| 2009 | "USA – UK. A Battle of the Brains" at International Day. Flensburg, June 9th. |
| "Der Jahrhundertmord. Attentat vor laufender Kamera" at Ringvorlesung zu Das Jahrhundert der Bilder. Flensburg, June 22nd. |
| "The World(s) of Margaret Atwood’s Oryx & Crake" at the Sixth Graduate Conference for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries. Passau, June 28th. |
| 2010 | "Amerikas dunkelste Stunde: Die Berichterstattung über das Attentat auf Präsident Kennedy im Deutschen Fernsehen" at Ringvorlesung Zwischen ‘event’ und Ereignis. Geschichtsdarstellung im Fernsehen. Flensburg, May 11th. |
| "Die Blaue Murmel – Geschichte und Einfluss der Erdfotografien der Apollo-Missionen" at Interdisziplinäres Kolloquium. Flensburg, May 25th |
| "Economic and ecological criticism, economic and ecological collapse: John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath" at DGfA Annual Conference. Berlin, May 27th – May 30th |
| "the re-imagined worlds of fanfic trailers" at Remake / Remodel Conference in Göttingen, June 30th – July 2nd |
| "‘the only color we could see’ – two photographs of Earth and their cultural impact" at Environmental Change – Cultural Change Conference in Bath, England, September 1st – 4th |
| "World Constructions in the Post-Apocalyptic Novel" at PGF in Leipzig, November 5th – 7th |
| 2011 | "Die ‘blaue Murmel’. Die Geschichte der Erdfotografien der Apollo-Missionen und ihr Einfluss auf das Erdbild" at Das Visuelle in der Praxis geographischer Vermittlung, in Frankfurt a.M., March 31st – April 2nd. |
| "Photographs of the Earth and their Cultural Impact" at Deutsch-Dänisches Forschungskolloquium, Leck, May 6th. |
| "Earth Day and Space Day – Apollo 13 and G. Nelson’s National Environmental Teach-In" at ASLE 2011 Conference: Species, Space and the Imagination of the Global in Bloomington, Indiana, USA, 21st – 26th June. |
| 2012 | "Was endet wenn die Welt untergeht? Fiktive Apokalypsen und ihre Nachspiele" at Ringvorlesung Endzeitstimmungen, Flensburg, May 9th. |
| "Antizipierte Ruinen als Orte der Identitätsformation" at Visuelle Geographien – Von inneren und äußeren Bildern der Welt, Flensburg, July 12-14th. |
| 2013 | "Erzählt(e) Zeit – von der Zeit in der Literatur" – Ringvorlesung Zeit, Flensburg, May 22nd. |
| "Looking Earthward: The US Space Program and its influence on depictions of the Earth" – Posterpräsentation – Postgraduate Forum Environment, Literature, Culture Workshop "Ecocriticism and Globalization," Universität Frankfurt, June 21st |
| "Bilder von antizipierten Ruinen als Orte der Identitätsformation" – Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaften – Jahrestagung 2013: Medien der Wissenschaften, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, October 2-5 |
| "Die Konstruktion der Welt in Nachrichtenbildern (am Beispiel des Fukushima-Reaktorunglücks)" – Visuelle Geographien III – Praktiken geographischen Sehens, Frankfurt a.M., November 14-15 |
| 2014 | Einführungsvortrag Ringvorlesung "drei" – Phänomenta Flensburg, April 14 |
| "Landscape – Wilderness – Ecosystem: On the Intersection of Cultural Geography and Ecocriticism" – Framing Nature: Signs, Stories, and Ecologies of Meaning – Tartu, Estonia, April 29 – May 3 |
| "Spaceship Economies": Apollo 13, Earth Day, and the Myth of Unlimited Supply – Imagining Earth Conference – Bochum, May 29-31 |
| "Earthseed: Social Justice and Environmental Consciousness in Octavia Butler’s ‘Parable’ novels" – DGfA Annual Conference: America after Nature: Democracy, Culture, Environment – Würzburg, June 12-15 |
| "Meetings: Plato and Julian the Apostate – Ancient Philosophers as Characters in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction" – Diversity in Speculative Fiction – London, August 14-18 |
| 2015 | "Die 3 im Märchen" – Ringvorlesung 3 – Phänomenta Flensburg, Jan 26 |
| "Images of the Earth in American Children’s Books" – Library of Congress, Washington DC, September 17 |
| "Der Planet Erde im amerikanischen Kinderbuch, 1843-2015" – Visuelle Geographien V: Sehen, Denken, Vermitteln. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Nov 27 |
| 2016 | "Images of Earth in American Children’s Books (1835-2015)" – Forschungskolloquium Sprache, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Jan 21 |
| "Zwischen Wildnis und Zivilisation: der ‘Wilde Westen’" – Ringvorlesung Grenzziehungen, Phänomenta Flensburg, Feb 8 |