Lectures
“Protest im internationalen Vergleich: Was Engagement in Hongkong, Iran und Sudan bewegen konnte“
Lecture at Evangelische Akademie Tutzing “Geschichte und Erfolge sozialer Bewegungen” in Tutzing.
26 October 2025
“Ursprüngliche Demokratie oder Raum für Experimente? Die Rolle von Protest in Demokratien“
Keynote at Digitales Regenbogenparlament: “Das ist doch utopisch?! Inspiration und Strategien für hoffnungsvolles Arbeiten” online.
11 June 2025
“Sozialwissenschaft und politische Teilhabe: Runder Tisch auf dem Richtsberg“
participating in a roundtable discussion on political participation as part of the lecture series „Konflikte in Gegenwart und Zukunft“ at Marburg University.
11 June 2025
“Lokale Macht, zentrale Verwaltung: Staatskonflikte in Afghanistan“
Lecture on state-society conflicts in Afghanistan as part of Ringvorlesung „Der Nahe Osten im Wandel: Zeitgeschichtliche Perspektiven“ at Frankfurt University.
20 May 2025
“Positionalitätskämpfe und Internationale Beziehungen”
Lecture on positionality and IR as part of the lecture series “Perspektivwechsel in den Internationalen Beziehungen: Gegenhegemoniale Betrachtungen” at Marburg University.
12 June 2024
“The long struggle for political and human rights in Iran”
Lecture on democracy movements in Iran at Bremen University. Report available by Weser-Kurier Bremen.
19 July 2023
“Proteste im Iran”
Lecture on WLF protests in Iran as part of lecture series on political protest at University of Potsdam.
20 June 2023
“Making Sense of the Iran Protests”
Lecture as a Teaching Fellow at the University of Kent.
21 November 2022
“Neue Proteste – bewährte Theorien? Protestforschung im Kontext von Staatlichkeit”
Lecture on conflictual conceptions of statehood at Passau University.
29 April 2021
“Protestformen im Wandel – Auswirkungen von Covid-19 auf Aktivismus weltweit”
Lecture on the impact of Covid-19 on protest movements. Organized by Marburger Weltladen.
22 July 2020
“Wege aus der Gewalt – Perspektiven für Frieden in Syrien“
as part of the lecture series „Herkunftsländer der Flüchtlinge in Deutschland“ at the Ländliche Heimvolkshochschule e. V. in Mariaspring.
11 May 2017
Courses at Marburg University
Widerstand gegen Autokratisierung: Medien, Politik, Gesellschaft
with Dr. Alena Strohmaier
Winter term 2025/26
Political legitimacy in the Middle East and the Arab Spring
Winter term 2019/20
Exkursion Recht, Gerechtigkeit und soziale Konflikte: Aus dem NSU-Prozess lernen?
with Dr. Maria Ketzmerick
Winter term 2018/19
Contemporary Political and Social theories beyond the European canon
with Dr. Maria Ketzmerick
Winter term 2018/19
Protest, Resistance, Collective Action
Summer term 2018
Political legitimacy in the Middle East and the Arab Spring
Winter term 2017/18
Resistance, Collective Action and Revolution
Summer term 2017
Political legitimacy in the Middle East and the Arab Spring
Winter term 2016/17
Summer/Autumn Schools
Course „Protest and Democratic Backsliding in Europe”
at the Hessen International Summer University
August 2022
Course „Protest and Democratic Backsliding in Europe”
at the Hessen International Summer University
August 2021
Supplement course „German Politics in a Changing World”
at the Hessen International Summer University
August 2019
Supplement course „German Politics in a Changing World”
at the Hessen International Summer University
August 2018
„Privatization of Rent: Importance on non-state stakeholders in Iran“
at the “Social Policy in Oil-Based Economies” Autumn School in Tehran, Iran
November 2017
Workshop „The influence of historical transnational/translocal areas or structures and their influence on societal conflicts”
at the “Conflicts and Challenges in Central Asia from a Regional and Transregional Perspective” Summer School in Almaty, Kazakhstan (with Stephen Foose)
June 2017
Other Workshops
Workshop „Can the Scientists Speak?“
at ISA Chicago as part of the Professional Advancement Seminar Series (PASS)
1 March 2025
Workshop „Framing als Crossmediale Strategie. Wie Akteur*innen und Technologien Deutungsmuster beeinflussen“
at the Evangelischen Studienwerk Viligst
August 2020
Workshop „Wissenschaft machen! Forschungsworkshop für den Nachwuchs“
at the Start-Stiftung (with Dr. N.-Han Tran)
July 2017