Institut für Afrikawissenschaften, Universität Wien

03/06/2026

🎙 A new u:africa-lab episode is online 🎙
In this episode, Andrew Feinstein, author, investigator, and former politician discusses the implications of the global arms trade, colossal defence budgets, and corruption in South Africa and Europe. Stay tuned!

Listen on Spotify: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/uafrica-lab/episodes/Ep--12--Andrew-Feinstein-The-Business-of-War---South-Africa--Corruption--Global-Power-e3k7mqg

02/06/2026

We’re very happy to welcome Katharina Oke from the University of Graz today for the u:africa talk “Between or beyond 'art' and 'development'? Navigating and Negotiating Arts and Crafts in Ghana and Nigeria, ca. 1930s-1960s”, chaired by Arno Sonderegger. See you there!
🕖 Today! Tue, 2 June, 5:15 pm
📍 Department of African Studies, Seminar Room 1

29/05/2026

📢Save the date for the u:africa talk with Enrico Ille from the University of Leipzig on "The conflicting aspects of conflict gold. Extractive activities as calamity and lifeline in present Sudan". Chair: Kirsten Rüther

📅Tuesday, 9th June 2026, 5:15 pm
📍Department of African Studies - Seminar room 1

28/05/2026

Reminder: Today, students in Rémi Tchokothe’s Proseminar “De-centering the Colonial Lie-brary: Mudimbe and Ngũgĩ’s Theoretical/Cultural Legacies” will present their course outcomes at the African and Middle Eastern Studies Library. Here’s a glimpse of the programme:
15:30 Creating a Space for Anti-Colonial Inquiry
15:40 Colonialism, Canon and the Curriculum
16:40 Break
17:00 Language and the Circulation of Knowledge
17:30 Reflections on Neocolonialism, and Religion
17:40 Poets and Their Voices
We are looking forward to welcoming you!

27/05/2026

26/05/2026

📢Block your calendar for Friday: The workshop organized by Dominik Frühwirth and Bianca Cortes-Lehner in the frame of the DocSchool “Global Entanglements: Frictions and Negotiations” and the FWF Rastafari Reasonings Project will take place from 2 to 8pm at our department!

"Enter the Lion” - Decolonial and Empowering Research Approaches from African Caribbean and Latin American Contexts

📅 29 May 2026, 2-8pm, Department of African Studies, University of Vienna,
📍 Seminarraum 1, Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Wien (and partly online)
✍ No registration needed!

Further information and programme: https://afrika.univie.ac.at/veranstaltungen/einzelansicht-veranstaltungen/news/workshop-enter-the-lion-decolonial-and-empowering-research-approaches-from-african-caribbean-an/?no_cache=1&cHash=2b2c9b96bdff424f3e62e69a9274c5bb

26/05/2026

Kulturforschung für die Ohren – Radiobeitrag von MA-Studierenden der Afrikawissenschaften: “Performing the Struggle“

Ein Radiobeitrag von MA-Studierenden der Afrikawissenschaften, der im Rahmen der Lehrveranstaltung Expressive Kulturen in Afrika und Diasporas. Kulturwissenschaftliche Podcasts gestalten am Institut entstand (Leitung: Katharina Gartner) wird nun über Radio Orange 94.0 als Teil der Sendereihe Kulturforschung für die Ohren ausgestrahlt. Er ist ab sofort auch über das Cultural Broadcasting Archive (CBA) online zugänglich.

Mi 27.05.2026 18.00 – 19.00
Performing the Struggle
Musik im südafrikanischen Anti-Apartheid Widerstand
Kulturforschung für die Ohren #4
von Alexander Kupfer, Laura Sartori und Lorenz Sack
https://o94.at/programm/sendung/id/2606945

Welche Rolle spielte Musik im südafrikanischen Widerstand gegen die Apartheid? Der Beitrag möchte Widerstandsgeschichte mit facettenreichen Musikbeispielen hörbar machen. Denn expressive Kulturpraktiken wie Musik, Tanz, Theater und Lyrik boten im repressiven Apartheidregime über mehrere Zeiträume eine der wenigen Plattformen, auf denen Schwarzer Widerstand performt werden konnte. Der Beitrag richtet einen kulturhistorischen Blick auf die ersten drei Jahrzehnte der Apartheid: die 1950er, 1960er und 1970er Jahre, begleitet von vielfältigen Musikbeispielen.

22/05/2026

Save the date for our next u:africa talk with Katharina Oke from the University of Graz. We're looking forward to welcoming you!

19/05/2026

We’re excited to welcome Ibrahima Sene from the University of Bayreuth today for the u:africa talk “From Paradox to Palimpsest. Black Intellectual Encounters and the Making of African Studies in Bayreuth”, chaired by Arno Sonderegger. See you there!
🕖 Today! Tue, 19 May, 5:15 pm
📍 Department of African Studies, Seminar Room 1

13/05/2026

📅 Save the date 📅
Students from Rémi Tchokothe’s course “De-centering the Colonial Lie-brary: Mudimbe and Ngũgĩ’s Theoretical/Cultural Legacies” will present their projects on May 28 in the African Studies Library. All are welcome!