Frontier Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities: what does it mean, what can it mean?
ISSC-ICPHS workshop Bergen May 2009

From the voyage of the Beagle to Sorcerer II: What kind of transfomation?
University of Zurich, Darwin in Science and Society, Zurich, September 2009

The Passions and the Interests: what has STS to say about climate Change?
University of Copenhagen, Workshop on "Science Studies Meet Climate Change", Copenhagen, April 2009

The search for quality: a (pre)view of 21st century education and research in universities in Europe
PASOK, Round Tabel discussion "Tertiary education in Greece: The preconditions for a modern university", March 2009

Exzellenz erkennt man wenn man ihr begegnet
Vienna University of Economics and Business, Prämienveranstaltung, March 2009

Real science is excellent science - how to interpret post-academic science, Mode 2 and the ERC
First published in: JCOM - Journal of Science Communication 5 (4), December 2006 [http://jcom.sissa.it]

Innovationskultur - zur Produktion neuen Wissens
AutoUni Wolfsburg, " Wie Neues entsteht - Innovationskultur als Unternehmenskultur". February 2007

Science policy advice
Seminar "Scientific Advice and Policy Making: Where Are We Heading?", Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 22-23 January 2008

Putting the "limits of science" into context
"Knowledge Production and its Constraints: epistemic and societal considerations", Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 25 - 26 October 2007

The Potential of Transdisciplinarity
First published in: interdisciplines May 2006, [http://www.interdisciplines.org]