Upcoming Presentations
- Krisen, Grenzen, Flüchtlingsschutz: Trends in der globalen und deutschen Flüchtlingspolitik,
Vortrag, Evangelisches Forum Münster, 03. April 2014, 19:00 Uhr.
- Political Asylum and Political Memories: Syrian Refugees’ Recollections of flight in Germany,
‘Memory Citizenship & Counter-Memories: The Memory of Migration and the Migration of Memory’ Workshop, The New School, New York City, 1.-3. May 2014.
Vortrag, Evangelisches Forum Münster, 03. April 2014, 19:00 Uhr.
- Political Asylum and Political Memories: Syrian Refugees’ Recollections of flight in Germany,
‘Memory Citizenship & Counter-Memories: The Memory of Migration and the Migration of Memory’ Workshop, The New School, New York City, 1.-3. May 2014.
Previous Lectures
and Conference Papers
- Refuge, Sovereignty and Belonging: On the Politics of Asylum,
‘Understanding Global Refugee Policy’: 30th Anniversary Conference of the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, at St. Anne's College, 6.-7. December 2012.
- Zur Gegenwart in der Erinnerung an Migration: Vielfalt versus Geschichte?
Migration in der musealen Präsentation, Hannover, 17. November 2012.
- A history of two memories or: How Australia Day became a commemoration of immigration,
- Vom Asyl zum Resettlement? Flüchtlingsschutz und andere Interessen,
Friedländer Gespräche, GDL Friedland, 4.-5. September 2013.
Friedländer Gespräche, GDL Friedland, 4.-5. September 2013.
- Refuge, Sovereignty and Belonging: On the Politics of Asylum,
‘Understanding Global Refugee Policy’: 30th Anniversary Conference of the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, at St. Anne's College, 6.-7. December 2012.
- Zur Gegenwart in der Erinnerung an Migration: Vielfalt versus Geschichte?
Migration in der musealen Präsentation, Hannover, 17. November 2012.
- A history of two memories or: How Australia Day became a commemoration of immigration,
Mémoires des migrations et temps de l’histoire, Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration,
Paris, 22.-24. November 2012.
- Presentation of 'History, Memory and Migration',
Memory Colloquium, Humboldt University, Berlin, 12. July 2012.
- History, Memory and Migration,book presentation together with Irial Glynn, 'Logiques mémorielles et temporalités migratoires', workshop organised by Maison Archéologie Ethnologie, University Paris 10 and University of Chicago, at Maison Archéologie Ethnologie, Paris, 22. May 2012.
- Konzeptionelle Überlegungen zu Politik und Erinnerung anhand der Rolle von Vergangenheitsbezügen in australischen Debatten über Flüchtlinge,
1.
Passauer Symposium zur Geschichtspolitik, Arbeitskreis „Politik und Geschichte“
in der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft (DVPW) in Kooperation
mit der Universität Passau, 4.-5. November 2011.
- Australia Day and
Migration: Political Memories and the Social Faultline of Belonging,
ISR Lunchtime
Lecture, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology,
Melbourne, Australia, 05. April 2011, available as podcast.
- Boat People and the
Politics of Memory in Australia: Refugee Advocacy, the Past and the Tampa
Crisis,
Refugees’ Diasporic Memories and the Politics
of Democratisation, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, 18. February 2011.
- Politics of Civic and
Cultural Memories, or how to incorporate migration in Memory Studies,
Formen und Funktionen sozialer Erinnerung Conference, Universität Erlangen, 10.
December 2010.
- Boat People and Political
Memories in Australia: How Perceptions of the Past Affect the Reception of
Refugees,
Informal Lunch Lecture, Refugee Studies Centre,
University of Oxford, 26.October 2010.
- Migrant Incorporation and
Political Memories: The Role of the Past for Australian Social Inclusion,
‘History, Memory and Migration’ Session
(co-organised with Irial Glynn), European Social Science History Conference,
IISH, Gent, Belgium, 13.-16. April 2010.
- Transcultural Memories
and Social Faultlines: Remembering Migration in Australia and Germany,
Transcultural Memories Conference, The Centre
for the Study of Cultural Memories, IGRS, University of London, 4.-6. February
2010.
- Boat Refugees and
Australian Society: Reactions and Transformations, 1976-2001,
Conference: Auf der Suche nach Asyl: Beispiele
aus dem 20. Jahrhundert / Asylum: 20th Century Case Studies, Bruno-Kreisky
Archiv, Universität Wien, 15. – 16. October 2009.
- Migration and Memory
Studies: Conceptual Considerations,
Social Memory Masterclass with Jeffrey Olick,
Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University Melbourne, 22. June 2009.
- Erinnerung und Politik,
Gedächtnis
und Erinnerung Workshop, Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover, 8.
November 2008.
- Migrationsmuseen in Australien und Deutschland im
Vergleich,
Jahrestagung
des Arbeitskreises „Geschichte und Politik“ in der Deutschen Vereinigung für
Politische Wissenschaft (Annual Meeting of the Section ‚History and Politics‘
in the German Association of Political Science), Deutsches Historisches Museum
Berlin, 1. November 2008.
- Migration Museums in
Australia: them-migration, us-migration, we-migration,
41st Metropolis Conference, Bonn, 28. October 2008.
- Politische Erinnerung und Migration: Zwei Formen
der Vergangenheit und sozialer Zugehörigkeit,
‚Erinnerung
und Migration: Methoden und Konzepte‘ Konferenz, Université du Luxembourg, 5. June 2008.
- Between Pasts and
Politics: Memory Policies in the Tampa Crisis,’
Governing by Looking Back’ Conference,
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 12. – 14. December 2007.
- Competing Memories of
Migration: The Tampa Affaire as a Debate about Australia’s Heritage,
‘Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities’
Conference, Flinders University Adelaide, Australia, 3.-5. December 2007.
- Political Arguments and
the Function of Memory for Refugee Advocacy in Australia,
New Research on Refugees and Asylum Seekers,
Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference, Melbourne University, Australia, 17.
November 2007.
- Political Memory in
Australia: memory policies,
Lunch Seminar Lecture Series, Institute for
Social Research, Swinburne University for Technology, Melbourne, Australia, 2.
September 2007.
- Location and Identity in
Maurice Halbwachs’ Theory of Collective Memory,
Graduate
Workshop Makom, 17.-18. Oktober 2006, DFG-Graduiertenkolleg and
Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, Jerusalem, Israel.
- Die Bedeutung des Ortes in Maurice Halbwachs’
Theorie des Kollektiven Gedächtnisses,
DFG-Graduiertenkolleg
Makom, Universität Potsdam, 17. Juli 2006.