Conferences and Lectures
"Ritual- und Religionsverständnis in der Rede von 'leeren Ritualen'", DVRW-Conference 2019 "Konzeptualisierungen von Religion", 06.09.2019, University of Hannover
"Establishing and Criticizing the Civil Marriage in the GDR", Joint Conference on of the Institute for the Study of Religion and the HCAS 'Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities' on "Critical Potentials of Secularist Practice", 29.05.2019, University of Leipzig
"Ritualtransfer", lecture at the LER-Conference 2017 "Interkulturelle und interreligiöse Bildung im LER-Unterricht", 20.05.2017, University of Potsdam
"Legitimationsmuster in der Rezeption ritueller Traditionen in der DDR am Beispiel der standesamtlichen Eheschließung", Spring Conference of the Sektion Religionssoziologie of the DGS "Religion und Wissenschaft. Neue Fragen zu einem alten Thema", 12.05.2017, Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung Berlin
"The Negotiation of Religion and Atheism within Academic Institutions in the GDR", Joint Presentation with Dirk Schuster at the International Conference of the Doctoral Program 'Religion - Knowledge - Discourse' with the title "Religion: Bridging Gaps and Breaking Paths. Contemporary Approaches towards Discourses of Religion and Knowledge Production in Transdisciplinary Perspective", 04.02.2017, Humboldt-University Berlin
"'Something old, something new ...' - Geeignete ritualtheoretische Begriffe zur Beschreibung aktueller standesamtlicher Eheschließungen", Conference of the DVRW-Arbeitskreis Mittelbau und Nachwuchs "Religion/en in der Zeit - Zwischen Stasis und Dynamik", 10.09.2016, University of Leipzig
"Designing the 'happiest day of life' - Dealing with Wedding Traditions between Normalization and Nndividualization", Session: "Not Religion, but not without Religion. Representations of Nonreligious Ideas, Forms and Practices", EASR-Conference "Relocating Religion", 30.06.2016, University of Helsinki
“White Civil Weddings in Germany – GDR-Heritage and Ritual Dynamics”, Session: “Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to the Relationship between Religion and Nonreligion in Germany”, 12th ISORECEA-Conference “Religion and Non-Religion in Contemporary Societies”, 23.04.2016, University of Zadar
"Civil Marriage in Germany between Secularization, Ritualization and Individualization", 21th World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions "Dynamics of Religion: Past and Present", 28.08.2015, University of Erfurt
"Literaturwissenschaftliche Methoden in der Religionswissenschaft und ihre praktische Umsetzung am Beispiel der Analyse von Musteransprachen für Standesbeamte", Workshop "Medienanlyse" of the DVRW-Arbeitskreis Mittelbau und Nachwuchs, 25./26.3.2015, University of Erfurt
"Wechselbeziehungen zwischen kirchlichen Hochzeitszeremonien und standesamtlichen Trauungen in Deutschland im 21. Jahrhundert anhand ausgewählter Ratgeberliteratur", Colloquium of the Institut für Internationale Kommunikation "Jubiläen, Geburtstage und Hochzeiten in transkultureller Perspektive", 28.11.2014, Haus der Universität Düsseldorf
"Hochzeit zwischen Tradition und Trend. Die Eheschließung im Kontext des sozialen Wandels", Potsdamer Tag der Wissenschaften, 08.06.2013, University of Potsdam
Teaching unit on the topic 'Love' as part of a religio-philosophic school project week at the Käthe-Kollwitz-Oberschule Berlin, October 2012
"Mixed Marriages. Interfaith and Interdenominational Marriages in Jewish and Christian Tradition", lecture at the International Seminar "Building for the Future III - Kiss your bride. Wedding Rites and Gender relationship in Jewish and Christian Tradition", 07.09.2012, Gollwitz
"Religion und Freiheit in Comics: 'Die Bibel im Bild', 'Persepolis' und 'Anne Frank - Eine graphische Biographie'", lecture at the LER-Conference 2012 "Freiheit mit oder ohne Grenzen", 21.04.2012, University of Potsdam
"Jewish and Christian affected Fairy Tales" and "Religious Education in Germany" - guest lectures as part of a Erasmus guest lectureship from 15.-22.02.2012 at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Helsinki