Event Organizing

Second voluntary field trip for history majors and friends to the Bmore Historic Unconference, hosted by the Baltimore Museum of Industry, September 27, 2024.

Event series “Straight outta Happyland” with Tupoka Ogette and Stephen Lawson, April 2024.

Youth workshop at the Creative Alliance, facilitated by the Center for Arts & Global Healing

Graduate workshop at Johns Hopkins University

Public roundtable at the Eubie Blake National Jazz and Cultural Center

First ever voluntary field trip for history majors and friends to Green Mount Cemetery (tour provided by Baltimore Heritage) and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum (permanent tour followed by an exclusive conversation with award-winning co-founder Dr. Joanne Martin), November 11, 2023.

Fascination of Science. 60 Portraits of Pioneering Researchers,” by Herlinde Koelbl. Photo portrait exhibition co-sponsored by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in the United States, Bloomberg Hall, Johns Hopkins University, February 24 – March 19, 2022.

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Roundtable: “Science, Representation, and Visibility,” opening event for the photo exhibition “Fascination of Science,” 25 February 2022, with Professor Karen Fleming (Biophysics), Women of Whiting, and the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures & Cultures.

Professor Jan-Werner Müller (Princeton): “Democracy against Populism?”, sponsored by GRLLL, Max Kade Center  for Modern German Thought, and the Department for Political Science,  co-organized by European Horizons, April 2, 2020. [cancelled due to COVID-19]

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Ali Çan: “Whose German? Diversity & Race in Germany, 2019,” co-sponsored by the German Embassy, GRLL, the Max Kade Center for Modern German Thought, and European Horizons, 19 November 2019.

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“Baltimore 1968: Memories & Legacies,” with Eddie Conway and Ralph Moore, moderated by Dominique Hazzard, co-funded by the Center for Social Concern and the Billie Holiday Project for the Liberation of Arts, Reginald F. Lewis Museum for African-American History & Culture in Maryland, 14 November 2019.

DAAD DozentInnentreffen, co-organized with Niko Switek (UW Seattle) and Maria Zinfert (Montréal) Portland, OR, 3 October 2019. With a talk by Timothy Brown (Northeastern) and a roundtable with Martine Béland (Montréal) and Karin Bauer (McGill). Click here for program.

GSA Seminar “Environments, Power, and Resources in German Central Europe,” co-organized with Adrian Mitter (Toronto/ Marburg), GSA Conference, Portland, OR, 3-6 October 2019.

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Ein Workshop des Herder-Instituts, Marburg, für das International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, Gießen, 2. Juli 2018.

Lecture: “Historical Network Research: The Case of a Rural Credit Market in the 19th Century” & Workshop: “Data Collection + Visualization of Networks in History + Culture,“15-16 November 2017.

with Dr. Martin Stark (ILS Aachen). A two-part event series co-organized with Prof. Dr. Katharina Stornig (GCSC, Neuere und Neueste Geschichte) und Dr. Elke Bauer (Herder Institute).

Memory, Transitional Justice, and the Power of Images

Masterclass with Dr. Katja Wezel (Pittsburgh), a cooperation between the Herder Institute, Marburg, and the GCSC & GiZO, Gießen, 14 Dezember 2016.

The Knowledge Factor. Refugees in East and Central Europe, 1912-2001. LGSch Annual Convention 2016, Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, 8-9 Dezember 2016.

Lost in a Digital World? Documenting Art Monuments & Photographs in the 21st Century, co-organizer of the workshop with Barbara Fichtl and Ksenia Stanicka-Brzezicka, Herder Institute, a joint workshop at the University of Pittsburgh,15 November 2016.

Historical Cartography, a joint workshop of the Central European University, Budapest, and the Herder Institute, Marburg. In cooperation with Dr. Madalina Veres (Institute for Advanced Studies, Budapest) and Dr. Christian Lotz (Herder Institute), 14-16 March 2016.