Vorträge

"Between Televisuality and Teleseriality: Towards a Poetics of American Post-Network Streaming Television Series." ECREA Television Section Conference 2023. Redefining Televisuality: Programmes, Practices, Methods. Filmuniversität Konrad Wolf, Potsdam. 25.-27. Oktober 2023.

"From Vienna to Philadelphia, and From London Around the World: World’s Fairs and Transatlantic Serial Culture." NISE 2023 Conference. Nationalism and World Fairs. Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Österreich. 31. Mai - 1 Juni 2023.

"From 'Serial' to Seriality: Recentering Podcasting’s Sequential Form." ICA 2023 Pre-Conference. 20 Years of Podcasting: Mapping the Contours of Podcast Studies. Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Kanada. 24.-25. Mai 2023.

"'Without Warning, a Middle Class Childhood in an American Suburb': Serial Political Education in Teen Dramas from The O.C. to Euphoria." 68. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA). Political Education & American Studies. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. 9.-11. Juni 2022.

"Teaching (Serial) Television: Potentials & Pitfalls." Gastvortrag. TU Braunschweig. 27. Januar 2022.

Mit Annabel Friedrichs. "(Re-)Dressing the Naked City: Urban Creative Cultures and Gentrification in New York City." Kapitel-Präsentation und Diskussion im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe Hipsters and Gentrifiers: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urband Culture. Ruhr Center of American Studies. 16. November 2021. 

"Making It in New York City: Urban Maker Cultures in Historical Perspective." 67. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA). Participation in American Society and Culture. Universität Heidelberg (Online). 17.-19. Juni 2021.

"Televisual Urban Decay and the Creative City: Rescripting "Gritty" New York on The Deuce." 66. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA). U.S.-American Culture as Popular Culture. Universität Hamburg. 13.-15. Juni 2019.

"On or about February 1913, not that much changed, after all: The New York Armory Show, Serial Exhibition Culture, 
and the Modern Management of Novelty." Managing Time, Mediating Modernity: Temporality, Mass Culture, and the Avantgarde, 1880-1920. Leibniz Universität Hannover. 22.-23. Februar 2019.

“Serial World’s Fairs: The 1853/1854 New York Crystal Palace and Trans/National Self-Fashioning.” World Fairs and International Exhibitions: National Self-Profiling in an Internationalist Context, 1851-1940. Universiteit van Amsterdam, Niederlande. 7.-9. März 2018.

"The Future That Was Lost: Revisiting the New in the 1939/1940 and 1964/1965 World's Fairs." 64. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA). Modernities and Modernization in North America. Leibniz Universität Hannover. 8.-11. Juni 2017.

"Commodified Communities: The High Line, Grassroots Activism, and Gentrification in New York City." SANAS 2016 Conference: American Communities: Between the Popular and the Political. Universität Bern, Schweiz. 4.-5. November 2016.

"(Re-)Making American Culture: Ned Buntline, the Crystal Palace, and the Transnational Series and Adaptations of New York." Popular Culture – Serial Culture. Nineteenth-Century Serial Fictions in Transnational Perspective, 1830s-1860s. Universität Siegen. 28.-30. April 2016.

"The Only Constant is Change: Mad Men Revisits American Television History." Imagining Media Change. Leibniz Universität Hannover. 13. Juni 2013. 

"Creative Cities and Country Cool: New York City's High Line between Rural and Urban America." 60. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA). Rural America.Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. 30. Mai-2. Juni 2013. 

"'Quality TV" and 'Graphic Novel': What's in a Name?" Cultural Distinctions Remediated. Beyond the High, the Low, and the Middle. Leibniz Universität Hannover. 15.-17. Dezember 2011.

"A Kinder, Gentler Americanization?: Transnational Cool and 30 Rock." 58. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA). Transnational American Studies. Universität Regensburg. 16.-19. Juni 2011.

"Conspicuously Creative: Post-Network Television Series." Gastvortrag. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. 22. Juni 2010.

"The Haves and the Have Nots: Creative Class Wars in Veronica Mars." Transformations: Theorizing Race and Class in the 21st Century. Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies/Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. 17.-19. Juni 2010. 

"'What you call 'love' was invented by guys like me to sell nylons': Contemporary U.S. Television Between Co-Optation and Innovation." Gastvortrag. Technische Universität Chemnitz. 30. November 2009.

"'Quick quips and pop culture-laden bromides': Cultural Education in The O.C. and Veronica Mars." 56. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA). Education and the USA. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. 4.-7. Juni 2009.

"All in the Family: Representing (Post-)Postmodernism, Popular Culture and the Culture Wars in The Corrections." Gastvortrag. Universität Mannheim. 26. Mai 2009.

"'To emerge from its transitional funk': The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay's Intermedial Dialogue with Comics and Graphic Novels." Academic Perspectives on Comics, Manga & Graphic Novels as Intercultural & Intermedial Phenomena. Växjö Universitet, Schweden. 16.-18. April 2009.

"'Hours of Mind-Numbing Escapism': Preemptive Irony in The O.C.Doktorandenkonferenz American Studies. Leibniz Universität Hannover. 28.-29. September 2007.

Kurzvorträge, Workshops und öffentliche Auftritte 

Mit Annabel Friedrichs. “Auf Ganzer Linie Grün? Die High Line in New York.” Tag der Philosophischen Fakultät. Leibniz Universität Hannover. 24. November 2016.

Podiumsdiskussion “Consuming Authenticity” (Moderation und Segment “Series and Authenticity”) Impakt-Festival 2016: Authenticity? Utrecht, Niederlande. 26.-30. Oktober 2016.

“The High Line. Just Another Park?” International Science Slam 2015. Leibniz Universität Hannover. 3. November 2015.

Mit Susanne Leikam. “Risky Business: American Negotiations of ‘Natural’ Risks and Opportunities.” Workshop bei der Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA): “America after Nature: Democracy, Culture, Environment.” Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, 14. Juni 2014.