Organization of Academic Events

Conferences and Lecture Series

1. Doctoral Workshop »Mind Games: Perception in Words, World, and Frames.« Co-Organization with Christine Schwanecke, Lisa Buchegger, and Philip Steiner. University of Graz (June 18, 2024).
2. International conference »Worlding Science Fiction: Building, Inhabiting, and Understanding Science Fiction Universes« Co-Organization with Michael Fuchs & Stefan Rabitsch (Dec. 6-8, 2018).
3. International conference »Classical Hollywood Studies in the 21^st Century« Organized by Phillipa Gates and Katherine Spring. As European Collaborator with  Helen Hanson. Wilfrid Laurier University, Kitchener/Waterloo, Kanada (May 10-13, 2018).
4. International Conference »In-Between: Liminal Spaces in Canadian Literature and Culture«. Co-Organization with Ulla Kriebernegg, Susanne Hamscha, and Simon Whybrew. University of Graz, Austria (June 2-4, 2016).
5. International Conference »Space Oddities: Urbanity, American Identity, and Cultural Exchange«. Co-Organization with Elisa Edwards and Leopold Lippert. University of Graz, Austria (Nov. 21-23, 2014).
6. Lecture Series »When I Talk About American Studies, I Talk About... Transnationalism«. Co-Organization with Klaus Rieser, Silvia Schultermandl, Elisa Edwards, Leopold Lippert. Department of American Studies, University of Graz.
7. International Conference »Visual Culture/s: From the Local to the Global«. Co-Organization with Johanna Rolshoven and Judith Laister (Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology) and Karl Kaser (Department of History) as well as Klaus Rieser, Silvia Schultermandl, Elisa Edwards, Leopold Lippert (Department of American Studies). Department of American Studies, University of Graz (June 7-8, 2013).
8. International Conference »Transcultural Spaces: Challenges of Urbanity, Ecology, and the Environment in the New Millennium«. Co-Organization with Frank Mehring. John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (Oct. 30 - Nov. 1, 2008). (Conference Program, Poster).
9. International Conference »European Perspectives in American Studies: Histories – Dialogues – Differences«. Co-organization with Ingrid Thaler. John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, FU Berlin, Germany (Feb. 11-13, 2005). (Conference Program).

Workshops, Moderation, Respondences

1. Co-Organization of two panels, “Immigration, Technology, and American Society: Exploring the Digital Dimensions of Migration” (with Tatiani G. Rapatzikou & Frank Mehring). Conference of the European Association of American Studies (EAAS), “1924-2024: The American Immigrant Narrative Revisited” (Apr. 5, 2024).
2. Co-Organization of the workshop “Navigating Cultural Crossroads: Exploring the Experiences of Transnational Travelers in the Americas” (with  Saptarshi Mallick, University of North Bengal, West Bengal, India). Panel 1: “Mapping Imaginary Americas.” 11th IASA World Congress 2023 “Journeying (the) Americas: The Paradoxes of Travel (and) Narratives.” University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland, Sept. 7-10, 2023. Katowice (Sept. 7, 2023).
3. Workshop “Navigating Cultural Crossroads.” Panel 2: “Travel Writing and Global Encounters in Central and South America.” Organizers: Stefan Brandt (University of Graz, Austria) and Saptarshi Mallick (University of North Bengal, West Bengal, India). 11th IASA World Congress 2023 (ASA) “Journeying (the) Americas: The Paradoxes of Travel (and) Narratives.” University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland, Sept. 7-10, 2023. Katowice. (Sept. 7, 2023).
4. Workshop “Navigating Cultural Crossroads.” Panel 3: “South Asian Voices on American Soil" - Organizers: Stefan Brandt (University of Graz, Austria) and Saptarshi Mallick (University of North Bengal, West Bengal, India). 11th IASA World Congress 2023 (ASA) “Journeying (the) Americas: The Paradoxes of Travel (and) Narratives.” University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland, Sept. 7-10, 2023. Katowice (Sept. 7, 2023).
5. Co-Organization of the panel »Cultures of Denunciation: Defamation, Canceling, and Creative Resistance in Nineteenth-Century American Literature« (with Alexandra Urakova, Univ. of Uppsala, Sweden). Annual conference of the American Studies Association (ASA), »Creativity within Revolt.« Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico (online event) (Oct. 11-14, 2021).
6. Panel Chair and Discussant, »Near Whispers: The Affects of Proximate Critique.« MLA International Symposium Remembering Voices Lost, Lisbon, Portugal. (July 23-25, 2019).  
7. Panel chair, »Where No (Wo)Man Has Gone Before: Space, Gender, and Mobility in American Science Fiction«. 45. Annual conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS) »American Im/Mobilities« (Nov. 17, 2018).  
8. Panel chair, »Industry Connections«. International conference »Classical Hollywood Studies in the 21^st Century« (organisiert von Phillipa Gates, Katherine Spring, Helen Hanson und Stefan L. Brandt). Wilfrid Laurier University, Kitchener/Waterloo. Kanada (May 13, 2018).
9. Panel chair, »Future(s) of Gender Performance«. 44. Annual conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS) »›Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? The Changing Nature of American Studies«. University of Salzburg, Department of English and American Studies (Nov. 5, 2017).   
10. Panel chair, »Silence«. International conference »Soundscapes and Sonic Cultures in America«. Department of American Studies. Univ. of Graz (Nov. 8, 2015).
11. Respondent, round table »Black Lives Matter: Confronting Systemic Racism« (mit Malini Schueller, Ronald L. Jackson, Silvia Schultermandl & Simone Puff), Univ. of Graz (June 23, 2015).
12. Moderation and introduction, lecture by Robyn Wiegman, »Queer Theory’s Foucault«. Univ. of Graz (March 23, 2015).
13. Chair, Symposium »Urban Transformations: Spaces—Communities—Representations«. University of Dortmund (March 27, 2015).
14. Chair, lecture by Gerd Hurm »Urban Fiction as Urban Studies: Reflections on an Intricate Relationship«. International conference »Space Oddities: Urbanity, American Identity, and Cultural Exchange« (Nov. 22, 2014).
15. Moderation and introduction, lecture by Heinz Ickstadt, »Poetry and the Sustaining Myth of Its Collective Function from Pound and H.D. to Charles Bernstein and Susan Howe«. Univ. of Graz. In Zusammenarbeit mit Roberta Mayerhofer vom Center for Inter-American Studies (C.IAS) (Nov. 4, 2014).
16. Panel Chair, »Broadening the Genteel Circle: Race and Gender« »Traveling Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Negotiations of Cultural Concepts in Transatlantic Intellectual Networks«, University of Halle-Wittenberg (Apr. 18, 2014).
17. Book Talk Berndt Ostendorf, »New Orleans and ›All That Jazz‹«. Univ. of Graz. With Roberta Maierhofer and Heidrun Mörtl, Center for Inter-American Studies (C.IAS) (Dec. 12, 2013).
18. Panel Chair, »Transnational Utopian Connections«. AAAS conference »American Utopias«, Schloss Leopoldskron, Salzburg, Austria (Nov. 9, 2013).
19. Workshop »›Wide Open Spaces‹: How the ›Country‹ Came Into Country Music«. 60^th  annual conference of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA), Erlangen, Germany, with Erik Redling (May 31, 2013). 
20. Moderation and introduction, lecture by Hortense Spillers, »Some Thoughts on the African Dia­spora«. International conference »Imagining Culture: Norms and Forms of Public Discourse in America«. John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, FU Berlin (June 27, 2009).
21. Chair, lecture by Mary Ann Doane, »The Transmedial Effects of Scale in the Visual Arts and the Contemporary Proliferation of Screens«. Conference »Transmediality and Transcul­turality«. University of Mainz (Dec. 9, 2007).
22. Moderation of section »Technical Media, Cognitive Media, Cultural Media, and Narrative Techniques in the 19th Century« (M. Klepper). Conference »American Studies as Media Studies«. DFG-Netzwerkprojekt »The Futures of (European) American Studies«. Königswinter (Feb. 3, 2007).
23. Respondent, lecture by Alexander Vazansky. »›America‹ and the ›Nation‹ after 9/11«. Conference »The New Americanists«. University of Bonn (Jan. 28, 2006).
24. Workshop »To New Shores: The German Dimension in American Film, 1920-1959«. Co-Organi­sation mit Frank Mehring. 52nd annual conference of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA), »Transcultural Negotiations«. Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M. (May 21, 2005).
25. Chair, lecture by Charlotte Kroløkke, »Grrl rhetoric: Pioneers on New Frontiers« (Dec. 9, 2004). 
26. Moderation of section »Democracy, Aesthetics, and History«. International conference »Aesthetic Transgressions: Modernity, Liberalism, and the Function of Literature«. John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, FU Berlin (Apr. 17, 2004).
27. Workshop »Engendering Utopia«. Co-Organisation mit Carsten Albers. 47^th annual conference of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA), »Millennial Perspectives«. University of Dresden (June 15, 2000).
28. Symposium »Visual Culture/s: From the Local to the Global«. Co-Organisation (University of Graz) (June 7-8, 2013).