HANS-JOERG TRENZ - RESEARCH PROFESSOR Hans-Jörg Trenz is research professor at ARENA, and attained his habilitation at Humboldt University Berlin and a PhD in social and political sciences at the European University Institute in Florence. His main research interests are in the areas of media, communication and public sphere, civil society, European civilization and identity, migration and ethnic minorities, cultural and political sociology, social and political theory, democracy and constitutionalism in the European Union. He was formerly involved in the research framework programme "Multi-level governance" financed by the German Research Council DFG (1997-2001), in the post-graduate school "The New Europe" (Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität Berlin 2001-2003) and in the FP5 project Civil Society and Governance in Europe (Civgov 2003-2005). He is currently co-coordinating the WP "civil society and the public sphere" within the 5-year EU Commission funded project Reconstituting Democracy in the European Union (RECON:2007-11) and a European Science Foundation project on "Building the EU's social constituency", which includes four partner institutions from Spain, the UK, Germany and Norway. He is also a member of the EU FP6 network project CONNEX. Contact details: ARENA, Centre For European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway. Sognsveien 68, 3rd floor, 0855 Oslo. Phone: +47 22 85 88 16 Fax: +47 22 85 87 10 E-mail: h.j.t@arena.uio.no http://www.arena.uio.no Selected publications: (2007) "Quo vadis Europe?" Quality newspapers struggling for European unity. In J.E. Fossum, and Philipp Schlesinger (eds.). The European Union and the Public Sphere. London: Routledge. (2007) A transnational space of contention? Patterns of Europeanisation of civil society in Germany. In: Vincent della Sala, & Carlo Ruzza (eds.): Governance and Civil Society in the European Union: Normative Perspectives. Manchester: Manchester University Press. (2007) Reconciling Diversity and Unity: Language Minorities and European Integration. In Ethnicities 7(2), 157-185. (2007) Prerequisites of Democracy and Mechanisms of Democratisation. In Beate Kohler-Koch (Hrsg.). Debating the Democratic Legitimacy of the European Union. Boulder: Rowman&Littlefield (together with Klaus Eder). (2005) Europa in den Medien. Das europäische Integrationsprojekt im Spiegel nationaler Öffentlichkeit. Frankfurt a.M./New York: Campus. (2003) Bürgerschaft, Öffentlichkeit und Demokratie in Europa. Opladen: Leske und Budrich (edited together with Ansgar Klein, Ruud Koopmans, Ludger Klein, Christian Lahusen and Dieter Rucht). (2002) Zur Konstitution Politischer Öffentlichkeit in der EU. Zivilgesellschaftliche Subpolitik oder Schaupolitische Inszenierung. Baden-Baden: Nomos