Public Lectures:- “Vielfalt als Herausforderung in Zeiten der Egalität: Religiöse und politische Ordnung(en) im Libanon“, Zürich, 10 November 2017, Kongress “Psychoanalyse – Un/Glauben – Politik: Zur Frage der Gewalt”, Psychoanalytisches Seminar Zürich (10-12 November 2017). - “Zwischen Symbiose und Konflikt: Hizballah und die UNO im Libanon”, Erfurt, 14 December 2017, Universität Erfurt, Mustafa Barzani Arbeitsstelle für kurdische Studien.

- Teaching an introductury lecture course: “Introduction to the politics, economy, and society of the Middle East” (Vorlesung, Summer semester 2017). German: Einführung in Wirtschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft im Vorderen Orient.- Teaching a graduate seminar: “Ethno-religious minorities as a challenge to statehood in the Middle East” (Hauptseminar, Summer semester 2017). German: Ethno-religiöse Minderheiten als Problem der Staatlichkeit im Nahen Osten.- Teaching a graduate… Show more - Teaching an introductury lecture course: “Introduction to the politics, economy, and society of the Middle East” (Vorlesung, Summer semester 2017). German: Einführung in Wirtschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft im Vorderen Orient.- Teaching a graduate seminar: “Ethno-religious minorities as a challenge to statehood in the Middle East” (Hauptseminar, Summer semester 2017). German: Ethno-religiöse Minderheiten als Problem der Staatlichkeit im Nahen Osten.- Teaching a graduate seminar: "Weak state, strong society, everlasting crisis: Survival modes of political order in Lebanon since 1920" (Hauptseminar, Winter semester 2016/2017). German: Schwacher Staat, starke Gesellschaft, ewige Krise: Überlebensweisen politscher Ordnung im Libanon seit 1920.Published: Thomas Scheffler, “Communalism and consociational democracy: a reply to Abbas Assi”, Global Discourse, 6:4 (2016), 673-676 (published online 09 January 2017). | DOI: 10.1080/23269995.2016.1266771. Show less

Deputy Director of the Orient-Institut (2011-2013)Coordinating research projects at the OIBOrganizing international conferences and workshopsOrganizing the institute's internal colloquiumEditing the institute's annual reportsConducting research on religion and conflict management in Lebanon

Teaching classes in Political Theory, Middle Eastern politics, and European Integration at Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut.Teaching classes in German History and European Integration at Notre Dame University--Louaizé, Zouk Mosbeh campus, Lebanon.

Teaching classes on Islam, Middle Eastern history, politics, and social relations, Middle Eastern international relations, Comparative Apocalypticism.Supervising MA and PhD theses.

Research project "Dynamics of Violence - Dynamics of Peace: Religious Hierarchies and the Domestication of Violence in Lebanon"Lectures and research papers on religious violence in the Middle East and on electoral legislation in Lebanon

Coordinator of the interdisciplinay research program (Forschungsgebietsschwrpunkt, FGS) "Ethnicity and Society: Problems of Ethnic Boundaries in Near and Middle Eastern Societies" (Ethnizität und Gesellschaft: Probleme ethnischer Grenzziehung in Gesellschaften des Vorderen und Mittleren Orients)