Conferences and Talks

Invited Talks and Guest Lectures

27.06.2024: “Global Postcolonial Perspectives in Audrey Magee’s The Colony.” Ireland and Europe in Transnational Perspective: One-Day-Symposium, Universität Paderborn.

24.06.2024: “Die Figur des (Mad) Scientist in den Bond Filmen.” Introduction to the Film Screening of A View to a Kill (1985) as Part of the  James Bond Film Series organised by Casablanca Filmkunsttheater Nürnberg and the Institute for English and American Studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

18.12.2023: “‘Taking Back Control’ of the Nation and Its History? Contemporary Fiction’s Engagement with Nostalgia in Brexit Britain.” Guest Lecture in the Colloquium of the Research Training Group “The Sentimental in Literature, Culture, and Politics”, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

27.11.2023: “Der Naturwissenschaftler.” Lecture Series by Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Gender – Differenz – Diversität (IZGDD) on the topic “Sozialfiguren der Arbeit: Beruf, Performanz, Diversität”, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

19.05.2022: “‘The Troubles’ in Recent Historical Fiction: Constructing History and National Identity.” Guest Lecture in the Seminar „Ireland and Europe: Imagined Communities“ taught by Dr. Sara Strauß, Universität Paderborn.

14.01.2022: “Northern Ireland, Brexit, and Europe in Contemporary British Political Rhetoric.” Guest Lecture in the Seminar „Ireland, Europe and Brexit: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives” taught by Dr. Sara Strauß, Universität Paderborn.

22.01.2020: “Brexit and Nostalgia in Contemporary British Literature and Media: Middle England (2018) and Darkest Hour (2017).” Guest Lecture in the Seminar „Rule Britannia? – Britain Beyond Brexit“ taught by Matthias Göhrmann, Universität Passau.

 

Conference Talks

13.-14.02.2025: “Sites of Knowledge and the Struggle for Cultural Authority: Spatial Approaches to the History of  Science in The Essex Serpent.” Historical Fictions Research Network Conference 2025 “Place”, University of Manchester (UK).

21.-23.11.2024: “The Shifting Use of Emotional Rhetoric by Britain’s Two Major Parties around the 2024 General Election Campaign.”  BritCult Conference 2024 “Politics of Emotion/Emotions of Politics”, Universität Innsbruck (Austria).

06.-08.03.2024: “Instrumentalising National Identity and Nostalgia in Current Political Messages: The After-Effects of Brexit and the Pandemic.” (Re-)Imagining Britain in Unsettled Times: Continuities and Ruptures, Universität Paderborn (with Merle Tönnies).

23.-24.02.2024: “Nostalgically Adapting the End of the British Raj: A Postcolonial Critique of Viceroy’s House.” Historical Fictions Research Network Conference 2024 “Adaptation”, Malmö Universitet (Sweden).

17.-18.01.2024: “Venedig als Stadt der Geister und Alchemie in Wilkie Collins’ The Haunted Hotel.” Unheimliches Venedig, Conference at Deutsches Studienzentrum in Venice (Italy).

23.-25.11.2023: “Metaphorizing Irish and British (Intra-)Relations in Audrey Magee’s The Colony.” BritCult Conference 2024 “In-Between Islands: Intra-Relations between Britain and Ireland”, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.

24.-27.09.2023: “Negotiating between Traditional Irishness and Modern European Identities: Narratives of Glocal Irish Community in Contemporary Fiction.” Anglistentag 2023, Panel on“Irish Communities in a Glocal Context: Literary and Cultural Narratives”, Universität Siegen.

05.-06.05.2023: “Creating Uncertainty and Distrust in Science: Conspiracy Theories, Anti- and Pseudoscientific Attitudes in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Land of Mist.” Swiss Association of University Teachers of English (SAUTE) Conference 2023 “Trust and Uncertainty: Perspectives from Linguistics and Literary Studies”, Université de Fribourg (Switzerland).

13.-15.04.2023: “Performativity and the Construction of Cultural Authority: Literary Representations of Victorian Science.” British Society for Literature and Science Conference 2023, Edinburgh Napier University (UK).

17.-19.02.2023: “(Re-)Evaluating Conflicts and Avoiding Partisanship: The Troubles in Northern Irish Historical Fiction after Brexit.” Historical Fictions Research Network Conference 2023 “Values in Historical Fiction”, Online Conference.

17.-19.11.2022: “Documenting History and Engaging with Populist Discourses: Contemporary TV’s Medialisation of Classed British Identities.” BritCult Conference 2022 “British Identities Medialised”, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg (Austria).

20.-21.10.2022: “Exploiting Britain’s Imperial History: The Polarising Effects of the British Culture War and the Master Narrative of Nostalgia in Contemporary Political Rhetoric.” Political Polarization in 21st Century Societies: What It Is and Why It Matters, Université de Rouen Normandie (France), ERIAC Research Centre (with Matthias Göhrmann).

18.-20.02.2022: “‘The Best Way to Find Out Where Britain’s Heading Is to Look Behind Us’ – Challenging Dominant National Narratives in the Mockumentary Cunk on Britain.” Historical Fictions Research Network Conference 2022 “Communities”, Online Conference.

13.-15.10.2021: “Instrumentalising National Identity and Nostalgia in Current Political Messages: The Rhetoric of Brexit and the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Imagining Britain – Past, Present, and Future, Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Köln (with Merle Tönnies).

18.-19.06.2021: “Reinforcing or Undermining Divisions between ‘Ordinary People’ and an ‘Educated Liberal Elite’? – The Brexit Novel’s Engagement with New Class Discourses.” British ‘Fictions of Class’ Since 1945 – Revitalising Class in the Twenty-First Century, Universität Siegen.

05.-07.05.2021: “The Representation of External and Internal Borders and Their Interaction with National Identity in Ali Smith’s ‘Seasonal Quartet’.” Border Narratives: Brexit, Europe, and the UK, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

11.-13.03.2021: “The Past as Utopia: Nostalgia in Brexit Britain.” Dystopian/Utopian Theatre in Britain after 2000 and its Political Spaces, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Universität Bielefeld.

18.-21.02.2021: “Deconstructing Dominant Narratives about the Second World War: Their Finest as (Self)-Reflective Historical Fiction.” Historical Fictions Research Network Conference 2021 “Remembering Catastrophe”, Online Conference.

12.02.2021: “Preserving the Past or Progressing towards the Future? A Case Study of Brexit as Representing Restorative Nostalgia.” Bridges and Barriers: Perspectives of Progress and Preservation, An Interdisciplinary Student Conference, Universität Paderborn.

21.-22.02.2020: “Fragmentation, Intertextuality and Metafictionality: Theorising New Forms of Narrating the Past in Ali Smith’s ‘Seasonal Quartet’.“ Historical Fictions Research Network Conference 2020 “Forms of History”, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg (Austria).

21.-23.11.2019: “Nostalgia in Contemporary British Culture and Society.” Postgraduate Forum at BritCult Conference 2019, Universität Hildesheim.

03.-04.05.2019: “Negotiating Images of (Un-)Belonging and (Divided) Communities: Ali Smith’s ‘Seasonal Quartet’ as a Counter-Narrative to Brexit.” Swiss Association of University Teachers of English (SAUTE) Conference 2019 “Brexit and Beyond: Nation and Identity”, Universität Basel (Switzerland) (with Merle Tönnies).

26.-27.04.2019: “(Re)Writing the Past for the Purposes of the Present: Darkest Hour (2017) as a Mythscape.” Deception, Dishonesty, and Duplicity: An Interdisciplinary Student Conference, Universität Paderborn.