Dr Sabine Wieber

  • Lecturer in History of Art, Architecture & Design (History of Art)

email: Sabine.Wieber@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 202, History of Art, 8 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5132-3721

Research interests

Office Hour: Email for appointment

Research Interests

  • Austrian and German Art, Architecture and Design (1800-1918)
  • The Domestic Interior
  • Gender Politics and Identity
  • Medical History
  • Material Culture Studies
  • Nationalism
  • History of Exhibitions and Collecting
  • Art Nouveau Textiles
  • Animal Studies

Publications

Selected publications

Wieber, S. (2020) "Je me declare Dieu-Mère, Femme Créateur": Johanna Wintsch's needlework at the Swiss psychiatric asylums Burghölzli and Rheinau, 1922-1925. In: Amos, J. and Lisa, B. (eds.) Stitching the Self: Identity and the Needle Arts. Bloomsbury Visual Arts: London, UK ; New York, NY, USA, pp. 125-139. ISBN 9781350070387

Wieber, S. (2020) Designs on modernity: Getrud Loew's Vienna apartment and situated agency. In: Potvin, J. and Marchand, M.-È. (eds.) Design and Agency: Critical Perspectives on Identities, Histories, and Practices. Bloomsbury Visual Arts: London, UK ; New York, NY, USA, pp. 33-48. ISBN 9781350063792

Wieber, S. (2018) German art academies and their impact on artistic style. In: Facos, M. (ed.) A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Art. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, pp. 103-121. ISBN 9781118856352

Wieber, S. (2018) Die Ehefrauen der Malerfürsten und ihre Rolle in der Gesellschaft. In: Malerfürsten. Hirmer Verlag: Munich, pp. 91-97. ISBN 9783777431383

Wieber, S. (2017) Martha Vogeler and the Worpswede Artists' Colony, 1894-1905. In: Münch, B. U., Tacke, A., Herzog, M. and Heudecker, S. (eds.) Künstlerinnen: Neue Perspektiven auf ein Forschungsfeld der Vormoderne. Series: Kunsthistorisches Forum Irsee (4). Michael Imhof Verlag: Petersberg, pp. 199-210. ISBN 9783731905202

Wieber, S. (2015) The warp & the weft: tradition and innovation in Skaerbaek tapestries, 1896-1903. Journal of Design History, 28(4), pp. 331-347. (doi: 10.1093/jdh/epv014)

Wieber, S. (2013) A beautiful corpse: Vienna's fascination with death. In: Blackshaw, G. (ed.) Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900. Yale University Press: New Haven, CT, pp. 173-203. ISBN 9781857095616

Wieber, S. (2012) Vienna’s most fashionable neurasthenic: Empress Sisi and the cult of size zero. In: Blackshaw, G. and Wieber, S. (eds.) Journeys into madness : mapping mental illness in the Austro-Hungarian empire. Berghahn: New York, NY, USA. ISBN 9780857454584

Wieber, S. (2011) Sculpting the sanatorium: nervous bodies and femmes fragiles in Vienna 1900. Women in German Yearbook, 27, pp. 58-86. (doi: 10.1353/wgy.2011.0008)

Topp, L. and Wieber, S. (2009) Architecture, psychiatry, and Lebensreform at an agricultural colony of the insane — Lower Austria, 1903. Central Europe, 7(2), pp. 125-149. (doi: 10.1179/147909609X12490448453885)

Wieber, S. (2009) The allure of nerves: class, gender and neurasthenia in Gustav Klimt's society portraits. In: Blackshaw, G. and Topp, L. (eds.) Madness and Modernity: Mental Illness and the Visual Arts in Vienna 1900. Lund Humphries: Farnham, UK, pp. 118-135. ISBN 9781848220201

Wieber, S. (2009) The German Interior at the Turn of the Last Century. In: Sparke, P., Massey, A., Keeble, T. and Martin, B. (eds.) Designing the Modern Interior: From the Victorians to Today. Berg: Oxford, pp. 53-64. ISBN 978-1847882875

Wieber, S. (2007) Eduard Grützner's Munich villa and the German Renaissance. Intellectual History Review, 17(2), pp. 153-174. (doi: 10.1080/17496970701383654)

Wieber, S. (2006) Staging the past: Allotria's 'Festzug Karl V' and German national identity. Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice, 10(4), pp. 523-551. (doi: 10.1080/13642520600649465)

All publications

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Number of items: 36.

2020

Wieber, S. (2020) Designs on modernity: Getrud Loew's Vienna apartment and situated agency. In: Potvin, J. and Marchand, M.-È. (eds.) Design and Agency: Critical Perspectives on Identities, Histories, and Practices. Bloomsbury Visual Arts: London, UK ; New York, NY, USA, pp. 33-48. ISBN 9781350063792

Wieber, S. (2020) "Je me declare Dieu-Mère, Femme Créateur": Johanna Wintsch's needlework at the Swiss psychiatric asylums Burghölzli and Rheinau, 1922-1925. In: Amos, J. and Lisa, B. (eds.) Stitching the Self: Identity and the Needle Arts. Bloomsbury Visual Arts: London, UK ; New York, NY, USA, pp. 125-139. ISBN 9781350070387

2019

Wieber, S. (2019) Between innovation and tradition: in search of a modern style, 1850-1914. In: Kries, M. and Eisenbrand, J. (eds.) Atlas of Furniture Design. Vitra Design Museum: Weil am Rhein, Germany. ISBN 9783931936990

Wieber, S. (2019) Design Dialogue: Jews, Culture and Viennese Modernism. Burlington Magazine, [Book Review] (In Press)

Wieber, S. (2019) The world of prostitution in late imperial Austria. Cultural and Social History, 16(1), pp. 118-119. (doi: 10.1080/14780038.2019.1572698)[Book Review]

2018

Wieber, S. (2018) Die Ehefrauen der Malerfürsten und ihre Rolle in der Gesellschaft. In: Malerfürsten. Hirmer Verlag: Munich, pp. 91-97. ISBN 9783777431383

Wieber, S. (2018) German art academies and their impact on artistic style. In: Facos, M. (ed.) A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Art. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, pp. 103-121. ISBN 9781118856352

2017

Wieber, S. (2017) Martha Vogeler and the Worpswede Artists' Colony, 1894-1905. In: Münch, B. U., Tacke, A., Herzog, M. and Heudecker, S. (eds.) Künstlerinnen: Neue Perspektiven auf ein Forschungsfeld der Vormoderne. Series: Kunsthistorisches Forum Irsee (4). Michael Imhof Verlag: Petersberg, pp. 199-210. ISBN 9783731905202

2015

Wieber, S. (2015) The warp & the weft: tradition and innovation in Skaerbaek tapestries, 1896-1903. Journal of Design History, 28(4), pp. 331-347. (doi: 10.1093/jdh/epv014)

Wieber, S. (2015) Morton, Masha. Max Klinger and Wilhelmine Culture: On the Treshold of German Modernism. German Quarterly, 88(4), pp. 549-551. (doi: 10.1111/gequ.10249)[Book Review]

Wieber, S. (2015) Richter, Andrea. Hans Schmithals (1878-1964). Malerei Zwischen Jugendstil Und Abstraktion. German Quarterly, 88(1), pp. 124-125. (doi: 10.1111/gequ.10228)[Book Review]

2014

Quye, A. , Scholler, E.-A. and Wieber, S. (2014) Identifying Fuchsine Visually in Dress and Textile Collections. In: 33rd Annual Meeting of Dyes in History and Archaeology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK, 29 Oct - 1 Nov 2014,

Wieber, S. (2014) The battle for 'the Mack'. Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, 13(2),

2013

Wieber, S. (2013) A beautiful corpse: Vienna's fascination with death. In: Blackshaw, G. (ed.) Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900. Yale University Press: New Haven, CT, pp. 173-203. ISBN 9781857095616

2012

Blackshaw, G. and Wieber, S. (Eds.) (2012) Journeys into Madness: Mapping Mental Illness in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Series: Austrian and Habsburg studies. Berghahn: New York, NY. ISBN 9780857454584

Blackshaw, G. and Wieber, S. (2012) Introduction. In: Blackshaw, G. and Wieber, S. (eds.) Journeys into madness : mapping mental illness in the Austro-Hungarian empire. Berghahn: New York, NY, USA. ISBN 9780857454584

Wieber, S. (2012) Vienna’s most fashionable neurasthenic: Empress Sisi and the cult of size zero. In: Blackshaw, G. and Wieber, S. (eds.) Journeys into madness : mapping mental illness in the Austro-Hungarian empire. Berghahn: New York, NY, USA. ISBN 9780857454584

Wieber, S. (2012) Vienna Enchanted by Makart? Kunstchronik, 65(2), pp. 74-80. [Book Review]

Innocenti, P., Richards, J. and Wieber, S. (2012) Bridging multicultural communities: developing a framework for a European network of museums, libraries and public cultural institutions. In: Digital Humanities 2012, Hamburg, Germany, 16-22 Jul 2012, pp. 232-235.

2011

Wieber, S. (2011) Studien zu Anton Romako (1832-1889). Sehepunkte, [Book Review]

Wieber, S. (2011) Viennese history painting is booming. H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences, [Book Review]

Wieber, S. (2011) Alltag und Aneignung in Psychiatrien um 1900. H-Net, [Book Review]

Wieber, S. (2011) Sculpting the sanatorium: nervous bodies and femmes fragiles in Vienna 1900. Women in German Yearbook, 27, pp. 58-86. (doi: 10.1353/wgy.2011.0008)

2010

Behr, C., Usborne, C. and Wieber, S. (Eds.) (2010) Picturing the Past. Series: Cultural and social history. Gardners Books. ISBN 9781847886477

Blackshaw, G. and Wieber, S. (2010) Madness & Modernity: Kunst und Wahn in Wien um 1900. [Exhibitions]

Wieber, S. (2010) Review of: Charles Rennie Mackintosh, by James Macaulay. Victorian, 35, p. 25. [Book Review]

Wieber, S. (2010) Review of: The Poetic Home: design in the 19th century domestic interior, by Stefan Muthesius. Home Cultures, 7(3), pp. 369-372. [Book Review]

2009

Topp, L. and Wieber, S. (2009) Architecture, psychiatry, and Lebensreform at an agricultural colony of the insane — Lower Austria, 1903. Central Europe, 7(2), pp. 125-149. (doi: 10.1179/147909609X12490448453885)

Wieber, S. (2009) The allure of nerves: class, gender and neurasthenia in Gustav Klimt's society portraits. In: Blackshaw, G. and Topp, L. (eds.) Madness and Modernity: Mental Illness and the Visual Arts in Vienna 1900. Lund Humphries: Farnham, UK, pp. 118-135. ISBN 9781848220201

Wieber, S. and Topp, L. (2009) Architecture, Psychiatry and the Rural Idyll. In: Gabriel, E. and Gamper, M. (eds.) Psychiatrische Institutionen in Österreich um 1900. Verlagshaus der Arzte: Vienna. ISBN 978-3902552341

Wieber, S. (2009) The German Interior at the Turn of the Last Century. In: Sparke, P., Massey, A., Keeble, T. and Martin, B. (eds.) Designing the Modern Interior: From the Victorians to Today. Berg: Oxford, pp. 53-64. ISBN 978-1847882875

Wieber, S. (2009) Richard Luksch, two faience figures for the Purkersdorf Sanatorium, 1905. In: Blackshaw, G. and Topp, L.E. (eds.) Madness and Modernity: Mental Illness and the Visual Arts in Vienna 1900. Lund Humphries: Surrey, UK, pp. 118-135. ISBN 9781848220201

2007

Wieber, S. (2007) Eduard Grützner's Munich villa and the German Renaissance. Intellectual History Review, 17(2), pp. 153-174. (doi: 10.1080/17496970701383654)

2006

Wieber, S. (2006) Staging the past: Allotria's 'Festzug Karl V' and German national identity. Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice, 10(4), pp. 523-551. (doi: 10.1080/13642520600649465)

2003

Wieber, S. (2003) From kulturnation to staatsnation: German national identity, 1800-1890. In: Heller, R. (ed.) Confronting Identities in German Art: Myths, Reactions, Reflections. David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art: Chicago, USA, pp. 23-49. ISBN 9780935573367

2002

Wieber, S. (2002) The revival and relevance of medieval costume in early nineteenth-century German art. In: Weaver, E.B. and Rodini, E. (eds.) A Well-Fashioned Image: Clothing and Costume in European Art, 1500-1850. David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art: Chicago, USA. ISBN 9780935573350

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Jump to: Articles | Book Sections | Book Reviews | Edited Books | Conference Proceedings | Exhibitions
Number of items: 36.

Articles

Wieber, S. (2015) The warp & the weft: tradition and innovation in Skaerbaek tapestries, 1896-1903. Journal of Design History, 28(4), pp. 331-347. (doi: 10.1093/jdh/epv014)

Wieber, S. (2014) The battle for 'the Mack'. Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, 13(2),

Wieber, S. (2011) Sculpting the sanatorium: nervous bodies and femmes fragiles in Vienna 1900. Women in German Yearbook, 27, pp. 58-86. (doi: 10.1353/wgy.2011.0008)

Topp, L. and Wieber, S. (2009) Architecture, psychiatry, and Lebensreform at an agricultural colony of the insane — Lower Austria, 1903. Central Europe, 7(2), pp. 125-149. (doi: 10.1179/147909609X12490448453885)

Wieber, S. (2007) Eduard Grützner's Munich villa and the German Renaissance. Intellectual History Review, 17(2), pp. 153-174. (doi: 10.1080/17496970701383654)

Wieber, S. (2006) Staging the past: Allotria's 'Festzug Karl V' and German national identity. Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice, 10(4), pp. 523-551. (doi: 10.1080/13642520600649465)

Book Sections

Wieber, S. (2020) Designs on modernity: Getrud Loew's Vienna apartment and situated agency. In: Potvin, J. and Marchand, M.-È. (eds.) Design and Agency: Critical Perspectives on Identities, Histories, and Practices. Bloomsbury Visual Arts: London, UK ; New York, NY, USA, pp. 33-48. ISBN 9781350063792

Wieber, S. (2020) "Je me declare Dieu-Mère, Femme Créateur": Johanna Wintsch's needlework at the Swiss psychiatric asylums Burghölzli and Rheinau, 1922-1925. In: Amos, J. and Lisa, B. (eds.) Stitching the Self: Identity and the Needle Arts. Bloomsbury Visual Arts: London, UK ; New York, NY, USA, pp. 125-139. ISBN 9781350070387

Wieber, S. (2019) Between innovation and tradition: in search of a modern style, 1850-1914. In: Kries, M. and Eisenbrand, J. (eds.) Atlas of Furniture Design. Vitra Design Museum: Weil am Rhein, Germany. ISBN 9783931936990

Wieber, S. (2018) Die Ehefrauen der Malerfürsten und ihre Rolle in der Gesellschaft. In: Malerfürsten. Hirmer Verlag: Munich, pp. 91-97. ISBN 9783777431383

Wieber, S. (2018) German art academies and their impact on artistic style. In: Facos, M. (ed.) A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Art. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, pp. 103-121. ISBN 9781118856352

Wieber, S. (2017) Martha Vogeler and the Worpswede Artists' Colony, 1894-1905. In: Münch, B. U., Tacke, A., Herzog, M. and Heudecker, S. (eds.) Künstlerinnen: Neue Perspektiven auf ein Forschungsfeld der Vormoderne. Series: Kunsthistorisches Forum Irsee (4). Michael Imhof Verlag: Petersberg, pp. 199-210. ISBN 9783731905202

Wieber, S. (2013) A beautiful corpse: Vienna's fascination with death. In: Blackshaw, G. (ed.) Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900. Yale University Press: New Haven, CT, pp. 173-203. ISBN 9781857095616

Blackshaw, G. and Wieber, S. (2012) Introduction. In: Blackshaw, G. and Wieber, S. (eds.) Journeys into madness : mapping mental illness in the Austro-Hungarian empire. Berghahn: New York, NY, USA. ISBN 9780857454584

Wieber, S. (2012) Vienna’s most fashionable neurasthenic: Empress Sisi and the cult of size zero. In: Blackshaw, G. and Wieber, S. (eds.) Journeys into madness : mapping mental illness in the Austro-Hungarian empire. Berghahn: New York, NY, USA. ISBN 9780857454584

Wieber, S. (2009) The allure of nerves: class, gender and neurasthenia in Gustav Klimt's society portraits. In: Blackshaw, G. and Topp, L. (eds.) Madness and Modernity: Mental Illness and the Visual Arts in Vienna 1900. Lund Humphries: Farnham, UK, pp. 118-135. ISBN 9781848220201

Wieber, S. and Topp, L. (2009) Architecture, Psychiatry and the Rural Idyll. In: Gabriel, E. and Gamper, M. (eds.) Psychiatrische Institutionen in Österreich um 1900. Verlagshaus der Arzte: Vienna. ISBN 978-3902552341

Wieber, S. (2009) The German Interior at the Turn of the Last Century. In: Sparke, P., Massey, A., Keeble, T. and Martin, B. (eds.) Designing the Modern Interior: From the Victorians to Today. Berg: Oxford, pp. 53-64. ISBN 978-1847882875

Wieber, S. (2009) Richard Luksch, two faience figures for the Purkersdorf Sanatorium, 1905. In: Blackshaw, G. and Topp, L.E. (eds.) Madness and Modernity: Mental Illness and the Visual Arts in Vienna 1900. Lund Humphries: Surrey, UK, pp. 118-135. ISBN 9781848220201

Wieber, S. (2003) From kulturnation to staatsnation: German national identity, 1800-1890. In: Heller, R. (ed.) Confronting Identities in German Art: Myths, Reactions, Reflections. David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art: Chicago, USA, pp. 23-49. ISBN 9780935573367

Wieber, S. (2002) The revival and relevance of medieval costume in early nineteenth-century German art. In: Weaver, E.B. and Rodini, E. (eds.) A Well-Fashioned Image: Clothing and Costume in European Art, 1500-1850. David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art: Chicago, USA. ISBN 9780935573350

Book Reviews

Wieber, S. (2019) Design Dialogue: Jews, Culture and Viennese Modernism. Burlington Magazine, [Book Review] (In Press)

Wieber, S. (2019) The world of prostitution in late imperial Austria. Cultural and Social History, 16(1), pp. 118-119. (doi: 10.1080/14780038.2019.1572698)[Book Review]

Wieber, S. (2015) Morton, Masha. Max Klinger and Wilhelmine Culture: On the Treshold of German Modernism. German Quarterly, 88(4), pp. 549-551. (doi: 10.1111/gequ.10249)[Book Review]

Wieber, S. (2015) Richter, Andrea. Hans Schmithals (1878-1964). Malerei Zwischen Jugendstil Und Abstraktion. German Quarterly, 88(1), pp. 124-125. (doi: 10.1111/gequ.10228)[Book Review]

Wieber, S. (2012) Vienna Enchanted by Makart? Kunstchronik, 65(2), pp. 74-80. [Book Review]

Wieber, S. (2011) Studien zu Anton Romako (1832-1889). Sehepunkte, [Book Review]

Wieber, S. (2011) Viennese history painting is booming. H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences, [Book Review]

Wieber, S. (2011) Alltag und Aneignung in Psychiatrien um 1900. H-Net, [Book Review]

Wieber, S. (2010) Review of: Charles Rennie Mackintosh, by James Macaulay. Victorian, 35, p. 25. [Book Review]

Wieber, S. (2010) Review of: The Poetic Home: design in the 19th century domestic interior, by Stefan Muthesius. Home Cultures, 7(3), pp. 369-372. [Book Review]

Edited Books

Blackshaw, G. and Wieber, S. (Eds.) (2012) Journeys into Madness: Mapping Mental Illness in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Series: Austrian and Habsburg studies. Berghahn: New York, NY. ISBN 9780857454584

Behr, C., Usborne, C. and Wieber, S. (Eds.) (2010) Picturing the Past. Series: Cultural and social history. Gardners Books. ISBN 9781847886477

Conference Proceedings

Quye, A. , Scholler, E.-A. and Wieber, S. (2014) Identifying Fuchsine Visually in Dress and Textile Collections. In: 33rd Annual Meeting of Dyes in History and Archaeology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK, 29 Oct - 1 Nov 2014,

Innocenti, P., Richards, J. and Wieber, S. (2012) Bridging multicultural communities: developing a framework for a European network of museums, libraries and public cultural institutions. In: Digital Humanities 2012, Hamburg, Germany, 16-22 Jul 2012, pp. 232-235.

Exhibitions

Blackshaw, G. and Wieber, S. (2010) Madness & Modernity: Kunst und Wahn in Wien um 1900. [Exhibitions]

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Supervision

Accepting PhD Supervision in any of my areas of research.

Graduated

Sara Oberg Stradal: Medical illustrations in medieval manuscripts (Graduated)

Sherezade Rangel: Creative Writing (Graduated)

  • Cleaver, Jonathan
    Technical innovation and the development of carpet design in the Stoddard Templeton archives.
  • Connor, Eamonn
    Ocean Liners: Cultures of Promotion
  • Mailley-Watt, Karen
    Glasgow Girls Revisited: Designing, Making and Exhibiting Women's Industrial Design of the Gilded Age

Teaching

  • Modernism (Level 1)
  • Sites of Modern Art (Level 2)
  • Methodology of Art History (Junior Honours)
  • Portfolio Core Course (Junior Honours)
  • European Symbolism (Junior Honours)
  • The Dawn of Modernism (Senior Honours)
  • Art History: International Art Nouveau (MLitt programme)
  • Reading International Art Nouveau (MLitt)
  • Research Methods in Practice (Mlitt)
  • Cultures of Collecting (MLitt)
  • Testimonies of Painters' Practice (MLitt)
  • Making Dress and Textile Histories (MLitt)
  • Material Cultures (MLitt / MPhil)
  • Dissertation (MA and MLitt) 

Additional information

Administration

  • Staff-Student Liaison
  • Level 2 Convenor
  • Junior Honours Portfolio
  • Exam Convenor
  • Co-Convenor, MLitt Art History:  Art History: International Art Nouveau
  • History of Art Learning & Teaching Convenor

External Responsibilities

  • External Examiner, University of London, Birkbeck College (2014-2016)
  • External Examiner, School of Art History, St Andrews University (2013-2015)
  • External Examiner, MA in History of Design, RCA/V&A (2010-2013)
  • Trustee, Association of Art Historians (Chair of Further & Higher Education) (2010-2013)
  • Chair, Scottish Society for Art History
  • Council Member, Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society (2011-2013)
  • Associate Editor, 'Interiors' (Berg)
  • Honorary Curator, Glasgow Life
  • Executive Committee Member, Medical Humanities Research Centre, University of Glasgow

Selected Conference Papers

  • Martha and Heinrich Vogeler at the Worpswede Artists' Colony, UAAC, Annual Conference, Toronto, October 2014
  • Gustav Klimt's Little Red Sketchbook, 1897-1903, 'Object Lives', Wolfson College, Oxford, September 2013
  • Death Masks and the Lure of Interdisciplinarity, 'Social Sciences and Humanities Congress, Victoria, British Columbia, June 2013
  • From Shambles to Abattoirs: Representing Meat in Art and Architecture, 1850-1930, University of Plymouth, May 2013
  • Gendered Practices of Everyday Life in Central European Asylums ca. 1900, 'Madness and Revolt', Keynote at AAH Student Conference, Edinburgh, November 2011
  • ‘The Old National Gallery in Berlin, 1876-2010,’ Public Histories: Past & Present, Centre for History and Theory, Roehampton University, London, February 2009
  • Chair and Organiser of ‘Far From Silent Partners: Extra-Artistic Dialogues in Central European Avant-Gardes around 1900,’ Europa! Europa?’ European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, Ghent University, 29-31 May 2008 
  • ‘The Agricultural Colony at Kierling-Gugging' (with Leslie Topp), Psychiatrische - und ähnliche - Institutionen um 1900. Konzepte, Realisierungen, Praxis, The Institute for the History of Medicine, Vienna, October 2007
  • ‘The Viennese Femme Fragile,’ Public Lecture, Peninsula Arts, Plymouth, October 2007‘The Role of Sculpture in Viennese Modernism,’ Public Lecture, Birkbeck College, Faculty of Continuing Education, January 2007  
  • ‘Kunstgeschichte und das musikalische Gesamtkunstwerk,’ Konzert und Konkurrenz: Die Künste und ihre Wissenschaften im 19. Jahrhundert, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, May 2006
  • ‘Modern German Interiors: Conflicting Positions in Fin-de-Siècle Munich,’ The Centre for the Study of the Design of the Modern Interior, 7th Dorich House Annual Conference, Kingston, May 2005
  • ‘Historicity, Authenticity and German National Identity,’ College Art Association Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington, February 2004

Exhibitions

  • Co-Curator, ‘Madness and Modernity: Kunst und Geisteskrankheit in Wien um 1900,’ Wien Museum, Vienna, 16 February – 31 May 2010
  • Co-Curator, ‘Confronting Identities in German Art,’ The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 30 October 2003-5 January 2004

Interviews

  • Interview with Sean Graham from Active History, Canada: available online
  • Research in Focus Interview, University of Glasgow: http://www.gla.ac.uk/research/infocus/researchers/headline_281466_en.html