Selected Conference Activity

I. Organization and Coordination of Scientific Symposia and Conferences

  • Symposium: Virtuelle Austausche in verschiedenen Bildungskontexten durch den Aufbau professioneller Kompetenzen nachhaltig verankern. (co-chaired with Prof. Dr. Nicola Würffel, Prof. Dr. Britta Freitag-Hild, Fabian Krengel, Katharina Delius). DGFF-Kongress Universität Kassel. September 25-27, 2025.
  • Online Symposium: Virtueller Austausch in Lehrer*innenbildung und Schule auf der Mikro-Ebene: Aufgabenbeispiele aus der Lehrpraxis. (co-chaired with Fabian Krengel). May 31, 2024.
  • Conference: Rassismuskritische Grundschuldidaktik im Kontext von Demokratiebildung, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg. April 10, 2024.
  • Symposium: Kritische Fremd*sprachenlehrer*innenbildung: Einladung zur Vernetzung, DGFF-Kongress. PH Freiburg. (co-chaired with Prof. Dr. Lotta König, Dr. Eleni Louloudi, Prof. Dr. Thorsten Merse). September 26 - 29, 2023.
  • International Symposium: Ethics and Politics of Language Teacher Education in an Uneven World, AILA World Congress, Lyon, France (co-chaired with Prof. Dr. Maggie Kubanyiova, University of Leeds, UK). July 17 - 21, 2023.
  • Online Symposium: Virtuelle Austausche in der Fremdsprachendidaktik, (co-chaired with Prof. Dr. Carola Surkamp, Fabian Krengel, Prof. Dr. Almut Ketzer-Nöltge, Mihaela Markovic, Prof. Dr. Nicola Würffel, Prof. Dr. Britta Freitag-Hild). March 15, 2022 & June 23, 2022.
  • International Symposium: Controversy and Ethical Dilemmas in Multilingual and Multicultural Classrooms: Challenges and Choices, American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Virtual Conference. March 20-23, 2021. 

II. Papers Presented (Selected)

  • Critical Language Teacher Education: Unsettling Language and Race/ism in a 10th-Grade EFL Classroom with Language Teacher Candidates, Online Conference: "Integrating Critical Anti-Racist Pedagogies into Language Teacher Education". University of Wuppertal. June 12-13, 2025
  • Förderung symbolischer Kompetenz im kultur- und literaturbasierten Englischunterricht: Macht, Widerstand und Transformation, Symposium: „unterricht_kultur_theorie II: Kulturelles Lernen interdisziplinär weiterdenken – Fremdsprachenforschung, Kulturwissenschaften, Erziehungswissenschaften“. University of Bielefeld. February 21 – 23, 2024. 
  • Learning to Become a Critical EFL Teacher: Ethical and Political Challenges in Teaching Language as Symbolic Power on Issues of Race and Racism,AILA World Congress. Lyon, France. July 17 - 21, 2023.
  • Kritische Fremd*sprachenlehrer*innenbildung, 30. DGFF-Kongress. PH Freiburg. (together with Prof. Dr. Lotta König, Dr. Eleni Louloudi, Prof. Dr. Thorsten Merse). September 26 - 29, 2023.
  • The Challenges of Learning to Become a Critical EFL Teacher: Wrestling with Raciolinguistic Ideologies and Subject Positions in Autoethnographic Writing, 1. Online Netzwerktreffen Rassismuskritischer Fremdsprachenunterricht. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. March 28, 2023.
  • What Are We Teaching Languages for? Symbolic Competence, Uncertainty, and Literary Sense-Making in the EFL Classroom, Forschungskolloquium der Englischdidaktik. University of Hamburg. May 10, 2023.
  • Critical Language Teacher Education in an Era of Uncertainty through Autoethnographic Narratives and (Self-)Reflexivity, Conference: Reading Resistance - Widerstand und Kontroversität im Kontext gesellschaftlichen Wandels, University of Cologne, Germany. October 27-29, 2022.
  • An Autoethnography of an EFL Teacher-Learner‘s Habitus: Wrestling with Raciolinguistic Ideologies and Subject Positions, Conference: Wissen, Können und Handeln für den Fremdsprachenunterricht: Fremdsprachendidaktische Perspektiven auf (angehende) Lehrpersonen, Professions- und Wissensforschung. University of Wuppertal, Germany. September 12-13, 2022.
  • The Politics and Ethics of Teaching Multilingual Students in German Citizenship Education, ETHER (Ethics and Aesthetics for Encountering the Other). University of Leeds, UK. April 6, 2022 (invited by Prof. Dr. Angela Creese and Pof. Dr. Maggie Kubanyiova).
  • Teaching for Symbolic Competence in the age of Twitter Politics: Ecological and Sustainable Perspectives on Foreign Language Education, Anglistentag (virtual conference). September 19 -22, 2021.
  • What are we teaching languages for? Zur Bedeutung von symbolischer Kompetenz im Kontext von Digitalisierung und Globalisierung, 29. DGFF-Kongress (virtual conference). September 22 -24, 2021.
  • Between Politics and Ethics: Teaching Controversial Issues to Multilingual Students. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Virtual Conference. March 20-23, 2021.
  • Against „Values“? Komplexe Konflikte, symbolic power und die Aushandlung von Widerstreit (co-authored with Prof. Dr. Bartosch & S. Derichsweiler), online symposium: unterricht_kultur_theorie. Kulturelles Lernen im Fremdsprachenunterricht. University of Bielefeld, Germany. January 14, 2021 (invited by Prof. Dr. Lotta König).
  • Lost and found in translation: Kulturelle Übersetzung (translation) und Umwertung (transvaluation) als Teil symbolischer Kompetenz?, Symposium: unterricht_kultur_theorie: Fremdsprachendidaktische Kulturvermittlung gemeinsam anders denken. University of Göttingen, Germany. July 1-3, 2019.
  • Reframing Global Citizen Education: Between Moral and Ethical Dimensions of Language Learning and Teaching, International conference: Educating the Global Citizen - International Perspectives on Foreign Language Teaching in the Digital Age. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany. March 25-28, 2019.  
  • L2 Teaching Between Memory and History in a German Politics Class, American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Chicago, USA. March 24-27, 2018.
  • Mediating Sacred Truths in a German Ethics Class, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Nashville, USA. November 17-19, 2017. 
  • Between Bildung and Haram in a German Ethics Class, American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Portland, USA. March 18-21, 2017.
  • The Current Discourse on the German Notion of Bildung in Europe, international conference: Europe in Discourse: Identity, Diversity, Borders. Athens, Greece. September 23-25, 2016.
  • Global Exchanges and Local Historicities in Telecollaborative Online Spaces: An Example from the EFL Classroom, AILA 7th Junior Researchers Meeting in Applied Linguistics. Winterthur, Switzerland. September 10-12, 2015.