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.

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 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 is on a current events-panel at this year's Austrian Association of American Studies (AAAS)-conference to address "Academic Freedom under Attack: Transgenerational Perspectives on Contemporary Transatlantic American Studies." For more information, see here .

Heike Paul participates in the international conference "Victorian and American Myths in Video Games" at NOVA University Lisbon from...

Heike Paul participates in the DFG round table event "The Future of the English Major. Anglistik und Amerikanistik in Deutschland: Eine...