“'Take Plenty of Open-Air Walking, but Be Careful to Avoid Over-Fatigue’: Walking Women in the Girl’s Own Paper.”
March 2025. "New Perspectives on Walking Women in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures." Hamburg, Germany.
"Before Mass Tourism: Readers' Fictional and Factual Journeys to the Orkney and Shetland Islands in the 1820s."
April 2024. "The Northern Isles and the Arctic: Environment, Heritage and Tourism." 6th St Magnus Conference.
University of the Islands and Highlands, Lerwick, Shetland.
"From Depoliticising Burns to Trumpeting the Revolution: Ferdinand Freiligrath and the Early Reception of Robert Burns in Germany."
September 2022. "Scotland in Europe." University of Warsaw, Poland.
"'What is there that women cannot do?' A Radical Travelogue in the Girl's Own Paper."
July 2017. "Borders and Border Crossings." 49th Annual Conference of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. Freiburg i.Br., Germany.
"Writing to Save Their Souls: R.M. Ballantyne's Support of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution." July 2017. "Travel, Translation and Communication."
9th Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association. London, UK.
"Popular and Political: Crime Writing as a Commentary on South African Society."
July 2016. The 17th Triennial ACLALS Conference. Stellenbosch, South Africa. Reise gefördert durch den DAAD.
"Ballantyne 'On the Rocks': Boys' Adventures in the Arctic." April 2016. "Visualising the North." 3rd International St Magnus Conference. University of the Islands and
Highlands. Orkney Isles, Scotland. Paper on youtube (external link, opens in a new window)
"Paternalistic 'Emancipation': Anti-slavery Discourse in the Adventure Stories of Robert Michael Ballantyne." July 2015. "Empires and Revolutions: R.B.
Cunninghame Graham and Other Scottish Writers on Globalisation and Democracy (c. 1850 - 1950)." Annual Conference of ASLS. Stirling, Scotland.
"Nur ein toter Ork ist ein guter Ork? Rassismus in Fantasy & SciFi."
June 2015. Festival Contre le Racisme. Universität Regensburg.
"Laying to Rest the Ghosts?! Ghost Stories in Two Victorian Magazines for 'Boys'."
Mai 2015. "Ghosts: A Conference on the Nearly Invisible." Universität Leipzig.
"'I believe in Darwin's theory: we are descended doubtless from gorillas.' Victorian Monkey-Mania and Children's Literature." Guest Lecture,
November 2014, Universität Braunschweig.
"'It's Not Cruel, It's Science!' The Re-invention of Bird-nesting in Late Victorian Juvenile Culture."
September 2013. Anglistentag, Sektion "Victorian Lives," Universität Konstanz.
"Chains of Voices: Subjectivity, Multiperspectivity and Historical ‘Truth’ in Novels of André Brink.”
März 2013. “Contrary: The Oeuvre of André Brink.” University of Pretoria (South Africa). Reiseförderung durch den DAAD.
“Laughing Away Racism? The ‘Indian Comedy’ of Goodness Gracious Me.”
November 2012. Ringvorlesung “A History of British TV Comedy: Poetics – Politics – Interpretations.” Universität Passau, WS 2012/13.
“Mr Gorilla, ‘The Lion of the Season’: Die Britische ‘Gorilla-Manie’ im Spiegel der Viktorianischen Kinderliteratur.”
Dezember 2011. Ringvorlesung “Das Tier in der Sprache, Literatur und Kultur.” Universität Bamberg, WS 2011/12.
“‘Are you learning to grow old?’ The Politics of Ageing in The Girl’s Own Paper.”
November 2011. The Cultural Politics of Ageing in the Nineteenth Century: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Universität Regensburg.
“I had some pet theories of my own on the subject of education, which I could now put to the test” – The Victorian Deabte on Science Education and the
Case of “Robina Crusoe.” September 2011. Anglistentag, Sektion “Varia,” Unviersität Freiburg.
“(Post-)Colonial Space: Writing South Africa.”
Juli 2011. Lehrerfortbildung des Instituts für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Regensburg.
“Piraten! Robert Louis Stevensons Treasure Island als Klassiker der Kinderliteratur.”
Juni 2011. Ringvorlesung: Klassiker der Kinderliteratur, Universität Regensburg.
“John Gay’s Polly and the Politics of ‘Colonial Pastoral’.” Juni 2011. “Postcolonial Studies Across the Disciplines,” Jahrestagung der GNEL/ASNEL,
Universität Hannover.
“‘Wie ähnlich ist uns der Affe, dies äußerst scheußliche Tier!’ Darwins 'Affentheorie’ im Spiegel der englischen Kinderliteratur.”
November 2010. Antrittsvorlesung an der Universität Regensburg.
“Whose Hillbrow? Xenophobia and the Urban Space in the New South Africa.”
Mai 2010. “Contested Communities,” Jahrestagung der GNEL/ASNEL, Universität Bayreuth.
“‘Monkey Business’ Darwin’s ‘Ape Theory’ and its Traces in Victorian Children’s Magazines.”
November 2009. “Darwin Among the Disciplines,” Konferenz, Universität Göttingen.
“More than ‘Blood and Thunder’: The Popularization of Science and the Juvenile Magazines, 1850–1900.”
Juni 2009. “The Hockliffe Conference 2009,” University of Bedfordshire, Großbritannien.
“‘For a’ that’ – ‘Trotz alledem!’: Burns, Freiligrath and the Birth of a Leftwing Slogan.”
Mai 2009. “Translating Romanticism”, Konferenz, IASH, University of Edinburgh
“‘The Needlework of Wartime’: The South African War in Magazines for Young Readers.”
Oktober 2008. Anglistentag, Sektion “Varia,” Universität Tübingen.
“The Subjectivity of Absence: Verbal Cues for Constructing an Individual Point of View in Poems with ‘Hidden’ Speakers.”
September 2007. Anglistentag, Sektion “Cognitive Approaches in Literature and Linguistics,” Universität Münster.
“Family and Nation in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things.”
März 2007. Gastvortrag als Erasmus-Austauschdozent, University of St. Andrews, Schottland.
“Geschichte als Verbrechen: Zur Verknüpfung von ‘history’ und ‘crime’ im zeitgenössischen südafrikanischen Roman.”
Dezember 2006. Symposium “Geschichte und Krimi,” Universität Freiburg.
“Shakespeares Othello.” November 2006. Podiumsdiskussion im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe "Text und Szene," Studium Generale,
Universität Freiburg.
“No More Room in Hell: Utopian Moments in the Dystopia of 28 Days Later.” Mit Rüdiger Heinze, Freiburg.
Januar 2006. Internationales EUCOR-Symposium “The Disappearance of Utopia?” Universität Freiburg.
“‘Translating’ the Great Trek into the Twentieth Century: Re-interpretations of the Afrikaner Myth in Three South African Novels.”
Mai 2005. Jahrestagung der GNEL/ASNEL, Universität Kiel.
“Censorship in South Africa – Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter.”
Mai 2005. Aktionstag ‘Zensur’ zum internationalen Tag der Pressefreiheit, Universität Freiburg.
“Studentenproteste in Deutschland: 1968 – 2003.” März 2004. Gastvortrag als
Erasmus-Austauschdozent, University of Ulster (Coleraine, Nordirland).
“The Irish in England” Januar 2004. Ringvorlesung “Multicultural Britain”,
Wintersemester 2003/04, Universität Freiburg.
“‘Hidden Histories’ and the Search for Local Identity in a New South Africa.”
Mai 2003. Jahrestagung der GNEL/ASNEL, Universität Magdeburg.
“White Angst in South Africa – The Apocalyptic Visions of John Conyngham.”
Mai 2002. Jahrestagung der GNEL/ASNEL, Universität Erfurt.
“André Brink: Post-Modernist Moralist.” Mai 2002. “Versions and Subversions,”
International Conference on African Literatures, HU Berlin.
“Landschaftsdarstellung im englischen Abenteuerroman und die Kolonisierung Afrikas.” Mai 2001. “Ordnungen der Landschaft,”
Workshop des SFB 541, Universität Freiburg.
“Südafrika als ‘Rainbow Nation’ – Fragen der nationalen Identität.”
Juni 2000. Berichtskolloquium des SFB 541, Universität Freiburg.
“Christopher Hope’s Me, the Moon and Elvis Presley as a Critique of Rainbow Rhetoric.”
Juni 2000. Jahrestagung der GNEL/ASNEL, RWTH Aachen.
“Brink’s Magical History Tour: The First Life of Adamastor.”
Juli 1999. Jahrestagung der Association of University English Teachers of South Africa (AUETSA), Pretoria (Südafrika).
“Das Afrikabild in Robert Michael Ballantynes Black Ivory.” Januar 1999.
Interdisziplinäres Kolloquium “Afrika in den europäischen Literaturen zwischen 1860 und 1930,” Universität Erlangen.
“Der postmoderne historische Roman in Südafrika: André Brinks The First Life of Adamastor und Mike Nicols This Day and Age.”
Dezember 1998. Berichtskolloquium des SFB 541, Universität Freiburg.