Britta Schilling is consulted by the media on topics related to the history and legacies of European empire and colonialism. She has been interviewed for publications including de Volkskrant, The Correspondent, Die Zeit, Stern and tagesschau.de.
- ‘Rassismusdebatte: Kritik an Kolonialdenkmälern – “Nur die Spitze des Eisbergs”’, Die Zeit (14.6.2020)
- Elliot Ross, ‘Colonialism in the decor: we can’t keep sweeping the past under the leopard skin rug’, The Correspondent (14.11.2019)
- Charlotte Huisman, ‘Straatje om langs namen met een smet’, Volkskrant (27.10.2018) Note: slight misquote - it should read, ‘Wat we nu tot stand hebben gebracht, was het maximaal mogelijk binnen het tijdpad.’
Schilling has been invited to give public talks at an event on postcolonial interventions in public space hosted by Tori Oso and BAK Utrecht; on the historical background of the Wissmann-Straße at the Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf; on material memories of empire at the German Historical Institute London; and as part of a major exhibition on German colonialism at the German Historical Museum in Berlin.