Talks and workshops
- 4/2023: book presentation, Native Removal Writing: Narratives of Peoplehood, Politics, and Law, Department of American Indian Studies, UNiversity of Minnesota, USA
- 2/2023: "Activating the Past to Intervene in the Present: The Aesthetics and Politics of Native American Removal Writing," talk, DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2291 Gegenwart/Literatur, University of Bonn
- 1/2023: "Confronting the 'Impasse': 21st-Century Black Indigenous Literature and Its Imagination of a Black Indigenous Past, Present, and Future," talk, University of Rostock
- 10/2022: "From Black | Indigenous to Black Indigenous: North American Imaginaries of Past, Present, and Future," Antrittsvorlesung/Inaugural Lecture, University of Bonn
- 7/2022: response to keynote speaker, conference: "No Trespassing? Property / Theory between the Disciplines," University of Osnabrück
- 06/2022: Workshop “Sound (and) Political Education? Sonic Dissent as Aesthetic and Political Praxis” (together with Mahshid Mayar), Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA), Tübingen
- 05/2022: "The Henceforward: Envisioning Black-Indigenous Futurities in the 21st Century," talk, conference: Designs of Tomorrow: Indigenous Futurities in Literature and Culture, University of Flensburg
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04/2022: "Native Removal Writing: Narratives of Peoplehood, Politics, and Law," talk, Research Colloquium North American History, University of Cologne
- 04/2022: "Native Removal Writing: Narratives of Peoplehood, Politics, and Law," talk in the Property and Dispossession Speakers Series, Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria, Canada
- 11/2021: "Remapping Native Nations: The Black Freedmen Struggle for Recognition and Tribal Citizenship," talk, (Ent-)Demokratisierung und Machtstrukturen, Workshop, Universität Bonn
- 7/2021: "'Indian by Blood'? Native American. Communities and the Settler Colonial Politics of Blood," talk, conference: Communities and the(ir) Law, International Conference, Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Recht als Kultur," Universität Bonn
- 9/2020: "Representations of Native Americans in European Popular Culture," talk, Museum am Rothenbaum (MARKK), Hamburg
- 1/2018: "The Discourse of Human Rights and the Native American Historical Novel of the 1990s," talk, University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
- 1/2018: "Forms of Belonging: Contemporary Afro-Native Literature on the Indian Removal and the Cherokee Freedman Debate," talk, University of Augsburg
- 8/2017: Workshop "Real and Performative Properties: Competing Claims to Citizenship, Indigeneity, and Land“ (together with Prof. Dr. Beth Piatote), 7th Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law
- 2/2017: Panel moderation, conference "Citizenship and Literature: Past Concerns, Present Issues, Future Trajectories," University of Münster
- 12/2016: DFG Project Input Workshop, University of California, Berkeley
- 6/2016: "Indigenous Literature Meets Human Rights: Indigenous Rights Discourses and the Native American Historical Novel," Faculty of Law, University of Hongkong
- 5/2016: "Beware of Positive Images! A Critical Assessment of Non-Native 'Revisionist' Film Practice," talk, workshop for Teachers "Teaching Native Cultures in Europe," University of Flensburg
- 5/2016: "Law and the Map: Indigenous Art and the Remapping of the Settler State," talk, Annual Convention of the German Association of American Studies (DGfA), Osnabrück
- 1/2016: "Law and Literature - Perspektiven auf ein interdisziplinäres Forschungsgebiet," talk, Junges Forum, Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Bonn
- 1/2016: "Indigenous Literature Meets Human Rights: Indigenous Rights Discourses and the Native American Historical Novel," Forum Recht als Kultur, Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Bonn
- 12/2015: "'Westward the Jug of Empire Takes Its Way': Temperance Reform in the Midwest until the Civil War," talk, SFB "Bedrohte Ordnungen," University of Tübingen
- 6/2015: "'I was nothing but a bare skeleton walking the path’: Biopolitics and Life in Native American Removal Literature," talk, conference "Biopolitics – Geopolitics – Sovereignty – Life: Settler Colonialisms and Indigenous Presences in North America," University of Mainz
- 5/2015: "Conceptualizations of Sovereignty in Postmodern Native American Literature," talk, Lecture Series "Current Issues in North American and Cultural Studies," University of Bonn
- 5/2015: "From Domestic Dependency to Cultural Sovereignty: Representations of the Law in Postmodern Native American Literature," talk, conference "Laws, Pluralities: Cultures / Narratives / Images / Genders – Pluralitäten des Rechts: Kulturen / Narrative / Bilder / Genders," University of Giessen
- 3/2015: "'Kill the Indian, Save the Man': Native Filmic Representations of Boarding School Experiences," talk, American Indian Workshop, University of Frankfurt
- 6/2014: "From Trail of Tears to Chair of Tears: Postmodern Representations of Indian Removal," talk, conference: "Native North American Survivance and Memory: Celebrating Gerald Vizenor", University of Vienna
- 5/2014: "Protesting Dispossession: Elias Boudinot, John Ross, and their Writings against Removal," talk, American Indian Workshop, University of Leiden, NL
- 3/2014: "The Properties of Removal in Contemporary Native American Literature," talk, 17th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (ASLCH), Law School of the University of Virginia
- 2/2014: "William Shakespeare's Hamlet," Theaterseminar on Hamlet, Akademie Franz Hitze Haus, Münster
- 1/2014: "Leben und Schicksale der Pokahuntas: Eine amerikanische Indianerprinzessin in einem Roman der deutschen Aufklärung," talk, Interdisziplinäres Institut für Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit (IKFN), University of Osnabrück
- 1/2014: "In the Shadow of the Marshall Court: 19th-Century Native American Writings on Removal," Session "Transnational Indigeneities against the Law," MLA Convention, Chicago
- 6/2013: "The World Was Not Made for Men: Representations of Native Americans in Yakari", talk, Institute of Ethnology, University of Frankfurt
- 5/2013: "The Life and Fates of Pokahuntas: Pocahontas Representations in 18th-Century German Literature," plenary lecture, American Indian Workshop, Helsinki
- 3/2013: "Environmental Justice, Human Rights, and Independent Cinema," talk, 16th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, Birkbeck Law School, University of London
- 9/2012: ""Yes, Avatar is Dances with Wolves in space . . . sorta" (J. Cameron): Representations of Indigeneity in Two Blockbusters," talk, conference "Play It Again, Sam – Remakes in Film, Literature, and Art," University of Braunschweig
- 5/2012: Workshop "Life Writing, Human Rights, and the Humanities" (together with Peter Schneck), Annual Convention of the German Association of American Studies, Mainz
- 4/2012: "Yakari Reloaded: Representations of Native Americans in a Children’s Cartoon TV Series," talk, American Indian Workshop, Zurich
- 3/2012: "Questions of Ethnicity, Religion, and Identity in the American Temperance Movement," talk, Pacific School of Religion, University of California, Berkeley
- 6/2011: "William Shakespeare's King Lear," Theater-Seminar, Akademie Franz Hitze Haus, Münster
- 6/2011: Workshop "Representations of Native Americans: Toward a Transnational Paradigm?" and presentation: "From Nationalism to Cosmopolitanism: Contemporary Native American Studies and the Transnational Turn" Annual Convention of the German Association of American Studies, Regensburg
- 3/2011: "Environmental Racism: From a Native American to an Inter-American Indigenous Perspective?" talk, 32nd American Indian Workshop, Graz
- 11/2010: "Cultural Difference or Transcultural Belonging? Identitarian Spaces in Babel (2006)," talk, 2nd Annual Convention of the International Association of Inter-American Studies, Duisburg-Essen
- 6/2010: "'If you're an Indian, why don't you write nature poetry?' The Environment in Selected Works of Sherman Alexie," talk, conference "Ecology and Life Writing," University of Mainz
- 6/2010: "Political Business or Artistic Fancydancing? Poetry in Contemporary Native American Film," lecture, Graduate School "Practices of Literature," University of Münster
- 5/2010: "'This ain't the American dream, this is the Third World': U.S. Capitalist Practices in Powwow Highway," talk, Annual Convention of the German Association of American Studies, Berlin
- 4/2010: "John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath," Theater-Seminar, Akademie Franz Hitze Haus, Münster
- 2/2010: "Negotiations of Settler Imperialism in American Popular Culture around the Turn of the Century," talk, 33rd Annual Conference of the Historians in the German Association for American Studies (DGfA), Wittenberg
- 7/2009: workshop "Multiculturalism and Belonging," conference "Multiculturalism and Beyond: Identity Politics, Cultural Difference, and Hybridity in the Americas," Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld
- 6/2009: workshop "Moral Education" and talk "'Mak[ing] Noble, Law-Abiding Citizens': Scientific Temperance Instruction in American Public Schools," Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA), Jena
- 10/2008: "We Are What We Drink: The American Temperance Movement and the Construction of Ethnic Identities," talk inaugural Conference of the Interdisciplinary Research Group: "E Pluribus Unum? – Ethnic Identities in Processes of Transnational Integration in the Americas," Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld
- 2/2008: "Ethnic Strife in an Urban Context: The Temperance Movement in St. Paul, Minnesota," talk, 31st Annual Conference of the Historians in the German Association for American Studies, Wittenberg
- 7/2006: "Writing the Life of a Controversial Historical Figure: A Comparative Analysis of the Biographies about Archbishop John Ireland (1838-1918)," talk, conference of the International Auto/Biography Association (IABA), Mainz.