Community, Campus, and Media Presentations

Podcasts

24/10/2015      “Katarina Witt,” Wilson Center Digital Archive: International History Declassified, http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/resource/sport-in-the-cold-war/episode-15-katarina-witt. Interview in conjunction with the conference The Global History of Sport in the Cold War. Organizers: Robert Edelman and Christopher Young, New York University.

15/11/2011      Author Talk on The Politics of Fertility in Twentieth-Century Berlin, New Books in Gender Studies, New Books Network. http://newbooksingenderstudies.com/2011/11/15/annette-timm-the-politics-of-fertility-in-twentieth-century-berlin-cambridge-up-2010/.

Interviews

29/7/2021        “Calgary Professors Worry of ‘Prime Conditions’ for COVID on Campus,” CityNews Calgary, https://www.660citynews.com/video/2021/07/29/calgary-professors-worry-over-prime-conditions-for-covid-on-campus/.

30/3/2015        Annette F. Timm, “Q&A with New JHS Editor Annette Timm,” University of Texas Press, accessed July 19, 2017, http://utpressnews.blogspot.com/2015/03/q-with-new-jhs-editor-annette-timm.html.

3/10/2013        “Learning Commons Uncommon,” interview with Alex Frazer-Harrison about the “Summer Institute for New Faculty,” in OnCampus.

4/2010             Interview with Maclean’s Magazine journalist Tom Henheffer for piece on ultra-nationalism and neo-Nazism. Piece published Spring 2010.

11/2009           Interview about the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall with freelance reporter Lauren Barr. Article published in the Calgary Herald.

11/2009           Interview about the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall with CBC Calgary’s Homestretch, David Gray.

Community Presentations

8/2020             Introduction of Dr. Lillian Faderman, keynote speaker for the Calgary Institute of the Humanities’ Second Annual LGBTQ2S+ Lecture. Zoom.

2019, 2021 & 2022     “Hitler’s Fake News,” presented to history students at Henry Wisewood High School.

11/2019           Roundtable discussion with community members about curatorial practices for the TransTrans exhibition, Schwules Museum (Gay Museum), Berlin.

3/2019             “Hitler’s Fake News,” for the History Department’s History Matters lecture series at the Calgary Public Library.

8/2018             “A Sex Story About Nazis: How and Why to Avoid Perpetuating Historical Myths in Fiction,” When Words Collide: A Festival for Readers and Writers, Calgary, August 11, 2018.

8/2018             “Historical Research for Authors of Fiction,” When Words Collide: A Festival for Readers and Writers, Calgary, August 11, 2018.

11/2016           “Roundtable on the Documentary Film Germans and Jews, by Director Janina Quint.” Jewish Film Festival, Beth Tezedec Congregation, Calgary. With Jan Süselbeck and Orit Shimoni.

May 2009, and 2011 – 2017   “Six Things Everyone Should Know about the Holocaust.” Lecture for high school students (two groups of 200 each year) in preparation for meeting a Holocaust survivor. Annual Holocaust Education Symposium: “Holocaust Remembrance, Education and Human Rights Committee of Calgary Jewish Community Council,” Mount Royal University.

2/2013             “Memories of Evil and the Role of Individual Narratives.” Pre-Performance talk for Guy Cassiers’s play Sunken Red, Theatre Junction Grand, Calgary.

2/2013             “The Historical Significance of Anne Frank’s Diary.” Pre-Performance talk for Helios Dance Theater’s ballet About Anne: A Diary in Dance, Jubilee Auditorium, Calgary.

6/2011             with Michael Taylor, “PopSex! Curator Talk.” Edmonton Works Festival.

5/2009             Discussion Participant for “Why People Apologize: Public Apologies and Their Consequences,” CBC Radio IDEAS programme. Aired on CBC Radio, May 2009.

4/2009             “German Fascism Past and Present.” DiverCity Calgary: Community Discussion Forum: "Responding to Hate Crimes & Groups," Kanahoff Center, Calgary.

Invited Colloquia and Campus Presentations

2/2021             “Sexual Citizenship: Gender and Agency in Dictatorship and Democracy,” University of Innsbruck, Zoom.

10/2019           “Lebensborn: Mysticism, Racism and Sexual Myths about the Nazis,“ Department of History Colloquium Series, University of Lethbridge.

05/2018           “Spectres of Nazi Sexual Deviance in Allied Propaganda: Himmler and Allied Propaganda,” Colloquium zur Zeitgeschichte, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, Prof. Dr. Paul Nolte.

10/2015           “The Miracle of German Reunification,” for Celebrating 25 Years of German Unity. Lecture to an audience of approx.. 250 in celebration of the anniversary of German reunification.

4/2015             Introduction of Dr. Konrad Jarausch, Frank Eyck Memorial Lecture.

4/2015             Lebensborn: Nazi Maternity Homes and Postwar Myths,” Faculty Association (TRUFA) Equity Committee, the TRUFA Guest Speakers' Fund, Thompson Rivers University.

1/2014             “Lebensborn: Nazi Maternity Homes and Postwar Myths,” Feminist Research Speakers Series, Women’s Studies Program, University of Alberta.

10/2013           “Mothers, Whores or Sentimental Dupes? Emotion and Race in Historiographical Debates about Women in the Third Reich,” History of Emotions Research Group, Max-Planck Institute for Human Development (Director Ute Frevert), Berlin, Germany.

4 & 6/2013       “Is Woman to Man as Consumption is to Production? Gender and the 1953 East German Uprising,” Ziegler Visiting Speaker Series, Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies, University of British Columbia.

4/2013             “Lebensborn and the Pornographic/Erotic Displacement of the Holocaust,” Department of German, Reed College, Portland, Oregon.

1/2013             “France and Germany: Their Role in the Formation of Europe,” Celebrating the 50^th Anniversary of the Élysée Treaty, with participation from the Consulate General of France and the Honorary Consul of Germany, University of Calgary.

11/2012           Introduction of Dr. Chris Waters, Alan Turing Centenary Lecture Series.

3/2012             with Michael Thomas Taylor, “PopSex! A Research Project,” Talk upon receiving Faculty of Arts Distinguished Research Award.

3/2012             “Magnus Hirschfeld and the Origins of Sexual Science.” Talk to one-day symposium on sexuality organized by Queers on Campus.

3/2009             “Lebensborn: Nazi Morality and Sexualized Myths,” Calgary Institute for the Humanities.

10/2003           “The Body as Methodology and the History of Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Germany,” Colloquium of the Depart. of Germanic, Slavic and East Asian Studies, U of Calgary.

3/2002             “From the Politics of Fertility to Liberal Eugenics: What lessons can we learn from the Case of Twentieth-Century Germany?” Comparative Program on Health and Society, Munk Centre for International Studies, Toronto.

9/2000             “Die Spuren der Bevölkerungspolitik in der BRD während des Kalten Krieges,” Oberseminar für Moderne Geschichte [Advanced Colloquium for Modern History], Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Ullmann, University of Cologne, Germany.

Invited and Voluntary Teaching Presentations & Activities

6/2021             Participant on roundtable discussion about applying for academic jobs. Organized by Postdoctoral Fellows Association of the University of Calgary.

3/2019             “Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator and History,” University of Calgary History Club.

3/2018             “Getting a Journal Article Published,” for History Graduate Students’ Union Workshop Series.

5/2017             “Getting a Journal Article Published.” Grad Success Week, University of Calgary

2015, 2016 and 2017  “Lebensborn and the Film Two Lives.” Cornelia Burian’s German 357: Post-Reunification Film.

11/2011, 11/2012 and 11/2015   Filmed interview on “Rejections of Liberalism” with International Baccalaureate history students at St. Mary’s High School, Calgary.

5/2015             “Doing Masculinity.” Tina Block’s History 4030: Canadian Gender History, Thompson Rivers University.

5/2015             “How and Why We Wrote Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe.” Wilson Bell’s History 1260: Europe 1789-1939. A discussion with students about my textbook.

3/2015             “Preventing Plagiarism,” Faculty of Arts, Teaching and Learning Workshop

1/2013             with Michael Ullyot, “Data Management for Research and Teaching,” presentation to Faculty of Arts Research Series.

11/2012           “The Baader-Meinhof Komplex: History and Myth.” Presentation to the Graduate Student German Film Series.

9/2012             “Sexploitation/Nazisploitation: Pornography and The Holocaust.” Florentine Strzelczyk’s German 357: Post-Reunification Film.

3/2010             Lecture on historiography to International Baccalaureate history students at St. Mary’s High School, Calgary.

2007/2008       with Jerremie Clyde and Alexander Hill. Developed Online History Skills Course.

3/2007             “Homophobia in the Third Reich: Introducing the Documentary Film Paragraph 175.” Film showing organized by University of Calgary’s Development Studies Club.

11/2004           “Human Reproduction and Pronatalism in European History,” Medical School, University of Calgary (Foothills Hospital).

2/2004             Presentation to history graduate students about how to use bibliographic software and digital photography in their archival research.

2003 & 2004   Commentator at University of Calgary-Alberta High School International Baccalaureate History Colloquium

15/8/2003        Guest speaker at “Summer Institute for New Faculty,” Learning Commons,