Januar 2019
"Appropriations of Time and Space in Industrial Capitalist England - Historical Cultural Studies in Practice"
Research and Tea, Englisches Seminar, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Oktober 2018
"Postcolonial Cultural Studies - Merits and Demerits of Comparative Research and Teaching in African Literatures and Cultures"
Kosmos: Crossing and Comparisons in African Literary and Cultural Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Juli 2018
Buchvorstellung und Autorinnengespräch: Kirsten Rüther, Afrika genauer betrachtet. Perspektiven aus einem Kontinent im Umbruch (2017)
Centre for Atlantic and Global Studies, Leibniz Universität Hannover
März 2018
"Literaturtheorie für Lehramtsstudierende?! Eine Einladung zum Kritischen Denken"
Kontrovers: Literaturdidaktik meets Literaturwissenschaft, Tagung des Forschungs- und Lehrprojekts zur Literaturvermittlung, Bremen
September 2017
"Einleitung"
Anglistentag-Sektion (organisiert mit Nora Pleßke und Joanna Rostek) "The Value of Economic Criticism Reconsidered: Approaching Literature and Culture through the Lens of Economics," Regensburg
November 2016
"The Power Politics of Time: Dominant, Residual, Emergent Practices of Time"
Jahrestagung der Britcult "The Times of Culture and the Cultures of Time: British Temporalities," Bielefeld
Juni 2016
"Factory Lives: Imagining the Working Classes in Victorian Literature and Culture"
Gastvortrag in der Anglistik der TU Dresden
Januar 2016
"The Aesthetics and Politics of Post-Apartheid Literature and Culture"
Gastvortrag in der Anglistik der TU Braunschweig
November 2015
"How clean was Manchester in the 1840s? Functions of Fictional and Non-Fictional Representations of the New Industrial Cities"
Jahrestagung der Britcult "The Popular and the Past: 19th-Century British Cultures," Erlangen
Juni 2015
"South African Townships - Narrating Poverty in Spatial Terms"
Tagung "Representing Poverty in the Anglophone Postcolonial World," Bonn
Februar 2015
"Post-Apartheid Literature: 20 Years of Writing about HIV/AIDS"
Gastvortrag in der Afrikanistik der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
September 2014
"Beyond Fiction - Writing about HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa"
Panel (organisiert mit Lizzy Attree) "Representations of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa: Literature, Art and Film" bei der Tagung der African Studies Association of the UK, Sussex (Großbritannien)
Mai 2014
"Life Writing - südafrikanische Stimmen zu HIV/AIDS"
Gastvortrag in der Afrikanistik der Universität Wien (Österreich)
April 2014
"Tracing the Cultural Visibility of HIV/AIDS in South Africa"
Tagung "Writing the 'Rainbow Nation'? Examining 20 Years of Post-Apartheid Literature," Regensburg
Februar 2014
"Factory Lives of the 1830s/40s: (Non-)Fiction by and about the Working Classes"
Symposium "Critical Materialities," Huddersfield (Großbritannien)
November 2013
"Cultural and Postcolonial Studies: Reflections on a Combined Analytical Approach"
Jahrestagung der Britcult "Cultural Studies and Its Discontents," Großbritannien-Zentrum der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Juni 2013
"Critical Reflections on Cultural Studies: African, British, Postcolonial and International Approaches"
Tagung "Approaching South Africa through the Lens of Literature, Culture, History and Education," Leibniz Universität Hannover
September 2012
"Locating The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2000) in Victorian Literature and (Popular) Culture
Anglistentag-Sektion "News from 'Trashure' Island: British Comics and Graphic Novels," Potsdam
Mai 2012
"Postcolonial Cultural Studies: A Case Study on Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Genre 'Life Writing'"
Jahrestagung der GNEL "Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires," Bern
Juni 2011
"Postcolonial Cultural Studies: Critical Perspectives on the 'New South Africa'"
Gastvortrag im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "The Great Variety of British Cultural Studies," Dortmund
September 2009
"Violence and Reconciliation in South African Teenage Fiction"
Tagung "Forms of Violence in English Children's and Young Adults' Fiction," Osnabrück
Mai 2009
"Translocation: Representing HIV/AIDS as an Epidemic or as a Pandemic?"
Jahrestagung der GNEL "Postcolonial Translocations," Münster
November 2008
"HIV/AIDS in Private and in Public: Edwin Cameron's Witness to AIDS (2005)"
Tagung "From the Cradle to the Grave: Life-Course Models in Literary Genres," Salzburg
Dezember 2007
"The 'New South Africa' - A Rainbow Nation? Reflections on Culture, Politics and History in South Africa"
Gastvortrag an der Universität Dortmund
Dezember 2007
"The War against AIDS - Metaphors and HIV/AIDS in South Africa"
Gastvortrag an der Universität Konstanz
August 2007
"The New Struggle: South African Representations of HIV/AIDS"
Vortrag im Staff Seminar, University of the Western Cape (UWC), Kapstadt (Südafrika)
Oktober 2006
"Die ewige Bondmanie - 'Tomorrow never dies'"
Tagung "Warten auf Bond," Bochum und Dortmund
August 2006
"The Body and HIV/AIDS - Representations in South African Literature"
Tagung der European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), Seminar "The Human Body in Contemporary Literatures in English: Cultural and Political Implications," London (Großbritannien)