Events
- Facilitator for the Seminar “Disrupting the Affective work of Anti-Immigration Narratives and Images” at the summer school Critical Times 2025: Disruptions (30 June – 4 July) at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies – lucernaiuris) (4 July 2025) University of Lucerne
- Invited Lecture: “Trump 2.0: The Return & The Resistance” at the Gießener Graduiertenzentrum Sozial-, Wirtschafts- und Rechtwissenschaften Summer Event (11 June 2025) University of Giessen
Recent Talks
2025
- Invited Talk: “In Defence of the Legal Humanities and Narrative, Tropic, and Affect-Theoretical Approaches to Law.” Legal Humanities Association Launch and Inauguration Event (22 July 2025) Online.
- Facilitator for the Seminar “Disrupting the Affective work of Anti-Immigration Narratives and Images” at the summer school Critical Times 2025: Disruptions (30 June – 4 July) at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies – lucernaiuris) (4 July 2025) University of Lucerne
- Invited Lecture: “Trump 2.0: The Return & The Resistance” at the Gießener Graduiertenzentrum Sozial-, Wirtschafts- und Rechtwissenschaften Summer Event (11 June 2025) University of Giessen
2024
- BOOK LAUNCH: Diversity Issues in the USA: Transnational Perspectives on the 2024 Presidential Elections
- Montagsgesellschaft: America first! Again? Die US-Wahl und die Auswirkungen auf die globalen Finanzmärkte und geopolitische Auswirkungen für Deutschland und Europa.
- „Die USA nach der Wahl“, 21.11.2024. Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, gemeinsam mit der Hessischen Landeszentrale für politische Bildung und dem John McCloy Transatlantic Forum. Mit Podcast Aufzeichnung, Folge 4. Foto: Iris Koban.
- Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung: Democratic Crossroads – Superwahljahr 2024.
- Podium Discussion: „Fortschritt oder Rückschritt? Die US-Präsidentschaftswahl und ihre Konsequenzen.“
- Nach der US-Wahl: Analysen und Erwartungen.
- Invited Faculty Member at the Summer School in Law and the Humanities on CRITICAL TIMES 2024 UN/SEEN with sessions on “Visualizing Legality – How to Unpack Multimodal Legal Texts” (3-7 June 2024) University of Lucerne
- Podium Discussion: “Mutprobe Demokratie: Stellt sich die Systemfrage?” Diskussion mit Annika Brockschmidt, Berlin, Prof. Dr. Greta Olson, Universität Gießen & Elisabeth Piller, Universität Freiburg (23 January 2024) Carl Schurz Haus, Freiburg
2023
- Invited Lecture: “Law and Literature and the Material Turn – Images of Migration Gone Viral” Research Seminar on Living Matter (14 December 2023) Sorbonne Université Paris
- Invited Lecture: “Sensus Juridicus: A Legal Hermeneut and Narrator’s Exploration of rechtsbewustzijn and Rechtsgefühl in the Praxis of Judging” at the Workshop Celebrating Jeanne Gaakeer’s Work on Law, Language and Literature (13 October 2023) University of Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Organization and Conception of a Conference on Law, Narrative and Narratology with Simon Stern (15-17 June 2023) University of Toronto and University of Giessen
- Invited Lecture: “Legal Feelings and Mediated Expressions of Law: Greta Olson’s From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect (Oxford UP, 2022)” at the Centre d’études et de recherches de sciences administratives et politiques (CERSA), (9 June 2023), Paris
- Dialogue with the Author Rebecca Donnerand Reading from her Biography All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days (2021) and the German Translation Mildrid (2022), (9 May 2023), University of Giessen
- Keynote: “The Utopian Desire for a Just Legal Order and Rechtsgefühle” at the Junges Forum Rechtsphilosophie conference: Utopie einer neuen normativen Ordnung – Alternativen im Recht /Alternativen zum Recht (9 March 2023), Warburg-Haus, Hamburg
- Invited Lecture: “Legal Feelings and Mediated Expressions of Law” in the WLS Research Seminar by the School Of Law (18 January 2023), University of Warwick
- Talk on “Human Rights from the Perspective of Cultural Studies” in the Ringvorlesung ”Grundwissen Menschenrechte” by the Forschungsnetzwerk Migration und Menschenrechte (10 January 2023), University of Giessen
2022
- Invited Lecture: “After Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization: Naming and Resisting Anti-Feminist, Anti-Trans, and Racist Tropes and Narratives in Current U.S. Law” in the workshop “When Dystopia Becomes Reality: Law, Literature and the post-Roe v. Wade World” by the Research Platform “GAIN – Gender: Ambivalent In_Visibilities” (2 December 2022), University of Vienna
- Panel Contribution: “Reading Kamala Harris’s Vice-Presidency Intersectionally” at the conference “The Emergence of Gendered Power Structures since Early Modern Times: Practices, Norms, Media” (24 November 2022), University of Marburg
- “Life after Dobbs” – Pre-Midterm Event with Dr. Michaela Dudley and Laura Borchert (7 November 2022), University of Giessen
- “Naming and Resisting Anti-Feminist and Anti-LGBTQIA Narratives and Tropes: Philology as Political Practice,” 49th Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS) on “Narrative, Environment, Social Justice” (21 October 2022), Unipark Nonntal, Salzburg
- Featured Lecture: “Von der Schwierigkeit und Notwendigkeit feministisch zu arbieten,“ Femme*Festival Giessen (21 September 2022), University of Giessen
- “From Legal Culture to Cultures of Legality”at the Final Conference “The Käte Hamburger Center ‘Law as Culture’: Reflecting on a Paradigm and a Format of Knowledge” (12 May 2022), University of Bonn
- Presentation on “Sexism and Racism in Images of Migration: Comparing Images from the ‘Crisis’ (2015/16) to those of Migration from Ukraine (2022)” in the panel “En-Gendering Borders: Media and Migration Reframed” with Jennifer Kamau, Krista Lynes, and Veronika Zablotsky (29 April 2022), University of Giessen
- “Towards Decolonial Trans Feminist Womxn” at the Final International Conference on Homo Mimeticus, “The Mimetic Turn” (22 April 2022), University of Leuven
- Lecture on “Law and the Material Turn, Research Seminar” at the Minerva Center for Human Rights (18 February 2022), University of Tel Aviv
- Lecture with Laura Borchert on “Narrative Authority, Affective Unreliability, and Transing Law” at the Dynamisches Cluster “Feministische Perspektiven auf Recht und Literatur“ des SFB 1385 (10 February 2022), University of Münster
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