In April 2025, five students from the University of Vienna were invited to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, to give a presentation on “The 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda – Literature as a Means of Documenting the Stages of Genocide”. Read More
The Vienna African Writers Club (VAW), founded by Prof. Adams Bodomo, hosted another Poetry Slam evening at the Department of African Studies on 10 April, 2025. Read More
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 Africa” (PI: Prof. Kirsten Rüther). Read More
We were delighted to welcome the integration kindergarten group from Schönbrunner Straße on February 13th. Read more
Wir freuen uns, dass das 3-teilige Event unseres FWF-Projekts „Rastafari reasonings on Africa in historical perspective” (P 35987) zum ersten Staatsbesuch in der Zweiten Republik am 28. und 29. November 2024 sehr erfolgreich über die Bühne gegangen ist. Weiterlesen
Erasmus macht’s möglich. Im September 2024 hatte Kirsten Rüther Gelegenheit, knappe zwei Wochen an der Universität Coimbra zu verbringen. Weiterlesen
Kirsten Rüther in the archives of the Lutheran World Federation (Geneva)
In August 2024, Kirsten Rüther was able to visit the archives of the Lutheran World Federation in Geneva. There are records of an ecumenical radio project... Read more
During the second week of the Easter holidays, Daniela Waldburger visited the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)... Read more
Vom 26.-29.11.2024 habe ich an der Konferenz "Intersectionality in Discourse, Literatures, and Cultural Studies" an der Universität von Kairouan, Tunesien, teilgenommen. Die Forscher:innen aus Algerien, Türkei, Uruguay, Finnland, Großbritannien und Österreich... Mehr lesen
Since 2016, Rémi Tchokothe has been invited yearly as a visiting lecturer at the Université de Mayotte, Comoros Archipelago... Read more
for his dissertation on the African trade union movement in the global cold war. Read more
May 2024 – this is an important moment in South Africa's past and present. It looks more than likely that this moment... Read more
Visit the Student’s Exhibition in Commemoration of the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda (1994)
To commemorate the 1 million people who fell victim to the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994, eight students created an exhibition... Read more
As a Creative Fellow, postdoctoral researcher Elisabeth Knittelfelder was part of the research project Reimagining Tragedy from Africa and the Global South (ReTAGS)... Weiterlesen
From February 8th to February 17th, Rémi Tchokothe visited the University of Sousse. At the Centre d’Anthropologie/African Studies, he gave a public talk... Read more
„Immer, wenn in Afrika ein Alter stirbt, stirbt eine ganze Bibliothek.“ Die Tullner Vorlesungen, die im Jahr 2024 auf Initiative des Campus Tulln Technopol begründet und in Kooperation mit der Stadtgemeinde Tulln an der Donau ausgerichtet werden, eröffneten... Weiterlesen
„Wusstest du, dass Fußball in China erfunden wurde? Wusstest du, dass im Jahr 2021 laut BBC 50 der 100 einflussreichsten Frauen der Welt aus Afghanistan kamen? Weiterlesen
The Vienna African Writers Club (VAW) proudly supported the book launch of Laurène Southe’s debut poetry collection with the title Child of Congo. The book launch took place at Galerie Zippenfenig on 27 February 2025 and was sponsored by the Caritas Project Mutfluencer. Read more
Before the evening screening of ‘La Noire de...’, the famous classic of African cinema, in which colonialism and racism - captured on black and white film - are treated in an incorruptibly differentiated way, Arno Sonderegger (Institute of African Studies) gave a lecture on Tuesday, 11 March 2025... Read more (German)
After participating in the fourth edition of the transcontinental literary festival Weltwortreisende in Graz (festival Weltwortreisende ; curator: Fiston Mwanza Mujila), Mohamed Mbougar Sarr came to Vienna on October 19th following an invitation by the Institut Français d’Autriche to present his novel ‘La Plus Secrète Mémoire des Hommes’, Prix Goncourt 2021. Read More
From Thursday to Saturday, June 13 to 15 2024, the African Studies Department hosted the 8th... Read more
During the 8th Rencontre Des Études Africaines en France (REAF) that took place at the Université Côte D’Azur-Nice... Read more
My name is Alexander Angsongna /alɪɡzandə ǎŋsʊ̀ŋná/ (Alex for short). I am from Sombo in the Nadowli-Kaleo district of Upper West Region, Ghana... Read More
On 25 June, 2024, the Vienna African Writers Club (VAW), which was founded by Prof. Adams Bodomo, hosted a Poetry Slam and Open Mic evening... Read more