Presentations
As lecturer
- Between `Eastern Sacred Space‘ and esoteric Capitals of `the West’: Indian Theosophists as mediators between India and Euro-America, 1882-1893. speech at the panel „Esotericism and Orient“ at the Conference Capitals of European Esotericism and Transcultural Dialogue der European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism. MISHA: Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’homme – Alsace, Strasbourg. 2-4 July 2009.
- A South Asian Cosmopolitan: Bhagavan Das and the critique of the Theosophical Society, 1912- speech at the 13th Conference Cultural Globalisation in Historical Perspective: Actors, Arts and Artefacts organised by the Confucius Institute for Scotland, University of Edinburgh, 11-13 May 2010.
- Zwischen ‚globalem‘ und ‚lokalem Rassismus‘: die Theosophische Gesellschaft und ihre indischen Mitglieder an der Schnittstelle rassistischer und anti-rassistischer Konzepte, ca. 1900, Presentation at the Workshop Racism/Anti-Racism of the DFG-FG 955 „Akteure kultureller Globalisierung um 1900“ 6-7 October 2010 at the gesellschaftswissenschaft-lichen Kolleg „RE:WORK“, Berlin.
- Looking for spiritual experience in South Asia: Wilhelm Hübbe-Schleiden´s experiments with ‘ganja’ at the intersection of Temperance, Theosophy and ‘Indian spirituality’ (1894-1896), speech at the panel A History of Alcohol and Drugs in Modern South Asia (18th-20th centuries), 21st European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, University Bonn, 26-29 July 2010.
- In the „Spiritual League of Nations“: South Asian affiliates of the Theosophical Movement around 1900, speech at the panel Historical Actors of Globalization, 1860-1930 at the Third European Congress of World and Global History organised by the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH), an der London School of Economics, 14-17 April 2012.
- A “Universal Brotherhood of Humanity” through Education? Rudolf Steiners Reform Pedagogy and the Global Theosophical Milieu, speech at the Conference Shantiniketan-Hellerau: Universalist Education in the Paedagogic Province at the Seminar for South Asia Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin 7-9 October 2011.