• Encirclement and brotherhood in arms. The public interpretation of war and nation in Germany 1850-1871, Göttingen 2003.

• Diagnoses of the present. Cultural Forms of Social Self-Problematisation in Modernity (ed. with Thomas Alkemeyer and Thomas Etzemüller). Bielefeld: Transcript, 2019.
• Reflexive Responsibilisation. Responsibility for Sustainable Development (ed. with Anna Henkel, Lars Hochmann and Nico Luedtke). Bielefeld: Transcript, 2018.
• Subject and Violence in Law (=Archive for Legal and Social Philosophy, 101/4) (ed. with Maxi Berger, Nils Baratella, Philip Hogh and Michael Städtler). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner 2015.
• On the transformation of an ideal. Education, University and Society in Germany (ed. with Ute Planert). Bonn: Dietz, 2010.
• Loyalty. Political Loyalty and Military Allegiance in the Modern Age (ed. with Karl Borromäus Murr). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008.
• The War in the Founding Myths of European Nations and the USA (ed. with Dieter Langewiesche). Frankfurt am Main / New York: Campus, 2004.
• The experience of war. Perspectives on the History of Experience from the French Revolution to the First World War (ed. with Horst Carl). Paderborn: Schöningh, 2001.

• Practical theory: "Doing responsibility". Responsibilisation in the context of sustainability (with Jędrzej Sulmowski). In: Thomas Barth / Anna Henkel (eds.): 10 minutes of sociology: sustainability. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2020, pp. 101-114.
• The imaginary of practice. Deployment sites for a critical theory of practice using the example of contemporary diagnoses (with Thomas Alkemeyer). In: Regine Herbrik / Tobias Schlechtriemen (eds.): Einsatzpunkte und Spielräume des sozialen Imaginären in der Soziologie (=Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Special Issue 18). Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2019, pp. 117-138.
• Intervening thinking. Ethnographic practice as a political force (with Thomas Alkemeyer, Jędrzej Sulmowski). In: Nicole Burzan (ed.): Complex Dynamics of Global and Local Developments. Proceedings of the 39th Congress of the German Sociological Association in Göttingen 2018. Göttingen 2019.
• Sustainability as a diagnostic programme. In: Thomas Alkemeyer / Nikolaus Buschmann / Thomas Etzemüller (eds.): Gegenwartsdiagnosen. Cultural Forms of Social Self-Problematisation in the Modern Age. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2019, pp. 439-459.
• Responsibility for the future. On the diagnostification of the relationship between humans and nature after 1945. In: Nikolaus Buschmann / Anna Henkel / Lars Hochmann / Nico Luedtke (eds.): Reflexive Responsibilisation. Responsibility for sustainable development. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2018, pp. 211-231.
• From "responsibility" to "doing responsibility". Subjectivation-theoretical aspects of sustainability-related responsibilisation (with Jędrzej Sulmowski). In: Nikolaus Buschmann / Anna Henkel / Lars Hochmann / Nico Luedtke (eds.): Reflexive Responsibilisation. Responsibility for sustainable development. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2018, pp. 281-295.
• Learning in and across Practices. Enablement as Subjectivation (with Thomas Alkemeyer). In: Elizabeth Shove / Allison Hui / Theodore Schatzki (eds.): The Nexus of Practices: Connections, constellations, practitioners. London: Routledge, 2017, pp. 8-23.
• Enabling. Practice-theoretical reflections on the subjectivisation of co-playability (with Thomas Alkemeyer). In: Markus Rieger-Ladich / Christian Grabau (eds.): Pierre Bourdieu: Pedagogical Readings. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2017, pp. 271-297.
• Critique in Praxis: Arguments for a Subjectivation theoretical Expansion on Practice Theory (with Thomas Alkemeyer and Matthias Michaeler). In: Michael Jonas / Beate Billig (eds.): Praxeological Political Analysis. London: Routledge, 2017, pp. 67-83.
• Practices of Subjectivation - Subjectivation as Practice (with Thomas Alkemeyer). In: Hilmar Schäfer (ed.): Practice Theory. A research programme. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2016, pp. 115-136.
• Critique of practice. Plea for a subjectivisation-theoretical extension of practice theories (with Thomas Alkemeyer and Matthias Michaeler). In: Thomas Alkemeyer / Volker Schürmann / Jörg Volbers (eds.): Praxis denken. Concepts and Critique. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2015, pp. 25-50.
• The Submission of Conscience and the Autonomy of the Subject. Historical Approaches to a Fundamental Problem of Political Ethics. In: Stephan Schaede / Thorsten Moos (eds.): The Conscience. Tübingen: Mohr, 2015, pp. 495-510.
• Contested narratives. On the self-education of the Prussian officer, enlightened citizen and emancipated Jew Meno Burg (1789-1853). In: Dagmar Freist (ed.): Discourses - Bodies - Artefacts. Historical praxeology in early modern research. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2015, pp. 57-85.
• Personality and historical world. On the praxeological conceptualisation of the subject in historiography. In: Thomas Alkemeyer / Gunilla Budde / Dagmar Freist (eds.): Self-formations. Social and cultural practices of subjectivation. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2013, pp. 125-149.
• From subject soldier to citizen soldier? On the transformation of military concepts of loyalty around 1800. In: Yearbook of the Simon Dubnow Institute, 12, 2013, pp. 105-126.
• Loyalty and betrayal. On the Semantics of Political Loyalty in Germany from the Wars of Liberation to the Weimar Republic. In: Manuel Borutta / Nina Verheyen (eds.): The Presence of Feelings. Masculinity and Emotion in the Modern Age. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2010, pp. 129-151.
• Between passion and discipline. Emantics of loyalty in the symbolic-political conflicts of modern German history. In: Arcadia. International Journal of Literary Studies, 44, 2009, pp. 106-120.
• "A Song of Songs of Heroism and Heroic Loyalty": The Nibelung epic in the self-image of the German nation. In: Matteo Galli / Heinz-Peter Preußer (eds.): German Founding Myths. From the Battle of Hermann to the "Miracle of Bern" (=Jahrbuch Literatur und Politik, Neue Fassung, vol. 2). Heidelberg: Winter, 2008, pp. 79-90.
• The Invention of German Loyalty. From semantic innovation to the ideology of allegiance. In: Nikolaus Buschmann / Karl Borromäus Murr (eds.): Treue. Political loyalty and military allegiance in the modern age. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008, pp. 75-109.
• "Loyalty" as a research concept? Conceptual and methodological explorations (together with Karl Borromäus Murr). In: Nikolaus Buschmann / Karl Borromäus Murr (eds.): Treue. Political Loyalty and Military Allegiance in the Modern Age. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008, pp. 11-35.
• Between the Federative Nation and the National State: Public Perceptions of the Foundation of the German Empire in Southern Germany and Austria. In: Laurence Cole (ed.): Different Paths to the Nation. Regional and National Identities in Central Europe and Italy, 1830-1870. Hampshire: Palgrave, 2007, pp. 157-179.
• Types of war: Begriffsgeschichtliche Bilanz in deutschen, russischen und sowjetischen Lexika und Enzyklopädien (with Ingrid Schierle and Christoph Mick). In: Dietrich Beyrau / Michael Hochgeschwender / Dieter Langewiesche (eds.): Forms of War. From Antiquity to the Present. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2007, pp. 17-50.
• "Dem Vertilgungskriege Grenzen setzen": Kriegstypen des 19. Jahrhunderts und der deutsch-französische Krieg 1870/71 (together with Dieter Langewiesche). In: Dietrich Beyrau / Michael Hochgeschwender / Dieter Langewiesche (eds.): Forms of War. From Antiquity to the Present. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2007, pp. 163-195.
• God's judgement of wrath. Nation, religion and war between the Vormärz and the founding of the Reich. In: Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte, 25, 2006. p. 31-47.
• "The tribes of Germany must be melted together in cannon fire". Zur Konstruktion nationaler Einheit in den Kriegen der Reichsgründungsphase, in: Nikolaus Buschmann / Dieter Langewiesche (eds.): Der Krieg in den Gründungsmythen europäischer Nationen und der USA. Frankfurt am Main / New York: Campus, 2004, pp. 99-119.
• Defeat as retrospective victory? The decision of 1866 from the perspective of the historical losers. In: Horst Carl / Hans-Henning Kortüm / Dieter Langewiesche / Friedrich Lenger (eds.): Kriegsniederlagen. Experiences and Memories. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2004, pp. 123-143.
• "Good and blood for Germany". The public interpretation of war and nation in the period of the foundation of the Reich - Württemberg in comparison. In: Zeitschrift für württembergische Landesgeschichte, 62, 2003, pp. 345-357.
• The "modern glamourisation" of war. War reporting and public communication on the threshold of the age of mass communication (1850-1870). In: Nikolaus Buschmann / Horst Carl (eds.): Die Erfahrung des Krieges. Perspectives on the History of Experience from the French Revolution to the Second World War. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2001, pp. 97-123.
• Approaches to the experiential history of war: research, theory, questions (together with Horst Carl). In: Nikolaus Buschmann / Horst Carl (eds.): Die Erfahrung des Krieges. Perspectives on the History of Experience from the French Revolution to the Second World War. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2001, pp. 11-26.
• The construction of historical experience. New paths to an experiential history of war (together with Aribert Reimann). In: Nikolaus Buschmann / Horst Carl (eds.), Die Erfahrung des Krieges. Perspectives on the History of Experience from the French Revolution to the Second World War. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2001, pp. 261-271.
• Resurrection of the nation? Denomination and nationalism before the foundation of the Reich in the debate among Jewish, Protestant and Catholic circles. In: Heinz-Gerhard Haupt / Dieter Langewiesche (eds.): Nation und Religion in der deutschen Geschichte. Frankfurt am Main / New York: Campus, 2001, pp. 333-388.
• Crisis and Downfall of Political Theology. On the relationship between religion and politics in the environment of the Evangelische Kirchenzeitung. In: Pietism and Modern Times, 27, 2001, pp. 165-184.
• National community and brotherhood in arms. Nationalism and war experience in Germany between the 'November crisis' and the 'fratricidal war'. In: Dieter Langewiesche / Georg Schmidt (eds.): Föderative Nation. Concepts of Germany from the Reformation to the First World War. Munich: Oldenbourg, 2000, pp. 83-111.
• The Charisma of War: Bellicism and the Understanding of Nation in Post-Revolutionary Society. In: Roland Lang / Margarete Lorinser (eds.): Die Revolution hat Konjunktur. Social movements, everyday life and politics in the revolution of 1848/49. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 1999, pp. 239-245.
• The silent war: Communication between the front and the home front. In: Gerhard Hirschfeld / Gerd Krumeich / Dieter Langewiesche / Hans-Peter Ullmann (eds.): Kriegserfahrungen. Studies on the Social and Mental History of the First World War. Essen: Klartext, 1997, pp. 208-224.

• Ambivalences and voids of sustainability. What contributions can cultural studies perspectives make (with Katharina Buss, Nikolai Drews, Sabrina Gavars, Anna Henkel, Lars Hochmann, Nico Lüdtke and Yen Sulmowski)? Lüneburg, 15-16 February 2018.
• Authors' conference: Diagnoses of the present. Cultural Forms of Social Self-Problematisation (with Thomas Alkemeyer, Thomas Etzemüller and Rea Kodalle). Oldenburg, 05-07 April 2017.
• Reflexive Responsibilisation. Responsibility for sustainable development (with Katharina Buss, Nikolai Drews, Sabrina Gavars, Anna Henkel, Lars Hochmann, Nico Lüdtke and Yen Sulmowski). Lüneburg, 08-10 February 2017.
• German-Japanese Workshop: Genealogy of the Subject (with Thomas Alkemeyer and Rea Kodalle). Oldenburg, 01-03 December 2015.
• Diagnoses of the present. Modelling society from an interdisciplinary perspective (with Thomas Alkemeyer and Rea Kodalle). Oldenburg, 08-10 October 2015.
• Prevention, Intervention and Responsibilisation. On the genealogy and cultural effectiveness of contemporary diagnoses (with Nicolai Hannig, Rea Kodalle and Malte Thießen). Oldenburg, 01-02 July 2015.
• Subject and Violence in Law (with Thomas Alkemeyer, Nils Baratella, Maxi Berger, Thomas Gutman, Philip Hogh and Michael Städtler). Oldenburg, 11-13 September 2014.
• Forgotten Categories of Social Integration: Honour, Loyalty and Trust as Aspects of a Cultural History of Politics (with Birgit Aschmann). Historikertag Dresden, 03.10.2008).
• Bildung, Universität und Gesellschaft in Deutschland (with Friedrich Lenger, Sylvia Paletschek, Ute Planert and Cornelia Rauh-Kühne). Tübingen, 25-26 January 2008.
• "Treu bis in den Tod" - Loyalty and allegiance in modern wars (with Karl Borromäus Murr). Blaubeuren, 07-09 April 2005.
• War in the founding myths of European nations and the USA (with Dieter Langewiesche). Blaubeuren, 21-23 November 2002.
• Perspectives on the History of Experience from the French Revolution to the First World War (with Horst Carl). Tübingen, 2 - 3 June 2000.

Further conferences, workshops and series of lectures jointly organised within the framework of the academic centre "Genealogy of the Present" can be found here.