Invited panelist, What We Brought with Us exhibition opening, Objects of Resilience: Exploring the Symbolic Weight of Refugee Things, Goethe-Institut New York, 18 October 2023
Invited panelist, Humanities at Risk, Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, University of Cincinnati, 17 October 2023
Invited participant, Conmociones: Critical Distance and Construction of the Common, CHCI Annual Meeting, Santiago, Chile, 20–24 June 2023
“Lines of Sight: Excursions in Seeing, Feeling, and Knowing”, Keynote Address, Experimental Humanities, ICI Berlin 14 November 2019
“The Future of Reenactment Studies”, Historical Reenactment Seminar, Madrid, 1–3 November 2018
“The Difficulties of Witnessing: Armin T. Wegner’s Shocking Magic Lantern Show”, Keynote Address, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, 4 September 2018
“Songs of Flight,” Public Lecture, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, 22 August 2017
“Earwitness: Sonic Reenactments of the Holocaust,” Keynote Address, Performing Commemoration: Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma, University of North Carolina, Raleigh, 31 March–2 April 2017
“Reenacting Genocide,” Keynote Address, Stepping Back in Time: Living History and Other Performative Approaches to History in Central and South-Eastern Europe, German Historical Institute, Warsaw and Irme Kertész Kolleg, Jena, 23–24 February 2017
“The Right of Arrival,” Invited talk, The Colonial Re-Invention of Anglo-European Literary Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century, Freie Universität Berlin, 9–10 June 2016
“Reenacting Genocide,” Shannon Lecture and Workshop, Carlton Centre for Public History, Department of History, Carlton University, Ottawa, Canada, 12–13 November 2015
“Reenacting Genocide,” Invited lecture, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, 8 October 2015
“Can the Transpacific Be Reenacted?”, Transpacific Workshop, Universität Potsdam, 17 July 2015
“Reenacting the Stone Age: Journeying Back in Time through the Uckermark and Vorpommern,” Measuring the World: Formation, Transformation and Transmission of the ‘National’ and the ‘Universal’ from the Eighteenth Century to the Present, Wisconsin Workshop, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 25–27 September 2014
“Gooseflesh: Somatosensation in the Making of Historical Experience,” The Varieties of Historical Experience, Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, University of Chicago, 4–5 April 2014
“The Banality of Reenactment: Staging Genocide in Arendt, Oppenheimer and Hotel Modern,” Historical Reenactments: Making the Past Present, British Studies Center, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 11 March 2014
“Mixed Emotion in Early Modern Ethnomusicological Writing,” Keynote Address, Arts and Rhetorics of Emotion in Early Modern Europe, A Collaboratory hosted by the UQ Node, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Europe 1100-1800, Brisbane, Australia, 25–27 November 2013
“Global Musical Encounters,” SIAS Summer Institute, Cultural Encounters, Berlin, 7 August 2013
“Listening to Bushmen,” Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 19 February 2013
“Historical Reenactment,” Universität Potsdam, 16 January 2013
“Listening to Bushmen,” Wissenschaftlicher Kontrapunkt/Intellectual Counterpoint: Symposium in Honor of Bruno Nettl, Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv, Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, 16 December 2012
“Berlin Around 100 Years Later,” DAAD lecture, Cologne, 19 October 2012
“Indigenous Music and Eighteenth-Century Colonial Practice in Southern Africa,” The Journey of Music(s) Symposium, 15. Internationaler Kongress der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, Universität Göttingen, 7 September 2012
“Europeans Listening to African Music in the Eighteenth Century,” The Art of Listening: Trends und Perspektiven einer Geschichte des Musikhörens, Radialsystem V/Universität Potsdam, 13 July 2012
“Music and the Grand Tour,” Keynote Address, Grand Tour Symposium, Music Department, University of Virginia, 14 October 2011
“Other Cultures, Other Times: Traveling into the Musical Past,” On Noise Symposium, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, 24 June 2011
“Reenacting the Colonial Past,” Public Lecture, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, Australia, 23 June 2011
“Songs from the Edge of the World,” Ron Alexander Lecture, Music Department, Stanford University, 24 January 2011
“Songs from the Edge of the World,” Keynote Address, Thinking the Human in the Age of Enlightenment, Australian National University, 7–9 July 2010
“Scientific Inquiry and the Emotional Observer,” Affective Knowledge Workshop, Vanderbilt University, 30 April 2010
“How Feeling Becomes Fact: Science and Emotion in Darwin Docudramas,” History, Emotions, and Visual Media Conference, Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, 21–24 April 2010
“Other Cultures, Other Times: Traveling with James Bruce and Charles Burney into the Musical Past,” Keynote Address, Charles Burney, Musical Travel, and the Idea of Music History, Cornell University, 12–14 March 2010
Oscar Kenshur Prize Speech, Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University, 21 September 2009
“The Spatial Poetics of Postcolonial Reenactment,” Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, 24 July 2009
“Reenacting the German Past,” Institute for the Humanities Brown Bag, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 22 October 2008
“Mein Berlin,” Max Kade House, University of Michigan, 11 September 2008
“Orpheus in the Americas,” Harmony of Two Worlds?Song, Image and Space in the Early Modern Atlantic, School of Music, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 14–15 March 2008
“Begegnungen in der Südsee des 18. Jahrhunderts und die Bildung eines deutschen musikalischen Kanons,” Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar, Humboldt-Universität, 13 November 2007
“Zeitreise als Form von Vergangenheitsbewältigung,” Philosophische Fakultät, Technische Universität, Chemnitz, 12 July 2007
“Orpheusdiskurse im Zeitalter der Aufklärung,” Kanonbildung im Zeitalter der Globalisierung: Protagonisten und Prozesse der Herstellung kultureller Identität, Internationale Tagung am Forschungszentrum Europäische Aufklärung in Kooperation mit der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2 March 2007
“The Limits of Reenactment for Vergangenheitsbewältigung,” Reenactment History and Affective Knowing, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University, 20 March 2007
“Music and the Eighteenth-Century Imperial Imaginary,” Eighteenth-Century Studies Group, University of Michigan, 4 December 2006
“Alterity in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte,” Guest lecture, Race in Music Seminar, University of Michigan, 12 October 2006
“Representing Musical Encounters in the Eighteenth Century,” The Canadian Centre for German and European Studies, Université de Montréal, 20 September 2006
“Enlightenment Orpheus,” Manuscript Workshop/German Studies Colloquium, University of Michigan, 14 April 2006
“Re-enacting Orpheus: Music and Missionization in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Polynesia,” Settlers, Creoles, and the Re-enactment of History Conference, Vanderbilt University, 11 November 2005
“Musical Agency in the Eighteenth-Century Pacific and German Constructions of Otherness,” EthNoise! Music Department, University of Chicago, 6 October 2005
“Curative Music,” Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, 19 April 2005
“The Sharp End of German Cosmopolitanism,” Germany Without Borders, Joint Initiative in German and European Studies, University of Toronto, 17 December 2004
“Wonder and Curiosity,” Museum Studies Proseminar, University of Michigan, 2004
“Early Modern German and Austrian Collecting,” Museum Studies Proseminar, University of Michigan, 2003
“The Earwitness and the Eighteenth-Century Travelogue,” The Science and Art of Travel Writing, 1750–1850, Internationales Forschungszentrum für Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna, 13 June 2002
