Lectures
Lectures
Lectures
7.12.1990 (Berlin) "Sonderweg" into life? Childhood and education in German and English middle-class families from 1840 to the First World War(Colloquium on social and economic history, chaired by Prof. Dr Wolfram Fischer, Prof. Dr Hartmut Kaelble, Prof. Dr Jürgen Kocka, Prof. Dr Heinrich Volkmann, Berlin)
5 Dec. 1991 (Flintbek/Kiel)
I was always awake in dreams. The life of the maid Sophia told by herself
(Reading at the adult education centre, Kiel)
29 April 1993 (Constance)
Education in German and English middle-class families, 1840-1914
(Colloquium on social history, chaired by Prof. Dr Ute Frevert, University of Constance)
18 Jan. 1994 (Tübingen)
The cradle of the bourgeoisie. Variants of educational events and experiences in German and English middle-class families of the 19th and early 20th centuries
(Colloquium on Social History, chaired by Prof. Dr Dieter Langewiesche, University of Tübingen)
19 April 1994 (Bielefeld)
Citizens were not born. Gender- and nation-specific varieties of child rearing in German and English bourgeois families of the 19th century
(Colloquium on Gender History, chaired by Prof. Dr Gisela Bock, University of Bielefeld)
2 June 1994 (Berlin)
Die Hausfrau als Konsumexpertin des deutschen und englischen Bürgertums im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert
(Conference: Consumption History as Social History, chaired by Prof. Dr Hartmut Kaelble, Prof. Dr Jürgen Kocka, PD Dr Hannes Siegrist, Centre for Comparative Social History, FU Berlin)
1.4.1995 (Edinburgh)
The Childhood and Education of Middle-Class Children in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
(Economic History Conference, Edinburgh 31.3.-2.4.1995)
24 June 1995 (Berlin)
"Tüchtige Traktoristinnen" und "Schicke Stenotypistinnen". Images of women in German post-war societies - tendencies of "Sovietisation" and "Americanisation"?
(Conference: "Americanisation - Sovietisation", chaired by Prof. Dr. Konrad Jarausch and PD Dr. Hannes Siegrist, Centre for Comparative Social History, FU Berlin)
6 August 1995 (Warsaw)
How long did womens "finest hour" last? Situation and experience of German women in the war and immediate postwar years
(V. World Congress for Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 6-11 August 1995)
7.9.1995 (Berlin)
Notes on the Comparison of Dictatorships
(Panel discussion as part of the summer course: "Comparison of Societies" at the Centre for Comparative Social History, FU Berlin)
6 Jan. 1996 (Atlanta)
The "Nursery" of Middle-Class Culture. New Perspectives in German Research on the Middle Classes
(American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, USA)
23 Jan. 1996 (Berlin)
The Hour of the Women Academics? Berlin women academics in the last years of the war and the first post-war years
(Series of lectures: "Berliner Wissenschaftlerinnen 1933:1945 - Kontinuitäten und Brüche", Zentraleinrichtung zur Förderung von Frauenstudien und Frauenforschung (ZE 3), WS 1995/96, FU Berlin)
14 June 1996 (Berlin)
"Women at the wheel?!" Women academics in the GDR and the FRG, 1945-1970
(Conference: Women's employment after 1945 in a comparative perspective, chaired by: Dr Gunilla-Friederike Budde, Prof. Dr Ute Frevert, Prof. Dr Karin Hausen, Prof. Dr Jürgen Kocka; Centre for Comparative Social History, FU Berlin)
27 June 1996 (Göttingen)
Music in town houses. Gender-specific forms of the transmission and appropriation of musical high culture in the 19th century
(Conference: Concert and Audience. Structural changes in musical life in Europe between 1780 and 1914, chaired by Prof. Dr Karlheinz Bödeker, Dr Patrice Veit, Dr Michael Werner, Max Planck Institute of History, Göttingen)
12 July 1996 (Berlin)
Geschlecht, Kultur und Bürgertum
(Conference: Culturalism and Structural Comparison in Social History and Historical Sociology, chaired by PD Dr Willfried Spohn and PD Dr Hannes Siegrist, Centre for Comparative Social History, FU Berlin)
26 September 1996 (Warsaw)
Ruferinnen in der Wüste oder Über die nur langsam abnehmenden Schwierigkeiten der Geschichtsschreibung mit der Kategorie "Geschlecht"
(Historische Frauenforschung und Geschlechtergeschichte im Ost-West-Vergleich, German Historical Institute, Warsaw)
21.11.1996 (Stockholm)
Poetry and Prose: Middle-Class Marriages in the Second Half of the "Long Nineteenth Century"
(1st German-Nordic Conference on Gender History: "Creation of Gender in the Long Nineteenth Century: German Nordic Comparison)
13.12.1996 (Berlin)
Zur Edition einer Dienstmädchenautobiographie
(Workshop on the topic: Autobiographies of women, chaired by Prof. Dr Claudia Ulbrich)
9 Jan. 1997 (Constance)
"We don't want to deprive our girls of dreaming, but we want them to dream in the Lenin sense!" Female academics in the Soviet Occupation Zone/GDR
(Colloquium on social history, chaired by Prof. Dr Ute Frevert)
17.1.1997 (Potsdam)
Women in academic appointments in the Soviet Occupation Zone/GDR
(Workshop "Social History" at the Centre for Contemporary History Research e.V.)
20 Jan. 1997 (Göttingen)
Women in academic appointments: The example of the GDR (1945-1970)
(Colloquium on Women's Studies, chaired by Prof. Dr Ilse Costas)
29 January 1997 (Berlin)
The Century of the Maid
("Conversations in the Undergrowth", chaired by Christoph Hilpert/Bettina Hitzer)
13.5.1997 (Kiel)
Ideology and patriarchy. The position of women and the political instrumentalisation of women's and family policy in the Nazi state and in the GDR
(Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Schleswig-Holstein, Forum Geschichte: "Vergleiche, ohne gleichzusetzen." An analysis of the SED and Nazi dictatorships)
2.10.1997 (Bochum)
Heroines of Labour. Public portrayals of women workers in the GDR in the 1950s and 1960s
(Bochum conference: Workers in the Soviet Occupation Zone/GDR, 1945-1970, chaired by Prof. Dr Klaus Tenfelde and Prof. Dr Peter Hübner)
25 October 1997 (Lutherstadt Wittenberg)
"Times are getting worse for us too...". Coping with everyday life during the war with four children in the correspondence between a Westphalian doctor's wife and her officer husband
(Wittenberg conference: "When father was at war, mother had to look after us". Everyday family life in the forties." Protestant Academy Saxony-Anhalt.
29 October 1997 (Lauenburg)
Ideology and patriarchy. Women in National Socialism and in the Soviet Occupation Zone/GDR
(Conference organised by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation at the Zündholzfabrik Lauenburg "How much memory does democracy need? Dictatorships in Germany - Learning from History, 28-30 October 1997)
5 Dec. 1997 (Potsdam)
Women in academic appointments in the GDR
(9th conference of the Arbeitskreis historische Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Regionalgruppe Neue Bundesländer)
2 February 1998 (Berlin)
Women of the intelligentsia. Students and women students in the Soviet Occupation Zone/GDR
(colloquium on social history, chaired by Prof. Dr Jürgen Kocka/Prof. Dr Hartmut Kaelble)
7 March 1998 (Berlin)
"... while in the GDR 90% of women were employed...". Mentalities in East and West
(Conference of the Katholische Akademie e.V. "Women can share work")
22 June 1998 (Greifswald)
"Stepdaughters of socialism?" Students and women students in the first two decades of the GDR
(Series of lectures: Women's studies in Germany, organised by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Greifswald)
9.9.1998 (Frankfurt am Main)
The creation of the "socialist female personality": Constructions of femininity in the Soviet Occupation Zone and early GDR
(42nd Historians' Conference, Section: "Constructed" and "real" at the same time: Reflections on the history of bodies in Germany and the USA in the 19th and 20th centuries, Chair: Prof. Dr Norbert Finzsch, Commentary: Prof. Dr Barbara Duden)
12 October 1998 (Berlin)
"A new kind of women's magazine". Die Frau von heute und für dich from its foundation to the end of the 1960s
(Conference: "Zeitschriften als Waren des täglichen Bedarfs. Scope for discourse in magazines in the GDR until the end of the 1960s", Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam in cooperation with the Federal Agency for Civic Education/Berlin branch, Kulturbrauerei, 12-14.10.1998)
3 November 1998 (Berlin)
"Women of the First Hour". Lecture and moderation as part of the anniversary celebrations "50 Years FU Berlin", organised by the Vice President of the FU Berlin in cooperation with the Women's Representative
10 April 1999 (Dresden)
Women academics under German dictatorships. Female qualification, academic appointments and career paths under National Socialism and in the Soviet Occupation Zone/GDR
(Conference: Dictatorships in 20th Century Europe, Volkswagen Foundation and Hannah Arendt Institute, 8-10 April 1999).
11 June 1999 (Bielefeld)
Women of the intelligentsia. Women Academics in the Soviet Occupation Zone/GDR
(Modern Times Colloquium on the History of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Prof. Dr Ute Frevert and Prof. Dr Heinz-Gerhard Haupt)
7 July 1999 (Bremen)
"Tüchtige Traktoristinnen" und "schicke Stenotypistinnen". East and West German images of women after 1945
(Event series: "40+10". Fifty years of German history)
27 August 1999 (Berlin)
Gender history as comparative history
(Summer course "Civil Society in East and West", ZVGE)
10.9.1999 (Berlin)
German Societies in Transition: Gender Images and Relations in Both German States
(SIL event "50 Years of the Federal Republic of Germany" at the Martin-Gropius-Bau)
21 September 1999 (Herford)
Aus dem Leben des Dienstmädchens Sophia
(1st Herford Literature Days: "... geboren in Herford")
1 Oct. 1999 (Berlin)
Between Pride and Prejudice. "Women of the intelligentsia" in the first two decades of the GDR
(Congress: Frauen und Männer im geteilten Deutschland. Gender History in the Cold War, organised by the ZIFG of the TU Berlin, the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the working group "Women after '45" in the Hackesche Höfe in Berlin)
24.11.1999 (Münster)
Career women? Female academics in the GDR
("Genus" lecture series at the Westfälische Wilhelmsuniversität Münster "Geschlecht: Arbeit - Beruf - Profession")
19 January 2000 (Berlin)
"The law in women's hands". Women lawyers in the GDR between 1945 and 1960
(Interdisciplinary research colloquium at the ZIFG of the TU Berlin, chaired by Prof. Dr Karin Hausen)
1.3.2000 (Neemrana, India)
The persisting image versus the demographic changes: Europe - The three-generation house
(Conference: Gender and Family, organised by the Adenauer Foundation, New Delhi branch)
6 November 2000 (Hamburg)
"The Discovery of the Modern Woman". On the Social History of Women in the 20th Century
(Series of lectures Gender Studies II: "Frauen in Kunst, Politik und Wissenschaft. Reflections on the 20th Century, Hochschule für Musik)
30.11.2000 (Berlin)
Women university lecturers in the GDR.
(Lecture as part of the "Colloquium on Historical Education Research", chaired by Prof. Dr Sonja Häder, HU-Berlin)
15.12.2000 (Berlin)
Limits of elite change. Female students in the first two GDR decades
(Scientific colloquium of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's Studies. "... because (those) who forgot to think of themselves were forgotten."
11 June 2001 (Hanover)
Widerspenstige Akademikerinnen. Women in GDR literature
(Academic colloquium on history and sociology, chaired by Prof. Barbara Duden/Prof. Dr Adelheid von Saldern)
31 October 2001 (Berlin)
Widerspenstige Akademikerinnen. Images and counter-images in literature and film in the GDR
(Colloquium of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies at the TU Berlin, chaired by Prof. Dr. Karin Hausen)
1.12.2001 (Jena)
Successful change of elite? Female students in the GDR in the 50s and 60s
(Conference organised by the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Commission of the Senate on the History of Jena University in the 20th Century)
23 Jan. 2002 (Berlin)
"For our brotherly love shall guide him." On the connection between artistic existence and Freemasonry in Wolfgang Amadé Mozart
(lecture as part of the habilitation process at the Free University of Berlin)
15 March 2002 (Arnoldshain/Frankfurt)
Vater, Mutter, Kind - Kleine Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte des Familienbildes
(Conference "Bund und widerborstig. Women's lives - family models, Evangelische Akademie Arnoldshain)
19.4.2002 (Berlin)
Options and limits of female actors in civil society: The family as a core institution of civil society
(Conference: "Akteure der Zivilgesellschaft", ZVGE, 18-20 April 2002)
29 June 2002 (Berlin)
"Das Weib ist auf den kleinen Kreis beschränkt". Gender order and gender practice in civil society in the 19th century
(Conference: Democracy and Social Capital - The Role of Civil Society Actors, 28-29 June 2002, WZB)
24 Sept. 2002 (Minden)
Modern Times. Bürgertum im Biedermeier
(Lecture at the Minden City Museum as part of the exhibition opening: "Ein Wohnzimmer kehrt zurück")
15.10.2002 (Bielefeld)
From the social history of workers to the history of labour. The "Bielefeld School" and its challenges
(Introductory lecture for all first semester students at Bielefeld University)
5 May 2003 (Berlin)
On the history of trust.
(Lecture as part of the advanced seminar by PD Dr Claudia Schmölders, Institute for Cultural Studies, Humboldt University Berlin)
18 June 2003 (Göttingen)
The slow discovery of the "women's reserve". Female academics in the GDR
(lecture as part of the colloquium on social and economic history, Prof. Dr Hartmut Berghoff, PD Dr Thomas Welskopp, Prof. Dr Bernd Weisbrod)
26.7.2003 (Bielefeld)
"A girl's head won't come apart at the seams from the wisdom that the simplest boy's brain won't explode"
(Lecture as part of the 175th anniversary of the Gymnasium am Waldhof in Bielefeld)
9.7.2004 (Berlin)
The Public Side of the Private: The Family as a Core Institution of Civil Society
(Lecture at the conference "Civil Society and Gender Justice. HIstorical and Comparative Perspectives chaired by Karen Hagemann, Gunilla Budde and Dagmar Simon, WZB-Berlin)
15 June 2005 (Oldenburg)
"Politics with feeling". Political scandals as part of a "new" European political history of the 19th and 20th centuries (inaugural lecture)
26.11.2005 (Soltau)
Toys and history. (Opening lecture on the occasion of the "Stiftung Spiel" foundation of the North German Toy Museum Soltau)
1.2.2006 (Oldenburg)
Art and commerce. Mozart's path to becoming an independent artist
(President's lunch)
10.5.2006 (Oldenburg)
Mammon, power and music. Mozart and the Freemasons
(Oldenburg series of lectures on history)
26 Sept. 2006 (Bremen)
Mammon, Power and Music. Mozart as a Freemason
(Lecture as part of the exhibition "Licht ins Dunkel. The Freemasons in Bremen" at the Focke-Museum Bremen).
9 February 2007 (Oldenburg)
"Even a girl's head will not come apart at the seams from the wisdom that does not break the simplest boy's brain!" On the higher education of the "higher daughters"
(Lecture at the academic graduation ceremony for School IV graduates, BIS lecture theatre)
15 April 2007 (Papenburg)
Bürgerliche Werte heute
(Lecture at the Rotary Youth Leadership Award Seminar "Values in Economy and Society" (Historical-Ecological Education Centre)
25 April 2007 (Oldenburg)
"Stellvertreterkriege". Politics with music in the German and English middle classes in the early 19th century
(Opening lecture as part of the "Oldenburg series of lectures on history", BIS lecture theatre)
21 May 2007 (Berlin)
Politics with music. German and English music reception in the early 19th century
(Lecture at the Colloquium of the Berliner Kolleg at the FU-Berlin, chaired by Prof. Dr Jürgen Kocka, Prof. Dr Hartmut Kaelble, Prof. Dr Manfred Hildermeier, Prof. Dr Holm Sundhausen)
3 July 2007 (Oldenburg)
From early modern merchant to modern businessman. Economic bourgeois subjects in historical change.
(Lecture together with Dagmar Freist as part of the series of lectures: "Selbst-Bildungen. Practices of subjectivation in historical and interdisciplinary perspective")
5.9.2007 (Oldenburg)
Children 100 years ago. On the trail of Sophia L.
(lecture as part of the Children's University at the University of Oldenburg)
28.9.2007 (Berlin)
Politics with feelings. The Profumo Scandal in England in the 1960s
(Lecture as part of the conference: Die Präsenz der Gefühle. Masculinity and Emotion in the Modern Age, organised by Dr Manuel Borutta and Nina Verheyen, WZB)
5.10.2007 (Berlin)
Between Nationalism and Cosmopolitism: Female Opera Singers in Britain and Germany in the First Half of the 19th Century
(lecture at the conference: Gender History in a Transnational Perspective. A Conference in Honour of Gisela Bock, Berlin, BKVGE, organised by Prof. Dr. Oliver Janz and Dr. Daniel Schönpflug)
24.10.2007 (Oldenburg)
Global history in the doll's house. Small "global players" in the 19th century
(lecture as part of the "Evening of the Humanities" at the Carl von Ossietzky University, Exerzierhalle)
26.10.2008 (Loccum)
together with Eckart Conze: Bürgertumsgeschichte - ein Desiderat für das 20. Jahrhundert?
(Lecture as part of the conference: Bürgertum und Bürgerlichkeit im 20. Jahrhundert in internationaler Perspektive, Loccum 26-28.10.2007, organised by Prof. Dr. Gunilla Budde, Prof. Dr. Eckart Conze, Prof. Dr. Cornelia Rauh-Kühne)
11.11.2007 (Oldenburg)
"Große Oper - Kleine Gesten"
Lecture as part of the 175th anniversary celebrations of the Oldenburg State Orchestra, book presentation of "Beethoven unterm Hakenkreuz"
21 November 2007 (Lüneburg)
The changing relationship between the sexes.
Lecture as part of the interdisciplinary series of lectures: Alles fließt - Die Geschichtlichkeit der Welt (Prof. Dr Wener Faulstich)
1 Dec. 2007 (Oldenburg)
"Clever Fathers - Beautiful Mothers". Parenthood in the history of
(lecture as part of the 1st Oldenburg Parents Campus)
14.12.2007 (Oldenburg)
"Gender Studies" - from the perspective of a historian
(short lecture as part of the 10th anniversary celebration of the Oldenburg "Gender Studies")
15.12.2007 (Oldenburg)
"Was student life fun?" Everyday student life in the last 100 years
(Lecture at the BA graduation ceremony at the Carl von Ossietzky University)
23 January 2008 (Oldenburg)
The Karlas and the Ballas. Gender representations in DEFA films
(Lecture at the conference: Lebenswelt DDR. Filmic Perspectives of the DEFA)
26 Jan. 2008 (Hamburg)
Trust in school? A German-English comparison in the "long 19th century"
(Lecture at the conference: "Familie und öffentliche Erziehung. Continuities and conjunctures", Helmut-Schmidt-University)
8.5.2008 (Oldenburg)
"A do-gooder is always good". What does the name Carl von Ossieztky mean for students and teachers today?
(Lecture as part of the celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of Carl von Ossietzky's death at the University of Oldenburg)
24.5.2008 (Berlin)
Commentary on: Opera in a global context
(Lecture at the conference: "Die Gesellschaft der Oper", Berlin 22-24.5.2008, organised by Philip Ther and Sven Oliver Müller)
28 May 2008 (Oldenburg)
Zur Revolution mit dem Regenschirm. The bourgeoisie and the revolution of 1848
(lecture as part of the Oldenburg series of lectures on history)
27.6.2008 (Villa Vigoni)
The Search for the Bourgeois Subject in History
(lecture in the context of the workshop "Zur Problematisierung des Subjektbegriffs in Sozialwissenschaft und Philosophie, 25-28.6.2008, organised by Antonia Grunenberg and Thomas Alkemeyer)
3.10.2008 (Dresden)
Emotions in honour, loyalty and trust. The history of emotions as a path to a new political history (Historikertag Dresden)
16.10.2008 (Oldenburg)
Globalgeschichte. Lecture at the symposium "Geistes-Geschichte. New approaches in (church) historiography.
7 Nov. 2008 (Detmold)
".... In Pre-Suffragette Days. Mädchenerziehung und Frauenbildung im deutsch-englischen Vergleich
(Lecture at the Ethel Smyth Symposium, Hochschule für Musik Detmold u. Universität Paderborn
10.11.2008 (Bielefeld)
Beethoven under the swastika. The Oldenburg State Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra during National Socialism - comparative perspectives
(lecture as part of the colloquium on contemporary history)
24.1.2009 (Oldenburg)
"When the citizens got cheeky..." The revolution of 1848 from a child's perspective.
(Lecture as part of the Family Day at the start of the "City of Science" in the EWE Arena)
26 February 2009 (Wiefelstede)
"70 years and not a bit quiet and wise". Laudatory speech for Senta Trömel-Plötz on her 70th birthday
(as part of the reading: Loving life passionately)
5 April 2009 (Hamburg)
Well-tempered desires. Bourgeois notions of love and passion around 1900
(On the "Reigen" production by Michael Thalheimer. Lecture as part of the series "Theatre and University in Conversation", Symposium X) .
13.5.2009 (Oldenburg)
Im "Mutti"-Land der Emanzipation. Gender relations in the GDR
(lecture as part of the "Oldenburg series of lectures on history")
16.5.2009 (Göttingen)
Music and the middle classes in the "long 19th century". The example of Oldenburg
(Lecture at the annual conference of the Historical Commission of Lower Saxony and Bremen)
29.10.2009 (Oldenburg)
Gipfelstürmerinnen. Professorinnen im 20. Jahrhundert
(Lecture as part of the event: Frauen - Karriere - Wissenschaft zum Oldenburger Wissenschaftsjahr and on the occasion of the awarding of the 1st Helene Lange Prize).
28.1.2010 (Oldenburg)
Dissonances and Harmonies. Oldenburg bourgeoisie and musical life in the 19th century
(Lecture at the Oldenburg State Archives, Historical Evenings) .
5 February 2010 (Berlin)
Music - Power - History. Reflections on a history of relationships
Keynote lecture at the conference: Music - Context and Back: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Music as a Research Project, Colloque junior du CIERA, 4-6 February, Institute of European Ethnology).
26.5.2010 (Oldenburg)
Capital and family. Wirtschaftsbürgertum im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (lecture as part of the Oldenburg series of lectures on history)
27 May 2010 (Elsfleth)
The unfathomable capital. Family businesses in the 19th and 20th centuries (lecture as part of the UGO ambassadors' reception on the Maritime Campus of the Jade University of Applied Sciences Elsfleth)
23 July 2010 (Bochum)
Kapital und Familie (Lecture at the doctoral colloquium of the Universities of Duisburg-Essen and Bochum)
13 August 2013 (Oldenburg)
Karl and Gertrud Jaspers (Jaspers House Oldenburg)
25 September 2013 (Siggen Estate, Heringsdorf)
Bourgeois role constructions on the threshold from the 19th to the 20th century (Nassau Talks)
7.10.2013 (Oldenburg)
Cosmopolitan and public historian. On the honorary doctorate of Fritz Stern
30.1.2014 (Nordenham)
Karl Jaspers and the Jaspers Library: Significance for the University and Society of Oldenburg (lecture at the meeting of the Goethe Society Nordenham)
8 March 2014 (Wilhelmshaven)
Oldenburg women who moved the world (lecture as part of the Oldenburg Landscape Day, chaired by Thomas Kossendey)
15.5.2014 (Oldenburg)
40 years of the University of Oldenburg - review and outlook (lecture at the general assembly of the Oldenburg employers' association)
22 May 2014 (Oldenburg)
Oldenburg - City and University, a joint concept for success (lecture at the KKV)
10.10.2014 (Munich)
"Dienstmädchen" (Lecture as part of the series of lectures: Die wa(h)re Arbeit zu Hause).
19.2.2015 (Munich)
Bürgertum. Lecture as part of the Historical Days. Breaks and new beginnings. The Long 19th Century of the Catholic Academy in Bavaria.
13.4.2015 (Oldenburg)
Oldenburg musical life in the 19th century, Rotary Club Oldenburg, Alte Fleiwa.
12 July 2015 (Neuenhuntorf)
Burchard von Münnich. Lecture as part of the Oldenburg Music Days.
28.10.2015 (Bonn)
Family in the mirror of science: The historian's view, Interdisciplinary conference of the DHV.
11 November 2015 (Oldenburg)
Moses Mendelssohn - I act out of reason. Lecture as part of the Oldenburg Music Days, Hüllmann-Haus.
26/11/2015 (Leer)
Mozart and the Freemasons. Lecture as part of the UGO ambassador reception.
29.1.2015 (Oldenburg)
Opera audiences in Germany and England in the 19th century. Christmas meeting of the German-British Society in Oldenburg.
12.12.2015 (Oldenburg)
The House of Oldenburg. Lecture as part of the ceremonial handover of the company by Jochen Deerberg, Schloss zu Oldenburg.
15.11.2016 (Munich)
The Gender of Dictatorship. Lecture as part of the conference: "New Perspectives on Dictatorship Research" at the German Institute of Contemporary History.
18.10.2917 (Oldenburg)
"Bei Büchsenfleisch und Bordeaux - 10 km hinter der Front". An unpublished exchange of letters from the First World War. Lecture together with students in the Oldenburg State Library
5.5.2018 (Leer)
100 years of women's suffrage (conference of the Ostfriesische Landschaft, Leer church)
9 May 2018 (Oldenburg
"Bei Büchsenfleisch und Bordeaux - 10 km hinter der Front"
Lecture-reading with students from letters from the First World War (BIS-Saal)
16.5.2018 (Oldenburg)
"The night is cold - the Russian is quiet".
Lecture reading with students from letters from the First World War (BIS-Saal)
1.10.2018 (Meppen)
"100 years of women's suffrage"
31.10.2018 (Herford)
"Two Herford brothers at war"
Lecture-reading with students from letters written by Gerhard Budde during the First World War (Pöppelmann-Haus)
1.11.2018 (Berlin)
Women in male domains in the last 3 centuries
Lecture at the annual conference of the Prussian Historical Commission, 1-3 November 2018 (Villa von der Heydt, Berlin)
13 November 2018 (Jever)
Two brothers in the Great War
Lecture-reading on the First World War. Invitation from the UGO ambassadors (Schloss Jever)
19.11.2018 (Hude)
Two Brothers in the Great War
Lecture-reading on the First World War. Invitation from the UGO ambassadors (Hude church)
22.11.2018 (Oldenburg)
"Freckles are also points of view"
Lecture-reading with Suzanne von Borsody from texts by women from three centuries
City meeting of the Oldenburg Service Clubs 2018, organised by the Zonta Club Oldenburg (Alte Fleiwa).
12.1.2019 (Leer)
"100 years of women's suffrage":
Kick-off to the panel discussion with Rita Süssmuth.
25 Feb. 2019 (Oldenburg)
"Hier ist eisige Nacht - der Russe ist ruhig"
Lecture reading from family letters from the First World War
(The Smart House Oldenburg)
26 February 2019 (Oldenburg)
Chair of the panel discussion with Franziska Augstein and Matthias Bormuth: Where is the Federal Republic heading?
(PFL: Discussion as part of the Oldenburg and Europe series)
16 March 2019 (Wildeshausen)
"Frauenfreundschaften in 3 Jahrhunderten": Landscape meeting of the Oldenburgische Landschaft 2019)
5.3.2020 (Herford)
A family in the First World War. Lecture by the Herford History Society, Markthalle Herford)
14.5.2022 (Emden)
A self-confident minority. On the genesis of the bourgeoisie (landscape meeting of the Ostfriesische Landschaft)
24.10.2022 (Oldenburg)
Women at the Alma Mater from the late 19th century onwards
10.1.2023 (Oldenburg)
10 years of the Germany Scholarship. A personal review (Celebration of the award of the Germany Scholarship)
21.1.2023 (Wuppertal)
Panel discussion in honour of Johannes Rau: Remembrance - Responsibility - Future. Discussion with contemporary witnesses.