Keynotes and Other Invited Papers
KEYNOTE, NAMED, AND PUBLIC LECTURES
“The Archive as Civil Society,” Munich Kunstverein, 1 August 2023.
“Emotions, Politics, and the Terror of History: Methodological Considerations,” Zentrum für Kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung, University of Constance, 19 July 2023. University of Sydney, 6 September 2023.
“Germany and the Question of Palestine Today,” Orient Institute Beirut, 4 July 2023.
“Recent German Memory Debates: An Iteration of a Western Culture War,” Montreal Central European Studies Workshop, Université du Québec à Montréal, 9-10 March 2023.
“German Memory Wars: A Report from the Front,” Cultural Memory Seminar and Deutsches Haus, Columbia University, 20 September 2022.
“The German Catechism and the Problems of Genocide,” The Future of Atrocity Memory, Aarhus University, 24 August 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DATVn7jMNmo
“Imperial Reason,” Die Zivilisationsfrage, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 28 May 2022.
“Affective Colonization as Minority Management in Germany,” Entangled Otherings, University of Cambridge, 20 June 2022.
“Postcolonialism and German Memory Culture,” Department of Politics, Goldsmiths College, University of London, 14 June 2022.
“Imperial Realism,” Die Zivilisationsfrage, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 27-28 May.
"The Holocaust in Public Memory," Trinity College Dublin, 22 March 2022.
“Settlers and Security: Structures and Subjectivity in State-Formation," keynote lecture, Dispossessions and Their Legacies: Comparisons, Intersections, and Connections conference, Center for Armenian Studies, University of Michigan, 10 February 2021.
“The Problems of Genocide,” Carl Schurz Haus, Freiburg, 30 November 2021; Wiener Library, London, 1 December 2021.
“The Diplomacy of Genocide,” The Xinjiang Crisis: Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, Justice, University of Newcastle, 3 September 2021
“Talking about Genocidal Pasts in a Global Perspective,” University of Innsbruck, 17 June 2021.
“What is the Future of Holocaust Research,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Looking Backward, Moving Forward, NIOD Amsterdam, 9 April 2021.
“Genocide, Colonialism, & the Contested Past,” Carolina Public Humanities on Historical Injustice & Memory Today, 9 September 2020.
“Genocide as the ‘Crime of Crimes’: How the Holocaust Became Universalized in International Law and Global Memory,” keynote lecture, 9th Flying University Transnational Humanities. The Holocaust Meets the Post-colonial in the Global Memory Space, Critical Global Studies Institute, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea, 25–30 August 2019.
“‘White Genocide’: The Far-Right and the Center-Right,” keynote lecture, Bigotry and Hate in the US Conference, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University, 27 April 2019.
"Inventing Genocide: The Contingent Origins of a Concept During World War II," Department of History, University of Delaware Warnock Lecture, November 2018.
“The Problem of Genocide: The History of a Conceptual Mistake,” Interrogating our Multiple Crises lecture series, Brussels School of International Studies, 15 February 2017.
“Empire, Resistance, and Security: The Law of Nations from Vitoria to Gaza,” keynote, Law and Colonial Violence workshop, Queen Mary, University of London, 14 February 2017.
“The Colonial Origins of Nazi Genocide,” Annual Stanley Burton Centre Holocaust Memorial Lecture, University of Leicester, 24 January 2017.
“The Modern Imagination and the Vocabulary of Transgression,” keynote,, From the Armenian Genocide to the Holocaust: The Foundations of Modern Human Rights conference, Armenian Studies Program, University of Michigan, 2-4 April 2015.
“Does Mastering the Past Help us Master the Future? Reflections on Moral History and Violence in Global Perspective,” Cologne Lecture on Moral History, University of Cologne, 1 December 2014.
“(Post)Colonial Violence and the Terror of History,” keynote,, Remembering (Post)Colonial Violence: Silence, Suffering & Reconciliation workshop, German Historical Institute, London, 19 June 2014.
“Human Rights and Genocide: A Historical Global Perspective,” Sixth Gerald Stourzh Lecture on the History of Human Rights and Democracy, University of Vienna, 21 May 2014.
“Memory and the Terror of History,” keynote lecture, COST Action: In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe, Skopje, 10-12 April 2014.
“How and Why the Use and Abuse of History is Inescapable, Inevitable and Invaluable for Life,” keynote, Uses and Abuses of History: Public History in Greece, Volos, Greece, 30 August 2013.
“Terrorized Histories and Cosmopolitan Futures: Decolonizing Memories in Global Context,” keynote, Regions of Memory conference, Warsaw, 28 November 2012.
“Völkermord und die Aufarbeitung von Vergangenheiten aus Globaler Sicht,” Sixth Simon Wiesenthal Lecture, Vienna, 28 September 2010.
“Security and Pre-Emption: Genocide Studies and Holocaust Historiography: A Convergence?,” keynote, International Network of Genocide Scholars, Second Global Conference on Genocide, University of Sussex, 28 June-1 July 2010.
“Genocide and the Terror of History,” keynote lecture, Transcultural Memory: A Conference, University of London, 4-6 February 2010.
“Empire, Kolonie, Genozid: Ein neuer Kontext für den Holocaust?” Kölner Vortraege zur Neueren und Neuesten Geschichte, 19 May 2008.
“Colonialism, the Holocaust, and the Concept of Genocide,” S. Daniel Abraham Lecture in International History, Tel Aviv University 12 April 2007.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“Permanent Security: A Viable Concept for International History and Relations?” American University, 1 March 2022.
Rhetorical Excess and Discursive Defensiveness in German Debates,” Historiker streiten, Einstein Forum and Potsdam Museum, Germany, 4 October 2021.
“The Institute for Jewish Affairs, Antisemitism and the Holocaust,” Entangled Otherings: Critical Perspectives on the Relationship of Antisemitism and Racism, Seminarhaus Gut Siggen. 29 June 2021.
“Affective Colonization as Minority Containment: Feeling German in the Age of Triangulation,” Lecture Series: Memory politics and minority management in contemporary Europe. Organized in the framework of the Berlin University Alliance Project “Beyond Social Cohesion. Global Repertoires of Living Together” (RePLITO), 20 May 2021.
“The Problems of Genocide,” Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, 11 May 2021; Center for Armenian Studies at the University of Michigan, 22 April 2021; Rutgers Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, 14 April 2021; Triangle Intellectual History Seminar, 21 February 2021; Leiden Hub on the Theory and History of International Law, 2 December 2020; North Carolina German Studies Seminar, 25 September 2020; Queen Mary College London, 9 June 2021; Jena Center for 20th Century History, 23 June 2021; Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University, 20 September 2021, Yale University, 10 March 2022.
“Contemporary Australia,” North Carolina Global Teachers-Australia 2020 program, 30 March 2021.
“Is Fascism Back? Trans-Atlantic Perspectives on the History of the Present,” Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute, 16 February 2021.
“Shocking the Conscience of Mankind”: Genocide and Humanitarian Consciousness,” Human Rights and Peace Building workshop, Peace Research Institute, International Christian University, Tokyo, 16 January 2021.
“The Origins of Genocide: An Intellectual History of Conceptual Instability,” Department of Philosophy, Cal State LA, 4 December 2020.
“Achille Mbembe and German Memory,” North Carolina German Studies Seminar, 20 November 2020.
“Historical (In)justice and Memory Today: Genocide, Colonialism, and the Contested Past,” Carolina Public Humanities: Virtual Humanities in Action, 30 September 2020.
“Genocide: Concept and Problems,” Wiener Library, London, 3 September 2020.
“The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression,” North Carolina German Seminar, 25 September 2020; Leiden Hub on the Theory and History of International Law, 2 December 2020.
“Genocide in Historical Perspective. The Language of Transgression,” Global History and International Law Seminar, 6 May 2020, https://globalhistoryandil.com/index.php/seminar/
“Postwar Memory, Postcolonial Conflict, and the Construction of ‘Genocide,’” University of Konstanz, 14 January 2020; University of Ghent, 20 January 2020; Lichtenberg-Kolleg, University of Göttingen, 22 January 2020; University College, Dublin, 30 January 2020.
“The Problems of Genocide,” Wissenschaftszentrum zu Berlin, 27 January 2020; University of Leiden, 6 February 2020; University of Edinburgh, 9 February 2020.
“Going Global: Generational Coordinates of a Transnational Turn,” Generational Perspectives on Modern German History: From Sonderweg to Global Networks, German Historical Institute, London, 9 July 2019.
“The Fear of “White Genocide” in the US, Germany, and Australia,” E Pluribus Unum? Memory Conflicts, Democracy, and Integration, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, 12 April 2019.
Annenberg Seminar: "Conversation on the History of Genocide, Human Rights and Humanitarianism," with Samuel Moyn, University of Pennsylvania, February 12, 2019.
“Working Through the Past as Entangled Histories: Genocide from Settler colonialism to Auschwitz and Beyond” Comparative Memory and Justice: The Holocaust and Racial Violence in America," Princeton University, 8-9 November 2018.
“Genocide and International History,” What is International History Today? University of Sydney, 27 July 2018.
“The Origins of Genocide: Abolishing Atrocity since the Enlightenment,” Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 14 November 2017.
“The Problems of Genocide,” CCNY Human Rights Seminar, 2 November 2017.
“Civil War and Genocide: Conceptual Confusion and Mass Violence against Civilians,” International State Crime Initiative (ISCI), Queen Mary, University of London, 31 January 2017, University of New South Wales, 11 April 2017.
“Rethinking the Origins and Meaning of the Genocide Concept,” Anglia Ruskin University 23 February 2017; Institute of Historical Research, London, Rethinking Modern Europe seminar, 22 February 2017.
“The Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the Global History of Genocide,” Institute of Historical Research Imperial and World History
seminar, London, 23 January 2017.
“Anxieties in Holocaust and Genocide Studies,” 2016 Aftermath Conference, Rethinking Holocaust Paradigms, Monash University, 19-22 September 2016.
“Minority Rights, Partition and Cultural Genocide: A Global Postwar Conjuncture," Law, Empire, and Global Intellectual History, Heidelberg University, 19-22 June 2016.
“The Modern Imagination and the Vocabulary of Transgression," Utrecht Forum on Memory Studies, 10 December 2015; University of Manitoba,
15 January 2015.
"On Timothy Snyder's Black Earth," Institut für die Wissenschaft des Menschens, Vienna, 21 October 2015.
"Transformative Occupation and the Right of Resistance," University of Exeter, 14 October 2015.
“Protecting Human Rights and Preventing Genocide: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the Will to Intervene,” Israel Academic Exchange, Second Seminar, Clark University, 17-20 September 2015.
"Post-Genocide Reconciliation as a Viable Concept?," Roundtable Discussion on International Political Reconciliation, Brookings Institution, 2 October 2015.
“The Language of Transgression and the Modern Imagination,” The Armenian Genocide: Reflections and Comparisons, Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London, 8 May 2015; University of Leicester, 12 May 2015.
"The Concept of Genocide and the Foundation of the Post-War Order,” The Armenian Genocide Concepts and Comparative Perspectives, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, 26 April 2015.
“Genocide and the Search for Permanent Security,” Genocide and Global History: A Conference on the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, UCLA, 10-11 April 2015,
“The Concept of Genocide and the Foundation of the Postwar Order,” UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies, 10 February 2015; University of East Anglia, 27 February 2015.
“The Diplomacy of Genocide: Humanitarian Intervention in the Age of Decolonization,” Center for Human Rights, Claremont McKenna College, 11 February 2015.
“Genocide Studies: Problems and Opportunities for Historical Research,” Department of History, University of North Carolina, 8 January 2015.
“(Post)Colonial Violence and the Terror of History,” Cultural Memory Seminar and Deutsches Haus, Columbia University, 25 September 2014.
“How and Why Did Genocide Become a Non-Political Crime?,” Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, University of Queensland, 21 August 2012; Berkeley Human Rights Seminar, 4 September 2012; NEH workshop, “Genocide and Human Rights: A Fraught Relationship?” CUNY Graduate Center, 7 September 2012; Department of History, University of Sussex, 14 March 2013, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 22 May 2013; University of Haifa, 30 May 2013, Cultures of Diplomacy workshop, University of Sydney, 16 July 2014; Center for International History, Columbia University, 23 September 2014.
Discussant, “Emotions and Political Violence: Case Studies from India and Pakistan,” EMPOLIS, Centre d’Études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud, EHESS, Paris, 24 March 2014.
“From Settlers to Natives? A View from Australia,” From Settlers to Natives lecture series, University of Tel Aviv, 12 March 2014.
“The Terror of History: Reconciling the Material and Narrative Approaches in the Contagion of Trauma,” The Uproar of Emotion: Studying Genocide and Mass Violence after the Emotional Turn Danish Institute for International Studies, 27-28 February 2014.
“Partitions, Forced Population ‘Transfers’ and the Question of Human Rights in the 1930s and 1940s,” Department of History, University of Michigan, 5 April 2012, IBEI-Barcelona, 17 May 2012; Danish Institute of Human Rights, 24 May 2012; Humboldt University, Berlin, 31 May 2012; NIOD-Goethe Institute, Amsterdam, 4 June 2012; Human Rights and Imperialism in Historical Perspective, University of Sydney, 10-11 August 2012; Critical Perspectives on Human Rights Working Group, UC Berkeley, 4 September 2012; Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 12 September 2012; Borderlands: Imperialism, Colonialism, Environment and Culture workshop, Vilnius, 22-23 September 2012; University of St. Andrews, 24 April 2013; “Forced Migration and Humanitarianism in Global History, University of Chicago, 15-16 November 2013: Liberalism and Empire conference, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 19 December 2015; Law School, University of Manitoba, 13 January 2016.
“Genocide in Global Historical (and Comparative) Perspective.” University of Vienna, 3 October 2013.
“Naming Genocide: The Legacy of Lemkin,” panel discussion, Center for Jewish History, New York, 24 September 2013.
“Combining Structure and Affect in Explaining Political Violence,” Representing Violence: History, Politics and Theory, Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen, 10 June 2013.
“Vom Terror der Geschichte zu einer kosmopolitischen Zukunft: Die Entkolonialisierung der Erinnerung in einem globalen Kontext,” Einstein Forum, Potsdam, 30 April 2013.
“Holocaust Studies and Genocide Studies: A Fraught Relationship?” Remembering Primo Levi: From Memory to the Archive, NYU–Villa la Pietra, Florence, 19 March 2013.
“Settler Colonialism and Decolonization: National Liberation Movements and the Terror of History,” Transitions to New Political Order in Divided Societies: Comparative Lessons for Israel/Palestine, EUI, 8-9 March 2013.
“Hannah Arendt and Raphael Lemkin on Empire and Genocide,” Thinking for Yourself: A Conference in Honour of Professor Robert Manne, La Trobe University, 28 February-1 March 2013.
Participation as invited panel member in Berliner Colloquium zur Zeitgeschichte, “Zwei Links–Zwei Rechts: Zur Anschlussfähigkeit der Ideologien des 20. Jahrhunderts,” 15-16 February 2013.
“Taner Ackam’s The Young Turks’ Crime Against Humanity: A Commentary,” Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, 13 September 2012.
“Holocaust and Genocide,” in Diesseits und jenseits des Holocaust: Aus der Geschichte lernen in Gedenkstätten, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 16 September 2011.
“Genocide,” in Keywords lecture series, Australian National University, 15 August 2011.
“Humanitarian Intervention in the Age of Decolonisation: The international community and genocide in the secession of East Pakistan, 1971,” Graduate School Lecture, University of East Anglia, 25 May 2011.
“The Diplomacy of Genocide: Britain and Allegations of Genocide in East Pakistan, 1971,” Department of History, Australian National University, 17 August 2011; Department of History, University of Sydney, 1 August 2011; Department of War Studies, University College, Dublin, 1 April 2011; Friedrich Meinecke Institute, Free University of Berlin, 16 May 2011; Department of History, University of Sydney, 1 August 2011; School of History, Australian National University, 17 August 2011.
“Has the Holocaust Helped us to Remember or to Forget Genocide?” Forgotten Genocides: Memory, Silence, Denial, Rutgers University, Newark, 28-29 March 2011.
“The Limits of Contrition: Australia, Canada and the Dilemmas of Remembering Indigenous Genocides,” Memory: Silence, Screen, Spectacle, New School for Social Research, 24-26 March 2011.
“The Limits of Contrition: Germany, Australia, Canada and the Dilemmas of Remembering Indigenous Genocides,” Erinnern/Vergessen: Die Fallstricke des Opfergedenkens in “Tätergesellschaften,” Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden/Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg/Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University, Hamburg, 23-25 February 2011.
“The Diplomacy of Genocide: The International, the National and the Domestic in the East Pakistan Genocide/Secession War of 1971,” A Return to the Social? Methods and Meanings of the Social in the Aftermath of the Cultural Turn, FRIAS, University of Freiburg, 3-4 March 2011.
“The (Non) Question of Humanitarian Intervention in the Genocide/Civil War in East Pakistan, 1971,” The Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolution, and Human Rights, Rutgers University, 2 December 2010; Boston College, 2 December 2010.
“Empire and Genocide,” Department of History, New School of Social Research, 12 November 2010.
“Partition, East Pakistan and Forced Migration, 1947-1971,” Forced Migration Research Group, University of Virginia, 4 November 2010.
“The ‘International Community’ and the Civil War in East Pakistan in 1971,” Civil War in South Asia Conference, University of Delhi, 16-17 February 2010.
“The Terror of History and the Origins of Genocide,” On Memory: An Interdisciplinary Symposium, Swinburn University of Technology, Melbourne, 23 June 2009.
“Indigeneity, ‘Wissenschaft’ and Aboriginal Intellectuals in Contemporary Australia,” in the series “Ways of Knowledge: Wissensweisen – Wissenswelten – Wissenswanderungen” of the Platform World Religions and Interactions and the History Department, Erfurt University, 4 November 2008.
“Hannah Arendt on Genocide and Imperialism: A Reconsideration,” New York Consortium on Intellectual and Cultural History, CUNY Graduate Center, 16 October 2008.
“Genocide and the Crisis of Modernity,” College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota, 14 October 2008.
“‘68’ und die Intellektuellendebatten in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren im Kontext von Generationenverhältnissen,” ‘68’ an deutschen Universitäten: Vorgeschichte, Ereignisse, Auswirkungen, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, 28-30 November 2008.
“East Pakistan, 1971,” How Genocide End Workshop, Social Sciences Research Council, 10-11 October 2008, Harvard University.
“The East Pakistani Secession, Genocide, and the UN, 1971-1973,” University of Freiburg, 28 May 2008; Genocide Studies Program, Yale University, 9 October 2008; Bern University, Switzerland, 24 November 2008; Flinders University, 20 March 2009, University of Queensland, 21 August 2009.
“Empire, Colony, Genocide: A New Context for the Holocaust,” University of Sussex, 21 February 2008; Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, 17 April 2008; University of Bielefeld, 3 June 2008; University of Trier, 4 June 2008.
“Imperial Transfers: Race and Empire in the Völkisch Imagination,” Public Lecture Series,
“Wissen-Transfer-Differenz: Transnationale Verflechtungen von Rassismen ab 1700,” Humboldt University, Berlin, 6 May 2008.
“The Nazi Past and Political Emotions: German Intellectuals and Generational Change,” Workshop on “Coming to Terms with the Nazi Past,” Royal Holloway, University of London, and the Imperial War Museum, 22 February 2008.
“Empire and Genocide: Thoughts from Australia,” Centre for Genocide and Mass Violence, University of Sheffield, 21 February 2008.
“Empire, Colony, Genocide: Keywords and the Philosophy of History,” Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, “The Holocaust and Globalization,” 24 June 2007.
“Colonialism, the Holocaust, and the Concept of Genocide,” Lebanese American University, Beirut, 4 April 2007; Macquarie University, 31 October 2007.
“Toward a Critical Theory of Genocide,” Customs in Common: Law, Culture and Memory Seminar, Division of Law, Macquarie University, 13 October 2005.
“The Deep Structure of Postwar German Memory,” Departments of Sociology and Jewish Studies, University of Virginia, 1 February 2005.
“Towards a Critical Theory of Genocide,” Department of History, University of Michigan, 27 January 2005; Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial and Museum, 26 January 2005, Genocide Studies Program, Yale University, 2 February 2005.
“Genocide in Australia? Conceptual Challenges and Memory Politics,” The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, 16 August 2004.
“Responding to Revisionism and Denial,” University of Queensland, Genocide Studies Group, 24 November 2003.
“Holocaust and Genocide: Entanglement of Master Concepts,” University of Melbourne, 25 August 2003; University of California, Berkeley, 9 September 2003; University of Notre Dame, 12 September 2003; University of Illinois, Champagne/Urbana, 15 September 2003; Boston University, 25 September 2003; Trinity College, Hartford, 29 September 2003; Columbia University, 30 September 2003; Georgetown University, 8 October 2003; Institute for Social Research, Hamburg, Germany, 15 October 2003; Simon Dubnow Institute, Leipzig, 16 October 2003; American University Beirut, 2 November 2003; National University of Singapore, 12 November 2003.
“History, Memory and Reconciliation in Germany,” Centre for Cross Cultural Research, Australian National University, Canberra, Visiting Scholars Workshop “Memory, History and Cross Cultural Research,” 22 October 2002.
“The Uniqueness Concept in Holocaust and Genocide Studies,” Freilich Foundation Teacher Seminar, Australian National University, 6 September 2002.
“Coming to Terms with the Genocidal Pasts in Comparative Perspective: Germany and Australia,” Macquarie University Law School, 2 May 2002.
“The Genocide Convention and Colonial Australia,” UNSW Law School, 19 March 2002.
“The Forty-Fivers and the Languages of Republicanism in West Germany,” Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 31 January 2002.
“Die Fünfundvierziger und die Liberalisierung Deutschlands,” Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte, Stuttgart, Germany, 22 January 2002.
“The Languages of Republicanism and the Foundation of West Germany,” German Historical Institute 10 April 2001, Institute for European Studies, UC Berkeley, 12 April 2001.
“Colonial Genocide: the Case of Australia,” Department of History, University of Colorado, Boulder, 17 April 2001.
“Legitimacy Dilemmas and Genocidal Pasts in West German and Australia,” Responsibility, Community and History Workshop, Macquarie University, Sydney, 16 June 2000.
“Ideengeschichtliche Überlegungen zur Rezeption Carl Schmitts in der frühen Bundesrepublik,” in the Max Müller Symposium: “‘Katastrophenjahre?’ Leben, Tod und Entscheidung in der Weimarer Republik,” Freiburg, Germany, 7-10 October 1999.
“Die Fünfundvierziger: Die Sprache der Demokratie und die Liberalisierung der Bundesrepublik, 1945-1977” (“The Forty-Fivers: The Language of Democracy and the Liberalization of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1977”). Freiburg-Tübingen Annual Workshop on German History, Feldberg, May 1999.
“Land Rights und die Genozidfrage: Menschenrechte und Aborigines in Australien, 1778-1998” (“Land Rights and the Question of Genocide: Human Rights and Indigenous Australians, 1778-1998”) Colloquium Politicum, Freiburg University, Germany, 3 December 1998.
“1968 und die deutsche politische Kultur” (1968 and German Political Culture), Center for European Integration Studies, University of Bonn, Germany, 16 January 1998.
“The Meaning of History: German Intellectuals and the Re-Unification of Germany,” Midwestern Graduate Student Forum, University of Chicago, June 1994.
“The Archive as Civil Society,” Munich Kunstverein, 1 August 2023.
“Emotions, Politics, and the Terror of History: Methodological Considerations,” Zentrum für Kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung, University of Constance, 19 July 2023. University of Sydney, 6 September 2023.
“Germany and the Question of Palestine Today,” Orient Institute Beirut, 4 July 2023.
“Recent German Memory Debates: An Iteration of a Western Culture War,” Montreal Central European Studies Workshop, Université du Québec à Montréal, 9-10 March 2023.
“German Memory Wars: A Report from the Front,” Cultural Memory Seminar and Deutsches Haus, Columbia University, 20 September 2022.
“The German Catechism and the Problems of Genocide,” The Future of Atrocity Memory, Aarhus University, 24 August 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DATVn7jMNmo
“Imperial Reason,” Die Zivilisationsfrage, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 28 May 2022.
“Affective Colonization as Minority Management in Germany,” Entangled Otherings, University of Cambridge, 20 June 2022.
“Postcolonialism and German Memory Culture,” Department of Politics, Goldsmiths College, University of London, 14 June 2022.
“Imperial Realism,” Die Zivilisationsfrage, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 27-28 May.
"The Holocaust in Public Memory," Trinity College Dublin, 22 March 2022.
“Settlers and Security: Structures and Subjectivity in State-Formation," keynote lecture, Dispossessions and Their Legacies: Comparisons, Intersections, and Connections conference, Center for Armenian Studies, University of Michigan, 10 February 2021.
“The Problems of Genocide,” Carl Schurz Haus, Freiburg, 30 November 2021; Wiener Library, London, 1 December 2021.
“The Diplomacy of Genocide,” The Xinjiang Crisis: Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, Justice, University of Newcastle, 3 September 2021
“Talking about Genocidal Pasts in a Global Perspective,” University of Innsbruck, 17 June 2021.
“What is the Future of Holocaust Research,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Looking Backward, Moving Forward, NIOD Amsterdam, 9 April 2021.
“Genocide, Colonialism, & the Contested Past,” Carolina Public Humanities on Historical Injustice & Memory Today, 9 September 2020.
“Genocide as the ‘Crime of Crimes’: How the Holocaust Became Universalized in International Law and Global Memory,” keynote lecture, 9th Flying University Transnational Humanities. The Holocaust Meets the Post-colonial in the Global Memory Space, Critical Global Studies Institute, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea, 25–30 August 2019.
“‘White Genocide’: The Far-Right and the Center-Right,” keynote lecture, Bigotry and Hate in the US Conference, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University, 27 April 2019.
"Inventing Genocide: The Contingent Origins of a Concept During World War II," Department of History, University of Delaware Warnock Lecture, November 2018.
“The Problem of Genocide: The History of a Conceptual Mistake,” Interrogating our Multiple Crises lecture series, Brussels School of International Studies, 15 February 2017.
“Empire, Resistance, and Security: The Law of Nations from Vitoria to Gaza,” keynote, Law and Colonial Violence workshop, Queen Mary, University of London, 14 February 2017.
“The Colonial Origins of Nazi Genocide,” Annual Stanley Burton Centre Holocaust Memorial Lecture, University of Leicester, 24 January 2017.
“The Modern Imagination and the Vocabulary of Transgression,” keynote,, From the Armenian Genocide to the Holocaust: The Foundations of Modern Human Rights conference, Armenian Studies Program, University of Michigan, 2-4 April 2015.
“Does Mastering the Past Help us Master the Future? Reflections on Moral History and Violence in Global Perspective,” Cologne Lecture on Moral History, University of Cologne, 1 December 2014.
“(Post)Colonial Violence and the Terror of History,” keynote,, Remembering (Post)Colonial Violence: Silence, Suffering & Reconciliation workshop, German Historical Institute, London, 19 June 2014.
“Human Rights and Genocide: A Historical Global Perspective,” Sixth Gerald Stourzh Lecture on the History of Human Rights and Democracy, University of Vienna, 21 May 2014.
“Memory and the Terror of History,” keynote lecture, COST Action: In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe, Skopje, 10-12 April 2014.
“How and Why the Use and Abuse of History is Inescapable, Inevitable and Invaluable for Life,” keynote, Uses and Abuses of History: Public History in Greece, Volos, Greece, 30 August 2013.
“Terrorized Histories and Cosmopolitan Futures: Decolonizing Memories in Global Context,” keynote, Regions of Memory conference, Warsaw, 28 November 2012.
“Völkermord und die Aufarbeitung von Vergangenheiten aus Globaler Sicht,” Sixth Simon Wiesenthal Lecture, Vienna, 28 September 2010.
“Security and Pre-Emption: Genocide Studies and Holocaust Historiography: A Convergence?,” keynote, International Network of Genocide Scholars, Second Global Conference on Genocide, University of Sussex, 28 June-1 July 2010.
“Genocide and the Terror of History,” keynote lecture, Transcultural Memory: A Conference, University of London, 4-6 February 2010.
“Empire, Kolonie, Genozid: Ein neuer Kontext für den Holocaust?” Kölner Vortraege zur Neueren und Neuesten Geschichte, 19 May 2008.
“Colonialism, the Holocaust, and the Concept of Genocide,” S. Daniel Abraham Lecture in International History, Tel Aviv University 12 April 2007.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“Permanent Security: A Viable Concept for International History and Relations?” American University, 1 March 2022.
Rhetorical Excess and Discursive Defensiveness in German Debates,” Historiker streiten, Einstein Forum and Potsdam Museum, Germany, 4 October 2021.
“The Institute for Jewish Affairs, Antisemitism and the Holocaust,” Entangled Otherings: Critical Perspectives on the Relationship of Antisemitism and Racism, Seminarhaus Gut Siggen. 29 June 2021.
“Affective Colonization as Minority Containment: Feeling German in the Age of Triangulation,” Lecture Series: Memory politics and minority management in contemporary Europe. Organized in the framework of the Berlin University Alliance Project “Beyond Social Cohesion. Global Repertoires of Living Together” (RePLITO), 20 May 2021.
“The Problems of Genocide,” Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, 11 May 2021; Center for Armenian Studies at the University of Michigan, 22 April 2021; Rutgers Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, 14 April 2021; Triangle Intellectual History Seminar, 21 February 2021; Leiden Hub on the Theory and History of International Law, 2 December 2020; North Carolina German Studies Seminar, 25 September 2020; Queen Mary College London, 9 June 2021; Jena Center for 20th Century History, 23 June 2021; Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University, 20 September 2021, Yale University, 10 March 2022.
“Contemporary Australia,” North Carolina Global Teachers-Australia 2020 program, 30 March 2021.
“Is Fascism Back? Trans-Atlantic Perspectives on the History of the Present,” Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute, 16 February 2021.
“Shocking the Conscience of Mankind”: Genocide and Humanitarian Consciousness,” Human Rights and Peace Building workshop, Peace Research Institute, International Christian University, Tokyo, 16 January 2021.
“The Origins of Genocide: An Intellectual History of Conceptual Instability,” Department of Philosophy, Cal State LA, 4 December 2020.
“Achille Mbembe and German Memory,” North Carolina German Studies Seminar, 20 November 2020.
“Historical (In)justice and Memory Today: Genocide, Colonialism, and the Contested Past,” Carolina Public Humanities: Virtual Humanities in Action, 30 September 2020.
“Genocide: Concept and Problems,” Wiener Library, London, 3 September 2020.
“The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression,” North Carolina German Seminar, 25 September 2020; Leiden Hub on the Theory and History of International Law, 2 December 2020.
“Genocide in Historical Perspective. The Language of Transgression,” Global History and International Law Seminar, 6 May 2020, https://globalhistoryandil.com/index.php/seminar/
“Postwar Memory, Postcolonial Conflict, and the Construction of ‘Genocide,’” University of Konstanz, 14 January 2020; University of Ghent, 20 January 2020; Lichtenberg-Kolleg, University of Göttingen, 22 January 2020; University College, Dublin, 30 January 2020.
“The Problems of Genocide,” Wissenschaftszentrum zu Berlin, 27 January 2020; University of Leiden, 6 February 2020; University of Edinburgh, 9 February 2020.
“Going Global: Generational Coordinates of a Transnational Turn,” Generational Perspectives on Modern German History: From Sonderweg to Global Networks, German Historical Institute, London, 9 July 2019.
“The Fear of “White Genocide” in the US, Germany, and Australia,” E Pluribus Unum? Memory Conflicts, Democracy, and Integration, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, 12 April 2019.
Annenberg Seminar: "Conversation on the History of Genocide, Human Rights and Humanitarianism," with Samuel Moyn, University of Pennsylvania, February 12, 2019.
“Working Through the Past as Entangled Histories: Genocide from Settler colonialism to Auschwitz and Beyond” Comparative Memory and Justice: The Holocaust and Racial Violence in America," Princeton University, 8-9 November 2018.
“Genocide and International History,” What is International History Today? University of Sydney, 27 July 2018.
“The Origins of Genocide: Abolishing Atrocity since the Enlightenment,” Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 14 November 2017.
“The Problems of Genocide,” CCNY Human Rights Seminar, 2 November 2017.
“Civil War and Genocide: Conceptual Confusion and Mass Violence against Civilians,” International State Crime Initiative (ISCI), Queen Mary, University of London, 31 January 2017, University of New South Wales, 11 April 2017.
“Rethinking the Origins and Meaning of the Genocide Concept,” Anglia Ruskin University 23 February 2017; Institute of Historical Research, London, Rethinking Modern Europe seminar, 22 February 2017.
“The Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the Global History of Genocide,” Institute of Historical Research Imperial and World History
seminar, London, 23 January 2017.
“Anxieties in Holocaust and Genocide Studies,” 2016 Aftermath Conference, Rethinking Holocaust Paradigms, Monash University, 19-22 September 2016.
“Minority Rights, Partition and Cultural Genocide: A Global Postwar Conjuncture," Law, Empire, and Global Intellectual History, Heidelberg University, 19-22 June 2016.
“The Modern Imagination and the Vocabulary of Transgression," Utrecht Forum on Memory Studies, 10 December 2015; University of Manitoba,
15 January 2015.
"On Timothy Snyder's Black Earth," Institut für die Wissenschaft des Menschens, Vienna, 21 October 2015.
"Transformative Occupation and the Right of Resistance," University of Exeter, 14 October 2015.
“Protecting Human Rights and Preventing Genocide: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the Will to Intervene,” Israel Academic Exchange, Second Seminar, Clark University, 17-20 September 2015.
"Post-Genocide Reconciliation as a Viable Concept?," Roundtable Discussion on International Political Reconciliation, Brookings Institution, 2 October 2015.
“The Language of Transgression and the Modern Imagination,” The Armenian Genocide: Reflections and Comparisons, Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London, 8 May 2015; University of Leicester, 12 May 2015.
"The Concept of Genocide and the Foundation of the Post-War Order,” The Armenian Genocide Concepts and Comparative Perspectives, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, 26 April 2015.
“Genocide and the Search for Permanent Security,” Genocide and Global History: A Conference on the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, UCLA, 10-11 April 2015,
“The Concept of Genocide and the Foundation of the Postwar Order,” UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies, 10 February 2015; University of East Anglia, 27 February 2015.
“The Diplomacy of Genocide: Humanitarian Intervention in the Age of Decolonization,” Center for Human Rights, Claremont McKenna College, 11 February 2015.
“Genocide Studies: Problems and Opportunities for Historical Research,” Department of History, University of North Carolina, 8 January 2015.
“(Post)Colonial Violence and the Terror of History,” Cultural Memory Seminar and Deutsches Haus, Columbia University, 25 September 2014.
“How and Why Did Genocide Become a Non-Political Crime?,” Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, University of Queensland, 21 August 2012; Berkeley Human Rights Seminar, 4 September 2012; NEH workshop, “Genocide and Human Rights: A Fraught Relationship?” CUNY Graduate Center, 7 September 2012; Department of History, University of Sussex, 14 March 2013, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 22 May 2013; University of Haifa, 30 May 2013, Cultures of Diplomacy workshop, University of Sydney, 16 July 2014; Center for International History, Columbia University, 23 September 2014.
Discussant, “Emotions and Political Violence: Case Studies from India and Pakistan,” EMPOLIS, Centre d’Études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud, EHESS, Paris, 24 March 2014.
“From Settlers to Natives? A View from Australia,” From Settlers to Natives lecture series, University of Tel Aviv, 12 March 2014.
“The Terror of History: Reconciling the Material and Narrative Approaches in the Contagion of Trauma,” The Uproar of Emotion: Studying Genocide and Mass Violence after the Emotional Turn Danish Institute for International Studies, 27-28 February 2014.
“Partitions, Forced Population ‘Transfers’ and the Question of Human Rights in the 1930s and 1940s,” Department of History, University of Michigan, 5 April 2012, IBEI-Barcelona, 17 May 2012; Danish Institute of Human Rights, 24 May 2012; Humboldt University, Berlin, 31 May 2012; NIOD-Goethe Institute, Amsterdam, 4 June 2012; Human Rights and Imperialism in Historical Perspective, University of Sydney, 10-11 August 2012; Critical Perspectives on Human Rights Working Group, UC Berkeley, 4 September 2012; Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 12 September 2012; Borderlands: Imperialism, Colonialism, Environment and Culture workshop, Vilnius, 22-23 September 2012; University of St. Andrews, 24 April 2013; “Forced Migration and Humanitarianism in Global History, University of Chicago, 15-16 November 2013: Liberalism and Empire conference, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 19 December 2015; Law School, University of Manitoba, 13 January 2016.
“Genocide in Global Historical (and Comparative) Perspective.” University of Vienna, 3 October 2013.
“Naming Genocide: The Legacy of Lemkin,” panel discussion, Center for Jewish History, New York, 24 September 2013.
“Combining Structure and Affect in Explaining Political Violence,” Representing Violence: History, Politics and Theory, Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen, 10 June 2013.
“Vom Terror der Geschichte zu einer kosmopolitischen Zukunft: Die Entkolonialisierung der Erinnerung in einem globalen Kontext,” Einstein Forum, Potsdam, 30 April 2013.
“Holocaust Studies and Genocide Studies: A Fraught Relationship?” Remembering Primo Levi: From Memory to the Archive, NYU–Villa la Pietra, Florence, 19 March 2013.
“Settler Colonialism and Decolonization: National Liberation Movements and the Terror of History,” Transitions to New Political Order in Divided Societies: Comparative Lessons for Israel/Palestine, EUI, 8-9 March 2013.
“Hannah Arendt and Raphael Lemkin on Empire and Genocide,” Thinking for Yourself: A Conference in Honour of Professor Robert Manne, La Trobe University, 28 February-1 March 2013.
Participation as invited panel member in Berliner Colloquium zur Zeitgeschichte, “Zwei Links–Zwei Rechts: Zur Anschlussfähigkeit der Ideologien des 20. Jahrhunderts,” 15-16 February 2013.
“Taner Ackam’s The Young Turks’ Crime Against Humanity: A Commentary,” Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, 13 September 2012.
“Holocaust and Genocide,” in Diesseits und jenseits des Holocaust: Aus der Geschichte lernen in Gedenkstätten, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 16 September 2011.
“Genocide,” in Keywords lecture series, Australian National University, 15 August 2011.
“Humanitarian Intervention in the Age of Decolonisation: The international community and genocide in the secession of East Pakistan, 1971,” Graduate School Lecture, University of East Anglia, 25 May 2011.
“The Diplomacy of Genocide: Britain and Allegations of Genocide in East Pakistan, 1971,” Department of History, Australian National University, 17 August 2011; Department of History, University of Sydney, 1 August 2011; Department of War Studies, University College, Dublin, 1 April 2011; Friedrich Meinecke Institute, Free University of Berlin, 16 May 2011; Department of History, University of Sydney, 1 August 2011; School of History, Australian National University, 17 August 2011.
“Has the Holocaust Helped us to Remember or to Forget Genocide?” Forgotten Genocides: Memory, Silence, Denial, Rutgers University, Newark, 28-29 March 2011.
“The Limits of Contrition: Australia, Canada and the Dilemmas of Remembering Indigenous Genocides,” Memory: Silence, Screen, Spectacle, New School for Social Research, 24-26 March 2011.
“The Limits of Contrition: Germany, Australia, Canada and the Dilemmas of Remembering Indigenous Genocides,” Erinnern/Vergessen: Die Fallstricke des Opfergedenkens in “Tätergesellschaften,” Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden/Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg/Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University, Hamburg, 23-25 February 2011.
“The Diplomacy of Genocide: The International, the National and the Domestic in the East Pakistan Genocide/Secession War of 1971,” A Return to the Social? Methods and Meanings of the Social in the Aftermath of the Cultural Turn, FRIAS, University of Freiburg, 3-4 March 2011.
“The (Non) Question of Humanitarian Intervention in the Genocide/Civil War in East Pakistan, 1971,” The Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolution, and Human Rights, Rutgers University, 2 December 2010; Boston College, 2 December 2010.
“Empire and Genocide,” Department of History, New School of Social Research, 12 November 2010.
“Partition, East Pakistan and Forced Migration, 1947-1971,” Forced Migration Research Group, University of Virginia, 4 November 2010.
“The ‘International Community’ and the Civil War in East Pakistan in 1971,” Civil War in South Asia Conference, University of Delhi, 16-17 February 2010.
“The Terror of History and the Origins of Genocide,” On Memory: An Interdisciplinary Symposium, Swinburn University of Technology, Melbourne, 23 June 2009.
“Indigeneity, ‘Wissenschaft’ and Aboriginal Intellectuals in Contemporary Australia,” in the series “Ways of Knowledge: Wissensweisen – Wissenswelten – Wissenswanderungen” of the Platform World Religions and Interactions and the History Department, Erfurt University, 4 November 2008.
“Hannah Arendt on Genocide and Imperialism: A Reconsideration,” New York Consortium on Intellectual and Cultural History, CUNY Graduate Center, 16 October 2008.
“Genocide and the Crisis of Modernity,” College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota, 14 October 2008.
“‘68’ und die Intellektuellendebatten in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren im Kontext von Generationenverhältnissen,” ‘68’ an deutschen Universitäten: Vorgeschichte, Ereignisse, Auswirkungen, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, 28-30 November 2008.
“East Pakistan, 1971,” How Genocide End Workshop, Social Sciences Research Council, 10-11 October 2008, Harvard University.
“The East Pakistani Secession, Genocide, and the UN, 1971-1973,” University of Freiburg, 28 May 2008; Genocide Studies Program, Yale University, 9 October 2008; Bern University, Switzerland, 24 November 2008; Flinders University, 20 March 2009, University of Queensland, 21 August 2009.
“Empire, Colony, Genocide: A New Context for the Holocaust,” University of Sussex, 21 February 2008; Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, 17 April 2008; University of Bielefeld, 3 June 2008; University of Trier, 4 June 2008.
“Imperial Transfers: Race and Empire in the Völkisch Imagination,” Public Lecture Series,
“Wissen-Transfer-Differenz: Transnationale Verflechtungen von Rassismen ab 1700,” Humboldt University, Berlin, 6 May 2008.
“The Nazi Past and Political Emotions: German Intellectuals and Generational Change,” Workshop on “Coming to Terms with the Nazi Past,” Royal Holloway, University of London, and the Imperial War Museum, 22 February 2008.
“Empire and Genocide: Thoughts from Australia,” Centre for Genocide and Mass Violence, University of Sheffield, 21 February 2008.
“Empire, Colony, Genocide: Keywords and the Philosophy of History,” Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, “The Holocaust and Globalization,” 24 June 2007.
“Colonialism, the Holocaust, and the Concept of Genocide,” Lebanese American University, Beirut, 4 April 2007; Macquarie University, 31 October 2007.
“Toward a Critical Theory of Genocide,” Customs in Common: Law, Culture and Memory Seminar, Division of Law, Macquarie University, 13 October 2005.
“The Deep Structure of Postwar German Memory,” Departments of Sociology and Jewish Studies, University of Virginia, 1 February 2005.
“Towards a Critical Theory of Genocide,” Department of History, University of Michigan, 27 January 2005; Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial and Museum, 26 January 2005, Genocide Studies Program, Yale University, 2 February 2005.
“Genocide in Australia? Conceptual Challenges and Memory Politics,” The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, 16 August 2004.
“Responding to Revisionism and Denial,” University of Queensland, Genocide Studies Group, 24 November 2003.
“Holocaust and Genocide: Entanglement of Master Concepts,” University of Melbourne, 25 August 2003; University of California, Berkeley, 9 September 2003; University of Notre Dame, 12 September 2003; University of Illinois, Champagne/Urbana, 15 September 2003; Boston University, 25 September 2003; Trinity College, Hartford, 29 September 2003; Columbia University, 30 September 2003; Georgetown University, 8 October 2003; Institute for Social Research, Hamburg, Germany, 15 October 2003; Simon Dubnow Institute, Leipzig, 16 October 2003; American University Beirut, 2 November 2003; National University of Singapore, 12 November 2003.
“History, Memory and Reconciliation in Germany,” Centre for Cross Cultural Research, Australian National University, Canberra, Visiting Scholars Workshop “Memory, History and Cross Cultural Research,” 22 October 2002.
“The Uniqueness Concept in Holocaust and Genocide Studies,” Freilich Foundation Teacher Seminar, Australian National University, 6 September 2002.
“Coming to Terms with the Genocidal Pasts in Comparative Perspective: Germany and Australia,” Macquarie University Law School, 2 May 2002.
“The Genocide Convention and Colonial Australia,” UNSW Law School, 19 March 2002.
“The Forty-Fivers and the Languages of Republicanism in West Germany,” Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 31 January 2002.
“Die Fünfundvierziger und die Liberalisierung Deutschlands,” Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte, Stuttgart, Germany, 22 January 2002.
“The Languages of Republicanism and the Foundation of West Germany,” German Historical Institute 10 April 2001, Institute for European Studies, UC Berkeley, 12 April 2001.
“Colonial Genocide: the Case of Australia,” Department of History, University of Colorado, Boulder, 17 April 2001.
“Legitimacy Dilemmas and Genocidal Pasts in West German and Australia,” Responsibility, Community and History Workshop, Macquarie University, Sydney, 16 June 2000.
“Ideengeschichtliche Überlegungen zur Rezeption Carl Schmitts in der frühen Bundesrepublik,” in the Max Müller Symposium: “‘Katastrophenjahre?’ Leben, Tod und Entscheidung in der Weimarer Republik,” Freiburg, Germany, 7-10 October 1999.
“Die Fünfundvierziger: Die Sprache der Demokratie und die Liberalisierung der Bundesrepublik, 1945-1977” (“The Forty-Fivers: The Language of Democracy and the Liberalization of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1977”). Freiburg-Tübingen Annual Workshop on German History, Feldberg, May 1999.
“Land Rights und die Genozidfrage: Menschenrechte und Aborigines in Australien, 1778-1998” (“Land Rights and the Question of Genocide: Human Rights and Indigenous Australians, 1778-1998”) Colloquium Politicum, Freiburg University, Germany, 3 December 1998.
“1968 und die deutsche politische Kultur” (1968 and German Political Culture), Center for European Integration Studies, University of Bonn, Germany, 16 January 1998.
“The Meaning of History: German Intellectuals and the Re-Unification of Germany,” Midwestern Graduate Student Forum, University of Chicago, June 1994.
