Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kirsten Rüther, M.A.
T: +43-1-4277-43213
Rüther, K., & Delius, P. (2024). Familie Winter-Wangemann. In M. Frank (Ed.), Mission: Reflexion.: 200 Jahre Berliner Mission (pp. 111-119). Wichern Verlag GmbH.

Rüther, K. (2024). Mission und Kolonialismus. In F. Gmainer-Pranzl, A. Heuser, K. Hock, C. Jahnel, A. Middelbeck-Varwick, & J. Gruber (Eds.), Handbuch Interkulturelle Theologie Springer Nature, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66324-0_52-1


Rüther, K. (2022). Spaces for Future: Akademischer Austausch über Stadt-Land-Beziehungen in Lusaka. Indaba. Das SADOCC-Magazin für das Südliche Afrika, 116, 20-23.

Rüther, K. (2021). Apartheid. Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Thüringen.

Rüther, K. (2021). Postscriptum: Getting to grips with "political biographies". In A. Angelo (Ed.), The Politics of Biography in Africa: Borders, Margins, and Alternative Histories of Power (pp. 209-214). Routledge, Taylor & Francis.

Rüther, K. (2021). Rezension: Lynn M. Thomas, Beneath the Surface. A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners. L'homme : Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft, 32(2), 144-147.

Rüther, K. (2021). Rezension: Sebastien-Manès Sprute, Weltzeit im Kolonialstaat. Historische Zeitschrift, 312, 551-553.



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

Rüther, K. (2020). The Rule of Rent: The State, Employers and the Becoming Urban Dweller in Northern Rhodesia Acting Across a Societal Field of Force, c. 1948-1962. In K. Rüther, M. Barker-Ciganikova, D. Waldburger, & C.-P. Bodenstein (Eds.), The Politics of Housing in (Post)colonial Africa: Accommodating Workers and Urban Residents (1 ed., pp. 31-65). de Gruyter Oldenbourg. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110601183-002

Rüther, K. (2019). Bierling, Stephan: Nelson Mandela .... eine Lektüre. Stichproben: Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien, 36, 151.


Rüther, K. (2019). Macht und Meer und Gott im frühneuzeitlichen West- und Westzentralafrika. In W. Behringer, E.-O. Mader, & J. Nipperdey (Eds.), Konversionen zum Katholizismus in der Frühen Neuzeit: Europäische und globale Perspektiven (pp. 267-280). LIT Verlag.

Rüther, K. (2018). Gibt's denn da was Neues? Kommentar zur neuen Missionsgeschichte. In L. Ratschiller, & K. Wetjen (Eds.), Verflochtene Mission: Perspektiven auf eine neue Missionsgeschichte (pp. 225-237). Böhlau: Wien / Köln /Weimar.

Rüther, K. (2018). Stadt und Strukturen des Mobilen im (post)kolonialen Afrika. In B. Schmidt-Lauber (Ed.), Andere Urbanitäten: Zur Pluralität des Städtischen (pp. 61-76). Böhlau: Wien / Köln /Weimar.




Radio Voice of the Gospel. Archivally Prompted Turns in Seeing its History

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

13 Nov 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Tapping into Emerging Global Publics in the 1960s: Putting to Use Radio Technology in the Programmes of Radio Voice of the Gospel

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

9 Jul 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Team: Photographs of the Roodepoort Radio Professionals - A Claim Towards Achievement?

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

2 Dec 20244 Dec 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Apartheid's Emptiness: The Norwegian Mission Society's Photographs of Land- and Cityscapes

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

22 May 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Fotos im Missionsarchiv

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

23 Nov 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Book Presentation - Comment on M. Schenck, Remembering African Labour Migration

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

17 Nov 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Potentials and Challenges for Future Interdisciplinary Mobility Studies Research: Panel Discussion

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

6 Oct 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Burial of Dennis the Goat

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

21 Sept 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Wer war Charlotte Maxeke

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

30 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Under construction. Towards a project on "Religion and Empire" in Missionary Photography

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

26 May 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Afrikawissenschaften - Ein guter Ausgangspunkt, um die Welt neu zu denken (wieder & wieder)

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

31 Mar 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Impuls - Südafrika und Simbabwe nach der Unabhängigkeit

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

2 Feb 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Pathways to Questions and Relations. If Photographs don't document - so what do they do?

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

30 Jan 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



Brauchen in sambischen Städten afrikanische Familien eine Anschrift mit Straße und Hausnummer? Biographien und Kolonialbürokratie im Widerstreit

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

20 Oct 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Keynote: Processes of Rural and Urban Transformation in Southern Africa

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

19 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Insights into African History and Society

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

14 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Gregory Maqoma - Broken Chord

Rüther, K. (Speaker) & Sibisi, T. (Speaker)

21 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Working with Photographs, Photographs Working - Issues of Positioning towards Photography

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

25 Oct 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Do Africans need an Address? The meaning of house numbers in late colonial Zambia

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

21 Oct 202122 Oct 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Afrika genauer betrachtet - Aussprache mit der Autorin

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

18 Jan 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


World Café on Mobility Studies

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

18 Dec 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Kunst, Kaffee und Kipferl mit Kirsten Rüther - on Robin Rhode's exhibition "Memory is the Weapon"

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

11 Oct 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


The ideology of minimum requirements, Or, Do African dwellers need an address?

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

5 Dec 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Miete und Kolonialherrschaft im kolonialen Zambia

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

22 Feb 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Moderation

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

6 Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Gesellschaften Afrikas im Fokus: Urbanisierung, Jugendbevölkerung, erhöhte Mobilität

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

18 Oct 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Afrika: Horizonte,Perspektiven, Dimensionen

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

15 Oct 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Comment: On the Loss of Connectivity

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

29 Jun 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Photographs as Sources for African History

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

15 Jun 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Verflechtung, Einbettung, Differenzierung: Der Beitrag der Afrikawissenschaften zu einer perspektiveíscnh aufgeschlossenen Globalgeschichte

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

11 Jun 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Of Burnt Crinolines, Revolutionary Miniskirts and Elegant kitende: Performaing Fashion, the Nation and the Self

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

7 May 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Fremdes, hilfsbedürftiges Afrika - Was hat das mit uns zu tun?

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

18 Apr 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Afrika heißt nicht nur Migration! Schärfere Sichten auf einen Kontinent, der sich aktuellen und historischen Umbrüchen stellt

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

8 Apr 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Jeanette's Story: A Family on the Faultlines of a Divided Society

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

23 Mar 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Südafrika - ein Streifzug durch Momente des Alltags, des Privaten und Persönlichen und gar Skurrilen

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

14 Mar 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Immer wieder neue Religion: Kirche und Alltag in Südafrika

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

28 Nov 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Im Besitz der Familiengeschichte

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

5 Oct 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


From the History of the Winter Family to Jeannette's Story

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

23 Feb 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Boomende Missionsgeschichte - Gibt's denn da was Neues?

Rüther, K. (Keynote speaker)

17 Jun 2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Pleasures, Burdens and Bereavement: Representations in Globalized African Biographies

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

10 Feb 2016

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Globalgeschichtliche Dimensionen afrikanischer Geschichte

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

5 Nov 2015

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Drifting through the city: Narratives of African Healing as an Outlook on a Wider World

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

13 May 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Was passiert mit Altkleidern?

Rüther, K. (Contributor)

16 Mar 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther



Connecting Cultures - Encounters and Discoveries: Africans Travelling Across the British Empire

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

18 Nov 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Mobilität: Zirkulationen, Wechselwirkungen und sozialräumliche Setzungen - ein Input aus der Geschichtsschreibung Afrikas

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

13 Nov 2014

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Hilfe auf Augenhöhe: Selbstentwicklung statt Almosen

Rüther, K. (Contributor)

11 Sept 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


20 Jahre Freiheit in Südafrika: Ein Erfahrungs-Bericht

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

26 May 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Planned Housing, Decent Homes and Urban Livelihoods - Preliminary Remarks on a Resarch Project in Preparation

Rüther, K. (Invited speaker)

15 Apr 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Fresh thoughts: Colonial History (Meets Systems Modelling)

Rüther, K. (Invited speaker)

20 Mar 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Zur Forschung in Südafrika: Beobachtungen und Begegnungen mit Menschen, Umbrüchen und Herausforderungen

Rüther, K. (Invited speaker)

14 Feb 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Lebensgeschichten - Globalgeschichten: Zur Perspektivierung großer Transformationen

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

18 Jan 2014

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Der Teufel in Afrika

Rüther, K. (Contributor)

28 Nov 2013

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An African Perspective on John Darwin's Keynote Address

Rüther, K. (Invited speaker)

29 Sept 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Verwandtschaft - AFrikanische Perspektiven

Rüther, K. (Invited speaker)

6 Jun 20138 Jun 2013

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Researching Family

Rüther, K. (Invited speaker)

10 Apr 201311 Apr 2013

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Migration and the City

Rüther, K. (Invited speaker)

8 Feb 201310 Feb 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Afrikanische Konvertitinnen im 19. Jahrhundert: Familien und Verwandtschaftsdynamiken im Transvaal und im Zulureich.

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

16 Nov 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Europa im späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert: Afrikaner in Großbritannien und Deutschland.

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

26 Sept 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Zum Fachgebiet 'Globale Interaktion' im Rahmen der Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit, 2004-2012.

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

26 Sept 2012

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Family Politics and Diplomacy between the Berlin Mission and the Pedi, 1880-c. 1960.

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

20 Mar 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Biographies Related but Fractured The Winter Family of South Africa.

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

16 Feb 2012

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The King, the Missionary and the Missionary’s Daughter.

Rüther, K. (Speaker)

14 Feb 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


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