Sarah Rebecca Strömel (English)

Sarah Rebecca Strömel was born in Roding in 1993. She began studying Political Science and Philosophy at the University of Regensburg in the winter semester of 2012/2013 and successfully completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in the summer semester of 2016. Following her Bachelor's degree, she completed a consecutive Master's degree in Democracy Studies (“Demoktatiewissenschaft”) from the winter semester 2016/17 to the summer semester 2018, which she completed with an overall grade of 1.0.

From October 2015 to August 2016, Ms. Strömel worked as a research assistant for a member of the Bavarian state parliament in Nuremberg and Munich. From January 2016 to March 2022, she worked at the Chair of Political Philosophy and History of Thought (Prof. Dr. Karlfriedrich Herb) at the University of Regensburg, first as a student assistant and then as a research assistant. After completing her Master's degree, Ms. Strömel began teaching in the winter semester 2018/19. From May 2019 to March 2021, she worked at the Chair of Political Philosophy and History of Political Thought, initially as a part-time research assistant (50%) and from April 2021 to March 2022 as a full-time research assistant (100%). Since April 2022, Ms. Strömel has been working as a full-time (100%) research assistant at the Chair of Political Philosophy, Theory and History of Political Thought (focus on theories of democracy) at the University of Regensburg, which has been held by Prof. Dr. Eva Odzuck since April 2023. In addition, Ms. Strömel took up a teaching position at the Hochschule Döpfer (HSD) in Regensburg and Cologne in March 2022, where she gives lectures in the Social Work course. In December 2022, after successfully completing a series of university didactic workshops and further training courses, she was awarded the Bavarian Universities' University Teaching Certificate.

From January 2019, Ms. Strömel pursued her dissertation project on the topic of “Tocqueville and individualism in democracy”. She submitted her dissertation on 19.04.2023. The disputatio took place on 13.09.2023 and was completed by Ms. Strömel with summa cum laude.

Since November 2023, she has been employed as Assistant Professor at the Chair of Political Philosophy, Theory and History of Political Thought (focus on democratic theories) at the University of Regensburg and is pursuing her 2nd book (“Habilitationsschrift”) on various democratic-theoretical perspectives on freedom of expression and debate culture in the public sphere. 

From August to November 2025, Dr. Strömel was a visiting professor-researcher at the Universidad Católica Argentina in Buenos Aires. From November 2025 to April 2026, she was a visiting research fellow at Columbia University in New York City. From May 2026 to October 2026, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford.  

Visiting professorship at UCA, Buenos Aires (08/2025 – 11/2025):

• Second-year students – Seminar: Tocqueville and Mill

• Fourth-year students – Lecture: Theories of Democracy

Summer semester 2025

• Seminar for advanced students ("Hauptseminar"): Tocqueville and the future of democracy (in English)

• Seminar: Race and Gender in Political Theory

Winter semester 2024/25:

• Lecture: Introduction to Political Philosophy, Theory and the History of Ideas

• Seminar for advanced students ("Hauptseminar"): Michael Sandel: On the End of the Common Good (together with Dr. Dietrich Schotte; interdisciplinary seminar in cooperation with the Chair of History of Philosophy, Department for Philosophy)

• Seminar for advanced students ("Hauptseminar"): On the Decline of Democracy? Current crisis diagnoses and counter-strategies (block seminar) (together with Laura Martena, M.A.; interdisciplinary seminar in cooperation with the Academy for Political Education in Tutzing)

Summer semester 2024

• Seminar for advanced students ("Hauptseminar"): "Public sphere" as a subject of democratic theory

• Seminar: Surely it is still allowed to say that? Cancel Culture, Political Correctness and Debate Culture

Winter semester 2023/24

• Seminar: Women's Issues: Female Political Philosophy and Feminist Democratic Theory

• Seminar: Democracy in the Digital Age: Opportunities and Challenges

Summer semester 2023

• Module: Fundamentals of academic work (lecture and seminar) in the course Social Work at the HSD (Hochschule Döpfer)

• Seminar: Alexis de Tocqueville and the ambivalence of democracy

• Seminar: On the concept of democracy: Ancient, modern and postmodern definitions in the field of tension of contemporary theories of democracy

• Introductory course: Introduction to Political Philosophy and the History of Political Thought: Plato - Rousseau – Rawls

Winter semester 2022/23

• Introductory course: Introduction to Political Philosophy and the History of Political Thought: Aristotle – Hobbes – Arendt 

• Seminar: Radical Theories of Democracy

Summer semester 2022

• Module: Fundamentals of academic work (lecture and seminar) in the course Social Work at the HSD (Hochschule Döpfer)

• Seminar: Between loneliness, conspiracy theory and the “Querdenker”-movement. Corona and democracy

• Seminar: Class-Race-Mass: Does democracy live from exclusion?

Winter semester 2021/22

• Seminar: Democracy of white men? Race and gender in political theory

• Introductory course: Introduction to Political Philosophy and the History of Political Thought: Plato - Tocqueville – Taylor

Summer semester 2021

• Seminar: Does money rule the world? On the relationship between politics and economics in the history of thought (together with Alfred Reichenberger, M.A.; interdisciplinary seminar in cooperation with the Chair of Economic and Social History, Department of History)

Winter semester 2020/21

• Seminar: Class - Race - Mass: Does democracy live from exclusion? I

• Seminar: Class - Race - Mass: Does democracy live from exclusion? II

(Due to the high demand from students, the seminar was offered twice)
Ms. Strömel's exercise was included in the DVPW's Outstanding Teaching in German Political Science series.)

Summer semester 2020

• Seminar for advanced students ("Hauptseminar"): In Search of the Individual: Individualism in Political Science, Philosophy, Sociology and Psychology (together with Prof. Dr. Gerson Brea)

• Introductory course: Introduction to Political Philosophy: Plato - Rousseau - Rawls

Winter semester 2019/20

• Pratical seminar. Politics and lethargy: Do we need new forms of political participation? (Together with William Funke, M.A.)

• Introductory course: Introduction to Political Philosophy: Plato - Rousseau - Arendt

Summer semester 2019

• Introductory course: Introduction to Political Philosophy: Plato - Rousseau – Rawls

Winter semester 2018/19

• Seminar: Religion as the opium of the people? On the political dimension of the concept of religion in Marx and Tocqueville

• Tutorial for the lecture Introduction to Political Philosophy and the History of Political Thought

Winter semester 2017/18

• Tutorial for the lecture Introduction to Political Philosophy and the History of Political Thought

Winter semester 2016/17

• Tutorial for the lecture Introduction to Political Philosophy and the History of Political Thought

Monographs:

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca (2023): Tocqueville und der Individualismus in der Demokratie, Wiesbaden, Springer VS.

◦ reviewed in ZfP issue 4/2024 (Zeitschrift für Politik, Nomos Verlag) by Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin Schönherr-Mann (LMU Munich)
◦ reviewed in PhR issue 4/2024 (Philosophische Rundschau, Mohr Siebeck Verlag)

Editorships:

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca (2026): Das politische Denken der Gegenwart. Ein Handbuch (with 71 articles), Berlin: Suhrkamp (with Prof. Dr. Dr. Manfred Brocker, im Erscheinen).

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca (2026): Special Issue “Democracy in Crisis: Tocqueville’s Theory of Democracy and Its Relevance in the Age of Global De-Democratization”, in: The Tocqueville Review (scheduled for November 2026 with Prof. Dr. Eva Helene Odzuck).

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca (2026): Jahrbuch Politisches Denken, Band 35(2025/26), Berlin: Duncker & Humblot (with Prof. Dr. Dr. Manfred Brocker, Prof. Dr. Jan-Werner Müller, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Julian Nida-Rümelin und Prof. Dr. Eva Helene Odzuck).

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca (2025): Special Issue “Public Reason and Rawlsian Citizens: Of Truth, Virtues, and Vices in the Digital Age”, in: The Review of Politics, 87 (3) (with Prof. Dr. Daniel Eggers und Prof. Dr. Eva Helene Odzuck).

Blog Editorships: 

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca (Hg.): Themenschwerpunkt Demokratie [Democracy], auf: praefaktisch.de, 2023.

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca (Hg.): Themenschwerpunkt Rassismus [Racism], auf praefaktisch.de, 2023.

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca (Hg.): Zum Kant-Jahr: Kant als politischer Philosoph [The relevance of Kant's Political Philosophy in Kant Year], auf praefaktisch.de, 2024, (in cooperation with theorieblog).

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca (Hg.): Die Philosophin, die keine sein wollte: Zum 50. Todestag von Hannah Arendt [The philosopher who didn't want to be one: On the 50th anniversary of Hannah Arendt's death], auf praefaktisch.de, 2025.

Articles and chapters in peer reviewed journals/edited books/handbooks and others:

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca (2026): 4. John S. Dryzek, Deliberative Democracy and Beyond: Liberals, Critics, Contestations (2000), in: Brocker, M. und Strömel, S.R.: Das politische Denken der Gegenwart. Ein Handbuch, Berlin: Suhrkamp (forthcoming).

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca (2026): Introduction to Special Issue „Democracy in Crisis: Tocqueville’s Theory of Democracy and Its Relevance in the Age of Global De-Democratization”, in: The Tocqueville Review (planed for November 2026, with Prof. Dr. Eva Helene Odzuck).

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca (2026): Tocqueville's Individualistic Democracy in the Age of Social Media: Lessons for Today, in Special Issue „Democracy in Crisis: Tocqueville’s Theory of Democracy and Its Relevance in the Age of Global De-Democratization”, in: The Tocqueville Review (planed for November 2026).

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca (2026): Constitutionalism, in: Schröder, P.: Handbook of Early Modern European History of Political Thought (forthcoming as Handbookarticle by Oxford University Press).

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca (2026): Feelings/Passions, in: Campagna, N., Hidalgo, O., and Krause, S.: Handbook to Tocqueville: Life – Work –Reception, (forthcoming January 2026).

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca and Seidenthal, Sven (2026): Individualism, in: Campagna, N., Hidalgo, O., and Krause, S.: Handbook to Tocqueville: Life –Work – Reception, ( forthcoming January 2026).

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca (2026): Intersectionality, in: Campagna, N., Hidalgo, O., and Krause, S.: Handbook to Tocqueville: Life – Work –Reception, (im Erscheinen Januar 2026).

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca (2026): Private/Public, in: Campagna, N., Hidalgo, O., and Krause, S.: Handbook to Tocqueville: Life – Work – Reception, (im Erscheinen Januar 2026).

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca und Watzinger, Lea (2025): Transparenz und Deplatforming als Strategien der Debatte im digitalen öffentlichen Raum, in: Global Media Journal - German Edition, 15 (2).

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca (2025): Introduction to Special Issue “Public Reason and Rawlsian Citizens: Of Truth, Virtues, and Vices in the Digital Age”, in: The Review of Politics, 87 (3) (mit Prof. Dr. Daniel Eggers und Prof. Dr. Eva Helene Odzuck).

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca (2025): Tocqueville und seine ambivalente Position zum Rassismus im intersektionalen Spannungsfeld, in: Dübgen, F., Martinez Mateo, M. und Sonderegger, R.: Philosophie und Rassismus: Debatten und Kontroversen, Weilerswist-Metternich, Velbrück Wissenschaft, S. 79-95.

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca und Funke, William (2024): Über Diskriminierung lernen: Race, gender, Intersektionalität und das Planspiel als Methode in der schulischen politischen Bildung, in: Bechtel, Theresa et al.: Why focus on gender? Gender und intersektionale Perspektiven in der politischen Bildung, Frankfurt a.M., Wochenschauverlag, p. 99-121.

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca (2024): Gefühle/Leidenschaften, in: Campagna, N., Hidalgo, O. und Krause, S.: Tocqueville Handbuch. Leben – Werk – Wirkung, Stuttgart, J.B. Metzler Verlag.

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca und Seidenthal, Sven (2024): Individualismus, in: Campagna, N., Hidalgo, O. und Krause, S.: Tocqueville Handbuch. Leben – Werk – Wirkung, Stuttgart, J.B. Metzler Verlag.

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca (2024): Intersektionalität, in: Campagna, N., Hidalgo, O. und Krause, S.: Tocqueville Handbuch. Leben – Werk – Wirkung, Stuttgart, J.B. Metzler Verlag.

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca (2024): Privates/Öffentliches, in: Campagna, N., Hidalgo, O. und Krause, S.: Tocqueville Handbuch. Leben – Werk – Wirkung, Stuttgart, J.B. Metzler Verlag.

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca und Herb, Karlfriedrich (2022): Lonely Hearts. Tocqueville and Democratic Individualism, in: Latin American Human Rights Studies (LAHRS), 2: p. 1-25. 

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca und Herb, Karlfriedrich (2021): Demokratie als geschlossene Gesellschaft? Tocqueville und der Rassismus in Amerika, in Haus, M., Jörke, D., Traußneck, M. et al.: Debatte: Rassismus und politische Ideengeschichte. Politische Vierteljahresschrift (PVS), 62 (4): p. 671 – 694, Springer VS.

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca (2021): Querfühlen statt Querdenken? Tocqueville zu Solidarität, Gemeinsinn und Individualismus in Zeiten von Corona, auf: praefaktisch.de, Link to the article

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca (2021): Eine Frage des Gefühls. Alexis de Tocqueville und die Emotionalisierung der Politik, in: Helfritzsch, Paul und Müller Hipper, Jörg: Die Emotionalisierung des Politischen, Bielefeld, transcript Verlag, p. 19-42.Strömel, Sarah Rebecca und Herb, Karlfriedrich (2020): Tocquevilles Mutmaßungen über die Zukunft der Demokratie, in: Blick in die Wissenschaft 41 (29): p. 30-34, Universitätsverlag Regensburg.

• Strömel, Sarah Rebecca und Herb, Karlfriedrich (2019): Einsame Herzen. Tocqueville und die Demokratie, in: Zeitschrift für Politik (ZfP), 66 (4): p. 365-383, Nomos.

2nd BOOK (“HABILITATIONSSCHRIFT”)

The limits of what can be said in public: Democratic-theoretical perspectives on the relationship between freedom of speech and the protection of democracy in the (digital) public sphere

In her habilitation project, Ms. Strömel examines the relationship between freedom of speech and the protection of democracy, i.e. the question of where the boundaries of what can be said publicly should be drawn on a societal-normative level, from various perspectives of democratic theory (liberal, republican, deliberative and radical/agonal). As a second step, various debate regulation strategies (e.g. cancel culture, de-platforming or counter speech) are categorized in terms of democratic theory.

DISSERTATION/PHD

Tocqueville and individualism in democracy

Dr. Strömel's phd is dedicated to the phenomenon of individualism in Alexis de Tocqueville works. In doing so, a text-immanent analysis of individualism in Tocqueville works is carried out, which takes into account all of Tocqueville's writings and examines the question of the extent to which a new possible way of interpreting his theory of democracy emerges from an analysis of his individualism. In addition, autobiographical references to Tocqueville are established to illuminate the phenomenon of individualism as comprehensively and differentiatedly as possible.

The dissertation is thus intended both as a contribution to Tocqueville research and as an addition to the interdisciplinary debate on individualism.

The dissertation was submitted to the Faculty of Philosophy, Art, History and Social Sciences at the University of Regensburg on April 19, 2023. The disputation took place on 13.09.2023, which Ms. Strömel completed summa cum laude.

• Democratic Theory Perspectives on the Vulgarization of Public Debate (9. Februar 2026, Indiana University Bloomington (IU), Bloomington bei Indianapolis, USA, at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Aurelian Crăiuţu)

• Tocquevilles Individualistic Democratic Theory (11. Februar 2026, Indiana University Bloomington (IU), Bloomington bei Indianapolis, USA, at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Aurelian Crăiuţu)

• Can You Still Trust Your Feelings? On Emotions that Promote Democracy (27. Januar 2026, Vorlesung im Rahmen der Ring-Vorlesung “Passau Lectures on Political Emotions“, Universität Passau, auf Einladung von Dr. Stefan Christoph und Dr. Diana Mistreanu)

• The Political Philosophy of the 19th Century:  Alexis de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill (27. Oktober 2025, Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA), Buenos Aires, Argentina, at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Mario Leonardo Miceli)

• Fake it till you make it? Democratic Theories on Deepfakes (21. Oktober 2025, Conference: Social Media and the Internet as Challenges to Democracy: Latin America and Europe in comparison, 20. – 21. Oktober 2025, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

• Diskutantin auf dem Podium mit Journalisten und Breiter Öffentlichkeit: Desafíos para la democracia en tiempos de transformacíon digital (20. Oktober 2025, Conference: Social Media and the Internet as Challenges to Democracy: Latin America and Europe in comparison, 20. – 21. Oktober 2025, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

• Communitarianism, Multiculturalism and the German "Leitkultur"-Debate: The Role of Identities in Democracies (14. Oktober 2025, Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA), Buenos Aires, Argentinien, at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Joaquín Migliore)

• The Limits of what can be said in Public: Democratic Theories on Debate Culture in the (digital) Public Sphere (30. September 2025, Colloquium Research Group Sciencias Sociales, Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA), Buenos Aires, Argentina)

• The Louder You Shout, the Better Your Arguments? Debate Culture in the Digital Age of Liberal Democracy (26. September 2025, Symposium: Liberal Democracy? Inherent tensions, external pressure and institutional re-arrangements, 25. September – 27. September 2025, University of Innsbruck, Austria, at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Marie-Luisa Frick)

• Deliberative or Radical Democracy? Habermas vs. Mouffe (08. September 2025, Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA), Buenos Aires, Argentinien, at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Mauro Saiz)

• Blogs als Medium öffentlicher Philosophie: Übersicht und Diskussion von Beispielen (23. Juli 2025, Workshop: Philosophie in der Öffentlichkeit: Wie schreibe ich für Philosophische Blogs?, organisiert von PhilPublica und der Akademie für Politische Bildung, Tutzing, 23. Juli – 25. Juli 2025, Akademie für Politische Bildung, Tutzing).

• Tocqueville's Individualistic Democracy in the Age of Social Media: Lessons for Today (29. Mai 2025, Conference: Democracy in crisis: Tocqueville’s theory of democracy and it‘s relevance in the age of (global) de-democratization, 28. Mai – 30. Mai 2025, University of Regensburg)

• Transparenz und De-Platforming als Strategien der Debatte im digitalen öffentlichen Raum [Transparency and de-platforming as strategies for debate in the digital public sphere] (March 21, 2025, DVPW Theory Conference: Politische Öffentlichkeit: Strukturen March 19 - March 21, 2025, University of Erfurt).

• Die Krise der demokratischen Debattenkultur [The crisis of democratic debate culture] (March 1, 2025, conference: “Und was nützt ein Argument, das die Menschen nicht bewegt?” Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Argumentation in Politik und Gesellschaft March 01 - March 02, 2025, Academy for Political Education, Tutzing).

• Demokratietheoretische Perspektiven zur Debattenkultur in der digitalisierten Öffentlichkeit: Chancen und Herausforderungen [Democratic-theoretical perspectives on the culture of debate in the digitized public sphere: opportunities and challenges] (19. September 2024, XI. Tagung für Praktische Philosophie, organized by of the University of Passau, 19-20 September 2024, Passau)

• Panelist on the panel for the round table “Öffentliche Philosophie – Philosophie im öffentlichen Raum” [Public Philosophy - Philosophy in the Public Sphere] (19.09.2024, XI. Tagung für Praktische Philosophie, organized by the University of Passau, 19-20 September 2024, Passau)

• Comment to the paper “Rawls, Education, and the Digitized Public Sphere” by Prof. Dr. Julian Culp (American University of Paris) (13. März 2024, Conference: Duties of Civility: Rawl's theory of deliberative democracy and its relevance in the digital age, organized by the University of Regensburg, 11. March – 13. March 2024, Regensburg)

• Comment to the paper “Adam Ferguson, Thomas Hobbes and the Return to Politics” by Signy Gutnick Allen (Universität Zürich) (10. August 2023, Conference: Hobbes and the Enlightenment, organized by the University of Regensburg, 08. August – 10. August 2023, Regensburg)

• Unter dem Deckmantel der Demokratie. Tyrannei und Despotismus bei Rousseau und Tocqueville [In democratic disguise. Tyranny and despotism in Rousseau and Tocqueville] (08 August 2023, together with Prof. Dr Karlfriedrich Herb, conference: Die Figur des Tyrannen, Summer Academy of the Academy for Political Education, 07 August - 10 August 2023, Tutzing)

• Tocqueville und die Ambivalenz des Rassismus im intersektionalen Spannungsfeld [Tocqueville and the ambivalence of racism in the intersectional field of tension] (06 October 2022, Conference: Philosophy and Racism, organised by the University of Münster, 6 October - 10 October 2022, Münster

• Workshop: Das Planspiel als Methode im Bereich Race und Gender in der schulischen politischen Bildung [The simulation game as a method in the field of race and gender] (08 July 2022, together with William Funke M.A., conference: Why focus on gender? Gender and intersectional perspectives in political education, organised by the University of Potsdam in cooperation with the Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt in Bremen and the Gesellschaft für Politikdidaktik und politische Jugend- und Erwachsenenbildung (GPJE), 07 July - 08 July 2022, Potsdam)

• Class – Race – Gender. Tocquevilles Demokratie als geschlossene Gesellschaft [Class - Race - Gender. Tocqueville's Democracy as a Closed Society] (25 June 2020, Advanced Lecture "Race - Class - Gender. Shady sides of the Enlightenment", University of Regensburg)

• Von Kant zu Tocqueville: Ungleichheit unter gleichen Bedingungen [From Kant to Tocqueville: Inequality under equal conditions] (18 June 2020, together with Prof. Dr Karlfriedrich Herb, advanced lecture "Race - Class - Gender. Shady sides of the Enlightenment", University of Regensburg)

• Zwischen Hoffnungsträgern und Volksverführern: Populismus in Brasilien und Deutschland [Between beacons of hope and popular seducers. Populism in Brazil and Germany] (24 January 2020, Science Café on the topic: Populism in Latin America and Germany, organised by the Central Institute for Latin American Studies (ZILAS) of the Catholic University of Eichstätt, Eichstätt)

• Wie der Individualismus die Demokratie bei Tocqueville in den Abgrund treibt [How individualism drives democracy into the abyss in Tocqueville’s works] (23 January 2020, 27th conference of the Bavarian Doctoral College for Political Theory on the topic: Gefahr im Verzug. Aktuelle Herausforderungen der Demokratie, 22 January - 24 January 2020, Frankenakademie Schloss Schney near Bamberg)

• Wie die Demokratie das Volk das fürchten lehrte [How the people taught democracy to fear] (22 January 2020, together with Prof. Dr Karlfriedrich Herb and William Funke, M.A., keynote speech at the 27th conference of the Bavarian Doctoral College for Political Theory on the topic: Gefahr im Verzug. Aktuelle Herausforderungen der Demokratie, 22 January - 24 January 2020, Frankenakademie Schloss Schney near Bamberg)

• Tocqueville, Gleichheit und Demokratie [Tocqueville. Equality and Democracy] (19 December 2019, together with Prof. Dr Karlfriedrich Herb, lecture ‘Introduction to Political Philosophy and the History of Political Thought’, University of Regensburg)

• Alexis de Tocqueville und die Emotionalisierung der Demokratie [Alexis de Tocqueville and the emotionalisation of politics] (23 November 2019, Conference: Die Emotionalisierung des Politischen, organised by the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 21 November - 24 November 2019, Jena)

• Tocqueville and the individualism within democracies (11 October 2019, International and interdisciplinary doctoral workshop in cooperation with Masaryk University Brno, 11 October - 13 October 2019, Telč, Czech Republic)

• Between populism, despotism and individualism. Alexis de Tocqueville on contemporary questions in Brazilian and German society (07. Oktober 2019, Worskshop: From Bavaria/Germany to São Paulo/Brazil: The making of science, arts and knowledge in an entanglement perspective, 07. Oktober - 11. Obtober 2019, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)

• Tocqueville und der Individualismus in der Demokratie [Tocqueville and the individualism within democracy] (25 July 2019, Day of Young Researchers, organised by the Doctoral College of the PUR Faculties of Philosophy, Haus der Begegnung Regensburg)

• Tour d'horizon (31 January 2019, together with Prof. Dr Karlfriedrich Herb, lecture ‘Introduction to Political Philosophy and the History of Political Thought’, University of Regensburg)

• Einsame Herzen. Tocquevilles Spekulationen über die Zukunft der Demokratie [Lonely hearts. Tocqueville's speculations on the future of democracy] (21 November 2018, together with Prof. Dr Karlfriedrich Herb, as part of the lecture series ‘Democracy - the best form of rule?’, University of Regensburg)

• Tour d'horizon (5 July 2018, together with Prof. Dr Karlfriedrich Herb, lecture ‘Freedom and Rule: Constellations of Political Modernity’, University of Regensburg)

• Tour d'horizon (1 February 2018, together with Prof. Dr Karlfriedrich Herb, lecture ‘Introduction to Political Philosophy and the History of Political Thought’, University of Regensburg)

• Tour d'horizon (20 July 2017, together with Prof. Dr Karlfriedrich Herb, lecture ‘Multikulti als Leitkultur?!’, University of Regensburg)

• Tour d'horizon (2 February 2017, together with Prof. Dr Karlfriedrich Herb, lecture ‘Introduction to Political Philosophy and the History of Political Thought’, University of Regensburg)