Conferences and Talks

Speeches / Talks

• Creating Uncertainty and Distrust in Science: Conspiracy Theories, Anti- and Pseudoscientific Attitudes in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Land of Mist
  6. May 2023, Event: 2023 SAUTE Conference. Trust and Uncertainty: Perspectives from Linguistics and Literary Studies, University of Fribourg / Universitè de Fribourg
• Performativity and the Construction of Cultural Authority: Literary Representations of Victorian Science
  14. April 2023, Event: 2023 Conference of the British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS), Edinburgh Napier University
• (Re-)Evaluating Conflicts and Avoiding Partisanship: The Troubles in Northern Irish Historical Fiction after Brexit
  18. February 2023, Event: Historical Fictions Research Conference 2023: Values in Historical Fiction
• Documenting History and Engaging with Populist Discourses: Contemporary TV’s Medialisation of Classed British Identities
  18. November 2022, Event: 2022 BritCult Conference: British Identities Medialised, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg
• Exploiting Britain’s Imperial History: The Polarising Effects of the British Culture War and the Master Narrative of Nostalgia in Contemporary Political Rhetoric
  20. October 2022, Event: Political Polarization in 21st Century Societies: What It Is and Why It Matters, University of Rouen
• ‘The Troubles’ in Recent Historical Fiction: Constructing History and National Identity
  19. May 2022, Event: Seminar “Ireland and Europe: Imagined Communities” (Dr. Sara Strauß), Universität Paderborn
• ‘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
  20. February 2022, Event: Historical Fictions Research Conference 2022: Communities
• Northern Ireland, Brexit, and Europe in Contemporary British Political Rhetoric
  14. January 2022, Event: Seminar “Ireland, Europe and Brexit: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives” (Dr. Sara Strauß), Universität Paderborn
• Instrumentalising National Identity and Nostalgia in Current Political Messages: The Rhetoric of Brexit and the COVID-19 Pandemic
  14. October 2021, Event: Imagining Britain – Past, Present, and Future, Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung / Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
• Reinforcing or Undermining Divisions between ‘Ordinary People’ and an ‘Educated Liberal Elite’? – The Brexit Novel’s Engagement with New Class Discourses
  18. June 2021, Event: British ‘Fictions of Class’ Since 1945 – Revitalising Class in the Twenty-First Century, Universität Siegen
• The Representation of External and Internal Borders and Their Interaction with National Identity in Ali Smith’s ‘Seasonal Quartet’
  6. May 2021, Event: Border Narratives: Brexit, Europe, and the UK, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• The Past as Utopia: Nostalgia in Brexit Britain
  11. March 2021, Event: Dystopian/ Utopian Theatre in Britain after 2000 and its Political Spaces, Universität Bielefeld
• Deconstructing Dominant Narratives about the Second World War: Their Finest as (Self)-Reflective Historical Fiction
  18. February 2021, Event: Historical Fictions Research Conference 2021: Remembering Catastrophe
• Preserving the Past or Progressing towards the Future? A Case Study of Brexit as Representing Restorative Nostalgia
  12. February 2021, Event: Bridges and Barriers: Perspectives of Progress and Preservation, An Interdisciplinary Student Conference, Universität Paderborn
• Fragmentation, Intertextuality and Metafictionality: Theorising New Forms of Narrating the Past in Ali Smith’s ‘Seasonal Quartet’
  21. February 2020, Event: Historical Fictions Research Conference 2020: Forms of History, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg
• Brexit and Nostalgia in Contemporary British Literature and Media: Middle England (2018) and Darkest Hour (2017)
  22. January 2020, Event: Seminar “Rule Britannia? – Britain Beyond Brexit” (Matthias Göhrmann), Universität Passau
• Nostalgia in Contemporary British Culture and Society
  21. November 2019, Event: Postgraduate Forum at BritCult - Annual Conference of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures, Universität Hildesheim
• Negotiating Images of (Un-)Belonging and (Divided) Communities: Ali Smith’s ‘Seasonal Quartet’ as a Counter-Narrative to Brexit
  3. May 2019, Event: 2019 SAUTE Conference: Brexit and Beyond: Nation and Identity, Universität Basel
• (Re)Writing the Past for the Purposes of the Present: Darkest Hour (2017) as a Mythscape
  27. April 2019, Event: Deception, Dishonesty, and Duplicity: An Interdisciplinary Student Conference, Universität Paderborn