Presentations2023"The State of Nature and the Politics of the Repressed: Traces of Indigenous Civilization in American Literature and Culture." 69th Annual Meeting, German Association for American Studies, June 1-3, 2023. "Climate Dialog as a Tool for Global Coalition-Building." 7th Social Justice Conference: Climate Change, Peace and Global Social Justice, April 21, 2023, with Dr. Linda Ellinor, Dr. John Ruffin. "The New International Anti-Modern Movement?" Gonzaga University, 7th International Conference on Hate Studies, April 20-22, 2023. "Politics between Utopia and Dystopia." 80th Midwest Political Science Association, April 13-16, 2023. "Questions of Planetary Justice and Belonging in the Virtual Global Classroom." AAC&U's 2023 Conference on Diversity, Equity, and Student Success., March 9-11, 2023, with Dr. Allison Davis-White Eyes. 2022"Decolonization, Subaltern Studies and Modernity: Reflections on Gayatri Spivak's 'Can the Subaltern Speak?'" Climate Dialogue Group, December 13, 2022. "Climate Change and the Project of Modernity: Reflections on Bruno Latour's We Have Never Been Modern." Climate Dialogue Group, November 8, 2022. Moderator, Panel Discussion, "Imagining the Future of Oregon's Local Journalism." Panel organized through PEN Across America., October 27, 2022. "Investigating Cultural Studies Approaches for Public Policy Design and Analysis." Midwest Political Science Conference, April 8, 2022. Panelist, "Flash Panel on the War on Ukraine." Fielding Graduate University, March 21, 2022. Panelist, "Flash Panel on the War on Ukraine." Oregon State University, March 9, 2022.
"Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in a European Study Abroad Context" European Study Abroad Conference, February 10-11, 2022. 2021"Deficits of Democracy. Reflections on the Intersections of Covid Denial, Conspiracy Narratives, and the Rise of Anti-Democratic Movements in Europe and the US." International Conference on Hate Studies, Gonzaga University, November 5, 2021. "Transdisciplinary American Studies and the Idea of Utopia." The Futures of American Studies Virtual Conference, Seminar Paper, June 26, 2021. "Old Age in Times of Coronavirus." Midwest Political Science Association Virtual Conference, April 15, 2021. 2020"Crisis Denialism and the Politics of Fear." Pacific Northwest Political Science Association Virtual Conference, November 7, 2020. "European and Transatlantic Perspectives on Iran." Flash Panel on Iran - Understanding the U.S.-Iran Conflict , Oregon State University, January 16, 2020. 2019"The Utopian Roots of Colonialism in the Americas." W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture, Humboldt-University Berlin, December 17, 2019. "The Politics of Best Intentions: Questioning the Utopia / Dystopia Distinction." Just Futures: Speculative Arts and Social Change. Oregon State University, November 22, 2019. "Plato and the Soul of Academia", Humboldt-University Berlin, March 30, 2019 2018"Social Media Theory." Part of Panel on "Human Dignity in the Age of Social Media" within Holocaust Memorial Week, OSU, April 16, 2018. "The Nationalist Backlash in German Politics." Panel on The Populist Backlash in Europe, Oregon State University, May 3, 2018. "The Rise of the Alternative for Germany." Tübingen, July 30, 2018. 2016"Germany Divided and Unified." German-American Campus Week, Oregon State University, November 10, 2016. "Administering Old Age." With Keith Baker. Oregon Public Health Association's 2016 Annual Conference & Meeting. Corvallis, Oregon, Oct 10, 2016. "The Demjanuk Trial as a Case for Personal Responsibility": Introduction to Lawrence Douglass' Talk, at Holocaust Memorial Week 2016. Corvallis, Oregon, May 5, 2016. 2013
"Addressing Diversity and Migration in Rural Areas"
"Unique Journeys: Collaborating Beyond Borders: Transatlantic Students Symposia."
"Social Justice and Genocide."
"Transnational Dialogues: Bridging the Gap between Internationalization and Multicultural Education through International Short-Term Academic Exchanges." 2012
"Transnational Spaces and Flows: Experiential International Learning in Theory and Practice."
"Conceptualizing the Rural/Urban Divide" 2011
"Representations of Old Age in American Indian Literature"
"Sages Instead of Politicians: American Indian Elders Between Tradition and Other-Direction."
"Dissertation Project Presentation: Representations of Old Age in American Indian Literature and Culture." 2010
"Finding Atlantis instead of Utopia: From Plato to Starfleet and Stargate Command?"
"Aging Relations. Native American Discourses of Aging between Communal and Institutional Care"
"The Resilient Elder. The Aged Trickster in Native American Literature"
"Film and Television Analysis"
"Cultural Memory and Age. Janet Campbell Hale's 'Claire' and the Survival of Cultural Identity"
2009
"Indianer in den USA heute (American Indians in the USA Today)"
"The Exiled Native: Questions of Cultural Removal and Translocal American Indian Identity
"Exiled on their Own Land: American Indian History in Literature" (with Allison Davis-White Eyes)
2008
"Are You Now, Or Have You Ever Been, An Indian?
"The Reservation Writes Back: Contemporary (Native) Americans in Sherman Alexie's Writings"
"The French Lakota: James Welch's The Heartsong of Charging Elk as a Cosmopolitan Text"
"Subalternity and Cosmopolitanism: An Introduction"
"Communicating Democracy:
"Not Quite American: Depictions of Canada in US Visual Culture"
"Literary Theory: An Overview"
"Where My Dead Lie Buried. Indian Reservations Between Tradition and Modernity"
2007
"Feeding False Gods. Religion and Creationism at the Stargate"
"Political Utopias. Between Fictional Polities and the Fictionalization of Politics"
"The Televised Indian. American Indians in US and Canadian Visual Culture" (with Manuela Mangold)
"Where My Dead Lie Buried. Indian Reservations Between Tradition and Modernity"
2006
"Germans and Indians. Representations of Indians and the Tribal Unconscious"
"Indian Nation(s). American Indians Between Stereotype and Reality"
"'Friends of Ours'. Strategies of Minority Self-Assertion and Self-Definition on The Sopranos"
2005
"Communicating Democracy: Entering the American Republic Through the West Wing"
"Ties That Bind. Europe as History, Europe as Dream."
"Narrating the Dinosaurs: Pushing the Public Understanding of Science"
2004
"'I Touch the Fire and it Freezes Me'. Soul-Searching on Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
"Life Serial: Coherence, Metanarrative, Pastiche and Seriality in Contemporary American Television"
"Visions of the United Nations"
"'Friends of Ours'. Strategies of Minority Self-Assertion and Self-Definition on The Sopranos"
"The Threat of Fundamentalism"
2002
"The Wilderness Masters the Colonist. Nature, Culture, and the Truth Out There"
2001
"The Gentleman's a Killer. Introducing Bond"
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