Speaking

I am an experienced speaker, facilitator, and moderator and have worked both with specialist and non-specialist audiences. I mainly offer talks, workshops, and lectures on feminist foreign policy; diplomacy and gender, race, and class; and women in diplomacy.

If you want to book me for a speaking engagement, please reach out! I’m based in Berlin but happy to travel or do an online event.

Previous engagements

Non-academic

Talks

Envisioning a feminist future: Is feminist foreign policy the way forward?. Europäische Akademie Berlin. 2024.

Feminist Foreign Policy in Germany and beyond: Interrogating the ‘feminist’ in Feminist Foreign Policy. Otto Suhr Institute at Free University Berlin. 2024.

Feminist Foreign Policy in Germany: The role of the Federal Foreign Office and its Work. Polis180 think tank for foreign and European policy. 2024. [Read a summary of the event here, in German.]

Gendering diplomacy: women’s perspectives. World Trade Institute. 2022.

Feminist foreign policy in the everyday of the German Foreign Office. King’s College London. 2021.

Panel Discussions

Feminist Foreign Policy and Electing Women. Brandeis University Center for German and European Studies. 2024. [Watch here.]

Feminist Foreign and Development Policy: Key to Transformation or Exercise in Branding?. College for Social Sciences and Humanities. 2024. [Read a summary of the event here.]

Women in politics: international relations and foreign affairs. Young European Federalists Germany, Young European Movement London, and Young European Movement UK. 2021.

Solidarity during the Global Health Crisis and beyond: Reimagining Communities. School of Security Studies Annual Conference, King’s College London. 2021. [Watch here.]

Germany and the Future of US-European Relations. Politisches Bildungsforum der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. 2017.

Workshops

How female is diplomacy?. Training for International Diplomats, German Federal Foreign Office. 2022.

Feminist Foreign Policy. European Public Policy Conference, Hertie School of Governance. 2022.

Moderating

Panel Discussion, Feminist Foreign Policy Perspectives on the War in Ukraine. University of Erfurt. 2022.

Panel Discussion, The Women of War Studies. King’s College London and Women in War and International Politics. 2021. [Watch here.]

Panel Discussion, Feminist Foreign Policy – Idealism or Model for the Future?. University of Erfurt, Young European Federalists Erfurt, and GoAhead!. 2021.

Academic

Paper Presentations

Producing feminist foreign policy as ‘accessible’: the German case. International Studies Association Annual Convention. 2025. [declined]

Whose feminisms? Producing German feminist foreign policy at the intersection of civil society and diplomacy. British International Studies Association Virtual Conference. 2025.

What does the ‘feminist’ in feminist foreign policy mean?. New Voices in Global Security, King’s College London. 2024. [Watch here.]

Taking historical responsibility? The persistence of coloniality in German feminist foreign policy. British International Studies Association Annual Conference. 2024.

Making feminist foreign policy accessible. British International Studies Association Annual Conference. 2024.

On co-optation: Translating feminist foreign policy knowledge. International Studies Association Annual Convention. 2024.

Making foreign policy feminist: the case of Germany. LSE-KCL Seminar Series on European Foreign Policy. 2024.

The Everyday Knowledge Production of/on Feminist Foreign Policy in Germany. European International Studies Association Pan-European Conference. 2023.

The Everyday Knowledge Production of/on Feminist Foreign Policy in Germany. International Studies Association Annual Conference. 2023. [declined]

Potentials and limitations of doing feminist politics: an examination of feminist foreign policy and feminist crisis governance in Canada and Hawai'i. International Studies Association Annual Convention. 2023. [declined]

The Everyday Knowledge Production of/on Feminist Foreign Policy in Germany. British International Studies Association Annual Conference. 2023.

Diversifying the Foreign Office: The German foreign policy discourse on credibility. Gender and Diplomacy workshop, University of Gothenburg. 2022.

Diversifying the face of German diplomacy and foreign policy? The discursive construction of credibility. International Studies Association Annual Convention. 2022.

Feminist struggles in German foreign policymaking: analysing everyday practices of change and resistance. Doing IPS seminar series, King’s College London, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Queen Mary University. 2021.

Feminism(s) in the Everyday of the German Foreign Office: The Politics of Change and Resistance. Centre for Language, Discourse and Communication Doctoral Lab. 2021.

A foreign policy by women? Gender and class in the German Foreign Office. New Voices in Security Studies, King’s College London. 2021.

Taking feminism seriously: theorising foreign policymaking relationally. German Political Science Association Annual Convention. 2021.

A foreign policy by women? Gender and class in the German Foreign Office. German Political Science Association Annual Convention. 2021.

Theorising German foreign policy ‘from below’: a case for feminist institutional ethnography. PGR Seminar Series, King’s College London. 2021.

Feminist Foreign Policy in the Everyday of the German Foreign Office: The Politics of Change and Resistance. IR & Ethics Research Theme, King’s College London. 2021.

Roundtables

Smash Patriarchy! The Routledge International Handbook of Feminism and International Relations. International Studies Association Annual Convention. 2025. [declined]

The Transformative Potential of Feminist Foreign Policy: Early-Career Scholars’ Perspectives. British International Studies Association Annual Conference. 2022.

Critical Approaches to Foreign Policy. British International Studies Association. 2021.

Discussant

International Contestation(s) of Gender and Sexuality Norms. European International Studies Association Pan-European Conference. 2023.

Women in MFAs and Foreign Service. Gender and Diplomacy Workshop, University of Gothenburg. 2022.

Methodology chapter of a PhD candidate. PGR Seminar Series, King’s College London. 2021.