Conference
Organization

2016:

• Spring 2016: “Revisiting 1968 and the Global Sixties,” NYU Abu Dhabi, New York, Shanghai (co-convened by Jian Chen, Joanna Waley-Cohen (NYUSH), Mary Nolan, Marilyn Young (NYUNY), Masha Kirasirova, Martin Klimke (NYUAD))

2015:

• 11/01-03: “Islam in Global Perspective,” NYU Abu Dhabi (co-convened by Keiko Sakurai, Sadashi Fukuda, Takayuki Yoshimura (Waseda University), Nasrudin Bin Md Akhir, Siti Rohaini Binti Kassim (University of Malaya), Martin Klimke, Justin Stearns (NYUAD))

• 05/19-21: Conference, “Rethinking Historical Space,” NYU Abu Dhabi (co-convened by Martin Klimke, David Ludden, Lauren Minsky, and Mark Swislocki)

• 03/29: Workshop, “The Great War and the Great Prohibitions: Temperance and Alcohol Regimes in Russia, Canada, the USA, and the Islamic World” (organized by the NYUAD History & Arab Crossroad Programs, the NYUNY History Department, and the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia)

2014:

• 12/13-14: Conference, “Exploring Islamic Studies within a Symbiotic Framework,” Asia-Europe Center, University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur (co-convened with the Organization of Islamic Studies at Waseda University, Tokyo and the Asia-Europe Center, University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur)

• 11/30-12/02: “The Peripheries of World War I: New Methodological and Spatial Perspectives,” Workshop (II) at the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, Abu Dhabi, Convener: Valerie Deacon (NYUNY), Martin Klimke (NYUAD), Andrew Patrick (Tennessee State University)

• 11/20-21: “Media and the Cold War, 1975-1991,” International conference at Volda University College, Norway, Convener: Rolf Werenskjold (Volda University), Henrik G. Bastiansen (Volda University), Martin Klimke (NYUAD)

• 04/14-16: “The Peripheries of World War I: New Methodological and Spatial Perspectives,” Workshop (I) at the New York University, NYC /NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, Abu Dhabi, Convener: Valerie Deacon (NYUNY), Martin Klimke (NYUAD), Andrew Patrick (Tennessee State University)

• “Media and the Cold War, 1975-1991,” International conference at Volda University College, Norway, November 20-21, 2014 (convened together with Rolf Werenskjold and Henrik G. Bastiansen)

2011:

• 11/28: “Dopo il Sessantotto. Movimenti di protesta in Italia e in Europa negli ultimi decenni della Guerra Fredda” [After ’68. Protests movement in Italy and Europe in the last decades of the Cold War], International Workshop, Senate Library, Rome (convened together with Valentine Lomellini and Valerio Augusto Strinati)

• 11/07-09: “‘Trust, but Verify’: Confidence and Distrust from Détente to the End of the Cold War,” International Conference, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars & German Historical Institute, Washington, DC (together with Reinhild Kreis, Sony Michel, Christian Ostermann)

• 09/4-16: “American History in Transatlantic Perspective,” Bosch Foundation Archival Seminar for Young Historians (together with Mischa Honeck)

• 04/01-02: “Die Nuklearkrise: Der NATO-Doppelbeschluss und die Friedensbewegung der 1980er Jahre,” Contributor’s Workshop, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg (together with Christoph Becker-Schaum, Philipp Gassert, Wilfried Mausbach, and Marianne Zepp)

• “Crossing the Color Line: A Global History of the African American Freedom Struggle,” Spring Lecture Series 2011, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC

2010:

• 09/05-17: “American History in Transatlantic Perspective,” Bosch Foundation Archival Seminar for Young Historians (together with Mischa Honeck)

• “The Profitable Body: The Beauty of Business,” Fall Lecture Series 2010, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC (together with Uwe Spiekermann)

• 11/18-21: “Accidental Armageddons: The Nuclear Crisis and the Culture of the Second Cold War, 1975-1989,” German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, (together with Eckart Conze and Jeremy Varon)

• 03/25-27: “Friedensbewegung und Kalter Krieg: Europäische und transatlantische Perspektiven,” Workshop, Archive Green Memory, Berlin (together with Christoph Becker-Schaum, Philipp Gassert, Marianne Zepp)

• 02/18-21: “Arenas of Contestation,” Workshop, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg (together with Roland Axtmann, Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Joachim Scharloth)

2009:

• 10/01-03: “African American Civil Rights and Germany in the 20th Century,” Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (together with Maria Höhn)

• 08/26-27: “‘The Personal is Political’: The Interfaces between Politics and Culture across Europe in the 1970s,” Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge (together with Erato Basea, Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Christiana Mygdali, Nikolaos Papadogiannis, Joachim Scharloth)

• 06/23-26: “Shaping Europe in a Globalized World? – Protest Movements and the Rise of a Transnational Civil Society?,” Department of German, University of Zurich, Switzerland (together with Roland Axtmann, Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Joachim Scharloth, Rolf Werenskjold)

• 03/19-21: “Black Diaspora and Germany Across the Centuries,” German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., USA (together with Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov and Mischa Honeck)

• 03/04-06: “1968 in the U.S., Japan and Germany,” Japanese-German Center, Berlin (together with Yoshie Mitobe, Joachim Scharloth and Laura Wong)

2008:

• 11/26-28: “‘The Revolution will not be televised? – Media and Protest Movements Since 1945,” Volda University College, Volda, Norway (together with Erling Sivertsen, Rolf Werenskjold, Joachim Scharloth, Kathrin Fahlenbrach)

• 05/5-21: Film series “Revolution is in the Streets: The Sixties from an International Perspective,” and panel discussion “One, Two, Three Many 1968s? Lessons and Legacies of the Sixties,” Goethe Institute Washington in cooperation with the German Historical Institute

• 08/18-25: “Confronting Cold War Conformity: Peace and Protest Cultures In Europe, 1945-1989,” Summer School of the Marie Curie Conference and Training Series “European Protest Movements: The Rise of a (Trans-)National Civil Society and the Transformation of the Public Sphere,” Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg (together with Joachim Scharloth and Kathrin Fahlenbrach)

• 01/11-13: “Cultural Dimensions of Protest,” Interdisciplinary Workshop, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg (together with Joachim Scharloth and Kathrin Fahlenbrach)

2007:

• 11/22-24: “The ‘Establishment’ Responds: The Institutional and Social Impact of Protest Movements During and After the Cold War,” 1st Conference of the Marie Curie Conference and Training Series “European Protest Movements: The Rise of a (Trans-)National Civil Society and the Transformation of the Public Sphere,” Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg, November (together with Joachim Scharloth and Kathrin Fahlenbrach)

• 03/07-10: “Designing a New Life: Aesthetics and Lifestyles of Political and Social Protest,” 2nd Workshop of the Marie Curie Conference and Training Series “European Protest Movements: The Rise of a (Trans-)National Civil Society and the Transformation of the Public Sphere,” German Department, University of Zurich, Switzerland (together with Joachim Scharloth and Kathrin Fahlenbrach)

2006:

• 11/22-25: “Tracing Protest Movements: Perspectives from Sociology, Political Sciences and Media Studies,” 1st Workshop of the Marie Curie Conference and Training Series “European Protest Movements: The Rise of a (Trans-)National Civil Society and the Transformation of the Public Sphere,” Department of Communication and Media Studies, University of Halle-Wittenberg (together with Kathrin Fahlenbrach and Joachim Scharloth)

• 08/25-27: “Between the ‘Prague Spring’ and the ‘French May’: Transnational Exchange and National Recontextualization of Protest Cultures in 1960/70s Europe,” at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg (together with Joachim Scharloth, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

2005:

• 05/19-22: “The ‘Other’ Alliance: Political Protest, Intercultural Relations and Collective Identities in West Germany and the United States, 1958-77,” International Symposium at the Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg, Germany (together with Belinda Davis, Carla MacDougall and Wilfried Mausbach)

• 02/04-05: “Maos Rote Garden? – 1968 zwischen kulturrevolutionärem Anspruch und subversiver Praxis” at the German Department, University of Zurich, Switzerland (together with Joachim Scharloth, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

2004:

• 07/09-10: “Gelebt, erinnert und erforscht? – 1968 auf dem Weg vom kommunikativen zum kulturellen Gedächtnis” at the History Department, University of Heidelberg (together with Joachim Scharloth, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

2003:

• 10/17-19: “Atlantic Crossings? “Transcultural Relations and Political Protest in Germany and the United States, 1958-1977,” Workshop at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. (together with Belinda Davis, Carla MacDougall and Wilfried Mausbach)

• 10/13: “Protest 1960s-1980s: Trans- and Intercultural Perspectives,” Workshop at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis (RCHA) (together with Belinda Davis, Carla MacDougall and Wilfried Mausbach)