I regularly deliver academic presentations, public talks, and film introductions in person and online. A selection of these are listed below.
I am also happy to speak to university, school or community groups and at public events, art centres and cinemas, museums, and to participate in media programmes.
Please get in touch if you wish to discuss possible research, public, education or media events.
Research (selected)
Ein Tagebuch für Anne Frank: The GDR’s Nuit et brouillard?
Documenting Socialism. University of St Andrews, Scotland.
Tangled Pasts: Negotiating Politics of the Past and Present in Postwar German Film.
Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of London.
Competing Identities at the Berlin Film Festival during the Cold War. (Re)Framing Film Festivals: Histories, Economies, Cultures, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
Revisiting the Crimes of the Past. The Image of the Perpetrator in Recent German Holocaust Film.
Perpetration, Collaboration and Complicity in Nazi-Dominated Europe. University College London.
Projecting DEFA in the West.
German Studies Association. San Diego, United States.
East Germany’s “Botschafter des guten Willens”: Konrad Wolf’s Sterne (1959).
German Studies Association. Washington D.C., United States.
“Grandma was no Nazi.” Depictions of Motherhood in Hotel Adlon: Eine Familiensaga.
Popular Culture Association. New Orleans, United States.
Teaching (selected)
An Introduction to Inclusive Practice.
Roundtable. Women in German Studies.
Decolonising the Curriculum: Exposing the Hidden Curriculum?
Decolonising Modern Languages: A Symposium for Sharing Practices and Ideas, Institute of Modern Languages Research
Towards a Decolonising and Decentring Curriculum.
Teaching Film in Modern Languages, Institute of Modern Languages Research.
Public Talks, Introductions
Film Introductions including: Das weiße Band; Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam; Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt; Käthe Kollwitz: Bilder eines Lebens
Panel discussions including: Die bleierne Zeit; The Passenger; Sterne; East German documentary shorts
School talks including: An Introduction to German Film; How to Win an Oscar; Studying Modern Foreign Languages
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