Inequality, 11 December 2014. 
‘Peer Influence in Educational Decision Making: A Proposal.’  Max Weber 
Programme, Inequality and Efficiency in Education Thematic Group, 10 
November 2014.  

other academic activities/achievements
Principal Investigator for  ‘The Dynamics of Peer Influence in an Era of 
School Choice.’  This study will combine collected survey data with extant 
administrative data to evaluate how peer networks form under perturbations 
to peer environments associated with school choice policies and resulting peer 
influence in students’ educational evaluations, effort, and achievements.  
W.T. Grant Foundation, March 2015.  $571,629.00 
Spencer Foundation, March 2015.  $49,330.00
Elected to the American Sociological Association’s Methodology Section 
Committee, 2015-2016. 

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 axelle arquié  
(french)

Axelle received her PhD in 
Economics in December 2014 from 
the university Paris 1 Panthéon-
Sorbonne and Paris School of 
Economics. Her research fields are 
macroeconomics, financial economics 
and monetary policy. She received a 
two-year Max Weber Fellowship.

activities during max Weber felloWship

mWp Working paper
‘Bank run, liquidity and shadow banks’. MWP WP RNS 2015/17.

conference presentations
Séminaire CNRS Orléans

max Weber conference

seminar presentations
EUI Economics workshop

other activities
Thesis defence on 5 December 2014

Email: axelle.arquie@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of 
Economics
EUI Mentor: Arpad Abraham

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georgiana-denisa banulescu  
(romanian)

EUI Mentor: Peter Reinhard Hansen
Denisa received her PhD from 
the University of Orléans, France, 
and Maastricht University, The 
Netherlands, in November 2014. 
Her main research interests are 
in financial econometrics, with a 
particular emphasis on volatility 
modelling and financial risk 
measures. From September 2015, 
Denisa will take up a permanent 
faculty position in the Department 
of Economics, University of Orléans, 
France.

Email: georgiana.banulescu@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of 
Economics

activities during max Weber felloWship

publications in refereed Journals
‘How to Identify the SIFIs? A Component Expected Shortfall (CES) Approach 
to Systemic Risk’ (with Dumitrescu, E.I.), Journal of Banking and Finance, 
January 2015, 50, pp. 575-588 
Other Publications
‘Forecasting High Frequency Risk Measures’ (with Colletaz, G., Hurlin, C., 
Tokpavi, S.). Article under review.
‘Do We Need Ultra-High Frequency Data to Forecast Variances?’ (with 
Candelon, B. Hurlin, C., Laurent, S.). Article under review.

mWp Working paper
‘Volatility During the Financial Crisis Through the Lens of High Frequency 
Data: A Realized GARCH Approach.’ (with Hansen, P.R., Huang, Z., Matei, 
M.),  MWP WP RNS 2015/23.

selected conference presentations
‘Volatility During the Financial Crisis Through the Lens of High Frequency 
Data: A Realized GARCH Approach’, 62nd Annual Meeting of the French 
Economic Association, University of Rennes, 22-24 France June 2015.
 ‘Do We Need Ultra-High Frequency Data to Forecast Variances?’, 8th 
Financial Risks International Forum, Institut Louis Bachelier, Paris, France, 
30-31 March, 2015. 
 ‘How to Identify the SIFIs? A Component Expected Shortfall (CES) Approach 
to Systemic Risk’, Annual Doctoral Conference of the Association for the 
Development of Research in Economics and Statistics, Paris Sorbonne, France, 
27-28 February, 2015.  

seminar presentations
‘Volatility During the Financial Crisis Through the Lens of High Frequency 
Data: A Realized GARCH Approach’, Department of Economics, Toulouse 
Business School, Toulouse, France, April 2015.
‘Volatility During the Financial Crisis Through the Lens of High Frequency 
Data: A Realized GARCH Approach’, Department of Economics, ENSAI, 
France, March 2015.
‘Volatility During the Financial Crisis Through the Lens of High Frequency 
Data: A Realized GARCH Approach’, Department of Economics, EUI, 
September 2014.

other academic activities/achievements
Awarded the Fondation Banque de France (in partnership with the French 
Economic Association) 2015 thesis prize. This prize rewards every year the 
best thesis in the field of Money, Financial and Banking Economics. 

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or bassok  
(israeli)

Or received his JSD from Yale Law 
School. His research is focused on 
constitutional identity as well as 
courts’ sources of legitimacy. In his 
recent work, Or examined the conflict 
between courts’ role in articulating 
national identity and their function 
as legal experts; he also analysed 
the effect of the invention of public 
opinion polls, which measure 
public support for courts on the 
institutional dynamics between the 
American Supreme Court and elected 
institutions. His current research 
focuses on the Court of Justice of the 
European Union. Next year, he will 
remain at the EUI to complete a two-
year Max Weber Fellowship.

Email: or.bassok@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of Law
EUI Mentor: Martin Scheinin

activities during max Weber felloWship

publications in refereed Journals
‘South African Constitutional Doctors with Low Public Support.’ 
Constitutional Commentary, forthcoming.
‘Constitutional Law: A Language of Expertise?’. Georgetown Law Journal 
Online 103, 2015, p. 66. 
‘The Court Cannot Hold’. Journal of Law & Politics 30, 2014, p. 1.
‘The Israeli Supreme Court’s Mythical Image – A Death of a Thousand Sound 
Bites’. Michigan State International Law Review 23, 2014, p. 39.

chapters in books
‘Missing in Action: The Unmediated Gaze of the Human Eye’. In Federico 
Fabbrini & Vicki Jackson (eds.). Constitutionalism Across Borders in the 
Struggle Against Terrorism. Edward Elgar Publishers, 2015, forthcoming.

other publications
‘Soundbite Rules’. International Journal of Constitutional Law Blog, Jan. 14, 
2015, at: http://www.iconnectblog.com/2014/12/soundbite-rules. 
‘Manifestly Lawful in the Eyes of the Military Advocate General’. Haaretz, Jan 
10, 2015.

mWp Working paper
Interpretative Theories as Roadmaps to American Constitutional Identity. 
MWP WP RNS 2015/02

conference presentations
‘Interpretative Theories as Roadmaps to American Constitutional Identity.’  
Workshop in Comparative Constitutional Law. University of Milan, 4 May 
2015.
‘The Israeli Supreme Court Changing Source of Legitimacy.’ International 
conference on Judges as Guardians of Constitutionalism and Human Rights,  
organized by the European University Institute, the University of Copenhagen 
and the University of Oslo. EUI, Florence, 6-7 November 2014.

seminar presentations
9th Max Weber Fellows June Conference. EUI, Florence, 11 June 2015.
‘Missing in Action.’ Law and War: An Uneasy Relationship, Max Weber 
multidisciplinary workshop. EUI, Florence, 12 March 2015. 

other academic activities/achievements
Advisor to Professor Ruth Gavison for the report on ‘Constitutional 
Anchoring of Israel’s Vision?’ solicited by the Israeli government. 
Commentator to Professor Dapo Akande’s lecture, ‘Detention in Armed 
Conflict. The Interaction between International Humanitarian’. EUI, Florence, 
30 March 2015.

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Juliana bidadanure  
(french)

Juliana successfully defended her 
PhD from the University of York 
(UK) in September 2014. Her work 
so far has been on egalitarianism in 
theory and practice, and in particular 
on questions of equality between age 
groups. She also has a strong interest 
in basic income and the introduction 
of youth quotas in parliaments. In 
September 2016, Juliana will be 
moving to California to take up an 
Assistant Professorship at Stanford 
University. She will be based in the 
Philosophy department, with an 
affiliation to the Centre for Ethics in 
Society.

Email: juliana.bidadanure@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of Social 
and Political Sciences
EUI Mentor: Sven Steinmo

activities during max Weber felloWship

publications in refereed Journals
Bidadanure, Juliana, forthcoming 2015. ‘Retrospective Essay on Dennis 
McKerlie’s Equality and Time.’ Ethics - 125th Anniversary Issue.
Bidadanure, Juliana, forthcoming 2015. ‘Representing Generations Fairly: The 
Hopes of Youth Quotas in Parliaments.’ Intergenerational Justice Review.
Translated in German: Bidadanure, J. 2014.’Bessere Verfahren 
fur fairere Ergebnisse: Jugendquoten in Parlamenten.’ Journal fur 
Generationengerechtigkeit.

chapters in books
Bidadanure, Juliana, (2015). ‘Better Procedures for Fairer Outcomes: Can 
Youth Quotas in Parliaments increase our Chances of Meeting the Demands 
of Intergenerational Justice.’ in Youth Quotas and Other Forms of Youth 
Participation in Ageing Societies, edited by Joerg Tremmel, et al. London: 
Springer.

blog posts
Bidadanure, Juliana, (2015). ‘Six reasons why the UK parliament should have 
youth quotas’. 
Open Democracy: https://www.opendemocracy.net/juliana-uhuru-
bidadanure/six-reasons-why-uk-parliament-should-have-youth-quotas
Politics in Spire: http://politicsinspires.org/six-reasons-why-the-uk-
parliament-should-have-youth-quotas/

mWp Working paper
‘Basic Income versus Basic Capital: A Temporal Perspective’. MWP WM RNS 
2015/03

conference presentations
June 2015:  ‘The Ethics of Social Banditry’. Minho University VI Meetings on 
Ethics and Political Philosophy (Portugal).
May 2015: ‘The Distinctiveness of Relational Egalitarianism’. Workshop on 
Luck Egalitarianism, Louvain la Neuve (Belgium).
October 2014: ‘Youth-ing Politics: A Demand of Intergenerational Justice?’ 
Oxford Martin Commission for Future generations, Oxford (UK).

selected seminar presentations
‘Basic income versus basic capital: a temporal perspective’, Political Economy 
Research Group, EUI, Political Theory Workshop, EUI, Political Theory 
Thematic Group, EUI.

other academic activities/achievements
Co-organizer (with Robert Lepenies) of the conference The Future of Basic 
Income Research, 26 June 2015.

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 barbara bottalico  
(italian)

Barbara graduated in Law magna 
cum laude and received her PhD 
from the University of Trento in April 
2013. Her main research interests are 
in the field of Law, Science and New 
Technologies. 

Email: Barbara.Bottalico@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of Law
EUI Mentor: Dennis Patterson

activities during max Weber felloWship

books
Barbara Bottalico, Le Neuroscienze cognitive e la libertà personale, Pavia 
University Press (accepted, forthcoming)

chapters in books
Barbara Bottalico and Amedeo Santosuosso. ‘”Not guilty by reason of insanity” 
in the Italian Jurisdiction. A neuroscience revolution?’ B. Bottalico, A. 
Santosuosso in: Law & Neuroscience – Revising the legal standards for insanity. 
Edited by Sofia Moratti and Dennis Patterson. Hart Publishing, 2015.
Barbara Bottalico. ‘Workplace technological innovation: what role for the law?’ 
in The Challenge of Innovation in Law. The impact of technology and science on 
legal studies and practise. Edited by Amedeo Santosuosso, Oliver Goodenough, 
Marta Tomasi. Pavia University Press, 2015

mWp Working paper
‘”Not guilty by reason of insanity” in the Italian Jurisdiction. A neuroscience 
revolution?’. MWP WP RNS 2015/12

conference presentations
Seconda Università di Napoli (Italy), ‘Senza scienza non vi è nè medicina nè 
diritto?’, La Medicina nei Tribunali’, February 2015

seminar presentations
University of Pavia, ‘Robotics and Law’, Law&Neuroscience Winter School, 
February 2015
University of Pavia, ‘Neuroscience and Constitutional Law’, 
Law&Neuroscience Winter School, February 2015.

other academic activities/achievements
On the organizing committee of the Law & Neuroscience Winter School 2015 
at the University of Pavia.
Obtained the Maw Weber Teaching Certificate

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ylenia brilli  
(italian)

Ylenia’s research interests lie in labour 
economics and applied micro-
econometrics, with a special interest 
in family, education and health. She 
received her PhD from the Catholic 
University Milan in March 2013. 
During her PhD, she conducted her 
research largely at the Collegio Carlo 
Alberto and at New York University. 
Ylenia has been a Max Weber Fellow 
in Economics since September 2013 
and, from September 2015, she will 
join the Department of Economics at 
the University of Gothenburg.

Email: ylenia.brilli@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of 
Economics
EUI Mentor: Andrea Ichino

activities during max Weber felloWship

publications
‘Does child care availability play a role in maternal employment and children’s 
development? Evidence from Italy’ (with Daniela Del Boca and Chiara 
Pronzato, FamiliesAndSocieties Working paper 31(2015), forthcoming at 
Review of Economics of the Household. 

mWp Working paper
‘Mother’s time allocation, child care and child cognitive development’, MWP 
WP 2015/03.

selected conference presentations
‘Rethinking the crime reducing effect of education: the role of social capital 
and organized crime’, European Association of Labour Economics Conference 
(University of Ljubljana), 18-20 September 2014.
 ‘Mother’s time allocation, child care and child cognitive development’, XXXIX 
Simposio de la Asociaciòn Española de Economìa, Universitat de les Illes 
Balears, 11-13 December 2014.

selected seminar presentations
‘Mother’s time allocation, child care and child cognitive development’, 
Department of Econometrics and Economics, University of Lausanne, 28 
October 2014.
‘Mother’s time allocation, child care and child cognitive development’, 
Department of Economics, University of Sussex, 9 February 2015.
 ‘Health at birth and parental investments’, Inequality and Efficiency in 
Education and Labour Markets Thematic Research Group, Max Weber 
Programme, 20 April 2015.

other academic activities
Instructor of the course ‘Structural Econometrics: methods and applications 
to Labour Economics’ (PhD level), European University Institute, April-June 
2015.
Member of the 9th Max Weber Fellows’ June Conference (Social Issues for 
Social Sciences Conference) Organising Committee, held at Badia Fiesolana, 
EUI, on 10-12 June 2015.

communication and public engagement
Policy report
‘Investire nella prima infanzia: una rassegna della letteratura’ [‘Why should 
we invest in early childhood? A review of the literature’], with Daniela Del 
Boca, Supplemento alla Rassegna Bibliografica 2/2014, pag. 1-12, Istituto Degli 
Innocenti, Firenze, 2015.

dissemination
‘Perché investire nella prima infanzia’ (‘Why should we invest in early 
childhood?’), workshop organized by Confederazione Generale Italiana del 
Lavoro CGIL (Italian National Union of Workers), Bologna, 23 May 2015.

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William carruthers  
(british)

William received his PhD from 
the University of Cambridge in 
November 2014. His main research 
interests are in the relationship 
between histories of decolonisation 
and the field sciences, particularly 
archaeology, and particularly in the 
Middle East and North Africa.

Email: william.carruthers@eui.eu
EUI Affiliation: Department of 
History and Civilization
EUI Mentor: Stéphane Van Damme

activities during max Weber felloWship

chapters in books
2015: ‘Grounding Ideologies: Archaeology, Decolonization and the Cold 
War in Egypt’, in Elisabeth Leake and Leslie James (eds) Decolonization and 
the Cold War: Negotiating Independence. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 
167–182.

other publications
2015a: ‘The Planned Past: Policy and (Ancient) Egypt’. Egyptian and 
Egyptological Documents, Archives, Libraries 4, 229–240.  
2015b: ‘Review of ‘Unwrapping Ancient Egypt’ by Christina Riggs’’. Museum 
Anthropology Review 9 (2) (online).

blog posts
2015a: ‘Contentious Artifacts, Contentious Histories: Why Histories of 
Egyptology (and Archaeology) Matter’. Routledge Archaeology and Museum 
Studies Blog, 30 January 2015.
2015b: ‘What we are talking about when we talk about Tutankhamun’s beard’. 
The Max Weber Programme Blog, 29 January 2015.

mWp Working paper
‘A Particular Sort of Universal Time and Space: Visualising the Archaeological 
Field in Nasser’s Egypt’. MWP 2015.

selected conference and seminar presentations
2015a: ‘Making Archaeological Expertise in Nasserist Egypt’. Paper given at 
Knowledge Transfer and Cultural Exchanges conference, Portuguese Centre 
for Global History, Lisbon, 15–18 July 2015. 
2015b: ‘Making a Future for the Past: Visualizing the Archaeological Field 
in Nasser’s Egypt’. Paper given at Matières à Penser: Les mises en scènes des 
sciences et leurs enjeux conference, German Historical Institute, Paris, 5–7 
May, 2015.
2015c: ‘A Particular Sort of Universal Time and Space: Visualizing the 
Archaeological Field in Nasser’s Egypt’. Paper given at Material Evidence, 
Visual Knowledge conference, University of Southern California, 30 April–1 
May 2015.

other academic activities
Organised (with Stéphane Van Damme, EUI) the workshop ‘Disassembling 
Archaeology, Reassembling the Modern World’. Held in the EUI Department 
of History and Civilization, 4 June 2015.
Organised (with the EUI Middle East Working Group) the film series ‘What 
Makes Politics? Contemporary Egypt and Political Life on Film’.

service
Representative of Max Weber Fellows in the Department of History and 
Civilization to the Department and to the Max Weber Programme committee.

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sayaka chatani  
(Japanese)

Sayaka received her PhD from 
Columbia University in New York 
in June 2014. Her main focus is 
social history of the Japanese empire, 
but she broadly studies modern 
colonial empires, nationalisms, mass 
mobilization, rural history, and 
history of childhood and youth. From 
August 2015, Sayaka will take up a 
two-year postdoctoral fellowship in 
the Department of History, National 
University of Singapore. 

activities during max Weber felloWship

chapters in books
‘Youth and Rural Modernity in Japan 1900s-1920s.’ In Transnational Histories 
of Youth in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Richard Jobs and David Pomfret 
(London and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015).

other publications
‘Between ‘Model Rural Youth’ and Empire: Social and Emotional Dynamics of 
Youth Mobilization in the Countryside of Colonial Taiwan under Japan’s Total 
War.’ Article under review.

mWp Working paper
From Mobilization to Mobility: The Making of ‘Rural Youth Industry’ in 
Japan’s Northeast Region from the 1900s to the 1920s. MWP WP RNS 2015/01

conference presentations
‘”Model Rural Youth” as a Colonial Order: Mass Mobilization in the Japanese 
Empire.’ Empire in Asia: A New Global History. National University of 
Singapore, 27-28 November 2014.

other academic activities/achievements
Awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship by the National University of 
Singapore for 2015-2017.

Emial: sayaka.chatani@eui.eu
EUI Affiliation: History and 
Civilization
EUI Mentor: Dirk Moses

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takahiro chino  
(Japanese)

Taka received his PhD from 
University College London in July 
2013. He mainly works on the history 
of political thought, in particular 
the thought of Benedetto Croce 
and Antonio Gramsci. He is now 
transforming his PhD thesis on 
Gramsci into a monograph. He has 
just launched his new research on 
global intellectual history. From 
September 2015, Taka will return to 
his fellowship at Waseda University 
in Tokyo.

Email: takahiro.chino@eui.eu
EUI Affiliation: Department of 
Political and Social Sciences
EUI Mentor: Richard Bellamy

activities during max Weber felloWship

book chapters
Takahiro Chino. ‘Gramsci and Tosaka: Religion, Common Sense, and 
Religion.’ In Political Theories in East Asian Context. Edited by Georgio Shani 
and Takashi Kibe. London: Routledge, under review.
Takahiro Chino. ‘Shizenteki Rettou no Hyoushou ni tuite: Gramsci no Bunseki 
kara [Gramsci’s Analysis of the Representation of “Natural Inferiority” of the 
Southerners].’ In Political Philosophy in Retrospect. Edited by S-J. Kang and J. 
Saito. Kyoto: Houritsu Bunkasha, forthcoming.

Journal articles
Takahiro Chino. ‘Croce the Lay Pope: Gramsci’s Critique of the Catholic 
Church and Benedetto Croce.’ Being prepared for submission.
Takahiro Chino. ‘Gramsci and Religion: An Overview.’ Critical Research on 
Religion, forthcoming in 2017.

mWp Working paper
Takahiro Chino. ‘Western Marxism or Marxism in the “Periphery”?: The Cases 
of Gramsci and Tosaka.’ MWP WP 2015/12

conference presentations
Takahiro Chino. ‘Religion and Common Sense: Gramsci’s Critique of the 
Catholic Church.’ Past and Present: Philosophy, Politics and History in the 
Thought of Gramsci Conference. King’s College London, 18 June 2015
Takahiro Chino. ‘Marxism in the “Periphery”: the Cases of Gramsci and 
Tosaka.’ Max Weber June Conference. EUI, 11 June 2015

seminar presentations
Takahiro Chino. ‘Gramsci and Tosaka: Marxism in the Periphery’ Legal, Social 
and Political Theory and the History of Though Thematic Group. EUI, 9 May 
2015

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emmanuel comte  
(french)

Emmanuel received his PhD from 
the Université Paris-Sorbonne 
in May 2014. His main research 
interests are in European integration 
history, migration history, history 
of inequalities, and French 
contemporary history. From 
September 2015, Emmanuel will be a 
second-year Max Weber Postdoctoral 
Fellow at the EUI, affiliated with 
the Robert Schuman Centre and 
the Department of History and 
Civilization.

activities during max Weber felloWship

publications in refereed Journals
‘Migration and Regional Interdependence in the Mediterranean, from the 
early 1980s to the mid 1990s,’ Journal of European Integration History 41 (June 
2015).

chapters in books
‘Les origines de la citoyenneté européenne, de 1974 à 1992,’ in Europe des 
citoyens et citoyenneté européenne. Actes du colloque de Nantes des 14-16 
novembre 2013 (Bern: Peter Lang, 2015).

mWp Working paper
‘The Origins of the May 1968 Labour Crisis in France.’ MWP WP RNS 
2015/13

Email: emmanuel.comte@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of 
History and Civilization
EUI Mentor: Youssef Cassis

selected conference presentations
‘Migration and International Inequalities in France in the 1960s: Preparing the 
1968 Uprising.’ Migration Working Group, EUI, Florence, 24 March 2015.
‘La formation du régime européen de migrations, 1947-1992.’ Seminar 
Migrations: regards croisés, Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre-La Défense, 
Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, 11 March 2015.
‘Reconsidering the 1955 Watershed in the Formation of the European 
Migration Regime.’ International Conference of the European Union Liaison 
Committee of Historians, ‘Peoples and Borders: Seventy Years of Movement of 
Persons in Europe, to Europe, from Europe (1945-2015),’ University of Padua, 
6-8 November, 2014.
‘A European Managerial Staff. The Migration Dimension of the Negotiations 
on the European Company at the Time of the Single Market (1984-1992).’ 
Workshop Business Enterprises and European Integration: A Historical 
Perspective, organized by Youssef Cassis (EUI) and Andrea Colli (Università 
Bocconi, Milan), EUI, Florence, 5 November 2014. 

other academic activities/achievements
Discussant of Panel III Economics and Finance. Conference Southern 
European Socialism in the 1980s, EUI, Oxford University, The London School 
of Economics, Florence, 5 December 2014.
Awarded the Qualification as Assistant Professor in Modern History by the 
Conseil national des universités, Paris, January 2015
Ranked second for the post of Assistant Professor in the History of 
International Relations, since 1750, by the Department of History at Utrecht 
University, Netherlands, May 2015

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aranzazu crespo  
(spanish)

Aranzazu received her PhD from 
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid 
(Spain) in June 2013. Her main 
research interests are in the area of 
international trade, with a particular 
emphasis on the effects of public 
policies on firms’ decisions and their 
impact on aggregate productivity.

Email: aranzazu.crespo@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of 
Economics
EUI Mentor: Arpad Abraham (Dept. 
Economics) and Bernard Hoekman 
(RSCAS)

activities during max Weber felloWship

books
Essays in Trade, Innovation and Productivity (ed. FUNCAS), Estudios de la 
Fundación vol.72 . November 2014.

other publications
Crespo, A. (2015) ‘Reallocation of resources: The driving force behind 
competitiveness’, SEFO — Spanish Economic and Financial Outlook, 4(1), 
January, pp. 47-56.
Crespo, A. , M. Jansen (2014). ‘The Role of Global Value Chains during the 
Great Trade Collapse: Evidence of Spanish and European Firms’, FEDEA 
Working Paper dt2014-09.

mWp Working paper
‘The Role of Capacity and Financial Constraints in Export Dynamics’ (joint 
with Jesus Muñoz Sepulveda). MWP WP 2015/17

conference presentations
16th European Trade Study Group, Munich (Germany), September 2014 
XXXIX Spanish Economic Association (SAEe), Palma de Mallorca(Spain), 
December 2014.
9th Max Weber Fellows June Conference, Florence (Italy), June 2015.
XVI Conference in International Economics, San Sebastian (Spain), June 2015.

seminar presentations
Faculty of Business and Economics of Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, March 2015. 

other academic activities/achievements
Member of the organizing committee of the 9th Annual Max Weber Fellows 
Conference.

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david do paço  
(french)

David earned his doctorate in history 
from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-
Sorbonne in November 2012. His 
main research interests are the socio-
political history of eighteenth-century 
Europe, cosmopolitanism and urban 
worlds and the history of food. 
Already a member of the Institut 
d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine 
(CNRS, ENS, Université Paris 1) 
he joined in December L’Équipe 
Alimentation (Université François 
Rabelais de Tours) as an associate 
researcher. A Max Weber Fellow 
since September 2013, he has been 
developing new research on ‘Empires 
and trans-imperial clienteles in 
eighteenth-century Europe’, especially 
between Central Europe and the 
Ottoman Empire. He is moving on 
to the Central European University-
Institute for Advanced Studies (2015-
16).

Email: david.dopaco@eui.eu
EUI affiliation: Department of 
History and Civilisation
EUI mentor: Ann Thomson

activities during max Weber felloWship

books
L’Orient à Vienne au dix-huitième siècle (Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2015).
Chapters in books
‘A Trans-Imperial Familiarity: Ottoman Embassies in 18th-Century Vienna’, 
in Diplomacy and Culture in the Early Modern World, ed. Jan Hennings and 
Tracey Sowerby (Oxford, forthcoming).
‘Geographical and Social Mobility: Lorenzo Da Ponte’s Career from Gorizia to 
New York (c.1780-c.1830)’, in Theater and Music Circulation in the Eighteenth 
Century, ed. Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, Mélanie Traversier and Charlotta Wolff 
(Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, forthcoming).
‘Échelles d’approvisionnement et aménagements urbains : Les espaces 
portuaires de Vienne, vers 1650-vers 1800’, in L’approvisionnement des villes 
portuaires en Europe XVIe-XXe siècles, ed. Caroline Le Mao and Philippe 
Meyzie (Paris, Presses de la Sorbonne, 2015).

publications in refereed Journals
‘Mobilités et précarités. Lorenzo Da Ponte et les artistes d’opéra, 1770-1820 », 
Diasporas 28 (2015).’

mWp Working paper
‘Viennese Delights: Remarks on History of Food and Sociability in Eighteenth-
Century Central Europe’, MWP WP 2014/23

selected conference presentations
‘An Urban History of Food: The Marketplace in Eighteenth-Century Vienna’, 
First International Conference on History of Food and Food Studies, 
European Institute of History of Food Cultures, 26 March 2015.
‘Picturing Urban Poverty. Categorization and Stigmatisation in Johann 
Christian Brand’s Kaufruf in 1775’, Poverty research workshop organised by 
Julia McClure, EUI, 5 December 2014.

selected seminar presentations
‘Marchands ottomans et commerce du café à Vienne au dix-huitième siècle’, 
IUF seminar ‘Le commerce des denrées, les métiers de l’alimentation et 
l’histoire des produits en Europe’ organised by Philippe Meyzie, Université 
Bordeaux-Montaigne, 8 April 2015.

other academic activities/achievements
Participated in the Franco-German research programme (ANR/DFG) 
‘Euroscientia: localisation and circulation of state knowledge in Europe, 1750-
1850’.
Taught at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and joined the Academic 
staff of its École doctorale d’histoire.
Representative of both the Max Weber and Jean Monnet Fellows to the EUI 
Academic Council.
Received the core fellowship at the Central European University-Institute for 
Advanced Studies (2015-16).

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martin dumav  
(turkish)

Martin received his PhD from 
the University of Texas at Austin, 
USA, in May 2012. After a year of a 
postdoctoral research fellowship at 
Bielefeld University, Germany, he 
joined Max Weber Programme in 
2013. His main research interests are 
in decision theory and game theory. 
From September 2015, Martin will 
take up an assistant professorship 
position in the Department of 
Economics, Universidad Carlos III de 
Madrid (UC3M), Spain.

Email: Martin.Dumav@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of 
Economics
EUI Mentor: David Levine

activities during max Weber felloWship

publications
‘Skorokhod’s Representation Theorem for Sets of Probabilities,’ a minor 
revision requested by the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society.
‘The von Neumann/Morgenstern Approach to Ambiguity,’ a revision requested 
by Econometrica. 
‘Health Insurance over the Life Cycle with Adverse Selection,’ under review.
‘Dynamic Contracts with Ambiguous Perceptions,’ under review

mWp Working paper
‘Dynamic Contracts with Ambiguous Perceptions,’ MWP WP RNS 2015/09.

conference presentations
‘Dynamic Contracts with Ambiguous Perceptions,’ 9th Max Weber 
Programme June Conference, EUI, 10-12 June 2015.
‘Dynamic Contracts with Ambiguous Perceptions,’ 11th Econometric Society 
World Congress, McGill University, Montreal, 17- 21 August 2015.

seminar presentations
‘Dynamic Contracts with Ambiguous Perceptions,’ presented at the 
departments of economics: EUI, 23 October 2014; UC3M, 29 January 2015; 
Koc University, 12 February 2015; Istanbul Technical University, 14 February 
2015.

other academic activities/achievements
Taught an advanced graduate course ‘Topics in Decision Theory,’ at the 
Department of Economics at the EUI, April-May 2015.
Chair of the keynote lecture by Jean Tirole at the 9th Max Weber Fellows 
Conference, 11 June 2015.

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elena esposito  
(italian)

Elena received her PhD from the 
University of Bologna, Italy, in June 
2014. Her main research interests are 
in economic growth and development 
and economic history.  Her current 
research focuses on health and 
tropical diseases. In the academic 
year 2015-2016 she will be at the EUI 
for the second year of her Max Weber 
Fellowship.

activities during max Weber felloWship

mWp Working paper
‘Side Effects of Immunities: the African Slave Trade’. MWP WP 2015/09

conference presentations
‘Side Effects of Immunities: the African Slave Trade’. Workshop: The 
Geography of Civil Conflict: Evidence from Subnational Data, Munich, 
November 2014. 
‘The Resource Course in the Long Run’. Max Weber Fellows Conference. Badia 
Fiesolana, EUI, June 2015.
‘Bite and Divide: Malaria and Ethno-Linguistic Diversity’, NBER Summer 
Institute, July 2015.

seminar presentations
‘Side Effects of Immunities: the African Slave Trade’. Income Inequality and 
Efficiency Thematic Group, EUI, October 2015. 
‘Bite and Divide: Malaria and Ethno-Linguistic Diversity’, University of 
Bologna Macro Seminar, June 2015.

other academic activities/achievements
I participated in the organization of a four-lecture workshop in data-scraping 
at the EUI, attended by researchers and postdocs from all EUI departments.

Email: elena.esposito@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Economics
EUI Mentor: Andrea Ichino and Juan 
Dolado

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ricardo estrada martinez  
(mexican)

I am an applied economist 
working on education, labour and 
development economics. I hold 
a PhD in Economics from the 
Paris School of Economics and I 
graduated from the MA in Public 
Policy at the University of Chicago. 
In my doctoral dissertation, I use 
the centralized admission system to 
public high schools in Mexico City to 
study the general equilibrium effects 
of a change in demand over elite 
schools on school stratification, and 
the causal effect of elite schools on 
students’ expected wages, as a novel 
indication of school value-added. 

activities during max Weber felloWship

mWp Working paper
‘Rules Rather Than Discretion: Teacher Hiring and Rent Extraction’ MWP 
Working Paper MWP WP 2015/14

conference presentations
‘Rules Rather Than Discretion: Teacher Hiring and Rent Extraction’, European 
Winter Meeting of the Econometrics Society, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, 
16 December 2014
‘The Effect of the Increasing Demand for Elite Schools on Stratification’ 
Northeast Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference, 
Boston University, 2 November 2014
‘Rules Rather Than Discretion: Teacher Hiring and Rent Extraction’, Oxford 
Development Economics Workshop, Oxford University, 1 October 2014

seminar presentations
‘Benefits to Elite Schools and the Formation of the Expected Returns to 
Education: Evidence from Mexico City’, Microeconometrics Working Group, 
Department of Economics, EUI, 23 February 2015
‘Rules Rather Than Discretion: Teacher Hiring and Rent Extraction’, 
Microeconometrics Working Group, Department of Economics, EUI, 13 
October 2014

Email: Ricardo.Estrada@eui.eu
EUI affiliation: Department of 
Economics
Mentor: Andrea Ichino

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max weber programme for postdoctoral studies  
vitor farinha luz  
(brazilian)

activities during max Weber felloWship

mWp Working paper
‘Characterization and Uniqueness of Equilibrium in Competitive Insurance’ 
MWP WP 2015/15.

conference presentations
‘Characterization and Uniqueness of Equilibrium in Competitive Insurance.’ 
European Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society. Universidad Carlos III 
de Madrid, 15-16 December 2014.
‘Characterization and Uniqueness of Equilibrium in Competitive Insurance.’ 
Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society. University of São Paulo, 
20-22 November 2014.
‘Robust Dynamic Pricing.’ Conference on Economic Design. Bilgi University, 
1-4 July 2015.

seminar presentations
‘Characterization and Uniqueness of Equilibrium in Competitive Insurance.’ 
Humboldt University of Berlin, December 2014.
‘Characterization and Uniqueness of Equilibrium in Competitive Insurance.’ 
University of Bonn, January 2015.
‘Characterization and Uniqueness of Equilibrium in Competitive Insurance.’ 
Aalto University, March 2015.
‘Characterization and Uniqueness of Equilibrium in Competitive Insurance.’ 
University of Cologne, April 2015.
‘Characterization and Uniqueness of Equilibrium in Competitive Insurance.’ 
University of Toulouse, April 2015

Vitor received his PhD from Yale 
University in May 2014. His research 
focuses on microeconomic theory 
and specially on mechanism design, 
contracts and insurance economics. 
On July 2015 Vitor will start as an 
Assistant Professor of Economics in 
the Vancouver School of Economics 
at the University of British Columbia.

Email: vitor.farinha@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of 
Economics
EUI Mentor: Piero Gottardi and 
Andrea Mattozzi

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cristina fasone  
(italian)

Cristina received her PhD in 
Comparative Public Law from 
the University of Siena in January 
2012 and was Post-doctoral Fellow 
in Public Law in the Department 
of Political Science, LUISS Guido 
Carli University, A.Y. 2012-2013 
before joining the EUI as a Max 
Weber Fellow (2013-2015). Her 
main research interests are the 
constitutional implications of 
the Euro-crisis, in particular on 
parliaments and on Constitutional 
Courts, the role of national and 
regional parliaments within the 
EU decision-making process, and 
legislatures and forms of government 
in comparative perspective. As of 
September 1, 2015, she will be an 
Assistant Professor of Comparative 
Public Law at the LUISS Guido Carli 
University in Rome, Department of 
Political Science

Email: cristina.fasone@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of Law
EUI Mentor: Loïc Azoulai

activities during max Weber felloWship

selected publications in refereed Journals
Cristina Fasone and Nicola Lupo, ‘Transparency vs. Informality in Legislative 
Committees. Comparing the U.S. House of Representatives, the Italian 
Chamber of Deputies and the European Parliament’. The Journal of Legislative 
Studies, 21(3), 2015, p. 342-359.
‘Regional legislatures in the early warning mechanism. When the national 
(constitutional) identity affects the cooperation among parliaments in EU 
affairs’, Federalismi.it, no. 2, 28 January 2015, p. 2-30.

mWp Working paper
‘Do Constitutional Courts Care about Parliaments in the Euro-Crisis? On the 
Precedence of the Constitutional Identity Review’ MWP 2015.

selected conference presentations 
 ‘The Implications of the Euro-Crisis Law on the Relationship between 
Constitutional Courts and Parliaments in a Comparative Perspective’, Cels 
Lunchtime Seminar Series, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 29 
October 2014.
‘Constitutional Review and Powers of National Parliaments in EU Affairs: 
Erosion or Protection?’ (with Nicola Lupo), Resilience or Resignation? 
National Parliaments and the EU Conference, LSE & British Academy, 
London, 10 April 2015.

other academic activities at the eui
On 24 March 2015, co-organiser with Diane Fromage and Zoe Lefkofridi of 
the Joint MWP and RSCAS Multidisciplinary Conference on ‘Parliaments and 
Parliamentary Elections in Europe’. 
On 21 April 2015, interview with Antonio Marzal Yetano of Prof. Grainne 
De Búrca (NYU), before her Max Weber Lecture on ‘Reframing International 
Human Rights Regimes’. 
On 8 May 2015 organiser of the MWP Multidisciplinary Research Workshop 
on ‘Constitutions. How They Change and Evolve Through Institutional 
Practice’.
On 10-12 June 2015, co-organiser of the 9th MW Fellows June Conference on 
‘Social Issues for Social Sciences’.
Coordinator (with Thomas Beukers and Marijn van der Sluis) of the EUI Law 
Department Research Project 2013-2015 on ‘Constitutional Change through 
Euro-Crisis Law’. Since 1 June 2015 member of the EUI Law Team of the 
Horizon 2020 Project (WP4) - A Dynamic Economic and Monetary Union 
Project (Director, Ramon Marimon).

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max weber programme for postdoctoral studies franz leander fillafer  
(austrian)

Franz Fillafer’s PhD, awarded by 
the University of Konstanz, dealt 
with the Enlightenment and its 
legacies in the Habsburg lands 
(1780s-1840s). During his stay at 
the EUI he participated in a number 
of stimulating interdisciplinary 
workshop formats and informal 
discussion groups that created 
a highly fertile and creative 
environment. This was particularly 
conducive to his interest in the 
history of science and scholarship, in 
the relationship between normative 
vocabularies and conceptual 
change, as well as in contemporary 
lawmaking, its epistemological 
butress and sociopolitical corollaries. 

Email: Franz.Fillafer@eui.eu
EUI Affiliation: HEC
EUI Mentor: Pieter M. Judson

activities during max Weber felloWship

books
Franz Leander Fillafer, Thomas Wallnig (eds.), Josephinismus zwischen den 
Regimen. Eduard Winter, Fritz Valjavec und die zentraleuropäischen Historiog-
raphien im 20. Jahrhundert, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar: Böhlau 2015, 373 pp., 
appendices, index.
Franz Leander Fillafer, Johannes Feichtinger, Jan Surman (eds.), The Worlds 
of Positivism. A Global Intellectual History (1770-1940), New York, London: 
Palgrave Macmillan 2016, forthcoming.

publications in refereed Journals  
‘Auszug aus Cambridge’, in: Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte IX/1 (2015), 115-118. 

chapters in peer-revieWed books (selection)
‘Hermann Bonitz. Philologe, Mitschöpfer der Universitätsreform’, in: Mitchell 
G. Ash, Josef Ehmer (eds.), Die Universität Wien als Ort der Politik seit 1848, 
vol. 1 of Universität, Politik, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft (650 Jahre Universität 
Wien, vol. 2). Göttingen, Vienna: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht University Press 
2015, 47-53.

selected other publications 
‘Europa jenseits der Vaterländer. Romain Rolland und Stefan Zweig: Briefe 
einer Freundschaft’, in: Die Presse, 20 March 2015.
‘Kugelblitz. Günther Sandners profunde Biographie des Universalintellektuellen 
und Demokraten Otto Neurath’, in: Die Presse, 5 June 2015. 

mWp Working paper
‘Integration Through Cooperation: the Case of the Banking Union’, MWP 2015
‘Mapping Mutual Trust – Understanding and Informing the Role of Mutual 
Trust in EU Law’, MWP 2015 (with Evelien Brouwer, Franz Fillafer, Ioannis Li-
anos, Valsamis Mitsilegas, Madalina Moraru, Eva Storskrubb and Jukka Snell)

selected conference presentations 
The Promise and Perils of ‘Big History’ (Rejoinder to David Armitage), EUI, 
Colloquium of the Department of History and Civilization, 20 May 2015.
Legal Norms and the Laws of Nature (with Magdalena Małecka), Multidisci-
plinary Research Workshop ‘The Politics of Law and the Behavioural Sciences. 
Historical Contexts and Conceptual Sources’ organized by Magdalena Małecka 
and myself, EUI, Max Weber Programme, 13 May 2015.
Mutual Trust in the History of Ideas (with Ann Thomson), at the Multidiscipli-
nary Research Workshop ‘Mapping Mutual Trust’, organized by Damien Gerard, 
Megan Andrew, and myself, EUI, Max Weber Programme, 13 March 2015.

other academic activities/achievements
Appointed to the editorial board of De Gruyter’s Literatur und Geschichte 
series
Interviews with Österreich 1, Der Standard, Hospodářské noviny.

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diane fromage  
(french)

Diane received her PhD from the 
University of Pavia, Italy and from 
the Pompeu Fabra University of 
Barcelona, Spain (co-tutelle) in 
November 2013. Her main research 
interests are in the role of national 
and regional parliaments in the EU, 
interparliamentary cooperation 
and more largely democracy in 
the European integration process. 
Diane is starting a lectureship in 
European and international law at the 
University of Utrecht on 1 September.

activities during max Weber felloWship

books
Diane Fromage. Les parlements allemands, britanniques, espagnols, français 
et italiens dans l’Union Européenne après le Traité de Lisbonne. Paris : 
L’Harmattan, forthcoming.

publications in refereed Journals
Fromage, Diane. ‘Le Haut Conseil des Finances Publiques: Quelles 
conséquences deux ans après sa création ?’ [The High Council of Public 
Finances: what consequences two years after its creation?], Revue de droit 
public, forthcoming.
Fromage, Diane. ‘National parliaments and governmental accountability in 
the crisis: theory and practice’. Special issue edited by G. Martinicco on ‘The 
Never-Ending Reform of the EU: Another Chain in the Semi Permanent 
Treaty Revision Process?’, Perspectives on Federalism, 3, 149-171. 2014.
Selected Chapters in Books 
Fromage, Diane. ‘Regional parliaments and the Early Warning System’. In 
National and Regional Parliaments in the EU legislative procedure after Lisbon: 
the impact of the Early Warning Mechanism. Edited by Anna Jonsson Cornell 
and Marco Goldoni, Oxford: HART Publishing, forthcoming.
Fromage, Diane. ‘Standing committees in interparliamentary cooperation in 
the post-Lisbon era. Towards the end of the European Affairs Committees’ 
predominance?’. In Interparliamentary cooperation in the composite European 
Constitution. Edited by Cristina Fasone and Nicola Lupo. Oxford: HART 
Publishing, forthcoming.

Email: diane.fromage@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of Law
EUI Mentor: Bruno de Witte

mWp Working paper
‘Standing committees in interparliamentary cooperation’, MWP WP RNS 
2015/15

selected conference presentations 
‘Towards a (too extensive?) diversification of the forums for 
interparliamentary cooperation in an always more diverse European Union’ 
in the framework of the 4th annual Conference of the Cambridge Journal of 
International and Comparative Law, 9 May 2015.
‘Executive accountability to national parliaments in EU affairs’ in the 
framework of the Conference ‘Resilience or Resignation: National parliaments 
and the EU’. London School of Economics and Political Sciences, 10 April 
2015.

other academic activities/achievements
Representative of the MW Fellows.
Member of the MW Steering Committee
Co-organiser of a MWP/RSCAS multidisciplinary conference on ‘Parliaments 
and parliamentary elections in Europe’, EUI, 24 March 2015.

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diana georgescu  
(romanian, american)

Diana earned her PhD in modern 
European history at the University 
of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. Her 
research interests revolve around 
the history of the Cold War, the 
transnational history of childhood 
and youth, memory studies, gender 
history, and comparative nationalism. 
Diana will be taking up a lecturer 
position in Transnational Southeast 
European Studies at the School of 
Slavonic and East European Studies at 
University College London. 

Email: Diana.georgescu@eui.eu
EUI Affiliation: History and 
Civilization
EUI Mentor: Pavel Kolar

activities during max Weber felloWship

books
‘Ceauçescu’s Children:’ The Making and Unmaking of Romania’s Last Socialist 
Generation (1965-2010) (book manuscript in preparation)
Publications in Refereed Journals
‘Between Trauma and Nostalgia: The Intellectual Ethos and Generational 
Dynamics of Memory in Postsocialist Romania,’ Südosteuropa. Zeitschrift für 
Politik und Gesellschaft (Special issue, ‘Living After the Fall’), forthcoming 
winter 2015.

other publications
‘Remembering Communism After the Fall: Memory and Oral History in 
Postsocialist Romania,’ In Perspectives on Europe, Spring 2015, 54:1.

mWp Working paper
‘Performing Socialist Citizenship in Nicolae Ceaușescu’s Romania (1965-
1989).’ MWP WP RNS 2015/20.

selected conference presentations
‘Between Trauma and Nostalgia: The Politics of Generational Memory in 
Postsocialist Romania,’ Max Weber Fellows June Conference, 10-12 June, 
Florence, Italy.
‘The Limits of Socialist Internationalism: Romanian Youth and Transnational 
Encounters During the Cold War,’ University of Amsterdam, 7 May 2015.
‘The Socialist Nerd: Youth, Ideology and Cultured Life in Late Socialist 
Romania,’ Rethinking Modern Europe Seminar, Institute of Historical 
Research, University of London, 28 January 2015. 
Teaching
Co-instructor (with Prof. Pavel Kolar), PhD seminar ‘Resistance in Modern 
Europe,’ European University Institute, Florence, Spring 2015.

selected seminar presentations
‘Internationalism without Contamination? Youth Exchanges and Cultural 
Diplomacy in the Late Cold War,’ Thematic MW seminar: Citizenship and 
Migration, European University Institute, May 2015.
‘Marrying into the European Family of Nations: National Disorder and Upset 
Gender Roles in Post-Communist Romanian Film,’ PhD Seminar: Gender and 
Sexuality Across the Disciplines, European University Institute, March, 2015.

other academic activities/achievements
Discussant for Alan Confino (University of Virginia), ‘The Warm Sand of 
the Coast of Tantura: History and Memory in Israel after 1948,’ History 
Department Colloquium, February, 2015.
Awarded a one-year junior faculty fellowship by the Institute for Historical 
Research, Ohio State University, United States for 2015/2016.  

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 damien gerard  
(belgian)

Damien received his PhD from the 
University of Louvain, Belgium, 
in December 2014. His main 
research interests are in the theory 
of European integration, EU 
constitutional law, EU competition 
and internal market law. From 
September 2015, Damien will be 
lecturing at the University of Louvain 
and at the College of Europe, and will 
concurrently act as the director of 
the Global Competition Law Centre, 
a research centre affiliated with the 
College of Europe, while practicing 
law in Brussels.

Email: damien.gerard@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of Law
EUI Mentor: Giorgio Monti

activities during max Weber felloWship

books
Cases and Materials on European Union Law, West Academic Publishing, 2015, 
1520 p. (with Roger J. Goebel, Eleanor M. Fox, George A. Bermann, Jeffery 
Atik and Frank Emmert)
Le droit belge et européen de la concurrence, Wolters Kluwer, 2016. (with J. 
Marchandise)

selected chapters in books
‘L’application du droit de la concurrence par les autorités belges: un alignement 
parfait entre droit belge et européen ?’ in N. Cariat and J. Nowak (eds.), 
L’application du droit de l’Union européenne par les juridictions belges/De 
toepassing van het recht van de Europese Unie door de Belgische rechter, Larcier, 
2015.  

mWp Working paper
‘Integration Through Cooperation: the Case of the Banking Union’, MWP 2015
‘Mapping Mutual Trust – Understanding and Informing the Role of Mutual 
Trust in EU Law’, MWP 2015 (with Evelien Brouwer, Franz Fillafer, Ioannis 
Lianos, Valsamis Mitsilegas, Madalina Moraru, Eva Storskrubb and Jukka 
Snell)

conference presentations
‘The object/effect dichotomy and the quest for convergence’, 20th EU 
Competition Law & Policy Workshop, Badia Fiesolana, EUI, 5 June 2015. 
‘Beyond Appearances: Making Sense of the SSM’s Regulatory Design’, Max 
Weber Fellows Conference, Badia Fiesolana, EUI, 10 June 2015.

selected seminar presentations
 ‘Article 101 TFUE: Object/Effect – Enseignements de l’arrêt C-67/13P, 
Groupement des cartes bancaires’, Autorité belge de la concurrence, 9 
December 2014.

other academic activities/achievements
Coordinator of a Max Weber Multidisciplinary Research Workshop on 
‘Mapping Mutual Trust’, EUI, 13 March 2015. 
Teaching Exchange, London School of Economics, 2-6 March 2015.
Awarded the EUI Teaching Training Certificate, June 2015. 
Discussant, Competition Law and Economics European Network 2015 
Workshop, Tilburg University, 28-29 May 2015. 
Discussant, EUI Competition Doctoral Workshop, 23 February 2015. 
Discussant, Private Law Forum of Doctoral Researchers, EUI, 5 February 
2015.
Director of the Global Competition Law Center (GCLC), College of Europe. 
Editor of the Revue du droit de la concurrence belge/Tijdschrift voor Belgische 
Mededingingsrecht.

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max weber programme for postdoctoral studies sofiya grachova  
(ukrainian)

Sofiya Grachova received her PhD 
in History from Harvard University 
in 2014. Her research interests 
include the history of the Western 
borderlands of the Russian empire, 
Jewish history and the social history 
of science. Currently she has been 
working on her book manuscript, 
Pathologies of Civility: Russian 
Jews, Health, Race and Citizenship, 
1830-1930. In 2015-2016, she will 
hold a visiting fellowship at the Jack, 
Joseph and Morton Mandel Center 
for Advanced Holocaust Studies (the 
United States Holocaust Memorial 
Museum). 

Email: sofiyagrachova@gmail.com
EUI Affiliation: Department of 
History and Civilization
EUI Mentor: Alexander Etkind

activities during max Weber felloWship

publications in refereed Journals
‘The Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish Population and the 
Struggle for Jewish National Autonomy in Russia (1912-1918),’ to be submitted 
to Jewish Social Studies.

mWp Working paper
‘Between History and Nature: Mendelism and the Concept of Jewish ‘Race’ in 
Russian Medicine, 1900-1930,’ MWP WP RNS 2015/04.

conference presentations
‘Jewish Health Care and Citizenship in Russia through the First World War 
(1914-1921).’ Social Issues for Social Sciences. Ninth Max Weber Fellows’ June 
Conference, 10-12 June 2015.
‘Mission Impossible? Ukrainian-Jewish History Writing in Soviet Ukraine 
(1920s).’ Jews and ‘Small Nations’ in Eastern Europe: Cultural Autonomy 
and Nation-building in the Western Borderlands of Russia (1905-1939). 
International workshop, University of Southampton / Parkes Institute, 1-2 July 
2015.

seminar presentations
‘Health, Race, and the Jewish Question in Russia, 1830-1930,’ Soviet and Post-
Soviet Studies Working Group, Department of History and Civilization, 9 
December 2014.
‘In the Empire or of the Empire? Jews, Nationalism and Russian Imperial 
History,’ Workshop ‘Jews between Assimilation and Nationalism in Historical 
Perspective,’ Department of History and Civilization, European University 
Institute, 4 May 2015.

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lukas haffert  
(german)

Lukas received his PhD from the 
Max Planck Institute for the Study 
of Societies in Cologne, Germany, 
in July 2014. His main research 
interests are in comparative political 
economy, fiscal policy, and historical 
institutionalism. From July 2015, 
Lukas will take-up a position as 
senior researcher at the Department 
of Political Science at the University 
of Zurich, Switzerland.

activities during max Weber felloWship

publications in refereed Journals
Haffert, Lukas and Philip Mehrtens (2015): ‘From Austerity to Expansion? 
Consolidation, Budget Surpluses, and the Decline of Fiscal Capacity’. 
Politics&Society 43 (1), 119-148
Haffert, Lukas and Philip Mehrtens (2014): ‘Haushaltsüberschüsse, 
konservative Parteien und das Trilemma der Fiskalpolitik’. Politische 
Vierteljahresschrift 55 (4), 699-724
Haffert, Lukas and Philip Mehrtens (2014): ‘Haushaltsüberschüsse und ihre 
Verwendung: Wiedergewinnung staatlicher Handlungsfähigkeit?’ Zeitschrift 
für Staats- und Europawissenschaften, 12(2-3), 210-241.

mWp Working paper
‘Permanent Budget Surpluses as a Fiscal Regime’, MWP WP 2015/10.

conference presentations
‘Permanent Budget Surpluses as a Fiscal Regime.’ ECPR Joint Sessions, 
University of Warsaw, 30 March-2 April 2015.
‘Between Distribution and Allocation: The Politics of Indirect Taxation 
Revisited.’ Max Weber Fellows Conference. European University Institute, 11 
June 2015.

other academic activities/achievements
Awarded the Otto Hahn Medal for outstanding scientific achievements by the 
Max Planck Society.

Email: lukas.haffert@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of Social 
and Political Sciences
EUI Mentor: Pepper Cuplpepper

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pablo kalmanovitz  
(colombian)

Pablo Kalmanovitz received his PhD 
in Political Science from Columbia 
University. Before coming to the 
EUI, he was ACLS New Faculty 
Fellow in the Political Science 
Department at Yale University. His 
main research interests are in the 
history of political and legal thought 
and in contemporary international 
political theory. He is currently 
completing a book manuscript on the 
history of the concept of regular war 
in international law. Starting in the 
fall of 2015, Pablo will be associate 
professor in the Political Science 
Department at the Universidad de los 
Andes in Bogotá, Colombia.

Email: pablo.kalmanovitz@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: LAW
EUI Mentor: Nehal Bhuta

activities during max Weber felloWship

publications in refereed Journals
‘Aggression and the Symmetrical Application of International Humanitarian 
Law.’  International Theory 7(1): 1-32.

chapters in books
‘Judgment, Liability, and the Risk of Riskless Warfare.’ In Autonomous 
Weapons Systems: Law, Ethics, Policy. Edited by Nehal Bhuta, Susanne Beck, 
Robin Geiss, Claus Kress and Hin Yan Liu. Cambridge University Press, 
forthcoming.
‘Early Modern Sources of the Regular War Tradition: Grotius to Vattel.’ In The 
Oxford Handbook of Ethics and War. Edited by Seth Lazar and Helen Frowe. 
Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
‘Compensation and Land Restitution in Transitions from War to Peace.’ In 
Rationality, Democracy, and Justice: The Legacy of Jon Elster. Edited by Claudio 
Lopez-Guerra and Julia Maskivker. Cambridge University Press, 2014.

other publications
Regular War: Law and Armed Force in the History of International Thought. 
Book manuscript under review. 
‘On the Rights of Warlords: Legitimate Authority and Basic Protection in War-
Torn Societies.’ Article under review (co-authored with Rob Blair).

mWp Working paper
‘Early Modern Critics of Just War: Wolff, Vattel and the Turn to Diplomatic 
Reason.’ MWP WP RNS  2015/19.

conference presentation
‘Regular Warfare and its Antinomies.’ ECPR General Conference, Université 
de Montréal. 26-29 August, 2015.

seminar presentations
‘Regular war, ius in bello, and the Ideal of Limited War.’ Workshop on the 
History of International Law. Law Department, European University Institute. 
8 June 2015.
‘Judgment, Liability, and the Risk of Riskless Warfare.’ Workshop on Law and 
War: An Uneasy Relationship. MWP, European University Institute, 12 March 
2015.
‘On the Rights of Warlords.’ International Relations Working Group. SPS 
Department, European University Institute. 28 January 2015.
‘Intellectual Origins of Regular Warfare.’ International Relations Colloquium. 
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 17 December 2014.
‘Reparations for war damages.’ Transitional Justice Colloquium. Minerva 
Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Law School, 14 December 2014.

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 hent kalmo  
(estonian)

Hent wrote his PhD in the Faculty of 
Law of the University Paris-Ouest. 
His main research interests are in 
constitutional law, international law, 
and legal theory. In the academic year 
2015-2016, Hent will be lecturing on 
legal theory and constitutional law in 
the Faculty of Law of the University 
of Tartu.   

Email: hent.kalmo@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of Law
EUI Mentor: Dennis Patterson

activities during max Weber felloWship

chapters in books
Anneli Albi and Hent Kalmo. ‘Estonia: From Principles to Pragmatism.’ 
In National Constitutions and EU Integration. Edited by Stefan Griller and 
Monica Claes, forthcoming.

other publications
‘From Politics to Law: the Decisive Moment.’ Article under review.
‘Framing Judges: Apology and Utopia in the Pure Theory of Hans Kelsen.’ 
(article under review)
‘The Unanticipated Consequences of EU Law’ (in Estonian) Juridica, no 2, 
2015.
‘Utopian Estonia’ (in Estonian) Vikerkaar, 10-11, 2014. 

mWp Working paper
‘From Politics to Law: the Decisive Moment’, MWP WP RNS 2015/10.

conference presentations
‘The Unanticipated Consequences of European Union Law’. Keynote speech at 
the 33th Conference of the Estonian Bar Association. Tartu, 2 October 2014.
‘History as Amplification’. Workshop on Truth and Proof: Thinking 
Historically with Carlo Ginzburg, Tallinn University, 18 September 2014. 
‘How to make one size fit all: reconciling pluralism with the EU common 
fundamental rights standard.’ Max Weber Fellows Conference. Villa la Fonte, 
EUI, 10 June 10 2015.

other academic activities/achievements
2015 The Essay Prize of the Enn Soosaar Memorial Foundation, for best essay
published in Estonian in 2014 (for ‘Utopian Estonia’, Vikerkaar, 10-11, 2014).

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eileen keller  
(german)

Eileen received her PhD from 
Humboldt University, Berlin in 
December 2014 with a dissertation 
on the politics of banking regulation 
and corporate finance reform after 
the financial crisis. Her main research 
interests are in international and 
comparative political economy, 
European integration and multilevel 
governance. From September 
2015 onwards, Eileen will take up 
a permanent research position at 
the Franco-German Institute in 
Ludwigsburg, Germany. 

Email Eileen.Keller@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of Social 
and Political Sciences
EUI Mentor: Pepper Culpepper

activities during max Weber felloWship

publications in refereed Journals
‘Europe and the Governance of Global Finance’, edited by Daniel Mügge, book 
review, Journal of Common Market Studies, forthcoming.

Work in progress
‘To replace or not bank lending? Collective learning in France and Germany 
after the financial crisis.’ Draft article.
‘Ensuring the availability of patient capital: The role of insurers.’ Draft article. 

mWp Working paper
‘Forging a new SME-compromise. Lobbying success and business influence 
after the financial crisis.’ MWP 2015.

conference presentations
‘To replace or not bank lending? Collective learning in France and Germany 
after the financial crisis.’ SASE 27th Annual Conference, London, 2-4 July, 
2015.
‘Forging a new SME-compromise. Lobbying success and business influence 
after the financial crisis.’ ECPR General Conference, Montreal, 26-29 August, 
2015. 

seminar presentations and talks
‘Forging a new SME-compromise. Lobbying success and business influence 
after the financial crisis.’ Presentation for the Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa 
Research Group, EUI, 20 October 2015.
‘From Financial Sustainability to Sustainable Finance. Is Alternative Finance 
(part of) the Solution? Utrecht University, 23 April 2015.
‘Comparative Political Economy and Financial Crises in Europe.’ Guest lecture 
in the BA Course Comparative Politics, UPF Barcelona, 13 May 2015.
‘Crisis management capacities within the European Union. Insights from the 
financial crisis.’ London School of Economics, Centre of Analysis for Risk and 
Regulation, 28 May 2015

other academic activities/achievements
Lecturer at James Madison University, Florence; Seminar on the politics of 
economic, monetary and financial integration within the European Union.
Co-organizer of the academic practice group for SPS Fellows.
Co-organizer of the JMU-MWP Graduate Symposium.
Participation in the EUI MWP teaching certificate. 

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michael kozakoWski  
(american)

Michael received his PhD from the 
University of Chicago in August 2014. 
His research in the fields of European 
and transnational history focuses on 
migration and citizenship, empires 
and decolonization, the creation 
of national and racial identities, 
and business and labour history. 
Beginning in autumn 2015, Michael 
will join the History Department of 
the University of Coloardo-Denver as 
Instructor of European History.

Email: michael.kozakowski@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of 
History and Civilization
EUI Mentor: Lucy Riall

activities during max Weber felloWship

publications
‘Making “Mediterranean Migrants”: Geopolitical Transitions, Migratory 
Policy, and French Conceptions of the Mediterranean in the 20th Century.’ 
Cahiers de la Méditerranée, no. 89 (December 2014): 181-194.

mWp Working paper
‘Skill and Migration in France, 1945-1974’. MWP WP RNS 2015/06.

conference presentations
‘The Borders of the State: Mediterranean Migration in the Age of 
Decolonization and European Integration’. Crossings and Circulations in the 
Atlantic and Indian Oceans and the Mediterranean since 1450 Conference, 
European University Institute – Florence, Italy, 4-6 December 2014.
‘Migration in the Crucible of Decolonization’. (De-)Colonizing Knowledge: 
Figures, Narratives, and Practices Workshop, Freie Universität – Berlin, 
Germany, 16-17 February 2015.
‘Revisiting Prosperity: Migrants, the Mediterranean, and the Making of the 
Trente Glorieuses’. 60th Annual Meeting, Society for French Historical Studies 
– Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, 16-19 April 2015.
Discussant for Roundtable, ‘Citizenship between Empire and Nation: 
Remaking France and French Africa, 1945-1960’ with Frederick Cooper. 
European University Institute – Florence, Italy, 9 June 2015.

teaching
‘Nations and Empires’. Graduate seminar co-taught with Pieter Judson and 
Lucy Riall at the European University Institute (Winter 2015).
‘Migration in Europe: Contemporary Issues, Historical Perspectives,’ Graduate 
workshop designed and taught at the College of Europe, Natolin Campus – 
Warsaw, Poland, 27 April 2015.

seminar presentations
‘Assessing Violence after World War II’. Guest lecture at the Universitat 
Pompeu Fabra – Barcelona, Spain, 13 May 2015.

other academic activities/achievements
Co-organizer of the 9th Annual Max Weber Fellows’ June Conference.

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zoe lefkofridi  
(greek)

Zoe is joint Jean Monnet-Max Weber 
Fellow and recently took up the 
tenure-track position of Assistant 
Professor of Comparative Politics 
at the University of Salzburg. She is 
interested in European integration, 
transnational democracy and 
unequal representation. During the 
second year of her MW Fellowship 
she co-organised three conferences, 
discussed her peers’ and her own 
work at numerous colloquia 
organized by the EUI community, 
and taught the first academic literacy 
seminar for non-SPS doctoral 
students ‘Key Concepts in Political 
Science and Sociology’ (with D. 
Boertien). 

Email: zoe.lefkofridi@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Robert Schuman 
Center for Advanced Studies 
(RSCAS) & Department of Social and 
Political Sciences (SPS)
EUI Mentors: Brigid Laffan & 
Alexander Trechsel

activities during max Weber felloWship

selected publications 
2015. ‘Transcending or Descending?  European Integration in Times of Crisis’. 
European Political Science Review 7 (1): 3-22. (with P.C. Schmitter). 
2014. ‘From Bad to Worse? Reflections on the Crisis in Greece and in Europe’. 
Austrian Journal of Political Science 2: 217-228. 
2014. ‘National Political Parties and EU Policy Developments: the Case of 
Greece prior to the Crisis’, Journal of Modern Greek Studies 32 (2): 287-311. 
2014. ‘The gender gap in gender-based voting: the Role of Context’, Electoral 
Studies 35: 303-14 (with N. Giger, AM Holli, H. Wass):
2014. ‘The Role of Personal Issue Salience in Citizens’ Representation via 
Parties: The Swiss Case’, Swiss Political Science Review 20(2): 20 (2): 287-304 
(with N. Giger). 
2014. ‘A good or a bad crisis for the European Union?’ In: Rodrigues, M. J. and 
Xiarchogiannakopoulou, E. (eds). The Eurozone Crisis and the Transformation 
of EU Governance. Ashgate: 11-27. (with P.C. Schmitter).
2014. ‘Exclusive Solidarity? Radical Right Parties & the Welfare State’. Robert 
Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. 2014/120. Available 
at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2539503 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/
ssrn.2539503 (with E. Michel). 

mWp Working paper
‘The Council’s Centre of Gravity & Its Congruence with European Citizens’, 
MWP WP RNS 2015/16 (with N. Giger).

invited talks 
2015 ‘Europe at the crossroads: Is economizing on Democracy the way 
forward? Invited Speech at ISIS Summit Vienna 2015 ‘The Information Society 
at the Crossroads: Response and Responsibility of the Sciences of Information’, 
Vienna University of Technology, 3-7 June. 
2014. ‘Poverty & politics’, Presentation at Multidisciplinary Workshop on 
‘Poverty research’, MWP, EUI, 5 December. 

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robert lepenies  
(german)

Robert holds a PhD in Political 
Science from the Hertie School of 
Governance, Berlin. He has been a 
Fulbright-Schuman Fellow at Yale 
University. Robert holds an MSc in 
International Political Economy from 
the LSE (with Distinction) and a BA 
in PPE from the University of Oxford. 
His research is in the Philosophy 
of Economics, Political Philosophy, 
History of Economic Thought, and 
Philosophy of Social Sciences.

activities during max Weber felloWship

publications
Lepenies, Robert; Malecka, Magdalena, ‘The Institutional Consequences of 
Nudging – Nudges, Politics, and the Law’, Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 
March 2015 (with response from Cass Sunstein).

mWp Working paper
Lauer, Lorenz; Lepenies, Robert, ‘The Poor Have No Money – So Just Give 
it to Them! In Favour of Inclusive Aid and Unconditional Cash Transfers’ 
(February 2015). MWP WP 2015/02.
Malecka, Magdalena; Lepenies, Robert, ‘Behavioural sciences in law and 
policy: a case of scientific imperialism?’ (July 2015). MWP WP 2015/13.

conferences organised 
‘The Future of Basic Income Research’, with Juliana Bidadanure, 26 June 2015.
Book workshop ‘The instrument of freedom’ by Philippe van Parijs and 
Yannick Vanderborght, with Juliana Bidadanure, 27 June 2015
Awards
Young Scholar Event Grant (with Juliana Bidadanure) from the Institute for 
New Economic Thinking

selected presentations
‘Basic Income, Direct Cash, and Normative Change’. With Lorenz Lauer, The 
Future of Basic Income Research Conference, 26 June 2015
‘Behavioural sciences in law and policy’. With Magdalena Malecka, 9th Social 
Issues for Social Sciences Max Weber June Conference 2015

Email: robert.lepenies@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of Law
EUI Mentor: Petros Mavroidis

teaching 
‘Moral Limits of Markets’ PhD seminar session, January 2015
PhD Students mentoring sessions, LAW Department

media appearances
‘A new international programme pairs poverty scholars from across the globe. 
Global Approach to Ending Poverty’, Inside Higher Education, 12 June 2015.
‘The Universal Basic Income – treading “the capitalist road to communism”?’ 
EUI Times on the Future of Basic Income Conference, July 2015.

service
Launched global one-to-one poverty scholarship network Global Colleagues 
for Academics Stand Against Poverty. 
Organiser of interdepartmental Economics and Philosophy Reading Group, 
with Magdalena Malecka. Meetings throughout the year.
Research Ethics Committee, EUI, since 2014.
Steering Committee of ASAP Deutschland e.V. as well as Germany’s country 
representative.
Organized Max Weber Getaway for all Max Weber Fellows in Castel D’Acone 
in September 2014.

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magdalena małecka  
(polish)

Magdalena received her PhD in 
philosophy from the Polish Academy 
of Sciences in December 2013. Her 
main research interests are in legal 
theory and philosophy of science. 
Since September 2014, Magdalena 
has pursued her research project on 
the behavioural approaches to law 
financed by Poland’s National Centre 
for Science and remained as part of 
the Max Weber Programme until 
March 2015. In April 2015 she joined 
the Academy of Finland Centre of 
Excellence in the Philosophy of the 
Social Sciences (TINT) in Helsinki. 

Email: magdalena.malecka@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Law Department 
EUI Mentor: Prof. Giovanni Sartor 

activities during max Weber felloWship

publications in refereed Journals
Lepenies R., Małecka M., 2015, ‘The institutional consequences of nudging – 
nudges, politics, and the law’, Review of Philosophy and Psychology, Special Issue 
on Nudges, (accepted for publication, online version available in June 2015) 

other publications
Lepenies R., Małecka M., ‘Nudges, Recht und Politik: Institutionelle 
Implikationen’ to be submitted to Zeitschrift fuer Praktische Philosophie; 
abstract of the article accepted after blind review. 
Małecka M., Lepenies R. ‘Behavioural sciences in law and policy: a case 
of scientific imperialism?’, to be submitted to a special issue on scientific 
imperialism (ed. by Mäki, Walsh and Fernandez Pinto)

mWp Working papers
‘Behavioural sciences in law and policy: a case of scientific imperialism?’ (co-
authored with Robert Lepenies) MWP WP 2015/13

conference presentations
‘Law and “nature”: from natural drives to behavioural regularities’ (with Franz 
L. Fillafer) XXIst Forum of Young Legal Historians ‘Law in Transition’, Tel Aviv 
University, March 2015
‘The disappearing normativity: from law as a norm to law as an adjustment’ 
UK IVR Conference ‘De-juridification. Appearance and disappearance of law 
at times of crisis’, LSE, London, October 2014 

other academic activities/achievements
Fellowship awarded by the Kosciuszko Foundation (four-month research stay 
at Columbia University, Department of Philosophy, NY).
Co-organizer, co-leader and co-chair (with Franz L. Fillafer) of the workshop 
‘The Politics of Law and the Behavioural Sciences: Historical Contexts and 
Conceptual Sources’, EUI, Florence, May 2015. 
Organizer and chair of the lecture of Prof. Agata Bielik-Robson (Nottingham) 
‘The Postsecular Turn: Enlightenment, Tradition, Revolution’, EUI, Florence, 
May 2015.
Co-organizer (with Robert Lepenies) of the reading group on economics and 
philosophy. 
Participation in the Thematic Group ‘Legal, Social and Political Theory & 
History of Thought’.
Participation in the workshop for first-year PhD researchers, EUI, Law 
Department, December 2014. 
Journal reviewer (European Journal of Legal Studies and Review of Philosophy 
and Psychology).
Conference reviewer (European Congress of Analytic Philosophy 2014)

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 antonio marzal yetano  
(spanish)

Antonio received his PhD from 
the University of Paris I Panthéon-
Sorbonne, France, in October 2013. 
His main research interests are in EU 
law, conflict of laws, international 
economic law and constitutional 
theory. From September 2015, 
Antonio will take up a position as 
maître de conférences (Lecturer) 
in the Law School of the Sorbonne, 
Paris.

Email: Antonio.marzal@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of Law
EUI Mentor: Loïc Azoulai

activities during max Weber felloWship

books
La dynamique du principe de proportionnalité, Institut Universitaire Varenne/
LGDJ, December 2014. 
Publications in Refereed Journals
L. Azoulai, V. Reveillère, A. Marzal Yetano, ‘Thinking EU law’, forthcoming.

mWp Working paper
‘The mutual transformation of proportionality and EU law: an unconventional 
reading of the market freedoms case law’, MWP WP RNS 2015/11.

conference presentations
‘The Aesthetics of EU Law’, Harvard Institute of Global Law and Policy, 2015 
1-3 June Conference. 
‘Reading Duncan Kennedy’, at conference in honour of Duncan Kennedy, 
Sciences Po, Paris, June 2015. 

seminar presentations
‘The Aesthetics of EU law’, EUI workshop on the ‘Aesthetics of Academic 
Practice’, May 2015.

other academic activities/achievements
Co-taught a doctoral seminar at the EUI with Loïc Azolai and Vincent 
Reveillère, ‘Thinking EU Law’, Fall 2014.
Representative of the Max Weber Fellows of the Law Department.
Awarded the Fondation Varenne doctoral prize in European Law.
Awarded the André Isoré doctoral prize of the Chancellerie des Universités de 
Paris in private law.
Participation in the teaching exchange at the LSE, London, UK, March 2015.

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Julia mcclure  
(british)

After completing her PhD at the 
University of Sheffield in 2013, Julia 
was a postdoctoral fellow for the 
Weatherhead Initiative on Global 
History at the University of Harvard 
before becoming a Max Weber 
Fellow at the EUI. Her research 
interests include the socio-political 
and intellectual history of poverty 
and charity, the early history of 
colonialism, and global intellectual 
history. From September 2015, Julia 
will take up a three year lectureship 
in global history at the University of 
Warwick.

Email: Julia.mcclure@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: History
EUI Mentor: Grafe, Regina

activities during max Weber felloWship

books
The Franciscan Invention of the New World (submitted and under review)

articles
‘Earthrise: The Franciscan Story’, The Medieval Globe (Under review)

mWp Working paper
‘Emperor’s New Clothes? Some Reflections on the Globalization Paradigm’ 
MWP WP RNS 2015/18.

book revieWs
Review: Marcus Rediker, Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley 
Crews in the Age of Sail (Boston, 2014), for History, forthcoming.
Review: Lynn Hunt, Writing History in the Global Era (New York, 2014), for 
Reviews in History, February 2015.

conference presentations
June 2015, EUI, ‘The History and Politics of Global Concepts’, at June 
Conference 2015.
June 2015, University of Lincoln, ‘The Politics of the Middle Ages’, at The 
Middle Ages in the Modern World.
April 2015, University of Copenhagen, ‘The Franciscans: Forging Coloniality 
for a ‘New World’, at Colonial Christian Missions and the Legacies.
December 2014, EUI, ‘Floating Ideologies: The Inquisition and the Making of 
the Transatlantic World’, at Crossing Oceans.

seminar presentations
May 2015, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, ‘El Hambre en el Mundo’, at The Spanish 
Empire Seminar Series.

other academic activities/achievements
Interviewed Quentin Skinner: ‘The Context of Ideas Today: An Interview with 
Quentin Skinner’.
Organiser of ‘Poverty Research Workshop’, EUI.
Representative for the ‘Legal, Social and Political Theory and the History of 
Thought’ working group, EUI.

teaching
Max Weber Teaching Certificate.
Assistant in the graduate seminar on global history with Regina Grafe and 
Jorge Flores.
Assistant in the graduate seminar on Early Modern History with Luca Molà.

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fran meissner  
(german)

Fran worked at the Max Planck 
Institute for the Study of Religious 
and Ethnic Migration as a Doctoral 
Research Fellow and received her 
PhD from the University of Sussex, 
UK, in September 2013. Her main 
research interests are in urban 
diversity, data visualisations and 
socio-technical methodologies. 

Email: fran.meissner@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of Social 
and Political Sciences
EUI Mentor: Rainer Bauböck

activities during max Weber felloWship

books
Fran Meisser (contracted) Socialising with Diversity, Palgrave Macmillan.
Fran Meissner and Steven Vertovec eds. (2016) Comparing Super-Diversity, 
Routledge: London. 

publications in refereed Journals
Fran Meissner (2015) ‘Migration in migration-related diversity – The nexus 
between superdiversity and migration studies’. Ethnic and Racial Studies: 38 
(4).

other publications
‘Status City: Linking Legal Status Tracks and Urban Diversity’. Border 
Criminologies Blog. Oxford: Centre for Criminology.
‘Big data and positive social change in the developing world: A white paper for 
practitioners and researchers.’ Oxford: Oxford Internet Institute. (Report, Co-
Authored with Bellagio Big Data Workshop Participants)

mWp Working paper
‘Entangling and Disentangling Migration Driven Diversity through Networks’, 
MWP WP RNS 2015/22.

selected presentations
‘Transgressing dividing lines: making and unmaking urban grids’. Panel at 
RC21 annual conference (with Tilmann Heil – Konstanz): The ideal city 
between myth and reality. Università degli Studi di Urbino, Italy. 27-29th 
August.
‘Towards relational diversity - or why we should move beyond a cultural lens 
in studying cohesion and solidarity’, at Università di Bologna, Italy. 26th May.

selected other academic activities/achievements
Course Co-ordinator – Reading the Classics: EUI Seminar.
Organisation Committee: 9th Social Issues for Social Sciences Conference. 
(June Conference), Coordinator of Conference Committee (Conference with 
83 delegates). 
10th-11th June.
Initiator: 1st Annual Coppa PaWeber, 11th June 2015.
Active Member: Migration, Citizenship and Social Protection Thematic 
Group.
Sole Organiser: Urban Politics, Migration, Diversity: A European University 
Institute and Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic 
Diversity Joint Workshop. 24th April.
Discussant: Will Kymlicka: Diversities and Inequalities. Multiculturalism vs 
Interculturalism Debate. 11th February. 
Other: Scraping Data Workshop, Interview with Dagmar Herzog, Chairing 
Max Weber Lecture: Lucia Zedner.

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moti michaeli  
(israeli)

activities during max Weber felloWship

mWp Working paper
‘Group Formation, In-group Bias and the Cost of Cheating.’ MWP WP 
2015/04.

conference presentations
‘From Peer Pressure to Biased Norms.’ The 20th Annual Workshop on the 
Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents (WEHIA, Sophia 
Antipolis (France), 21 Ma to 23 May 2015.
‘From Peer Pressure to Biased Norms.’ Max Weber Fellows Conference. Badia 
Fiesolana, EUI, 12 June 2015.

seminar presentations
‘From Peer Pressure to Biased Norms.’ Seminar at the department of Political 
Economy, King’s College, London.

other academic activities/achievements
Co-organized, together with Diego Gambetta of the EUI (SPS department), 
the SPS-Econ Experimental Workshop. The workshop included five meetings 
throughout the academic year, featuring 10 presenters, mostly from abroad.

I submitted my PhD thesis in 
January 2014. It includes three 
separate theoretical papers, mostly 
applied theory, and is titled ‘Essays 
on the links between individual 
and collective decision making’. 
In my dissertation I focused on 
investigating and explaining prevalent 
social behaviours, such as group 
formation, in-group bias, social 
norms, cooperation, signaling, social 
pressure and conformism. Although 
my research methodology up until 
now has been the development of 
theoretical models, the topics I deal 
with invite supplementary research 
in the form of experimental work, 
which I intend to pursue during the 
Fellowship period. In general, my 
research interests include topics at 
the heart of behavioural economics, 
such as social preferences, social 
norms and decision under risk and 
uncertainty.

Email: moti.michaeli@eui.eu
EUI affiliation: Department of 
Economics
Mentor: Andrea Mattozzi

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eric o’connor  
(american)

Eric received his PhD in history 
from the University of Wisconsin-
Madison in August 2014. He is a 
historian of modern European history 
who focuses on post-World War II 
reconstruction and the origins of the 
European Union. Eric’s primary tasks 
this year were to expand and polish 
his book manuscript on the history 
of democracy in European unity, 
Democracy in the Dark: The Origins of 
Popular Political Participation in the 
European Union, 1949-1979, as well as 
conduct significant archival research 
for his second book project at the 
Historical Archives of the European 
Union. 

Email: eric.oconnor@eui.eu
EUI Affiliation: Department of 
History and Civilization 
EUI Mentor: Federico Romero

activities during max Weber felloWship

publications in refereed Journals
‘European Democracy Deferred: De Gaulle and the Dehousse Plan, 1960,’ 
article included as part of a special issue under review with Modern & 
Contemporary France, forthcoming 2017.

mWp Working paper
‘European Democracy Deferred: De Gaulle and the Dehousse Plan, 1960,’ 
MWP WP RNS 2015/08.

conference presentations
‘The Historical Inheritance of Democracy in the European Union, 1948-1957,’ 
Council for European Studies 22nd International Conference of Europeanists, 
Paris, 9 July 2015, forthcoming.
‘We’ll Hold Our Own Vote: Local UK Referendums on European unity, 1971,’ 
European University Max Weber Programme June Conference, 9 June 2015.
‘1979: Democracy Begins and Ends in the European Union,’ Max Weber 
Programme Multidisciplinary Conference on Parliaments and Parliamentary 
Elections in Europe, 25 March 2015.

invited talks
‘Organizing the Peace: Post-WWII International Institutions in Europe, 1945-
1957,’ Maastricht University, 13 January 2015.
‘Toward a History of Democracy in European Integration,’ European 
University Institute European Integration History Working Group, 6 
November 2014.
‘Then Came Armageddon,’ Gallery talk for the exhibit ‘Then Came 
Armageddon: A Documentary Exhibition of the War in the West on the 
Centennial of World War I,’ University of Wisconsin Memorial Library, 
Madison, Wisconsin, 8 October 2014. 
Conference Panel Discussant
‘Europe and the European Communities in the Media Since 1950,’ Integration 
and Media, Historical Archives of the European Union, European University 
Institute, 5 March 2015.

other academic activities
Earned the Max Weber Programme Teaching Certificate.
Peer reviewer/referee for The Historical Journal (Cambridge), 2014-present.

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michal onderco  
(slovak)

Michal received his PhD from the 
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 
September 2014. His main research 
interests are in international security, 
nuclear proliferation, and foreign 
policy analysis. From September 
2015, Michal will become Assistant 
Professor of International Relations 
in the Department of Public 
Administration, Erasmus University 
Rotterdam, where he held a part-time 
position concurrently with his Max 
Weber Fellowship.

Email: michal.onderco@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of Social 
and Political Sciences
EUI Mentor: Ulrich Krotz

activities during max Weber felloWship

books
Michal Onderco, Iran’s Nuclear Program and the Global South: The Foreign 
Policy of India, Brazil, and South Africa, London: Palgrave, forthcoming.

publications in refereed Journals
Michal Onderco (2015) ‘The provision of private goods and the emergence 
of armed rebellion: The case of the Slovak National Uprising 1944-1945’ 
Accepted in Journal of International Relations and Development.
Michal Onderco  (2015) ‘Money can’t buy you love. EU member states and 
Iranian nuclear program 2002-2009’. European Security. 24(1), 56-76. 
Wolfgang Wagner & Michal Onderco (2014) ‘Accommodation or 
Confrontation? Explaining Differences in Policies towards Iran.’  International 
Studies Quarterly, 58(4), 717-728.

mWp Working paper
‘Constructing deviance in international politics’. MWP WP 2015/07.

conference presentations
‘How much damage did the crisis make? A probe into public opinion in 
Europe’ Presented at EPSA General Conference, Vienna, June 2015.
‘Ideational sources of nonproliferation policy in the Global South’. Invited talk 
at symposium ‘Nuclear Disarmament, Non-proliferation, and Energy’, United 
Nations, New York, April 2015.
‘What can we learn from the Iranian nuclear crisis?’ Invited talk at La Pietra 
Dialogues, New York University (Campus Florence), March 2015.
Paul van Hooft and Michal Onderco ‘Answering threats: when regional powers 
balance and when they do not’. Presented at ISA Annual Convention, New 
Orleans, February 2015.
Michael Cohen and Michal Onderco ‘Availability heuristic in South Africa’s 
foreign policy’. Presented at ISA Global South Conference, Singapore, January 
2015.
‘IBSA, Iran and Global (Nuclear) Governance’. Invited talk at the Center for 
Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC, December 2014

other academic activities/achievements
Participated in the ‘Europe in the School’ project.
Manuscript reviewer for International Studies Review, Journal of International 
Relations and Development, Foreign Policy Analysis, Fonds Wetenschappelijk 
Onderzoek - Vlaanderen
On the organizing committee of the 7th Annual Max Weber Fellows 
Conference.

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meha priyadarshini  
(indian/american)

Meha received her PhD from 
Columbia University in New York 
in May 2014. Her main research and 
teaching interests include global 
history, material culture studies, 
colonial Latin American history, East 
Asian history and art history. From 
September 2015, Meha will take-up 
a two-year postdoctoral fellowship 
at the Kunsthistorisches Institut,in 
Florenz-Max-Planck Institut. 

Email: Meha.Priyadarshini@EUI.eu
EUI Affiliation: Department of 
History and Civilization
EUI Mentor: Luca Molà

activities during max Weber felloWship

chapters in books
Priyadarshini, Meha. ‘The Tactility of Commerce: Trade and its Trappings 
in Colonial Manila.’ In Transpacific Engagements: Exchange, Translation, 
and Visual Culture in the Age of Empires, Edited by Nina Capistrano-Baker, 
published by Getty Research Institute, forthcoming 2016.

other publications
Leibsohn, Dana and Meha Priyadarshini. ‘Trans-Pacific Exchange: Colonial 
Histories and the Making of the Spanish Empire’. Special Issue of the Colonial 
Latin American Review, forthcoming 2016. 

mWp Working paper
‘Trade and its Contents: A Material History of Commercial Activity from 
Manila to Acapulco’. MWP WP RNS 2015/21.

invited lecture
‘From the Chinese Guan to the Mexican Chocolatero: A Tactile History of 
the Transpacific Trade’, Institute for Historical Research, University College 
London, School of Advanced Study, London, UK, 24 February 2015.

conference presentations
‘Bandanas and Basquiñas: Indian Cottons and the Fashioning of Political 
Identities in Mexico’, 84th Annual Anglo-American Conference for Historians, 
Institute for Historical Research, London, UK, 2 July 2015.
‘Long distance trade in the Early Modern Period,’ Max Weber Fellows 
Conference, EUI, 10 June 2015.
‘Visualizing Empire from the Peripheries: Art from Colonial Manila and 
Mexico,’ GRIMSE, Research Group on Empires Metropolis and Extra-
european Societies, Universitat Pompeu-Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, 11 May 2015. 
‘Global Goods, Local Artisans: Blue and White Ceramic Production in the 
Early Modern World,’ Renaissance Studies Association Conference, Berlin, 
Germany, 26 March 2015.

other academic activities/achievements
Organized an interdisciplinary workshop titled The Aesthetics of Academic 
Practice, EUI, 27 May 2015
Co-taught with Luca Molà training seminar on Early Modern History.

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thomas raineau  
(french)

Thomas is professeur agrégé 
d’histoire and he studied for his PhD 
at the University of Paris-Sorbonne. 
His main research interests are in 
modern and contemporary history 
of Europe and the UK, specializing 
on the history of British diplomatic 
and state elites in their relationship 
with European integration. From 
September 2015, Thomas will take up 
a 1-year lectureship in History in an 
undergraduate college in Paris and 
he will teach history in English in 
the European section of lycée George 
Clemenceau in Villemomble. 

Email: thomas.raineau@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: History and 
Civilisation
EUI Mentor: Ann Thomson 

activities during max Weber felloWship

publications in refereed Journals
‘Lost Influence: le Foreign Office et l’Europe communautaire, de M. Thatcher 
à D. Cameron’, Revue Française d’Administration Publique, special issue, 
‘La coordination nationale aux affaires européennes : de la négociation à 
l’influence ?’ n°159, forthcoming 2016.

chapters in books
‘Conclusion: A Cloud of International International Interactions’ in 
Sociabilités, pratiques et réseaux diplomatiques en Europe au XXe siècle, Actes 
du VIIème Colloque International Richie, edited by Vincent Genin, Matthieu 
Osmont and Thomas Raineau, Bern-Brussels, Peter Lang, forthcoming 2016.

other publications
Thomas Raineau, Sylvain Kahn, Philippe Perchoc (eds.), MOOC ‘Géopolitique 
de l’Europe’, Sciences Po-France Université Numérique, Spring 2015, https://
www.france-universite-numerique-mooc.fr/courses/SciencesPo/05007/
Trimestre_1_2015/about 

mWp Working paper
‘Keepers of the European Flame? Narratives and self-representation of British 
diplomats in historical perspective’. MWP WP 2015/08

conference presentations
‘Portraying French Academe in the late 1990s: public representations, 
oddities and inequalities in the ‘Collection Premier Cycle’, Max Weber June 
Conference, EUI, Florence, June 2015
‘Pratiques diplomatiques et nouvelles relations internationales’, introduction 
to the Conference ‘Sociabilités, pratiques et réseaux diplomatiques en Europe 
de 1919 à nos jours’, RICHIE International Conference, Académie Royale de 
Belgique, 20-21 March 2015
‘Writing a diplomatic history of Britain and Europe: diplomats as ‘Europe’s 
builders’ by proxy?’, Workshop « ‘ Nyt diplomati’ », Saxo Institute, University 
of Copenhagen, 13 March 2015
‘The plague of politics? Al-Azhar, from reform to marginalization (1880-
1930s)’, Conference  ‘200 years of dialogue between knowledge and power in 
Europe. Historicizing the challenges of higher education in the 21st century’, 
European University Institute, Florence, 10-12 December 2014 
Seminar Presentations
‘Têtes de PUF’: a collective – and embarrassing? – portrait of French Academe 
in the late 1990s’, Workshop ‘Aesthetics of Academic Practice’, EUI, Florence, 
27 May 2015
Conference ‘Parliaments and Parliamentary elections in Europe’, EUI, 
Florence, 24 March 2015, discussant
History Department colloquium, Presentation of V. Dimier’s book, Recycling 
empire: the invention of a EU aid bureaucracy 1958-2008. Discussant. 

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federica romei  
(italian)

Federica received her PhD from the 
LUISS Guido Carli, Italy, in June 
2014. 
Her main research interests are in 
Monetary Economics, Fiscal Policy 
and International Macro. From 
September 2015, Federica will be 
Assistant Professor at Stockholm 
School of Ecomics.

activities during max Weber felloWship

mWp Working paper
‘Needs for (the Right Speed): The Timing and Composition of Public Debt 
Deleveraging’. MWP WP 2015/11.

conference presentations
2015: ‘Heterogeneity in the Euro Area and Unconventional Monetary Policy’, 
Banque de France and Deutsche Bundesbank.
2014: ‘Midwest Macro Meetings’, Florida International University, Miami, FL;
NBER Monetary Economics Programme Meeting, Boston, MA.

seminar presentations
Invited Seminars: HEC Lausanne, Norges Bank, Bonn University, ECB, 
Banque de France, University of Leuven, HEC Paris, Board of Governors Fed, 
Bank of Italy, Stockholm School of Economics, HEC Montreal, University of 
Namur and Cardiff Business School. 

Email: federica.romei@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of 
Economics
EUI Mentor: Fabio Canova, Juan 
Dolado and Richard Portes

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JuliJa sardelic  
(slovenian)

Julija Sardelic holds a PhD in 
Sociology and focuses on the position 
of Romani minorities in the context 
of citizenship and migration. From 
September 2014, Julija will pursue her 
book project titled ‘Invisible Edges 
of Citizenship: Romani Minorities in 
Europe’ and will remain as a part of 
Max Weber Programme until March 
2016.  

Email: julija.sardelic@eui.eu
EUI Affiliation: Political and Social 
Sciences
Mentor: Rainer Bauboek

activities during max Weber felloWship

selected publications in refereed Journals
2015. ‘Romani Minorities and the Uneven Access to Citizenship in the Post-
Yugoslav Space’. Ethnopolitics 14/2.

selected refereed book chapters
2015. ‘Roma between Ethnic Group and Underclass as Portrayed through 
Newspaper Discourses in Socialist Slovenia’. In Rory Archer, Paul Stubbs and 
Igor Duda (eds.): Social Inequalities and Discontent in Yugoslav Socialism. 
Ashgate, forthcoming.

other non-refereed publications
2015. Moving and Migrating the Borders of Europe: Beyond the East and West 
Divide? In James Madison Newsletter:
 http://www.jmu.edu/stories/eurounionpolicy/2015-04-moving-and-
migrating-borders-eu.shtml  

max Weber Working paper
‘Rethinking “Romani Migration”: Divergent Mobilities of Marginalized 
Minorities in Europe’, MWP 2015.

selected conference presentations and invited lectures
‘Managing Super-Diversity in the Post-Conflict zone? – the Case of Post-
Yugoslav “Romani Minorities”’ presented at the BASEES conference, 
University of Cambridge, March 2015.
‘Basic Income and its Potential Impact on Vulnerable Minorities: A Case Study 
on the Position of Roma in Europe’,  presented at the conference The Future of 
Basic Income Research, Max Weber Programme, EUI, June 2015. 

teaching
Lecturer, MA Studies in Political Science – EU Policy Studies at the James 
Madison University (Course ‘Justice and Home Affair in the European Union).

other academic activities 
SPS MWF Representative .
Max Weber Teaching Certificate activities, teaching exchange LSE. 
Organizer of a workshop with Professor Will Kymlicka, ‘Diversities and 
Inequalities: Multiculturalism Versus Interculturalism Debate’.
Co-organizer of the JMU-MWP Graduate Symposium (and a member of the 
committee for the best paper award).
Discussant, Association of Nationalities Studies Convention 2015, Columbia 
University.
Discussant, ‘Urban Politics, Migration, Diversity’ EUI-MPI Graduate 
Workshop. 
Anonymous peer-reviewer for Ethnicities (Sage), Migration Studies Journal 
(Oxford University), Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education (Taylor and 
Francis Group), Social Inclusion (Cogitaio Press), Contemporary Southeastern 
Europe  (CSEES) and Flemish Research Foundation (Research Projects).

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 martiJn schoonvelde  
(dutch)

Martijn received his PhD from 
Stony Brook University in May 2013. 
His main research interests are in 
comparative political behaviour 
and institutions. From September 
2015, Martijn will take-up a three-
year postdoctoral fellowship in the 
Department of Political Science 
and Public Administration, Vrije 
Universiteit Amsterdam.

Email: martijn.schoonvelde@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of Social 
and Political Sciences
EUI Mentor: Hanspeter Kriesi

activities during max Weber felloWship

publications in refereed Journals
‘Media Freedom and the Institutional Underpinnings of Political Knowledge’. 
(2014) Political Science Research & Methods 2(02): 163-178.

other publications
‘Media Systems and Voter Knowledge: an Agent-Based Model’, revise and 
resubmit. 
‘The Information Environment and Participation: When Reading a Newspaper 
Increases the Probability of Voting ‘(with Susan Banducci and Claes de 
Vreese), under review.
‘Generalizing the Study of Media Effects across Research Designs, Countries, 
Time, Issues, and Outcomes’ (with Susan Banducci, Jason Barabas, Jennifer 
Jerit, William Pollock and Dan Stevens), under review.
‘Three Approaches to Gauging Media Effects’ (with Susan Banducci, Jason 
Barabas, Jennifer Jerit, William Pollock and Dan Stevens), under review.
MWP Working Paper
‘Media Systems and Voter Knowledge: An Agent-Based Model’. MWP WP 
2015/05.

conference presentations
‘Media Systems and Voter Knowledge: An Agent-Based Model’, 9th Max 
Weber Fellows Conference. Badia Fiesolana, EUI, 10 June 2015.
‘Media Systems and Electoral Accountability’, European Political Science 
Association Annual Conference, Vienna, 27 June 2015.
‘Media Systems and Electoral Accountability’, American Political Science 
Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, 4 September 2015.

seminar presentations
‘Three Approaches to Gauging Media Effects’, Political Behaviour Colloquium 
Badia Fiesolana, EUI, 5 November 2014.
‘Media Systems and Voter Knowledge: An Agent-Based Model’, Agent-Based 
Modeling Workshop, Badia Fiesolana, EUI, 28 April, 2015.

other academic activities/achievements
Awarded a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at the VU (Vrije Universiteit) 
Amsterdam on the Horizon-2020 funded programme ‘EUENGAGE’. 
On the organizing committee of the 9th Annual Max Weber Fellows 
Conference.
On the organizing committee of a Workshop on Web Scraping With Python 
(April / May 2015).
Discussant at various conferences / workshops (EPSA, Vienna; Framing 
Workshop, EUI; JMU-MWP Symposium, EUI; Parliaments and Parliamentary 
Elections in Europe, EUI).

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max weber programme for postdoctoral studies florian stoeckel  
(german)

Florian received his PhD from 
the University of North Carolina 
at Chapel Hill in May 2014. He is 
interested in public opinion research, 
political psychology, and European 
politics. Florian will stay at the EUI as 
a Max Weber Fellow for the academic 
year 2015/2016.

Email: florian.stoeckel@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of Social 
and Political Sciences
EUI Mentor: Hanspeter Kriesi, 
Stefano Bartolini

activities during max Weber felloWship:

publications in refereed Journals
‘Contact and Community: The Role of Social Interactions for a Political 
Identity’, conditionally accepted at Political Psychology.
‘Kontakt, Identität und politische Einstellungen’ [Contact, Identity, and 
Political Attitudes], forthcoming at Politische Vierteljahresschrift.
‘When European Integration Becomes Costly: The Euro Crisis and Public 
Support for European Economic Governance’ (2014). Journal of European 
Public Policy. 21(4), 624-641, with Theresa Kuhn.

mWp Working paper
‘Elite Cues and International Fiscal Solidarity in a Multiparty System: New 
Evidence from a Survey Experiment’ (with Theresa Kuhn), MWP WP RNS 
2015/07.

conference presentations
‘Elite Cues and International Fiscal Solidarity: New Evidence from a Survey 
Experiment’ (with Theresa Kuhn), presented at the ACCESS Europe Workshop 
‘Experiments in Political Economy and Welfare State Research’, Amsterdam, 
and at 7th Pan-European Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on the 
European Union, The Hague.
‘Left-Wing but Unwilling to Support Redistribution? The Case of Public 
Support for Transnational Fiscal Transfers in the EU’ (with Hanna Kleider), 
Max Weber Fellows Conference 2015.

other academic activities/achievements
JEPP Best Paper Award 2015: Together with Theresa Kuhn, Florian received an 
award for the best article published in the Journal of European Public Policy in 
2014.
Horizon2020 Project: Florian is part of a group of 18 researchers at 5 European 
universities who were awarded a 2.5 million Euro Horizon2020 grant for the 
project ‘EUENGAGE’. The project is led by Maurizo Cotta at the University of 
Siena and will be carried out between 2015 and 2018.
Research Proposal: The proposal ‘Citizens’ Preferences for Territorial 
Redistribution in Multi-Tiered Systems: Cost-Benefit Driven or Value-Based?’ 
(with Hanna Kleider) was submitted to the German Socio Economic Panel.

teaching
Florian taught the course ‘The Political Institutions of the European Union’ at 
James Madison University’s campus in Florence in the Fall 2014.

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silvana tarlea  
(romanian)

Silvana received her DPhil in political 
science from the University of 
Oxford, Nuffield College in 2015. 
Her main research interests are in 
comparative political economy and 
partisan politics, human capital 
formation and Central and Eastern 
European politics. Silvana will be 
a second-year Max Weber Fellow 
beginning September 2015.

Email: silvana.tarlea@yahoo.com 
EUI Affiliation: Department of Social 
and Political Sciences
EUI Mentor: Laszlo Bruszt

activities during max Weber felloWship

books
Book manuscript in preparation: Dependency and Development in Central and 
Eastern Europe’s New Capitalist Systems.

publications in refereed Journals
‘Higher Education in Romania’s Dependent Market Economy’ (with Annette 
Freyberg-Inan), under review.
Invited contribution ‘The Political Economy of Higher Education Quality’, 
special issue contribution, Michael Dobbins, Marek Kwiek (eds.), European 
Educational Research Journal, forthcoming 2016.

mWp Working paper
‘Are parties back in? From low- to high-skills equilibria in Central and Eastern 
Europe’, MWP 2015.

conference presentations
European Political Science Association ‘Partisanship and Higher Education 
Spending. Is There a Left-Right Divide?’, Vienna, 25-27 June 2015.
Council of European Studies ‘Partisanship and Higher Education Spending. Is 
There a Left-Right Divide?’, Paris, 8-10 July 2015

seminar presentations
‘Multinational Corporations and Higher Education in Central and Eastern 
Europe’, graduate seminar presentation, Free University Berlin, 10 February 
2015.
‘Partisanship and Higher Education Spending. Is There a Left-Right Divide?’, 
Inequality and Efficiency in Education and Labour Markets Thematic Group, 
10 March 2015, EUI.
‘Mixed methods in action: from triangulation to bridging the quantitative-
qualitative divide’, Eastern and Southern European Politics and Society 
Working Group, 16 April 2015, EUI. 

other academic activities/achievements
Interviewed professor Wendy Carlin before the Max Weber Lecture, 17 June 
2015.

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garvan Walshe  
(irish)

Garvan received his PhD from the 
University Manchester, United 
Kingdom, in September 2014. His 
main research interests are in political 
philosophy, focusing on the moral 
authority of states and political ethics, 
broadly considered. 

activities during max Weber felloWship

chapters in books
Garvan Walshe and  Stephen DeWijze, ‘Civility in Conflict’, in Kristina Stöcl, 
Lois Lee and Aurelia Bardon (eds), Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Religious 
Pluralism: A Resource Book, EUI: Florence, 2015.

other publications
‘Against Revisionist Just War Theory.’ Article under review.
‘Can there be a Nightwatchman State?’ Article under review at American 
Philosophical Quarterly.

mWp Working paper
‘Against Revisionist Just War Theory’, MWP 2015.

conference presentations
‘Against Revisionist Just War Theory’, Max Weber Conference 2015.
‘Robert Nozick Goes to the Bullingdon Club’, MANCEPT Workshops 2015.

seminar presentations
‘David Cameron: Houdini or Rogue Trader’, Scuola Sant’ Anna, Pisa, 8 July 
2015.

other academic activities/achievements
Organised presentation on ‘European Security’ by Baroness Neville Jones of 
Hutton-Roof, former UK Security Minister and National Security Adviser to 
David Cameron.

Email: garvan.walshe@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of Social 
and Political Sciences
EUI Mentor: Jennifer Welsh

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annika Wolf  
(german) 

Annika was awarded her PhD in 
law from Humboldt-University 
of Berlin in April 2014. Her 
main research interests are in 
international and comparative 
insolvency and restructuring law, 
financial regulation and supervision, 
(behavioural) law and economics. 
She is a member of the IIINextGen 
Leadership Programme Class II of the 
International Insolvency Institute, an 
academic member of INSOL Europe 
and INSOL International, and a 
member of the Alternative Dispute 
Resolution, New York State Bar 
Association.

Email: Annika.Wolf@eui.eu
EUI Affiliation: Department of Law
EUI Mentor: Hans-W. Micklitz

activities during max Weber felloWship

books
Promoting an Effective Rescue Culture with Debt-Equity-Swaps? A Comparative 
Study of Restructuring Public Companies in Germany and England, Schriften 
zur Restrukturierung, Band 7, Nomos Verlag, 2015

mWp Working paper
‘Forum Shopping for Effective Corporate Rescue in Europe – Obstacles and 
Challenges to Corporate Restructurings from a German Perspective’, MWP 
WP RNS 2015/24.

conference organiser
Organising committee, 9th Max Weber Programme Annual June Conference, 
European University Institute, Florence, 10 – 12 June 2015 
Organising committee and academic committee, IIINextGen Leadership 
Programme Annual Conference, International Insolvency Institute, Naples, 14 
June 2015 

selected conference presentations
‘”Corporate Rescue needs a Sniper, not a Shotgun” – Forum Shopping for 
Corporate Rescue in Europe from a German Perspective’, INSOL International 
Academic Colloquium, San Francisco, 21 – 22 March 2015.
 ‘Europe’s Legislative Trend to More Rescue: Business or Legal Entity’, 
International Insolvency Institute, Naples, 14 – 16 June 2014.

selected invited lectures and faculty presentations
‘Introduction to the European Insolvency Regulation’, invited lecture, The 
Pennsylvania State University School of Law, State College, 2 April 2015. 
‘Corporate Rescue and Forum Shopping’, Faculty Presentation, University of 
Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, 14 April 2015.
‘Forum Shopping for Effective Corporate Rescue’, Faculty Presentation, The 
Pennsylvania State University School of Law, State College, 27 April 2015. 

other academic activities/achievements
Chair of Workshop ‘Financial Product Governance’, European University 
Institute, Florence, 4 – 5 June 2015.
Chair Keynote Lecture by Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff, Federal Constitutional 
Court of Germany: ‘Transnational Democracy: Jeopardised by Judges?’, Max 
Weber Programme June Conference, European University Institute, Florence, 
12 June 2015.
Commentator at Workshop ‘ERLP – The Transformation of Private Law, 
4th Meeting of the Project Advisory Board’, European University Institute, 
Florence, 18 – 19 June 2015.
Project Collaborator ‘European Regulatory Private Law’, Hans-W. Micklitz, 
Department of Law, European University Institute, Florence.

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nan zhang  
(american)

Nan received his PhD from Stanford 
University in September 2014. 
His main research interests are in 
comparative politics, with a focus on 
corruption, tax evasion, social norms 
and experimental methods. Nan will 
be continuing as a Max Weber Fellow 
2015-2016.

Email: nan.zhang@eui.eu 
EUI Affiliation: Department of Social 
and Political Sciences
EUI Mentors: Diego Gambetta and 
Sven Steinmo

activities during max Weber felloWship

selected Works in refereed Journals
‘Changing a “culture” of corruption: Evidence from an economic experiment 
in Italy’, forthcoming in Rationality and Society.
‘“Willing to Pay?” Tax Compliance in Britain and Italy: an Experimental 
Analysis’,  with Giulia Andrighetto, Stefanio Ottone, Ferruccio Ponzano, and 
Sven Steinmo.  (under review)
‘Institutions, Norms and Accountability: A Corruption Experiment with 
Northern and Southern Italians’. (under review)
‘(Not) Seeing Like the State: State Capacity, Legibility and Census Accuracy’. 
with Melissa Lee (under review)
‘Anti-Corruption Efforts and Public Opinion in China: Evidence from a 
Natural Experiment in an Autocratic Regime.’ (under review)

mWp Working paper
‘Institutions, Norms and Accountability: A Corruption Experiment with 
Northern and Southern Italians’. MWP WP 2015/06.

Working papers
`Who Fights Corruption? An Empirical Analysis of Patterns in Anti-
Corruption Enforcement: 2004-2014’.
`The Great Recession, Corruption and Institutional Trust: National and 
European Dimensions’ with Anastasia Obydenkova and Bruno Arpino. 
`Superstitious Beliefs and Migration in Vietnam: A Year of the Golden Horse 
Effect?’ with Johanna Gereke.

conference presentations
‘”Willing to Pay?” Tax Compliance in Britain and Italy: an Experimental 
Analysis.’ presented at: the EUI Experimental Workshop, October 2014; the 
AEW Conference in Barcelona, 17 October 2014; the International Meeting on 
Experimental and Behavioral Social Sciences (IMEBESS), 17 April 2015.
‘Anti-Corruption Efforts and Public Opinion in China: Evidence from a 
Natural Experiment in an Autocratic Regime.’ presented at: the Graduate 
Conference on Corruption and Anti-Corruption, University of Sussex, 12 
January 2015; the Quality of Government Institute, University of Gothenburg, 
17 March 2015; the EUI Framing and Opinion Formation Workshop, 28 May 
2015; the Max Weber Programme June Conference, 11 June 2015.
‘Institutions, Norms and Accountability: A Corruption Experiment with 
Northern and Southern Italians.’ presented at the International Meeting on 
Experimental and Behavioural Social Sciences (IMEBESS), 17 April 2015.

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