Recent Academic Conferences and Presentations

• “Hannah Arendt, Statelessness, and Her Two Reading Publics.” To be delivered at the annual convention of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), UCLA, 29 March to 1 April 2018.
• “The Anecdote of the Jar.” Conference in Honor of Ulla Haselstein: "Exemplary Singularity: Fault Lines of the Anecdotal." John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin, 1-3 February 2018.
• “Refugee Blues: Hannah Arendt and the Problem of Statelessness.” Delivered to the symposium Women in U.S.‑American Politics, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 25-27 September 2017.
• “Generating Value: Ezra Pound and the (Other) Modernist Lyric (Conrad Aiken),” DGfA (German Association of American Studies) annual convention, 9 June 2017.
• “Pastoral Conservatism and the Liberal Aesthetic,” presented to the Cultures of US-American Conservatism conference, University of Göttingen, 12 February 2017.
• “Liberal Cosmopolitanism: Free Trade, the Marketplace of Ideas, and Emerson's Relation to Germany,“ presented to the Cosmopolitanism Ringvorlesung, University of Potsdam, 10 Nov. 2016.
• Antrittsvorlesung: “Debt, Innovation, and the Aesthetic of Austerity,” Aula, Wilhelmsplatz, University of Göttingen, 19 October 2016.
• “The Encumbrance of the New: Debt, Innovation, and the Aesthetics of Austerity.” Symposium: The Aesthetics of the New, John F. Kennedy Institute, Berlin, 28-29 October 2016.
• Invited Keynote, conference "Entangled Memories: Remembering the Holocaust in a Global Age, University of Hamburg, 9-11 October, 2014.
• Invited Paper at the conference Searching for Culture, to be held at the Arts Centre of Placky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 16-17 October 2014.
• “Joel Barlow and James Leander Cathcart: Barbary Captivity and Waging War for Peace.” Presented to the biennial convention of the European Association of American Studies (EAAS), The Hague, 3-6 April, 2014.
• “Detective Fiction, Counterfactuals, and the Holocaust: Altering History for Memory’s Sake.” Presented at Touro College Berlin, 25 October 2013.
• “Pound, Peripatetic Verse, and the Postwar Liberal Aesthetic,” presented to The Art of Walking: Pedestrian Mobility in Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts from the 18th Century to the 21^st, at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 9-11 October 2013.
• “Commerce and Conversion: The Clash of Civilizations in Barbary Captivity Narratives.” American literature colloquium at FAU Erlangen, 5 February 2013.
• “Literature of the Barbary Wars: Commerce, Piety, and the Apostasy of Race.” Presented to the Amerika-Institut of the LMU München, 17 January 2012.
• “Idylls of the Apocalypse: Goldwater and the Conservative Revolution of the 1960s.” Ringvorlesung The Sixties—America’s Longest Decade, at the John F. Kennedy Institute, FU Berlin, 12 December 2012.
• “Goldwater in Phoenix: How Popular Conservatism Rose from the Ashes of an Unsuccessful Presidential Campaign.” Conference "Electoral Cultures: American Democracy and Choice," Amerika Haus Munich, 1-4 November 2012
• “Post-War American Poetry.” Invited lecture, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, 5 July 2012.
• “Commerce and Conversion: The Clash of Civilizations in Barbary Captivity Narratives.” American literature colloquium at FAU Erlangen, 5 February 2013.
• “Literature of the Barbary Wars: Commerce, Piety, and the Apostasy of Race.” Amerika-Institut of the LMU München, 17 January 2012.
• “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union and 9/11.” U.S. State Department Sponsored Guest Lecture, Universität Saarbrücken. 12 January 2012.
• “Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union: Violence, Detection, and the Politics of Memory after 9/11.” John F. Kennedy Institute Lecture Series: 9/11 and its Consequences. 16 November 2011.
• “Auden’s Sense of History,” keynote address, conference Literary Dimensions: Reading Time and Space, at the Maria Curie Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland, 22-24 September 2011.
• “What Chabon Remembers: Terrorism, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, and Jews without Ethnicity,” conference "9/11—Ten years Later, Looking Ahead," University of Bonn, 8-11 September 2011.
• “Feast and Famine in Early Accounts of Thanksgiving,” International Club of the Freie Universität Berlin, FU Clubhouse, 24 November 2010.
• “Youth and the Young Nation in Thomas Paine,” Conference of the European Association of American Studies, Dublin, 26-29 March, 2010.
• “The Sin Prior to Lowell’s Confession: Poetry Leading to Life Studies,” English and American literature department, University of Paderborn, 8 December 2010.

Conference Organization, Panel Chairs, Interviews (selection)

• Co-Organizer of conference, Cultures of US-American Conservatism, University of Göttingen, 9-12 February 2017
• Co-Organizer of the international conference "Surveillance | Society | Culture," University of Göttingen, 26-28 February 2016 (with Florian Zappe). Introduction and paper on "Representations of Surveillance in the Twitter-Novella Black Box."
• Introduction/Moderation: Gary Shteyngart’s reading from his memoir Little Failure, at the Literarisches Zentrum Göttingen, 30. Sep. 2015.
• Panel Chair with Dustin Breitenwischer, “The Campus Novel,” at the DGfA annual convention in Bonn, 29-31 May, 2015.
• Interview with and Introduction to the readings of authors Rivka Galchen and Joseph O’Neill, at the DGfA annual convention in Bonn, 29-31 May, 2015.
• Panel chair with Karin Höpker: “Scrap, Spam, Bit Rot: the Politics and Poetics of Digital Detritus,” at the DGfA annual convention in Würzburg, 12-15 June 2014.
• Panel Chair: “Conservative Pastoralism and the Provincial Ideal in the Cold War,” at the DGfA annual convention in Erlangen, 30 May to 2 June 2013. My own paper was called, “Conservative Pastoralism and the Liberal Aesthetic.”
• Panel Chair, American Lives, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, 31 May-3 June 2012: “Faking It: The End of History and the Rise of Memory, Identity, and Personality.” Paper delivered: “Conservatism and the Populist Self: Chambers, Nixon, Wills.”
• Introduction/Moderation, a reading by the American author Lev Raphael, sponsored by the US Embassy at the Jewish Museum Berlin, 3 November, 2010.
• Panel Chair, Young Americans in Literature of the Early Republic. The European Association of American Studies, Dublin, 26-29 March, 2010.
• Respondent, Representations of the Holocaust in a Transnational Context, MLA Annual Convention, Los Angeles, CA, 6-9 January, 2011.
• Panel Chair, The World is Not Enough: International Scholarship in the Field of American Studies, at the American Studies Association, Washington DC, 5-8 November, 2009.
• Panel Chair, “Literary Negotiations of Change,” at the Conference of the Second Cohort of the Graduate School of North American Studies, John F. Kennedy Institute, 10-11 July, 2009.
• Panel Chair, The World is Not Enough: International Scholarship in the Field of American Studies, at the American Studies Association, Washington DC, 5-8 November, 2009.
• Panel Chair, “Literary Negotiations of Change,” at the Conference of the Second Cohort of the Graduate School of North American Studies, John F. Kennedy Institute, 10-11 July, 2009.