Presentations

Refereed International/National Conferences

• Dalbo, G. D. (2025, October). From Syllabus to Silence: The Limits of Genocide Education in Standardized Curricula, International Association of Genocide Scholars, South Africa. 

• Eggers, J. & Dalbo, G. D. (2025, October). Bridging knowledge: University-community partnerships in genocide education, International Association of Genocide Scholars, South Africa. 

• McDaniel, K., Kopplin, S., Resenly, I. A., Dalbo, G. D., Griesemer, K., Pfisterer, A., & Klos, K. (2024, November). Your backyard: Place-based learning to increase civic engagement, National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) conference. Boston, MA.

• Resenly, I. A. & Dalbo, G. D. (2024, November).Questions for reflective Holocaust & genocide teaching & learning, National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) conference. Boston, MA.

• Dalbo, G. D. & Resenly, I. A. (2024, July). A new paradigm in Holocaust and genocide education. Teaching about Genocide Conference, International Association of Genocide Scholars, virtual. 

• Dalbo, G. D. (2024, July). Unsettling Narratives: Teaching About Genocide in a Settler Space. Teaching about Genocide Conference, International Association of Genocide Scholars, virtual. 

• Dalbo, G. D. (2024, June). ). Unsettling narratives: The erasure of Indigenous Peoples in US curricula and classrooms.Weaving memory: Public Policies, Mass Graves, and Materialities Conference, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. 

• Dalbo, G. D. (2023, December). Swastikas in the bathroom: Teaching antisemitism after hate speech appears. Presentation at the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) conference, Nashville, TN.

• Dalbo, G. D. (2023, December). Unsettling narratives: Teaching about settler colonialism in North America. Presentation at the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) conference, Nashville, TN.

• Dalbo, G. D. & Eggers, J. (2023, July). Confronting the Past: Teaching About and For Truth-Telling and Reconciliation. International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) conference, Barcelona, Spain.

• Dalbo, G. D. (2023, July). Unsettling Narratives: Teaching and Learning About Genocide in a Settler Space. International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) conference, Barcelona, Spain.

• Dalbo, G. D. & Eggers, J. (2022, October). Settling the historical record: Narratives of Dakota internment in the settler imaginary. Paper presentation at the Mass Violence and Its Lasting Impact on Indigenous People: The Case of the Americas and Australia/Pacific Region conference, University of Southern California Shoah Foundation.

• Dalbo, G. D. (2022, July). Unsettling Narratives: Teaching about Genocide in a Settler Space. Education After Genocide International Symposium, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. [Member of conference organizing committee; session moderator]

• Dalbo, G. D. & Eggers, J. (2021, November). Unsettling narratives: Teaching about Indigenous genocide through historical newspaper reporting. Poster presentation at the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) conference, Minneapolis, MN.

• Dalbo, G. D. (2021, November). Teaching about rape and sexual violence in war and genocide. Workshop presentation at the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) conference, Minneapolis, MN.

• Dalbo, G. D. (2021, November). Unsettling narratives: Teaching about genocide [in the United States (a settler colonial nation-state)].  Paper presentation at the College and University Faculty Assembly (CUFA) of the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) conference, Minneapolis, MN. 

• Haas, B. J.; Christ, R. C.;  Stier, O. B.; Levy, S. A.; Sheppard, M.; Dalbo, G. D.; Engebretson, K. E. McCoy, M. L. (2021, November). The traumas of difficult knowledge: Unpacking experiences within genocide and Holocaust education. Panel presentation at the College and University Faculty Assembly (CUFA) of the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) conference, Minneapolis, MN. 

• Dalbo, G. D. (2021, July). Unsettling narratives: Teaching about genocide [in the United States (a settler colonial nation-state)]. Paper presentation at the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) conference, virtual.

• Dalbo, G. D. & Eggers, J. (2021, July). Dakhóta internment at Fort Snelling at Bdote: Indigenous genocide in the settler imaginary.  Paper presentation at the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) conference, virtual.

• Baer, A., Dalbo, G. D., & LaBranche, J. (2021, July). Public education as reparative Justice in Manitoba and Minnesota.  Paper presentation at the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) conference, virtual.

• Dalbo, G. D. & Eggers, J. (2020, December). Unsettling narratives: Teaching about Indigenous genocide through historical newspaper reporting. Poster presentation at the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) conference, virtual.

• Baer, A., Dalbo, G. D., & LaBranche, J. (2020, June). Public education on Indigenous dispossession and reparative justice across Minnesota and Manitoba. Paper presentation at the 7th Joint Human Rights conference, University College London, UK.

• *Dalbo, G. D. & Eggers, J. (2020, March). Unsettling historical records: Narratives of Dakhóta internment in the settler imaginary. Paper presentation at Approaching the History of Internment conference, University College London, UK.

• Dalbo, G. D. (2019, November). Unsettling narratives: Indigenous genocide and the formal curriculum in Manitoba and Minnesota. Paper presentation at the College and University Faculty Assembly (CUFA) of the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) conference. Austin, TX.

• Dalbo, G. D. (2019, November). Teaching about controversial issues, Taboo topics, and difficult knowledge in middle school. Workshop presentation at the Association of Middle Level Education (AMLE) conference, Nashville, TN.

• Dalbo, G. D. (2019, October) Unsettling narratives: Indigenous genocide and the formal curriculum in Manitoba and Minnesota. Paper presentation at the Conflict and Identity: Confronting the Past Through Education symposium, University of Oxford, UK.

• Dalbo, G. D. (2019, July). Bystanders and upstanders: How anti-bullying narratives shape genocide education. Paper presentation at the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) conference, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

• Dalbo, G. D. (2019, July). “Why don’t we talk about rape?”: Teaching about rape and sexualized violence in genocide. Paper presentation at the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) conference, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

• Dalbo, G. D. & Eggers, J. (2019, July). The U. S.-Dakota conflict in Minnesota’s newspapers: educator engagement. Paper presentation at the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) conference, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

• Dalbo, G. D. & Eggers, J. (2019, June). From “Sioux massacres” to “Dakota genocide”: Teaching about the U.S.-Dakota War across space and time. Paper presentation at Andrew W. Mellon Conference, National September 11th Memorial & Museum, New York, NY.

• Dalbo, G. D. (2019, June). Teaching Americans and the Holocaust: Archiving as public sphere pedagogy. Paper presentation at Andrew W. Mellon Conference, National September 11th Memorial & Museum, New York, NY.

• Oto, R., Dalbo, G. D., & Bordwell, D. (2019, April). Unsettling narratives: Settler colonialism and citizenship education. Paper presentation at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference, Toronto, ON.

• Dalbo, G. D. (2018, December). Bullies and bystanders: Rethinking Holocaust and anti-bullying educational narratives. Poster presentation at the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) conference, Chicago, IL.

• Dalbo, G. D. (2018, November). Absent narratives: Teaching about rape and sexual violence in war. Workshop presentation at the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) conference, Chicago, IL.

• Dalbo, G. D. (2018, November). “Why don’t we talk about rape?”: Teaching about sexual violence in war and genocide. Paper presentation at the College and University Faculty Assembly (CUFA) of the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) conference, Chicago, IL.

• Dalbo, G. D. (2018, October). Perpetrators, bystanders, upstanders, and rescuers: Simulating individual choice during the Holocaust. Paper presentation at the Great Lakes Council for History Education conference, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI.

• Dalbo, G. D. (2018, April). Bearing witness: Teaching about the Holocaust in American culture and collective memory. Workshop presentation at the National Council for History Education (NCHE) conference, San Antonio, TX.

• Dalbo, G. D. (2018, March). The Holocaust was not bullying: Rethinking anti-bullying approaches to Holocaust education in the United States. Paper presentation at the Near but Far: Holocaust Education Revisited conference, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.

• Dalbo, G. D. (2017, November). What happened to ‘never again?’: The importance of genocide studies. Workshop presentation at the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) conference, San Francisco, CA.

• Pace, J., Beck, T., Avery, P., McAvoy, P., & Dalbo, G. D. (2017, November). Grappling with the charged classroom in politically contentious times. Workshop presentation at the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) conference, San Francisco, CA.

• Dalbo, G. D. (2017, October). Student-teacher collaboratively planned units to increase student engagement. Workshop presentation at the Association of Middle Level Education (AMLE) conference, Philadelphia, PA.

• Dalbo, G. D. (2016, October). Eastside urban studies: An interdisciplinary social justice unit set in St. Paul, MN. Workshop presentation at the Association of Middle Level Education (AMLE) conference, Austin, TX.

Local and Educator Conferences

• Dalbo, G. D. (2025, December). Revealing and concealing: Analyzing the Role of the Holocaust in genocide education. Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg, Germany

• Dalbo, G. D. (2025, July). Foundations of Holocaust education, Holocaust Museum Houston.

• Dalbo, G. D. (2025, June). Liberation and justice after the Holocaust, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA. 

• Dalbo, G. D. (2025, May). The landscape of genocide education in Wisconsin and the United States. St. Mesrob Armenian Church, Racine, WI. 

• Brueckenhaus, D., Dougherty, B., & Dalbo, G. D. (2025, April). Never again? Remembering/denying genocide. Beloit College. 

• Dalbo, G. D. (2025, April). Unsettling narratives: Indigenous genocide education in Minnesota. St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN. 

• Dalbo, G. D. (2025, March). Critical genocide education. Hitambo Virtual Academy, Namibia. 

• Dalbo, G. D. (2025, March). Foundations of Holocaust education for preservice educators, University of Indianapolis.

• Dalbo, G. D. & Resenly, I/ A. (2025, February). Breaking Down Binaries in Holocaust and Genocide Education. Echoes & Reflections. https://info.echoesandreflections.org/breaking-down-binaries-0 

• Dalbo, G. D. (2025, February). Foundations of Holocaust education for preservice educators, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN. 

• Dalbo, G. D. (2024, November). Foundations of Holocaust education for preservice educators, Millersville University, Millersville, PA. 

• Dalbo, G. D. (2024, October). Teaching about genocide. Hitambo Virtual Academy, Namibia. 

• Dalbo, G. D. (2024, March). Foundations of Holocaust education for preservice educators, University of Indianapolis

• Dalbo, G. D. (2024, March). Challenge in contemporary Holocaust education, HIS 5014 Holocaust Memory in America, Jewish Theological Seminary, virtual. 

• Dalbo, G. D., McKay, D., Toral, P., & Vande Varst, M. (2023, November). Atomic conversations: The effects of radiation exposure on Native Americans in Utah. Blackhawk Technical College, Janesville, WI

• Dalbo, G. D. (2023, October). Teaching about genocide. Holocaust, Genocide, And Human Rights Education Project, Montclair State University. 

• Dalbo, G. D. (2023, October). Finding teacher and student agency in teaching and learning standards. Institute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota and Institute for World Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, virtual. 

• Dalbo, G. D. & Resenly, I. A. (2023, April). Using iconic sources in Holocaust and genocide education: A virtual workshop for middle and high school educators. Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, virtual. 

• Dalbo, G. D. & Resenly, I. A. (2023, April). Navigating productive parallels in Holocaust and genocide education: A virtual workshop for middle and high school educators. Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, virtual.

• Dalbo, G. D. (2023, March). Foundations of Holocaust Education for Preservice Educators, University of Indianapolis

• Dalbo, G. D. (2022, November). Indigenous Genocide and the Holocaust. Echoes & Reflections webinar. Retrieved from https://echoesandreflections.org/webinar-recordings/  

• Dalbo, G. D. (2022, August). Continuous Improvement Plan. Clinton Community School District, Clinton, WI

• Dalbo, G. D. & Resenly, I. A. (2022, July). Teaching About the Holocaust / Teaching About "Other" Genocides. Navigating the Holocaust: Your compass to Holocaust education in Wisconsin conference, Holocaust and Genocide Education Center, Milwaukee, WI, virtual.

• McDaniel, K., Dalbo, G. D., & Resenly, I.A. (2022, May). Act 30 - Holocaust and Other Genocides: Overview and Curricular Statutory Expectations. Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, virtual. 

• Dalbo, G. D. (2021, August). Teaching About the U.S. withdrawal from / Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Minneapolis Public School, virtual.

• Dalbo, G. D. (2021, May). (Re)Imagining Clinton High School in 2021-2022. Clinton Community High School. 

• Dalbo, G. D. (2021, March). Power and identity in the construction of classroom spaces. Clinton Community High School.

• Dalbo, G. D. (2020, December 2). Understanding the settler colonial present. Presentation to A. Baer’s SOC 3701 Social Theory course, University of Minnesota, virtual.

• Dalbo, G. D. (2020, November 24). Navigating difficult conversations: A workshop for educators. Presentation to Literacy Minnesota, virtual. 

• Baer, A., LaBranche, J., & Dalbo, G. D. (2020, November 2). Indigenous genocide and reparative justice in Minnesota and Manitoba: The role of education. Presentation to the Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, virtual. 

• Dalbo, G. D. & Eggers, J. (2020, October). We are all treaty people: The history of treaties in Minnesota. Presentation at Cook County Higher Education, virtual.

• Dalbo, G. D., Eggers, J., & Vital, D. M. (2020, April). Navigating trauma in education: A workshop for educators. Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota, virtual.

• Dalbo, G. D., Eggers, J., & Vital, D. M. (2020, April). Navigating difficult histories and difficult knowledge in education: A workshop for educators. Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota, virtual. 

• Ferrándiz, F. & Dalbo, G. D. (2020, April). Remote fieldwork during a pandemic. Holocaust, Genocide, and Mass Violence Graduate Group, University of Minnesota, virtual.  

• Dalbo, G. D. (2020, May). History of the Holocaust. Cook County Higher Education, virtual.

• Dalbo, G. D. (2020, May). The Holocaust in American collective memory. Edina Days of Remembrance. Edina, MN. 

• Dalbo, G. D. & Eggers, J. (2020, April). Understanding the genocide of Indigenous peoples. Cook County Higher Education, virtual.

• Dalbo, G. D. & Eggers, J. (2019, November). The US-Dakota War of 1862 in Minnesota newspapers. & Workshop presentation at Northern Lights Academy, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN

• Dalbo, G. D. & Eggers, J. (2019, August). Reflections on teaching pre-service teachers about settler colonialism. Workshop presentation at Social Studies Methods Instructors of Minnesota meeting, Fort Snelling (St. Paul), MN. 

• Dalbo, G. D. (2019, April). A conversation series on Deborah Lipstadt's antisemitism: Here and now. Workshop presentation at the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas, St. Louis Park, MN.

• Dalbo, G. D. & Eggers, J. (2019, February). Lunch and learn: Teaching the U.S.-Dakota War through Minnesota’s newspapers. Workshop presentation at Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. 

• Dalbo, G. D. (2019, February). “Why don’t we talk about rape?”: Teaching about sexualized violence in war, genocide, and mass violence. Workshop presentation at Anoka Hennepin Professional Development, Anoka, MN

• Dalbo, G. D. (2018, December). The question of colonial genocide: German Southwest Africa and the Herero and Nama genocide. Workshop presentation at Anderson United School, Minneapolis Public Schools, Minneapolis, MN.

• Dalbo, G. D. (2018, February). Anne Frank and the Holocaust in American popular consciousness. Workshop presentation to the University Chamber Singers, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. 

• Dalbo, G. D. (2018, February). Two Holocaust narratives: Yevtushenko’s Babi Yar and the Diary of Anne Frank. Workshop presentation to the University Chorus and the University Chamber Singers, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. 

• Dalbo, G. D. (2016, February). Man’s inhumanity to man: The Holocaust in European history. Workshop presentation at Mounds Park Academy Central Europe Lecture Series, St. Paul, MN. 

• Dalbo, G. D. (2016, January). Beyond the end of history: Austria from the late imperial to the present. Workshop presentation at Mounds Park Academy Central Europe Lecture Series, St. Paul, MN. 

• Dalbo, G. D. (2015, June). The use of memoir and fiction in teaching the Holocaust. Workshop presentation at Center for Genocide and Holocaust Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

Professional Development Workshops Facilitated

• Celebrate the Joy of Teaching: A Summer Gathering for Educators (2025, June)

  • A day-long workshop for educators co-sponsored by the Institute of World Affairs and ArtsECO at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

• Unsettling Narratives: Teaching About Indigenous Genocide in Minnesota (2025, April)

  • A two-hour-long workshop co-sponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education at St. Cloud State University and the Minnesota Council for the Social Studies in St. Cloud, MN. 

• Teaching and Learning About Settler Colonialism in North America (2024, November)

  • A webinar for teachers from across the United States.

•  From the “Sioux Massacre” to the “Dakota Genocide” (2024, October)

  • A webinar for Minnesota teachers sponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota.

• Dalbo, G. D. & Resenly, I. A. (Fall 2024). Teaching and learning about the Holocaust and genocide in Wisconsin monthly webinar series, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and Holocaust Education Resource Center, virtual

  • New Guidelines for Teaching and Learning About the Holocaust

  • Defining the Holocaust and Genocide

• Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust and Genocide in Wisconsin (2024, June)

  • A two-day-long workshop for practicing middle and secondary social studies and English language arts teachers co-facilitated with Irene Ann Resenly and the Greater Madison Area Writers Project at the University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Teaching About the Armenian Genocide: A Professional Development Workshop for Educators (2024, April)

  • A day-long workshop for K-12 educators co-organized by the Wisconsin Armenian community, the Institute for World Affairs at the University of Milwaukee, and the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research. 

• Dalbo, G. D. & Resenly, I. A. (2023-2024). Teaching and learning about the Holocaust and genocide in Wisconsin monthly webinar series, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and Holocaust Education Resource Center, virtual

  • So you’re teaching about the Holocaust & genocide: Guidelines, resources, and ‘new’ histories’

  • Gender matters: Gendered representations of Holocaust and genocide

  • Breaking Down Perpetraitor-Victim and Bystander-Upstander Binaries in Holocaust and Genocide Education

  • Teaching about International Holocaust Remembrance Day

  • The Holocaust in one day: Supporting non-social studies teachers in middle and high school

  • Teaching about genocide awareness month

  • Recommended Holocaust and genocide reading lists

• Teaching About Genocide (2019, July/August)

  • Weeklong workshop for K-12 educators sponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota. 

• Tracing Minnesota's Forgotten History (2019, June)

  • Two-day long workshop for K-12 educators sponsored by the Minnesota Historical Society and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota. 

• Gender and Genocide: Uncovering Absent Narratives in Mass Violence and Human Rights Education (2018, June)

  • Weeklong workshop for K-12 educators sponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota. 

Professional Membership & Service

• American Educational Research Association (AERA)

• Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE)

• College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council of the Social Studies (CUFA)

• International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS)

• National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)

• National Council for Social Studies (NCSS)

• Slovak American Society of Washington D.C.

• Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies (WCSS)

  • Former board of directors member