Presentations

"Politics and Culture at the Borders of the Human: UAP Disclosure, Non-Human Consciousness and the New Counterculture in American Media and Society." Media in America, America in Media: Rhetoric of the Borders, 5th International Interdisciplinary Online Conference. Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland, March 27-28, 2025. Virtual presentation.

"A.I. and Democracy." Fielding Global Democracy and Human Rights Panels, No. 3., May 28, 2025. Virtual panel with John Dedrick, Kettering Foundation, Laurence Habib, Oslo MET University, Keith Melville, Katrina Rogers, Allison Davis-White Eyes, Fielding Graduate University. Virtual presentation.

"Global Challenges to Democracy and Human Rights", Panel Discussion and Dialogue. Holocaust Memorial Week, April 25, 2025. Virtual panel with Dr. Mark Ward, Oregon State University; Dr. Janine Ludwig, Dickinson College; Christopher McKnight Nichols, Ohio State University. Oregon State University. Virtual Panel. Introduction and Moderator.

"Democracy in Action: Your Role in Shaping Our Future." Fielding Global Democracy and Human Rights Panels, No. 2., March 12, 2025. Virtual panel with John Dedrick, Kettering Foundation; Laurence Habib, Oslo MET University; Keith Melville, Laura Black, Yahziq Ohmn-Drayden, Allison Davis-White Eyes, Fielding Graduate University. Introduction, Moderator and Discussant.

"America Post-Election", Honors College Students Association, Dec 2, 2024. Virtual presentation and dialogue.

"A Model for Global Dialogue on Climate Change & Human Rights?" OSU Engagement Conference, Oregon State University, December 06, 2024. Workshop session Organizer and Presenter, with Dr. John Ruffin, Climate Dialogue Group; Dr. Nancy Glock-Grueneich, Equatorial Voices Group; Dr. Allison Davis-White Eyes, Fielding Graduate University; Dr. Chance White Eyes, Oregon State University. Virtual presentation.

"The State of Democracy Around the World. Democracy at a Crossroads: Navigating Threats, Bridging Divides, and Building a Resilient Future." Fielding Global Democracy and Human Rights Panels, No. 1., October 29, 2024. Virtual panel with John Dedrick, Kettering Foundation; Laurence Habib, Oslo MET University; Keith Melville, Katrina Rogers, Allison Davis-White Eyes, Fielding Graduate University. Virtual presentation.

"Climate Futures: Utopia or Dystopia?" Climate Dialogue Group, Sept. 3+10, 2024. Virtual presentation and dialog facilitation.

"Is Utopia compatible with Democracy? Can Democracy Benefit from Utopian Desire?" Democracy Institute of Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, July 3-5, 2024 (Hybrid).

"Exploring the Polycrisis." School of Leadership Studies, Fielding Graduate University, with Fred Steier, Laurence Habib, Allison Davis-White Eyes, March 8, 2024.

"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.

"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.
With Janine Ludwig, Allison Davis-White Eyes

"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.

"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.

"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

"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.

"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.

"Addressing Diversity and Migration in Rural Areas"
10th International Collaborative Rural Policy Summer Institute.
Bertinoro, Italy, June 25, 2013.
With Philomena de Lima, Lidia Carvajal, Allison Davis-White Eyes, Bruce Weber.

"Unique Journeys: Collaborating Beyond Borders: Transatlantic Students Symposia."
Oregon State University, May 3, 2013.
With Allison Davis-White Eyes, Brent Steel.

"Social Justice and Genocide."
2nd Social Justice Students Conference: Social Justice in Policy and Education.
Oregon State University, April 12, 2013.
With Allison Davis-White Eyes.

"Transnational Dialogues: Bridging the Gap between Internationalization and Multicultural Education through International Short-Term Academic Exchanges."
Bold Without Boundaries. 2013 NASPA Annual Conference.
Orlando, FL, March 18, 2013.
With Allison Davis-White Eyes, Reinhard Isensee, Chrysanthemum Mattison.

"Transnational Spaces and Flows: Experiential International Learning in Theory and Practice."
Merging Practices and Aspirations - Setting the Bar for Global Higher Education in the 21st Century.
NYU Berlin, Academic Center, November 8-9, 2012.
With Allison Davis-White Eyes.

"Conceptualizing the Rural/Urban Divide"
9th International Collaborative Rural Policy Summer Institute.
Rimouski, QC, June 29, 2012.
With Allison Davis-White Eyes.

"Representations of Old Age in American Indian Literature"
Crossroads. A Conference in Honor of Rüdiger Kunow.
Potsdam University, October 28-29, 2011.

"Sages Instead of Politicians: American Indian Elders Between Tradition and Other-Direction."
Materialism of the Encounter. The Destiny of Critique in a Post-Human Age. International Colloquium.
Potsdam University, June 3-4, 2011.

"Dissertation Project Presentation: Representations of Old Age in American Indian Literature and Culture."
Potsdam Forum for Cultural Studies.
Potsdam University, February 18, 2011.

"Finding Atlantis instead of Utopia: From Plato to Starfleet and Stargate Command?"
Approaching Literary and Cultural Theory. 9th Annual Students and Graduate Conference.
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, November 11-13, 2010
>> download: paper; <> see also: complete version in Envisioning American Utopias

"Aging Relations. Native American Discourses of Aging between Communal and Institutional Care"
American Economies. Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies. Berlin, May 27-30, 2010.

"The Resilient Elder. The Aged Trickster in Native American Literature"
Cultural Memory and the Representation of Genocide as a Concern for Social Justice,
Oregon State University, April 16, 2010

"Film and Television Analysis"
High School Workshop, Berlin, March 24, 2010

"Cultural Memory and Age. Janet Campbell Hale's 'Claire' and the Survival of Cultural Identity"
Whose Culture, Whose Memory? The Rhetoric of Group Identity in a Transatlantic Context.,
Doctoral Workshop at Potsdam University, February 12, 2010

"Indianer in den USA heute (American Indians in the USA Today)"
Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, Universität Potsdam, June 13, 2009
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"The Exiled Native: Questions of Cultural Removal and Translocal American Indian Identity
in Novels by Sherman Alexie and James Welch"
Postcolonial Translocations. 20th Annual GNEL/ASNEL Conference. Münster, May 21-24, 2009
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"Exiled on their Own Land: American Indian History in Literature" (with Allison Davis-White Eyes)
Revisiting Indian Nations. Transatlantic and Transcultural Perspectives in Native American History.
Annual Conference of the Historians in the German Association for American Studies. Tutzing, February 6-8, 2009
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"Are You Now, Or Have You Ever Been, An Indian?
Reflections on (Native) American Identity in Sherman Alexie's Writings"
Post-Graduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies, Münster, Oct 31-Nov 2, 2008
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"The Reservation Writes Back: Contemporary (Native) Americans in Sherman Alexie's Writings"
Divided We Stand - United We Fall. Perspectives on Inclusions and Exclusions in America.
Annual Conference of the Graduate School of North American Studies. Free University Berlin, June 27-28, 2008

"The French Lakota: James Welch's The Heartsong of Charging Elk as a Cosmopolitan Text"
The Cosmopolitan Subaltern. Marginalized Literatures and Cultures in a Globalizing World.
8th Annual Students and Graduate Conference. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, June 4-7, 2008
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"Subalternity and Cosmopolitanism: An Introduction"
The Cosmopolitan Subaltern. Marginalized Literatures and Cultures in a Globalizing World.
8th Annual Students and Graduate Conference. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, June 4-7, 2008
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"Communicating Democracy:
Entering the American Republic Through The West Wing or the Commander in Chief" (with Antje Dallmann)
The American Presidency and Political Leadership.
Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies. Heidelberg, May 15-18, 2008.
<> see also: similar paper in Picturing America

"Not Quite American: Depictions of Canada in US Visual Culture"
Canada Lecture. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. January 30, 2008

"Literary Theory: An Overview"
Seminar Guest Lecture. Oregon State University. January 10, 2008.
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"Where My Dead Lie Buried. Indian Reservations Between Tradition and Modernity"
Seminar Guest Lecture. Oregon State University. January 8, 2008.
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"Feeding False Gods. Religion and Creationism at the Stargate"
Utopian Thoughts. Trans-Atlantic Fictions of Science and Politics.
7th Annual Students and Graduate Conference. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, April 26-28, 2007.
<> see also: related paper in The Emancipation of the Soul

"Political Utopias. Between Fictional Polities and the Fictionalization of Politics"
Utopian Thoughts. Trans-Atlantic Fictions of Science and Politics.
7th Annual Students and Graduate Conference. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, April 26-28, 2007.
<> see also: related paper in Envisioning American Utopias

"The Televised Indian. American Indians in US and Canadian Visual Culture" (with Manuela Mangold)
Unity in Diversity? Minority Rights in the United States and the European Union.
5th Transatlantic Students Symposium. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, March 3-11, 2007.
<> see also: related paper in Envisioning American Utopias

"Where My Dead Lie Buried. Indian Reservations Between Tradition and Modernity"
W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. February 13, 2007.
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"Germans and Indians. Representations of Indians and the Tribal Unconscious"
Native Cultures in the 21st Century. USA, Canada, Mexico.
6th Annual Students and Graduate Conference. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, May 3-6, 2006.

"Indian Nation(s). American Indians Between Stereotype and Reality"
Native Cultures in the 21st Century. USA, Canada, Mexico.
6th Annual Students and Graduate Conference. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, May 3-6, 2006.
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"'Friends of Ours'. Strategies of Minority Self-Assertion and Self-Definition on The Sopranos"
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor? Immigration and Citizenship in the United States and the European Union.
4th Transatlantic Students Symposium. Georgetown University, Washington D.C., March 4-12, 2006.
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"Communicating Democracy: Entering the American Republic Through the West Wing"
Picturing America. Domestic and Global Aspects of US Media Culture.
5th Annual Students and Graduate Conference. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, May 19-21, 2005.
<> see also: complete version in Picturing America

"Ties That Bind. Europe as History, Europe as Dream."
The European Dream. The Continuing Process of European Unification.
3rd Transatlantic Students Symposium. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, March 5-13, 2005.

"Narrating the Dinosaurs: Pushing the Public Understanding of Science"
Capturing the... Truth? Changing Strategies in Documentary Cinema.
Students Conference. Berlin, February 8-11, 2005.
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"'I Touch the Fire and it Freezes Me'. Soul-Searching on Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
The Slayage Conference on BtVS. Nashville, May 28-30, 2004.
>> download: paper; <> see also: complete version in The Emancipation of the Soul

"Life Serial: Coherence, Metanarrative, Pastiche and Seriality in Contemporary American Television"
Poietic Spaces. Communicating Landscapes of Imagination.
4th Annual Students and Graduate Conference. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, May 6-8, 2004.
<> see also: complete version in The Emancipation of the Soul

"Visions of the United Nations"
From the National to the Global and Back?
2nd Transatlantic Students Symposium. Bard College, March 5-14, 2004.

"'Friends of Ours'. Strategies of Minority Self-Assertion and Self-Definition on The Sopranos"
Multiple Cultures - Multiple Perspectives. Questions of Identity and Urbanity in a Transnational Context.
3rd Annual Students and Graduate Conference. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, May 15-17, 2003.
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"The Threat of Fundamentalism"
Reactions to Terrorism. Amidst Political Answers and Cultural Questions.
1st Transatlantic Students Symposium. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, April 4-5, 2003.

"The Wilderness Masters the Colonist. Nature, Culture, and the Truth Out There"
Haunted Dreams. Nightmares in American Culture.
2nd Annual Students and Graduate Conference. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, May 23-25, 2002.
>> download: paper <> see also: complete version in The Emancipation of the Soul

"The Gentleman's a Killer. Introducing Bond"
Licence to Thrill. Reading James Bond as a Cultural Phenomenon.
1st Annual Students and Graduate Conference. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, May 10-12, 2001.
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