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Select Conference Papers and Invited Talks
Images of the Other in Israeli and Palestinian Art, Interdisziplinäre Konferenz des DAAD-Zentren für Deutschland- und Europastudien ‚Im Auge des Betrachters: Deutschland. Europa. China’, Peking (November 2012)
Monumental Representations of the Holy Land in the Holy Roman Empire, Tagung ‘Die Kreuzzugsbewegung im römisch-deutschen Reich (11.-13. Jahrhundert)’, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (June 2012)
Temple Mount and Golgotha: The Axis of Jerusalem, Exploratory Workshop ‘Monuments and Memory’ at the Radboud University Nijmegen (December 2011)
Jerusalem as Seen from Galilee, Tokyo, Rikkyo University, Conference ‘Perspectives from the Periphery - Galilee in the Cultural Changes through Ages’ (May 2011)
The End of Days and After: Images of Art and Science, Panel Discussion, Genesis: Origins of the Universe and Humankind: For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return’ (Genesis 3:19b), Hebrew University Board of Governors Meeting (June 2010)
Flexible Grenzen: Deutschland-Israel, Interdisziplinäre Konferenz ‘Deutschland und Europa: Grenzen und Grenzgänge(r)’, WZB Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, (Mai 2010) 
The Visuality of Jerusalem, Project workshop ‘Ideological Constructs of Jerusalem in Medieval and Early Modern Europe’, The Norwegian Institute in Rome (November 2009)
Virtual Pilgrimages to Real Places, Conference ‘Imagining Jerusalem in the Medieval West’, University College, Oxford (March 2009)
Creative Destruction: the Holy Sepulchre after 1009, Symposium
Berlin, Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (September 2009)
Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Time, The Humboldt Kolleg Symposium in Jerusalem ‘When Sciences and Humanities Meet’ (January 2009)
Der Jerusalemer Tempel in Europa, Die Alexander-Böhlig-Gedächtnisvorlesung, Universität Tübingen (January 2007)
Jerusalem between Narrative and Iconic, Conference 'Narrative Space Jerusalem', Max Planck Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz (December 2007)
Josephus Flavius und die christliche Bildexegese, Internationales Symposium 'Josephus und das Neue Testament. Das Neue Testament und Josephus', Universität Greifswald (Mai 2006)
Jewish Itineraries through Spaceless Architecture, CRASSH Cambridge Center for Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, International Conference ‘Architecture and Pilgrimage’ (July 2005)
Migrations of a locus: The Temple of Jerusalem, Graduiertenkolleg an der Universität Potsdam, Mendelssohn-Kolloquium ‘Jüdische Topographien. Makom – Ort und Orte im Judentum’ (July 2004)
Abrahams Opfer als Chiffre des Tempels. Ein kunstgeschichtlicher Beitrag zur jüdisch-christlichen Polemik, Universität Tübingen, Tagung ‘Glaubensgehorsam um jeden Preis? Abrahams Opfer in Christentum, Judentum und Islam’ (Januar 2003)
Carolingian diagrams: their Image of the Invisible, Utrecht Colloquium, ‘Verbal and pictorial imaging: representing and accessing experience of the invisible, 400-1000’ (December 2003)
The Perception of History in Thirteenth-Century Crusader Art, Symposium ‘Frankish Culture at the End of the Crusades: France and the Holy Land, 1250-1291,’ Johns Hopkins University Baltimore (March 2000).