Talks & Presentations

Selected talks, keynote lectures, invited lectures, roundtables, workshop presentations, and chaired panels.

2026
4 September 2026

Teaching American Studies When Freedom Is Under Attack

Roundtable organization and respondent, EAAS Conference, University of Bologna, Italy.

3 September 2026

Defending Academic Freedom: Transatlantic Perspectives on American Studies

Roundtable discussion with ASA President Alex Lubin and AISNA President Andrea Carosso, EAAS Conference, University of Bologna, Italy.

2 September 2026

Fighting for Freedom in the Anthropocene? Ecology and Warfare in Contemporary US Culture

Roundtable respondent, EAAS Conference, University of Bologna, Italy.

18 June 2026

Changing Times, Changing Memory: Commemorating COVID-19

Invited keynote lecture, 46th APEAA Conference, The Times They Are A-Changin’, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

12 May 2026

New Disciplines and Critical Theory in American Studies

Roundtable presentation, ASC Anniversary Symposium, American Studies: Pasts, Presents, Futures, University of Warsaw, Poland.

11 April 2026

Declarations of Interdependence: Teaching American Studies Now

Roundtable organization and respondent, Annual Conference of the British Association for American Studies, Glasgow, Scotland.

2025
21 November 2025

From Solidarity to Sustainability: Renewing Reciprocal American Studies

Roundtable presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Late-Stage American Empire?, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

4 October 2025

Ruptures of History / History of Ruptures

Introductory presentation.

Also: “Scholarly Responsibility when Academic Freedom Is under Pressure,” roundtable presentation.

International Conference of the AAAS, Ruptures, Fractures, Discontinuities: Troubling American Studies, University of Vienna, Austria.

23 September 2025

Communicating and Performing the Climate Crisis: Fiction, Drama, and Environmental Justice

Plenary lecture, International Symposium, Education for Sustainable Development, Konstanz and Kreuzlingen, Germany and Switzerland.

10 April 2025

Bearing Life in an Age of Extinction: Motherhood, Narrative Overwhelm, and Environmental Resistance

Introductory presentation, EAAS Women’s Network Symposium, The Gendered Anthropocene, Karlstad University, Sweden.

7 March 2025

Commemorating Covid-19 in the United States (and Beyond): Memory, Media and Memorialization

International Academic Conference United States: Politics, Society, and Culture–2025, Kyiv / Online.

20 February 2025

Theatre Action for Climate Justice: New Ways of Sustainable Community Education

Invited guest lecture with Angelika Ilg, Egerton University, Njoro, Kenya.

2024
19 September 2024

Form, Meaning, and Interpretation: Caroline Levine and New Formalist Approaches in American Studies

Second Austrian-Bavarian Postgraduate Workshop, American Studies in Times of Democratic Crises, Salzburg, Austria.

13 September 2024

KI trifft Kulturwissenschaft: Kritische Perspektiven aus der Amerikanistik

Annual Meeting of the Digital American Studies Initiative (DASI) of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA), Düsseldorf, Germany.

18 May 2024

Unveiling Identity: The Nuanced Realities in the New York Times Magazine’s Decameron Project

International Conference, The Problem of Identity in World Literature at the Turn of the 20th to the 21st Centuries, Minsk / Online.

4 April 2024

Immigrant Dystopias

EAAS Biennial Meeting, 1924-2024: The American Immigrant Narrative Revisited, Munich, Germany.

2023
2 December 2023

Augmenting Environmental Activism: Exploring the Intersections of Digital Practice and Civic Engagement

Keynote address, Active Citizenship in the Digital Age, International Symposium, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

22 October 2023

Re-envisioning America’s Frontier: A Speculative Journey through John Wesley Powell’s Expedition to the American West and Jaclyn Backhaus’ Men on Boats

Workshop presentation with Angelika Ilg, AAAS Annual Meeting, Klagenfurt, Austria.

21 September 2023

New Formalist Perspectives and American Studies

Plenary talk, Austrian-Bavarian Postgraduate Workshop, American Studies: History, Methods, Prospects, Salzburg, Austria.

1 April 2023

Reproductive (In)Justice in Health and Health Care

Introductory presentation, 5th Biennial Symposium of the EAAS Women’s Network, Debrecen, Hungary.

2022
5 November 2022

Field Notes from an Open Access Supporter

Own presentation within the workshop Scholarly Publishing and Democracy in Crisis: (Digital) Transnational American Studies Journals Beyond the Pandemic Age, Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association (ASA), New Orleans, LA.

4 November 2022

The Digital American Studies Initiative, Agenda, Projects

Presentation, Digital Humanities Caucus Digital Shorts, Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association (ASA), New Orleans, LA.

23 October 2022

The Network as Social, Scientific-Technological, and Aesthetic Structure in Vandana Singh’s Entanglement (2014) and Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future (2020)

Workshop presentation, Annual Meeting of the Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS), University of Salzburg.

5 July 2022

Trust and Cultural Memory

Invited lecture, DFG Research Training Group Authority and Trust, Heidelberg.

23 June 2022

Pandemic Literature and Culture in the Classroom

Keynote presentation, The United States: Past, Present and Future Visions, International Teacher Academy, PH Vorarlberg, Feldkirch, Austria.

11 June 2022

Von der Ästhetik der Leere und der Menge: Zur Erinnerungskultur in Krisenzeiten

Invited keynote lecture, Ästhetik der Krise, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Tübingen, Germany.

10 June 2022

Theatre Action for Climate Justice: New Ways of Sustainable Community Education

Presentation with Angelika Ilg, Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA), Tübingen University, Germany.

8 April 2022

EAAS Women’s Network Forum

Organization and chair, Biennial Meeting of the European Association for American Studies (EAAS), Madrid, Spain.

6 April 2022

Performing Climate Justice in the Secondary and Tertiary American Studies Classroom

Workshop presentation, Biennial Meeting of the European Association for American Studies (EAAS), Madrid, Spain.

11 March 2022

Viral Commemoration

Workshop presentation, Pandemic Meets Fiction, digital symposium.

2021
2021

9/11: Twenty Years On

Invited lecture, digital conference, Europa-Universität Flensburg.

23 March 2021

A Lens through Covid: The Pandemic in Fiction, Pictures, and Memorials

Invited keynote lecture, Pandemics and Their Socio-Cultural Effects, Digital Symposium, University of Marburg.

2020
23 October 2020

Tales for the Present: The New York Times Magazine Decameron Project

Workshop presentation, Taking Literature Online in Times of Crisis, Digital Symposium, Erfurt, London, Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.

23 October 2020

Pandemics, Public Art, and Memorials

Workshop presentation, Taking Literature Online in Times of Crisis, Digital Symposium, Erfurt, London, Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.

11 February 2020

AR / VR: The Future of American Studies

Invited lecture, University of Marburg.

2019
23 November 2019

The Photographic Construction of Mountains

Chair of workshop, Annual Meeting of the Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS), Mediating Mountains, University of Innsbruck.

8 November 2019

Building and Sustaining American Studies Programs as We Fight: A Historically-Informed View from Europe

Invited presentation, Roundtable of the ASA Committee on Departments, Programs and Centers, Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association (ASA), Build As We Fight, Honolulu.

8 November 2019

The Environmental Imaginaries of Climate-Change Drama, Poetry, and Art

Own presentation within the workshop Transnational Feminisms: Bodies, Spaces, Epistemologies, Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association (ASA), Honolulu.

14 June 2019

Temporalities of Popular Culture

Organization and chair of workshop with Birgit Däwes, Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA), Hamburg University.

6 April 2019

Pedagogy and Technology

Organization and chair of workshop, Third Biennial EAAS Women’s Network Symposium, Feminism and Technoscience, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

2018
7 December 2018

Pearl Harbor, Manzanar, Venice: Exploring Transnational Virtual Reality Art

Invited presentation, 4. Deutsch-Asiatischer Studientag Literaturwissenschaft, Berlin.

17 November 2018

Im/Mobilities and Performance

Chair of workshop, Annual Meeting of the Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS), University of Vienna.

8 November 2018

Biopolitics: Race, Medical Punishment and Memory

Organization and chair of workshop, Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association (ASA), Atlanta.

30 May 2018

Populism and the Failures of Anti-Trumpism

Invited lecture, HTL Dornbirn-Schoren.

26 May 2018

Zwischen Fake News und Fact Checking: Die Transformationen des öffentlichen Raumes

Invited discussant, Seminaris, Free University Berlin.

25 May 2018

Teaching Counter/Publics: American Studies and Digital Pedagogy

Organization and chair of workshop with Uwe Küchler, Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA), Free University Berlin.

5 April 2018

Monumental Protest

Roundtable presentation, Biennial Meeting of the European Association for American Studies (EAAS), London.

4 April 2018

Re-Making Places in Virtual and Augmented Reality Art

Workshop presentation, Biennial Meeting of the European Association for American Studies (EAAS), London.

2017
10 November 2017

Pedagogies of Dissent in Augmented and Virtual Reality

Own presentation within the workshop Teaching (Alternative) Futurity and the Archives of Tomorrow: Educational Strategies of Dissent in Museums, Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association (ASA), Chicago.

7 November 2017

Manzanar, Berlin, Venice, Seattle, Singapore, New York: Transnational Aesthetics and Augmented Reality Art

Invited lecture, University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

7 July 2017

Understanding Trump: The Return of Populism

Workshop presentation, Teacher’s Conference Populism and the Popular, University of Regensburg.

30 June 2017

Biopolitics in Transnational American Cultures

Invited presentation, American Studies Research Days Augsburg–Regensburg 2017, University of Regensburg.

9 June 2017

Imagining Past and Future: Augmented Reality (AR) Installations and American Studies

Workshop presentation, Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA), Leibniz University Hannover.

23 May 2017

Imagining Past and Future in the Archives of Tomorrow: Augmented Reality Art and American Studies

Invited keynote lecture, BAA 9th International Summer Academy Questions of the Archive, German-American Institute (DAI), Nuremberg.

31 March 2017

Reversing the Gaze, Producing Knowledge: Tamiko Thiel’s The Travels of Mariko Hōrō

Workshop presentation, Second Biennial EAAS Women’s Network Symposium Transnational Feminism and/in American Studies, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Legal NoticePrivacy Policy