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Workshop, Zusammenleben und Unterscheiden, Leibniz Institute of European History<\/em> (Mainz, Germany): \u201cConviviality, Responsibility, and the Ethics of Technology: Ivan Illich in Context\u201d (planned for summer 2026)<\/p>\n

Conference Co-organiser, Leibniz Institute of European Histor<\/em>y (Mainz, Germany): \u201cTechnological Optimism in 1970s and 1980s Popular Culture: Innovation, Creativity, Prosperity, and Freedom<\/a>\u201d (planned for mid-April 2026)<\/p>\n

European Social Science History Conference <\/em>(Leiden, The Netherlands): \u201cThe Reception of Secular Social Thought among Ecumenical Christians in mid-20th Century Britain\u201d (26 March 2025)<\/p>\n

(INVITED LECTURER<\/u>) University of Lausanne, Switzerland, course \u201c<\/em>Computing in Context\u201d<\/em>: Presentation as guest lecturer, \u201cChristian views of technology in the early post-war period\u201d (28 November 2024)<\/p>\n

(INVITED LECTURER<\/u>) University of Lausanne, Switzerland, course \u201c<\/em>Histoire de l\u2019informatique\u201d<\/em>: Presentation as guest lecturer, \u201cTechnological optimism in the 1970s and 1980s\u201d (28 November 2024)<\/p>\n

Series Reden wir \u00fcber Europa! <\/em>Leibniz Institute of European History <\/em>(Mainz, Germany):\u00a0<\/em>Discussion planning and moderator: \u201cUSA und Europa: Eine Beziehung vor der Wahl\u201d\u00a0<\/em>(23.10.2024)<\/p>\n

Forschungsdatenmanagement(FDM)-Thementage <\/em>(Hochschule Mainz, Germany): Presentation about the consortium NFDI4Memory (8 March 2024)<\/p>\n

European Social Science History Conference (Gothenburg, Sweden): “Making the Word New (again): the Bible for Today (1941) and ‘Modern’ Christianity” (13 April 2023)<\/p>\n

Wissen ordnen und entgrenzen \u2013 vom analogen zum digitalen Europa? (Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz): Commentary on first day of conference papers (16 March 2022)<\/p>\n

Leibniz Institute of European History (Mainz): “Christianity, Technology and Sacralisation: The World Council of Churches and the Technological Society, 1937-1948”, Beyond Secularization\u2013 (De)Sacralization in Modern European History | Jenseits der S\u00e4kularisierungstheorie \u2013 (De)sakralisierung in der neuzeitlichen Geschichte Europas<\/em> (25 November 2021, virtual).<\/p>\n

Leibniz Institute of European History (Mainz): “Christianity, Technology and Sacralisation: Christian Intellectuals in Britain and the Challenge of the Technological Society, 1930s\u20131950s”, Autor:innen-Workshop: Sakralisierung-Disziplin\u00e4re Zug\u00e4nge und empirische Forschungsperspektiven <\/em>(12. Oktober 2021).<\/p>\n

European Social Science History Conference (Leiden, The Netherlands) (AS PANEL ORGANISER: \u201cReligion and social change in the twentieth century\u201d): “Christian Intellectuals in Britain and the Challenge of Technology from the 1930s to the 1950s” (25 March 2021, virtual)<\/p>\n

European Social Science History Conference (Leiden, The Netherlands): Commentator on the “Religious Change and Secularisation” panel, European Social Science History Conference <\/em>(26 March 2021, virtual).<\/p>\n

Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz), inaugural lecture (Antrittsvorlesung): “Der Killer mit dem blauen Auge: Ein deutscher Polizistenm\u00f6rder in London und die britische Justiz der 1950er Jahre” (7 November 2018)<\/p>\n

Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz), Habilitationskolloquium: “Rasse und Differenzkonzepte im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert” (4 July 2018)<\/p>\n

University of Siegen, Symposium: Counter\/Narratives of Punishment and Criminal Justice: “Sympathies and Scandals: (Counter-) Narratives of Criminality and Policing in Inter-war Britain” (22 June 2018)<\/p>\n

European Social Science History Conference (Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK): Invited commentator at a panel session on Patrick Pasture, Imagining European Unity since 1000 AD<\/em>. (7 April 2018)<\/p>\n

European Social Science History Conference (Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK) (AS PANEL ORGANISER: “Christian modernities in Britain and Ireland in the twentieth century”): “‘Going part of the way together’: Christian Intellectuals, Secularity, and the European Crisis, 1937\u20131949” (4 April 2018)<\/p>\n

(INVITED SPEAKER) Justus Liebig University (Gie\u00dfen), International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture: “‘Dies ist eure Stunde’: Ein christlicher Intellektuellenkreis in Gro\u00dfbritannien und die europ\u00e4ischen Krisen der 1930er und 1940er Jahre” (28 June 2017)<\/p>\n

Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz), Research Colloquium, Neueste Geschichte: “This Is Your Hour: Christliche Intellektuelle in Gro\u00dfbritannien und die europ\u00e4ischen Krisen der 1930er und 1940er Jahre” (25 January 2017)<\/p>\n

German Historical Institute (London), Research Colloquium: “Christliche Intellektuelle in Gro\u00dfbritannien und die europ\u00e4ischen Krisen der 1930er und 1940er Jahre\u201d (27 September 2016)<\/p>\n

Britain and the World Conference 2016 (London) “‘The hopes of Europe have descended upon this island’: War, Religion, and the National \u2018Mission\u2019 in a British Christian Intellectual group, 1937\u20131949” (23 June 2016)<\/p>\n

European Social Science History Conference (Valencia, Spain) (AS PANEL ORGANISER: \u201cComparative Perspectives on Religion and Secularity in the Twentieth Century\u201d): “Explorations on the \u2018Frontier\u2019: Christian Principles and Secular Knowledge in a British Intellectual Network, 1937\u20131949” (31 March 2016)<\/p>\n

Institute of Historical Research Modern Religious History Seminar (London): “‘This Is Your Hour’: Crisis, Cultural Renewal and a Christian Intellectual Circle in Britain, 1937\u20131949” (10 February 2016)<\/p>\n

Leibniz Institute of European History (Mainz, Germany): Workshop: European Christianity and the Challenge of Plurality in the 1960s and 1970s, “A Prologue to Plurality? Secularity, Pluralism, Freedom and a Christian Intellectual Circle in 1940s Britain” (5 October 2015)<\/p>\n

Leibniz Institute of European History (Mainz, Germany) Commentary on lecture by Prof. Till van Rahden, “Minority and Majority as Asymmetrical Concepts: The Perils of Democratic Equality and Fantasies of National Purity” (7 July 2015)<\/p>\n

(INVITED DISCUSSANT) KADOC (KU Leuven, Belgium) Reassessing a Thought System: A Workshop on Twentieth Century Neothomism (29\u201330 June 2015)<\/p>\n

KADOC Seminar Series (KU Leuven, Belgium): “‘So the darkness shall be the light’: A Christian Intellectual Network in Britain and the European Crises of the 1930s and 1940s” (23 April 2015)<\/p>\n

(INVITED DISCUSSANT) The British Press in the Second World War: A Symposium (London) (8 July 2014)<\/p>\n

European Social Science History Conference (Vienna, Austria) (AS PANEL ORGANISER: “Christianity and national identity in twentieth-century Europe”): “‘The rock of human sanity stands in the sea where it always stood’: Britishness, Christianity and the experience of defeat, 1939\u20131941” (24 April 2014)<\/p>\n

European Social Science History Conference (Vienna, Austria) Session discussant: “Crossing the Line: European Police Culture across Ranks” (23 April 2014)<\/p>\n

Film series: Propaganda, Pazifismus, Kosmopolitismus: Die Welten des Ersten Weltkriegs im Film (Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz, Germany): Introductory talk on Charlie Chaplin’s Shoulder Arms\/Gewehr \u00dcber (30 October 2013)<\/p>\n

Workshop: Kulturelle Souver\u00e4nit\u00e4t: Ann\u00e4herung an ein Forschungskonzept (Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz, Germany), “‘A fundamental re-orientation of outlook’: Christliche Ordnungskonzepte und ‘kulturelle Souver\u00e4nit\u00e4t’ in Gro\u00dfbritannien, 1937-1949” (18 October 2013)<\/p>\n

Forschungskolloquium Neuere\/Neueste Geschichte (Lehrstuhl f\u00fcr Neuere und Neueste Geschichte, Georg-August-Universit\u00e4t, G\u00f6ttingen, Germany) “‘This is your hour, and the power of darkness’: Christliche Intellektuelle in Gro\u00dfbritannien und die Krisen der 1930er und 1940er Jahre” (18 June 2013)<\/p>\n

Our Criminal Past: Caring for the Future: First Network Seminar (London, UK) Session commentator, “Historians of Crime and Social Media” (17 May 2013)<\/p>\n

Forest of Dean Local History Society (Bream, Gloucestershire, UK): “The Trials of Beatrice Pace” (9 March 2013)<\/p>\n

British Crime Historians Symposium (The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK): “‘Unimaginable Agonies and Degradations and Cruelties’: Criminal Justice and the ‘Martyrdom’ of Beatrice Pace, 1928” (6\u20137 September 2012)<\/p>\n

International Association for Media and History Conference: Perception, Reception: The History of the Media in Society (Aberystwyth, Wales): “Christian Intellectuals and the Mass Media in 1930s and 1940s Britain” (4\u20136 July 2012)<\/p>\n

Zwischen Verehrung und Verachtung? Der Transfer der Kulturmorphologie Oswald Spenglers ins Europa der Zwischenkriegszeit (1919\u20131939) (“Between Reverence and Contempt: The Reception of Oswald Spengler\u2019s Morphology of Cultures in Inter-war Europe”) (Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz, Germany): “‘German Foolishness’ and the ‘Prophet of Doom’: Oswald Spengler and the Inter-war British Press” (20\u201321 June 2012)<\/p>\n

European Social Science History Conference (Glasgow, UK) (AS PANEL ORGANISER: “Crime Stories: Justice, Criminality, Policing and the Inter-War Press”): “The Constables and the ‘Garage Girl’: The Inter-war Press, the Metropolitan Police and the Case of Helene Adele” (11\u201314 April 2012)<\/p>\n

Religion und Kapitalismus\/Religion and Capitalism (Societ\u00e0, Forum f\u00fcr Ethik, Kunst und Recht, Vienna, Austria): “Zwischen Mammon und Marx: Christliche Kapitalismuskritik in Gro\u00dfbritannien 1930-39” (“Between Mammon and Marx: Christian Critiques of Capitalism in Britain 1930\u201339”) (18 November 2011)<\/p>\n

West-\u00d6stlicher Ideentransfer. Ordnungsentw\u00fcrfe transnationaler Querdenker f\u00fcr Europa in der ersten H\u00e4lfte des 20. Jahrhunderts (Institute of European History, Mainz, Germany): “‘Planning for Freedom’: Karl Mannheim, Joseph Oldham und ‘The Moot'” (16 November 2011)<\/p>\n

Making Sense of Violence? Interdisciplinary Approaches to Violence Past and Present (University of Bern, Switzerland): “A part of us or apart from us? The cultural, social and psychological sense of violence” (9 September 2011)<\/p>\n

Research colloquium (Forschungskolloquiuim), Institute of European History (Mainz, Germany): “Kriminalit\u00e4tsgeschichte als Kulturgeschichte” (“Crime History as Cultural History”) (12 April 2011)<\/p>\n

Crime and Punishment in Modern Europe, 1870-1990 (German Historical Institute, Washington DC, USA): “‘Heroic Doses of Being Left Alone’: Criminal Justice, the Press and Civil Liberties in Inter-war Britain” (11 March 2011)<\/p>\n

Social Science History Association Conference (Chicago, USA): Commentary on American Homicide<\/em>, by Randolph Roth (20 November 2010)<\/p>\n

Social Science History Association Conference (Chicago, USA): “Police Powers and Parliamentary Politics in Late 1920s Britain” (18 November 2010)<\/p>\n

Drink in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Consumers, Cross-Currents, Conviviality (Conference: University of Bonn): “Drinking, Fighting and Working-Class Sociability in Nineteenth-Century England” (5 November 2010)<\/p>\n

XXI. Polizeihistorisches Kolloquium (University of Cologne, Germany) “Police Powers and their Limits in 1920s Britain” (16 July 2010)<\/p>\n

Ethnicity, Crime and Justice; Contemporary and Historical Perspectives (The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK) “Prejudice and Practice: The Experience of Black Offenders and Victims in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries” (8 June 2010)<\/p>\n

European Social Science History Conference (Ghent, Belgium) “Change of Perspective: Integrating Evolutionary Psychology into the Historiography of Violence” (13\u201316 April 2010)<\/p>\n

(AS CONFERENCE ORGANISER) Policing, Media and Civil Liberties in Inter-war Britain (The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK) “The ‘Third Degree’: The Cultural History of an American Phrase in Britain, 1900\u20131939” (26 February 2010)<\/p>\n

Reading British Spaces: Annual Conference of the German Association for the Study of British Culture (University of Paderborn, Germany) “Reading Spaces and Reading Violence in Nineteenth-Century Britain” (19\u201321 November 2009)<\/p>\n

Social Fears and Moral Panics (University of Aberystwyth, UK) “The Press, the ‘Third Degree’ and Police Powers in Late-1920s Britain” (8\u201311 July 2009)<\/p>\n

Violence in Public Places (University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK) “And never the twain shall meet? Evolutionary Psychology and the History of Violence” (25\u201327 June 2009)<\/p>\n

Justice and Public Space(s) in the Western World, from Antiquity to the Present (Centre interuniversitaire d\u2019\u00e9tudes qu\u00e9b\u00e9coises, Montreal, Canada) “Police Powers and Public Opinion in Late-1920s Britain” (8 May 2009)<\/p>\n

Women and Crime in Britain and North America since 1500 (University Lyon 2 and University Lyon 3, France) “Police Powers and the Celebrity Female Victim in Mid-Interwar Britain” (11\u201313 September 2008)<\/p>\n

(AS INVITED PLENARY SPEAKER) Symposium on New Directions in the History of Crime (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) “Cultural and Biological Approaches to the History of Violence: An End to Splendid Isolation?” (4\u20135 September 2008)<\/p>\n

“From Shanghai to Shepperton”: An International Conference on J. G. Ballard (University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK) “‘Going mad is their only way of staying sane’: The Civilised Violence of J. G. Ballard” (5 May 2007)<\/p>\n

Crime, Violence and the Modern State Conference (University of Rethymnon, Crete, Greece) “Violence and Victimisation in Interwar Britain: The ‘Martyrdom’ of Mrs. Pace” (10 March 2007)<\/p>\n

Policing and Violence Between and After Wars seminar (The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK) “A Study in Interwar Victimisation: Police, Press, Public and the ‘Tragic Widow of Coleford'” (16 February 2007)<\/p>\n

“Assaulting the Past” – Placing Violence in Historical Context Conference (Oxford Brookes University, UK) “Locating Violence: Space and the Construction of Physical Aggression” (7 July 2005)<\/p>\n

Fourth York Cultural History Conference (York, UK) “Conceptualising Cultures of Violence and Cultural Change” (April, 2005)<\/p>\n

Workshop Gender- und Frauenforschung (Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany) “What a Man\u2019s Got To Do: Historical Perspectives on Violence, Culture and Masculinity” (22 January 2005)<\/p>\n

Second Transdisciplinary Forum Magdeburg, “Diskurse der Gewalt – Gewalt der Diskurse” (Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany) “The Process of Civilization (and its Discontents): Violence, Discourse and History” (July 2004)<\/p>\n

British Society of Criminology (BSC) Conference (Keele University, UK) “The Civilising Bargain: Mentality, Protection and Delegated Violence in Britain” (17 July 2002)<\/p>\n

Comparative Histories of Crime Conference (Keele University, UK) “It\u2019s a Small World After All?: Reflections on Violence in Cross-national Perspectives” (16 July 2002)<\/p>\n

International Conference on the History of Violence (University of Liverpool, UK) “‘Speakable’ Violence: Narrative, Mentality and Violence in Nineteenth-Century England” (5 July 2001)<\/p>\n

Victorian Studies Reading Group (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA) “A Useful Savagery: Violence, Civilization and Middle-Class Identity” (28 September 2000)<\/p>\n

History Workshop Seminar (London, UK) “Custom, Law, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century England” (10 January 2000)<\/p>\n

Royal Geographic Society-Institute of British Geographers (RGS\u2013IBG) (Brighton, UK) “‘The Wrongdoing of the Poor Man is as Open as Day’: Violence and Working-Class Social Space in Nineteenth-Century England” (6 January 2000)<\/p>\n

Group for Early-Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS) (Coral Gables, FL, USA) “‘The Brave Old English Custom’: Dispute, Sport and Ritual Fighting Among Working-Class Men in Nineteenth-Century England” (9 October 1999)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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