Forthcoming events

2026

• ​​​International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27th of January. 

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Past events

2025

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• ​Talk at University of Alberta, Jewish Studies Week, Wirth Institute, Edmonton, Canada: Teaching the Holocaust in Turbulent Times, November 03, 2025.

• Talk at University of Calagry, Night of Broken Glass, Calgary, Canada: Night of Broken Glass, November 06, 2025.

• The 30th Anniversary of Yitzhal Rabin`s Assassinaton, online, UCLA, November 4, 2025. 

• Conference and research trip, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, September 2025, Sea Power Conference. 

• Concentration Camp Dachau, virtual presentation, historical site, 360° tour, panoramic views of remembranc, attendance.

• "Der 20. Juli 1944 – Mythen und Fakten achtzig Jahre danach" / "July 20, 1944 – Myths and Facts Eighty Years Later", German resistance memorial, Berlin, Germany, attendance, July.

• New Insights on the Holocaust Rescue Inaction or Rescue in Action: Religion and Rescue during the Holocaust, The Appalachian State University Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies, 16./ 17. July 2025, attendance. 

• The Iran–Israel War: What's Next?, UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, July 1st 2025, attendance. 

• The Iran–Israel War: A Deeper Look, Moshe Dayan Center,  24. June, attendance. 

• "The Bundeswehr's common self-image - the engine of our turnaround", seminar 03. - 05.  June 2025, Hamburg, seminar leader and expert.

• "Teaching the Holocaust in Turbulent Times", seminar, May 2025, University of Calgary, Canada.

• Research Trip, Calgary, Canada, May 2025. 

• "80  Jahre nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs (80 years after the end of the Second World War)", Flensburg, conference attendance, Germany.

• "Museum work in an increasingly polarized society" , Spring Academy 2025, conference attendance, 09./10. April 2025, hybrid, Nuremberg, Germany. ​

• "Der Widerstand gegen die Judenverfolgung als europäisches Thema – Forschung, Erinnerung, Musealisierung (The resistance against the persecution of the Jews as a European theme-research, remembrance, musealization)", Stiftung Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand (German Resistance Memorial Center Foundation), Berlin, Germany , 19.-21.03.2025. 

 

2024

• ​Research trip, conference attendance Calgary, Alberta, November  10 - 16, 2024, Calagry Canada.

• "Nachhaltigkeit und Bildungsmedien - IGSBi-Tagung 2024", Jahrestagung der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Schulbuch- und Bildungsmedienforschung e.V., September 27 - 29, 2024, conference attendance, Augsburg, Germany.

• "Holocaust Education and the Idea of Reflecting on Identity", talk at Western Jewish Studies Conference, Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona on May 5-6, 2024, Arizona, USA.

• Research tour, Ontario, Alberta, Canada, February 2024.

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2023

• “Tel Aviv University Workshop on Israel and the Middle East”, academic support, July 2023, Jerusalem, Israel.

• “Keeping Hope Alive While Standing on the Bones of the Past”, Bishop Strachan School, 30th of May 2023, Toronto, Canada – virtual presentation.

• “Holocaust Education in Canada and Germany”, in – person, 05th of May 2023, “Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center”, Toronto, Canada.

• “Tour of Humanity Program”, in – person, “Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center”, May, Toronto, Canada.   

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2022

• “Learning from the past? Holocaust Education and Antisemitism in Germany and Canada”, in – person, 16th of November 2022, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.

• “The German Annexation and its Aftermath 1938” HIST 311 A1: History of Vienna, in – person, 15th of November 2022, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

• “Learning from the past? Holocaust Education and it´s impact on Antisemitism”, in – person, 14th of November 2022, Jewish Studies Week, University of Alberta, Wirth Institute, Edmonton, Canada.

• “Night of the Broken Glass - Legacies and commemoration”, in – person, 9th of November, 2022, Annual Commemoration, Edmonton Jewish Federation, Edmonton, Canada.

• “Holocaust Education in Israel in a Diverse Society and the Idea of Reflecting on Identity”, in-person, 38th Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies, 27.-29. June 2022, Bar Ilan University, Israel.

• “Holocaust Education in Germany – a powerful tool for learning from the past?”, virtual presentation, Annual Conference, Western Jewish Studies Association, Norman, Oklahoma, March 2022, USA.

 

2021

• Mediator, Panel, “Legacy of Sophie Scholz”, German Embassy Ottawa, Canada in cooperation with “Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center”, Toronto, Canada.         

• “Conveying societal values through Holocaust Education in Germany?”,virtual presentation, Annual Conference, Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Braunschweig, Germany.

• “Teaching the Holocaust at Jewish Schools – what Israel and Germany might learn from each other. First results of a comparative study”, virtual presentation, Annual Conference, Western Jewish Studies Association, Las Vegas, March 2021, USA.

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2020

• “Remembrance and Memory after 75 years – the end of the Holocaust”, in – person, Calgary,

• Jewish Federation to honour the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, "Holocaust Education in Canada”, University of Calgary, History Department, January 2020.

• “Holocaust Education in Canada and Germany or Does Canada do a better job than than country of perpetrators? A comparative pilot study project”, INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST CONFERENCE: Silence, Speech, Memory, Message, Understanding – AFTER 75 YEAR, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.

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2019

• “Holocaust Education in Germany”, talk at the colloquium of the Department for History, University of Calgary, Canada.

• “Anti – Semitism globally, the case of Europe”, public talk and panel discussion, Temple Har Zion´s President´s Circle Speakers Series, invited by Toronto Jewish Federation, Canada.

• “Anti – Semitism in Germany”, public talk, invited by St. Maries University, Calgary, Canada.

• “Best Practices in Holocaust Education – Holocaust Education in Germany”, National Policy Conference, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre, 26/27.01.2019, Toronto, Canada.

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2018

• “Remarks on Nazi – Germany”, Holocaust Education Week, Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Centre, Toronto, Canada.

• “Holocaust Education in Canada and Germany or Does Canada do a better job than the country of perpetrators? A comparative pilot study project”, conference “Treasury, Guardia, Cognitive Process: Memory Studies in Canada and Germany”, September 2018, Winnipeg / Manitoba, Canada.

• “Never again? Growing Antisemitism in current Europe”, public talk invited by Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada.

• “The Holocaust – an Introduction”, Holocaust Education Symposium, Mount Royal University, Calgary incl. the Calgary Jewish Federation, Canada.

• “Holo…What?! – Teaching the Holocaust in Germany against all obstacles”, Poster and talk at “Nähe und Distanz Konferenz, Holocaust Education revisted”, Ludwig- Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.

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2017

• “Anti – Semitism in Germany today”, invited by Calgary Jewish                           Federation, Calgary, Canada

• “The Rise of the Right”, Lecture tour Calgary / University of Calgary Canada, Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies, Canada.

• “Anti – Semitism in Germany today”, American Hebrew Academy, North Carolina, USA.                     

    

2016

• “Security Developments in the Middle East and Israel – The End of Sykes -Picot?” Burning Issues Series, YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park, Colorado, USA, University of Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. 

• “Security and energy resources: Amity and enmity in the Regional Security Complex Levant” Center for Military, Security and Strategy Studies (CMSS) University of Calgary, Grand Strategy Workshop,Calgary, Canada.

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2015

• “Jewish Life in Germany 2015”, “50 years of Israeli – German relations” , “Transformations in the Levant”, Lecture tour Calgary / Canada,   University of Calgary, Centre for Military and Strategic Studies and the Calgary Jewish Federation.                            

(lectures before 2015 ask for extended list)