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Lectures (selection)

2021

"Forced Migration and Refugee Resettlement in the Long 1940s: A Connected and Global History", A Panel Discussion with Milinda Banerjee (University of St Andrews), Sebastian Huhn (Osnabrück University) and Rana Mitter (University of Oxford), moderated by Kerstin von Lingen (University of Vienna), University of St Andrews, Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research, St Andrews, September 2021.

2019

"Forgotten NS-Victims and the Negotiation of Mobility within the Post-World War II Migration Regime", NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies in collaboration with IMIS University of Osnabrück, Amsterdam, December 2019 (with Lukas Hennies).

"Negotiating Resettlement towards Venezuela", Displacement and Resettlement During and After the Second World War in a Global Perspective - a Digital Humanities/Social GIS Approach, Institute of Contemporary History, University of Vienna, July 2019.

2018

"Die öffentliche Debatte über Gewalt in Zentralamerika und ihre Konsequenzen für die Menschenrechte", Menschenrechte in Lateinamerika, Weingartener Lateinamerika Gespräche 2018, June 22-24, 2018, Weingarten.

"Left for Venezuela. European DP's resettlement in Latin America after World War II, XXXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, May 23-26, 2018 in Barcelona, Spain.

2017

The Costa Rican model - education instead of an army! With Henning Jensen Pennington, José Joaquín Chaverri Sievert, Sebastian Huhn, June 7, 2017, Osnabrück.

2016

"Drawing Attention to Violence. Non-Documentary Images About Violence and Crime in Central America", XXXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, May 27-30, 2016 in New York, USA.

2015

"On the History of the Central American Crime Problem", XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, May 27-30, 2015 in San Juan, Puerto Rico [Accepted].

2014

"Violence Research and Development", Invited Presentation at the University of the Punjab in Lahore, Pakistan, April 9, 2014.

2013

"The Central American Talk of Crime in Historical Perspective. Theoretical and Conceptual Considerations", XXXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, 29.5.-1.6.2013 in Washington, USA.

"The History of the Contemporary Discourse about Urban Violence and Crime in Central America", International Workshop "Politics and Society in Central America", University of Leipzig, March 8-9, 2013.

2012

"Violence Research and Development", Workshop of the International Center for Violence Research, "Violence, education and development: Strengthening local capacities to understand violent conflicts", Bielefeld University, November 21, 2012.

"Criminalidad y Discurso en Costa Rica", Foro "Hacia una crítica del concepto de criminalidad", Rosa Luxemburg Foundation/ FLACSO Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, September 7, 2012.

"The social construction of peaceful unity in Costa Rica", XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, May 23-26, 2012 in San Francisco, USA.

2011

"Juventud en Riesgo/ Youth at Risk", Key Note Speech to the Foro Internacional sobre Prevención de la Violencia Juvenil, Universidad Don Bosco, San Salvador, El Salvador, November 9 (with Wilhelm Heitmeyer).

"The Discourse on Crime in Costa Rican Past and Present", Joint conference of Norwegian Latin American Research Network (NorLARNet) and Red €-Latinoamericana de Gobernabilidad para el Desarrollo (RedGob), Bergen, Norway, October 27.

2009

"The Portrayal and Instrumentalization of Youth Violence: A Challenge for Development Cooperation", Expert Workshop Violent Lifeworlds - Vicious Circles and Exit Options for Youths, GIGA Hamburg, 30 October (with Peter Peetz).

"A History of Nonviolence. Fear of Crime and National Identity as a Cultural Conflict in Costa Rica", Conference of the International Society for Cultural History in Brisbane, Australia, July 23.

2008

"La percepción social de la Violencia en Centroamérica", Simposio Internacional sobre Violencia y Sociedad, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, December 2.

2007

"Immigration Discourses and Migration Policy in Costa Rica", Latin America Institute of the Free University of Berlin, June 7.

2006

"Youth Gangs in Central America - On the Construction of a Security Threat". Symposium Das exkludierte Andere und wir, Institute for Security and Prevention Research, Hamburg, September 23 (with Peter Peetz).

Organization of scientific conferences and panels

2019

Panel Co-Organizer: "Negotiating Latin American Migrations in Past and Present", XXXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, May 24-27, 2019 in Boston, USA (with Hannes Warnecke-Berger).

2018

Program Committee member/ Trach Chair "Violence and (In-)security", Latin American Studies Association, Annual Conference, Barcelona, May 23-26.

Panel Organizer and Chair " Central American Youth Gangs beyond Public Security", XXXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, May 23-26, 2018 in Barcelona, Spain.

Panel Co-Organizer: " Spaces of Migration and Transnational Social Reproduction: Latin American Encounters", XXXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, May 23-26, 2018 in Barcelona, Spain (with Hannes Warnecke-Berger).

2016

Panel Co-Organizer and Chair: "The Faces of Everyday Violence in Central America", XXXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, May 27-30, 2015 in New York, USA (with Hannes Warnecke).

2015

Panel Co-Organizer and Chair: "Historical Accounts to Violence in Central America", XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, May 27-30, 2015 in San Juan, Puerto Rico (with Hannes Warnecke).

Panel Co-Organizer and Chair: "Violencia en América Latina: Implicaciones sociales y estrategías políticas", XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, 27-30 May 2015 in San Juan, Puerto Rico (with Rosario Figari-Layus).

2014

Co-organizer of the International Workshop "Violence Research and Development", 17-19 May 2014, Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas in San Salvador.

2013

Panel Organizer: "Discussing Central American Violence with History", XXXI International Congress of LASA, 29.5.-1.6. 2013 in Washington, USA.

Co-organizer of the International Workshop "Politics and Society in Central America", University of Leipzig, March 8-9 (with Otto Argueta, Isabel Rosales and Hannes Warnecke).

2012

Panel Co-Organizer and Co-Chair: "Violence, Politics and State-building in Latin America", XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, May 23-26, 2012 in San Francisco, USA (with Sabine Kurtenbach).

3-Panel Session Co-Organizer, "Centroamérica: una región entre movimientos y continuidades", 6th conference of NOLAN (Nordic Latin American Research Network), 26-28 April 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden (with O. Argueta and I. Rosales).

2009

Panel Co-Organizer: "Martial Arts and Public Fear", Conference of the International Society for Cultural History in Brisbane, Australia, 23 July (with Nadine Haas).