Publications
Monograph (with Daniel Hechler, Peer Pasternack and Rocio Ramirez) Der Wissenschaftliche Beirat. Das letzte bislang unaufgeklärte Qualitätsinstrument in der Wissenschaft. Berlin: BWV – Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, 2023.
Monograph A Transnational Analysis of Representations of the U.S. Filibusters in Nicaragua, 1855-1857. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Editor (with Gesa Mackenthun) Fugitive Knowledge. The Loss and Preservation of Knowledge in Cultural Contact Zones. Berlin: Waxmann, 2015.
Article (with Daniel Hechler, Peer Pasternack) “A Question of (Academic) Honour? Motivations for Member Participation in Advisory Boards in the German Science System”
In: Higher Education Policy August 2024, Online First.
Article (with Daniel Hechler, Peer Pasternack) “Von und für die Wissenschaft. Funktionen und Verortung Wissenschaftlicher Beiräte im deutschen Wissenschaftssystem”
In: Ordnung der Wissenschaft No. 2/2024: 139-147.
Book Review “Wissenschaftsreflexion. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven zwischen Philosophie und Praxis”
H-Soz-u-Kult 15 May 2024.
Article (with Philipp Rediger) “Booster für partizipative Wissenschaftskommunikation? Effekte der Corona- Pandemie auf die Kommunikation wissenschaftlichen Wissens im Informationsdienst Wissenschaft und in Regionalzeitungen”
In: Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft No. 1/2024: 21-48.
Article (with Daniel Hechler, Peer Pasternack) “Instrument der Qualitätssicherung: Wissenschaftliche Beiräte in der Wissenschaft”
In: Forschung & Lehre No. 1/2024: 30-31.
Article (with Daniel Watermann) “Wissenschaftskommunikation und Hochschullehre zusammendenken. Ein Plädoyer”
In: Berliner Debatte Initial No. 3/2023: 116-127.
Article (with Justus Henke) “Jenseits von Reichweite. Potentiale von Wirkungsanalysen für Wissenschaftskommuniaktion nach der Pandemie”
In: Forschung. Politik — Strategie — Management No. 1+2/2023: 46-51.
Conference Review (with Annika Just, Christiane Maue) “Wissenschaftsreflexion: Konzepte – Ziele – Perspektiven”
H-Soz-u-Kult 18 May 2023.
Article (with Daniel Hechler) “Best Critical Friends Forever? Eine Typologie Wissenschaftlicher Beiräte im deutschen Wissenschaftssytem”
In: Hochschulmanagement No.1/2023: 24-30.
Report (with Daniel Hechler, Peer Pasternack) “Weit verbreitet und kaum erforscht: Wissenschaftliche Beiräte in der Wissenschaft”
HoF-Arbeitsbericht No. 121 (2022), ISBN 978-3-937573-88-5.
Article (with Rocio Ramirez, Peer Pasternack) “Elemente einer Topographie der deutschen Wissenschafts- und Hochschulforschung”
In: die hochschule. journal für wissenschaft und bildung. No.2/2021: 5-80.
Report (with Peer Pasternack) “Die externe Kommunikation der Wissenschaft in der bisherigen Corona-Krise (2020/2021). Eine kommentierte Rekonstruktion”
HoF-Arbeitsbericht No.118 (2021),ISBN 978-3-937573-83-0.
Article (with Peer Pasternack) “Wissenschaftskommunikation: Zwischen Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und Krisenkommunikation”
In: Wissenschaftsmanagement. No. 2/2019 (vol. 24): 152-159.
Book Chapter “Wie können Hochschulen Social Media sinnvoll nutzen?”
In: Henke, Justus and Peer Pasternack (ed.): Wie Hochschulen durch das Zeitalter des Frühdigitalismus kommen. Basiswissen für die avancierte Organisationsgestaltung in 94 Fragen und Antworten. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2020: 155-157.
Report (with Justus Henke, Peer Pasternack) “Kommunikation organisieren. Die koordinierende Begleitung von Forschungsförderprogrammen, verhandelt an Beispielen aus der Bildungs‐, Wissenschafts‐ und Hochschulforschung”
HoF-Arbeitsbericht No. 112 (2019), ISSN 1436‐3550.
Article (with Peer Pasternack) “Wissenschaft außerhalb der Komfortzone. Wissenschaftsbezogene Krisenkommunikation als Instrument der Qualitätssicherung”
In: die hochschule. journal für wissenschaft und bildung. No. 1/2019: 5-24.
Article “Just(ice) Smiling? Masks and Masking in the Occupy-Wall Street Protests”
In: European Journal of American Studies. Special Issue: Envisioning Justice: Mediating the Question of Rights in American Visual Culture. No. 4/2018 (vol.13): n.p. (online only).
Article “El Nicaraguense y los enlaces transnacionales de los filibusteros”
In: Humanismo y Cambio Social. No. 8/2017 (vol.4): 10-23.
Article “Ein neues Gesicht für den Dissens? Die Ästhetik der V-Maske zwischen Comic, Film und Occupy-Protesten”
In: kritische berichte. Zeitschrift für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften. No. 1/2016 (vol.44): 96-106.
Lemmata “Guy-Fawkes-Mask“ and “Damas de Blanco/ Colour: White“
In: Aesthetics of Resistance, Pictorial Glossary, The Nomos of Images. ISSN: 2366-9926, 2015.
Book Chapter “Martial Men in Virgin Lands? Nineteenth-Century Filibustering, Nation-Building, and Competing Forms of Masculinity in the United States and Nicaragua”
In: Dominguez Andersen, Pablo and Simon Wendt (eds.): Masculinities and the Nation in the Modern World: Between Hegemony and Marginalization. Series: Global Masculinities (eds. Michael Kimmel and Judith Kegan Gardiner). London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015: 113-128.
Book Chapter (with Gesa Mackenthun) “Introduction“
In: Beer, Andreas and Mackenthun, Gesa (eds.): Fugitive Knowledge. The Loss and Preservation of Knowledge in Cultural Contact Zones. Berlin: Waxmann, 2015: 7-28.
Book Chapter “Freebooting on the American Isthmus: The US Filibusters as Transnational Actors”
In: Marung, Steffi and Matthias Middell (eds.): Transnational Actors, Crossing Borders. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2015: 51-64.
Lemma “Wilder Westen, Cowboys und Indianer”
In: Wodianka, Stephanie and Juliane Ebert (eds.): Metzler Lexikon Moderne Mythen. Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag, 2014.
Conference Review Wissensakteure und Grenzwissen zwischen Lateinamerika und Europa um 1900 [Knowledge Actors and Liminal Knowledge between Latin America and Europe around 1900]
In: H-Soz-u-Kult 18 March 2014.
Article “The U.S. Filibusters in Transnational Newspaper Discourses, 1855-1857“
In: COPAS (Current Objectives of American Studies) No.13 (2012): 1-17.
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Papers and Presentations at Conferences
2024
- In the Right Place at the Right Time – but to no Avail? Problems and Pitfalls of HER Knowledge Transfer
At: Consortium of Higher Education Researchers, 36th Annual Conference, University of Luxembourg, Belval - Auf der Suche nach Relevanz. Transfererwartungen und -effekte zwischen Hochschulforschung und ‑entwicklung [In search of relevancy. Expectations of transfer and its effects between higher education research and HEI development]
At: Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Berlin
2022
- Der Preis der (kritischen) Freundschaft. Individuelle Motivationen zur Mitwirkung an wissenschaftlichen Beiräten [The Price of(critical) friendship. Individual motivations for engagement in advisory panels]
At: Annual Conference of the German Association for Higher Education Research (Gesellschaft für Hochschulforschung, GfHf), University of Applied Arts, Vienna
2021
- Wissenstransfer & Wissenschaftskommunikation – Modelle, Praxiserfahrungen und aktuelle Trends [Knowledge transfer and science communication – models, experiences and current trends]
At: Auftaktveranstaltung – Forschung über Studienerfolg und Studienabbruch II, University of Hagen online
2019
- Zen? Or: the Art of Hippie Maintenance. The Transformation of the Countercultural Value of ‘Quality’ in Contemporary Academia
At: The Prolonged Death of the Hippie, 1967-1969, University of Basel, Switzerland - Interview partner and background information for the CNN website-feature In protests around the world, one image stands out: The Joker
2018
- Of Dissidents and Flamethrowers. Political and Social Deviance in Contemporary Novels by Jonatham Lethem and Rachel Kushner.
At: University of Leipzig, Germany
2017
- The Masquerading Multitude. Occupy Wall Street’s Mosaic Mass Identities and the State of Surveillance
At: Modernity and Modernization in North America, annual conference of the German Association of American Studies, University of Hanover
2016
- Masked Deviance? Transnational Memes and Affective Politics in Contemporary U.S. Cultures of Dissent
At: University of Leipzig, Germany - A Protest Not To Be Heard Of? Occupy and Non-Representation
At: Stuttgart University, Germany - Just(ice) Smiling? The Guy-Fawkes-Mask between Constitutive Justice and Veiled Spectatorship
At: The United States and the Question of Rights, annual conference of the German Association of American Studies, University of Osnabrück
2015
- Das neue Gesicht der Revolte? Ästhetiken und die politische Philosophie der V-Maske in aktuellen Kulturen des Dissens
At: Ästhetik des Widerstands, Kulturhistorisches Institut Florenz - Organiser and host of the international and interdisciplinary workshop Symbolic Politics of Non-Representation in Contemporary Cultures of Dissent, University of Constance
- A Void Masked as Triumphant Carnival? The Politics of the ‘V- Mask’ within Contemporary Cultures of Dissent
At: Symbolic Politics of Non-Representation in Contemporary Cultures of Dissent, University of Constance - Decolonial Options in the Hemispheric Knowledge Landscapes of the Americas – An Approximation
At: Knowledge Landscapes North America, annual conference of the German Association of American Studies, University of Bonn - Communication Breakdown?: Masks and Silences in the Performance of Counter-Democratic Political Participation
At: Political Participation in the Post-Democratic Era: Promises, Challenges, Illusions, University of Oldenburg
2014
- ¿Todos somos indios? Subalternidad transcultural, autenticidad y la “indigenidad abierta” de los nuevos movimientos de protesta y del discurso académico en las Americas
At: XVII Congreso Internacional de AHILA (Asociación de Historiadores Latinoamericanistas Europeos), FU Berlin - “Indigenidad Abierta” en Discursos De-Coloniales y Pos-Zapatistas
At: De/Colonización en las Américas: Cambios y Continuidades, Pontifícia Universidad Católica del Perú - Free-Floating Indigeneity and Concrete Local Contexts: Connections between the Discourse
of the Zapatistas and Post-2008 Protest Movements
At: Performing Protest: Re-Imagining the Good Life in Times of Crisis, Catholic University of Leuven - From the “Highway of the World:” El Nicaraguense, Transnational Newspapers and National Historiographies in the Americas.
At: Newspapers and Transculturality, Excellence Cluster: Asia and Europe in a Global Context, University Heidelberg
2013
- The Pen is Mightier than the Sword? Newspapers as Transnational Media of Modernization. A Case Study of the Filibuster Invasion in Nicaragua, 1855-1857.
At: Latin American Studies Association Annual Congress, Washington, D.C. - Interview partner for the Deutschlandfunk-radiofeature Forschung ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste: Vor 125 Jahren starb der amerikanische Archäologe und Verleger Ephraim George Squier
2012
- Organiser and Presenter at the 1st Doctoral Research Colloquium between the Universities of Rostock and Potsdam: Kontakt, Transfer, Zirkulation. Denkfiguren kultureller Beziehungen zwischen Europa und Lateinamerika
- Martial Men in Virgin Lands: The US Filibuster Era of the 1850s as a Discursive Battleground between Differing Forms of Masculinity.
At: Marginalized Masculinities and the Nation, Heidelberg Centre for American Studies, Heidelberg University - Los Filibusteros como Actores Transnacionales de Modernización en la Nicaragua del Siglo XIX.
At: 54th International Conference of Americanists, University of Vienna - El Análisis Crítico del Discurso: ¿Una Herramienta Adecuada para Reflexionar sobre el Vínculo entre Narrativas Colectivas de Memoria y el (Ab-)uso del Poder?
At: 11th Congreso Centroamericano de Historia, University of San Cristóbal de las Casas - The Discursive Expansion of US Territory to Central America in the Nineteenth Century.
At: Discursive Crossings – Subversion and Affirmation of Power Relations, Mainz University
2011
- Southward the Course of Empire Took Its Way: The US Filibusters in US and Nicaraguan Newspaper Discourses.
At: Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies, Gießen University - The Great Longing for Railways in Central America.
At: 5th International Conference on Railway History, Centre for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv
2010
- Imperiale Wanderer: William Walker und die US-Filibuster.
At: 8th International Summer School of the Graduate Centre of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Leipzig