CONFERENCE PAPERS AND LECTURES

2008
"The organ in the diegesis of film," Joined Conference of the RCMI and the OHS "Organs in Art/Organs as Art," CUNY Graduate Center, New York

2007
"The cultural politics of raqs gothique: Decolonizing 'Oriental dance'," CORD 40th Anniversary Conference "Choreographies of Migration: Patterns of Global Mobility," Barnard College, New York

"The city of Vienna and synagogue music," 39th World Conference of the ICTM, Vienna, Austria

"Jewish culture and German organ building tradition: The organ in the synagogue," AMIS Conference, Yale University, New Haven

"'Mit Tango, da fängt man kleine Mädels ein': The Argentine tango and its receptions in Germany," New York University, Deutsches Haus, New York (INVITED)

2006
"Raqs gothique: Decolonizing belly dance," Conference of the SEM, Honolulu, Hawaii

"The Argentine tango and its reception in Germany," The Western Connecticut State University, German Studies Center/Spanish Department, Danbury (INVITED)

2005
"Between church and synagogue: The organ in German-Jewish culture," Respondent: Philip V. Bohlman, The Jewish Music Forum, Center for Jewish History, New York (INVITED)

"Jewish-liturgical music in Germany: Tradition—Assimilation—Identity," The Western Connecticut State University, German Studies Center, Danbury (INVITED)

"Argentine tango: The music and the dance," Come together, Apexart, New York (INVITED)

"The German-Jewish organ culture: A paradigm for the changing identities in modern Judaism," New York University, Deutsches Haus, New York (INVITED)

2003
"Musical sermon," The Village Temple, New York (INVITED)

2002
"Obercantor Hermann Zivi: Life and work," Gemarker Kirche, Wuppertal (Germany) (INVITED)

2001
"Research methods in 'Jewish musicology'," School of Sacred Music, Hebrew Union College, New York (INVITED)

"German identity and Judaism in postmodern Europe," Multi-disciplinary conference "European Identity and Nationalism" sponsored by Comparative Literature Department, Political Science Department and The Center for Russian, Central and East European Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

"ORGAN-IZED! The invention of a modern liturgical Jewish music," American Musicological Society, New York Chapter meeting, Princeton University, New Jersey

"Organ music in prewar Germany," Congregation Habonim, New York (INVITED)

2000
"The meaning of organs and organ music in Jewish culture," School of Sacred Music, Hebrew Union College, New York (INVITED)

"Jewish-liturgical music in Germany: Tradition—Assimilation—Identity," 15. DVSM Symposium 2000, Music and Cultural Identity, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München (Germany)

"Between two worlds: Hermann Zivi—Cantor—Composer—Theorist," Alte Synagoge Wuppertal, Wuppertal (Germany) (INVITED)

"Czech—American—Jewish—Christian: National and cultural identities in Jaromír Weinberger's organ music," 5. Sudetendeutsch-tschechischen Musiksymposium, Sudetendeutsches Musikinstitut Regensburg (Germany) (INVITED)

"The destruction of a cultural tradition in Germany: Organs and organ music in the synagogue in the wake of Holocaust," International Conference: "Remembering for the Future 2000," Oxford (United Kingdom)

"Organ music in German-Jewish culture: A paradigm of cultural relations in music," 3rd London International Jewish Music Conference, School of Oriental and African Studies, London (United Kingdom)

1998
"Between Western Europe and Eastern European Tradition: The music of Louis Lewandowski," International Conference: "Between Poland and Germany Jewish history in Posen/Poznan," Salomon Ludwig Steinheim-Institut for German-Jewish History at the Gerhard-Mercator-Universität, Duisburg (Germany) (INVITED)

"Synagogue organists in Germany of the 19th and 20th century: Artists between two cultures?" International Conference on Yiddish and Ashkenazic Studies: "Ashkenaz: Theory and Nation," Krakow (Poland)

"Organ music in German-Jewish culture: Problematic aspects and definitions," Salomon Ludwig Steinheim-Institut for German-Jewish History at the Gerhard-Mercator-Universität Duisburg, (Germany) (INVITED)

1997
"Organ music between Jewish and Christian tradition," Katholische Akademie "Die Wolfsburg," Mülheim a. d. Ruhr (Germany) (INVITED)