Univ.-Prof.ⁱⁿ Dr.ⁱⁿ Michaela Ralser

Vita

Research projects: ongoing and completed

Applied for; WEAVE project (University of Innsbruck: Marc Hill & Michaela Ralser) Political Literacy in the Migration Society (PLIM II): How adolecent city residents speak about glocal migration sociality I Project partners : Paul Mecheril (LEAD) - University of Bielefeld; Roland Reichenbach - University of Zurich (DFG second submission: June 2025)

Ongoing: D-A-CH project (Michaela Ralser): Negotiating Educational Spaces in Residential Care 1970 - 1990. An Interdisciplinary Comparison of Transformation Processes in Austria, Germany and Switzerland I Project partners: Mechthild Bereswill - University of Kassel; Gisela Hauss - University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland I Duration 2021 - 2024 [to the project homepage]

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Completed: D-A-CH project (Michaela Ralser. together with Erol Yildiz): Political Literacy in the Migration Society. An ethnographic study of political practice in schools in the Global Cities, Berlin, Vienna and Zurich I Project partners: Paul Mecheril - University of Bielefeld; Roland Reichenbach - University of Zurich I Duration 2018-2021/22 [to the project homepage]

Completed: Country project (Michaela Ralser together with Elisabeth Dietrich-Daum and Dirk Rupnow): Psychiatrised childhoods. A study on the Maria Nowak-Vogl curative-psychiatric paediatric observation ward (1954-1987) I Duration 2014-2017 [to the project homepage]

Completed: Country project (Michaela Ralser): Regime of Care. Theory and History of Historical Child and Youth Welfare (1. History of Tyrolean and Vorarlberg Educational Homes and Welfare Education Regimes. A preliminary study; 2. The public welfare education system in Tyrol and Vorarlberg; 3. the provincial educational centre for girls St. Martin in Schwaz) Duration: 2012-2015/16 [to the project homepage: Home history research]

Completed: Journal project (Michaela Ralser together with Elisabeth Dietrich-Daum and Elisabeth Lobenwein): VIRUS. Contributions to the Social History of Medicine, Issue 17; focus: Medicalised childhoods. The new concern for the child from the late 19th to the 20th century, Leiziger Universitätsverlag 2018 [Open Access]

Completed: Journal project (Michaela Ralser together with Reinhard Sieder): Double issue of the Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, issue 25 (1+2 from 2014); focus: Die Kinder des Staates I Children of the State, Studienverlag 2014 [Open Access]

Completed: Interreg IV project (together with Elisabeth Dietrich Daum, Maria Heidegger, Hermann Kuprian and Elena Taddei): Psychiatric Landscapes. Psychiatry and its patients in the historical region of Tyrol-South Tyrol from 1830 to the present. Duration: 2008-2011 [to the online project documentation]

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Completed: Individual research - The lament of the subject. Illness and health in social change (project number: H 193-G04) as part of a habilitation grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) in the Charlotte Bühler Programme I Duration 2004 - 2006/7 I Book: Michaela Ralser: Das Subjekt der Normalität. The Knowledge Archive of Psychiatry: Cultures of Illness around 1900, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2010 [Publisher's view with reading samples]

Publications

Monographs

Ralser, Michaela (with Leitner, Ulrich; Guerrini, Flavia; Bischoff, Nora; Jost, Christine; Reiterer, Martina): Heimkindheiten. The history of youth welfare and residential care in Tyrol and Vorarlberg. StudienVerlag, Innsbruck 2017 [ISBN 978-3-7065-5537-1] To the publisher's page

Ralser, Michaela (with Bechter, Anneliese; Guerrini, Flavia): Regime of Welfare. A Preliminary Study on the History of the Tyrolean and Vorarlberg Educational Homes and Welfare Education Systems of the Second Republic. innsbruck university press (IUP), Innsbruck 2014. [ISBN 978-3-902936-45-5]. [out of print: used at Amazon]

Ralser, Michaela: The subject of normality. Knowledge archive of psychiatry. Cultures of illness around 1900, Wilhelm-Fink-Verlag, Paderborn, 2010 [ISBN 978-3-7705-4980-1] To the publisher's website (including reading samples)

Editorship of anthologies

Ralser, Michaela (with Bereswill, Mechthild; Guerrini, Flavia; Hauss, Gisela; Leitner, Ulrich) (eds.): Re-formdynamiken in der Heimerziehung 1970 bis 1990. Fallstudien aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, Beltz-Juventa, 2025 [ISBN 978-3-7799-9068-0] forthcoming

Ralser, Michaela (with Gensluckner, Lisa; Thomas-Olalde, Oscar; Yildiz, Erol): Die Wirklichkeit lesen. Political literacy and political education in the migration society, Transcirpt Verlag, 2021 [ISBN: 978-3-8376-5614-5]. To the publisher's website (including reading samples)

Ralser, Michaela (with Dietrich-Daum, Elisabeth; Rupnow, Dirk): Psychiatrised childhoods. The Innsbruck paediatric observation ward of Maria Nowak-Vogl (1954-1987). Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2020 [ISBN 978-3-7065-5914-0] To the publisher's page

Ralser, Michaela (with Appelt, Erna; Grabner-Niel, Elisabeth; Jarosch, Marion): Negotiating identities - de/constructing identities. innsbruck university press (IUP) (= Innsbruck Gender Lectures, 3), Innsbruck 2015. [ISBN 978-3-902936-90-5].

Ralser, Michaela (with Heidegger, Maria; Di Pauli, Celia; Noggler, Lisa; Clementi, Siglinde; Dietrich-Daum, Elisabeth; Kuprian, Hermann): Ich lasse mich nicht länger für einen Narren halten/Non vi permetterò più di farmi passare per matto. Eine Ausstellung zur Geschichte der Psychiatrie in Tirol, Südtirol und im Trentino/Una mostra sulla storia della psichiatria in Tirolo, Alto Adige e Trentino. Edition Raetia, Bolzano 2012 [ISBN 978-88-7283-418-3]. To the publisher's page

Ralser, Michaela (with Dietrich-Daum, Elisabeth; Kuprian, Hermann; Clementi, Siglinde; Heidegger, Maria): Psychiatrische Landschaften. Psychiatry and its patients in the historical Tyrol since 1830, innsbruck university press (IUP), Innsbruck 2011 [ISBN 978-3-902811-11-0]. Open Access

Ralser, Michaela (with Dietrich-Daum, Elisabeth; Kuprian, Hermann; Clementi, Siglinde; Heidegger, Maria): Ambienti Psichiatrici. La psichiatria e i suoi pazienti nell'area del Tirolo storico dal 1830 a oggi. innsbruck university press (IUP), Innsbruck 2012. [ISBN 978-3-902811-27-1]

Ralser, Michaela (with Niko Hofinger et al.): Documentation and didactic material, Die [un]sichtbare Arbeit. On the history of psychiatric care in the historical Tyrol from 1830 to the present, 2012. Open Access

Editorship of peer-reviewed journals

Ralser, Michaela (with Paul Mecheril, Roland Reichenbach & Erol Yildiz) Design of the thematic issue: Political education in the migration society of the Zeitschrift für Pädagogik 4/22, ISSN 0044-3247 [to view]

Michaela Ralser (with Dietrich-Daum, Elisabeth; Elisabeth Lobenwein): Medicalised childhoods. Issue no. 17, Virus. Contributions to the Social History of Medicine, Leipzig 2018. peer reviewed, [ISBN 978-3-96023-203-2]. Open Access

Ralser, Michaela (with Gatt, Sabine; Hazibar, Kerstin; Preglau, Max): Geschlechterverhält- nisse in Migrationsgesellschaften: Repräsentationen - Kritik - Differenz, special issue of the Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie (ÖZS), Springer-Verlag VS, Wiesbaden 2016. peer-reviewed [ISBN 978-3-658-15886-6]. To the publisher's page

Ralser, Michaela (with Reinhard Sieder): Heft 1+2/2014 "Die Kinder des Staates/Children of the State" - Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2014. peer-reviewed. [ISBN 978-3-7065-5334-6] Open Access

Journal articles

• Ralser, Michaela: Aspects of an Epistemology of Change. On the conjuncture of science-orientated reform policy in Tyrol in the early 1970s: the target model and the development of home education, in: Zeitschrift Zeitgeschichte. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers I unipress, 2025, Vol. 52, H.2, pp. 193-212, [ISSN 0256-5250]
• Ralser, Michaela (together with Andreas Fink, Markus Griesser and Sophie Schubert: Erziehungsräumliche (Dis-)Kontinuitäten. The contribution of science to the reorganisation of spatialised forms of social control in home education in the 1970s using the example of Tyrol. In: Social Problems. Beltz-Juventa, 2024, vol. 35, p. 1, pp. 23-36. DOI: 10.3262/SP2401023. Open Access
• Ralser, Michaela: Institutions of Assistance as Places of Harm - a Historical Perspective on the Example of Child and Youth Welfare Services in: Social Work & Society. International online Journal 2022/2 (prepared for submission)
• Ralser, Michaela (together with Lisa Gensluckner & Oscar Thomas-Olalde): Contradictory diversity: reading and changing its power effects. Findings from an ethnographic study in Viennese schools in: Zeitschrift für Pädagogik (ISSN 0044-3247), issue 4, year 2022, pages 462 - 480.
• Ralser, Michaela: The punch card. An early instrument of data processing in youth welfare, child psychiatric and curative education "neglect research", in: Virus - Beiträge zur Sozialgeschichte der Medizin 19, Leipzig 2021, pp. 295 - 305. Open Access
• Ralser, Michaela (with Guerrini, Flavia; Leitner, Ulrich): Supported memory as a form of knowledge organisation. On the role of the care file in the biographical memory work of former children in care. "Supported Memory" as a Form of Knowledge Organisation. On the Role of Child Welfare Case Files in the Biographical Memory Work of Care Leavers, in: Soziale Probleme. Journal for Social Problems and Social Control No. 30, Kassel 2020, pp.187-203. Open Access
• Ralser, Michaela (with Dietrich-Daum, Elisabeth): Kinder zwischen Psychiatrie und Fürsorgeerziehung. The example of the Innsbruck Children's Observation Centre (1954 to 1987), in: Ralser, Michaela; Dietrich-Daum, Elisabeth; Lobenwein, Elisabeth: Virus. Contributions to the Social History of Medicine, Issue No. 17: Medicalised Childhoods, Leipzig 2018, pp. 111-129 [ISBN 978-3-96023-203-2]. Open Access
• Ralser, Michaela (with Gatt, Sabine; Hazibar, Kerstin; Perglau, Max; Sauermann, Verena): Migration from a gender-critical, postcolonial and interdisciplinary perspective, in: Ralser, Michaela; Gatt, Sabine; Hazibar, Kerstin; Perglau, Max, Sauermann; Verena (eds.): Geschlechterverhältnisse in Migrationsgesellschaften: Repräsentationen - Kritik - Differenz, Österreichischen Zeitschrift für Soziologie (ÖZS) Sonderhefte, Vol. 16, Springer-VS, Wiesbaden 2017, 1-12 [ISBN 978-3-658-15886-6]. Open Access
• Ralser, Michaela: The Illegitimate. Migrationsregime in biopolitischer Perspektive, in: Gatt, Sabine u.a. (eds.): Geschlechterverhältnisse in Migrationsgesellschaften: Repräsentationen - Kritik - Differenz, special issue of the Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie (ÖZS), Springer-Verlag VS, Wiesbaden 2016, 63-77 [ISBN 978-3-658-15886-6].
• Ralser, Michaela (with Ulrich Leitner and Martina Reiterer): The institution as a special educational place. Das Vorarlberger Landeserziehungsheim am Jagdberg, in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Zeitgeschichte, 3/2015 [Case Studies on the History of Home Education], pp. 179-195 [ISSN 0256-5250].
• Ralser, Michaela: Psychiatrised Childhood - Expansive Cultures of Illness. Powerful alliances between psychiatry and welfare education, in: Die Kinder des Staates/Children of the State, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 1&2/ 2014, pp. 128-156 [ISBN 978-3-7065-5334-6]. Open Access
• Ralser, Michaela: Über den Wandel der Signaturen der Seele in der Klinischen Psychiatrie um 1900. In: Virus - Beiträge zur Sozialgeschichte der Medizin, Vienna - 8/2009, pp. 143-155. Open Access
• Ralser, Michaela: The clinic in the foreground. The example of the Innsbruck Psychiatric-Neurological University Clinic around 1900, in: Dietrich-Daum, Elisabeth; Grandi, Casimira; Taiani, Rodolfo (eds.): Psychiatrielandschaft - Oltre il manicomio, Geschichte und Region 17, Heft 2, Studienverlag, Innsbruck-Wien-Bozen 2008, pp.135-146 [ISSN 1121-0303].

Contributions in anthologies

• Ralser Michaela: Die lounge durée der Fürsorgeerziehung. Untersuchungen zum langen Ende der Anstalt, in: Rita Casale, Fabian Kessl, Nicolle Pfaff, Martina Richter, Anja Tervooren (eds.); (De)Institutionalisation of Education and Upbringing, Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M., 2024, pp. 189-208 (Open Access)
• Ralser, Michaela: Inserts into the collective memory. On the history of institutionalised violence in residential care in the context of social reappraisal In: Heimgartner, Arno; Scheipl, Josef: Geschichte und Entwicklungen der Sozialen Arbeit in Österreich. Münster, Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna, London, Zurich: LIT-Verlag, 2022 (in press).
• Ralser, Michaela; Gensluckner, Lisa: Familialised school - illiterate practices - denied greatness. Subjectivisation regimes of deprivileging schooling. In: Gensluckner, Lisa; Ralser, Michaela; Thomas-Olalde, Oscar; Yildiz, Erol: Reading reality. Political literacy and political education in the migration society. Bielefeld: Transcript (= Postmigrant Studies, 7). 2021, PP. 193 - 222 [ISBN 978-3-8376-5614-5]
• Ralser, Michaela (with Gensluckner, Lisa; Thomas-Olalde, Oscar; Yildiz, Erol): Reading reality differently - words of introduction. In: Gensluckner et al. (eds.): Reading reality. Political Literacy and Political Education in the Migration Society. Bielefeld: Transcript (= Postmigrantische Studien, 7), 2021, pp. 9 - 19 [ISBN 978-3-8376-5614-5] To the publisher's view
• Ralser, Michaela: Heilpädagogische Landschaften - Die epochale Gründungswelle von Kinderbeobachtungen in Österreich der langen 1950er Jahr, in: Ralser, Michaela; Dietrich-Daum, Elisabeth Rupnow, Dirk (eds.): Psychiatrisierte Kindheiten. The Innsbruck Children's Observation Centre of Maria Nowak-Vogl (1954-1987). Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2020, pp. 12-21 [ISBN 978-3-7065-5914-0]
• Ralser, Michaela (with Dietrich-Daum, Elisabeth; Rupnow, Dirk): Introduction. In: Dietrich-Daum, et al. (eds.): Psychiatrised childhoods. The Innsbruck Paediatric Observation Centre of Maria Nowak-Vogl (1954-1987). Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2020, pp. 11 - 19 [ISBN 978-3-7065-5914-0] To the publisher's view
• Ralser, Michaela (with Dietrich-Daum, Elisabeth): The ward and its long-standing leaders. In: Dietrich-Daum, et al. (ed.): Psychiatrised childhoods. The Innsbruck paediatric observation ward of Maria Nowak-Vogl (1954-1987). Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2020, pp. 150 - 204 [ISBN 978-3-7065-5914-0]
• Ralser, Michaela (with Dietrich-Daum, Elisabeth): The station and its locations. In: Dietrich-Daum, et al. (ed.): Psychiatrised childhoods. The Innsbruck paediatric observation ward of Maria Nowak-Vogl (1954-1987). Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2020, pp. 130 - 149 [ISBN 978-3-7065-5914-0]
• Ralser, Michaela (with Guerrini, Flavia; Leitner, Ulrich): "Man kann nicht erziehen, den man nicht habe". The dictate of presence as a constant of deprivation of liberty measures in youth welfare, in: Neuber, Anke; Zahradnik, Franz (eds.): Geschlossene Institutionen. Theoretical and empirical insights (Social problems - social control). Beltz Juventa, Weinheim 2019, pp. 42-66. peer reviewed. [ISBN 978-3-7799-6000-3]
• Ralser, Michaela: Die Sorge um das erziehungsschwierige Kind, in: Topp, Sascha, Schepker Klaus, Fangerau Heiner (eds.): Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie im Nationalsozialismus und in der Nachkriegszeit. The history of its consolidation. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2017, pp. 557-578 [ISBN 978-3-662-49805-7] Open Access
• Ralser, Michaela: A specific social history of growing up. The formation of children's bodies in corrective training, remedial teaching and child psychiatry in Austria after 1945, in: International Standing Conference for the History of Education 38 (ed.): Education and Body (Abstract Book), Chicago - August 17-20, 2016, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2016, p. 136f. [ISBN 2313-1845]
• Ralser, Michaela: Medicalisation cultures. Early corrective education and start of the expansion of territorial claim of psychiatry on the child: condition and impact, in: International Standing Conference for the History of Education 37 (ed.): Culture and Education (Abstracts Book); Istanbul 2015, pp. 218-219. [ISBN 978-605-4673-57-5 ]
• Ralser, Michaela: The Bio-Politics of Migration Regimes and the Normality of Racism, in: Mecheril, Paul et al. (eds.): Migration Research as Critique? Contours of a Research Perspective, Springer Verlag/Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2013, 277-287, [ISBN 978-3-531-18622-1] Open Access
• Ralser, Michaela (with Bechter, Anneliese; Guerrini, Flavia): The Proletarian Child and its Illegitimate Mother as Objects of Public Education. On the care education regime in Tyrol in the 1960s and early 1970s, in: Wolf, Maria A. et al. (eds.): Child Care. Kulturen, Konzepte und Politiken der Fremdbetreuung von Kindern aus geschlechterkritischer Perspektive, Beltz Juventa, Weinheim and Basel 2013, pp. 132-146 [ISBN 978-3-7799-2848-5].
• Ralser, Michaela (with Sauer, Benedikt): The rebellion of the Sitzenbleiber. The Barbiana School in Italy in the 1950s and 1960s, in: Wolf, Maria A. et al. (eds.): Child Care. Kulturen, Konzepte und Politiken der Fremdbetreuung von Kindern aus geschlechter-kritischer Perspektive, Beltz Juventa, Weinheim and Basel 2013, pp. 132-146. editorially reviewed. [ISBN 978-3-7799-2848-5 ]
• Ralser, Michaela, Die Klage des Subjekts, in: Eibl, Doris G.; Jarosch, Marion; Schneider, Ursula A.; Steinsiek, Annette (eds.), Innsbrucker Gender Lectures I, innsbruck university press (IUP), Innsbruck 2012, pp. 111-134. [ISBN 978-3-902811-29-5 ]
• Ralser, Michaela (with Dietrich-Daum et al.): Gli ambienti psichiatrici nell' area del Tirolo storico dal 1830 ai giorni nostri. Uno sguardo d'insieme, in: Dietrich Daum, Elisabeth et al. (eds.): Ambienti Psichiatrici. La psichiatria e i suoi pazienti nell'area del Tirolo storico dal 1830 a oggi, Innsbruck university press (IUP), Innsbruck 2012, pp. 17-41 [ISBN 978-3-902811-27-1]. Open Access
• Ralser, Michaela: Il linguaggio del corpo e le sue verità. L' abbrevazione "Hy" e la voce femminile delle malate intorno al 1900, in: Dietrich-Daum, Elisabeth et al. (eds.): Ambienti Psichiatrici. La psichiatria e i suoi pazienti nell'area del Tirolo storico dal 1830 a oggi, innsbruck university press (IUP), Innsbruck 2012, pp. 91-101 [ISBN 978-3-902811-27-1].
• Ralser, Michaela: "... è stata trattata con benevolenza e con severità, tuttavia senza successo alcuno". I primordi della psichiatrizzazione dell'infanzia intorno al 1900, in: Dietrich-Daum, Elisabeth et al. (eds.): Ambienti Psichiatrici. La psichiatria e i suoi pazienti nell'area del Tirolo storico dal 1830 a oggi, innsbruck university press (IUP), Innsbruck 2012, pp. 111-119 [ISBN 978-3-902811-27-1].
• Ralser, Michaela (with Dietrich-Daum, Elisabeth): Die Psychiatrische Landschaft des historischen Tirol von 1830 bis zur Gegenwart - Ein Überblick, in: Dietrich-Daum, Elisabeth et al. (eds.): Psychiatrische Landschaften. Psychiatry and its patients in the historical Tyrol since 1830, innsbruck university press (IUP), Innsbruck 2011, pp. 15-43 [ISBN 978-3-902811-11-0]. Open Access
• Ralser, Michaela: Leibsprechen und Wahrsagen. The abbreviation "Hy" and the female voice of the sick around 1900, in: Dietrich-Daum, Elisabeth et al. (eds.): Psychiatrische Landschaften. Psychiatry and its patients in the historical Tyrol since 1830, innsbruck university press (IUP), Innsbruck 2011, pp. 91-101 [ISBN 978-3-902811-11-0]. Open Access
• Ralser, Michaela: "They were treated with [...] kindness and severity, but without any success". The beginnings of psychiatrised childhood around 1900, in: Dietrich-Daum, Elisabeth et al. (eds.): Psychiatrische Landschaften. Psychiatry and its patients in the historical Tyrol since 1830, innsbruck university press (IUP), Innsbruck 2011, pp. 111-119 [ISBN 978-3-902811-11-0 ] Open Access
• Ralser, Michaela (with Schlichtmeier, Verena ): Reflexive Difference. On dealing with relations of difference in psychotherapeutic work with refugees in exile, in: Mecheril, Paul et al. (eds.): Bildung - Macht - Unterschiede, innsbruck university press (IUP), Innsbruck 2011, [ISBN-10: 3902719982; ISBN-13: 978-3902719980 ]
• Ralser, Michaela: Connecting normalisation knowledge. Studies in the medico-pedagogical field, in: Kessl, Fabian; Plößer, Melanie (eds.): Differentiation, Normalisation, Otherness. Social work as work with others. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, pp. 135-153 [ISBN 978-3-531-16371-0 ] Open Access
• Ralser, Michaela: Mobility under the conditions of global precarisation. Microcosms of social de-securitisation at the interface between the mobile at high and low levels. In: Rathmayr, Bernhard et al. (eds.): Conglomerations. Alltagspraktiken subjektiver Absicherung, transcript, Bielefeld 2009, pp. 139-154. To the publisher's page including reading samples
• Ralser, Michaela: The freedom of others. On the invocation of contemporary pedagogy as an art of governing, in: Peskoller, Helga; Ralser, Michaela; Wolf, Maria A. (eds.): Texturen von Freiheit. Contributions for Bernhard Rathmayr, University-Press, Innsbruck 2007, pp. 117-126 [ISBN 978-3-902571-24-3 ]
• Ralser, Michaela: No place, nowhere. Young people from the Maghreb states in Innsbruck, in: Gensluckner, Lisa; Jarosch, Monika; Schreiber, Horst; Weiss, Alexandra (eds.): Auf der Spur, Gaismair-Jahrbuch 2008, Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2007, pp. 82-90 [ISBN 978-3-7065-4538-9 ]
• Ralser, Michaela: Migration - Marginalisation - Bio-economic Imperative. Detention pending deportation: Instruments against refugees fleeing poverty, in: Eberharter, Alexander; Exenberger, Andreas (eds.): Globalisierung und Gerechtigkeit. Eine transdisziplinäre Annäherung, University-Press, Innsbruck 2007, pp. 145-161 [ISBN 978-3-902571-16-8].
• Ralser, Michaela: The case and its history. The clinical-psychiatric case history as a narrative on the threshold, in: Höcker, Arne; Moser, Jaennie; Weber, Philippe (eds.): Wissen. Narration. Narratives of the Human Sciences, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2006, pp. 115-126 [ISBN 3-89942-446-8]. Open Access
• Ralser, Michaela: Die Klage des Subjekts, in: Flatz, Christian; Felgitsch, Sascha (eds.): Dimensionen einer neuen Kultur des Politischen. Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, pp. 76-94. editorially reviewed. [ISBN 978-3-8100-3236-2]
• Ralser, Michaela: Searching for shelter. Homelessness and refugees in Tyrol, in: Gensluckner, Lisa et al. (eds.): Gegenwind. Gaismair Yearbook 2004, Studienverlag, Innsbruck-Vienna-Munich-Bolzano 2004, pp. 40-52 [ISBN 3-7065-1879-1].
• Ralser, Michaela: Feminism is sustainable. A plea for a critical gender perspective in the sciences and in Educational Sciences, in: Ralser, Michaela; Rathmayr, Bernhard (eds.): Zukunft Erziehungswissenschaft. Perceptions and New Concepts of a Discipline in Transition. Studia Universitätsverlag, Innsbruck 2003, pp. 161-179 (²2005). [ISBN 3-901502-46-7 ]
• Ralser, Michaela: Egalitarian Difference. Bedingung und Notwendigkeit der Unterscheidung, in: Ralser, Michaela (ed.): Egalitäre Differenz. Approaches, Stakes and Disputes in the Struggle for Recognition and Justice. Studia Universitätsverlag, Innsbruck 2001, pp. 11-23 [ISBN 390150236X ]
• Ralser, Michaela: There is no war with women and no peace under current conditions. Commitments and alliances of local women's movements against war, in: Gensluckner, Lisa; Regensburger, Christine; Schlichtmeier, Verena; Treichl, Helga; Windisch, Monika (eds.): vielstimmig - mancherorts. The New Women's Movement in Tyrol since 1970, Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2001, pp. 245-259.
• Ralser, Michaela: Inclusion & Exclusion. Die Institution der Schubhaft und das Instrument der Abschiebung, in: Appelt, Erna; Weiss, Alexandra (eds.): Globalisierung und der Angriff auf die europäischen Wohlfahrtsstaaten, Argument, Berlin-Hamburg 2001, pp. 117-131 (²2006).
• Ralser, Michaela: Le origini storico-culturali della violenza sulle donne, in: Centro documentazione Donna (ed.): Violenza contro le donne. Aspetti culturali e sociali. Interventi d'aiuto, Rome-Bolzano 2001, pp. 20-32.
• Ralser, Michaela: Attacks on life in the name of life. In the Backlight of Optimisation, Destruction: Biopolitics and the New Right, in: Wolf, Maria (ed.), Optimisation and Destruction. Intertheoretische Analysen zum menschlich Lebendigen, Studia Universitätsverlag, Innsbruck 2001, pp. 209-230. editorially reviewed.
• Ralser, Michaela: "Kritik ist die Kunst nicht dermaßen regiert zu sein": Ein Plädoyer für eine kritische Geschlechterforschung aus feministischer Erkenntnisperspektive, in: AG Kulturwissenschaften Graz (ed.), Kulturwissenschaften in Österreich, Graz, 2000, pp. 65-72.
• Ralser, Michaela: The soul is (not) a wide country. Zaunreiterin in den Gärten der Vernunft, in: Klettenhammer, Sieglinde; Pöder, Elfriede (eds.): Das Geschlecht, das sich (un-)eins ist. Frauenforschung und Geschlechtergeschichte in den Kulturwissenschaften, Studienverlag, Innsbruck 1999, pp. 88-109.
• Ralser, Michaela: Feminist social and cultural analyses in the educational sciences. Das Innsbrucker Projekt feministische Studien, in: Hey, Barbara (ed.): Standpunkte feministischer Forschung und Lehre [Materialien zur Förderung von Frauen in der Wissenschaft, Vol. 9/2], Federal Ministry of Science and Transport, Vienna 1999, pp. 77-95.
• Ralser, Michaela: New Worlds - New Madnesses. "Women's illness" as a reflection of history and the present, in: Brügge, Claudia (ed.): Frauen in verrückten Lebenswelten. Ein Lesebuch zu Frauen und Psychiatrie, eFeF, Bern 1999, pp. 51-62. Ralser, Michaela: Das Phantasma der Unversehrtheit und die Sprachlosigkeit des Versehrten. On the different pain responsibilities of the sexes, in: Hauser, Kornelia; Ralser, Michaela; Rathmayr, Bernhard; Walter, Hans-Jörg; Wolf, Maria (eds.): Körper-Schmerz. Intertheoretische Zugänge, Studia Universitätsverlag, Innsbruck 1998, pp. 37-53.
• Ralser, Michaela (with Bertoluzza, Eva; Gitzl, Martina): Der weibliche Wahnsinn zwischen Ästhetisierung und Verleugnung, in: Bertoluzza, Eva; Gitzl, Martina; Ralser, Michaela (eds.): Pathos - Psychose - Pathologie. Wiener Frauenverlag, Vienna 1995, pp. 7-29.
• Ralser, Michaela: Enlightened freedom. Über die rechtmäßige Disziplinierung der Unvernunft, in: Treusch-Dieter, Gerburg (ed.): Foucault. [Interdisciplinary Colloquia at the Department of Educational Science]. Eigenverlag, Innsbruck 1993, pp. 39-46. Ralser, Michaela (with Holtzhauer, Ruth): Über die Neutralisierung des Frauenwiderstands gegen Gen- und Reproduktionstechnologie, in: Fleischer, Eva; Winkler, Ute (eds.): Die kontrollierte Fruchtbarkeit. Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Vienna 1993, pp. 107-121.

Other journal articles

• Ralser, Michaela (with Gensluckner, Lisa): Deprivileging schooling. On denied greatness and strategies against non-recognition. In: AEP-Informationen. Feminist Journal for Politics and Society 3, 2021, p. 33 - 37.
• Ralser, Michaela: Toxic disinhibition. On increasingly hurtful speech online and the need for participation in public discourse, in: Zukunft Forschung 1/2018, 10th vol. p. 50.
• Ralser, Michaela (with students from the Department of Educational Science, Innsbruck): Inherited legacies. Three generations of women on their educational paths, in: AEP-Zeitschrift, Innsbruck, 1/2005, pp. 4-14.
• Ralser, Michaela: Where sexuality and violence come together, a patriarchal project is always realised. In: Arunda (Silandro), 54/2001, pp. 144-152.
• Ralser, Michaela (with the students of the theory-practice programme "Das Geschäft mit dem Leben", Educational Sciences, Innsbruck): Human sciences as pillars of the "Destruction of unworthy life. Biopolitics and fascism using the example of the Institute of Racial Hygiene in Innsbruck (1939-1945), in: "erziehung heute" (Innsbruck), 1/1999, pp. 32-40.

Editorships - further back

• Ralser, Michaela (with Peskoller, Helga; Wolf, Maria A.): Textures of Freedom. Contributions for Bernhard Rathmayr, University-Press, Innsbruck 2007 [ISBN 978-3-902571-24-3].
• Ralser, Michaela; Rathmayr, Bernhard (eds.): Zukunft Educational Sciences. Perceptions and New Concepts of a Discipline in Transition, Studia Universitätsverlag, Innsbruck 2003 (²2005). [ISBN 3-901502-46-7]
• Ralser, Michaela (ed.): Kein Land zum Bleiben. On the run to and through Austria. 17 Portraits, Studienverlag, Innsbruck-Vienna-Munich 2002 [ISBN 3-70865-1781-7]
• Ralser, Michaela (ed.): Egalitarian Difference. Approaches and Confrontations in the Struggle for Recognition and Justice, Studia Universitätsverlag, Innsbruck 2001 [ISBN 390150236X].
• Ralser, Michaela (with Wolf, Maria; Walter, Hans-Jörg; Rathmayr, Bernhard; Hauser, Kornelia): Körper-Schmerz. Intertheoretische Zugänge, Studia [Sozialwissenschaftliche Studientexte Band 1], Innsbruck 1998 [ISBN 3-901502-15-7 ]
• Ralser, Michaela (with Bertoluzza, Eva; Gitzl, Martina): Pathos - Psychosis - Pathology. The female madness between aestheticisation and denial, Wiener Frauenverlag, Vienna 1994 [ISBN 3-900399-98-0].
• Ralser, Michaela (with Holzer, Anton; Kiem, Othmar; Mezzalira, Giorgio; Romeo, Carlo): Never at home anywhere. Vom Leben der Arbeiter und Arbeiterinnen in Südtirol/È sempre lavoro. Frammenti di storia del lavoro e dei lavoratori in Alto Adige, Federation of Co-operatives, Bolzano 1991.
• Ralser, Michaela (with Heider, Michael; Rath, Gabi; Soraperra, Thomas; Verdorfer, Martha): Politically reliable - purely Aryan - committed to German science. The Faculty of Humanities in Innsbruck 1938-1945. South Tyrolean Students' Union [skolast special issue 1-2/90], Bolzano-Innsbruck 1990.

Conferences and events - most recently

• Migration, Education and the Political.
  International conference [organised at the research locations: Zurich, Bielefeld, Innsbruck, together with the colleagues: Paul Mecheril, Roland Reichenbach and Erol Yildiz)], 10-11 June 2021, digital (see programme)
• Child. Law. Medicine
  An interdisciplinary joint conference of the research centres Medical Humanities, Medical and Health Law and the Austrian Society for Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (ÖGKJ), 24.09.2020, University of Innsbruck. (see programme)
• Reading reality - political literacy in the migration society
  International research conference [organised together with Lisa Gensluckner, Oscar Thomas-Olalde and Erol Yildiz] 24.10.2019-25.10.2019, University of Innsbruck & Haus der Begegnung. Project page
• Expertise
  International Workshop (in cooperation with Medical Humanities Research Centre and colleagues from the IEZW), 18-19 December 2018, University of Innsbruck.
• Medicalised childhoods. The new concern for the child from the late 19th to the late 20th century.
  International conference, organised together with Elisabeth Dietrich Daum (in cooperation with the Verein Sozialgeschichte der Medizin), 29.06.-01.07.2017, IEZW - University of Innsbruck. Conference documentation
• Keeping the memory alive. Home education in the historical memory of the region.
  Organisation of the travelling exhibition "Heimerziehung 1953 bis 1973 in Einrichtungen des LWV Hessen" with supporting programme, organised together with the research team "Heimgeschichte" at the Department of Educational Science, 24.01.-07.02.2014, University of Innsbruck.
• Violence against children. Delayed modernisation: On care and home education after 1945.
  First networking conference on the topic in Austria, organised together with Flavia Guerrini and Anneliese Bechter, 07-08 December 2012, Department of Educational Science, University of Innsbruck. Conference documentation

Lectures

2024

• Ralser, Michaela (together with Flavia Guerrini): Silence as a powerful social practice. Collective remembering and forgetting of violence, at the international conference "Materialist-feminist perspectives on violence", Innsbruck, 5-7 December 2024, lecture given on 6 December 2024 (website)
• Ralser, Michaela: "Die moderne Sorge um das gefährdet gefährliche Kind. Kinderbeob-achtung und Heilpädagogik in Österreich nach 1945", at the conference "Wissenschafts- und Medizingeschichte der Kindheit nach 1945, am Leopoldina-Forschungszentrum Wissenschaftsforschung, Halle/Saale, 17-18 October 2024, lecture plus participation in the panel "Zukunft Kindheitsgeschichte" on 18 October 2025 (Programme)
• Ralser, Michaela: What goes, what stays? Zwischen Wandel und Beharrung: Die Jugendwohl-fahrtslandschaft Tirol in der Schwellenzeit der 1970er - 1980er Jahre, at the ÖFEB-Kongress: Diversität diskursiv. Bildungswissenschaftliche Zugänge und pädagogische Perspektiven, Vienna, 24-27. 9. 2024, lecture held on 26.09.24 (Congress website)
• Ralser, Michaela: Die Kinderbeobachtung und das Heilpädagogische Archipel der langen 1950er Jahre, guest lecture as part of the lecture series "Die Medizin und wir - Projekte der Medical Humanities in Innsbruck", University of Innsbruck, lecture held on 26.4.2024 (programme)

2023

• Ralser, Michaela: Die moderne Sorge um das gefährdet-gefährliche Kind, guest lecture as part of the lecture series "Macht, Gewalt und Wissenschaft" WS 2023/24 lecture, held at the Sigmund Freud University, in Linz on 09.11.23 (website)
• Ralser, Michaela: Researching Simultaneous Non-Simultaneity in the History of Residential Child and Youth Care During 1970-1990: Time, Space and the Invention of the Group, at the International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE); Budapest 18-21 July 2023, lecture given on 20.07.23 (website)
• Ralser, Michaela (together with Sophie Schubert): Raum als Marker von Beharrung und Wandel: Das trinationale DACH-Projekt, held on 25/06/2023 at the symposium Facetten der Jugendhilfe 5, at the International Youth Research Conference in Innsbruck 23-25/06/2023 (website)
• Ralser, Michaela: The institutional model ANSTALT as a specifically organising RAUM response to social problems. A foray through several fields of application with an open end.... at the conference "Anfänge- Umbrüche - Wendungen. Rites de passage in the history of social and medical history", Innsbruck, 24 February 2023. (Weblink)

2022

• Ralser, Michaela: The materiality of the longue durée. The 100-year institutionalisation history of welfare education and the threshold period of the 1970s-1990s. Sozialpädagogische Institutionen der Theorie-AG der Kommission für Sozialpädagogik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (DGfE), Hamburg, 02.12.2022. (Weblink)
• Ralser, Michaela: Das Heilpädagogische Archipel der langen 1950er Jahre in Österreich: Bedingung und Wirkung, am Vernetzungstreffen: Kinder- und Jugendwohlfahrt bzw. Kinder- und Jugendhilfe und ihre Grenzbereiche in Österreich im Fokus aktueller historiographischer Untersuchungen, Salzburg, 04.11.2022.

2021

• Ralser, Michaela: Institutions of Assistance as Places of Harm - a Historical Perspective on the Example of Child and Youth Welfare Services. Panel presentation at the International Conference; Institutionalisation, Deinstitutionalisation and Reinstitutionalisation in the Fields of Education and Social Work, Duisburg-Essen, 08.10.2021.
• Ralser, Michaela: Das Heilpädagogische Archipel - Die frühe kinderpsychiatrische Versorgungslandschaft im Österreich der langen 1950er Jahre. Keynote on:
  Annual Congress of the Austrian Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy (ÖGKJP), Bad Tatzmannsdorf, 23.09.2021.
• Ralser, Michaela: Common aspects and differences in international processes of reconciliation and reappraisal. Paper presented at the Scientific Conference "Research in the Context of Reconciliation Policies" in the framework of the NRP 76 in Bern, online, 12 March 2021.

2020

• Ralser, Michaela: The Child as an Object of Protection and Legal Subject. Thoughts on the best interests of the child in a historical-comparative perspective. Joint conference: Child. Law. Medicine, Innsbruck, 24.09.2020.
• Ralser, Michaela: Optimal is the average. On expert opinion practice in the medico-pedagogical field of child observation in the long 1950s. DGFE Congress 2020, Cologne, 15.03.2020 (contribution accepted: The congress was cancelled due to corona).
• Ralser, Michaela (with Leitner, Ulrich; Guerrini, Flavia): Youth welfare and residential care in the welfare region Tyrol/Vorarlberg of the Second Republic. Symposium: Violence against children and adolescents in institutions in Klagenfurt, 31 January 2020.

2019

• Ralser, Michaela: The punch card. Ein erstes Instrument der Datenverarbeitung in der kinderpsychatrischen Verwahrlostenwissenschaft der Zweiten Republik, lecture at the 2019 annual conference of the Verein für Sozialgeschichte der Medizin - Geschichte(n) von Gesundheit und Krankheit: Objekte als Quellen der Medizingeschichte in Ingolstadt, 16 November 2019.
• Ralser, Michaela (with Gensluckner, Elisabeth): You know, Mrs Teacher, I'm stupid. Addressing practices and (self-)positioning in the school-migration society context at the 7th Annual Conference of the Austrian Society for Gender Studies (ÖGGF) in Innsbruck, 8 November 2019.
• Ralser, Michaela: Researching the dynamics of change and persistence in out of home care. Reflections on the combination of oral and written sources at the International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE 41) in Port, 18 July 2019.
• Ralser, Michaela (with Guerrini, Flavia): Youth welfare and curative education interventions in the biographies of minors - theses and open questions. Colloquium: Home and welfare history, history of exclusion/inclusion, dis/ablitiy history in Zurich, 23 May 2019.

2018

• Ralser, Michaela: Gutachten als Praxisform der Heilpädagogik, conference contribution at the International Research/Working Conference "Gutachten" at the University of Innsbruck (18-19 December 2018), 18 December 2018.
• Ralser, Michaela (with Yildiz, Erol): Political Literacy vor dem Hintergrund schulischer Bildungsnormalität, lecture at the 5th Annual Conference on Migration and Integration Research in Austria (5-7 December 2018), an event of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) in Vienna, 6 December 2018.
• Ralser, Michaela: All different, all equal. Neue Ansätze der Migrationspädagogik im elementarpädagogischen Bereich, lecture II/II at a two-part training course for educators of young children (15-16 November 2018) in the town hall of Merano, 15 November 2018.
• Ralser, Michaela: Free in your own gender. Approaches to gender-sensitive and diversity-open pedagogy. Lecture I/II at a two-part training course for educators of young children (12-13 October 2018) at the town hall of Merano/Meran, 12 October 2018.
• Ralser, Michaela: Dimension and effect. Die Kinderbeobachtungsstation der Maria Nowak Vogl (1954-1987) und die ihr anvertrauten Kinder, lecture in the panel "Lernen aus der Vergangenheit" at the 34th Annual Congress of the Austrian Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (20-22 September 2018) in Klagenfurt, 21 September 2018.
• Ralser, Michaela (with Leitner, Ulrich; Guerrini, Flavia): Experiences of Social Exclusion in Child and Youth Welfare Institutions. On the History of Residential Care in Western Austria (1945-1990) at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER 2018) in Bolzano, 07/09/2018.
• Ralser, Michaela (with Leitner, Ulrich; Guerrini, Flavia): Miniatures of a supposedly specific nature of the child with educational difficulties. Das Wissensarchiv der Heil- und Heimerziehung: Die Mündel- und Krankenakte, lecture in the multilingual panel at the International Annual Congress of Historical Educational Research, ISCHE 40 "Education and Nature" at the Humboldt University of Berlin, 30 August 2018.
• Ralser, Michaela (with Leitner, Ulrich; Guerrini, Flavia): The history of public substitute education. Perspektiven und Herausforderungen für die Subjektivierungsforschung, Keynote Lecture at the Summer School "Bildung und Subjekt", University of Salzburg, 5 July 2018.
• Ralser, Michaela: Die unnachgiebige Frage nach der Anwesenheit des Educandus, lecture at the symposium "Schwellenzeiten historischer Erziehungshilfen..." at the DGFE Congress 2018, University of Duisburg-Essen, 19 March 2018.

2017

• Ralser, Michaela (with Dietrich-Daum,Elisabeth; Friedmann, Ina): Psychiatrised childhoods. On the history of the Innsbruck Children's Observation Ward at the Medical University of Innsbruck (MUI), Innsbruck, 29 November 2017.
• Ralser, Michaela: Final commentary at the international workshop "Zwischen Schutz, Normierung und Gewalt. Sexuality-historical perspectives on childhood and youth in the context of welfare (1950-1980)", University of Basel, 15 September 2017.
• Ralser, Michaela: Curative education landscapes. Threshold spaces between medicine and pedagogy, conference Medikalisierte Kindheiten. The new concern for the child from the late 19th to the late 20th century, Innsbruck, 01.07.2017.
• Ralser, Michaela: Die Kinderbeobachtungsstation der Maria Nowak-Vogl (1954-1987), presentation of the final report at a press conference, Innsbruck, 22 June 2017.
• Ralser, Michaela: Guest lecture at the international workshop "Documents at the interface of discourse and action" as part of the DFG project "Die Verwaltung des Falles: Die Rekonstruktion von institutionellen Handlungsvollzügen", University of Kassel, 7 April 2017.

2016

• Ralser, Michaela: A Critical Gender Perspective in the Sciences and Humanities. Gegenwartsanalytische Aufmerksamkeiten und neue Aufgaben, farewell symposium for Erna Appelt "Geschlechterforschung zwischen Kritik und Konformismus", Innsbruck, 3 October 2016.
• Ralser, Michaela: A specific social history of growing up. The formation of children's bodies in corrective training, remedial teaching and child psychiatry in Austria after 1945: International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE): Education and the Body, Chicago, 19.19.2016
• Ralser, Michaela: Topographies of surveillance using the example of the Innsbruck psychiatric and curative education paediatric observation wards of the 1950s. Presentation at the symposium "Raum als heuristische Kategorie der Historischen Bildungs- und Sozialforschung am Beispiel der Fürsorgeerziehung und ihrer Schnittstellen zu Kinderpsychiatrie und Jugendstrafvollzug", DGFE-Kongress 2016, Kassel, 16 March 2016.
• Ralser, Michaela: Socially deviant and difficult to educate. On the identification of inadequate educational milieus in the context of welfare and home education in the 20th century. Guest lecture at the University of Essen, Essen, 28.01.2016.

2015

• Ralser, Michaela: Zur Wissenschafts- und Institutionengeschichte der Kinderbeobachtung zwischen Kinderpsychiatrie und Heilpädagogik und ihre strategische Bedeutung im Fürsorgeerziehungssystem Österreichs, lecture at the research conference on the founding history of the DGKJP (German Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry), Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine, Cologne, 11 December 2015.

• Ralser, Michaela: Results of institutional history research for the welfare region of Tyrol and Vorarlberg. Social responsibility for the welfare of children - from welfare education to multi-professional services and educational support, Schlins, 4 November 2015.
• Ralser, Michaela: Cultures of Medicalisation. Early corrective education and the start of the expansion of the territorial claim of psychiatry on the child: Condition and impact - International Congress of Historical Research in Education (ISCHE: International Standing Conference for the History of Education), Istanbul (24.06.-27.06.2015), 25.06.2015.
• Ralser, Michaela: Regime of substitute education in the welfare region of Tyrol-Vorarlberg - International Research Conference "Placing Children in Care. Child-Welfare in Switzerland (1945-1990)" at the University of Applied Sciences Northern Switzerland, Olten (18.06.-19.06.2015), 18.06.2015.
• Ralser, Michaela: Rassismus als System der Benachteiligung und Herabwürdigung durch Unterscheidung, panel contribution on the occasion of the presentation of the First Tyrolean Racism Report, Innsbruck, 20 May 2015.

2014

• Ralser, Michaela: Bio-Politik der Migrationsregime: Drei Beispiele..., lecture at the lecture series/conference "Geschlechterverhältnisse in Migrationsgesellschaften", Innsbruck (11.12.-13.12.2014), 12.12.2014.
• Ralser, Michaela: "The boy wouldn't put up with anything from the teacher. Even if he pulled him by the ears." Failing educators, futile chastisement: The Beginnings of Psychiatric Childhood, Corpus Intra Muros. A history of spatially formed bodies, Bruneck, 18 July 2014.
• Ralser, Michaela: Psychiatry as the leading science of care education and curative education. Die neue Aufmerksamkeit für kindliche 'Devianz' in den Nachkriegsjahrzehnten am Beispiel der Innsbrucker Psychiatrischen Kinderbeobachtungsstation (1954-1987), Tagung "Gesellschaft und Psychiatrie in Österreich 1945 - ca. 1970" des Vereins für Sozialgeschichte der Medizin gem. mit der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie und der Karl Landsteiner Privatuniversität, St. Pölten, 21.06.2014.
• Ralser, Michaela [Workshop contribution together with Flavia Guerrini]: Heimkindheiten in Österreich: Fragen an eine Geschichte der Fürsorgeerziehungsregime nach 1945. Reflections on the re-evaluation of (public) education and violence, 24th Congress of the German Society for Educational Sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, 12 March 2014.
• Ralser, Michaela: Connecting normalisation knowledge. Zur Kritik der Pathologie alter und neuer "Kinderfehler", 24th Congress of the German Society for Educational Sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, 12 March 2014.

2013

• Ralser, Michaela [together with Flavia Guerrini]: Gewalt- und Ausbeutungspraktiken in früheren Erziehungsheimen in Tirol und Vorarlberg nach 1945, Feldkirch, 16 Oct. 2013.

2012

• Ralser, Michaela: Perspectives IV (Psychiatrised Childhoods). Violence against children. Delayed modernisation: On care and home education after 1945, Innsbruck, 08.12.2012.
• Ralser, Michaela [together with Bechter, Anneliese; Guerrini, Flavia]: Österreichische Heimkindheiten - Tirol und Vorarlberg. Violence against children. Delayed modernisation: On care and home education after 1945, Innsbruck, 07.12.2012.
• Ralser, Michaela: "The [in]visible work. On the history of psychiatric care in the historical Tyrol from 1830 to the present", introductory lecture and presentation of the documentary film including didactic platform (Austrian premiere), Innsbruck, 18 April 2012.
• Ralser, Michaela: "The [in]visible work. Zur Geschichte der Psychiatrischen Pflege im historischen Tirol von 1830 bis zur Gegenwart", introductory lecture and presentation of the documentary film including didactic platform (Italian premiere), Filmclub Bozen, Bolzano, 6 February 2012.

2011

• Ralser, Michaela: The lament of the subject. Cultures of illness around 1900, lecture, Frauenhetz. Feminist Education Culture Politics, Vienna, 12 May 2011.
• Ralser, Michaela: Das Subjekt der Normalität, lecture & book presentation with commentary (Sophie Ledebur - D/A) as part of the lecture series "Feminismen diskutieren"; Depot - Kunst & Diskussion, Vienna, 15 April 2011.
• Ralser, Michaela: Das Subjekt der Normalität, lecture & book presentation with commentary (Brigitta Bernet - CH); Universitätsbuchhandlung-Studia, Innsbruck, 18.01.2011.

2010

• Ralser, Michaela: Migrationsregime und Biopolitik, International Conference Migrationsforschung als Kritik. Claims, Practices, Reflections, Innsbruck, 09.12.2010.
• Ralser, Michaela: Placement as treatment of children's defects. Psychiatrisation of children around 1900. Cultures of Care: External care of children, 2nd International Research Conference of the Research Network Gender, Care and Justice, Innsbruck, 28.10.2010.
• Ralser, Michaela: Psychiatrised childhood around 1900. Insights into the medico-pedagogical field. Stories of health and illness. Medicine and psychiatry in the 20th century in Germany, Italy and Austria, Dornbirn, 10 June 2010.
• Ralser, Michaela: Gender and Cultural Studies: Interdisciplinary research designs. International Research Group on Gender & Transformation - Vienna, Vienna, 23 April 2010.
• Ralser, Michaela: Homo academica. Institutional doing and leaving. Symposium of the Association of Austrian Feminist Scientists: Lust & Frust in Institutions & Structures, Klagenfurt, 24 September 2010.
• Ralser, Michaela: The lament of the subject. Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck - Innsbruck Gender Lectures, Innsbruck, 19.01.2010.

2009

• Ralser, Michaela: Education in migration societies. A question of participation. Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck - Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, Innsbruck, 23 November 2009.
• Ralser, Michaela: On the economic cycle of the concept of trauma in current therapy and educational work. 3rd Innsbruck Education Days: education - power - differences, Innsbruck, 12 November 2009.
• Ralser, Michaela: Programmatic cerebralisation - practical science. The Innsbruck Psychiatric Clinic around 1900: History of Psychiatry, Hall in Tirol, 2 October 2009.

2008

• Ralser, Michaela: Kulturelle Diversität und Geschlechteregalität, introductory statement at the International Conference & Lecture Series: Kulturelle Diversität und Geschlechteregalität, University of Innsbruck, 2008.
• Ralser, Michaela [together with Maria A. Wolf]: Conglomerations: Alltagspraktiken subjektiver Absicherung, presentation at the 34th Congress of the German Sociological Association, University of Jena, 2008.
• Ralser, Michaela: From the peculiar pain in the left leg to the nerves in great turmoil. Über den Wandel der Signaturen der Seele in der klinischen Psychiatrie um 1900, lecture at the International Conference: Geschichte(n) von Gesundheit und Krankheit, University of Innsbruck, 2008.
• Ralser, Michaela: Über den Wandel der Signaturen der Seele und die materielle Kultur der Psychiatrischen Klinik in Innsbruck um 1900, lecture at the lecture series "Kommunikation - Kunst - Politik. Perspektiven geisteswissenschaftlicher Forschung, University of Innsbruck, 2008.

2007

• Ralser, Michaela: Mobility under the conditions of global precarisation. Mikrokosmen sozialer Ent-Sicherung an der Schnittstelle zwischen den Mobilen auf hohem und den Mobilen auf niederem Niveau, contribution to the research conference "Konglomerationen. Everyday Practices of Subjective Protection", Department of Educational Sciences, University of Innsbruck, 2007.
• Ralser, Michaela: Young people from the Maghreb states in Innsbruck. Finding ways out of stigmatisation, exclusion and expulsion, introductory presentation at the event "Weil sie da sind. Experiences and trials of social peace and conflict work using the example of Rapoldipark", Innsbruck, 2007.

2006

• Ralser, Michaela: Migration - Marginalisation - Bio-economic Imperative. Deportation and detention: Instruments against poverty refugees, lecture as part of the lecture series "Globalisation. Transdisziplinäre Zugänge", Department of Philosophy, University of Innsbruck, 2006.

2005

• Ralser, Michaela: Was der Fall ist, ist noch keine Fallgeschichte, lecture at the conference "Narrative der Humanwissenschaften", University of Konstanz, 2005.
• Ralser, Michaela: Sie rufen den Leib in Erinnerung: Aufstand der Körper in einer leibvergessenen Kultur, lecture at the 13th International Congress on Eating Disorders, Innsbruck, 2005.
• Ralser, Michaela: The trauma of violence. Geschichte und Gegenwart des Traumakonzepts, presentation at the 7th Annual Conference of the German-speaking Society for Psychotraumaology (DeGPT), Dresden, 2005.
• Ralser, Michaela: Der Genderaspekt in der Psychiatriegeschichte, contribution to the "Netzwerk Psychiatriegeschichte Österreich", Institute of History, University of Innsbruck, 2005.
• Ralser, Michaela: Traumatic Past - Traumatic Present. Das eigentlich Verdrängte der Geschichte: die (patriarchale) Gewalt, lecture as part of the lecture series of the AEP - Innsbruck, 2005.
• Ralser, Michaela: Frauen in der Psychiatrie um 1900, lecture at the Archivio Storico delle Donne (Historical Women's Archive), Bolzano, 2005.

2004

• Ralser, Michaela: Geschlechterforschung in den Cultural Studies, paper presented at the annual conference "Kulturwissenschaften in Europa. Erkenntnispotentiale und Grenzen" of the Academy of the International Consortium for the Study of European Cultures (MKIEK). Mellas (Ukraine), 2004.
• Ralser, Michaela: Der beanspruchte weibliche Leib, lecture at the opening of the exhibition (Bologna) "Der eingezwängte Leib - Il Corpo inpriogionato" at the Frauenmuseum Meran, 2004.
• Ralser, Michaela: Körperinschriften von langer Dauer und neuer Brisanz, lecture as part of the event series "Körper und Erinnerung II", Frauenhetz, Vienna, 2004.
• Ralser, Michaela: Die Wiederkehr des Verdrängten: Leibsprechen, lecture in the series "Feministische Theorie und Geschlechterforschung" of the Institute for Science and Art (IWK), Vienna, 2004.

2002

• Ralser, Michaela: Ansätze und Einsätze zu einer Interkulturellen und antirassistischen Pädagogik, conference of the University for Educational Sciences: Globalisation and Interculturality, Brixen, 2002.
• Ralser, Michaela: Feminism is sustainable. Plädoyer für eine kritische Geschlechterperspektive in den Wissenschaften, lecture at the conference "Zukunft Educational Sciences", University of Innsbruck, 2002.

2001

• Ralser, Michaela: Biopolitik - Neorassismus - Neue Rechte, lecture as part of a series of events organised by the Archive for Feminist Documentation, Innsbruck, 2001.
• Ralser, Michaela: Egalitarian Difference. Bedingung und Notwendigkeit der Unterscheidung, lecture at the symposium "Egalitäre Differenz", University of Innsbruck, 2001.
• Ralser, Michaela: Vom Gewicht der "weiblichen" Geburt, lecture in the context of the discussion: Selbstbestimmt-Leben-Initiative: "Wertes unwertes Leben" Eugenische Indikation versus Lebensrecht von Menschen mit Behinderung, University of Innsbruck, 2001.

• Ralser, Michaela: Exchange and Deception. Körper - Geschlecht -Warenwelt, lecture at the Congress on Eating Disorders, 9th International Scientific Conference, Congress Alpbach (A), 2001.
• Ralser, Michaela (together with the project group "unwillig monetär"): Ökonomie und Geschlecht, statement on the occasion of the film presentation: project group "unwillig monetär": Ausgesteuert. A film about the contexts of female livelihood security, Vienna, 2001.
• Ralser, Michaela: "Therapeutischen und reproduktives Klonen" [Therapeutic and reproductive cloning], lecture as part of the event series "Streitgespräche" [Debates] (opponent: Prof. Dr med. Carl Illmensee) BürgerInnenforum des Zukunftszentrums Tirol im ORF-Landestudio Tirol, Innsbruck, 2001.

2000

• Ralser, Michaela: "...the art of not being governed like this...". Plädoyer für eine kritische Geschlechterforschung aus feministischer Erkenntnisperspektive, lecture at the symposium "Kulturwissenschaften in Österreich". University of Graz, 2000.

• Ralser, Michaela: Optimisation and annihilation. Biopolitics and the New Right. Lecture at the lecture series "Die Gegenwart der Zukunft des menschlich Lebendigen. Intertheoretische & feministische Zugänge zum menschlich Lebendigen in den Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften", University of Innsbruck, 2000.
• Ralser, Michaela (together with Regina Trotz): (un)heimlich mächtig - Geschichten weiblicher Politisierung, 2-day seminar and lecture at Frauenhetz, Verein für feministische Bildung, Beratung und Kultur. Vienna, 2000.
• Ralser, Michaela: Food does not deliver what it promises. Täuschende Ware - enttäuschte (Waren)Beziehung, lecture at the congress on eating disorders. 8th Scientific Conference, Congress Alpbach (A), 2000.
• Ralser, Michaela: Antiracist educational work, lecture at the Development Policy Autumn Days of the Südwind Agency, Salzburg, 2000.

1999

• Ralser, Michaela: We live in a highly violent and sexualised world. Feminist analyses - objections - interventions, lecture on the occasion of the presentation of the photo exhibition "Leben mit dem Feind/Vivere con il nemico" by Donna Ferrato (USA), Merano, 1999.
• Ralser, Michaela: Le origini storico-culturali della violenza sulle donne, lecture at the symposium "Violenza contro le donne. Aspetti culturali e sociali. Interventi d'aiuto. Prospettive di prevenzione", Bolzano (Italy), 1999.
• Ralser, Michaela: Exclusion & Inclusion. Die Institution der Schubhaft und das Instrument der Abschiebung, lecture at the conference "Globalisierung und Sozialstaat" of the section "Globalisierung" of the Austrian Society for Political Science, University of Innsbruck, 1999.

1998

• Ralser, Michaela (together with Polina Hilsenbeck): Statement on the film "Irre Frauen. Leben mit der Psychiatrie" on the occasion of the series of events organised by the Society for Mental Health "Irren ist menschlich. Film and Psychiatry", Innsbruck, 1998.
• Ralser, Michaela: Sexual violence is a form of domination. Let's call it patriarchal, lecture during the supporting event for the exhibition "Kein sicherer Ort", Landhaus, Innsbruck, 1998.
• Ralser, Michaela: Opening speech for the exhibition "Kunst & drüber" Integrative Ateliergemeinschaft des Tiroler Arbeitskreises für Integrative Erziehung (Tafie), Innsbruck, 1998.
• Ralser, Michaela: Normalität und Pathologie im Geschlechterverhältnis, lecture in the context of the lecture series: Das Geschlecht das sich (un-)eins ist, University of Innsbruck, 1998.

1997

• Ralser, Michaela: Frauen, das verrückte Geschlecht, lecture and workshop at the Basagliahaus (today: Exit-Sozial), Linz, 1997.

• Ralser, Michaela (together with Bertoluzza, Eva; Gitzl, Martina): Neue Verrücktheiten - Neue Welten, contribution to the International Congress "Grenzgängerinnen - Wege aus der Psychiatrie", Bielefeld, 1997.
• Ralser, Michaela (together with Wolf, Maria): Subversive Visions. Journey into the hinterland. Utopien für eine tragfähige Frauenkultur, AK in the context of the conference "Futura Furiosa. Women's counselling and labour market policy". Perspectives and Utopias, Vienna, 1997.
• Ralser, Michaela: Das Phantasma der Unversehrtheit und die Sprachlosigkeit des Versehrten, lecture as part of the lecture series "Der Körper im Schmerz", University of Innsbruck, 1997.
• Ralser, Michaela: Zeithorizonte: Der Wahnsinn - die Frau - das Kranke, lecture at the conference "Irre Zeiten", Nuremberg, 1997.

1996

• Ralser, Michaela: "Gewalttätig. Levels of everyday violence against women", lecture at an event organised by the Außerferner Frauen platform, Reutte, 1996.
• Ralser, Michaela: La madonnina all'angolo. Il mito della madonna nella cultura femminile del Mediterraneo, AK contribution as part of a series of conferences on "Virginia Woolf" women's studies, Rome, 1996.

1995

• Ralser, Michaela: Casa della donna. Storia e attualitá, lecture on the history of the "women against violence" movement in Italy, Bolzano, 1995.
• Ralser, Michaela: "Then they took me to the madhouse, that's enough to make me crazy". Psychiatrisation of women, lecture at the Academy for Social Work, Innsbruck, 1995.

1994

• Ralser, Michaela: Psychiatrisation of women. Genealogie des weiblichen Irreseins, lecture as part of the lecture series "Frauen im Recht" at the Faculty of Law, University of Innsbruck, 1994.