Conference Organization, Workshops, Moderation (since 2018)
2025
| Conference Board at the International Conference “Radical Thinking in the Anthropocene” (Radikales Denken im Anthropozän: Theorien und Konzepte Kritischer Theorie). Organized by Stefan Baumgarten and Susanne Kogler. University of Graz, 26–28 June 2025. |
| Co-organization of the International Symposium “Dancing Spaces” (Tanzende Räume). With Eveline Krummen. University of Graz, 5–6 June 2025. |
| Conference Board at the 12th World Congress of the International American Studies Association (IASA), Visual Americas: Image, Text, Performance. Hacettepe University Ankara. 14–16 May 2025. |
| Co-organization of four panels (together with Saptarshi Mallick). 12th IASA World Congress Visual Americas: Image, Text, Performance. Panel 1: “Transforming Visual Myths: American Media and Ideological Hegemony.” Panel 2: “Gendered Icons and National Imaginaries: Reframing America.” Panel 3: “Visual Narratives of Resistance and Fluidity: Reimagining America.” Panel 4: “The Visual Turn: Beyond Text in Contemporary Representations of America.” Hacettepe University, Turkey, 14–16 September 2025. |
| Co-organization of the International Conference “India’s America, America’s India: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Representation.” With Parantap Chakraborty. University of Graz (Research Area American Studies II) and Domkal Girls College (Dept. of English), 7–8 April, 2025. |
2024
| Co-organization of two panels, “Immigration, Technology, and American Society: Exploring the Digital Dimensions of Migration” (with Tatiani G. Rapatzikou and Frank Mehring), Conference of the European Association of American Studies (EAAS), 1924-2024: The American Immigrant Narrative Revisited, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, April 5, 2024. |
2023
| Co-organization of three panels (together with Saptarshi Mallick). 11th IASA World Congress Journeying (the) Americas: The Paradoxes of Travel (and) Narratives. Panel 1: “Navigating Cultural Crossroads: Exploring the Experiences of Transnational Travelers in the Americas.” Panel 2: “Travel Writing and Global Encounters in Central and South America.” Panel 3: “South Asian Voices on American Soil.” University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland, 7–10 September 2023. |
2021
Co-organization of the panel “Cultures of Denunciation: Defamation, Canceling, and Creative Resistance in Nineteenth-Century American Literature” (with Alexandra Urakova, University of Uppsala, Sweden), Annual Conference of the American Studies Association (ASA), Creativity within Revolt, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico (online event), October 11–14, 2021.
2019
Panel chair and discussant, “Near Whispers: The Affects of Proximate Critique,” MLA International Symposium Remembering Voices Lost, Lisbon, Portugal, July 23–25, 2019.
2018
| Panel chair, “Where No (Wo)Man Has Gone Before: Space, Gender, and Mobility in American Science Fiction,” co-organized with Manuela Neuwirth, 45th Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS), American Im/Mobilities, University of Graz, November 17, 2018. |
| Panel chair, “Industry Connections,” International Conference Classical Hollywood Studies in the 21st Century, Wilfrid Laurier University, Kitchener/Waterloo, Canada, May 13, 2018. |