In addition to lecturing in courses at UBC, I have often been invited to give lectures at other universities, at conferences, or at various events open to the public. Here are some of the topics on which I have given such lectures in recent years:
“The European City in Global Perspective, 1500-1800,” Keynote lecture, Conference on “City Limits? The European City, 1400-1900,” University of Manitoba, Sept. 2004
“Adventures in Urban Space: Moving Through the Early Modern City,” Keynote lecture, Workshop on Jews and Urban Space in Early Modern Europe, University of Maryland, August 2005
“Letters from a Lost Fatherland: Micro-Histories of Mass Murder,” Kristallnacht Commemorative Lecture, Vancouver, November 2006
“The Archives Right Under Our Noses,” Keynote lecture, Qualicum History Conference, Parksville, B.C., January 2008
“Jewish Selfhood in a Christian Society: Youth and Religious Identity in Nineteenth-Century Germany,” Annual McMartin Lecture, Carleton University, Ottawa, February 2008
“Language and Identity in European History: The Case of the German Jews,” Department of History, University of Mumbai, January 2009
”House Destruction as a Ritual of Punishment in Early Modern Europe,” University of Delhi, February 2016
“Naming and Shaming: Jewish Names in German History,” Limmud Vancouver, April 2018
”Kristallnacht at Eighty: Meaning and Memory,” Kristallnacht Commemorative Lecture, Vancouver, November 2018
“Historians and Survivors as Partners in Telling the Truth of the Shoah,” Annual conference of the World Federation of Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Their Descendants, Vancouver, November 2019
Other Topics:
Other subjects on which I could lecture to organizations or groups might include:
“The History of Elections and Voting Before Modern Times”
“Witch-Hunting and Conspiracy Theories, Past and Present”
“The History of Jewish History”
“Two Amazing Travellers of the 17th Century: Glückel of Hameln and Banarasidas of Jaunpur”
“The Strange, Sad Story of ‘Mad’ King Ludwig, the Castle Builder of Bavaria”
“Hunting for Kings: Why Greeks, Belgians, Bulgarians and Others Wanted German Rulers in the 19th Century”