Speaker, “L.A. to the Rescue! Echoes of 1984 Olympics in the campaign for 2028,” invited by the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and the Black Student-Athlete Association at Johns Hopkins University, April 10, 2025.
Panel presentation, “Rewarding the Maverick: Cold War Logics and Romania’s Special Treatment at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics,” Session: Sporting Histories of East Central Europe II: Re-Assessing Eastern European Narratives of Sport Under State Socialism. ASEEES Annual Convention, Boston, November 21 – 23, 2024.
Co-panelist, “Power Tools and Wax Figures: Learning and Co-Teaching with Baltimore Communities,” session with Dr. Jasmine Blanks Jones, Nate Brown, Dr. Ann-Elizabeth Brodsky, and Dr. Homayra Ziad, Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Baltimore, November 14 – 17, 2024
Film discussant, Black Eagles, dir. by Torsten Körner, in collaboration with the German American
Cultural Center, at The Peale, Baltimore’s Community Museum, May 5, 2024, 1 – 4 pm. RSVP.
Speaker, “Aspirations for Student Learning: Learning from and With Baltimore,” Annual Celebration and Award Ceremony, Student Affairs, Johns Hopkins University, May 2, 2024, 9.30 -11.00 am.
Past
Guest lecture for admitted students (Class ’28), “Two Raised Fists: 1968 and Black Athletes’ Protests,” Office for Admissions, Johns Hopkins University, April 23, 2024.
Speaker, “From Star Athletes to Pariahs to Icons: Tommie Smith, John Carlos, and their Raised Fist Protest,” workshop organized the Student Athlete Advisory Committee and the Black Student Athlete Association, April 3, 2024.
Commentator, “Author Meets Critics: Deserved. Economic Memories after the Fall of the Iron Curtain by Till Hilmar,” Social Science History Association, 2023 Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., November 17, 2023.
Film discussant, Labyrinth of Lies (2014) by Giulio Ricciarelli,organized in partnership with the German American Cultural Center, Baltimore and The Peale, Baltimore’s Community Museum, November 9, 2023.
Film discussant, Rosenstrasse (2003) by Margarethe von Trotta, organized in partnership with the German American Cultural Center, Baltimore and The Peale, Baltimore’s Community Museum, October 26, 2023.
Presentation: “Student Recruitment and Faculty Hiring at a PWI: Johns Hopkins’ Ambiguous Embrace of DEI,” July 1, 2023, VIII. Summer University, organized by the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft: “Der Umgang mit Diversität in der Universität des 21. Jahrhunderts: Globale Imperative und nationale Eigenlogiken,” University of Bonn, June 28- July 1, 2023.
“Crooked Cross. An Oratorio for Hans and Sophie School, Founders of the White
Rose Nazi Resistance Group,” Bunting-Meyerhoff Interfaith Center, April 23, 2023, 3-5.00 pm.
“Community Based Learning,” with Jasmine Blanks-Jones, Anne-Elisabeth Brodsky, Alyssa Burkholder, Victoria Harms and Matthew Pavesich, Lunch & Learn Speaker Series, organized by the Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation, facilitated by the Center for Social Concern, 19 April 2023, 12-1.30 pm.
“Teaching and Learning in the Age of Chatbots and Artificial Intelligence,” with Mike Todasco, Austin Heath, Victoria Harms, Opal Sitzman and Timothy Huang, Lunch & Learn Speaker Series, Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation, April 4, 2023, 3-4.30 pm.
“Why Baltimore? A moderated discussion about Baltimore, Hopkins, and why their relationship is important,” organized by the JHU Student-Athlete Committee and the Black Student-Athlete Association, November 15, 2022.
“A Never-Ending Crisis? German, European, and Transatlantic Perspectives on the State of Liberal Democracy,” panel participant, German Studies Association, Annual Convention, Houston, Texas, 17 September 2022.
“New Challenges to German Politics and Policy,” seminar convened by Barbara Donovan, Eric Langenbacher, and Sven Siefken, German Studies Association, Annual Convention, Houston, Texas, 17 September 2022.
“Not Our Problem: German Perceptions of Race, Racism, and the 1968 Holy Week Uprising,” paper presentation in “Transatlantic (Mis-)Perceptions: German and American Narratives on Race and Racism in the 20th Century,” Southern Historical Association, Annual Convention, Baltimore, 13 November 2022.
“When Politics Trumped Sports: West Germany & the Boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow,” paper presentation, 13th international Conference Sports & Society, Aarhus, Denmark, 30 June – 2 July 2022,
“Echoes from a Dissident Past: Post-Democracy, A United Opposition & the 2022 Elections in Hungary,” presentation at “Die Welt im Wandel: Politische und soziale Zwischenräume als Katalysatoren für den sozialen Wandel“ [A Changing World: Political and Social Margins as Catalysts for Social Change,” co-organized by Ulrike Capdepón and Marión Röwekamp, University of Guadalajara, Mexico, 2-3 June 2022 .
“Election briefing: Hungary 2022,” talk, invited by Political Science Steering Committee, Johns Hopkins University, 29 March 2022.
“Sports Diplomacy of China through the Winter Olympics 2022,” Panel participant with Anton Karppanen, Rui Zhong, Dechun Zhang,” V-Bryge, Annual Conference 2022, co-organized by Vanguard Think Tank & US-China Better Relations Coalition, 23 March 2022.
“The American Games: LA84, Reagan , and the End of the Cold War,” paper presentation, Twelfth International Conference Sport & Society, Theme: Sport and Society in Crisis, University of Grenada, 23-25 June 2021.
“Gender and the Academy in Crisis,” roundtable participant, organized by Christina Thomas & Vinczenza Mazzeo, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University, 19 April 2021.
“B’more. Stories of Race and Intersectionality — From Me to We,” roundtable participant, invited by Dr. Shawntay Stocks, Associate Director of the Center for Social Concern, Johns Hopkins University, 13 January 2021.
“Brexit & US Troop Withdrawal. A Historical Perspective,” talk, invited by the International Studies Leadership Council, Johns Hopkins University, 2 July 2020.
“The Fall of the Berlin Wall: A (Family) History,” talk, invited by Dr. Brett Berliner, Morgan State University, Baltimore, 5 November 2019.
“Der andere Weg nach Westen: Ungarns Wirtschaft im Spiegel der HVG, 1979-1989,” invited by Sebastian Paul, Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung, TU Dresden, 10 January 2019.
GSA Annual Convention, Participant in GSA seminar: “German Studies Go Global,” Pittsburgh, 27-30 September 2018.
“Research and Job Opportunities in Germany,” workshop presenter, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh, 26 September 2018.
“Dreams of a Social Market Economy: The HVG and Hungary’s Second Age of Reform, 1979-1989,” paper presentation, BASEES Annual Convention, University of Uppsala, 13 September 2018.
Keynote Lecture, “The Paradoxes of Hindsight: 1968 and Tony Judt’s Postwar” in Unsettled 1968: Origins – Myth – Impact. An international transdisciplinary workshop for graduate students at the University of Tübingen, organized by Aleksandra Konarzewska, Miłosz Wiatrowski, Anna Nakai, and Michał Przeperski, 14-16 June 2018.
“The Socio-Economic Transformation of Eastern Europe: Hungary’s Second Age of Reforms, 1979-1989,” comment by Peter Haslinger, GCSC Post-doc Lecture Series, invited by Dr. Paul Vickers, GCSC JLU Gießen, 4 July 2017.
“De/Kolonialisierung oder Rekolonialisierung der Wissenschaft(en): Osteuropa studieren im 21. Jahrhundert,” Podiumsdiskussion mit Peter Haslinger, Bożena Chołuj, Anna Veronika Wendland, and Victoria Harms, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), 2 February 2017.
“Just getting started: Early Career Scholars in the Digital Age,” DAAD Netzwerktreffen, GiZO, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, 30 November 2016.
“All Options on the Table: Talking about Reforming Hungary in the 1980s,” paper presentation and panel organizer: “Before the Washington Consensus: The 1980s as the Age of Exchange between East and West.”ASEES Conference, Washington D.C., 19 November 2016.
“Willkommenskultur. Vergangenheit und Zukunft einer globalpolitischen Idee,” hosted by Portal Ideengeschichte, invited by Dr. Jörg Probst, Philipps University, Marburg, 14 September 2016.
Workshop, “Refugees and Citizens. New Nation States as Places of Asylum, 1914-1941.” Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Bruno-Kreisky-Forum, Vienna, 16-17 June 2016.
Public Reading (in German), “Janos turns 85 — Congratulations!” with Horst von Chmielewski, organized by Dr. Jan Lipinsky & Antje Coburger, Library, Herder Institute, 14 June 2016.
International Spring Academy: “The Authenticity of Collections,” organized by Dr. Eszter Gantner, Herder Institute, Marburg, 7 – 11 March 2016.
“Archives in Exile: Images of Home Abroad,” workshop participant and assistant, funded by the Leibniz “Historical Authenticity” scheme, co-organized by the Herder Institute, Marburg, and the Institute for Contemporary History, Munich, 23 – 24 February 2016.
Concluding Remarks, Workshop: “Archives in Exile: Making and Remaking Images of Home Abroad,” Herder Institute, Marburg, 24 February 2016.
“Road to Redemption: Why West Germans Care(d) about Hungary,” public talk, Open Society Archive, Budapest, 17 February 2016.
Workshop, by invitation, “Putins Theorie. Nationale Erweckung als Ideologie der Gegenwart,” University of Marburg, organized by Martin Maier and Jörg Probst, 10 December 2015.
Conference presentation, “Holocaust Survival And The Success of Hungary’s Opposition in the West,” Panel organized by Dr. Árpád von Klimó (CUA), ASEEES Annual Convention 2015, Philadelphia. Discussant, Panel: The Shadows of the Communist Past: Case Studies in Memory and Politics, organized by Agata Fijalkowski, ASEEES Annual Convention 2015, Philadelphia, 19 November 2015.
Public Talk, “In Their Own Image: Eastern Europe in the New York Review of Books, 1963-2003,” courtesy of Dr. Emily R. Gioielli and Russian & Post-Soviet Studies, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 17 November 2015.
Chair, Panel: “Between Academia and Popular Knowledge”, Conference Program, Relocating German-Polish Scientific Relations, Herder Institute, Leibniz Association & the Polish Academy of Sciences, 28-30 October 2015.
Colloquium Presentation, “Eine Stadt mit Weitsicht? Osteuropa im Spiegel der New York Review of Books,” Leibniz Graduate School, Herder Institute, Marburg, Germany, 22 October 2015.
Guest Lecture, “Sports & the Cold War,” in HIST 1653 “U.S. Cold War Culture,” Dr. Scott Smith, University of Pittsburgh, 8 October 2015.
Conference Presentation, “The Re-education of a Revolutionary. Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Cuba, and the 1960s Protest Movement,” invited by Yevan Terrien, Beyond Borders. The Practice of Atlantic, Transnational, and World History, University of Pittsburgh, 10-11 April 2015.
Pitt-CMU workshop, “Coming home: The International Network goes East,” organized by the graduate student organizations of the History Departments at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, 4 April 2014.
Workshop, by invitation, “Central Europe on the Hudson: Why Hungarian dissidents matters to New York Intellectuals,” Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Leipzig, organized by Dr. Beata Hock, “Doing Culture under Socialism.” [Flyer: Doing Culture under Socialism], 20 June 2013.
Two-part guest lecture, “Die Zweite Öffentlichkeit,” (by invitation) ERSTE Bank Stiftung, University of Vienna, Lecturer: Katalin Cseh. [Patterns] [more], 3 June 2013.
“Where the puppet master picked up the threads:How George Soros made it to Budapest via Prague & Dubrovnik.” Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh. [Puppetmaster_24Oct2012], 24 October, 2012.
“Changing times, changing ideologies. How the transition made old and new elites change their minds in Hungary,” Political Science Department, by invitation from by Prof. Tihomir Cipek and Stevo Ðurasković, University of Zagreb, 12 May 2012.
“Cui bono? Western support for Hungarian intellectuals, 1977-1998.” History Department, Central European University. Scholarly Social Meeting (public lecture, by invitation from Prof. Nadia al Bagdadi). [ Harms poster], 29 March, 2012.
“No matter if you’re East or West: a transnational network of Central Europeans in the 1980s,” 18th International Conference of the Council of European Studies, Barcelona/ Spain, 20-22 June, 2011.
“The return of interwar politics: Hungary’s backlash of the 1990s”, 8th Annual GOSECA Conference, “Decades of Asynchrony”, University of Pittsburgh/ USA, 25-26 February, 2011.
“Living Central Europe: Intellectuals from West Germany and Hungary” at the 4th Annual Graduate Conference “Biography and Identity: Dilemmas and Opportunities” in European History (GRACEH), CentralEuropean University, Budapest/ Hungary, 6-9 May 2010.
“Monument discourse and the Hungarian case: Competing political interpretation of 1956 through Budapest monuments,” International Postgraduate Conference ‘Upheavals of Memory. Defining, Imagining, Creating, Contesting,’ the UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland, Dublin, 27 April, 2007.
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