Selected Refereed Conference Presentations (since 2010)
June 2023
“‘The Perfidious Propaganda Trick:’ Co-optation of revolutionary language and the Far Right in Eastern Germany” Narrative Matters, Tampere, Finland.
June 2023
‘“Be loyal to the story”: Sorrow, narrative and truth-telling’ Roundtable discussion of The Use and Abuse of Stories: new Directions in Narrative Hermeneutics, Narrative Matters, Tampere, Finland.
September 2022
“Haunting memories of the revolution: Hope and despair in East German Lives” 6th NEST International Conference: The Life of the Arts and the Art of Life Celebrating the Work and Thought of Bhekizizwe Peterson.
July 2022
“Rupture, Restriction and Resistance: Political Activism during the Covid-19 Pandemic” Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Athens, Greece.
June 2022
“Reimagining Aging” XII International Association for Biography and Autobiography (IABA) Turku, Finland.
May 2022
“’I am a child of my time’: The (in)conceivability of a country that is no longer” Thomas Coram Research Unit Seminar Series, University College London.
March 2022
“The Long Conversation” Project Narrative, The Ohio State University.
October 2021
“Telling political stories: Cultural memory and identity.” University of Tallinn. Centre of Excellence in Intercultural Studies. Tallinn, Estonia.
July 2019
“Enduring Ideals: Transforming engaged citizenship and activism across the life span” Part of panel “Everyday sites of contested citizenship” International Society for Political Psychology, Lisbon, Portugal.
July 2018
“Where’s the Rub? Counter-narratives and Positionality” Narrative Matters, University of Twente.
July 2018
“Compassionate Imagination: Constructing the Other” Narrative Matters, University of Twente.
July 2017
“Conflictual Narratives of National Belonging” International Society for Political Psychology, University of Edinburgh.
December 2016
“‘I agreed with Stalin’: The challenge of taking data seriously” Panel on Scholarship and activism: Civic Engagement and Its Discontents; Association of Moral Education, Harvard University.
2016
“The Political Imagination: Narratives of the ‘not-yet’ and the ‘might have been’ “Part of panel ‘Imagining Social Change: Individual and Collective Visions of Political Possibility’ International Society for Political Psychology, Warsaw, Poland.
2015
“Memories of the opening of the Berlin Wall: Commemoration, Context and Meaning” Part of panel on ‘Narratives of (In)security and the Politics of Engagement’ International Society for Political Psychology, San Diego, California.
July 2013
Political Forgiveness and the Statute of Limitations 36th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Herzyleya, Israel.
May 2012
“Political Lives Over Time” Panel on Reflections on a Political Life. One of five panels on Political Narratives. Narrative Matters. American University of Paris. Paris, France.
July 2011
“Beyond narrative: The shape of traumatic testimony” Conference on The Life Story of Life Stories, Kingston University.
July 2011
‘The wall inside the heart’ twenty years on: Narrating East German identity. Part of panel Narratives of Security, Religion and Nation. 34th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Istanbul, Turkey.
2010
“The aging of activists and social movements” part of panel on “Narratives and Social Movements” International Society of Political Psychology Annual Conference, San Francisco, California.