Lectures

Upcoming:

  • Producing (New) Inequalities? Post-Socialist Transformation in Higher Education after 1989/90 as an East-West-Gap, @Conference of the German Historical Institute Washington: The Campus and Beyond: Higher Education and Social Inequalities in Europe and North America, 1850s-2000s, October 9-10, 2025, Washington D.C.

Previously:

  • 11.09.2025: Between Humboldt and Neoliberalism: East German Universities after 1989/90 and the Fiction of a "Catch-Up Modernization", @Workshop of the German Historical Institute Washington: Universities and the Public Good: Research, Education, and Democracy since 1945, 10-12 September 2025, Schloss Herrenhausen Hannover.

  • 09.09.2025: Grassroots democratic experiments or sustainable development? Aktivismus und politische Initiativen an den Ost-Hochschulen im Gelenkjahr 1989/90, @Sektionstagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (DGfE): Aktivismus als Gegenstand der Historischen Bildungsforschung, September 8-10, 2025, Landau.

  • 26.06.2025: "'Catch-up modernization' or neoliberal transformation? The East German higher education landscape in the 1990s as a laboratory of social change", @Archiv für Sozialgeschichte, Gesellschaftlicher Wandel seit 1990. Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte der Gegenwart, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Berlin.

  • 20.05.2025: "The 'economization' of technical universities in the 1990s. Das Beispiel Dresden", @Forschungskolloquium des Departments für Geschichte am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Karlsruhe, May 20, 2025.

  • 20.03.2025: "As in the West, so on Earth"? University policy knowledge transfer after 1990 as a history of German-German relations @Conference "Experts in the Transformation Society", Ruhr University Bochum, March 20-21, 2025.
  • 05.06.2024: Transformation East, COSMO Science Forum at the Kulturpalast Dresden: Power through Knowledge - Knowledge about Power? East German universities in the past and present
  • 22.02.2024: 2nd Workshop on GDR Educational History Research, BBF / Library for Educational History Research of the DIPF: Die TU Dresden im Hochschulumbau Ost. A micro-historical transformation study (conference report: http://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-144498)
  • 09.09.2023: 15th Forum of Young Educational Historians, Humboldt University Berlin: Special status in transformation? The renewal of TU Dresden in the context of the 'Hochschulumbau Ost' (1989-1993) (conference report: http: //www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-146414)
  • 27.06.2023: Colloquium of the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History (Prof. Dr. Dagmar Ellerbrock), TUD Dresden University of Technology: Improvised liquidation or special status in transition? TU Dresden in the transformation process of the 1980/90s

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