Keynotes
Historical Analyses of the Transformations of Media and Communications, Summer School: Political Economies of the Media. Theories and Methods, Institute for Development and International Relations, Zagreb, and Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, SL (2025).
Ostdeutsche Perspektiven: Medienmacht, Frauenstimmen und demokratische Teilhabe [East German perspectives: Media power, women's voices and democratic participation], Annual Conference of the German Association of Female Journalists (Journalistinnenbund), Leipzig, DE (2025).
Über Chancen und Probleme Kritischer Kommunikationswissenschaft – Eine Transatlantische Perspektive [On the Opportunities and Problems of Critical Communication Research – A Transatlantic Perspective], Founding Conference of the Network for Critical Communications Research, Munich, DE (2017).
Seminars & Workshops
Populäre Medien in der ‘Wende’ [Popular Media of the Post-Socialist Transition]. Expert conference at Erfurt University, Erfurt, DE (2026).
Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy, Tech Juggernauts: AI, Freedom of Expression, and Shifting Geopolitical Alliances, Vienna, A (2026).
NATO: A Communications History, Workshop: Telecommunications and Infrastructural Vulnerability, Södertörn University, SE (2025).
NATO communication infrastructures: A brief history on the militarization of global communications, Workshop: Colonialism and Infrastructure: Rethinking our Communicative Past, Loughborough University London, UK (2025)
Media Environment Capture: Ein theoretischer Beitrag zum Einfluss von Big Tech- Unternehmen auf Nachrichtenmedien [Media Environment Capture: A theoretical Contribution on the Influence of von Big Tech on News Media], Lecture Series: Critical Theories of Digital Capitalism, Institute for Media Studies, University of Paderborn, DE (2023)
Media transformation and the challenge of property, European Journal of Communication Symposium, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, A (2023).
30 Jahre Medienwende: Wie medienpolitische Lobbyarbeit westdeutscher Verlage die Transformation der DDR-Presselandschaft beeinflusste [30 Years Media Transition: How Media Policy Lobbying by West German Publishers Influenced the Transformation of the GDR Press], Workshop (online), Transformation from below. New Perspectives on German Unity, Leipzig Institute for Transformation Research, Leipzig, DE (2021).
Innersystemische und internationale Hintergründe der Mauerfalls eine Bilanz aus 30 Jahren Forschung [Internal and International Reasons of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Reviewing 30 Years of Research], Hans-Seidel-Foundation, Expert Seminar, Banz Monastery, DE (2019).
Wie frei sind die Medien? Zur Transformation der ostdeutschen Presse nach 1989 [How Free are Media? On the Transformation of the East German Press after 1989], Colloquium, Bielefeld University, Institute for Contemporary History, Bielefeld, DE (2018).
On the History and Progress of U.S. Transnational Communication Networks, Work- shop New(s) Media? Political Economy, History, and Technology of News Making in Germany, Turkey, and Norway, University of Tromsø, NOR (2018).
The Political Economy of the Post-Socialist Press: The case of East Germany, Work- shop New(s) Media? Political Economy, History, and Technology of News Making in Germany, Turkey, and Norway, University of Tromsø, NOR (2018).
On the Significance of Media in German History – An International Perspective, Colloquium, Ruhr-University Bochum, Department of History, Bochum, DE (2017).
Zukunft der Fachgeschichte [The Future of the History of the Field], Expert Seminar, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, DE (2016).
Conference Talks
International Media & Communications
Critical News Deserts' Cartography. A Multi-Level Framework for Analysing Journalism Maps in Europe. International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Galway, IE (2026).
Panel: Militarised communications technologies: Empire and infrastructure from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Conference, University of Luxembourg, LUX (2025).
On the Militarization of Communications: A Historical Perspective, European Sociological Association’s Research Network 18 – Sociology of Communications and Media Research, University of Ljubljana, SLO (2025).
NATO Communications: A Brief History, International Communication Association Conference (ICA), Denver, USA (2025).
NATO: A Brief Communications History, Union for Democratic Communication Conference (UDC), Tacoma, USA (2025).
Media Environment Capture: A Theoretical Contribution on the Influence of Big Tech on News, Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA), Manchester, UK (2024).
Transformationen des Lokaljournalismus in Ostdeutschland. Eine historische Perspektive [Transformations of Local Journalismus in East Germany. A Historical Perspective]. Conference: Transformations of Local Journalism. Institute for Newspaper Research, Dortmund, DE (2024).
Thinking beyond traditional political economic paradigms: Making a case for media environment capture, International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Lyon, FR (2023).
Does Media Ownership Matter for Journalistic Content? A Meta-Analysis of Empirical Studies in German and English Language Journals 2000-2020, Preconference: Media – History – Social Inequalities, International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Lyon, FR (2023).
On the Continuities of Discourse: The Myth of ‚New‘ Media and the Making of Democracy, European Communication Research Association (ECREA) – History, Lisbon, PT (2013).
Crisis and the Information Economy, European Institute for Communication and Culture (Euricom) Kolloquium, Piran, SI (2014).
Critiquing US Hegemony in International Communications: The Cold War History of Critical Scholarship in US Communication Research, ICTs and Work: the United States at the Origin of the Dissemination of Digital Capitalism, Université Paris-Sorbonne, FR (2013).
Post-Socialist Media & Media History
Panel: Media Endings – the Displacement of Systems, Infrastructures and Practices, NordMedia Conference, University of Southern, DEN (2025).
The Impacts of Post-Socialist Media Transformations on Journalists and their Careers in Germany, with Stine Eckert, Union for Democratic Communication Conference (UDC), Tacoma, USA (2025).
On the Impact of Corporate Interests on Media Policies: A Historical Case Study Analysis, International Conference on Historical-Materialist Policy Analysis (HMPA), Vienna, A (2024)
How Governments Privatize: Germany’s case of the Treuhand and the Post-Socialist Press, European Communication Conference (ECREA), Ljubljana, SL (2024).
The Political Economy of the Post-Socialist Eastern European Press. A Cross-Country Analysis, Union for Democratic Communications Conference, Philadelphia, USA (2023).
Wie medienpolitische Lobbyarbeit westdeutscher Verlage die Transformation der DDR-Presselandschaft 1989/1990 beeinflusste [How Media Policy Lobbying by West German Publishers Influenced the Transformation of the GDR Press 1989/ 1990], Annual Conference of the Network for Critical Communications Research, Leipzig, DE (2019).
How Free are Free Media? On the Post-Socialist Transition of the Press in East Germany, IAMHIST Conference „Power and Media“, Northumbria University, UK (2019).
How Governments Privatize, International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Madrid, ESP (2019).
30 Years after: The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Transition of the East German Press, International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Madrid, ESP (2019).
Eine Kritik der Ideologie der „Freien Presse“ zur Wendezeit [A Critique of the “Free Press”-Ideology during the Post-Socialist Transition], Annual Conference of the Network for Critical Communications Research, Munich, DE (2018).
The Political Economy of Free Media, International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Eugene, OR, USA (2018).
The “Big Four” Publishing Houses and the Transition of the Press in Post-Socialist Germany, International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Cartagena, COL (2017).
The Struggle over Press Distribution as a Market Strategy in early Post-Socialist Germany, International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Cartagena, COL (2017).
The Transitioning Press in Post-Socialist Germany, New Directions in Media Research (NDiMR), Department of Media and Communication, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK (2016).
A Story of Transition and Failure? The State and the East German Media Reform 1989-1991, International Communication Association Conference (ICA), San Juan, Puerto Rico (2015).
Critical Theory & History of the Field
Freiheit zu Schweigen? Kommunikationswissenschaft in Zeiten von Krieg, Konflikten und Polarisierung [Freedom to Remain Silent? Communication Research in Times of War, Conflict and Polarization], Panel, German Communication Association (DGPuK), Berlin, DE (2025).
Media Research in Whose Interest? Assessing Big Tech Funding of Academic Research in North America and Europe. Network for Critical Communications Research, Paderborn, DE (2024).
Working together and challenging the field: The network for critical communications research (Germany) and its concept of critique, International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Lyon, FR (2023).
On the Concept of Critique of the Network for Critical Communication Research (Germany), International Communication Association Conference (ICA), Paris, FR (2022).
Transatlantischer Vergleich zur Entwicklung der Politischen Ökonomie im Fach der KW [A Transatlantic Comparison on the Development of Political Economy in Communication Research], Founding Conference of the Network for Critical Communications Research, Munich, DE (2017).
Radical Thought in US Communication Research, International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Dublin, IE (2013).
What happened to Critical Theory in German Communication Research?, User - Public - Audience: An Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, USA (2012).
Rediscovering C. Wright Mills, Eighth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICIQ), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (2012).
Consumerism & its History
Comparing the “Good Life” – Consumption and Female Citizenship in the Post-War German German Context, International Communication Association Conference (ICA), Seattle, USA (2014).
“And once you have acquired all of it …”: Advertising and Consumer Citizenship in Post-War Germany, Union for Democratic Communications/Project Censored Joint Conference, San Francisco, USA (2013).
The Female Consumer and the State. Womanhood in the German-German Cold War Context, Panel: Communication, Consumer Culture, and Cold War Politics, International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Dublin, IE (2013).
Consumerism and Market Forces: Pop Culture in Times of Economic Crisis, ‚Theorising the Popular‘ International Conference, Hope University, Liverpool, GB (2013).
Whiteness in US Popular Culture. Reconsidering Race in Cultural Studies, Dutch American Studies Convention, Utrecht University, NL (2007).
Media Histories
Media History and its Discontents: On the Misrepresentation of Media in Socialist East Germany, European Communication Research Association, History, Lissabon, PT (2013).
US Pop-culture Decontextualized: Analyzing Western Media in Socialist East Germany, 7th Annual Critical Studies Graduate Student Conference, School of Cinematic Arts University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA (2013).
Free Markets for Free Media? US Policy Measures and the Building of the German Media, International Communication Association Conference (ICA), Phoenix, USA (2012).
Learning from U.S. Media Policies in Post-WWII Germany, International Communication Association (ICA) Pre-Conference: Historiography as Intervention, Phoenix, USA (2012).