Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Department of Rehabilitation Sciences

Presentations

2026
  • Conference organisation: ‘Development, acceleration and alienation: Cultural-historical Activity Research on Temporality and Intersubjectivity. ISCAR Regional Conference 2026’ (with Stefanie Müller, Marco Mazereeuw, Vera Schuurmans, Loes Meijer, Jan Steffens, Monique Verhoeven), September 2026 at Humboldt University in Berlin.(Link)
2025
  • Lecture: "Perspectives of cultural-historical-materialistic special education: Intellectual disability as development under isolating conditions," as part of the 2025 annual conference of the DIFGB from 27 to 28 November 2025 at the University of Leipzig. (Link)
  • Lecture: ‘The Neuronal Subject, or: Autism between Liberation and Lifestyle’, as part of the lecture series ‘Autism Studies in Education. Methodologies, Critique, Representation’ on 4 November 2025 at the PH Freiburg. (Link)
  • Lecture: ‘Isolation, Social Development and Disability: A Cultural-historical Approach’ (with Jan Steffens), as part of the symposium ‘Loneliness as a Social Phenomenon: Cross-Cultural Approaches to a Human Condition’, from 11 to 13 June 2025 at the Xplanatorium Herrenhausen of the Volkswagen Foundation Hanover, in conjunction with the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo. (Link)
  • Lecture: "Disability Storytelling and Disability Rights in the Context of the Ninth Art: Comics as a Means of Raising Awareness," as part of the conference "Practices of Producing Disability in Art and Literature," from 4 to 6 June 2025 at the University of Cologne. (CfP)
  • Lecture: " Workshop report of the working group on educational sciences and politics" (with Theresa Stommel, Lukas Kleinhenz, Fabian Riemen & Karl Kleinbach), as part of the 2nd working meeting of the DFG network "Comedy and disability at the intersection of cultural, media, social and educational sciences", from 19 to 21 March 2025 at the Ruhr University Bochum. (Link)
  • Lecture: "Between the promise of inclusion and human rights violations: School ability regimes as reflected in Austrian assessment practices for special educational needs (SEN)" (with Mirjam Hoffmann & Tobias Buchner), as part of the 38th Annual Conference of Inclusion Researchers 2025: "Inclusion – Education – Transformation", from 17 to 19 February 2025 at the University of Cologne.(Link)
  • Symposium: ‘Assessment practices for determining special educational needs under scrutiny’, as part of the 38th Annual Conference of Inclusion Researchers 2025: ‘Inclusion – Education – Transformation’, from 17 to 19 February 2025 at the University of Cologne. (Link)
2024
  • Lecture: "Diversity and inclusion in all subjects: Five models", on 25 November 2024 at the University of Innsbruck.
  • Lecture: "Disability and Empowerment in the Context of Ableism/Disableism," as part of the lecture series "Diversity. Together. Forms," on 10 September 2024 at the University of Education Vienna. (Link)
  • Conference organisation (with Marjolein Dobber, Chiel van der Veen, Bert van Oers, Bea Pompert, Anders Schinkel, Martijn van Schaik, Jan Steffens): "ISCAR 2024: Inclusiveness as a future challenge", from 26 to 30 August 2024 in Rotterdam, NL.(Link)
  • Lecture: "Special educational needs between the promise of inclusion, tautology and human rights violations: results of an expert analysis", as part of the closing conference of the FePrax project, on 21 June 2024 at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.(Link).
  • Lecture: "Inclusive education in an exclusive society? Current perspectives on inclusion and exclusion in education and social sciences," as part of the Spring School of the project "Reflectively shaping (new) structures in educational landscapes (NeOBi)" on 3 May 2024 at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.
  • Conference organisation (with Erik Weber, University of Marburg & Jan Steffens, EH Darmstadt): "Rehistorisation – Diagnostics – Counselling", on 22 & 23 March 2024 at the University of Marburg. (Link)
  • Lecture: "Rehistoricising didactics and diagnostics as the foundations of inclusive education," as part of the conference: "Rehistoricisation – Diagnostics – Counselling," on 22 and 23 March 2024 at the University of Marburg.
  • Lecture: "Evaluation of the allocation practice of special educational needs (SEN) in Austria" (with Tobias Buchner, Barbara Gasteiger-Klicpera, Mirjam Hoffmann & Michelle Proyer), as part of the 37th Annual Conference of Inclusion Researchers (IFO) on the topic of "Inclusion. Resilience. Learning Systems" from 26 to 28 February 2024 at the University of Graz.(Link)
2023
  • Lecture/webinar: "Evaluation of the allocation of special educational needs (SEN) in Austria" (with Barbara Gasteiger-Klicpera, University of Graz, Michelle Proyer, University of Vienna & Wilfried Prammer, PHOÖ). 30 November 2023, 5:30–7:00 p.m., Centre for Teacher Education, University of Vienna (online).
  • Press conference: "Evaluation of SPF award practices in Austria" (with Barbara Gasteiger-Klicpera, University of Graz, Michelle Proyer, University of Vienna & Wilfried Prammer, PHOÖ). 28 November 2023, 9:30–10:30 a.m., Institute for Educational Research and Teacher Education, University of Graz (online).
  • Conference chair (with Grit Alter, Josefine Wagner, Elisabeth Dietrich-Daum, Wolfgang Meixner and Dirk Rupnow): "Understanding Corona. Children and young people in times of pandemic" on 24 & 25 November 2023 at the University of Innsbruck.(Link)
  • Lecture: "Inclusive schools and teacher training in an exclusive society? Prospective inclusive educators under contradictory conditions" (with Miriam Sonntag & Josefine Wagner), as part of the ÖFEB online discourse on 8 November 2023.
  • Lecture: "Educational careers. The anti-aircraft assistant generation in special education," as part of the 4th symposium of the International Archive for Special Education, "Turmoil in Special Education: New Research Findings from the Nazi Era," on 6–7 October 2023.
  • Lecture: "Inclusive education as education for liberation", as part of the lecture series "International discussion and research status in the context of social-emotional development" on 14 June 2023 at the Salzburg University of Education (online).
  • Lecture: "Diagnostics and Human Rights: Isolation and Alienation as Pedagogical-Diagnostic Categories" (joint symposium with Stefan Schuster & Dr. Jan Steffens on the topic "Critical exclusion research: Thinking about inclusive education in terms of concrete circumstances"), as part of the 36th Annual Conference of Inclusion Researchers (IFO) from 8 to 10 February 2023 at the Intercantonal University of Special Education in Zurich.
2022
  • Lecture: "The Order of War Pedagogy. Special Educational Rehabilitation and Exercise Treatment for Soldiers with Brain Injuries in the First and Second World Wars," as part of the DGfE interim conference "Historiography of Special Education" organised by the Historical Education Research Section on 17 and 18 November 2022 at the University of Zurich.
  • Lecture: "Cultures of Recognition: On Cultivating Neurodiversity between Emancipatory Movement and the Biologisation of Disability," as part of the 43rd Conference of Teachers of Special Education at Universities in German-speaking Countries (KLGH): "Culture as a Research Perspective – Contributions of Education for the Intellectually Disabled," from 16 to 18 June 2022 at Humboldt University in Berlin. (Link)
  • Lecture: "Research Perspective on Inclusive Subject Didactics: On the Demand for a Reorientation of Subject Didactics in the Context of Inclusive School and Teaching Development," as part of the 5th Innsbruck Conference on Subject Didactics: "'Who am I – and if so, how many?' – On the self-image of academic subject didactics: goals, fields of research and methods", on 19 and 20 May 2022 at the University of Innsbruck. (Link)
  • Panel discussion: "Quo vadis subject didactics? Perspectives of an (?) academic discipline" (with Martin Rothgangel, Suzanne Kapelari, Benjamin Kremmel, Andrea Brait and Caroline Bader, as part of the  5th Innsbruck Conference on Subject Didactics: "' Who am I – and if so, how many?' – On the self-image of academic subject didactics: goals, fields of research and methods", on 19 and 20 May 2022 at the University of Innsbruck. (Link)
  • Lecture: "Designing inclusive learning spaces cooperatively" (with Miriam Sonntag), as part of the 15th International Conference on University Learning Workshops (HSLT): "Digital and analogue learning spaces – What kind of space do university learning workshops need?", from 7 to 9 March 2022 at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (online). (Link)
  • Lecture: "Just think: our Fritz is supposed to go to a special school!", as part of IFO 2022, from 23 to 25 February 2022, at the University of Innsbruck. (Online)
  • Conference chair of the 35th Annual Conference of Inclusion Researchers (IFO): "SPACE. POWER. INCLUSION. Developing and researching inclusive spaces," from 23 to 25 February 2022 at the University of Innsbruck (online). (Link)
2021
  • Lecture: "Primer for Special Schools (1942): Racial Hygiene and Ethnic Special Education" (with Josefine Wagner), as part of the annual conference of the Medical Humanities Research Centre at the University of Innsbruck, in December 2021.
  • Keynote speech: "Inclusive teaching, exclusive society?" as part of the 2021 teaching discussion: "Inclusion in university teaching" (online), on 8 November 2021 at the University of Innsbruck.
  • Interpretation workshop: "Cooperative work in experimental phases" (with Sina Gómez Thews & Jürgen Menthe, University of Hildesheim), as part of the GDCP conference: "Science Education and Documentary Method: Applications and Necessary Refinements of the Documentary Method for Science Education Research" (online conference), from 15 to 17 July 2021. (Link)
  • Workshop: "The individualisation trap. Inclusive teaching between personalised learning and standardised performance expectations", as part of the 2021 Summer School: "Shaping and developing perspectives and potential" at the University of Education Tyrol, Innsbruck, on 12 July 2021.(Link)
  • Lecture: "Training schools for 'brain cripples' (1914–1918): On the diagnosis and treatment of word blindness in the First World War between hysteria and aphasia", as part of the conference: "The Noise of Medicine: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Acoustic Phenomena in Medicine" (online conference), from 10 to 12 June 2021 at the University of Innsbruck.(Link)
  • Workshop: "Learning and Cognitive Development," with the Inclusion Expert Community of the University of Education Tyrol, Innsbruck, on 8 June 2021.
  • Guest lecture: "Illness and Disability: Limits of Health and Normality in the Context of Islamic Theology & Inclusive Education" (with Abdullah Takim, University of Innsbruck), as part of the lecture series "Crossing Borders and Drawing Boundaries. Transdisciplinary Approaches in Teacher Training" (online lecture), on 12 May 2021 at the University of Innsbruck.(Link)
  • Workshop: "Learning through shared objects – developing inclusive teaching", as part of the training series "Designing inclusive teaching" organised by OeAD – Austria's Agency for Education and Internationalisation (Cooperation Office Ukraine), on 19 April 2021 in Odessa, Ukraine (virtual).
  • Lecture and panel discussion: "Inclusion in SEK II", organised by the "Inclusive Education" department of the Centre for Teacher Education, University of Vienna, on 17 March 2021.
  • Lecture: "The individualisation trap: Inclusive subject didactics between personalised learning and standardised performance expectations", as part of the "Didactics in the Evening" series organised by the Institute for Subject Didactics on 27 January 2021 at the University of Innsbruck.
2020
  • Lecture: "(Dis-)Ableism in Crisis: Introductory Remarks," as part of the conference "Understanding Corona: The Pandemic from the Perspective of the Humanities and Cultural Studies" at the University of Innsbruck.(Link)
  • Panel Chair: "(Dis-)Ableism in Crisis: People with Disabilities between Promises of Care and Utilitarianism," on 26 and 27 November 2020, as part of the conference "Understanding Corona: The Pandemic from the Perspective of the Humanities and Cultural Studies" at the University of Innsbruck. (Link)
  • Lecture: "Current issues, approaches and perspectives in inclusive education", on 30 September 2020, as part of the AHS headteachers' conference organised by the Tyrol Education Authority.
  • Conference chair (with Elisabeth Dietrich-Daum, Michaela Ralser and Andreas Wimmer): "CHILD. LAW. MEDICINE." An interdisciplinary joint conference of the Medical Humanities, Medical and Health Law Research Centres and the Austrian Society for Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (ÖGKJ), from 24 to 25 September 2020 at the University of Innsbruck and the Innsbruck Congress Centre (organised by the UIBK, in association with the ÖGKJ, represented by Daniela Karall and Sabine Scholl-Buergi).(Link)
  • Lecture: "The human rights-based concept of disability", as part of the conference "CHILD. RIGHTS. MEDICINE." (see above)(Link)
  • Lecture: "Performance and Performance Fairness," as part of the Educational Conference at the Catholic Secondary School Kettenbrücke (KORG) on 18 September 2020 in Innsbruck.
  • Lecture: "Auxiliary subjects – Helping as an individual experience and social practice between deautonomisation and empowerment" (with Cathrin Reisenauer and Hendrik Richter, UIBK), as part of the 34th Annual Conference of Inclusion Researchers from 25 to 28 February 2020 at the University of Vienna/PH Vienna. (Link)
2019
  • Workshop: "Barriers of the Future and the Future of Accessibility," at the "Discussion Forum: Thinking About the Future" (with Lisa Pfahl & Volker Schönwiese), on 22 November 2019, at the conclusion of the University of Innsbruck's anniversary year 2019.(Link)
  • Workshop: "Educational Diagnostics and Developmental Didactics" (upgrade for assessors, basic seminar 4), on 20 September 2019, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., as part of the "Summer University 2019" at the University of Education Tyrol. (Link)
  • Lecture: "Comprehensive Diagnostics," on 30 August 2019, as part of the international symposium "Understanding Experiences – Experiencing (Non-)Understanding" at the University of Innsbruck.(Link)
  • Event: "Hands-on science: Being disabled, becoming disabled?" (with Mishela Ivanova, Cathrin Reisenauer & Elisabeth Rieder), on 15 June 2019, 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., as part of the University of Innsbruck's "Science Festival" around Universitätsstraße.(Link)
  • Lecture series: "Exclusion and Education", from 28 March to 27 June 2019, every Thursday, 5:15 p.m. to 6:45 p.m., at the University of Innsbruck (with Lisa Pfahl & Mishela Ivanova). List of speakers: Udo Sierck, Hamburg, Gudrun Quenzel, PH Vorarlberg, Wolfgang Jantzen, University of Bremen, Kerstin Ziemen, University of Cologne, Gregor Wolbring, University of Calgary, Inci Dirim, University of Vienna, Oliver Musenberg, University of Hildesheim, Hans Weiß, PH Ludwigsburg, Jos Boys, University College London.(Link)
  • Lecture: "Inclusive education as education for liberation", as part of the "33rd Annual Conference of Inclusion Researchers (IFO)" from 20 to 22 February 2019 at Humboldt University in Berlin.
2018 
  • Lecture: "Model project: 'Education and training of children and young people with disabilities and mental illness' (GBPSY) – Research findings from scientific monitoring" (with Jochen Montiegel and Niklas Pesth, PH Ludwigsburg), as part of the symposium on the model project on 20 July 2018 at the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport of Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart.
  • Lecture and discussion forum: "Inclusion and performance: Pedagogical differences on issues of fairness in schools" (with Marion Pollmanns, University of Flensburg, Kristian Folta-Schoofs, University of Hildesheim, and Kathrin Müller, PH Ludwigsburg), as part of the 2nd Conference of the Inclusion Research Working Group of the DGfE, on 28 and 29 June 2018 at the University of Flensburg.(Program)
  • Lecture: "Model project: 'Education and training of children and young people with disabilities and additional psychiatric diagnoses' – Presentation of selected findings from the final report" (with Jochen Montiegel and Niklas Pesth, PH Ludwigsburg), as part of the "40th Conference of Teachers of Special Education at Universities in German-speaking Countries" (KLGH), from 31 May to 2 June 2018 at the University of Rostock.(Program)
  • Lecture: "Diversity and Inclusion in Teacher Training," as part of the 2018 Study Day: Educational Science Fundamentals of the University of Innsbruck, KPH Edith Stein, PH Tirol and PH Voralberg on 5 April 2018 in Stams/Tyrol.
  • Lecture and symposium: "Special education historiography between unity and difference" (with Vera Moser, HU Berlin, Andreas Kuhn, University of Landau; discussant: Sebastian Barsch, University of Kiel), as part of the conference "Recalling the past – in all its diversity: inclusive history and historical learning", from 5 to 7 March 2018 at the University of Hildesheim. (Program)
2017 
  • Lecture: "Training schools for headshot victims – medicalisation and interdisciplinarity in special education during the First World War", as part of the international workshop "Student selection, school assessment and student testing 1880–1940" (discussant: Heinz-Elmar Tenorth, HU Berlin), on 5 and 6 October 2017 at the Library for Educational History Research (BBF) in Berlin.(Programm)
  • Lecture: "Students with intellectual disabilities and additional psychiatric diagnoses – Current findings from the scientific monitoring of a school development project" (with Niklas Pesth), as part of the "39th Conference of Teachers of Intellectual Disability Education at Academic Institutions in German-speaking Countries" (KLGH), from 15 to 17 June 2017 at the University of Würzburg. (Program)
  • Keynote speech: "Theses on the understanding of education in the GBPSY project", as part of the meeting of the "Education, School, Upbringing" committee of the German Association for Rehabilitation, on 9 March 2017 in Kassel.
  • Lecture and research forum: "Working together: Inclusive subject teaching between developmental logic and subject expertise" (with Jürgen Menthe, Oliver Musenberg, University of Hildesheim & Judith Riegert, University of Hanover), as part of the conference of the Commission for School Research and Didactics at the DGfE: "Subjects – Things – Tasks? On the construction and significance of subject-specific knowledge in teaching research" on 6 & 7 March 2017 at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.(Program)
2016 
  • Lecture: "Comprehensive Diagnostics" (with Manfred Weiser, Johannes-Diakonie Mosbach), as part of the closed-door conference for the model project "Education and Training of Children and Young People with Disabilities and an Additional Psychiatric Diagnosis" on 24 and 25 November 2016 in Friedrichshafen.
  • Lecture: "Interim results of the scientific monitoring of the model project 'Education and upbringing of children and young people with disabilities and an additional psychiatric diagnosis'" (with Jochen Montiegel, PH Ludwigsburg), as part of the educational symposium: "Intellectual disability and mental illness" on 1 July 2016 at the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart.
  • Lecture: "Interim results of the scientific monitoring of the model project 'Education and upbringing of children and young people with disabilities and an additional psychiatric diagnosis'" (with Jochen Montiegel, PH Ludwigsburg), as part of the closed-door meeting of the model project on 16 & 17 June 2016 in Friedrichshafen.
  • Lecture: "Rehabilitation Sociology", as part of the lecture series organised by the Institute for Rehabilitation Sciences: "General Fundamentals of Specialised Fields and Interdisciplinary Subjects" on 25 May 2016 at Humboldt University in Berlin.
2015 
  • Lecture and workshop: "Inclusive chemistry teaching: Selected concepts and practical examples from subject didactics and special education" (with Jürgen Menthe), as part of the GFD symposium: "Empowering social participation – Contributions from subject didactics research", from 28 to 30 September 2015 at the University of Hamburg.
  • Lecture: "Kurt Goldstein and the programme of a concrete human science", as part of the annual conference of the Luria Society: "Unknown Exile", on 13 June 2015 at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt.
  • Lecture and workshop: "Of Trees, Fractals and Spirals: Developmental-Logical Justifications for Didactics in the Context of Inclusion and Exclusion," as part of the "37th Conference of Teachers of Mental Disability Education at German-Speaking Universities" (KLGH), from 4 to 6 June 2015 at LMU Munich.
  • Lecture: "Pupils with intellectual disabilities and mental illnesses – presentation of a model project and the concept of scientific support" (with Manfred Weiser), as part of the meeting of the "Education, School, Upbringing" committee of the German Association for Rehabilitation, on 17 April 2015 in Mariaberg (Gammertingen).
2014 
  • Lecture: "Comprehensive Diagnostics: An Educational Building Block in the Model Project 'Children and Adolescents with Disabilities and Additional Psychiatric Diagnoses'" (with Manfred Weiser), as part of the anniversary and continuing education day "40 Years of the Reutlingen Seminar for Special Education," on 12 November 2014 in Reutlingen.
  • Lecture and workshop: "Comprehensive Diagnostics," as part of the Educational Day of the Mariaberg Special Schools on the topic of "Mentally Ill – The Completely Normal Madness," on 2 May 2014 in Mariaberg (Gammertingen).
2013 
  • Lecture and workshop: "Special educational aspects of inclusive chemistry teaching", as part of the symposium "Inclusive subject teaching in secondary education", on 22 and 23 November 2013 at Humboldt University in Berlin.
  • Lecture: "The world of the concrete: Kurt Goldstein (1878-1965) and his contribution to the theory of mental development and its impairment", as part of the 18th Scientific Convention of the Society for Gestalt Theory and its Applications (GTA): "Creative Processes: Gestalt theory in the context of education and development", from 11 to 14 April 2013 at the PH Karlsruhe.
2012 
  • Lecture: "Living and learning spaces in the focus area of intellectual development" (with Peter Zentel), as part of the "34th Conference of Teachers of Intellectual Disability Education at German-speaking Universities" (KLGH), from 7 to 9 June 2012 at Justus Liebig University Giessen.
2011 
  • Lecture: "Development and Delinquency: People with Intellectual Disabilities as Offenders," as part of the Neckar-Alb Conference on Support for People with Physical Disabilities: "Challenging Behaviour in Education, Therapy and Care," on 11 and 12 November 2011 in Mössingen.
  • Workshop: "Between Punishment and Help: Delinquent behaviour by people with intellectual disabilities as an educational challenge", KBF symposium (see above), on 11 and 12 November 2011 in Mössingen. 
    Lecture: "Redundancy and interference in the teaching-learning context of pupils with intellectual disabilities" (with Peter Zentel), as part of the "47th Working Conference of Lecturers in Special Education in German-speaking Countries", from 29 September to 1 October 2011 at Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg.
  • Lecture: "Abstract and Concrete Behaviour: Kurt Goldstein's (1878-1965) Holistic Approach to Neuropsychology and the Problem of Mental Retardation", at the joint meeting of the "International Society for the History of Neuroscience" (ISHN) and the "International Society for the Behavioral and Social Sciences" (CHEIRON) from 16 to 23 June 2011 in Calgary and Banff (Canada). (Link) (Program Calgary) (Program Banff)
  • Workshop: "History lessons and political education in heterogeneous groups", at the "Treffpunkt G und K 2011" on the topic: "Teaching in heterogeneous classes between professionalism and individuality", on 19 February 2011 in Mössingen, organised by the VdS Baden-Württemberg in cooperation with the Faculty of Special Education Reutlingen, the State Seminar for School Education Stuttgart and the Pedagogical Seminar Reutlingen.