Lectures
Lectures
Lectures, podium appearances and workshops
- “Hannah Arendt and the ‘Aporias of Human Rights’”. Lecture delivered on 28 April 2010 at the Freiburg University of Education as part of a series of lectures on ‘Human Rights Education’ organised by the Freiburg Institute for Human Rights Education (FIM).
- “Hannah Arendt’s Concept of the Political as a Guiding Principle for Political Education?” Lecture delivered on 28 May 2011 as part of the annual conference of the Society for Political Didactics and Political Youth and Adult Education (GPJE) at the University of Potsdam.
- “From Categories to Basic and Specialised Concepts – Old Wine in New Bottles?” Lecture delivered on 21 June 2012 as part of the Early-Career Researchers’ Conference of the Society for Political Didactics and Political Youth and Adult Education (GPJE) at Dresden University of Technology.
- “What is Human Rights Education? Scientific and didactic perspectives”. Lecture delivered on 22 April 2013 as part of the international workshop “How can Historic Learning and Human Rights Education be combined at Memorial Sites dedicated to the Commemoration of Mass Violence Crimes?” at the Bergen-Belsen Memorial.
- “Inclusion and Political Education – Theses”. Lecture delivered on 7 September 2013 as part of a series of lectures “Human Rights and Inclusion” organised by the Freiburg Institute for Human Rights Education (FIM) at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences, Freiburg.
- “Music and Politics: Political and Cultural Education as a Gateway for Young People to Politics!?” Public university lecture delivered on 28 November 2013 at the University of Münster.
- ‘Focusing on the Learners – Why Political Education Needs a Social Science-Based Didactics.’ Public university lecture delivered on 17 December 2013 at the University of Wuppertal.
- “Focusing on the Learners – Why Political Education Needs a Social Science-Based Didactics.” Public university lecture delivered on 14 January 2014 at Ruhr University Bochum.
- ‘Hannah Arendt’s political thought.’ Lecture delivered on 20 January 2014 at the Freie Waldorfschule Bothfeld, Hanover.
- “The didactics of political education and democracy.” Public university lecture delivered on 25 April 2014 at Leuphana University of Lüneburg.
- ‘Three concepts, one goal? Learning about democracy, the economy and sustainability – can they go together?’ Panel discussion as part of the Leuphana Conference Week, University of Lüneburg, 26 February 2015.
- “Criticism and Resistance – Reflections on Subject Didactics.” Lecture delivered on 25 March 2015 as part of the conference “Competence for Resistance – A Neglected Educational Task” at Otto Friedrich University, Bamberg.
- “What is political education? A survey of trainee teachers’ perceptions of political education methodology.” Lecture delivered on 12 May 2015 as part of the Tuesday Seminar organised by the Centre for Democracy Research at Leuphana University Lüneburg.
- “Europe as a Land of Immigration: What Can Political Education Achieve?” Panel discussion as part of the Leuphana Conference Week, University of Lüneburg, 23 February 2016
- “‘Where speech ends, politics ends’ (Hannah Arendt) – on political rhetoric in the age of the AfD, Pegida and the like.” Public university lecture delivered on 25 April 2016 at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
- “What is political education? A qualitative study on the perceptions of trainee teachers.” Public university lecture delivered on 13 July 2016 at Philipps University of Marburg.
- ‘The current state of didactics in the subject of politics’ – lecture and consultation with the ‘Politics – Upper Secondary School’ curriculum commission on the revision of the core curriculum for upper secondary schools, on 30 November 2016, Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture, Hanover (together with Dr Julia Oppermann).
- ‘Extracurricular political education for young people and political adult education – what next?’ Workshop as part of the 1st Annual Conference of the ‘Extracurricular Political Youth Education and Political Adult Education’ (AJEB) working group of the GPJE, 18 November 2016 at Leuphana University of Lüneburg (together with Dr Julia Oppermann).
- “What is Political Education? An empirical survey of teacher-training students’ perceptions.” Lecture delivered on 19 December 2016 at the research colloquium of the Institute for the Didactics of Democracy, University of Hanover (together with Florian Fischer).
- “The malleability of all areas of life. The educational value of lifeworld orientation for Socio-Economics Education.” Lecture delivered on 17 March 2017 at the 1st Annual Conference of the GSÖBW, held from 16–18 March 2017 at the Academy for Political Education in Tutzing (in collaboration with Dr Julia Oppermann).
- “Hannah Arendt’s ‘Truth and Politics’ – a subject-specific didactic reading against the backdrop of the dawning era of ‘post-factual politics’” Presentation delivered on 6 May 2017 at the annual conference of the GPJE’s Working Group on Hermeneutic Political Didactics, held from 5–6 May 2017 at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena.
- “Strengthening voluntary work through training. An empirical needs analysis.” Lecture delivered on 13 May 2017 at the Human Rights Barcamp organised by the Human Rights Foundation, Berlin.
- ‘Strengthening voluntary work through training. An empirical needs analysis.’ Workshop held on 13 May 2017 at the Human Rights Barcamp organised by the Human Rights Foundation, Berlin (together with Sophie Treu).
- “Citizenship Education in South Africa and Germany – Insights into a current research project.” Public university lecture delivered on 31 May 2017 at the University of Oldenburg.
- “Citizenship Education in South Africa and Germany – a current research project.” Public university lecture delivered on 14 June 2017 at the Free University of Berlin.
- “Civic Education in South Africa and Germany.” Lecture delivered on 23 June 2017 at the 18th Annual Conference of the GPJE, “Our Democracy under Challenge – Political Education in Times of Populism”, 22–24 June 2017 at the University of Duisburg-Essen (project partner: Kenneth Ngcoza, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa)
- “Fees Must Fall” – South African Student Protests in the Context of (Informal) Citizenship Education. Presentation delivered on 6 October 2017 at the conference “Protest and Participation” organised by the DVPW Section for Political Science and Political Education in co-operation with the Working Group on Higher Education Teaching, 5–6 October 2017 at the University of Münster.
- “Citizenship Education and Student Protests – Insights into a Binational Research Project on Citizenship Education in South Africa and Germany”. Public university lecture delivered on 15 November 2017 at the University of Wuppertal.
- “Citizenship Education and Student Protests – Insights into a binational research project on citizenship education in South Africa and Germany”. Public university lecture delivered on 28 November 2017 at the Ludwigsburg University of Education.
- “Citizenship Education in South Africa and Germany – Insights into a current binational research project”. Public university lecture delivered on 15 December 2017 at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
- “Hannah Arendt’s political theory as a normative framework for political education!?” Lecture delivered on 26 September 2018 at the 27th Scientific Congress of the German Association for Political Science (DVPW): “Borders of Democracy / Frontiers of Democracy”, 25–28 September 2018 at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.
- ‘The Political as the Core of Political Education’ Keynote lecture delivered on 7 November 2018 at the conference ‘Education for Democracy?! Understanding and Practising Politics in Schools’ organised by the Federal Agency for Civic Education and the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs, Berlin.
- “Music and Politics”. Lecture delivered on 19 February 2020 as part of the professional development series ‘Fridays For Future & Co: Designing Engaging Democracy Education in Political Education’ organised by the Lower Saxony State Institute for School Quality Development (NLQ).
- ‘How transformative can education for democracy be?’ Lecture delivered on 8 June 2020 as part of the preparatory seminars for the 2021 Utopia Conference at Leuphana University of Lüneburg (online).
- “The Reconstruction of Political Didactics as an Integrative Research Programme in Political Science and Political Didactics”. Public university lecture delivered on 14 January 2021 at the Karlsruhe University of Education (online).
- “The political dimension of digitalisation and media literacy”. Lecture delivered on 25 January 2021 at the conference “Democracy from a distance” as part of the Winter School: Education for Democratic Citizenship at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (online).
- “On the relationship between music and politics”. Lecture delivered on 27 January 2021 as part of a series of lectures “Responsibility in dealing with controversial works” at the Würzburg University of Music (online).
- “Learning about politics in a superdiverse society – the ‘zeitdiagnostischer’ approach to political education.” Lecture delivered on 12 June 2021 as part of the 21st Annual Conference of the Society for Political Didactics and Political Youth and Adult Education (GPJE): Political Education in a Superdiverse Society at the University of Göttingen (online).
- “Political Education and Covid-19”. Panel discussion as part of the POLIS podcast by the journal POLIS, on 8 July 2021 (online)
- “Who votes, how and why? An analysis of voting patterns”. Guest on Hessischer Rundfunk’s podcast *Der Tag* discussing the role of emotions in political education, published on 13 September 2021 (online)
- “How involved should/may schools be?”. Lecture delivered as part of the WebTalk series “Challenges of Democracy – What Moves Schools?!” organised by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs on 27 September 2021 (online).
- “What constitutes successful political education? Workshop on the (im)possibilities of measuring impact”. Workshop organised by the Federal Agency for Civic Education; participation and commentary as an expert on
25 October 2021 (online) - “Learning about democracy and/or learning about politics!? An update on a debate in subject didactics”. Lecture delivered on 1 February 2022 as part of a series of lectures on democracy education in schools at the University of Education in Schwäbisch Gmünd (online)
- Democracy Education in Schools (in a society of migration). Lecture delivered on 21 April 2022 as part of the professional development programme ‘Fit for Diversity? Interdisciplinary Competence Training for Schools in a Society of Migration’, organised by the Oldenburg Centre for Continuing Education (OFZ) (online)
- ‘Democracy Education and Democratic Upbringing in Schools and Teacher Training Colleges’. Lecture and workshop delivered on 26 September 2022 as part of the 2022 Annual Conference of the Heads of Lower Saxony’s Teacher Training Colleges for Secondary School Teachers at the Jeddinger Hof in Visselhövede
- ‘Where speech ends, politics ends’ (Hannah Arendt) – Language-conscious teaching and learning in civic education. Lecture delivered on 12 June 2023 as part of a series of lectures ‘Language-Sensitive Teaching and Learning’ (
) in (subject-specific) classes at the University of Oldenburg - “Basic and subject-specific concepts in political education”. Lecture delivered on 18 September 2023 at the German Society for Economics Education (DEGÖB) symposium at the Joachim Herz Foundation in Hamburg.
- “Theories of society, analyses of the present and narratives of the future.” Section 1, participation in the panel discussion and workshop at the 15th Federal Congress on Political Education “Interpretations of the Present – Narratives of the Future. Political Education in Times of Social Upheaval”, on 3 November 2023 at the Weimarhalle Congress Centre in Weimar.
- “Human dignity in times of multiple crises”. University sermon on 7 April 2024 at the Lamberti Church, Oldenburg; online: https://uol.de/f/4/inst/theologie/proj/unipredigten/Die_Wuerde_des_Menschen_in_Zeiten_multipler_Krisen.pdf?v=1712752033
- “Inviolable!?” – Human Dignity in Times of Multiple Crises”, lecture delivered on 26 September 2024 at the 12th Scientific Soirée of the Oldenburg University Society (UGO) at the University of Oldenburg.
- “Political Action: Between Aspiration and Overwhelm”. Lecture delivered on 27 February 2025 at the Protestant Academy in Braunschweig.
- “Democracy in Crisis!? Challenges and Prospects.” Lecture delivered on 6 May 2025 as part of the “No Place for Anti-Semitism” series of events at the University of Oldenburg.
- ‘“Untouchable!?” – Human dignity in times of endangered democracies and rising right-wing extremism’. Lecture delivered on 30 September 2025 at the conference ‘Democracy in Danger? Confronting Far-Right Tendencies!’ at the Freie Waldorfschule Hannover Bothfeld.
- “The Price of Freedom”. Panel discussion at the Oldenburg Adult Education Centre (VHS) on 6 November 2025.
- “Human Dignity: Opportunities and Threats in Politics, the Workplace and Everyday Life”. Workshop held on 20 January 2026 as part of the event series “No Place for Anti-Semitism” at the University of Oldenburg.
- “Political Education in Germany: History – Concepts – Target Groups”. Lecture delivered on 25 February 2026 as part of the annual conference of the Federal Working Group on Advanced Scientific Training for Older People (AG WiWA) “Political Education in Advanced Scientific Training for Older Adults: Theory – Practice – Effectiveness” at the University of Oldenburg.
- “Human Dignity – Inviolable Forever?” Lecture delivered on 11 March 2026 at the Giordano Bruno Foundation/Humanists Leer at the Klottje Huus, Leer
- “Human Dignity in Times of Crisis – Inviolable!?” Lecture delivered on 11 May 2026 at The Smart House Oldenburg
- “Political Education in Times of Eroding Social Cohesion”. Lecture delivered on 9 September 2026 as part of the conference “Youth, Crises and Social Cohesion – Political Orientations, Perceptions and (Lack of) Knowledge in Transition” at the University of Oldenburg