INVITED LECTURES
October 5th, 2023
"THE FINAL FRONTIER": GEGENWART UND ZUKUNFT DES US-WELTRAUMTOURISMUS / "THE FINAL FRONTIER": US SPACE TOURISM TODAY AND IN THE FUTURE
Guest Lecture, Series "Let's Talk America", Atlantische Akademie
July 12, 2023
"WEM GEHÖRT DAS WELTALL?" / "WHO OWNS OUTER SPACE?"
Panel Discussion, "Wissenschaft im Dialog" / "Science in Dialogue", Federal Ministry of Science and Education (BMBF), Konstanz
June 18, 2023
"INTERSTELLAR: EIN MENSCHLICHER BLICK AUF DAS UNIVERSUM" / "INTERSTELLAR: A HUMAN PERSPEKTIVE ON THE UNIVERSE."
Panel Discussion @ Capitol Cinema Mainz, Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
June 22, 2023
"MAKE HUMANITY A MULTIPLANET SPECIES!": THE SECOND SPACE AGE AND THE ANTHROPOCENE IN AMERICAN STUDIES
Lecture Series "Guest Lectures in American Studies", University of Münster
March 24, 2023
"MY BATTERY IS LOW AND IT'S GETTING DARK": POSTHUMAN LIFE WRITING, DISCOURSES OF REPRODUCTION AND THE MARS ROVER MISSIONS.
Guest Lecture
Seminar “Gendered Perspectives on American Astroculture in the First and Second Space Ages,“ University of Vienna
December 13, 2022
SCORCHED EARTH, PARADISE MARS: REPRESENTATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND MARS COLONIZATION IN U.S. CULTURE.
Guest Lecture
Lecture Series “Sustainability and the Space Sector,“ Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès
October 5-6, 2022
VON „SAARABIEN“ ZUR EU: EUROPÄISCHE DISKURSE DER EXTRATERRITORIALITÄT IM WANDEL DER ZEIT.
Conference paper with Andrea Wurm (Saarbrücken)
2022 DAL, CEUS und Europastudien Tagung // Europa(-Welten) im Umbruch - Grenz(Ziehung)en im Wandel
April 6-8, 2022
”MARS IS A HELLHOLE”: MARTIAN WASTELANDS, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND DISCOURSES OF MULTIPLE EARTHS.
Conference paper
2022 EAAS Conference: “Wastelands in the Anthropocene.” University of Madrid, Spain
November 15, 2021
JURISDICTIONAL INCONGRUENCES AND FLEXIBLE IMPERIAL BORDERS:
AN AMERICAN STUDIES PERSPECTIVE
Guest lecture
Atelier Bordertextures // UniGR-Center for Border Studies,
November 6, 2021
„LIFE WRITING“ AUF DEM MARS:
POSTHUMANISTISCHE NARRATIVE DER MARSKOLONISATION UND DIE NASA ROVER MISSIONEN
Guest Lecture
November-Sitzung der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz
July 16, 2021
A SEA OF STARS? AN ARCHIPELAGIC READING OF OUTER SPACE
Invited Paper with Alexandra Ganser (Vienna)
Workshop: Archipelagic Imperial Spaces and Mobilities.
Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) “Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition,” @ Leipzig University
June 1, 2021
“HAWAII IS AN AMERICAN STATE, AND IS EMBRACED IN THE AMERICAN COMMERCIAL AND MILITARY SYSTEM”: THE OVERTHROW OF THE HAWAIIAN MONARCHY AND US IMPERIALISM
Guest Lecture
Seminar: American Exceptionalism / American Imperialism
University of Potsdam
May 20, 2021
THE TERRITORIALITIES OF US IMPERIALISM(S): LAW AND LITERATURE AND THE (RE)MAKING OF US NATIONAL BORDERS
Invited Workshop Paper
7th Border Seminar at the UniGR Center for Border Studies
Université de Lorraine. May 20-21, 2021
June 19, 2018
“I WILL WRITE THE HISTORY OF THE CHEROKEE NATION AS IT SHOULD BE WRITTEN“: U.S. FEDERAL INDIAN LAW AND THE WRITINGS OF JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE
Guest lecture
Lecture Series: A Cultural History of Ethnic Life in North America
Department of English and American Studies, Philipps University Marburg
May 17, 2018
NAVIGATING PACIFIC AND ATLANTIC CURRENTS: TOWARDS A TRANSOCEANIC PERSPECTIVE IN AMERICAN STUDIES?
Invited Conference Paper with Nicole Poppenhagen (Flensburg)
Transoceanic American Studies Conference
German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.
November 22, 2017
ZENTRALE FRAGEN INDIGENER GESELLSCHAFTEN DER GEGENWART: ZWEI FALLSTUDIEN AUS DER PAZIFIKREGION
Keynote Lecture
Filmfestival Tage des Indigenen Films (Days of Indigenous Film), Rostock
November 14, 2017
CONCEPTIONS OF MILITOURISM AND THE OVERTHROW OF THE HAWAIIAN MONARCHY
Guest lecture
Seminar: Hawai‘i: History, Politics, Culture
Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
June 20, 2016
SCALING THE PACIFIC: TERRITORIALITY, U.S. IMPERIALISM, AND THE ANNEXATION OF HAWAIʻI
Guest Lecture
Seminar: (Re)Imagining the Pacific in American Literature
American Studies Institute, Flensburg University
CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PAPERS
June 30, 2023
FROM CONTINENTAL TO OVERSEAS EXPANSION: US IMPERIALISM(S) THROUGH THE LENS OF INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE.
Publication Workshop,
U.S. Empire: A Companion for Historians, University of Kassel
May 13-14, 2021
POSTHUMAN LIFE WRITING ON MARS AND THE NASA ROVER MISSIONS
Workshop paper
Workshop: Narrated Lives, Remembered Selves – Emerging Research in Life Writing Studies
University of Regensburg, Germany
May 13-15, 2021
‘MY BATTER IS LOW AND IT’S GETTING DARK’: POSTHUMAN IMAGINARIES OF LIFE ON MARS AND THE NASA ROVER MISSIONS.
Conference paper
Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives: Annual Conference of the German Association for Postcolonial Studies
University of Oldenburg, Germany
February 4, 2021
ABSENCES AND ERASURES OF EMPIRE
Workshop Paper with Mahshid Mayar (Bielefeld)
Teach-In: The 1776 Report and its Afterlives: Critical Responses from German American Studies
University of Cologne, Germany
February 7, 2020
WRITING LIFE ON MARS: IMAGINARIES OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL COLONIZATION AND DISCOURSES OF PLANETARITY AND THE NASA MARS ROVER MISSIONS
Workshop: Ecocriticism as a Current Trajectory in Narrative Research
University of Wuppertal, Germany
December 5 - 6, 2019
WRITING LIFE ON MARS: IMAGINARIES OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL COLONIZATION AND DISCOURSES OF PLANETARITY IN THE SPACE BARONS AND CURIOSITY: THE STORY OF A MARS ROVER
Workshop paper
International Workshop: Ecocritical Life Writing in the Dystopic Present
University of Augsburg, Germany
May 30 - June 2, 2019.
ACROSS PACIFIC AND ATLANTIC CURRENTS: NAVIGATING THE TURBULENT OCEANS IN AMERICAN STUDIES
Conference Paper with Nicole Poppenhagen (Flensburg)
Conference:Postcolonial Oceans - Contradictions and Heterogeneities in the Epistemes of Salt Water
University of Bremen, Germany
July 9-12, 2018
WORKSHOP PARTICIPANT
Workshop: The History of United States Indian Law and Policy
Conducted by Prof. Dr. Lindsay G. Robertson. Faculty Director, Center for the Study of Amerian Indian Law and Policy, and Chickasaw Nation Endowed Chair of Native American law
Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
June 8-11, 2017.
ENVISIONING THE FUTURE AS AN OBSCURED PAST: IMAGININGS OF MARS COLONIZATION AND THE DISCOURSE OF 19TH CENTURY U.S. PACIFIC IMPERIALISM
Conference paper
Conference: Modernities and Modernization in North America, 64. Annual Conference of the German Association of American Studies (DGfA/GAAS)
Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany
February 1-2, 2016
FROM HI-SEAS TO OUTER SPACE: 'HAWAIʻI AS MARS' AND THE U.S. LEGAL DISCOURSE OF HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION
Conference paper
Conference: Maritime Mobilities: Critical Perspectives from the Humanities
International Conference at the University of Vienna, Austria
July 17, 2015
THE CURRENCY OF LAW AND LITERATURE IN TRANSPACIFIC STUDIES AND THE STUDY OF U.S. IMPERIALISM
Symposium paper
Symposium: "Views from Different Shores”: Future Directions in Transpacific Studies
University of Potsdam, Germany
April 11 – April 12, 2015
LEGAL DISCOURSES AND LITERARY KNOWLEDGE
Workshop paper
Workshop: Autobiography and the Production of Knowledge
English Department, Westfälische Wilhems-University Münster, Germany
27 September – 01 October, 2014
WORKSHOP PARTICIPANT
Workshop: Defining America: New Writing, New Voices, New Directions
Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg, Austria
August 4–16th, 2014
NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE LAW: FROM SPATIAL AND NARRATIVE TO LEGAL BORDERLANDS
Symposium paper
Osnabrück Summer Institute: 5th International Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law
University of Osnabrück. Osnabrück, Germany
May 29 – June 1, 2014
OVERWRITING AND DISAVOWING HAWAII: LILIUOKALANI’S HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN AND THE MORGAN REPORT
Conference paper
Conference: Postcolonial Justice University of Potsdam, Germany
November 29 – December 1, 2013
OVERWRITING AND DISAVOWING HAWAII: LILIUOKALANI’S HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN AND THE MORGAN REPORT
Conference paper
Conference: Travelling Narratives: Modernity and the Spatial Imaginary
International Symposium at the University of Zurich, Switzerland
May 30 – June 2, 2013
OVERRIDING/OVERWRITING THE RESERVATION: JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE‘S THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JOAQUÍN MURIETA, THE CELEBRATED CALIFORNIA BANDIT
Conference paper
Rural America: 60. Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS), Erlangen, Germany
November 2 – November 4, 2012
OVERRIDING NATIVE AMERICAN NATIONHOOD—TRANSNATIONAL AND LEGAL AMERICAN SPACES (1788-PRESENT).
Conference paper
Postgraduate Forum of the German Association of American Studies 2012
Postgraduate Conference in American Studies of the German Association of American Studies Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
June 16 – June 19, 2011
‘SUCH WERE THE EVENTS IN 'APACHE LAND' – TRANSNATIONALISM AND THE WESTWARD EXPANSION IN GERONIMO’S STORY OF HIS LIFE
Conference Paper
Transnational American Studies: 58. Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS), University of Regensburg, Germany