Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Birgit Englert, Privatdoz.
Birgit Englert

Consultation hours: By appointment, please contact me in person or by email at birgit.englert@univie.ac.at
(the meeting can also be held via Zoom)

Winter term 2024
143127 VO Resistance and protest in the 20th and 21st century - Case studies from Africa and diasporic contexts
143330 SE "Black Lives Matter" / "Palestinian Lives Matter" - Black - Palestinian Solidarities in Past and Present
Summer term 2024
420002 SE "aus-ein-an-der-setzen" - Current German-language debates on cultures of remembrance in a global perspective
Winter term 2023
141086 KU Debates on Cultures of Memory - Focus on Den Schmerz der Anderen Begreifen (2022) by Charlotte Wiedemann


Englert, B. (2023). Schwarz-Palästinensische Solidaritätsreisen im Kontext deutschsprachiger Debatten. In W. Benz (Ed.), Erinnerungsverbot? Die Ausstellung "Al Nakba" im Visier der Gegenaufklärung (pp. 114-127). Metropol Verlag.



Englert, B. (2022). Zurück zum Ausgangspunkt: verdrängte Solidaritäten zwischen afrikanischen und palästinensischen Akteuren. In M. Böckmann, M. Gockel, R. Kößler, & H. Melber (Eds.), Jenseits von Mbembe – Geschichte, Erinnerung, Solidarität (pp. 225-243). Metropol Verlag.

Englert, B. (2021). Exploring borderlines of power in and through the auto/biographies by Ronnie Kasrils. In A. Angelo (Ed.), The Politics of Biography in Africa. Borders, Margins and Alternative Histories of Power (pp. 118-135). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003133452




Englert, B. (2020). Moving beyond HipHop: Tracing Mobilities in the Work of Franco-Comorian artists Soprano and Ahamada Smis. In A. Ganser-Blumenau, & A. Pelz (Eds.), Mobile Kulturen und Gesellschaften – Mobile Cultures and Societies (pp. 127-143). V&R unipress, Vienna University Press.



Dannecker, P., Englert, B., Ganser-Blumenau, A., Hasenöhrl, S., Kabelik, R., Maly-Bowie, B., Metschl, V., Pelz, A., Rüther, K., & Sauer, B. (2020). Kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Mobilitätsstudien konzeptualisieren. In A. Ganser, & A. Pelz (Eds.), Mobile Kulturen und Gesellschaften/Mobile Cultures and Societies (pp. 9-56). V&R unipress, Vienna University Press. https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737012089.9





Vlasta, S., & Englert, B. (Eds.) (2020). Travel writing – on the interplay between text and the visual. Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal


"Zeugenaussage" beim "Wiener Prozess" von Milo Rau, 3. Teil "Die Heuchelei der Gutmeinenden", Fall 3 (Wiener Festwochen)

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

16 Jun 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Statement beim Hearing im "Haus der Republik": Solidarität vs. Cancel Culture (Wiener Festwochen)

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

4 Jun 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


„Über die Verdrängung palästinasolidarischer Positionen im deutschsprachigen Raum – eine afrikawissenschaftliche Perspektive“

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

22 Feb 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Erinnerungen an geheime Solidaritätspraktiken im Kampf gegen die Apartheid in Südafrika (1960er bis 1990er Jahre)

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

22 Sep 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Bridging African Studies and Mobility Studies: From Popular Music to Travel Writing

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

5 May 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Einheit zu Rassismus bei STEOP Geschichtswissenschaften

Lisa Tackie (Speaker), Melanie Kandlbauer (Speaker) & Birgit Englert (Speaker)

3 May 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


ADOE meets IAS - Brücken zwischen dem Institut für Afrikawissenschaften und der Afrikanischen Diaspora

Lisa Tackie (Speaker), Rémi Armand Tchokothe (Speaker), Safira Robens (Speaker), Birgit Englert (Speaker), Birgit Athumani Hango (Speaker) & Shona Khumalo (Speaker)

24 Mar 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Vorlesungsreihe – Gesellschaft und Staatlichkeit in Afrika: Gesellschaftlicher Wandel

Daniela Waldburger (Speaker) & Birgit Englert (Speaker)

20 Mar 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Einheit zu Rassismus bei STEOP Geschichtswissenschaften

Lisa Tackie (Speaker) & Birgit Englert (Speaker)

30 Nov 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



Die „Mbembe-Debatte“ im Kontext - Verdrängte Solidaritäten zwischen afrikanischen und palästinensischen Akteuren

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

18 Jan 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


How feminist South-South solidarities challenge discourses on decolonisation: The example of Black-Palestinian Solidarities

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

13 Jan 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Einheit zu Rassismus bei STEOP Geschichtswissenschaften

Lisa Tackie (Speaker) & Birgit Englert (Speaker)

17 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Reflections on the interplay between text and the visual: focus on sketching in travel writing

Birgit Englert (Speaker), Sandra Vlasta (Speaker), Manuel Joao Ramos (Speaker), Flo Kasearu (Speaker) & Sara Bédard-Goulet (Speaker)

15 Jun 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Mobilitäten und populärkulturelle Praktiken - Beispiele aus einem franko-komorischen Kontext in Marseille

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

10 Jun 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Afrikabilder in deutschsprachigen Reiseberichten der 2010er Jahre

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

28 May 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Roundtable "Afrikaforschung in Österreich: Zugänge und Perspektiven"

Birgit Englert (Invited speaker)

28 May 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Bridging African Studies and Mobility Studies - Attempts from HipHop to Travel Writing

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

12 Apr 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



Der dynamische Kontinent: afrikanische Sprachen, Literaturen, Geschichte und Gesellschaften studieren

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

4 Mar 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Laudatio Hauptpreis

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

10 Dec 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Connecting African studies and mobility studies: theoretical considerations and empirical insights (Panel)

Birgit Englert (Speaker) & Immanuel Harisch (Speaker)

12 Jun 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Going the extra-step: getting beyond rigid processes in order to bridge the gap

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

12 Jun 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Podiumsgespräch "World Music"

Birgit Englert (Invited speaker)

6 Dec 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


“Africanizing Mobility Studies – Mobilising African Studies: bringing two transdisciplinary fields into closer dialogue”

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

22 Sep 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Social media platforms as archives in African Studies.

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

3 Jul 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



MARSEILLE. Tradition. Transformation. Differenz

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

8 Jun 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Musik in Bewegung – Beispiele aus Afrika und seiner Diaspora

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

23 May 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Approaches to research on/in Africa

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

19 Apr 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Neue Kolonisierung oder Wachstumschance? Zum globalen "Landgrabbing" - Diskussionsbeiträge

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

22 Jan 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Introductory Talk: reflections on transdisciplinary research

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

14 Dec 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Africanizing Mobility Studies - Mobilising African Studies

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

10 Nov 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Landnahmen in historischer und globaler Perspektive mit einem Fokus auf Genderaspekte

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

23 Oct 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Popular culture practices in a Tanzanian secondary city and small towns

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

29 Jun 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Weltmusik – kritische Überlegungen zur Kooptierung diasporisch geprägter Musikrichtungen und kultureller Praktiken im westlichen Mainstream

Birgit Englert (Speaker), Hanna Stepanik (Speaker) & Katharina Fritsch (Speaker)

22 Jun 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Revisiting film translation into Swahili in Tanzania

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

24 May 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Mobilität, Diaspora, Translokalität - Gedanken zu verschiedenen Ausprägungen von Mobilität anhand populärkultureller Praktiken

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

16 May 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Working with YouTube as an Archive in an African Studies Context

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

26 Apr 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Neue Blicke auf das Filmübersetzungsbusiness in Tanzania

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

4 Apr 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Land Rights and Gender in Eastern Africa

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

15 Mar 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public



Reflections on using YouTube as an archive from an African Studies perspective

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

17 Nov 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Film as a Research Medium in African Studies

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

27 May 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Popular Culture in Translocal Spaces

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

23 May 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Dimensionen des Mobilen im franko-komorischen HipHop in Marseille

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

12 Dec 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther



Mobile Praktiken

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

29 May 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther



"Forschen mit der Kamera im postkolonialen Kontext. Afrikanische Diaspora im Fokus"

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

19 Mar 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther



Swahilité in the Franco-Comorian Diaspora

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

11 Jun 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Creating Comoria – popular music in translocal spaces

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

25 Apr 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Populärkultur in transnationalen Kontexten

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

18 Jan 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Neue Stimmen, neue Räume: Filmübersetzung in Tansania als transnationales Phänomen.

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

12 Dec 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Creating Comoria - Populäre Kultur und die Schaffung translokaler Identitäten in der komorischen Diaspora in Marseille.

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

7 Dec 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Mixing it up! Choices and Strategies of Tanzania’s 'Maandagraundi wa Bongo Flava'.

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

5 Jun 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Identities in postcolonial transnational spaces - Swahilité in the Comorian Diaspora in France.

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

19 May 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Die junge Generation als politischer Akteur im Afrika des 20. Jahrhundert.

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

5 Dec 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Kulturelle Phänomene im transnationalen Raum.

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

8 Jun 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Landnahmen in historischer Perspektive. Von Landreformen bis Landgrabbing.

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

31 May 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Securing Land Rights for Women - Changing Customary Land Tenure and Implementing Land Tenure Reform in Eastern Africa.

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

19 Sep 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


A Spatial Perspective on the practice of film translations into Swahili in Tanzania.

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

15 May 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Swahili Identity in the Comorian Diaspora in France.

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

14 May 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


New Technologies and New Demands: Foreign Language Film Translations in Tanzania.

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

10 Apr 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Traduire Hollywood et Bollywood en Tanzanie.

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

9 Dec 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Youth Identities in Bongo Flava Lyrics - methodological reflections.

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

18 Sep 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Youth culture and politics in Senegal and Tanzania - a comparative perspective.

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

5 Jun 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther



La musique populaire et l'identité des jeunes en Tanzanie.

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

12 May 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


La traduction des films étrangers en Swahili - un phénomène local en Tanzanie.

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

12 May 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Jugend und populäre Kultur - Reflexionen zum Thema und Beispiel aus Südtanzania.

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

25 Mar 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Land Rights and Gender in Eastern Africa.

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

29 Jan 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Gender und Landrechte im internationalen Vergleich. Schwerpunkt Ostafrika.

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

20 Jan 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Jugendkultur in Tanzania: Künstlerische Ausdrucksformen mit Bezug auf soziale und wirtschaftliche Verhältnisse des Landes

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

8 Jan 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther



Women's Land Rights and Privatization in Eastern Africa

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

4 Dec 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Le Bongo Flava. Musique populaire des jeunes en Tanzanie

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

4 Nov 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Politik - Jugendkultur - Rap

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

3 Oct 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Bongo Flava. Jugendkultur aus Tanzania.

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

13 Jul 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Jugendkultur, Sprache und Identität in Tanzania

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

1 Jul 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Süd-Süd Kooperation: das Beispiel SADC

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

16 Jun 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Dokumente zur Zeitgeschichte

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

4 Jun 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Oral History, Feldforschung und lebensgeschichtliche Interviews

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

30 Apr 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Jugendkultur in Tanzania

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

17 Apr 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Zwischen Rhodes und Mandela. Imperialismus und Siedlerkolonialismus im Südlichen Afrika

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

15 Mar 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


The maandagraundi of Bongo Flava - language, identity and politics

Birgit Englert (Selected presenter)

18 Oct 2007

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Language Choices in Tanzanian youth culture

Birgit Englert (Selected presenter)

25 Jul 2007

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Bongo Flava - language, identity and politics in Tanzanian youth culture

Birgit Englert (Selected presenter)

11 Jul 2007

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Zimbabwe. Politische Unabhängigkeit und Bodenreform

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

20 Jun 2007

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Süd-Süd Kooperation: das Beispiel SADC

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

11 Jun 2007

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


The maandagraundi of Bongo Flava - Language Choices and the Wish to Educate

Birgit Englert (Selected presenter)

19 May 2007

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Youth and Gender in Africa

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

2007

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Enseignement du Swahili à L'Université de Londres et à L'Université de Vienne

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

23 Nov 2006

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Quelques reflexions sur la culture des jeunes en Tanzanie

Birgit Englert (Invited speaker)

22 Nov 2006

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Cultural and Political Expressions of Youth at the Margin.

Birgit Englert (Invited speaker)

13 Sep 2006

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Süd-Süd Kooperation: das Beispiel SADC

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

12 Jun 2006

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Landrechte und Gender in Afrika im Kontext der Privatisierung

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

4 Apr 2006

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Continuity and Change in Land Tenure Practices - a case study of the peri-urban areas of Morogoro town, Tanzania

Birgit Englert (Selected presenter)

22 Mar 2006

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Landrechte und Gender

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

12 Dec 2005

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Land tenure security in a changing environment - a case study of the Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania

Birgit Englert (Selected presenter)

19 Nov 2005

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Poverty alleviation and the politics of redistributive land reform in Southern Africa

Birgit Englert (Invited speaker)

14 Oct 2005

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Süd-Süd Kooperation: das Beispiel SADC

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

12 Jun 2005

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Süd-Süd Kooperation: das Beispiel SADC

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

6 Jun 2005

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Ist Globalisierung nur ein anderer Name für Imperialismus? Armut und Wirtschaft in Afrika aus historischer Perspektive.

Birgit Englert (Invited speaker)

31 Mar 2005

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Bongo Flava – HipHop made in Tanzania

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

8 Oct 2004

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Voices in the text: Presenting Tanzanian peasants' view on land tenure

Birgit Englert (Selected presenter)

11 Jun 2004

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Süd-Süd Kooperation: das Beispiel SADC

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

7 Jun 2004

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Qualitative Methoden in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Afrikaforschung – Erfahrungen zwischen Forschung und Lehre.

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

2 May 20045 May 2004

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


HipHop in Tanzania

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

13 Oct 2003

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Süd-Süd Kooperation: das Beispiel SADC

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

2 Jun 2003

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Bongo Flava. HipHop from Tanzania

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

2003

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Landreform in Zimbabwe

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

21 Jun 2002

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Database-Project Swahili – How it works

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

2002

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Reforming the Land Sector – the End of the Privatisation Paradigm?

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

2002

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Database-Project Swahili – Theoretical Considerations

Birgit Englert (Speaker)

2001

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Department of African Studies

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birgit.englert@univie.ac.at