Assoz.-Prof. Mag. Mag. Dr. Ulrich Leitner

Vita

Prizes:

• 2018 - Research funding from the University of Innsbruck's support programme for young researchers for the habilitation project "Der Raum des Internats. An educational history study on Catholic institutional education using the example of the episcopal boys' seminaries in Tyrol" [€26,000].
• 2014 - Nomination for the LehrePlus Prize by the Dean of Studies of the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Innsbruck.
• 2013 - Nomination for the Ars Docendi State Prize of the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy in the category "Innovative Teaching Concepts" by the ÖH.
• 2010 - Recognition award from the Research Platform "Politics Religion Art. Platform for Conflict and Communication Research" at the University of Innsbruck for the dissertation.
• 2006 & 2007 - Study sponsorship awards from the Richard and Emmy Bahr Foundation in Schaffhausen.

Research

• 2024-2027 Bilateral third-party funded project with lead in Innsbruck/project partner Free University of Bozen-Bolzano: "Lost Children. (Trans-)national out-of-area placement of South Tyrolean children in Italy and Austria (1945-1970). A regional study on the historical background of the inclusive care and education system in Italy [Funded by: Südtirol Research, € 399,144.65]. To the project homepage

• 2018-2023 Habilitation project: "The space of the boarding school. An educational-historical study on Catholic institutional education using the example of the episcopal boys' seminaries in Tyrol" [Research funding from the University of Innsbruck for the habilitation project €26,000].

• 2021-2024 Co-project leader (together with Prof. Michaela Ralser/Innsbruck, Prof. Mechthild Bereswill/Kassel, Prof. Gisela Hauss/Olten) D-A-CH project "Negotiating Educational Spaces in Residential Care 1970 - 1990. An Interdisciplinary Comparison of Transformation Processes in Austria, Germany and Switzerland" (FWF 865,921.38 €].

• 2019 Transnational teaching research project (together with Prof. Annemarie Augschöll-Blasbichler) "Exploring Special Educational Spaces in Tyrol from a Historical Perspective" (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) [Euregio Mobility Fund €6,800].

• 2015 Project management (together with Christina Antenhofer) "Cities and Landscapes". Conference & art project on the university forecourt. Realised as part of the anniversary Innsbruck - New Orleans. 40 years of summer school, 40 years of university partnership, 20 years of city partnership and the 350th anniversary of the University of Innsbruck [funded by the University of Innsbruck, the City of Innsbruck, the University of New Orleans and private sponsors € 81,633].

• 2015 Curation of the art project REAGENT by Stefan Hitthaler on the forecourt of Innsbruck University (2015-2019) (together with Christina Antenhofer) (Centre New Orleans, University of Innsbruck)
  Info at: http://www.raum.it/reagent-p12.html
  On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVrqwDRotsI

• 2018 Project management (together with Christina Antenhofer) as part of the scientific training programme of the "Richard & Emmy Bahr Foundation in Schaffhausen 2018" [employment of a student assistant from 01.07.2018 to 31.12.2018, funding amount 3.700 €].

• 2017 Project manager (together with Markus Ender, Ingrid Fürhapter, Iris Kathan and Barbara Siller) "Landschaftslektüren - Lesarten des Raums von Tirol bis in die Po-Ebene", research project and exhibition, Department of Educational Science [City of Innsbruck, Vice-Rectorate for Research, private sector funding €17,000].

• 2015 Project manager "Gebaute Pädagogik - Raum und Erziehung. Die materiellen Dimensionen pädagogischer Prozesse am Beispiel des Vorarlberger Landeserziehungsheimes Jagdberg in Schlins 1960-1990ˮ, Department of Educational Science, University of Innsbruck [Tiroler Wissenschaftsfond 10.000 €].

• 2014 Project manager "Corpus Intra Muros. A History of Spatially Formed Bodiesˮ, Municipality and City Marketing Bruneck [Raika Bruneck, Municipality of Bruneck, City Marketing Bruneck, Department of Culture of the South Tyrolean Provincial Government € 30,000].
  Info at: http://www.architektur-online.com/magazin/pulverturmbruneck
  On ArchDaily: Corpus Intra Muros / Stefan Hitthaler | ArchDaily

• 2012 Project manager "Berg & Leute - Tirol als Landschaft und Identitätˮ, Department of History and European Ethnology, University of Innsbruck [Stiftung Kultur der Südtiroler Sparkasse €15,000].

• 2011 Project leader "Imperial Power - Imperial Violence. A Study on Conflict and Communication Research in Imperial Order Complexesˮ, Department of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, University of Innsbruck [Vice-Rectorate for Research €8,000].

Publications

Monographs

• Orphanages. History of youth welfare and residential care in Tyrol and Vorarlberg (co-authored with Ralser, Michaela; Bischoff, Nora; Guerrini, Flavia; Jost, Christine; Reiterer, Martina), Studien-Verlag, Bolzano-Innsbruck-Vienna, 2017 (940 pages).

Herein as sole author:

Austrian youth welfare from 1945-1990 (pp. 189-293)

The educational centre for school-age girls in Kramsach-Mariatal (pp. 507-570)

Chronology: 100 years of youth welfare in Austria (pp. 347-353)

Reviewed by:

Josef Scheipl, Austrian Yearbook for Social Work (1/2019), 204-208

Thomas Gabriel, TH. Journal for Regional and Cultural History of North, East and South Tyrol (83/2019)

• Empire. History and theory of a political systemCampus, Frankfurt a.M./New York 2011 (305 pages).

Reviewed by:

Herfried Münkler, Historische Zeitschrift 297, 3/2013, 734-735

Hans-Christof Kraus, Das Historisch-Politische Buch 6/2013

Marco Walter, Swiss Political Science Review 18/3/2012, 385-398

Klaus Kremb, Portal for Political Science, online

Editorships

• Reform dynamics in residential care from 1970 to 1990: case studies from Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Soziale Probleme - Soziale Kontrolle) (ed. with Mechthild Bereswill, Flavia Guerrini, Gisela Hauss, Michaela Ralser), Beltz Juventa, Weinheim 2025, open access.

• Crisis and transformation of residential care in the 1970s and 1980s (together with Mechthild Bereswill and Ingrid Böhler), zeitgeschichte 2/2025.

• Baden. A historical-topographical search for clues (Schriften zur Politischen Ästhetik 4), together with Christina Antenhofer, Kordula Schnegg, Innsbruck 2025.

• Gender and materiality. Historical perspectives on upbringing, education and socialisation from antiquity to the present day (Historical Gender Studies), together with Christina Antenhofer, Bielefeld 2024.

• Childhood stories/Storie d'infanzia (with Annemarie Augschöll), innsbruck university press, Innsbruck (2022).

• Institution history (thematic focus), in: TH. Zeitschrift für Regional- und Kulturgeschichte Nord-, Ost- und Südtirols, vol. 84 (2020), pp. 265-346.

• Corpus Intra Muros. A cultural history of spatially formed bodies (Edition Kulturwissenschaft 74), Transcript, Bielefeld 2017 (564 pages).

• Landscape readings. Readings of the space from Tyrol to the Po Valley (Edition Kulturwissenschaft 109) (ed. with Ender, Markus; Fürhapter, Ingrid; Kathan Iris; Siller, Barbara), Transcript, Bielefeld 2017 (560 pages).

• Cities as Multiple Landscapes. Investigating the Sister Cities Innsbruck and New Orleans. (Interdisziplinäre Stadtforschung 21, ed. by Martina Löw et al.) (ed. with Antenhofer, Christina; Bischof, Günter; Dupont, Robert), Campus, Frankfurt a.M./New York 2016 (529 pages).

• Mountain & People. Tyrol as landscape and identity (Schriften zur Politischen Ästhetik 1), with audio CD, innsbruck university press (IUP), Innsbruck 2014 (492 pp.

Journal articles and contributions to anthologies:

• Living bilingualism. Insights into everyday bilingual school life at the Altwilten primary school in Innsbruck from the perspective of teachers, in: Saverio Carpentieri, Ulrich Leitner, Nadja Thoma (eds.), Viviamo bilingui. Bilingual Classes in Innsbruck and Trento (German/Italian), (Schriften zur Politischen Ästhetik, vol. 5), innsbruck university press (IUP), Innsbruck (to be published in spring 2026).

• Struktureigentümlichkeiten des Wandels der Heimerziehung 1970-1990. Ein Vergleich des Wandelgeschehens in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (with Michaela Ralser, Gisela Hauss, Flavia Guerrini), in: Mechthild Bereswill, Flavia Guerrini, Gisela Hauss, Ulrich Leitner, Michaela Ralser, (eds.): Reformdynamiken in der Heimerziehung 1970 bis 1990. Fallstudien aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (Reihe: Soziale Probleme - Soziale Kontrolle), Beltz Juventa, Weinheim 2025, 209-235.

• Bambini perduti. L'affidamento (trans)nazionale dei bambini altoatesini in Italia e Austria (1945-1970). Uno studio regionale sul contesto storico del sistema educativo inclusivo in Italia (with Annemarie Augschöll), in: Simonetta Polenghi (ed.): Educazione Territori Natura - Formare al tempo della transizione ecologica, digitale e interculturale (Società Italiana di Pedagogia), 2025 (forthcoming).

• Lost children. (Trans-)national placement of South Tyrolean children in Italy and Austria from 1945 to the 1970s (with Annemarie Augschöll), in: TH. Zeitschrift für Regional- und Kulturgeschichte Nord-, Ost- und Südtirols, 89 (2025), 189-196.

• Spatial body practices in social control processes. Multi-perspective views on the Catholic boarding school, in: Soziale Probleme 1/2024 (special issue: Spatial dimensions of social control), 65-77.

• Triangulating Written and Oral Ego-Documents - Autobiographical Sources of Diocesan Pre Seminary Pupils: Challenges and Opportunities, in: History of Education 2024, online.

• Pupils' lives in first-person documents of a Catholic boarding school. Forschungsprämissen und besondere Perspektiven eines kindheitswissenschaftlichen Zugangs zur Anstaltsgeschichte, in: Groppe, Carola; Gerster, Daniel (eds.): Schülerinnen- und Schülerleben im 19. und frühen 20. Aufwachsen, Alltag und Freizeit von Schülerinnen und Schülern höherer Schulen im deutschen Sprachraum und ihre Erforschung, Verlag Julius Klinkhardt 2023, 225-243.

• Lists, registers and inventories. Artefacts of social power and their ego-documentary value, in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 32/ (2021), online.
• "Why do the children always have to pay for something they didn't do?" On transgenerationality in the history of the home and the significance of the historical perspective for family and youth research, in: Berger, Fred; Bütow, Birgit; Sting, Stephan et al. (eds.): Jugend - Lebenswelt - Bildung. Perspectives for youth research in Austria, Barbara Budrich: Opladen 2022, 365-375. online.
• Introduction to the thematic focus on institutional history, in: TH. Journal for Regional and Cultural History of North, East and South Tyrol, 84 (2020), 265-269.
• Retelling as a practice of remembrance. Multiple narratives and their relevance for the politics of memory and remembrance in the reappraisal of the history of the homeland, in: TH. Journal for Regional and Cultural History of North, East and South Tyrol, 84 (2020), pp. 331-346.
• "Supported memory" as a form of knowledge organisation in institutional history (with Michaela Ralser and Flavia Guerrini), in: Soziale Probleme 2/2019 (special issue: Verwaltungsdokumente. The materialisation and processing of social problems in bureaucratic writing), 187-203, online.
• Ego documents as sources of historical educational research. Zur Rekonstruktion von Bildungsbiographien ehemaliger weiblicher Heimkinder, in: BIOS - Zeitschrift für Biographieforschung, Oral History und Lebensverlaufsanalysen (Biographie und Geschichte in der Bildungsforschung) (ed. by Ulrike Mietzner, Ruprecht Mattig and Ingrid Miethe), issue 2/2016, 252-265 (published in 2018), online.
• Medicalised childhood spaces - spatial designs in the medico-pedagogical field. Or: What a bidet has to tell us about the medicalisation of childhood, in: Virus. Contributions to the Social History of Medicine, 16/2018, 147-161, online.
• Built Pedagogy - Space and Education. The importance of architecture for welfare education using the example of the state educational centre on Jagdberg, in: TH. Journal for Regional and Cultural History of North, East and South Tyrol, 80/2016, 171-200, online.
• The institution as a special educational centre. Das Vorarlberger Landeserziehungsheim am Jagdberg (together with Ralser, Michaela; Reiterer, Martina), in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Zeitgeschichte, 3/2015 [Case Studies on the History of Home Education], 179-195.
• From poetic place to poetic Euregio. On the status quo of a long-forgotten category of political aesthetics: landscape-related identity, in: filadressa. Contexts of South Tyrolean Literature 09/2013, 42-47, online.
• Of modern robbers and ancient barbarians. Self-education through political education using the example of asymmetrical counter-concepts, in: Latein Forum. Zeitschrift für Latein-, Griechisch- und GeschichtelehrerInnen, 65/2008, 35-51.
• "[They] should be surrounded by beauty, so that they get more sense and understanding for everything and more desire and patience to work." Spatiality as a means of pedagogising the "good life" (with Flavia Guerrini), in: Boser, Lukas; De Vincenti, Andrea; Grube, Norbert et al. (eds.), Pädagogisierung des "guten Lebens" (series of publications by the Bibliothek am Guisanplatz), Bern 2019, 217-239, online.
• "You can't educate who you don't have". Das Diktat der Anwesenheit als Konstante freiheitsentziehender Maßnahmen der Jugendfürsorge (together with Michaela Ralser and Flavia Guerrini), in: Neuber, Anke; Zahradnik, Franz (eds.): Geschlossene Institutionen - geschlossene Gemeinschaften (Soziale Probleme - soziale Kontrolle), Beltz Juventa: Weinheim 2019, 42-65.
• The view through the keyhole. Raum-Schaffen zwischen Erinnerung und ihrer narrativen Erfassung, in: Engel, Birgit; Peskoller, Helga; Westphal, Kristin; Böhme, Katja; Kosica, Simone (eds.): räumen - Raumwissen in Natur, Kunst, Architektur und Bildung (Räume in der Pädagogik), Beltz Juventa: Weinheim 2018, 196-213, online.
• The institution as a special pedagogical place. Die Materialität pädagogischer Prozesse am Beispiel der Fürsorgeerziehung in einem ländlich pluriethnischen Raum, in: Glaser, Edith; Koller, Hans-Christoph; Thole, Werner; Krumme, Salome (eds.): Räume für Bildung - Räume der Bildung. Schriften der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Educational Sciences, Barbara Budrich: Opladen 2018, 394-405, online.
• Space as a heuristic category of historical educational and social research, in: Leitner, Ulrich (ed.): Corpus Intra Muros. A Cultural History of Spatially Formed Bodies (Edition Kulturwissenschaft), Transcript: Bielefeld 2017, 11-33, online.
• Special places of rural childhoods. Spatial memories of former children in residential care in Tyrol and Vorarlberg, in: Ender, Markus; Fürhapter, Ingrid; Kathan, Iris; Leitner, Ulrich; Siller, Barbara (eds.): Landschaftslektüren. Lesarten des Raums von Tirol bis in die Po-Ebene (Edition Kulturwissenschaft 109), Transcript: Bielefeld 2017, 326-347, online.
• Tidied up. Landschaftslektüren von Tirol bis in die Po-Ebene (with Ender, Markus; Fürhapter, Ingrid; Kathan, Iris; Leitner, Ulrich; Siller, Barbara), in: Ender, Markus; Fürhapter, Ingrid; Kathan, Iris; Leitner, Ulrich; Siller, Barbara (eds.): Landschaftslektüren. Lesarten des Raums von Tirol bis in die Po-Ebene (Edition Kulturwissenschaft 109), Transcript: Bielefeld 2017, 10-24, online.
• What it's like to live behind metre-high walls... (with Antenhofer, Christina; Bereswill, Mechthild; Hitthaler, Stefan; Schröder, Nina), in: Ulrich Leitner (ed.), Corpus Intra Muros. A Cultural History of Spatially Formed Bodies (Edition Kulturwissenschaft), Transcript: Bielefeld 2017, 477- 483.
• *Human Bodies and the City. Art as a Medium to Explore Urban Landscapes, in: Antenhofer, Christina; Bischof, Günter; Dupont, Robert L.; Leitner, Ulrich (eds.): Cities as Multiple Landscapes. Investigating the Sister Cities Innsbruck and New Orleans (Interdisziplinäre Stadtforschung 21). Campus: Frankfurt am Main, New York 2016, 97-104, online.
• Poetic Places and Multiple Landscapes: Exploring Urban Topographies (with Antenhofer, Christina) in: Antenhofer, Christina; Bischof, Günter; Dupont, Robert L.; Leitner, Ulrich (eds.): Cities and Landscapes. Considering New Orleans and Innsbruck as Multiple Landscapes (Interdisziplinäre Stadtforschung 21). Campus: Frankfurt am Main, New York 2016, 35-59, online.
• On the Political Aesthetics of Space, in: Leitner, Ulrich; Hitthaler, Stefan; Antenhofer, Christina; Oberhofer, Andreas; Mittich, Waltraud (eds.): Corpus Intra Muros. Catalogue for the Art and Scientific Project (Schriften zur Politischen Ästhetik Vol. 2), German/Italian/English, innsbruck university press (IUP): Innsbruck 2014, 73-75, online.
• The imperial order complex. The theoretical fiction of a political system, in: Gehler, Michael; Rollinger, Robert (eds.): Imperien in der Weltgeschichte 2 Vols. Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden 2014, 1415-1452, online.
• Introduction, in: Leitner, Ulrich (ed.): Berg & Leute. Tirol als Landschaft und Identität (Schriften zur Politischen Ästhetik 1). innsbruck university press (IUP): Innsbruck 2014, 20-39, online.
• Mountain - Tyrol's poetic place. A model for the spatial and landscape reference of identity, in: Leitner, Ulrich (ed.): Berg & Leute. Tirol als Landschaft und Identität (Schriften zur Politischen Ästhetik 1). innsbruck university press (IUP): Innsbruck 2014, 42-81.
• Fetish of Empire - The psychoanalytical fetish concept as a heuristic category for analysing the idea of an imperial world order, in: Antenhofer, Christina (ed.): Fetisch als heuristische Kategorie. History - Reception - Interpretation. Transcript: Bielefeld 2011, 169-191.
• Imperial Power - Imperial Violence. A contribution to the political empire debate, in: Antenhofer, Christina; Oberprantacher, Andreas; Schnegg, Kordula (eds.): Methoden und Wahrheiten: Humanities and Social Science Research in Theory & Practice. innsbruck university press (IUP): Innsbruck 2011, 67-89, online.
• Visual politics. 9/11 and the division of the world. An interdisciplinary essay on the construction of political reality through virtual history, in: Annemarie Profanter (ed.), Kulturen im Dialog/Culture in Dialogo/Cultures in Dialogue (Interkultureller Dialog 1). Peter Lang: Frankfurt/Main, Berlin, Bern et al. 2010, 93-114.

Series editorship:

• Writings on political aesthetics (with Antenhofer, Christina; Oberprantacher, Andreas;
  Schnegg, Kordula), innsbruck university press (IUP), Innsbruck (since 2014).

Editorship: Art catalogues

• Corpus Intra Muros. Catalogue for the Art and Scientific Project (Schriften zur Politischen Ästhetik 2), German/Italian/English (ed. with Hitthaler, Stefan; Antenhofer, Christina; Oberhofer, Andreas; Mittich, Waltraud), innsbruck university press (IUP), Innsbruck 2014 (102 pages).
• Heidi Leitner - Sacral Works 1990-2010. Catalogue for the Anniversary Exhibition, German/Italian/English, Athesia, Bolzano 2011 (108 pages).

Research reports:

• The system of welfare education. On the Genesis, Transformation and Practice of Youth Welfare and the Provincial Educational Homes in Tyrol and Vorarlberg. Innsbruck 2015 (with Ralser, Michaela; Guerrini, Flavia; Reiterer, Martina; Bischoff, Nora; Jost, Christine), https://www.uibk.ac.at/iezw/heimgeschichteforschung/dokumente/das-system-der-fuersorgeerzie
  pdf. (749 pages), online.
• "I hate this miserable compulsion."Das Landeserziehungsheim für Mädchen und junge Frauen St. Martin in Schwaz, Innsbruck, 2015 (with Ralser, Michaela; Guerrini, Flavia; Reiterer, Martina; Bischoff, Nora; Jost, Christine). (228 pages), online.
• Study on the welfare education system in the provinces of Tyrol and Vorarlberg in the Second Republic. Interim report, Innsbruck (April 2014), (together with Ralser, Michaela; Bischoff, Nora; Guerrini, Flavia; Jost, Christine; Reiterer, Martina). (26 pages)
• The Provincial Educational Home for Girls St Martin in Schwaz in the Second Republic. As a pars pro toto of early gender-based welfare education, including the employment and training relationships established and to be clarified within its framework. Interim report,
  Innsbruck (April 2014) (together with Ralser, Michaela; Bischoff, Nora; Guerrini, Flavia; Jost, Christine; Reiterer, Martina), http://www.uibk.ac.at/iezw/heimgeschichteforschung/. (23 pages)

Reviews:

• Béatrice Ziegler/Gisela Hauss/Martin Lengwiler (eds.): Zwischen Erinnerung und Aufarbeitung. Forced welfare measures against minors in Switzerland in the 20th century. Chronos: Zurich 2018, in: Swiss Journal of Social Work, 2019 104-109, online.
• Understanding institutional history in an explanatory way. Review of: Gisela Hauss/Thomas Gabriel/Martin Lengwiler (eds.): Fremdplatziert. Home education in Switzerland, 1940-1990. Chronos: Zurich 2018, in: Sozial. Magazine of the ZHAW Social Work 11/2019, 7, online.
• Hanna Goldmann, The covered neck pit. Erinnerungen aus den Jugendjahren einer Südtirolerin, edited by Brigitte Mazohl (Experiencing - Remembering - Preserving. Schriftenreihe des Zentrums für Erinnerungskultur und Geschichtsforschung 9), Universitätsverlag Wagner 2021, in: Zeitschrift für Regional- und Kulturgeschichte Nord-, Ost- und Südtirols, vol. 84 (2021).
• Annemarie Augschöll-Blasbichler, Hans Karl Peterlini, The school in the parlour. School and education policy using the example of the abandoned small schools in South Tyrol, Verlag A. Weger, Brixen 2019 (published 2021), in: Zeitschrift für Regional- und Kulturgeschichte Nord-, Ost- und Südtirols, vol. 84 (2021).
• Josef Feichtinger: Escape back. Eine Auswandererkindheit, Bozen Edition Raetia, in: TH. Journal for Regional and Cultural History of North, East and South Tyrol 83/2019, online.
• Michael Kasper/Martin Korenjak/Robert Rollinger/Andreas Rudigier (eds.): Entdeckungen der Landschaft. Space and culture in the past and present. Böhlau Vienna, in: TH. Journal for Regional and Cultural History of North, East and South Tyrol 83/2019, online.
• Martin Kolozs: To the higher honour. The Tyrolean priest poets. Universitätsverlag Wagner: Innsbruck, in: TH. Journal for Regional and Cultural History of North, East and South Tyrol 83/2019, online.
• Horst Schreiber: Restitution of dignity. Kindheit und Gewalt in Heimen der Stadt Innsbruck (Publications of the Innsbruck City Archive, New Series 57). Studienverlag: Innsbruck, hardcover with dust jacket, with a contribution by Ulrike Paul, in: TH. Zeitschrift für Regional- und Kulturgeschichte Nord-, Ost- und Südtirols 81/2017, 305-307, online.
• Oliver Seifert, Leben und Sterben in der Heil- und Pflegeanstalt Hall in Tirol 1942 bis 1945. Zur Geschichte einer psychiatrischen Anstalt im Nationalsozialismus (Publications of the Commission for the Investigation of the Cemetery of the Psychiatric Hospital in Hall in Tyrol from 1942 to 1945 4/I). Universitätsverlag Wagner: Innsbruck 2016, in: TH. Journal for Regional and Cultural History of North, East and South Tyrol 81/2017, 296-299, online.
• Melanie Hollaus, Heidi Schleich (eds.) Bocksiedlung. A piece of Innsbruck (Publications of the Innsbruck City Archive, new instalment 58). Studienverlag: Innsbruck, with numerous illustrations and a four-colour photo essay, in: TH. Zeitschrift für Regional- und Kulturgeschichte Nord-, Ost- und Südtirols 81/2017, 303-305, online.
• Stefan Lechner, Andrea Sommerauer, Friedrich Stepanek, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Heil- und Pflegeanstalt Hall in Tirol im Nationalsozialismus und zu ihrer Rezeption nach 1945. Hospital staff. Resettled South Tyroleans in the Hall asylum. Dealing with Nazi euthanasia since 1945. Universitätsverlag Wagner: Innsbruck, in: TH. Journal for Regional and Cultural History of North, East and South Tyrol 80/2016, 247-250, online.
• Wilfried F. Noisternig, How much earth does man need? Life traces of a mountain farmer. A photographic portrait. With the story of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. Tyrolia-Verlag: Innsbruck-Vienna 2016, in: TH. Journal for Regional and Cultural History of North, East and South Tyrol 80/2016, 265-266, online.
• Jörg W. Busch: From official administration to royal service. Observations on the "state language" of the early Middle Ages using the example of the word administratio, Monumenta Germaniae Historica (Studien und Texte, vol. 42). Hahnsche Buchgemeinschaft: Hanover 2007, 156 p., in: Elena Taddei, Robert Rebitsch (eds.), Migration und Reisen: Mobility in the Modern Era, Innsbrucker Historische Studien, 28/2012, 368-369.

Small contributions:

• Kindheit und Kindheitsgeschichten, in: Leitner, Ulrich/Augschöll-Blasbichler, Annemarie (eds.), Kindheitsgeschichten. Storie d'infanzia, Innsbruck 2022, 9-14.

• Infanzia e storia(e) d'infanzia, in: Leitner, Ulrich/Augschöll-Blasbichler, Annemarie (eds.), Kindheitsgeschichten. Storie d'infanzia, Innsbruck 2022, 15-19.

• Stories of childhood: South, North and East Tyrol, in: Leitner, Ulrich/Augschöll-Blasbichler, Annemarie (eds.), Kindheitsgeschichten. Storie d'infanzia, Innsbruck 2022, 37-45.

• Storie d'infanzia: Alto Adige, Tirolo settentrionale e orientale, in: Leitner, Ulrich/Augschöll-Blasbichler, Annemarie (eds.), Kindheitsgeschichten. Storie d'infanzia, Innsbruck 2022, 47-58.

• Walter, in: Leitner, Ulrich/Augschöll-Blasbichler, Annemarie (eds.), Kindheitsgeschichten. Storie d'infanzia, Innsbruck 2022, 155-161.

• Hertha, in: Leitner, Ulrich/Augschöll-Blasbichler, Annemarie (eds.), Kindheitsgeschichten. Storie d'infanzia, Innsbruck 2022, 162-169.

• Hans, in: Leitner, Ulrich/Augschöll-Blasbichler, Annemarie (eds.), Kindheitsgeschichten. Storie d'infanzia, Innsbruck 2022, 210-217.

• Severin, in: Leitner, Ulrich/Augschöll-Blasbichler, Annemarie (eds.), Kindheitsgeschichten. Storie d'infanzia, Innsbruck 2022, 236-245.

• Maria, in: Leitner, Ulrich/Augschöll-Blasbichler, Annemarie (eds.), Kindheitsgeschichten. Storie d'infanzia, Innsbruck 2022, 298-309.

• The Interplay of Topography and Education: Why Space Matters in the Analysis of Residential Care, in: International Standing Conference for the History of Education 38 (ed.): Education and Body (Abstract Book). Chicago 2016, 102-103.
• Berg - Das Bild hinter dem Mythos, in: Zeitschrift für Kultur und Entwicklung im Alpenraum (Mythos Berg), No. 143/2015, 27-28.
• Editorial (together with Stefan Hitthaler), in: Corpus Intra Muros. Catalogue for the Art and Scientific Project (Schriften zur Politischen Ästhetik, 2). innsbruck university press (IUP): Innsbruck 2014, 9/37/71.
• Foreword (together with Antenhofer, Christina; Oberprantacher, Andreas; Schnegg, Kordula), in: Leitner, Ulrich (ed.): Berg & Leute. Tirol als Landschaft und Identität (Schriften zur Politischen Ästhetik 1). innsbruck university press (IUP): Innsbruck 2014, 14-17.
• Checklist PhD - Points to consider when writing an exposé, Didactic recommendation for the doctoral programme in Educational Sciences (authorised by the members of the PhD session of 11 June 2012), online.
• Conference report: The complex world of cultural contacts: "contact zone" and "receptivity" as a means of describing and analysing it. Internationales Kolloquium aus Anlass des 60. Geburtstages von Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Christoph Ulf", Tagungsbericht: gem. mit Irene Huber, Gundula Schwinghammer, Martin Mauersberg, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 24.03.2009, online at: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/tagungsberichte/id=2570.

Media contributions:

• Podcast on Ö1 in the series Moment-Notizen "Dinge des Lebens - das Bidet" from 25 February 2021, online.
• Radio interview on the symposium Cities and Landscapes and the art project REAGENT, together with Christina Antenhofer/Innsbruck, in: Campusradio auf Welle 1 (23 June 2015).
• Press conference: Presentation of the results of the studies on welfare education and institutional history, with. Michaela Ralser, Nora Bischoff, Flavia Guerrini, Christine Jost, Martina Reiterer, Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government - Landhaus, Innsbruck, (6 July 2015).
• Vermauerte Räume, in: Pustertaler Zeitung (7 August 2014).
• Radio discussion on the science and art project Corpus Intra Muros, in: Mittagsmagazin des Radiosenders RAI-Südtirol (formerly Rai Sender Bozen) gem. mit Christina Antenhofer/Innsbruck; Mechthild Bereswill/Kassel, Stefan Hitthaler/Bruneck und Nina Schröder/Rai-Südtirol (26 July 2014).

Lectures

2021

• Pupils' lives in first-person documents of a Catholic boarding school. Research premises of a childhood studies approach to institutional history. Workshop "Schülerinnen- und Schülerleben im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert", Hamburg (23-24 September 2021).
• Written and Oral Ego-Documents as Source for the Memories of Former Episcopal Minor Seminar Students: Challenges and Opportunities. Conference "Exclude to Include: Global Perspectives on Boarding Schools, their Participants and Processes during the 19th and 20th Centuries", Münster (6 November 2020).
• Materialising The Past. How Spatial, Bodily and Sensory Experiences Affect the Memory of Former Male Boarding School Students". Presentation in the panel "Objects, Gender and Education. Materiality as a Source of Social History", ISCHE 2020 in Örebro/Sweden.
• Expert commentary on the panel "Spaces for the recovery of body and psyche" at the workshop Sinnesräume - Sensory Studies and Spatial Concepts: Measuring sound, feeling boundaries, organising smells, tasting time ... Universities of Innsbruck/Linz (27/28 May 2021).
• Historical Discourse Analysis in Educational Sciences: Fundamentals and Application, Summerschool "Theorie-Macht-Bildung", University of Salzburg, (17 June 2021).

2019

• Special childhoods in rural areas in the context of regional boarding school history. Hearings lecture, University of Innsbruck (9/10/2019).
• Lists and Registers as Artefacts of Social Power. Inventoring Processes in the History of Child and Youth Residential Care, International Workshop "Inventories as Artefacts and Texts - Methodological Approaches and Challenges", University of Salzburg (6 September 2019).
• Not the Difficult Ones. How Austrian and German Catholic Boarding and Grammar Schools Tried to Differentiate Themselves from Welfare Institutions in the Early 20th Century, International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE 41): Spaces and Places of Education, University of Porto (18/07/2019).
• The Public Sphere as Desired or Endangering Space? Narratives about the Occupation of Public Space in the Field of Youth Welfare (1950-1980) (with Flavia Guerrini), International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE 41): Spaces and Places of Education, University of Porto (18 July 2019).
  

2018

• Experiences of Social Exclusion in Child and Youth Welfare Institutions. On the History of Residential Care in Western Austria (1945-1990) (with Flavia Guerrini), Conference "Inclusion and Exclusion, Resources for Educational Research" (Network: 17: Histories of Education), European Conference of Educational Research (ECER 2018), Free University of Bolzano (Italy) (07.09.2018).
• Spatiality as a means of pedagogising the "good life", Conference: Pädagogisierung des "guten Lebens" (together with Flavia Guerrini), Bibliothek am Guisanplatz Bern (25.10.2018).
• "...there, the shoulder pressed so hard, that's how it took me". On the "circulation of energy" in the narrative-biographical interview setting, pre-conference (for the conference "Anthropology of Care of the Commission "Pedagogical Anthropology" of the DGfE) of the network "Pedagogical Anthropology", topic: Approaches to pedagogical anthropology: Using the example of the body, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg (23 September 2018).
• The history of public substitute education. Challenges and perspectives for subjectivation research (together with Michaela Ralser and Flavia Guerrini), Summer School "Bildung des Subjekts", University of Salzburg (5 July 2018).
• Rurality as an educational principle. The material foundations of educational biographical movements in rural areas, DGfE Congress 2018, "Movements", University of Duisburg-Essen (21 March 2018).
• Miniatures of a supposedly specific nature of the child with educational difficulties. The knowledge archive of curative and home education: The ward and sick file" (with Michaela Ralser and Flavia Guerrini), Education and Nature. International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE 40), Humboldt University Berlin (30 August 2018).
  

2017

• On the biographical processing of home history and the topos of transgenerational transmission, International Conference "Jugend - Lebenswelt - Bildung". Perspectives for Youth Research in Austria, University of Innsbruck (17 November 2017).
• Körperinszenierungen und Körperpraktiken als Formen des Widerstands, Panel "Körper von Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen als Indikator gesellschaftlicher Teilhabe. On making the body invisible and the presentation of young people's corporeality" (Chair: Prof. Ulrike Loch), International Conference "Jugend - Lebenswelt - Bildung. Perspectives for youth research in Austria, University of Innsbruck (17 November 2017).
• "Supported memory". Reflections on a methodological research problem of historical analysis of public substitute education (together with Michaela Ralser, Flavia Guerrini), International Conference "Multiperspektivische Forschung zur Sozialisation in Institutionen", University of Zurich (09.11.2017).
• Medicalised childhood spaces. Spatial designs and spatial experiences in the medico-pedagogical field, conference "Medikalisierte Kindheiten. Die neue Sorge um das Kind vom ausgehenden 19. bis ins 20. Jahrhundert" (Association for the Social History of Medicine), University of Innsbruck (01.07.2017).

2016

• The Interplay of Topography and Education: Why Space Matters in the Analysis of Residential Care, Panel "Gender Segregation and the Materiality of Educational Spaces," International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE 38): Education and the Body, Loyola University Chicago, USA (20/08/2016).
• The Institution as a Special Educational Place. Die Materialität pädagogischer Prozesse am Beispiel der Fürsorgeerziehung in einem ländlich pluriethnischen Raum, Symposium "Raum als heuristische Kategorie der Historischen Bildungs- und Sozialforschung am Beispiel der Fürsorgeerziehung und ihrer Schnittstellen zu Kinderpsychiatrie und Jugendstrafvollzugˮ, DGfE-Kongress 2016, "Räume für Bildung. Spaces of education", University of Kassel (16/03/2016).
• Bildungsbiographien ehemaliger weiblicher Heimkinder in Ego-Dokumenten der historischen Fürsorgeerziehung Tirols, conference "Geschichte & Biographie, Jahrestagung der Kommission für Qualitative Bildungs- und Biographieforschung in Kooperation mit der Sektion Historische Bildungsforschung der DGfE", TU Dortmund (14 October 2016).
  

2015

• Art as a Medium to Explore Urban Landscapes. Symposium "Cities and Landscapes. Considering New Orleans and Innsbruck as Multiple Landscapes", University of Innsbruck, Center New Orleans (24 June 2015).
• Space and Education. A Case Study on the Meaning of Topography and Architecture for the Educational Processes in Public Youth Reformatories, Conference "Placing Children in Care. Child Welfare in Switzerland (1940-1990)", University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Olten (17.06.2015).
• Special places of rural childhoods. Raumkonstruktionen aus dem Aktenbestand der Tiroler und Vorarlberger Fürsorgeerziehungslandschaft, International Annual Conference of the Research Platform Cultural Encounters - Cultural Conflicts "Grenzräume - Raumgrenzen. Rural living environments from a cultural studies perspective", University of Innsbruck (17 April 2015).
• The girls' home in Kramsach-Mariatal, as part of the presentation "Regime of Welfare - Home History in Tyrol and Vorarlberg", Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government - Landhaus, Innsbruck (6 July 2015).

2014

• Über die Differenz von Reflexion und Meinung, Introduction Days BA Educational Sciences WS 14/15. Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck (01.10.2014).
• From exposé to bachelor thesis. Suggestions and materials for the organisation of the seminar with Bachelor's thesis at the Faculty of EducationalSciences, Workshop "Forschungslabor Hochschuldidaktik. Theorien, Fallstudien, Materialien", Interfakultärer Arbeitskreis für Bildung und Didaktik, University of Innsbruck (21 March 2014).
• Corpus Intra Muros - Introduction to an interdisciplinary science and art project, International Conference "Corpus Intra Muros. A Cultural History of Spatially Formed Bodies", Raiffeisenforum/Bruneck, South Tyrol (17/07/2014).
  

2012

• The normative conditions of imperial power. Reflections on the characterisation of the concept of "empire" as a political model of order, conference of the International Research Training Group Political Communication from Antiquity to the 20th Century of the Universities of Innsbruck-Frankfurt-Bologna, University of Innsbruck (14.06.2012).
• "Erfahrungen aus der Schreibwerkstatt", case study presentation and discussion at the "Interfakultärer Arbeitskreis für Bildung und Didaktik" of the cluster "Politische Ästhetik: Theorie & Methode", University of Innsbruck, 15 November 2012.
• "Mountain & People. Tyrol as landscape and identity. Introduction to a transdisciplinary research project." As part of the research network meeting of scientists from the Universities of Innsbruck, Vienna and Bolzano. Bruneck Castle/South Tyrol (30 May 2012).
  

2011

• Defining Empire. A Theoretical Approach. Interdisciplinary Conference "Empires: Comparing the Semantics behind Concept, Metaphor and Ideology", Central European University Budapest (15 October 2011).
• The Mosaic Distinction or the Price of Monotheism. Impulse on Jan Assmann. Workshop "Erinnerung und Geschichte: Lektüren zu Jan Assmann", Research Cluster Political Aesthetics: Body, Space & Communication, Brennerarchiv/University of Innsbruck (9 June 2011).
• Empire in postcolonial lifeworlds? Book presentation of the Cluster Political Aesthetics: Body, Space & Communication, Claudiana/University of Innsbruck (16 December 2011).

2010

• Fetish of Empire - What Freud has to tell us about the idea of an imperial world order, International Conference "Fetish as a heuristic category", University of Innsbruck (3 - 4 June 2010).
• The unease in aesthetics. Impulse on Jacques Rancière. Theory and method workshop of the research cluster Political Aesthetics: Body, Space & Communication together with the International Research Training Group (Innsbruck, Frankfurt, Bologna) "Political Communication from Antiquity to the 20th Century", University Center Obergurgl (23.05.2010).

2008

• Das Imperium schlägt zurück - Überlegungen zur politologischen Imperiums-Debatte, as part of the course Kommunikation - Kunst - Politik. Perspektiven Geisteswissenschaftlicher Forschung at the Department of History and European Ethnology, University of Innsbruck (21 May 2008).

Conferences

• Baden. A historical-topographical search for traces (Innsbruck-Ambras) Conference, with Kordula Schnegg/Christina Antenhofer/Ulrich Leitner; Innsbruck and online, 12-13 May 2022.

• Gender and Materiality in the History of Education. International Network Meeting, -25.09.2020, University of Innsbruck.
• Dinge in historischer und theoretischer Reflexion (workshop of the research group "Politische Ästhetik & Körpertheorien" together with Prof. Thomas Meier/Universität Heidelberg), 25 October 2018, University of Innsbruck.
• Cities and Landscapes. Considering New Orleans and Innsbruck as Multiple Landscapes (with Christina Antenhofer/Innsbruck, Günter Bischof, Robert Dupont/University of New Orleans). International conference in the context of the anniversary Innsbruck - New Orleans. 40 years of summer school, 40 years of university partnership, 20 years of city partnership and the 350th anniversary of the University of Innsbruck, 24-26 June 2015, University of Innsbruck.
• History as a Secondary Space of Experience and/or as a 'Third Space' as part of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Forum "Space as a Category of Postcolonial Studies". Workshop together with Prof. Martin Lücke (FU Berlin) 23.01.2015, University of Innsbruck.
• Corpus Intra Muros. A Cultural History of Spatially Formed Bodies, international conference 17-19 July 2014, Raiffeisensaal, Bruneck/Italy.
• International Research Network Meeting on the History of Welfare Education in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, 17 July 2014, Municipality of Brunico, Italy.
• Research laboratory university didactics. Theories, case studies, materials, workshop with didactician Gabriele Salzgeber (University of Innsbruck/Salzburg), as part of the Interfaculty Working Group for Education and Didactics in cooperation with the Department of Staff Development at the University of Innsbruck, 21 March 2014, University of Innsbruck.
• Theatre pedagogy - basics, methods, techniques and their possible applications in teaching, workshop with Birgit Hamed-Büchler and Elisabeth Schatz (theatre pedagogue, theatre group Infektiös Innsbruck), Interfaculty Working Group for Education and Didactics, 24.04.2013, University of Innsbruck.
• Berg&Leute. Tyrol as landscape and identity, international research network meeting, 30 May 2012, Messner Mountain Museum Ripa at Bruneck Castle/Italy.
• Memory and History: Lectures on Jan Assmann (method workshop together with Christina Antenhofer, Andreas Oberprantacher and Kordula Schnegg), research cluster "Political Aesthetics: Body, Space & Communication", 9 September 2011, Brenner Archive, University of Innsbruck.

Panels at international conferences

• Objects, Gender and Education. Materiality as a Source of Social History", ISCHE 2020/21 in Örebro/Sweden.
• Professionalisation as an optimisation of (social) pedagogical action? Historical and comparative analyses (together with Birgit Bütow/University of Salzburg), DGfE Congress 2020 in Cologne.
• Threshold period(s) of historical educational and disability assistance? Resistance movements against institutionalised forms of accommodation in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in the 1970s, symposium at the DGfE Congress 2018 (with Michaela Ralser, Flavia Guerrini/University of Innsbruck), 18-21 March 2018, University of Duisburg-Essen.
• Bildungsbiografische Bewegungen im ländlichen (Schul-)Raum - Herausforderungen und Perspektiven für die (Historische) Bildungsforschung, working group at the DGfE Congress 2018 (together with Annemarie Augschöll-Blasbichler/Freie Universität Bozen, Edmund Steiner/Pädagogische Hochschule Wallis), 18-21 March 2018, University of Duisburg-Essen.
• Die Geschichte der öffentlichen Ersatzerziehung: Herausforderungen und Perspektiven für die Kindheits- und Jugendforschung in Österreich, panel at the international conference "Jugend - Lebenswelt - Bildung. Perspectives for Youth Research in Austria (together with Flavia Guerrini/Innsbruck), 17 November 2017, University of Innsbruck.
• Gender Segregation and the Materiality of Educational Spaces, Panel at the "International Standing Conference for the History of Education" (ISCHE 2016), Education and the Body (with Christina Antenhofer/Innsbruck), 17-20 August 2016, Loyola University Chicago (USA).
• Raum als heuristische Kategorie der Historischen Bildungs- und Sozialforschung am Beispiel der Fürsorgeerziehung und ihrer Schnittstellen zu Kinderpsychiatrie und Jugendstrafvollzug, symposium at the DGfE Congress 2016, Räume für Bildung. Räume der Bildung (together with Michaela Ralser/University of Innsbruck, Mechthild Bereswill/University of Kassel, Gisela Hauss/University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland), -16 March 2016, University of Kassel.
• Die narrative Erfassung der Landschaft, panel at the international annual conference of the Research Area Cultural Encounters - Cultural Conflicts: Grenzräume - Raumgrenzen: Ländliche Lebenswelten aus kulturwissenschaftlicher Sicht, 17.04.2015, University of Innsbruck.
• Heimkindheiten in Österreich: Fragen an eine Geschichte der Fürsorgeerziehungsregime nach 1945. Überlegungen zur Neubewertung von (öffentlichen) Erziehung und Gewalt, research forum at the DGfE Congress 2014, Traditionen und Zukünfte, together with Michaela Ralser/Innsbruck, Nora Bischoff/FU Berlin, Flavia Guerrini/Innsbruck, Christine Jost/Innsbruck, Matthias Rangger/Oldenburg, Martina Reiterer/Innsbruck), 9-12 March 2014, HU Berlin.

Memberships and functions in scientific associations

• German Society for Educational Sciences (DGfE)
• Section for Historical Educational Research
• Section for General Educational Sciences, Commission for Educational Anthropology
• Network Educational Anthropology (network of the junior research group)
• International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE)
• Commission Internationale pour l'Histoire et l'Etude du Christianisme - Section Austria
• Association for the Social History of Medicine, Vienna/Salzburg
• "Centre for Gender Studies Innsbruck (CGI)
• Research Centre "Digital Humanities", University of Innsbruck
• Research Platform "Cultural Encounters - Cultural Conflicts", University of Innsbruck (advisory board member)

Activity as reviewer:

• External referee in the periodical Italian research assessment exercise (VQR 2015-2019), (Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (ANVUR)
• Quaderni di Intercultura. Università degli Studi di Messina.
• Austrian Journal of Historical Sciences (ÖZG)
• TH. Journal for regional and cultural history of North, East and South Tyrol