1. CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PUBLIC LECTURES

• Richard Fleischer. Soylent Green." Gro?e Werke des Films, University of Augsburg, City Library (17 July 2024)

• “Sarah Emma Edmonds. Bible Seller and Crossed-Dressed Spy.” American Studies Lecture Series, Univ. Augsburg (21 Nov. 2023)

• “A.F. Hill: A One-Legged Soldier and his Remarkable Peregrinations afer the Civil War.” Conference on “Narrating, Representing, Reflecting, Disability. 21st Century ‘American’ Perspectives,” DFG project (W. Raussert) on “Mental Illness as Cultural Narrative: Contemporary Literature from the Contact Zones between the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean,” Univ. Bielefeld (13 June 2023)

• “A Contested Field. Agnes Denes Growing Wheat in Manhattan.” Green Hour Brown Bag Lunch, Univ. Augsburg (6 June 2023)

• “American Harvests.” D-A-CH Victorianists Conference on “Ecocritical Perspectives of the 19th Century.” Online (9 Dec. 2022)

• “Kunst in Zeiten des Klimawandels.” Panel participation, together with Dr. Isabel Greschat, VHS Ulm (24 Nov. 2022)

• “Wheatscapes zwischen Abstraktion, Krieg und Verhei?ung.” Tagung zu “Kulturen im Anthropoz?n. Eine interdisziplin?re Herausforderung.” Univ. Innsbruck (1 July 2021)

• “Harvest in Manhattan. Wheat Farming on an Urban Landfill.” DGfA Annual Conference on “Participation in American Culture and Society,” Univ. Heidelberg (19 June 2021)

• “Imaginary Chinatowns.“ Forum Urban Resilience at the Department of Roman Studies, Augsburg University (4 February 2021).

• “Wheatscapes: between Abstraction, War, and Promise. Workshop “Interdisciplinarity“ at Augsburg University (18 January 2021).

• “Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, dictee.” Gro?e Werke der Literatur XVI, Augsburg University, City Library (15 Jan 2020).

• “Weizenmacht.” Workshop conference “Weizen,” WZU Augsburg (28 Oct. 2019).
• “Globaler Weizen.” Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg (11 Apr. 2019).
• “Weizen und Nachhaltigkeit.” Conference “Nachhaltigkeit,” WZU Augsburg (26 Feb. 2019).
• “A Story of the Wheat.” WZU Annual Conference, Augsburg (20 Jul. 2018).
• “The Legacy of Reconstruction.” American Studies Department, Augsburg University (11 Dec. 2018).
• “Wem nützt koreanisch-amerikanische Literatur? Forschen als Erfahrung.” Lecture Series ?mittwochs um vier. Sprache, Migration und Vielfalt: Kritische, historische und p?dagogische Ann?herungen,” Hannover University (9 May 2018).
• “Walt Whitman and the Legal Changes of the Reconstruction Era.” DGfA Annual Conference, Osnabrueck (21 May 2016).
• “Surfing on Words. Jack London's Pacific Islands.” EAAS-Conference, Constanta, Romania (25 Apr. 2016).
• “Managing Fluidity: Jack London's Transpacific Journeys.” Lecture Series “Borders in Motion,” John F. Kennedy-Institute, FU Berlin (28 Oct. 2015).
• “Owning Human Nature? Literary Knowledge Production and the Life Sciences.” Knowledge Landscapes. DGfA Annual Conference, Bonn University (30 May 2015).
• “Mapping the Void: Jewish-American Literature and the New Europe.” Leuphana University, Lueneburg (8 January 2015), and Osnabrueck University (12 Jan. 2015).
• “Sisterly Feelings: A White Doctor in the Reconstruction South.” Potsdam University (1 Dec. 2014).
• “Asian American Literature: Changing Contexts, Changing Form.” Touro College, Berlin (26. November 2014).
• “Post-Holocaust Europe in Jewish-American Literature: Three Generations (Walter Abish, Melvin Jules Bukiet, Jonathan Safran Foer).” Habilitation lecture, Leibniz-University, Hanover (10 July 2014).
• “Feminist Eugenics in Mary Bradley Lane’s Mizora.” Georg-August-University, Goettingen (5 June 2014).
• “Foreign Relations: Jack London in Asia and the Pacific.” Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz (29 April 2014).
• “Women, War, and Violence in the American Civil War,” America: Justice, Conflict, War. EAAS Conference, Den Haag (3-6 April 2014).
• “Eden Refound(ed): Post Civil War Literary Gardening.” Rural America, DGfA Annual Conference, Erlangen (1 June 2013).
• “Handel, Netzwerke, Anpassungen: Die amerikanische Medizingeschichte als Transatlantischer Austausch.” Atlantic Studies, Leibniz Universit?t Hannover (11 Dec. 2012).
• “Writing Solidarity: Esther Hill Hawks and the Symbolic Economy of her Civil War Diary.” DGfA Annual Conference (1 June 2012).
• “Deutsche Mediziner / innen in Amerika. ?ber den In- und Export von medizinischem Wissen quer über den Atlantik, 1730-1945.” Atlantic Studies Lecture Series, Leibniz University, Hanover (29 Nov. 2011).
• “Transpazifische (Gegen)Bewegungen: Die asiatische Einwanderung in die USA in Literatur und Kunst.” Amerikazentrum Hamburg (21 April 2011).
• “From Nurse to Spy: Civil War Women and Late Nineteenth-Century Politics.” Literature and Medicine. Interdisciplinary Conference, Marburg University (11-12 Feb. 2011).
• “From Nurse to Spy: Women’s Entry into Nineteenth Century Politics.” Erlangen University (12 Jan. 2011).
• “ ‘I pray to Our Heavenly Father that He will keep you & me in the way of duty & obedience’: Letter Writing, Masculinity, and Civil War Visions of Christian Fellowship,” National Popular Culture and American Culture Association, Annual Conference, St Louis, MO. (April 2010).
• “Christianity and the Second Founding of the United States.” 2nd Israeli-German Frontiers of Humanities Symposium of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation, Potsdam (Oct. 2010).
• “Teufel, Befreier, Kind. Das Bild Lincolns w?hrend des amerikanischen Bürgerkrieges.” Abraham Lincoln Conference: “Ein amerikanischer Pr?sident in der Diskussion.” Bavarian-America-Academy, Munich (23 Oct. 2009).
• “From Sugar Cane to Fortune Cookie: Asian American Culture as an Intervention in History,” Connecting Cultures: The New Literatures in English. Leibniz University, Hanover (Sept. 2009).
• “ ‘The Devil has Looked out for his Own’: Remaking America through the Chinatown Missionary Experience.” Chinatowns. Myths and Realities of an Urban Phenomenon in the United States and Europe. Leibniz University, Hanover (18-20 Sept. 2008).
• “Bible Seller and Cross-Dressed Spy: Sarah Emma Edmonds and the Debate on Authenticity.” John F. Kennedy-Institute, FU Berlin (June 2007).
• “Familiar Journeys, Unfamiliar Sights: A White Female Doctor and the Lessons of Reconstruction.” Humboldt-University Berlin (W.E.B. DuBois Lecture Series), (Winter 2007).
• “Entwaffnende Worte: Gender, K?rper, und die Wiedergeburt der Vereinigten Staaten 1865-1877.” Gender Studies Lecture Series, Hanover (January 2007).
• “Vom Zuckerrohr zum Glückskeks: Asiatische Amerikaner zwischen Ausgrenzung und Partizipation in Literatur und Kunst.” 3 Lectures at the America Institutes in Tuebingen, Heidelberg and at the German America Center in Stuttgart (30 January-1 February 2007).
• “Chinese Exclusion, Gender, and the Rebirth of the Nation in 19th Century America.” Pacific Interactions. A Response to Yong Chen and Sebastian Conrad, Hanover (18 November 2006).
• “Gender Trouble und Geschlechterkrieg: Uniformierte Engel und haushaltende Soldaten im Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg.” Gender Studies Lecture Series, Hanover (January 2006).
• “Another Kind of Whiteness: Passing as a Jew in American and South African Literature.” DGfA Annual Conference, Frankfurt a. M. (June 2005).
• “ ’We Can't Live Here Together’: Imagining the Future Nation in Civil War Hospitals, Prisons, and Freedmen's Schools.” Leipzig University (26 November 2004).
• “Asian Americans and Cultural Citizenship.” ‘Citizenship’ in Deutschland, den USA und Kanada. John F. Kennedy-Institute, FU Berlin (20 June 2003).
• “Amerikanisierung des deutschen Universit?tssystems? Zu den historisch-kulturell unterschiedlichen Bedingungen der amerikanischen und deutschen Kultur- und Sozialf?rderung.” Die Universit?t geht auf die Stra?e (Public Lecture in the Hanover shopping area) (Summer 2003).
• “Ty Pak: Korean-American Literature as ‘Guilt Payment’.” IAAS Conference, Leiden, Holland (22 Mai 2003).
• “Re-reading Dictee – from a Berlin 1989 perspective.” EAAS Conference, Lisbon (1999).
• “Von Frauenstudien zu Gender Studies: Wie sich das Bild Marilyn Monroes über die Jahrzehnte ver?ndert hat.” Was wollen die Gender Studies? Evangelisches Studienwerk, Villigst (Summer 1997).

2. CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

• “Asian American Immigration.” Workshop chair. European Association of American Studies (EAAS) Conference on “1924-2024. The American Immigrant Narrative Revisited (5 April 2024)

• “Re-Thinking Forests. Artistic Practices, Digital Media, and the Role of Experience.” Artist workshop with E.-M. López, W. Sailer, S. Lindl, C. M?ller, P. Wimmer, Augsburg (13-14 June 2024)

• “3rd IDK Colloquium.” Interdisciplinary IDK Conference in the Environmental Humanities, Augsburg Univ. and LMU (21-23 March 2024)

• “Commitment to Climate Protection. Political Demands, Local Initiatives.” Field Workshop with various local initiatives and interest groups, Weilheim i. Ob. (18 March 2024)

• “Taming the Beast: Where does my Dissertation go from Now?” Soft skills workshop, together with Simone Müller and Matthias Schmidt, Schneefernerhaus/Zugspitze (18-19 Jan. 2024)

• “Literary Representations of Environmental In/Justice.” Workshop chair. Annual Conference of the Bavarian America Academy (BAA) on “Environmental Citizenship. Politics, Practices, Representations,” Munich (7 July 2023)

• “Hazardous Territory - Environmental Discourses, Ownership, and Disaster Policies in the United States.” Workshop with Natalie Rauscher and Welf Werner. DGfA Annual Conference on “America and Ownership: Territory, Slavery, Jubilee,” Rostock (3 June 2023)

• “The Green Hour.” An interdisciplinary Brown Bag Series in the Environmental Humanities (14 sessions annually, since April 2023)

• “2nd IDK Colloquium.” Interdisciplinary IDK Conference in the Environmental Humanities, Augsburg Univ. and LMU (15-17 Feb. 2023)

• “From Research Question to Timeline.” PhD Workshop together with Simone Müller and Matthias Schmidt, Schneefernerhaus/Zugspitze (30-31 Jan 2023)

• “1st IDK Colloquium.” Interdisciplinary IDK Conference in the Environmental Humanities, Augsburg Univ. and LMU (30 May-1 June 2022)

• “Interdisziplinarit?t umsetzen.” Workshop with Prof. Dr. Uwe Voigt and Dr. Katharina Stroh. WZU Augsburg (28 January 2020, via Zoom)

• “Human Nature.” Online workshop with Dr. Heike Schwarz (30 January 2020).

• “Solastalgia.” Online workshop with Dr. Heike Schwarz (12 December 2020)

• “Workshop Environmental Humanities.” With Prof. Dr. Hubert Zapf and Prof. Dr. Matthias Schmidt, WZU Augsburg (16 July 2020, via Zoom).

• “Workshop Environmental Humanities.” Workshop at the WZU, Augsburg University (19 Dec. 2019).

• “Home Fronts.” Joint conference, together with Katharina Gerund and Michael Hochgeschwender, Bavarian America Academy, Munich (20-21 July 2019).
• “The Koreanization of an Adoptee.“ Workshop, together with Kate Rhee (Performance Artist), as part of my seminar “Reconnecting Homelands” at Regensburg University (23 Jan. 2019).
• “DICTEE (1982): Literature Talk with Heide Hinrichs, Prof. Dr. Kirsten Twelbeck.” Round Table, “First Retrospective of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha in Germany,” Korean Cultural Center of the South-Korean Embassy, Berlin (7 Nov. 2018). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTCQssMm2CA
• “Migration and Environmental Writing.” A conversation with Jessica L. Lee, Augsburg University (5 June 2018).
• “Local Experts, Global Issues. Perspectives on Food and Society.” With Kathrin V?lkner. Panel at CIEE Berlin (29 Jan. 2018).
• “The German Election Process: A Transatlantic Comparison.” Public Panel with young representatives of Germany’s established parties (except AfD). CIEE Berlin (18 Oct. 2017).
• “ ‘Open this Gate’: Ronald Reagan’s ?u?erung vor 30 Jahren und ihre (Aus)wirkungen.” Moderation of a panel with Dr. Andreas Etges, Stephanie Eisenhuth, Dr. Jens Sch?ne, Berlin Wall Memorial (11 June 2017).
• “Transatlantic Relations: A Conversation with John Kornblum, the former US Embassador to Germany.” CIEE Berlin (20 M?rz 2017).
• “Religion and Modern Democracy.” Panel with Prof. Dr. Harald Wenzel and Dr. Josef Braml, CIEE Berlin (2 Feb. 2017).
• “Muslima Pride, Feminism, and Religion in a Secular State.” Panel with Betül Ulusoy, CIEE Berlin (5 Dec. 2016).
• “Queering Berlin.” Panel with Jonas Hamm, Queer Leben”. CIEE Berlin (15 Nov. 2016).
• “AfroGermany vor dem Hintergrund des deutschen Kolonialismus.” Panel with Katharina Oguntoye from Joliba, CIEE Berlin (27 Sept. 2016).
• “Saving Nature by Saving the Humanities?” Workshop conference with Micha Edlich, Annabel Friedrichs, Joy Fuqua, Maria Moss. Leibniz-University, Hanover (18 June 2016).
• “Knowledge Surrounded by Water: Islands in the American Imagination.” Workshop (moderation and round table). EAAS Conference, Constanta, Rumania (25 April 2016).
• “Jewishness in Contemporary America and Germany.” Panel with Dr. Brian Crawford (Touro College, Berlin) and Rabbi Dr. Gábor Lengyel (Hanover). Georg-August-University Goettingen (16 Dec. 2014).
• Ph.D. workshop of the American Studies Network in Northern Germany (NNN). Leibniz-University, Hanover (23-24 May 2014).
• “Fan Culture.” Symposium with Dr. Lucia Kr?mer (Leibniz University Hanover), Lisa Kuppler (editor and fan fiction author, blogger) and Bettina Soller (works on Fan Fiction). Leibniz University, Hanover (July 2010).
• “Alternative Economies: Gift, Theft, Gambling.” Workshop with Babette Tischleder. DGfA Annual Conference, Humboldt University, Berlin (June 2010).
• “Reconstruction, Representation, and the Rules of the ‘Democratic Game’.” Interdisciplinary Conference, John F. Kennedy Institute (19 -20 June 2009).
• “The Book as Medium: Material, Body, Character.” Workshop, with Dorothea Loebbermann, DGfA Annual Conference at Humboldt University, Berlin (10 June 2006).
• “Re-Writing America: Multi-Ethnic Perspectives in Literature and the Media.” Teachers’ Academy, Blaubeuren, organized by the American Embassy / Martina Kohl (18-21 Nov. 2004).
• “Gender Studies: An Interdisciplinary Conference.” Evangelisches Studienwerk, Villigst (Summer 1997). Organized together with two other Ph.D. students.