Guest Lectures and Panel Discussions

3. März 2026: Guest Lecture, "Widerstand gegen Gleichstellung: Wie Sport Frauen als Mängelwesen konstruiert und patriarchale Macht sichert", im Women’s Chapter der Universität Zürich Alumni.

17. November 2025: Guest Teaching, "Das Frauenkunstturnen in der Schweiz erforschen und erzählen: Historische Quellen in Text, Bild und Ton" im Seminar "Ab ins Museum: Sport und populäre Kulturen im digitalen Zeitalter", PD Dr. Michael Jucker, Universität Luzern.

21. Oktober 2025: Panel Discussion, "Disziplin und Differenz: Zur historischen Konstruktion von Gender im Sport", HS-Alumnae:i Vereinigung der Universität Zürich.

14. Juli 2025: Guest Lecture, "Choreographing Femininity: Performativity, Binarity and the Feminized Body in Swiss Women’s Artistic Gymnastics (1949-1985)", Forschungsgruppe am Institut für Soziologie und Gender Studies, Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln, geleitet von Prof. Dr. Astrid Schubring.

Newest Publication

Schüpbach, Yvonne. “Abstract: Perfekte Performanz. Geschlechter- und körperhistorische Perspektiven auf das Frauenkunstturnen in der Schweiz (1949–1985).” Historisches Institut der Universität Bern, 2025.

Schüpbach, Yvonne: Negotiating the Space between East and West: Sport and Gender Politics in Swiss Women’s Artistic Gymnastics in the Cold War Era, in: The International Journal of the History of Sport 41 (8), 08.2024, S. 760-778.

In Preparation

Schüpbach, Yvonne: Fremdplatzierung von "bedürftigen Kindern". Die Stadtberner Gotthelfstiftung 1887-1918 in der mixed economy of welfare der Schweiz in: Familiäre Fürsorge aushandeln. Private und staatliche Akteur:innen in der Pflegekinderbetreuung im Kanton Bern (1890-2020), Publikation im NFP 76 "Fürsorge und Zwang" im Projekt Amacker. Publikation im Chronos Verlag.

Schüpbach, Yvonne; Steuerwald, Noemi: Intervention in die Schweizer Sportgeschichte, in: traverse 1/2026, Wer Macht Geschichte? Intersektionale Perspektiven, hsrg. von Matthieu Gillabert, Anja Rathmann-Lutz, Isabelle Schürch, Rike Szill. 

Schüpbach, Yvonne: Violent methods of the East? Problematizing the externalization of gender- based violence in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics in Switzerland during the Cold War, in: How the Cold War Transformed International Sport, hrsg. Von Julien Beaufils, Sylvain Dufraisse, Claire Nicolas. Publikation im De Gruyter Verlag, (RERIS Studies in International Sport Relations).

Cooperation with wider Society

2. October 2025: Invited Collaborator/Speaker; for the workshop “Equity, Power and Inclusion: Peace and Security for Who?”, Geneva Center for Security Policy. 

Vergangene Lehrveranstaltungen

2025 Associated Researcher at the Institute of History, University of Bern
03.2025-06.2025 Scientific Researcher, Institute of History, University of Bern
2025 Doctorate at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Bern
01.2021-02.2025 PhD student at the Institute of History, Graduate School Gender Studies, University of Bern (SNSF Doc.CH doctoral project)
08.2022-01.2023 Visiting scholar at the University of Örebro in Sweden (SNSF mobility grant)
2019-2021 Project collaborator and co-author in the project ‘Hindelbank the castle, the institution, the village
2020 Academic archive intern at the State Archives of Aargau in Aarau
2017-2020 Master’s degree in History and Gender Studies at the University of Bern
2017-2018 Student assistant (Institute of German Linguistics and Literature and Jeremias Gotthelf Research Centre)
2014-2017 Bachelor’s degree in History and German Linguistics and Literature
  • Body history
  • Women's and gender history
  • Cultural and social history
  • Sport and gender
  • History of the women's/feminist movements
  • History of poverty and the welfare state
  • History of ageing and health
  • History of the Cold War
Publication Year Type
2025 Mobility Grant from the European Workshops on International Studies Mobility Fund
2022 Early-Career Researchers Presentation Award, 14th conference of the Transnational Working Group for the Study of Gender and Sport, Nord University (Norway)
08.2022-01.2023 Mobility grant, Swiss National Science Foundation
03.2022-02.2025 Doc.CH scholarship, Swiss National Science Foundation
2021 Start-up funding of the Institute of History at the University of Bern

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