- International Conference on Biological Responses to Nanoscale Particles (Veranstalter: DFG SPP1313, ZWU), Essen, September 2011
- International Literary and Cultural Studies Conference: “Cityscapes in the Americas and Beyond: Urban Complexity in Literature and Film” (with the University of Bielefeld), Bielefeld, June 2010
- “First International Symposium on Urban Systems: Healthy and Liveable Cities” (Host: Urban Systems Main Research Area, Zeche Zollverein, November 2010)
- International Conference “Romantic Cityscapes” (Host: Department of Anglophone Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen), Essen, October 2011
- “Generative Processes, Pattern Languages and the Urban Challenge”, interdisciplinary international conference on central challenges in sustainable urban development (Host: Urban Systems Main Research Area and Department of Architecture, University of Oregon, Portland), Portland, October 2011
- “Logistics of the Future”, Annual Conference of the LogistikRuhr Efficiency Cluster (Host: EffizienzCluster Management GmbH with Fraunhofer IML and ZLV), Dortmund, October 2011
- “Sustainable Logistics – An Interdisciplinary Challenge” (Host: ZLV and the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen, Effizienz- Cluster Logistik Ruhr), Essen, December 2010
- “Ecological Progress of Industrial Societies” (Host: Initiative Zukunft, Industrie e. V. and ZLV), Düsseldorf, December 2011.
