4-5 April 2019

International Workshop Diasporic Imaginaries. Multiple Senses of Belonging, organized in cooperation with Lena Bader and Mona Schieren, Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, Paris

26 November 2018

Panel discussion Passageways of Photography. Figurations of the Particular in the Portraiture of Chinese-African Encounters, organized in cooperation with Michaela Pelican and Daniel Traub, Morphomata, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Cologne

8-9 April 2016

AAH Annual Conference, Panel Localising Critical Studies. Decolonial perspectives on the return of the ‘indigenous’ in art history, textile and fashion studies, organized in cooperation with Elke Gaugele, University of Edinburgh

8-9 May 2015

International Conference Digital Abstraction at the Interface between Electronic Media Arts and Data Visualization, organized in collaboration with Isabel Wünsche, Jacobs University Bremen

8-10 December 2014

International Conference Transcultural Trajectories of Art History: Legacies of Modernity and Global Entangelements, organized in cooperation with Monica Juneja, Excellence Cluster “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, University of Heidelberg

28 November 2014

Workshop Kunsttopographien globaler Migration. Orte und Räume transitorischer Kunsterfahrung, organized in cooperation with Mona Schieren, University of Arts, Bremen, Jacobs University Bremen

22 November 2013

Workshop Kunsttheorie und Kunstpraxis im Zeichen globaler Migration, organized in cooperation with Burcu Dogramaci, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilian University (LMU), Munich

5-6 June 2012

International Conference Global Integration and Cultural Diversity. Humanities at the Threshold of Modernization and Globalization, organized in collaboration with Hans G. Kippenberg, Humanities Research Centre HMG (Humanities, Modernity, Globalization), Jacobs University, Bremen

13-15 August 2009

nternational Symposium The Lives of Form. Abstract Art and Nature, organized in collaboration with Isabel Wünsche and Paul Crowther, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jacobs University, Bremen

15-16 May 2008

Roundtable Un/sichtbare Botschafen, organized in collaboration with Antonio Loprieno and Carsten Knigge, NCCR »Iconic Criticism«, University of Basel, Switzerland

2007-2008

Workshop Series Trans-Skriptionen. Das Ikonische in Geheim- und Universalschriften, organized in collaboration with Antonio Loprieno and Carsten Knigge, NCCR »Iconic Criticism«, University of Basel, Switzerland

15-17 May 2007

Conference Mediologie als transdisziplinäre Methode, organized in collaboration with Thomas Weber, Institute for Media Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin

3-5 May 2007

Conference Bildprozesse. Imagination und das Imaginäre zwischen Kultur- und Naturwissenschaft, organized in collaboration with Christiane Kruse, HfG/ZKM Karlsruhe

22-23 February 2007

Roundtable Keine Schrift ohne Bild?, organized in collaboration with Antonio Loprieno and Carsten Knigge, NCCR »Iconic Criticism«, University of Basel, Switzerland

2006-2007

Workshop Series bild macht schrift. Schriftkulturen in bildkritischer Perspektive, organized in collaboration with Antonio Loprieno and Carsten Knigge, NCCR »Iconic Criticism«, University of Basel, Switzerland

27-28 October 2006

International Conference Movens Bild. Zwischen Evidenz und Affekt, organized in collaboration with Gottfried Boehm and Christian Spies, 1st Annual Conference of the NCCR »Iconic Criticism«, Schaulager Basel

27-28 February 2004

International Symposium Transmission Image, Cooperation Project between the DFG-funded Research Training Group »Image, Body, Medium. Anthropological Perspectives« at the HfG Karlsruhe and the House of World Cultures in Berlin

25-26 April 2003

Workshop Gender und Bildmedien, organized in collaboration with Elke Gaugele, Institute for Art Studies and Media Theory, HfG Karlsruhe

25-31 March 2001

Symposium Cross Culture. Transnationale deutschsprachige Literatur, Seoul National University and Goethe Institute Seoul, South Korea

22-29 October1999

Symposium and Exhibition Experimentelle Poesie, Seoul National University and Goethe Institute Seoul, South Korea

Prof. Dr. Birgit Mersmann

Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History

University of Duisburg-Essen
Faculty of Humanities
Institute of Art and Art Studies
Universitätsstr. 12, 45141 Essen

Office: R12 R02 A45
Phone: +49.201.183 3341
E-Mail: birgit.mersmann[at]uni-due.de

Office hours: Fr. 12.00 - 13.00 Uhr