[2][1] Schober completed a number of international research stays for example at the Center for Theoretical Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Essex, Colchester (2000-2003) and at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht (2003).
[5] In 2011 she took over a Mercator Visiting Professorship at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Giessen, where she also worked as a deputy professor and head of a DFG research project until 2016.
[7] In her postdoctoral habilitation, Schober explores the invention of an avant-garde and neo-avant-garde tradition in Western and Southeastern Europe, connected with a history of protest movements in the 20th and 21st centuries.
The goal was to create a critical genealogy of these practices in order to re-evaluate aesthetic intervention into the public sphere, emphasizing the incalculability of these endeavors and their contingent participation on the constitution of aesthetic-political hegemonies.
Drawing on a corpus of interviews with cinema activists, Schober compares the activities and artistic productions they staged in urban environments in Germany, Austria, and the former Yugoslavia.