Activities
Activities
Selected conferences & Lectures
15–19 April 2026: Conference Paper, Provisional Permissions: The Cane, the Corset, and Crip Reconfigurations of Space, at the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) 79th Annual International Conference, Mexico City.
22–24 November 2025: Conference Presentation, Misfitting Environments: Reframing Access Through Spatial Friction, within the stream Environments of Disability, at the conference Conceptualising Environment(s): Continuity and Change, AHRA 22nd Annual International Conference, University of Liverpool.
7 November 2025: Conference Paper, Disability as a Blueprint for Sustainable Transition in Art and Luxury, within the conference Art, Luxury, and Sustainability: Markets in Transition, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London.
10 July 2025: Paper Presentation, Becoming Wings: Deviance, Agency, and the Art of Misfitting in Sarah Biffin and Lorenza Böttner, within the symposium Deviant Women: Women and the Visual Arts, organized by Helena Anderson and Valéria Fülöp-Pochon on behalf of the Women and the Visual Arts Research Cluster, University of Bristol.
13 September 2024: Paper Presentation, (Re)-Evaluating Artistic Norms and Temporalities: Feminist and Disability Perspectives in Contemporary Practice, at the conference Re-Evaluation in Feminism(s) and Contemporary Art, organized by Katy Deepwell and Alexandra Kokoli, Middlesex University, London.
30 November 2023: Invited Lecture, Anthills and Archives: Womanifesto Roots Down, with Varsha Nair, HSLU Lucerne.
29 November 2023: Invited Lecture, Misfitting: Functional Diversity in Art History, with Laura Valterio and Charlotte Matter, as part of the Critical Disability Studies series, organized by the Equalities Committee, Faculty of Humanities, University of Bern.
24–25 October 2023: Paper Presentation, Exile and Kinship: The Making of Diasporic Lines in the Works of Eva Hesse and Gego, at the conference Understanding Displacement in Visual Art and Cultural History: 1945 to Now, University of Manchester and Manchester Art Gallery.
28–29 September 2023: Co-Presenter, On the Use, Reuse, and Misuse of Medical Materials in Art: A Conversation with Vincent Barras and Jillian Crochet, workshop Biomedical Visions: Aesthetics, Epistemology, and Medical Practice, with Laura Valterio and Charlotte Matter, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
18 January 2023: Invited Lecture, Learning from Disability in Art History, with Charlotte Matter and Laura Valterio, Swiss Disability Network, organized by Brian McGowan, University of Zurich.
8 December 2022: Invited Lecture, Learning from Disability in Art History, with Laura Valterio and Charlotte Matter, lecture series Kunstgeschichte/n verlernen, umlernen, neulernen, Bauhaus University Weimar (online).
14–17 November 2022: Paper Presentation, Hitting Home: Representations of the Domestic Milieu in Feminist Art, at the conference Representations of the Domestic Milieu in Feminist Art, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture, University of Johannesburg.
Selected organized events
18-21 February 2026: Co-Organizer of the Session “Uncertain Access: Art, Design, and Technology,” College Art Association (CAA) 114th Annual Conference, Chicago. With Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Georgina Kleege, and David Serlin.
21 March 2025: Co-Organizer of the Workshop “CripTech Creativity: Rethinking Access through Art and Technology,” with the Lise Meitner Group “Coded Objects,” Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz - Max Planck, Florence.
25–26 November 2024: Co-Organizer. Workshop "Sensorial Encounters: Haptic and Non-Visual Access in Art," Bibliotheca Hertziana. With Tobias Teutenberg (Bibliotheca Hertziana), Charlotte Matter, and Laura Valterio (University of Zurich).
23 January 2024: Co-organizer. "Symposium Creative Access and Digital Innovation," Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, ARCHiVe Online Academy 2023–2024, as part of the PNRR–PEBA project.
18 November 2023: Co-organizer. Symposium "The Politics of (Self-) Care: A Symposium on Disability Justice and Collective Action as Self-Care," Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich. With Michael Birchall, Charlotte Matter, and Laura Valterio.
19–20 May 2022: Co-organizer. "Symposium In Light of Crisis: The Fraught Significations of Contemporary Biennials," University of Zurich. With Julie Ren, Charlotte Matter, Ifigenia Dimitrakou, and Rosa Sancarlo.