Completed third-party-funded projects

Project spnsor: FWF - Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Project number: Doc56-G30
Project manager: Kirsten Rüther (01.07.2019-28.02.2021)
Principal investigators: Pelz, Annegret; Ganser-Blumenau, Alexandra; Rüther, Kirsten; Sakdapolrak, Patrick; Macho, Thomas; Sauer, Birgit; Dannecker, Petra.
with 7 prae-doc posts.
Project collaborator: Daniela Atanasova (Department of African Studies)
Project duration: 01.10.2019-30.09.2023
Project funds: 1.331.836,48 Euro
Project website: http://mobilecultures.univie.ac.at/docfunds/

Project sponsor: University of Vienna
Project manager: Kirsten Rüther (01.07.2019 - 28.02.2021)
Deputy project manager: Birgit Englert (01.07.2019 - 28.02.2021)
Projekt collaborators: Immanuel Harisch (African Studies), Projektmitarbeiterin: Sigrid Thomson (Comparative Literature)
Key Researcher: Kirsten Rüther, Birgit Englert
Project duration: 01.12.2018-30.09.2023
Project funds: 349.000,00 Euro
Project website: http://mobilecultures.univie.ac.at

 Summer School “Spaces for Future: Processes of Rural and Urban Transformation in Southern Africa"

Project sponsor: Volkswagen Stiftung Programme “Knowledge for Tomorrow - Cooperative Research Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa”
Project funds: 49.900 Euro
Project duration: Jan 2021 - März 2022

Project manager: Prof. Dr. Reimer Gronemeyer (Sociology, University of Giessen)
Project coordinator: Dr. Jonas Metzger (Sociology, University of Giessen)
Cooperation partners: Prof. Dr. Mutjinde Katjiua (Department of Land and Property Science, Namibia University of Science and Technology); Dr. Lameck Mwewa (Department of Agricultural and Natural Resources Sciences (NUST); Prof. Dr. Kirsten Rüther (African Studies Department, University of Vienna); Dr. Antje Daniel (Institute of Development Science, University of Vienna);

The summer school seeks to interrogate the dynamics of change of rural and urban areas in Southern Africa. The focus is on Southern Africa due to two reasons: First, countries in Southern Africa are in the process of a major transition from rural to urban-based societies. Second, land reforms to overcome the strains of apartheid and colonialism and to address its spatial structures of inequality remain one of the most pressing issues in Southern Africa. Furthermore, conflicts over land are accelerated by processes of land acquisition dominated by foreign investors. The land question in Southern Africa cannot be reduced to agrarian change or production as it is politically re-formulated as a question of belonging, citizenship and indigeneity.

Project title: “Concepts of development in postcolonial Kenyan literature”
Project sponsor: FWF - Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung - Elise-Richter-Stipendium
Project manager: Martina Kopf
Project duration: 01.07.2017-30.06.2021 (verlängert bis 28.02.2022)
Project funds: 269.474,94 Euro
Project website: https://kenyan-literature.univie.ac.at/

Project title: “The Provision, Planning and Building of Employment-tied Housing: Language, Agency and Governance in three Housing Projects in Kenya, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, c. 1940s to 1970s.”
Short title: "Employment-tied Housing in (post)colonial Africa"
Project sponsor: FWF - Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Project number: P29566-G28
Project manager: Kirsten Rüther
Project participants: Daniela Waldburger, Martina Ciganikova, Carl-Philipp Bodenstein
Project funds 428.484,00 Euro
Project duration: 01.03.2017-28.02.2020 (Verlängert bis 28.02.2021)
Project homepage: http://housing.univie.ac.at

Project title: “SUSFISH-plus / Sustainable Management of Water and Fish Resources in Burkina Faso, Advanced Partnership”
Project number: FA432004
Project sponsor: OEAD - APPEAR
Project manager: Andreas Melcher, BOKU
Project participants: u.a. Gabriele Slezak
Project duration: 01.12.2016-30.11.2019
Project homepage: http://susfish.boku.ac.at

 Akie - A heavily endangered hunter-gatherers' language in Central Tanzania

Project title: "Akie - A heavily endangered hunter-gatherers' language in Central Tanzania"
Project sponsor: Volkswagenstiftung
Project funds: 200.000,00 Euro
Project lead (team): Prof. Dr.phil.habil Rainer Voßen, Frankfurt; Prof.emer. Dr.phil.habil. Karsten Legère; Prof. Dr.phil.habil. Christa König, Köln.
New team members (01.02.2017): Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kubik; Mag. Iris Winter, Universität Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland
Projektlaufzeit: 01.02.2017-31.01.2019

Project title: “Popular Culture in Translocal Spaces: Processes of Diasporisation among Comorians in Marseilles and Cape Verdeans in Lisbon”
Project sponsor: FWF - Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Project manager: Birgit Englert
Project participants: Katharina Fritsch, Hanna Stepanik
Project duration: 01.06.2014-31.05.2017 (extended until 30.09.2018)
http://translocalculture.com/         
Arbeitsgruppe "Translocal Africa" (Traraa)
http://translocalafrica.wordpress.com

Project title: "Understanding and Misunderstanding Grammar. Perception of Grammatical Categories in the Languages of the Lake Chad Area" (UMIG)
Project sponsor: FWF - Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Project manager: Norbert Cyffer
Project participant: Akin Wewe
Project duration: 01.12.2012 - 30.11.2015
Project homepage: http://umig.univie.ac.at

Project title: "Colonial Concepts of Development in Africa" (CoDe)
Project sponsor: FWF - Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Project manager: Walter Schicho
Project participants: Gerald Hödl, Martina Kopf
Project duration: 01.12.2012 - 30.11.2015

 PLUS - Plurilingual Speakers in Unilingual Environments

Project title: "PLUS - Plurilingual Speakers in Unilingual Environments"
Project sponsor: WWTF - Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschungs- und Technologiefonds
Project manger: Brigitta Busch, Walter Schicho
Project participants: Gabriele Slezak, Karlheinz Spitzl, Martina Rienzner
Project duration: 01.04.2011 - 30.09.2013

Project title: "Language Endangerment in Tanzania: Documenting the Dowe Language"
Project sponsor: Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, SOAS - School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK
Project manager: Karsten Legère
Project duration: 01.08.2012 – 01.08.2013
http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=305

 Gender, Migration, and Slavery in Mali/West Africa, 1890-1920

Project title: "Gender, Migration, and Slavery in Mali/West Africa, 1890-1920"
Project sponsor: FWF - Hertha-Firnberg-Programm
Project manager: Marie Rodet
Project duration: 01.01.2009 - 31.12.2011

 Sprachwahl in Straf- und Asylverfahren mit Verfahrensbeteiligten aus afrikanischen Herkunftsländern

Project title: "Sprachwahl in Straf- und Asylverfahren mit Verfahrensbeteiligten aus afrikanischen Herkunftsländern"
Project sponsor: Jubiläumsfonds der Österreichischen Nationalbank
Project manager: Walter Schicho
Project participants: Gabriele Slezak, Martina Rienzner
Project duration: 01.04.2009 - 31.03.2011

 Dynamics of Linguistic Change in Northeastern Nigeria

Project title: "Dynamics of Linguistic Change in Northeastern Nigeria" (DYWAN)
Project sponsor: FWF - Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Project manager: Norbert Cyffer
Project participant: Georg Ziegelmeyer
Project duration: 01.04.2007 - 31.03.2010

Project title: "Geschichte der Afrikanistik in Österreich". Forschung zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte mit biographisch-bibliographischer Dokumentation ausgewählter Persönlichkeiten (1923-1992)
Project sponsor: Jubiläumsfonds der Österreichischen Nationalbank
Project manager: Clemens Gütl
Project duration: 01.03.2009 - 31.12.2009
Project homepage: www.afrikanistik.at

Project title: "Sprachliche Innovation und Konzeptwandel in Westafrika" (SIKWA)
Project sponsor: FWF - Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Project manager: Norbert Cyffer
Project participants: Erwin Ebermann, Georg Ziegelmeyer
Project duration: 01.07.2002 - 30.06.2005