Lectures

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University of Oldenburg
School I, Institute of Social Sciences
Ammerländer Heerstraße 114-118
D-26129 Oldenburg

Room: A06-3-330
Phone: +49 (0)441-798-4181
Email: tonio.oeftering@uol.de

Lectures

Lectures, podium appearances and workshops

  • "Hannah Arendt and the 'Aporias of Human Rights'". Lecture given on 28 April 2010 at the Freiburg University of Education as part of the 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 teaching model for political education?" Lecture given on 28 May 2011 at 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 given on 21 June 2012 at the conference for young researchers of the Society for Political Didactics and Political Youth and Adult Education (GPJE) at the TU Dresden.
  • What is Human Rights Education? Scientific and didactic perspectives" lecture held on 22 April 2013 as part of the international working meeting "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 Civic Education - Theses". Lecture given on 7 September 2013 as part of the 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-cultural education as a way for young people to access politics!" Public lecture held on 28 November 2013 at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.
  • "The learner in view - why political education needs a social science didactics." Public lecture held on 17 December 2013 at the University of Wuppertal.
  • "The learner in view - why political education needs social science didactics." Public lecture held on 14 January 2014 at the Ruhr University Bochum.
  • "Hannah Arendt's political thinking." Lecture held on 20 January 2014 at the Freie Waldorfschule Bothfeld, Hanover.
  • "Didactics of political education and democracy." Public lecture held on 25 April 2014 at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg.
  • "Three concepts, one goal? Learning democracy, economics and sustainability - can they go together?" Panel participation as part of the Leuphana Conference Week, University of Lüneburg, 26/02/2015.
  • "Criticism and resistance - didactic reflections." Lecture given on 25 March 2015 at the conference "Kompetenz zum Widerstand - eine vernachlässigte Bildungsaufgabe" at the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg.
  • "What is political education? A survey of student teachers' ideas about political didactics." Lecture held on 12.05.2015 as part of the Tuesday Seminar of the Centre for Democracy Research at Leuphana University Lüneburg.
  • "Immigration country Europe: What can political education do?" Panel participation as part of the Leuphana Conference Week, University of Lüneburg, 23 February 2016
  • "'Where speaking stops, politics stops' (Hannah Arendt) - on political rhetoric in times of AfD, Pegidas & Co." Public lecture held on 25 April 2016 at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
  • "What is political education? A qualitative study on the ideas of student teachers." Public lecture held on 13/07/2016 at the Philipps University of Marburg.
  • "Der aktuelle Stand der Didaktik im Fach Politik" Lecture and consultation for the curriculum commission "Politik-Oberschule" on the revision of the core curriculum for secondary schools, 30 November 2016, Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture, Hanover (together with Dr Julia Oppermann).
  • "Extracurricular political youth education and political adult education - what's next?" Workshop as part of the 1st annual conference of the GPJE working group "Extracurricular political youth education and political adult education" (AJEB) 18 November 2016 at Leuphana University Lüneburg (together with Dr Julia Oppermann).
  • "What is civic education? An empirical survey of the ideas of student teachers." Lecture held on 19 December 2016 at the research colloquium of the Institute of Didactics of Democracy, University of Hanover (together with Florian Fischer).
  • "Shaping all areas of life. The educational value of lifeworld orientation for socio-economic education." Lecture given on 17 March 2017 at the 1st Annual Conference of the GSÖBW on 16-18 March 2017 at the Academy for Political Education Tutzing (together with Dr Julia Oppermann).
  • "Hannah Arendt's 'Wahrheit und Politik' - eine fachdidaktische Lektüre vor dem Hintergrund des aufziehenden Zeitalters der 'postfaktischen Politik'" lecture given on 6 May 2017 at the annual conference of the GPJE's Hermeneutische Politikdidaktik working group from 5 to 6 May 2017 at Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
  • "Strengthening volunteering through qualification. An empirical needs analysis." Lecture given on 13 May 2017 at the Barcamp Menschenrechte organised by the Stiftung Menschenrechte, Berlin.
  • "Strengthening volunteering through qualification. An empirical needs analysis." Workshop held on 13 May 2017 at the Barcamp Menschenrechte of the Stiftung Menschenrechte, Berlin (together with Sophie Treu).
  • "Citizenship Education in South Africa and Germany - Insights into a current research project." Public lecture held on 31 May 2017 at the University of Oldenburg.
  • "Citizenship Education in South Africa and Germany - a current research project." Public lecture held on 14 June 2017 at the Free University of Berlin.
  • "Civic Education in South Africa and Germany." Lecture given on 23 June 2017 at the 18th Annual Conference of the GPJE "Our Challenged Democracy - Civic 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." Lecture given on 6 October 2017 at the conference "Protest and Participation" of the DVPW Section Political Science and Political Education in co-operation with the Thematic Group on University Teaching, 5-6 October 2017 at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.
  • "Citizenship Education and Student Protests - Insights into a binational research project on Citizenship Education in South Africa and Germany". Public lecture held 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 lecture held on 28 November 2017 at the Ludwigsburg University of Education.
  • "Citizenship Education in South Africa and Germany - Insights into a current binational research project". Lecture open to the public, held on 15 December 2017 at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
  • "Hannah Arendt's political theory as a normative orientation for political education!" Lecture given on 26 September 2018 at the 27th Academic Congress of the German Political Science Association (DVPW): "Grenzen der Demokratie / Frontiers of Democracy", 25-28 September 2018 at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.
  • "Das Politische als Kern des Politikunterrichts" lecture (keynote) held on 7 November 2018 at the conference "Bildung für die Demokratie?! Political understanding and practice in schools" organised by the Federal Agency for Civic Education and the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs, Berlin.
  • "Music and politics". Lecture given on 19 February 2020 as part of the training series Fridays For Future & Co: Motivating democracy education in politics lessons by the Lower Saxony State Institute for School Quality Development NLQ).
  • "How transformative can democracy education be?" Lecture held as part of the preparatory seminars for the Utopia Conference 2021 on 8 June 2020 at Leuphana University Lüneburg (online).
  • "Political didactic reconstruction as an integrative research programme of political science and political didactics". Public lecture, held on 14 January 2021 at the Karlsruhe University of Education (online).
  • "The political dimension of digitalisation and media competence". Lecture given 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 connection between music and politics". Lecture held on 27 January 2021 as part of the series of lectures "Verantwortung im Umgang mit belasteten Werken" at the University of Music Würzburg (online).
  • "Learning politics in the superdiverse society - the time-diagnostic approach to political education." Lecture given on 12 June 2021 at the 21st Annual Conference of the Society for Political Didactics and Political Youth and Adult Education (GPJE): Political Education in the Superdiverse Society at the University of Göttingen (online).
  • "Political education and Corona". Panel participation in the POLIS podcast of the journal POLIS, on 8 July 2021 (online)
  • "Who votes how and why? An analysis of crosses". Guest in the podcast Der Tag of Hessischer Rundfunk on the question of emotions in political education, published on 13/09/2021 (online)
  • "How engaged should/may school be?". Lecture given as part of the WebTalk series "Herausforderungen der Demokratie - Was Schule bewegt?!" by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs on 27 September 2021 (online).
  • "What is successful civic education? Workshop on the (im)possibilities of impact measurement" Workshop of the Federal Agency for Civic Education, participation and commentary as an expert on
    25.10.2021 (online)
  • "Learning democracy and/or learning politics! Updating a didactic debate". Lecture given on 1 February 2022 as part of the series of lectures on democracy education in schools at the University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd (online)
  • School democracy education (in the migration society). Lecture held on 21.04.2022 as part of the training course Fit for Diversity? organised by the Oldenburg Training Centre (OFZ) Interdisciplinary skills training for schools in the migration society (online)
  • "Democracy Education and Democracy Education in Schools and Study Seminars". Lecture and workshop held and conducted on 26 September 2022 as part of the 2022 annual conference of the heads of Lower Saxony's study seminars for secondary school teachers at Jeddinger Hof Visselhövede
  • "Where speaking ends, politics ends" (Hannah Arendt) - Language-conscious teaching and learning in civic education. Lecture given on 12 June 2023 as part of the series of lectures on language-sensitive
    teaching and learning in (subject) lessons at the University of Oldenburg
  • "Basic and specialised concepts in civic education". Lecture given on 18 September 2023 at the professorship of the German Society for Economics Education (DEGÖB) at the Joachim Herz Foundation Hamburg.
  • "Social theories, diagnoses of the times and narratives of the future." Section 1, panel and workshop participation at the 15th Federal Congress of Political Education "Gegenwartsdeutungen - Zukunftserzählungen. Political education in times of social upheaval", on 3 November 2023 at the congress centrum Weimarhalle in Weimar.
  • "Human dignity in times of multiple crises". University sermon on 07/04/2024 in the Lambertikirche Oldenburg, online: https://uol.de/f/4/inst/theologie/proj/unipredigten/Die_Wuerde_des_Menschen_in_Zeiten_multipler_Krisen.pdf?v=1712752033
  • "Untouchable!?" - Human dignity in times of multiple crises", lecture given on 26 September 2024 at the 12th Science Soirée of the University Society Oldenburg (UGO) at the University of Oldenburg.
  • "Political action. Between aspiration and excessive demands". Lecture held on 27 February 2025 at the Evangelische Akademie Braunschweig.
  • "Democracy in crisis! Challenges and perspectives." Lecture held on 6 May 2025 as part of the event series "No place for anti-Semitism" at the University of Oldenburg.
  • "'Untouchable! - Human dignity in times of endangered democracies and increasing right-wing extremism". Lecture given on 30 September 2025 at the conference Demokratie in Gefahr? Countering right-wing extremist tendencies! at the Freie Waldorfschule Hannover Bothfeld.
  • "The price of freedom". Panel participation at the VHS Oldenburg on 06/11/2025.
  • "Human dignity: opportunities and threats in politics, academic appointments 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 given on 25 February 2026 as part of the annual conference of the Federal Working Group for Advanced Scientific Training for Older People (AG WiWA) "Politische Bildung in der wissenschaftlichen Weiterbildung für Ältere. Theory - Practice - Effectiveness" at the University of Oldenburg.
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