As part of her ifk fellowship, Heike Paul and Karin Harrasser co-organize the conference "Aufhören. Können / Enabling Endings", which addresses the difficulties and joys of quitting. The conference takes place from Wednesday, June 10, to Friday, June 12, at the ifk Arkade in Vienna. Attendance is possible both via Zoom (registration required) and in-person (no registration required). For more information on the conference program and how to register, see here.

Heike Paul’s talk “Gefühlte Aufklärung? Politische Emotionen und die amerikanische Demokratie" has been uploaded under the title „Declaration of Independence – Der Stellenwert von Gefühlen in der US-Politik“ by Deutschlandfunk Nova. The recording is available in the Deutschlandfunk App, on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and in the ARD Mediatheque. Heike Paul originally gave the talk on 18 March 2026 as part of the lecture series “Umkämpftes Vermächtnis: Die ›Declaration of Indepen

Heike Paul is the co-organizer of the 14th international summer academy of the Bavarian American Academy (BAA), which focuses on “North American Narratives of Crisis and Repair, Past and Present”. The summer academy takes place from Monday, June 1, to Monday, June 8, in Tutzing at Lake Starnberg in Germany and is organized by the BAA in cooperation with the Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing. For more information, see here and here.

Heike Paul is invited to give a talk as part of the lecture series "Machtmissbrauch", organized by the Women's Representatives of the the Faculty of Humanities, Social Scienes, and Theology, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg. The talk is titled "Machtmissbrauch und #Metoo im Film: Wie Hollywood von sich selbst erzählt" and takes place on Wednesday, May 27, 6pm. For more information on the talk (in German) see here, and for more information on the lecture series, including the zoom link,

As part of the seminar “Writing America: The United States at 250”, organized by the Centro Studi Americani in Rome, Heike Paul is invited to give two talks and participate in a roundtable discussion. On Tuesday, May 12, Heike Paul gives a talk on “Narratives of American Beginnings: ‘Lost Colonies’ and Historical Imagination.” Her second talk, on Wednesday, May 13, is about “Civil Sentimentalism versus ‘Toxic Empathy’: Affective Politics of Order and Belonging.” Additionally,

Heike Paul is invited to give a talk on “The Frontier Myth” at the University of Zurich on April 13. The guest lecture is part of Nicole Koenigsknecht’s seminar “(Re)imagining the American West.”