Events
- Invited Talk: “The New Misogynies” (20 January 2026) University of Freiburg
- Keynote: “After Minneapolis: Outrage and Tropes of Victimhood in the Polycrisis” (3 February 2026)Giessen Centre for the Study of Culture, University of Giessen
- Invited Talk with Simona Adinolfi: “The Affective Resonances of Images of Migration versus Migrants’ Human Rights” (29 January 2026) within the project “Universal Rights and Global Literature: Human Rights, Literary Form and the Subject on the Move” (RightsLitMove) at the Collaborative Research Center “Production of Migration (SFB 1604), Osnabrück University
- Keynote in Dialogue with Elisabeth Lechner: “Still Feminist! Being in Contestation while Practicing Political Healing” at the 2025 German Association for the Study of British Cultures Conference “Re-Orientating Gender (Studies): Feminism, Queerness, Trans* in Cultural Studies Today” (20 November 2025) University of Bamberg.
- 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
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
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