Lectures

2026

• September 23, 2026: On Academic Gowns and Managers. Administrative Culture at East German Universities in the 1990s,“The 1990s: Anatomy of a Turning Point,” Research Center for the History of Transformation, University of Leipzig
• June 11, 2026: Winding Down vs. Starting Over? A Comparison of Location Policies in Erfurt and Dresden (1990–1994), “Medicine in Transition. Health Policy in Divided and Reunified Germany from the 1980s to the 2000s,” ZZF Potsdam
• April 24, 2026: Organization of the workshop “Historical Studies and University Restructuring after 1989/90. Perspectives of University History for East German Transformation (and Research),” with my own presentation: University History as a ‘Side Note’ in Contemporary Historical Research? Historical Trends, Methodological Approaches, and Sources, TU Dresden

2025

• October 9, 2025: “Producing (New) Inequalities? Post-Socialist Transformation in Higher Education after 1989/90 as an East-West Gap,” at a conference hosted by the German Historical Institute (GHI) in Washington: The Campus and Beyond: Higher Education and Social Inequalities in Europe and North America, 1850s–2000s, October 9–10, 2025, Washington, D.C.
• September 11, 2025: Between Humboldt and Neoliberalism: East German Universities after 1989/90 and the Fiction of a “Catch-Up Modernization,”@Conference of the German Historical Institute (GHI) in Washington: Universities and the Public Good: Research, Education, and Democracy since 1945, September 10–12, 2025, Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover.

• September 9, 2025: Grassroots Democratic Experiments or Sustainable Development? Activism and Political Initiatives at East German Universities in the Pivotal Year of 1989–90, @Section Conference of the German Society for Educational Research (DGfE): Activism as a Subject of Historical Educational Research, September 8–10, 2025, Landau.

• June 26, 2025: “‘Catching-up Modernization’ or Neoliberal Transformation? The East German Higher Education Landscape in the 1990s as a Laboratory of Social Change,”@Archive for Social History, Social Change since 1990. Social and Cultural History of the Present, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Berlin.

• May 20, 2025: “‘The Economization’ of Technical Universities in the 1990s. The Case of Dresden,” @Research Colloquium of the Department of History at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, May 20, 2025.

• March 20, 2025: “As in the West, so on Earth”? Knowledge Transfer in Higher Education Policy after 1990 as a History of German-German Relations @Conference “Experts in the Society of Transformation,” Ruhr University Bochum, March 20–21, 2025.

2024

• June 5, 2024: Transformation in the East, COSMO Science Forum at the Kulturpalast in Dresden: Power Through Knowledge—Knowledge About Power? East German Universities in the Past and Present
• February 22, 2024: 2nd Workshop on GDR Research in the History of Education, BBF / Library for Research in the History of Education at the DIPF: The TU Dresden in the Restructuring of Higher Education in the East. A Microhistorical Study of Transformation (Conference Report: http://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-144498)

2023

• September 9, 2023: 15th Forum of Young Historians of Education, Humboldt University of Berlin: Special Status in the Transformation? The Renewal of TU Dresden in the Context of the “Higher Education Restructuring in the East” (1989–1993) ( Conference Report: http://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-146414)
• June 27, 2023: Colloquium of the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History (Prof. Dr. Dagmar Ellerbrock), TUD Dresden University of Technology: Improvised Management or Special Status in a Time of Upheaval? TUD Dresden University of Technology in the Transformation Process of the 1980s and 1990s