"Cultures of Memory" at the conference "Ten Years After: The Unification Effect" at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, December 3, 1999.

"Public Enterprise Exposed to the Global Market" at the 94th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, Massachusetts, September 3 - 6, 1998.

"Consociationalism and Economic Performance in Switzerland and Austria, 1968 - 1998" at the conference "The Fate of Consociationalism in Western Europe, 1968 - 1998" at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; May 29 - 31, 1998.

"The Rise and Impact of the Xenophobic Right" at the 11th International Conference of Europeanists, Baltimore, Maryland; February 26 - 28, 1998.

"Nationalism and Postnational Identities in Germany: The Burdens of the Past and the Future" at the Twentieth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Seattle, Washington, October 10 - 13, 1996.

"Transforming Modell Deutschland" at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, California, August 29 - September 1, 1996.

"The Thyssen Case" and "The Deutsche Bank Case" in the Business History Seminar at the Harvard Business School, November 20, 1995.

"German Capitalism" in the Business History Seminar at the Harvard Business School, October 16, 1995.

"The Harm of Hate Speech and the Moral Logic of Survivorship" at the conference "Constitutions and 'Survivor Stories'" held at the Oakes College Learning Center, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, January 13-14, 1995.

"Collective Memory and Historical Analysis: A History of Ambiguities" at the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois, January 5-8, 1995.

"The New Extreme Right in Europe" at the Ninth International Conference of Europeanists, The Palmer House, Chicago, Illinois, March 31 - April 2, 1994.

"Extremist Parties in Western Europe" at the 1993 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 2-5, 1993.

"The New Germany's Role in Europe and the World" at the Conference "Emergence: A New Generation, A New Germany, A New Europe" sponsored by the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies and held at The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, September 15-16, 1992.

"The Politics and Economics of German Unification" at the Eighth International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, Illinois, March 27-29, 1992.

"Collective Memory and National Identity" at the Eighth International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, Illinois, March 27-29, 1992.

"Labor and Politics in a Unified Germany" at the 1991 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 29-September 1, 1991.

"European Transition: East Meets West" at the annual convention of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, California, August 30-September 2, 1990.

"The Politics of Reindustrialization (and Deindustrialization)" at the 1990 Meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Portland, Maine, April 20, 21, 1990.

"The Role of Western Influences in Eastern Europe Today" at the Seventh Conference of Europeanists, Washington, D.C., March 23-25, 1990.

"Does Socialism Have a Future? Western and Eastern European Experiences" at the Seventh Conference of Europeanists, Washington, D.C., March 23-25, 1990.

"The German Trade Union Federation at Forty: Lessons from the Past, Outlook for the Future" at the 13th annual convention of the German Studies Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 5-8, 1989.

"Social Democracy and Labor in Advanced Industrial Democracies" at the annual convention of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia, August 31-September 3, 1989.

"Sports in Socialist Societies" at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 1-4, 1988.

"Political Response to Economic Change" at the 11th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, St. Louis, Missouri, October 15-18, 1987.

"Corporatism and New Social Movements" held at the joint American/West German Research Seminar on New Social Movements, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, April 2-4, 1987.

"Industrial Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany" at the Tenth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, September 26-28, 1986.

"West Germany at the Polls Again" at the Tenth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, September 26-28, 1986.

"Women and the Labor Movement" at the conference "Work and Politics: The Feminization of the Labor Force" at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, March 14-16, 1986.

"Changing Systems of Representation: Contemporary Social Movements" at the Fifth Conference of Europeanists held in Washington, D.C., October 18-20, 1985.

"Marx and History," Department of History Faculty Seminar, Wesleyan University, April 3, 1981.

"Political Sociology: Organization and Authority" at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, held at the New York Statler, March 20-22, 1981.

"People-Oriented Issues in a Comparative Setting" at the Northeastern Political Science Association, held at the Hilton Gateway in Newark, New Jersey, November 8-10, 1979.

"Migrant Labor" at the Conference on Comparative Labor Movements, held at Harvard University, October 14-19, 1977.