Teaching

Lectures

Global Forum for Migra­tion and Develo­p­ment (GFMD): Academic Forum at the Ecuador Summit, Quito (2020)
Migra­tion & develo­p­ment: academic perspec­tives from a German Ethno-Psycho­lo­gist (invited speaker)

Kongress des Netzwerk Flucht­for­schung (NWFF), Köln (2020)
Capacity Develo­pment for Migra­tion Gover­nance: Triple-win oder alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen?

Univer­sitas Indonesia, Fakultas Ekonomi & Bisnis. Webinar Series, Jakarta (2020)
Western mindsets: cross-cultural-compa­rison of (business) behavior (invited guestspeaker)

Hochschul­ta­gung der Otto Benecke Stiftung e.V., Königs­winter (2020)
Angekommen in Deutsch­land? Wann ist Integra­tion gelungen? (invited panelist)

Pädago­gi­sche Hochschule & Hochschule für öffent­liche Verwal­tung & Finanzen. Ringvor­le­sung ”Inter­cul­tural Educa­tion in the migra­tion society”, Ludwigs­burg (2020)
Develo­ping cross-cultural compe­ten­cies for public managers. Learning with and from refugees in Germany

The Global Health Equity Founda­tion Sympo­sium, Bonn (2019)
Linking values, migra­tion, mental health and cross-cultural learning

Fakultas Ekonomi & Bisnis of the Univer­sity of Indonesia (FEB-UI), Jakarta (2019)
Local adminis­tra­tion struc­tures & mindsets in cultural comparison

Fonda­tion Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH) & Wissen­schafts­zen­trum Berlin (WZB): Confe­rence ”Changing Socie­ties”, Paris (2017)
Refugees in Europe: A clash of „civili­sa­tions“? (invited keynote speaker)

Hochschule Bonn Rhein Sieg, Bonn (2017)
Pro- und antiso­ziales Verhalten in Organisationen

HVF Fachta­tung ”Flücht­linge in den Arbeits­markt”, Ludwigs­burg (2017)
Was Arbeit im Leben von Menschen bedeutet.„Schaffe & Häusle­bauen“ im kultu­rellen Vergleich

Master­trainer-Konvent (ToMaT) des Finanz­mi­nis­te­riums Indone­siens, Jakarta (2015)
The parti­ci­pa­tory approach. Concept & appli­ca­tions (keynote speaker)

National Insti­tute for Public Adminis­tra­tion, Bogor (2014)
How to evaluate facili­ta­tors, lectu­rers and gurus?

LUXDEV Headquarter, Luxem­bourg (2014)
Building human resource capacity and promo­ting service quality in the tourism sector of Myanmar (invited presentation)

GFA Finan­cial Manage­ment Confe­rence, Den Pasar (2014)
Coaching. An intro­duc­tion into theory and practice

Forst­mi­nis­te­rium Indone­siens, Jakarta (2012)
Human capacity develo­p­ment for Indone­sian Forestry Training Institutions

Finanz­mi­nis­te­rium Indone­siens, Jakarta (2011)
Standar­di­zing Subna­tional Finan­cial Manage­ment Trainings: A Roadmap

Konfe­renz der European Associa­tion for South East Asian Studies, Goethe­burg (2010)
A documen­tary approach to tradi­tion and identity of an endan­gered speech commu­nity in Papua

Konfe­renz der Deutschen Gesell­schaft für Völker­kunde (DGV), Frank­furt (2009)
Fremd­gehen mit Linguisten

Konfe­renz des Max Planck Instituts/DoBeS network,Nijmegen (2009)
Capacity Building at the CELD (zusammen mit Y. Sawaki)

Indone­si­sches Forschungs­mi­nis­te­rium RISTEK, Jakarta (2009)
The inter­na­tional research program “Documen­ta­tion of endan­gered languages”. Invited presen­ta­tion at the Rapat Koordi­nasi Perizinan Penelitian Asing

Konfe­renz “Under­stan­ding conflicts: Cross-Cultural Perspec­tives”, Univer­sity of Aarhus (2008)
Dealing with conflicts after the conflict: European and indige­nous approa­ches for conflict trans­for­ma­tion in East Timor

Kongress der Inter­na­tional Associa­tion for Cross-cultural Psycho­logy (IACCP), Bremen (2008)
1. Measu­ring identity dimen­sions with illite­rate subjects: the stoneman experiment
2. Psycho­so­cial recon­s­truc­tion after man-made disas­ters in Asia’s least developed country

Fachta­gung “Psycho­logie und Ethno­logie im Dialog” (Cusanus­werk), Bonn (2007)
Methoden und Theorien der prakti­schen Ethno­psy­cho­logie: ganz nah — und doch so fern

Konfe­renz der European Associa­tion for Southeast Asian Studies (EUROSEAS), Naples (2007)
Imagined modern commu­ni­ties, tradi­tional struc­tures and a powerful church

Konfe­renz der Deutschen Gesell­schaft für Völker­kunde (DGV), Halle (2007)
Die Erfas­sung von Identität mittels Feldexperimenten

Univer­sitas Gadjah Mada (UGM); Dept. of Psychology/ICBC,Yogya­karta (2007)
What helps? Evalua­ting the effects of develo­p­mental cooperation

Univer­sität Heidel­berg, Insti­tute of Social Anthro­po­logy, Heidel­berg (2007)
Person und Inter­ven­tion am Rande Melanesiens

InWEnt Capaci­ty­buil­ding Inter­na­tional. Annual cross-cultural experts’ confe­rence, Bad Honnef (2006)
Innova­ti­ons­ent­wick­lungen zur Inter­kul­tu­rellen Kommu­ni­ka­tion und Management

Sympo­sium Zivil militä­risch Zusam­men­ar­beit (BiZBW),Mannheim (2006)
Was gewinnen wir durch inter­kul­tu­relle Kompe­tenz? (keynote speaker)

Fachse­minar Psycho­trauma der Arbeits­ge­mein­schaft Entwick­lungs­hilfe (AGEH), Köln (2004)
“The croco­dile and his thera­pist” – decon­s­truc­ting East Timorese psycho-traumata

Kongress der Asian Associa­tion of Social Psycho­logy (AASP), Manila (2003)
Psycho­so­cial recon­s­truc­tion in East Timor

Zentrum für Inter­kul­tu­relle Psycho­logie (ZIP), Heidel­berg (2003)
Vom Kultur­kon­flikt zur Konfliktkultur

Respon­ding to Conflict/University of Birmingham: Summer course ”Working with conflict”, Birmingham (2001)
An intro­duc­tion to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Kongress der Society for Inter­cul­tural Educa­tion, Training and Research (SIETAR), Ludwigs­hafen (2000)
Inter­kul­tu­relles Lernen für Aktivi­täten in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit

Sommer­aka­demie des Gradu­ier­ten­kol­legs Klini­sche Emoti­ons­for­schung, Heidel­berg. (2000)
Inter­ethnic Conflict Regula­tion. A case study at the Dani in West Papua.

Freies akade­mi­sches Forum zum Dialog von Wissen­schaft, Kunst und klini­scher Praxis, Cologne (1999)
Diagnostik in Trance. Tradi­tio­nelle Heiler des Kumaon.

5. Deutscher Psycho­lo­gentag und 20. Kongress für Angewandte Psycho­logie, Berlin (1999)
Inter­kul­tu­relles Coaching (zusammen mit D. Agudelo)

Univer­sität Bairelly, Dept. of Psycho­logy, Bairelly, India (1998)
Current tenden­cies in German Cross-cultural Psychology

Univer­sität Mainz: Institut für Ethno­logie, Mainz (1998)
Inter­kul­tu­relle Kommu­ni­ka­tion in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit

Fachta­gung Ethno­psy­cho­logie, Landau (1998)
Diagnostik in Trance. Humani­stic approa­ches of indige­nous Indian healers.

Univer­sität Chemnitz: Institut für Empiri­sche Sozia­li­sa­ti­ons­for­schung, Chemnitz (1997)
Werthal­tungen: Liebe, Macht & Angst vor’m Tod

TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS & SEMINARS

Univer­sity of Applied Science, Ludwigs­burg
Lectures, seminars, projects, excur­sions, virtual class­rooms & joint learning journeys, related to:  ”Inter­kul­tu­relle & Soziale Kompe­tenzen”, ”Schwie­rige Gespräche führen”, ”Grund­lagen der Psycho­logie”, ”Gender im Public Manage­ment”, ”Projekt­ma­nage­ment”, ”Entwick­lungs­zu­sam­men­ar­beit”, ”Zuwan­de­rung & Integra­tion”, ”Perso­nal­ent­wick­lung” (2016–2021)

Bonn Inter­na­tional Center for Conver­sion (BICC)
Focus groups & Quali­ta­tive research methods for migra­tion resear­chers (2019)

GIZ & Präsi­di­alamt Timor Leste, Dili (Timor Leste)
Cross Cultural Compe­tence for Adminis­tra­tors (2015)
Human Ressource Develo­p­ment Strategy workretreat/studytour (2015)

GIZ Akademie für Inter­na­tio­nale Zusam­men­ar­beit,  Bad Honnef
Tailor made Manage­ment Trainings (2013)
Fachdi­dak­ti­sche Fortbil­dung für inter­kul­tu­relle Trainer (2011)
Umgang mit Stress, Belas­tung und Trauma (2010)
Inter­kul­tu­relle Orien­tie­rung und Landes­kom­pe­tenzen Asien (seit 1999)

Univer­sitas Sam Ratulangi, Manado (Indonesia)
Coaching on metho­do­logy (2011)

Federal Academy for Defense Adminis­tra­tion and Defense Techno­logy, Mannheim
Inter­cul­tural compe­tence (since 2008)

Univer­sitas Brawi­jaya, Malang (Indonesia)
Training of Trainers on local finan­cial manage­ment (2010)

Univer­sitas Papua Negeri, Manok­wari (Indonesia)
Resident Guest Lecturer/Adviser on metho­do­logy (seit 2009)

Univer­sity of Passau
Practical inter­cul­tural skills for working in Southeast Asia (2008)

Remagen Univer­sity of Applied Sciences
Cross-cultural Manage­ment (Vertre­tung Prof. Kammhuber, 2008)

Univer­sity of Applied Sciences Kehl
Cross-cultural Commu­ni­ca­tion in Anglo­phone Count­ries (2007)

Univer­sitas Gadjah Mada, Yogya­karta (Indone­sien)
Annual invited lectures on best practices in applied inter­na­tional affairs (2007)

Univer­sitas Syah Kuala, Banda Aceh (Indonesia)
Impro­ving methods for health sector quali­fi­ca­tion (2006)

Goethe-Institut (Timor Leste)
German as a foreign language. Intro­duc­tion for East Timorese DAF didac­tics (2004

Insti­tuto Católico para Formação de Profes­sores, Baucau (Timor Leste)
Capacity building with East Timorese teachers and resear­chers (2002–2005)

Ruprecht-Karls-Univer­sity, Heidel­berg
Inter­cul­tural commu­ni­ca­tion (1999)
Culture-compa­ra­tive emotion research (2000)
Inter­ethnic conflicts (2000/2001))
Develo­p­mental Anthro­po­logy of East Timor (2002)

Westpha­lian Wilhelm Univer­sity of Münster
Key Quali­fi­ca­tions for Applied Cultural Studies: Inter­cul­tural Commu­ni­ca­tion and Coope­ra­tion (2001)