Department of African Studies: an introduction

Birgit Englert provides an interesting insight into the African Studies at the University of Vienna. She talks about the core areas of the Study Programme, about African languages and about job perspectives.

The student representatives Nadine Okalanwa and Lisa Tackie talk about why they decided to study African Studies and they explain their tasks as student representatives (STV).

 

 

Rémi A. Tchokothe presents his research activities and explains how his work is done. He shares his thoughts on basic questions, like why and how he does his research and what the work he's doing has got to do with reality out there.

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30.06.2025 10:00
 

Workshop: Afrikaforschung in Österreich. Herausforderungen und Möglichkeiten

18.–19. September 2025

Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Graz

Merangasse 70 ("Wallgebäude"), A-8010 Graz

01.04.2025
 

It is now out there: in open access thanks to the funding of the FWF and as a result from the FWF project “Employment-tied housing in (post)colonial...

12.03.2025
 

It is with deep sadness that we bid farewell to our colleague and friend Norbert Cyffer, who passed away unexpectedly on March 12, 2025. For more than...

01.12.2023 13:00
 

Lecture by Carl Bodenstein, "Infrastructuring Urban Futures", Universiteit Twente, Enschede/ Niederlande

Freitag, 1. Dezember 2023, 13 Uhr

Institut...

07.03.2023
 

Announcement: University Assistant (post doc) at the Department of African Studies

The University of Vienna (20 faculties and centres, 184 fields of study, approx. 10.400 members of staff, about 90.000 students) seeks to fill the...

20.09.2022
 

Recently Published Special Issue

I'd like to draw your attention to this recently published special issue on "African Cultural Imaginaries and (Post-)Development Thought" (ed. Martina...

 African Studies

African Studies as an area study programme focuses on teaching and research of the history, language and literatures of African societies.

Students acquire fundamental knowledge about African societies and about their global interconnectedness through various periods of time. We emphasize the link between academic training and the implementation of acquired knowledge into fields of practice.

Academic degrees to be attained: Bachelor of Arts (BA), Master of Arts (MA) and doctorate (PhD).