Research Projects and Conferences

• Co-organiser of the Cultural Memory Research Series at the IGRS: Gender and Memory.
• Co-organiser (with Joanne Leal) of the International Conference “Gender and Memory” at the Birkbeck Research in Representations of Kinship and Community (30 September – 1 October 2010) and subsequent workshops
• Member of the steering committee of the new Birkbeck Research Centre “Representations in Kinship and Community”.
• Member of the steering committee for the AHRC founded network “After the Wall: Reconstructing and Representing the GDR” (2009-2010) and convenor of first workshop “Memory and Politics, Memory and Media” (April 2009).
• Co-organiser (with Jens Andermann) of the Workshop “The State We’re In - Museums, Narrativity, Identity” at the Birkbeck Institute of the Humanities, London (7 June 2008), proceedings will be published in a special issue of Theory, Culture and Society in January 2012.