May 2023

“Passion and political narratives: The work of Ken Plummer” Memorial Conference in honour of Ken Plummer, University of Essex.

May 2023

“Understanding ‘the other’: Situated meaning-making and narrative methodology”. Global Experiences of Gender in an Age of Care Crises and Transformation, University of Oxford.

January 2023

“The Promise and Limits of Political Forgiveness” Conflict, Peace, and Development Studies, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.

March 2021

“’I am not proud to be German’: East German identity and the legacy of Fascism”  Narrating Violence: Making Race, Making Difference” University of Turku and the American University of Paris.

June 2020

“Political activism in the times of COVID-19” Thomas Coram Research Unit, University College London.

February 2020

“Narrative Research and Arts Management” University of the Arts, Sibelius Academy.

January 2020

“Political Narratives and Stories of Political Change” Eurostories, University of Helsinki.

January 2020

“Popular representations of East Germany: Whose History is It?” Media Communications, University of Helsinki.

December 2019

“Transitional Justice Mechanisms and the Challenge of Post-conflict dialogue: The Case of East Germany” University of Birmingham.

October 2019

“Narrative and Truth-telling in a World of Alternative Facts: The Moral Challenge for Education” Journal of Moral Education Trust Meeting on the Problematics of Moral Education: The Next Two Decades, Rome.

October 2019

“Conflictual Narratives of National Belonging” SELMA (Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory) Politics of Narrative and Memory Symposium.

September 2019

“Using Personal Narratives to Study Social Change” Narrare (Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies) Interdisciplinary Autumn Seminar University of Tampere.

August 2019

“Words of suffering: Research, understanding and ventriloquism” Hermeneutics of Suffering Workshop, Part II of Interpreting Violence: Narrative, Ethics and Hermeneutics Project, University of Turku.

May 2019

“Writing from the Heart: Cathy Riessman’s Inspiring Scholarship” Amor Narratio: Celebrating Catherine Kohler Riessman’s Narrative Scholarship, University of Greenwich.

February 2019

“The Wall Inside the Heart: Re-narrating East German Identity” Part of the Network Series Narrative and Memory: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics, Turku.

September 2019

“Complexities of Political Forgiveness”. Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.

September 2018

“Storytelling and Social Change” Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

March 2018

“Constructing Stories of Political Forgiveness” Fiction and Facts in Narratives of Political Conflict” Part of the Network Series Narrative and Memory: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics , University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.

October 2017

"The Moral Psychology of Forgiveness in Contexts of Political Rupture' Civic and Moral Education Initiative, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

October 2017

“A Tale of Moral Courage?” What is Moral Courage? An Interactive, Cross-disciplinary Exploration, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University.

February 2017

“On time: Narrative, apology and forgiveness" in Seminar Series “Narrative in Question” Interdisciplinary Centre for Narrative Studies, University of York.

March 2017

“Representing the Pain of Others: Tensions of Ethical Scholarship” Transcultural Memorial Forms: Contemporary Remembrance of War, Displacement and Political Rupture, Part of the Network Series Narrative and Memory: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics, Tallinn University, Estonia.

June 2016

“Generational Effects on East German Identity” part of panel Generation and Lifecourse Inequalities: Childhood, Older age, Intergenerational Relations,” Centre for Research on Families and Relationships International Conference, Edinburgh.

June 2016

“Magic and Narration: Confronting the Unbelievable and the Unknown” Passionate Politics: Concepts of Passions and Politics, UCL European Institute, London.

June 2016

“Narrating the Political: Temporality, Imagination and Possibility” University of Newcastle, Seminar presented to research group: Imagining Pasts and Futures, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

February 2016

“Everyday Life in East Germany: The Struggle to Remember” Between the individual and the social: Panel on Cultural Memory, Centre for Narrative Research.

July 2015

“Narrative Research and the Problem of Ethics” Narrative, International Politics and Psychology: Methods and Illustrations of Interviewing, Analysis and Application, University of California at Irvine.

May 2015

“A UK referendum on Europe: could the public decide?' The Open University in London.

March 2015

“Imagining Aging”, NOVELLA Workshop on Analysing Everyday Narratives, Institute of Education.

December 2014

“Exploring Political Narratives” Personal Narratives and Social Change: Tracing the Connections, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

November 2014

“’How can a bird that is born for joy sit in a cage and sing?’: The Role of Stories and Imagination in Teaching" University of Brighton, Education Research Centre.

May 2014

“Taking Imagination Seriously in Social Science Research" School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham.

April 2014

“Narrating the Self: Temporality, Imagination and Possibility” Oral History Society, Senate House, University of London

June 2013

« En revenant sur cette personne que j’étais, et cette personne que j’aurais pu être » [Looking back on the self I was, and the self I might have been] Les Journées du CEAQ – Socialité Postmoderne XIV.  L’ Université Paris Descartes –Sorbonne.

May 2013

“Using Narratives to Study Social Change” Birbeck Institute for Social Research, University of London.

April 2013

“Compassion and the Narrative Imagination: Political Agency and the Construction of the Other” Centre d’Etdue sur L’Actuel et le Quotidien (CEAQ), University Rene Descartes – Sorbonne.

February 2012

“Travelling between worlds: Stories in the classroom” Civic and Moral Education Initiative Colloquium Series, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

February 2012

“Revisiting Political Moments: Writing about Obama’s 2008 Inauguration” Narrative Study Group, Cambridge, MA.

September 2011

“Political Narratives: Stories and Social Change” The Dutch Oral History Society of the Huizinga Institute, University of Amsterdam.

November 2010

“Making sense of Life History Data: The shifting ground of interpretation” Timescapes project, University of Leeds.

October 2010

“Journeys into ‘the heart of interpretation’: Narrative, culture and meaning” World Oral Literature Project, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

October 2010

“Ethical considerations in Narrative Research” Research Ethics Seminar, University of East London.

July 2010

“The aging of activists and social movements”, Part of panel Remembering Political Struggles: Narratives of Culture and Community. 33rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, San Francisco, CA.

May 2010

“Broken Narratives” Department of Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences.

May 2010

“Working with Narrative Data: Looking inside the closet” Advanced seminar for PhD students, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences.

May 2010

“Political Narratives: What are they and how can they help us think about the political world”? Talk given to MPhil Programme in Politics, Democracy and Education, School of Education, Cambridge University.