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.”

Heike Paul is invited to give a talk as part of the lecture series “Umkämpftes Vermächtnis: Die ›Declaration of Independence‹ als lebendige Tradition, 1776–2026” at the John McCloy Transatlantic Forum of the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Bad Homburg. Registration until 12 March ( anmeldung@forschungskolleg-humanwissenschaften.de ). For more, see here .

As part of her ifk Fellowship, Heike Paul gives a talk on renunciation (Verzicht) in the context of American cultural history. The talk is held at the ifk Arkade on March 9, 6pm. For more, see here .

Heike Paul is invited to give a key note at the “Historical Fictions Research Conference 2026: Feelings and Emotions”, held at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg February 19-20. The title of her talk is “Historical Fiction and Historical Revisionism in the Age of Polarization.” For more information, see here .

Heike Paul participates in a workshop on "USA 2025: Perspektiven auf Gesellschaft, Politik, Kultur und Wirtschaft im Lichte aktueller Entwicklungen" at the Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing. She gives a talk on "American Myths" and a talk on "Polarization in the U.S., Past and Present". For more information, see here .