"Between Televisuality and Teleseriality: Towards a Poetics of American Post-Network Streaming Television Series." ECREA Television Section Conference 2023. Redefining Televisuality: Programmes, Practices, Methods. Film University Konrad Wolf, Potsdam. 25-27 October 2023.
"From Vienna to Philadelphia, and From London Around the World: World’s Fairs and Transatlantic Serial Culture." NISE 2023 Conference. Nationalism and World Fairs. Vienna University of Economic and Business, Austria. 31 Mai - 1 June 2023.
"From 'Serial' to Seriality: Recentering Podcasting’s Sequential Form." ICA 2023 Pre-Conference. 20 Years of Podcasting: Mapping the Contours of Podcast Studies. Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada. 24-25 May 2023.
"'Without Warning, a Middle Class Childhood in an American Suburb': Serial Political Education in Teen Dramas from The O.C. to Euphoria." 68. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA). Political Education & American Studies. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. 9.-11. Juni 2022.
"Teaching (Serial) Television: Potentials & Pitfalls." Guest Lecture. TU Braunschweig. 27 January 2022.
With Annabel Friedrichs. "(Re-)Dressing the Naked City: Urban Creative Cultures and Gentrification in New York City." Chapter Presentation and Discussion, Lecture Series Hipsters and Gentrifiers: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urband Culture. Ruhr Center of American Studies. 16 November 2021.
"Making It in New York City: Urban Maker Cultures in Historical Perspective." 67th Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA). Participation in American Society and Culture. University Heidelberg (Online). 17-19 June 2021.
"Televisual Urban Decay and the Creative City: Rescripting "Gritty" New York on The Deuce." 66th Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA). U.S.-American Culture as Popular Culture. University Hamburg. 13-15 June 2019.
"On or about February 1913, not that much changed, after all: The New York Armory Show, Serial Exhibition Culture, and the Modern Management of Novelty." Managing Time, Mediating Modernity: Temporality, Mass Culture, and the Avantgarde, 1880-1920. Leibniz University Hannover. 22-23 February 2019.
“Serial World’s Fairs: The 1853/1854 New York Crystal Palace and Trans/National Self-Fashioning.” World Fairs and International Exhibitions: National Self-Profiling in an Internationalist Context, 1851-1940. Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands. 7-9 March 2018.
"The Future That Was Lost: Revisiting the New in the 1939/1940 and 1964/1965 World's Fairs." 64th Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA). Modernities and Modernization in North America. Leibniz University Hannover. 8-11 June 2017.
"Commodified Communities: The High Line, Grassroots Activism, and Gentrification in New York City." SANAS 2016 Conference: American Communities: Between the Popular and the Political. University Bern, Switzerland. 4-5 November 2016.
"(Re-)Making American Culture: Ned Buntline, the Crystal Palace, and the Transnational Series and Adaptations of New York." Popular Culture – Serial Culture. Nineteenth-Century Serial Fictions in Transnational Perspective, 1830s-1860s. University Siegen. 28-30 April 2016.
"The Only Constant is Change: Mad Men Revisits American Television History." Imagining Media Change. Leibniz University Hannover. 13 June 2013.
"Creative Cities and Country Cool: New York City's High Line between Rural and Urban America." 60th Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA). Rural America.Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg. 30 May-2 June 2013.
"'Quality TV" and 'Graphic Novel': What's in a Name?" Cultural Distinctions Remediated. Beyond the High, the Low, and the Middle. Leibniz University Hannover. 15-17 December 2011.
"A Kinder, Gentler Americanization?: Transnational Cool and 30 Rock." 58th Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA). Transnational American Studies. University Regensburg. 16-19 June 2011.
"Conspicuously Creative: Post-Network Television Series." Guest Lecture. Georg-August-University Göttingen. 22 June 2010.
"The Haves and the Have Nots: Creative Class Wars in Veronica Mars." Transformations: Theorizing Race and Class in the 21st Century. Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies/Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. 17-19 June 2010.
"'What you call 'love' was invented by guys like me to sell nylons': Contemporary U.S. Television Between Co-Optation and Innovation." Guest Lecture. TU Chemnitz. 30 November 2009.
"'Quick quips and pop culture-laden bromides': Cultural Education in The O.C. and Veronica Mars." 56th Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA). Education and the USA. Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. 4-7 June 2009.
"All in the Family: Representing (Post-)Postmodernism, Popular Culture and the Culture Wars in The Corrections." Guest Lecture University Mannheim. 26 May 2009.
"'To emerge from its transitional funk': The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay's Intermedial Dialogue with Comics and Graphic Novels." Academic Perspectives on Comics, Manga & Graphic Novels as Intercultural & Intermedial Phenomena. Växjö Universitet, Sweden. 16-18 April 2009.
"'Hours of Mind-Numbing Escapism': Preemptive Irony in The O.C." Doctoral Conference American Studies. Leibniz University Hannover. 28-29 September 2007.
Shorter Presentations, Workshops und public Appearances
With Annabel Friedrichs. “Auf Ganzer Linie Grün? Die High Line in New York.” Tag der Philosophischen Fakultät. Leibniz University Hannover. 24 November 2016.
Round Table Discussion “Consuming Authenticity” (Moderation and Segment “Series and Authenticity”) Impakt-Festival 2016: Authenticity? Utrecht, Netherlands. 26-30 October 2016.
“The High Line. Just Another Park?” International Science Slam 2015. Leibniz University Hannover. 3 November 2015.
With Susanne Leikam. “Risky Business: American Negotiations of ‘Natural’ Risks and Opportunities.” Workshop at the 61st Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGfA). “America after Nature: Democracy, Culture, Environment.” Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, 14 June 2014.