“On the Relevance of Socratic Dialogue in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Possibilities and Limitations in the Tradition of Heckmann and Nelson” | October 29, 2025 | Lecture before the Society for Socratic Philosophy (GSP) at the conclusion of my training as a Socratic Dialogue Facilitator
Talk and discussion on pragmatism | Berlin, April 27th, 2018 | Colloquium of the research group “Digitalization and Democracy” of the Berlin Social Science Centerand the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society.
“Rethinking the public sphere: Design Thinking and the philosophy of John Dewey” | Erfurt, March 20th, 2025 | Talk at the University Erfurt at the conference Politische Öffentlichkeit: Strukturen und Strategien, organised by the DVPW section Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte.
“A pragmatic theory of digital publics” | Dresden, January 17, 2019 | Talk and discussion, workshop on Trolle, Stürme, Wolken, Blasen, Zwitschern und ein neues Unbehagen. Zur digitalen Transformation von Öffentlichkeit at Technical University Dresden, Collaborative Research Centre 1285 “Invectivity. Constellations and Dynamics of disparagement”, project P / Chair of Legal and Constitutional Studies with interdisciplinary Relations
Presentation and discussion of my dissertation | Berlin, February 5, 2018 | Philosophical colloquium, Free University Berlin
Public discussion about faith and democracy | Hamburg, February 3, 2018 | “Lange Nacht der Weltreligionen: Glaube und Demokratie” at Thalia Theater in Hamburg
“Thinking as reflexive problem-solving” | Dresden, October 6, 2016 | Talk and discussion, workshop on Das Problem mit den Problemen at Technical University Dresden, Chair of Legal and Constitutional Studies with interdisciplinary Relations
“The politicization of digitally networked publics” | Frankfurt/Main, April 10, 2016 | Talk at the general meeting of the Philosophisch-Politische Akademie e.V.
“Digitally Networked Publics and Democratic Experimentalism” | Berlin, February 23, 2016 | Brown Bag Lunch Talk at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
“John Dewey’s Vision of a Creative Democracy” | Münster, October 10, 2015 | Socratic Dialogue Event, Philosophisch-Politische Akademie e.V. / Society for the Furtherance of Critical Philosophy
“John Dewey’s Philosophical Legacy for the ‘Open Movements’ in the Digital Age” | Paris, September 9, 2015 | 2nd European Pragmatism Conference, EHESS / ENS Paris
“The Pragmatic Penguin – Cooperation in John Dewey’s Theory of Democracy and in the Digital Society” | Düsseldorf, June 2, 2015 | Kolloquium der Praktischen Philosophie, Düsseldorf University, Institute for Philosophy
“John Dewey’s Philosophical Legacy for the Global Access to Knowledge Movement in the Digital Age” | Chicago, April 17, 2015 | Annual Conference 2015 of the John Dewey Society, Marriott Hotel Chicago | manuscript (in English)
“Democratic Experimentalism – A Way Through the Complexity? Reflections on a Pragmatist Theory of Digital Public Spheres” | Göttingen, November 28, 2014 | Conference “Politisches Handeln in digitalen Öffentlichkeiten”
podcast (in German) | manuscript (in German)
“John Dewey and the digital networking of the public” | Heidelberg, November 5, 2014 | Conference “Öffentlichkeit im Zeitalter des digitalen Wandels“, John Stuart Mill Institut für Freiheitsforschung