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Prof. Dr. Anna Schober

Function

  • Member of Section 1 (E-Business E-Politics E-Government)
Prof. Dr. Anna Schober

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Contact

Justus-Liebig-University
Faculty of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies
Karl-Glöckner-Str. 21E, Room E 011
35394 Gießen
Germany


Tel.: 0641 / 9923307
Fax.: 0641 / 9923309

Short Biography

  • currently Professor of sociology. Focus: General Comparison of Societies (substitute for Andreas Langenohl). Sociology department. Justus Liebig University Giessen.
  • 2011  2013 Mercator Visiting Professor for Culturalisation and the Popularisation of 'Gender' at the Sociology department of the Justus Liebig University Gießen (financed by the DFG. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).
  • 2009  2011 Visiting Professor at the Philosophy Department of Verona University, financed by the EU, Seventh Framework Program, Marie Curie Actions, research project: “Picturing Gender”.
  • April 2009 University of Vienna, Institute of Contemporary History: Habilitation; venia docendi "Contemporary History"
  • 2006 – 2009 Researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History, University of Vienna, for the project City-Squats: The Cinema as a space for political action, position financed by the FWF (Austrian Science Fund).
  • 2003 – 2005 Regular post-doc participant in the European Science Foundation Scientific Network The Politics and History of European Democratisation, grant for participating in five conferences and/or workshops
  • 2003 – 2006 Research project Aesthetic tricks as a means of political emancipation, financed by the FWF (Austrian Science Fund).
  • 2000  2003 Post-doc scholarship (12 months spread over three years) at the Centre for Theoretical Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, financed by the Austrian Ministry of Sciences
  • 2000 Final degree: Dr. der Philosophie (Ph.D.), with distinction
  • 1992  1999 University of Vienna, Institute of Contemporary History. Doctoral course: History and Art History. Doctoral Thesis: Blue Jeans: An Artificial Mythology
  • 1984  1992 University of Vienna, History, History of Art and Drama, Final degree: Mag. der Philosophie (MA), with distinction. Thesis: Programmatically staged historical exhibitions
Main Research Interests

  • Picturing 'gender': Visual translation, popularisation and contesting of a key discourse in the New Europe
  • City-Squats: The Cinema as a space for political action
  • Aesthetic tricks as a means of political emancipation