• Ellwanger, Karen: Research report: Criticism of "East German" traditional costume. The national
  appropriation of the Pomeranian Weizacker costume in Germany and Poland. (Author: Bärbel Schmidt and others). Project funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in co-operation with the University of Oldenburg, unpublished manuscript 2001.

• "KleidKörperBilder" lecture as part of the lecture "Material Culture: An Introduction" at the Chair of European Ethnology / Folklore at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, 16/05/2018.

• "Über Qualität in Ausstellungen" lecture at the symposium of the working group "Ausstellungsplanung" of the German Museums Association at the annual conference in Bremen, 9 May 2018.

• "Neue Heimatmuseen und Wissensproduktion" lecture as part of the thematic focus "Heimat heute" of the Studium Generale at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 30 January 2017.

• "The exhibition project in the Oldenburg MA degree programme Museum and Exhibition. Curricular anchoring, problems, results." Lecture at the conference "Theorie trifft Praxis? Museums, curators and universities in the field of history exhibitions". Frankfurt, 30 June 2016.

• "Clothes and stories. Collection concepts in the context of teaching and research at the Oldenburg Institute of Material Culture" Lecture at the conference "Musealised Fashion" at the Technical University of Dortmund, 01.12.2015.

• "The fabric of society - fashion. Change of form series 1914 - 2014". As part of the salon talks and multimedia lectures on the topic "Formwandel. Social Dynamics 1914 to 2014" at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, 19/09/2014

• "New local history museums as institutions of knowledge production. The project". As part of the final conference of the project of the same name at the University of Oldenburg, 26 June 2014

• "Politicians and their dresses. Notes on German coalition negotiations and postcolonial adaptations of the men's suit". Lecture as part of the Cusanuswerk holiday academy, 04/03/2014

• "Zur Kritik der Lesbarkeit der Dinge." As part of the series of lectures "Vom Erzählen und Schweigen der Dinge - Materielle Kultur in den Geschichtswissenschaften". WS 2012/2013

• "Introduction: Evidence and Ambivalence of the Men's Suit" (with Prof. Dr Silke Wenk). Symposium for young academics, University of Oldenburg 7 May 2009.

• "Post-socialist and post-colonial hybrid forms of the suit". Symposium for young academics "Evidence and Ambivalence of the Men's Suit", University of Oldenburg 8 May 2009.

• "Introduction: 'Clothes for the dead'. On the Construction of Death and Gender in Material and Visual Culture". Conference, University of Oldenburg 12 June 2008.

• "Death in politics. Politicians and their last shirt". Conference "'Totenkleidung'. On the construction of death and gender in material and visual culture", University of Oldenburg 13 June 2008.

• "The spectacles. When gazes get their shape". Berlin University of the Arts, 18 January 2006.

• "Can institutions think?". Lecture at the opening of the doctoral programme gender studies at the University of Kiel 10.12.2004.

• "Metabolism in small border traffic. Käthe B. and her Weizackertracht". International Colloquium: "Biography(s) between cultures and nations in Central and East-Central European cultural transfer", University of Thorun/Bachtin, Poland 4 October 2004

• "Gender Studies in Cultural Studies". Opening lecture for the series 100 Years of Women's Studies at the Ludwig Uhland Institute, University of Tübingen 13 May 2004

• "Keeping State: Clothing in Politics. Some Remarks on the History of the European Sartorial Representation of the Political". Key-lecture in the workshop programme 'Dress, political representation and symbolic politics: Yemen and Germany', Sanaá/ Yemen 3.4. 2004

• "Memory and Gender". Opening lecture at the Summer Academy of the Centre for Gender Studies "Gendermemory" 18 April 2004

• "Vestimentary body gestures". Lecture at the conference "Körperliche Erkenntnis - Theorie und Empirie" of the dvs - Section Sportphilosophie in cooperation with the Collaborative Research Centre Cultures of the Performative, Berlin 7.11. 2003

• "Gender Studies in Cultural Studies from a Transdisciplinary Perspective" (with Silke Wenk), University of Konstanz 24 April 2003

• "Jacket like trousers? Politicians, programmes, brands", accompanying programme to the exhibition "Clothes make politics", Landesmuseum Oldenburg 17.10.2002.

• "Crossings? On the relationship between high and popular culture: disciplines and their image archives." Lecture at the 2nd Summer Academy of the Centre for Gender Studies in Cultural Studies: `Cultural Studies' and `Gender Studies': Relations and Omissions. Oldenburg 21 October 2000

• "Mobility and speed in men's and women's clothing." Social history congress, Section A9: "The Body and Cultural History: Clothing". Amsterdam 14. 4.2000.
  "Chanel and the fashion of modernity". University of Cologne 19 January 2000

• "Dressing times: Rhythm and Speed". Conference "Rhythm" of the Graduiertenkolleg "Zeiterfahrung und ästhetische Wahrnehmung", Johann Goethe University Frankfurt 13 Nov.

• "Body collections". Workshop "Collecting and exhibiting. Literary and
  cultural studies perspectives" of the Graduiertenkolleg Literaturwissenschaft der Univ.GHS Paderborn, 23.6.1999

• "Basic texts for cultural analyses. Focus: Empirical Cultural Studies.", 2014, contains texts by Hermann Bausinger, Utz Jeggle, Wolfgang Kaschuba, Gottfried Korff, Georg Simmel, among others.

• "Ansätze zur Erforschung materieller Kultur", WS 2011/12, contains texts by Stuart Hall, Gottfried Korff, Jules D. Prown, Annette B. Weiner & Jane Schneider.

• "Ansätze zur Erforschung materieller Kultur", WS 2010/11, contains texts by Stuart Hall, Gottfried Korff, Jules D. Prown, Annette B. Weiner & Jane Schneider.

• "Tools of Cultural Analysis: Practices, Representation, Performativity", summer semester 2010, contains texts by Mieke Bal, Stuart Hall, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler.

• "Material Culture and Museum", summer semester 2010, contains texts by Harald Welzer, Hans Peter Hahn, Sharon Macdonald, Anke Te Heesen, among others.

• "Theory and History of the Museum", winter semester 2009/10, contains texts by Gottfried Korff, Aleida Assmann, Jan Assmann, Jana Scholze, among others.

• "Approaches to the Study of Material Culture", WS 2009/10, includes texts by Stuart Hall, Gottfried Korff, Jules D. Prown, Annette B. Weiner & Jane Schneider.

• "Institution Museum, Memory and Things", summer semester 2009, contains texts by Hermann Heidrich, James Clifford, Harald Welzer, Utz Jeggle, Daniel Miller, among others.

• "Theory and History of Museum and Exhibition", winter semester 2008/9, contains texts by Aleida Assmann, Tony Bennett, Mary Douglas, Krysztof Pomian, among others

• "Theory and History of Material Culture", WS 2008/9, includes texts by Stuart Hall, Gottfried Korff, Jules D. Prown, Annette B. Weiner & Jane Schneider.

• "Institution Museum, Memory and Gender", summer semester 2008, contains texts by Harald Welzer, Gottfried Korff, James Clifford, Bazon Brock, Carol Duncan, Camille Pisani, among others.

• "Theory and History of Material Culture", winter semester 2007/8, contains texts by Stuart Hall, Gottfried Korff, Jules D. Prown, Annette B. Weiner & Jane Schneider.

• "Kulturelles Gedächtnis und Geschlecht" (in collaboration with Marco Atlas) summer semester 2006, contains texts by Bernhard von Hülsen, Rosmarie Beier, Bazon Brock.

• "Youth Cultures and Gender", winter semester 2004/2005, contains texts by Georg Simmel, Jürgen Reulecke, Lucius Burckhardt, Ingrid Heimann, among others.

• "Verschränkungen materieller und visueller Kultur - Einführung in die Medientheorien" (with the collaboration of Josch Hoenes), WS 2003/2004, contains texts by Nicholas Mirzoeff, Kaja Silverman, Irene Nierhaus, Anne Hollander, Theresa De Lauretis, Claudia Liebrand, among others.

• "Introduction to cultural theories. Focus on fashion theories", summer semester 2003, contains texts by Terry Eagleton, Stuart Hall, Mieke Bal, Lila Abu-Lughood, Homi Bhabha, among others.

• "Einführung in Kulturtheorien - Schwerpunkt Konstruktion und Dekonstruktion von Geschlecht: Körper, Kleidung und Mode" (with the collaboration of Marco Atlas), winter semester 2001/2002, contains texts by Sigmund Freud, Hans-Peter Duerr, Thomas Laqueur, René Grémaux, Gabriella D`Agostino, among others.

• "Einführung in Kulturtheorien - Schwerpunkt Modetheorien" (with the collaboration of Josch Hoenes), summer semester 2001, contains texts by Stuart Hall, Mieke Bal, Homi Bhabha, Sylvia Pritsch, Joanne Entwistle, among others.

• "Einführung in Kulturtheorien - Schwerpunkt Modetheorien" (with the collaboration of Susanne Schlechter and Barbara Schrödl), summer semester 2000, contains texts by Norbert Elias, Georg Simmel, Irene Nierhaus, Kaja Silverman, Pierre Bourdieu, among others.

• "Clothing and Body Image in the Modern Age: Youth and Subcultures since the 1950s", winter semester 1999/2000, contains texts by Dick Hebdige, Paul Willis, Ted Polhemus, Angela McRobbie, among others.

• "Introduction to Gender Studies in Cultural Studies: Gender and Ethnicity" (together with Silke Wenk), WS 1996/97, contains texts by Frantz Fanon, Judith Butler, Edward W. Said, Benedict Anderson, among others.

• New local history museums as institutions of knowledge production, Oldenburg. Final conference of the project of the same name at the University of Oldenburg, 26-28 June 2014.

• 'Trachten' in Wendland and the Lüneburg Heath. Final conference of the project of the same name at the University of Oldenburg, 6-8 October 2011. Conception and management with Dr Andrea Hauser, Gerda Engelbracht and Laura Schibbe.

• New "Heimat" museums - local museums - regional museums, Oldenburg. Kick-off conference for the project "Neue Heimatmuseen als Institutionen der Wissensproduktion". Also the start of a small series of symposia with participants from universities and museums (scientific director Karen Ellwanger): 2012 Lötschentaler Museum (CH); Werratal Museum Gestungen; 2013 Nationalparkhaus/Museum Federwaddersiel; Museum Unewatt. Carl von Ossietzky University, 29-30 September 2011, concept and direction with Gabriele Speckels M.A.

• Evidence and ambivalence of the men's suit. Symposium for young academics, University of Oldenburg 7-9 May 2009. Direction in co-operation with Prof. Dr. Silke Wenk; coordination Lüder Tietz, M.A.

• Clothes for the dead. On the construction of death and gender in material and visual culture. Workshop from 12 to 14 June 2008 at the Carl von Ossietzky University. Conception and management in co-operation with Dr Traute Helmers, Oldenburg, Prof. Dr Heidi Helmhold, Univ. zu Köln and Dr Barbara Schrödl, Katholisch Theologische Privatuniversität Linz

• International workshop "Dress, political representation and symbolic politics: Yemen and Germany", Sanaá/ Yemen 2. 4. - 7.4. 2004 (direction and conception in co-operation with Raufah Hassan al Sharki)

• 3rd Summer Academy of the Centre for Cultural Studies in Gender Studies: Gendermemory. Oldenburg 18-20 March 2004 (with Silke Wenk and fellows)

• 2nd Summer Academy of the Centre for Gender Studies in Cultural Studies: 'Cultural Studies' and 'Gender Studies': Relations and Omissions. Oldenburg, 20-21 October 2000 (with Silke Wenk and colleagues)

• Bundesfachtagung Textilunterricht: Veränderte Praxisformen aus der Perspektive neuer Fachkonzeptionen. 3-6 November 1999 (member of the preparatory group/Lower Saxony regional group)

• 4th Oldenburg Textile Symposium, Oldenburg 1999 "Cultural Difference and Didactics". Organised by the subject Textile Science, Oldenburg July 1999.

• 1st Summer Academy of the Centre for Gender Studies in Cultural Studies: "Staging the feminine in political space". Oldenburg 1998 (together with Silke Wenk).

• 3rd Oldenburg Textile Symposium, Oldenburg 1998 "Tapisserie and Picture Weaving". Organised by the subject of Textile Science in co-operation with the Kolleg Kulturwissenschaftliche Geschlechterstudien".

• 2nd Oldenburg Textile Symposium, Oldenburg 1996, organised by the subject of Textile Science in co-operation with the Centre for Gender Studies in Cultural Studies.
  "Textile material culture and its forms of presentation today".

• 1st Oldenburg Textile Symposium, Oldenburg 1995, organised by the subject of Textile Science. Conference concept and management (together with Ingrid Köller); opening lecture "Materialität des Flüchtigen".

Supervised exhibition projects by students

2016
Openly asked! What exhibitions don't usually talk about. Student exhibition project as part of the Master's programme "Museum and Exhibition".

2013
What remains. Student exhibition project as part of the Master's programme "Museum and Exhibition".

2011
Studenteria. About people with a matriculation background. Student exhibition project as part of the Master's programme "Museum and Exhibition".

Own exhibition participations

2002
Clothes make politics. On the representation of the nation state and politics through clothing in Europe from the 18th to the 20th century. State Museum of Art and Cultural History Oldenburg, directed by Siegfried Müller (reform clothing, politicians' clothing Weimar and Federal Republic)

1994
Felt shoes: leg coverings in domestic life. Museum Villa Stahmer, Georgsmarienhütte. Concept, research and exhibition design together with shoe designer Michael Oehler (trippen) with the participation of a student working group

1987
Everyday objects - everyday objects.
Subject group Design Science [Pallowski, Heimann, Ellwanger, Pfennig]; Foyer of the Department of Design, Berlin University of the Arts

1977
University today. Counter-exhibition to the 750th anniversary of the University of Tübingen (exhibition design: Otl Aicher); contribution by the university women's group [Bura, Dosch, Ellwanger, Hütten, Keller et al.]

Doctoral programmes

Since 2013, participation in a graduate college at the University of Oldenburg (Helene Lange Programme): "Identity constructions of young adults in a post-socialist transformation society: the case of Belarus" (Spokesperson: Prof Dr Gun-Brit Kohler, Slavic Studies)

1996 Establishment of the doctoral degree programme "Cultural Gender Studies", since then spokesperson (together with Silke Wenk)

Current doctorates

• Bollmann, Sebastian: Assembled homeland(s). Patterns, modes of representation and aesthetic procedures of homelands in new homeland museums (project Neue Heimatmuseen)Herrmann, Dennis: Contested spaces: knowledge production at new homeland museums (project Neue Heimatmuseen)

• Huang, Yu-Chuan: What do I take with me? Comparative case study on object construction and mediation in museum shops in Taiwan and Germany

• Jäger, Lina K.: Fashion Victim? A comparative study of German and Indian fashion blogs.

• Kaptebileva-Frilling, Albena: The shape of the future. Clothing as an interface between body and technology in recent science fiction film.

• Krämer, Carolin: A picture of a museum: emblematic ideas of volunteers at small local history museums in Lower Saxony about the museum field and its actors (working title)

• Osterkamp, Maraike: Identity constructions of German and US-American local politicians

• Peschke, Johannes: Nature in the zoo: Representations of nature in contemporary German-speaking zoological gardens

• Reiter, Agnes: The clothed body as a site of negotiation of identity(ies) among young adults in Belarus (Helene-Lange-Kolleg)

• Schneider, Inga Sarah: The transformation of Chinese things

• Sesnawati, Yeni: A Cultural Analysis of Consumption Patterns of Indonesian 'Traditional' Dress in Jakarta

• Spanka, Lisa: Realisations of Gender and Nation in the Museum. A comparative study of the German Historical Museum and the Danish National Museum

• Vogt, Antje: Inventory formation processes at new local history museums (project Neue Heimatmuseen)

Completed doctorates

• Herrmann, Dennis(14 May 2018): Contested spaces: knowledge production at New Local History Museums (New Local History Museums project)

• Mallon, Stefanie (15 May 2017): The ordering of things. Regulation of a social practice

• Godau, Marion (12 July 2015): Formgebung - Gestaltung - Industrial Design. A contribution to the genealogy of "design" based on the "design discourse" in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1950s

• Susanne Schlechter (24/06/2016): The treatment of so-called 'life unworthy of life' during the resettlement of the Bessarabian Germans in September to November 1940 - searching for traces in the estate of a Nazi nurse

• Tietz, Lüder (22/09/2014): Homosexuality, cross-dressing, transgender: Heteronormativity-critical cultural-historical and ethnographic analyses

• Lösel, Regina (09.06.2011): "Clothing of movement"

• Diekamp, Kirstin (16 January 2008): "Dress life in Münster"

• Seipel, Julia (06.12.2007: "Female migrant narratives in film"

• Szodruch, Kerstin (29/05/2007): "Corporate Fashion"

• Helmers, Traute (28.09.2004): "Anonymous under a green lawn - a cultural studies study on new forms of burial and remembrance practices in cemeteries"

• Harlizius-Klück, Ellen (30.01.2004) "Weaving as episteme and the genesis of deductive mathematics - developed in four digressions from Plato's dialogue Politikos"

• Stegmann, Stefanie (14 May 2003): "Institution University - Habitus - Gender. A cultural-scientific study on the outfit of science"

• Schmidt, Bärbel (2000): "History and symbolism of striped concentration camp prisoner clothing"

BA Material Culture: Textile

• A guest in Oldenburg - Empirical study on forms of representation of "culture" in temporary spaces

• "THAT doesn't work !!??" - Expectations of young people's clothing behaviour in job application situations

• Archaeology in the living room. Analysing systems of order based on the collection of a disorderly collector

• Dressing a primal scene. Aspects of the feature film 'Exit' (NL 1997).

• Catalogue raisonné Silke Radenhausen. Objects, installations, texts

• Clothing fashion and modernity around 1970. A case study

• Cross-dressing in the feature film. Analysis of the film costume and its "identity" constructions using the example of "Victor/Victoria"

• Objectification of the inter/national? Forms of "typical national" objects using the example of an international youth movement

• Visual representation of sustainably oriented clothing using the example of two catalogues

• Headwear and the construction of meaning: top hat, peaked cap, "Islamic headscarf"

• Objectified messages from the past - interpretations of an object arrangement in the local history museum Neuenburg (Friesland)

• Local history museum 'Rauchkate' in Neuenburg (Friesland): Forms of presentation using the example of the roller-pulley loom.

• Views of Osnabrück and their medial traversals. On the exhibition of the photographer Georg Bosselmann in the Museum of Industrial Culture Osnabrück.

• Aspects of the representation of sustainability in the magazine 'Brigitte'

• "Reingetauscht". Dealing with second-hand clothing using the example of a clothes swap party

• "Alles was zählt" : Two marriage proposals and their outfits in a German daily soap opera

• 'Textiles Galery' versus 'Textilstraße'. A comparison of the presentation concepts of the permanent exhibitions of two industrial museums

• Behind the white colour - The FolkartNOW! exhibition and its coded rooms

• "Reingetauscht". Dealing with second-hand clothing using the example of a clothes swap party

• "Visual terrorism" as a critique of the Western body image. The veiling of Dolce & Gabbana's "Italy Swimmers"

• Clothing behaviour in the Lüneburg Heath in Wendland in the 19th century based on the Hanover Police Gazette

• The other side of the stars - the magazine "INTOUCH" as an example of channelled voyeurism

• The fifteen "bridal crowns" from the traditional costume collection of the Bomann Museum in Celle

• Advertising images of American Apparel. An analysis taking into account the advertising message and the image composition

• Eco-clothing and "conscious" consumption. Aspects of image change from a cultural studies perspective

• The Facebook page of the Goethe Institute (Munich): Representation of Germany in a virtual social network

• The Heidi myth in media and social change

• Takechuima - A German-Bolivian company: Production and distribution of "traditional" knitwear between social demands and current market requirements

• The fashion label Trikoto against the backdrop of current individualisation processes in clothing production and consumption

• Authentic street style? - A quantitative analysis of selected photos from the street style blog "The Sartorialist"

• All just a green show ? An investigation into the representation of ecological clothing at the Green Showroom and Premium trade fairs of Berlin Fashion Week in summer 2011

• Are rituals passed on? Case - Investigation of shopping rituals using the example of three generations of women from two families

• Representation of professional female politicians in German print media: Sahra Wagenknecht in "Der Spiegel" from 1994 to 2011

• The clothing history of East Frisia in the late 16th century - representation of clothing in the house book of Unico Manninga (1561) in various sources of the 19th + 20th century in writing and image

• Artists' studios: Disorder as a strategy of (self-)staging

• moebel.de - Investigations of an online portal

• Armouring the equipment - The uniform of the Berlin police during demonstrations

• Jane and her clothes: Gender constructions in the film 'G. I. Jane'

• Upcycling as a sustainable design strategy

• Analysing the exhibition Vodou - Art and Cult from Haiti (Übersee-Museum Bremen)

• The theatre fundus as vestimentary memory: A cultural-analytical investigation of the fundus in the Bremen Theatre

• Strick Graffiti - Investigating the subcultural capital of a current form of expression in public space

• The corporate culture of the fashion label Cleobella - An investigation against the background of the criteria of sustainable corporate behaviour

• BRAVO, (textile) handicraft is back! An analysis of do-it-yourself instructions in the youth magazine BRAVO

• The full beard - On the vestimentary representation of identity and ideology

• A UNICEF campaign against child labour. A visual analysis critical of representation

• Visual (re-)presentation of androgyny in the fashion magazine Vogue

• The current debate on the relationship between fashion and art

• Wellies and flower crowns - an exemplary analysis of dressing UP at current music festivals

• Lee Oliveira's street style blog - aspects of contemporary self-presentation outside the "inner fashion circle"

• Career woman and mother - Ursula von der Leyen as an example of the media portrayal of a female politician

• Pure Nature. Image and text analysis of an advertising campaign arguing with "nature"

• Presentation modes of clothing in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg - A critical exhibition analysis focussing on body and gender

• Clothing life and sustainability in Moscow. Analytical description of the clothing behaviour of a group of ten actresses with regard to ecological effects

• The art of seeing with the ears - An analysis of the audio tour of the special exhibition Neuland! at the Kunsthalle Emden

• "Mini" - an advertising poster for the fashion company "American Apparel"

• Speed Shopping - Shop till you drop. Observations at the point of sale of the textile discounter Primark

• Needs to be tidy? An analysis of selected "Messie" guides

• Empowerment processes in the production of the Vagina Monologues in Oldenburg: A qualitative-empirical study

• A hipster in Oldenburg - questioning the hipster debate from a local perspective

• Hip hop dancers and their approach to clothing: Storing and organising

MA Museum and Exhibition

• Death in the museum - between reverence and curiosity

• Armouries? Presentation of weapons and armour from the early modern period in the museum

• Collecting as knowledge. The collection of the German Hygiene Museum Dresden 1990 to 2010

• Distrusting the idyll. Analysing the installation "InnenLeben. House of Emotions" G. Wilpers/R. Galle Westphalian Open-Air Museum Detmold

• Digital heritage video art? The exhibition Record Again! as a question generator for exhibiting and depositing digital artefacts

• Trade Cards and the Emerging Consumer Society in 18th-Century Europe. Social Values and Practices with a Gender Perspective

• Democratising the Process - Museological Classification of Participatory Strategies in Museums

• "Three things in my life" - Contexts of an exhibition at the Museum Neukölln

• Dingley Hall "...typical and extraordinary at the same time!"

• Souvenirs from the Nile. The Egyptian objects in the Oldenburg State Museum of Art and Cultural History

• The other part of the collection. The display depot as an interface between museum preservation and exhibition

• The tension between imagination and reality - analysing the permanent exhibition "Oceania - Worlds of Life in the South Seas" at the Übersee-Museum Bremen

• Collection revision - taking stock of a basic museum task

• Absolutely exhibit? Status and significance of non-existent objects in exhibitions at memorial sites

• Service provider or actor? The contribution of cultural history museums to Germany's reappraisal of the Nazi era

• The path of the furniture - provenance research in the museum collection of decorative arts using the example of current provenance research at the Oldenburg State Museum of Art and Cultural History

• Charles, where did you get this dagger? The 'Völkerkundliches Museum Witzenhausen' - development of a post-colonial exhibition strategy

• Participation and ritual in the museum - when the haka is danced in the museum - A museum-theoretical and religious-scientific examination of the opening of the special exhibition "Maori. The first inhabitants of New Zealand" at the Linden-Museum Stuttgart

• Understanding - grasping - climbing through. On the production of body knowledge in children's museums

• Art education at the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art with regard to the Ethnological Museum Berlin. Examined using the example of the moderated tours

• Nature in the museum. The presentation of the Swabian Alb in the permanent exhibitions of the Natural History Museum Reutlingen and the Municipal Natural History Museum Göppingen

MA Cultural analyses

• The emergence of disorder

• Biros, water bottle, nail varnish. Inventories of student learning and working culture using the example of workplaces in selected university libraries

• Subject culture and educational views: A comparison of the degree programmes "Mechanical Engineering" and "Social Work"

• "In a dress without make-up" What does the specific cross-dressing of the character Klinger in the US television series M*A*S*H (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) from 1972-1983 represent?

• #Born This Way - Empowerment with Lady Gaga? Analysis of a media discourse

• Surf'n'Sexism. Media representation of female surfers in the Roxy Pro Biarritz 2013 teaser

• (Re-)constructions of femininity on the women's channel SIXX: A critical examination of representation in a post-feminist context

M.Ed. Textile Design

• "Lookism" as an object of textile education - didactic and methodological considerations

MA EMMIR

• Marginality as a choice? The phenomen of the mobility of travelling street musicians in Berlin or the dream of freedom

• Doctoral funding applications
• Various foundations
• Expert reviewer for the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (most recently in 2016)
• Comparative reviewer (most recently TU Darmstadt) and external member of various appointment procedures
• Reviewer in evaluation and accreditation procedures (ZeVA and AQAS) of university degree programmes (e.g. HU Berlin Cultural Studies; University of Paderborn Comparative Literature, Cultural Heritage; most recently University of Augsburg, History, Art, Culture)

• ICOM - The International Council of Museums
• German Society for Folklore
• Tübingen Association for Folklore
• Society for Historical Armoury and Costume Studies
• Member of the Federal Board of Trustees of the International Federation (IB), Frankfurt. Also member of the Board of Trustees of the "Gesellschaft für Internationale Studien" (GIS), Stuttgart