Caught in the Net: GDR-Poland Border Conflicts in Everyday Life
Presentation at the “New Transnational and Global Approaches to the GDR Border” international workshop at the University of Erfurt, 10 July 2019.
Biking the Border: Basel to Aachen, 2019
Bike trip from Basel, Switzerland along the French-German border up the Rhine and toward the Saarland, then to Luxembourg and back to Aachen, Germany.
Radioaktivität kennt keine Grenzen: Deutsch-französische Anti-AKW-Netzwerke der 1970er Jahre
Vortrag auf der Tagung „Der Gorleben-Treck 1979 und die niedersächsische Landesgeschichte“ am 21.-22. Juni 2019 im Niedersächsischen Landtag.
Pacifism, Self-Defense, Mass Violence: Varieties of Militancy in the 1970s French-German Anti-Nuclear Energy Movement
Presented at Historiska institutionen, Stockholm University.
Fließende Grenzen? Der Alltag am Rhein und an der Oder, 1949–1989
Gastvortrag für das “Research Factory” des Viadrina-Centers B/orders in Motion.
For Farm and Fatherland? Claiming German Property on French Territory after 1945
Presented at the ‘Managing the Land’ workshop at the European University Institute in Florence, 11 April 2019.
Ungerecht, undemokratisch, unsicher. Argumente und Akteure der deutsch-französischen Anti-AKW-Bewegung der 1970er Jahre
Vortrag am Deutschen Museum in München im Rahmen des Oberseminars Technikgeschichte.
Fishing in the Wrong Pond: GDR-Poland Border Conflicts in Everyday Life
Presented at the 2018 annual conference of the German Studies Association in Pittsburgh, PA
Biking the Border: Oder-Neiße-Radweg, June-July 2018
Bike trip along the Oder-Neiße-Radweg.
Occupy, Blockade, Riot: Seizing Space in the 1970s and 1980s
Teach-out for the University and College Union, University of Sheffield, 23 May 2018.
„Lieber aktiv als radioaktiv“ Perspektiven auf die transnationalen Ursprünge der Anti-Atom-Bewegung
Gemeinsame Veranstaltung mit Steve Milder, um unsere beiden Bücher über die Anti-Atomkraft-Bewegung der 1970er Jahre bei der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung in Berlin vorzustellen.
Towards a “Europe of Struggles?” Visions of “Europe” in the Anti-Nuclear Movement of the 1970s
Presented at the conference on “Environnement et espace public européen: perceptions, acteurs, politiques” at the Institut d’Histoire Allemand/Deutsches Historisches Institut, Paris, 19 October 2017.
‘Peaceful but Offensive’ Protest: Varieties of Violence in the 1970s Anti-Nuclear Movement
Presented at the Violence and Militancy from ‘68 to the G20 symposium organised by Ali Jones at Pembroke College, Cambridge on 14 September 2017.
Biking the Border: Neißefahrt 2017
Bike trip from Zittau via Görlitz to Guben, Forst, and Frankfurt.
History of Nuclear Campaigning
Talk on the history of French and West German opposition to nuclear energy during and since the 1970s, given at annual Friends of the Earth basecamp at Castleton YHA in the Peak District.