Research-based Teaching

During our project we will regularly offer interdisciplinary teaching courses, methodology and research seminars at the University of Vienna and other established academic and research institutions.

The lectures comprise contributions embedded in the broader field of colonial and postcolonial urban studies, architecture and town planning or environmental studies.Besides presenting our preliminary research findings from the conducted fieldwork, we were very pleased that  prominent scholars in the field of urban and town planning accepted our invitation to share their extensive knowledge and experience. 

 

Wohnraum, Wohnungsbau und Politik: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven mit Bezug auf Afrika

In the winter term of 2019/2020 we offered a class jointly with colleagues from other disciplines. Jointly with Andrea SEIER from the Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies and with Kathrin SARTINGEN from the Department of Romance Studies we taught issues of "Wohn-/Kultur-/Technik", "Mobile Living in Lusophone Films" and "The Politics of Housing and Spaces for Living".

Invited guest
  • Irene NIERHAUS, Institut für Kunstwissenschaft - Filmwissenschaft - Kunstpädagogik, Universität Bremen
    • 21 November 2019, Topic: 'Wohnen als Schau-Platz: Bildpolitiken des Wohnens, Zeitstrategien in Wohnzeitschriften als mediale und gesellschaftliche Konfigurationen'

20th Century perspectives on town planning and infrastructure in Africa within the colonial/metropole divide, Summer Term 2019

Invited guests
  • Liora BIGON, Department of Multidisciplinary Studies, Holon Institute of Technology
    • 21 March 2019, Topic: 'Grid-Plan Historiographies and Senegal' 
  • Marlene WAGNER, Architect, Vienna University of Technology, NPO build collective
    • 28 March 2019, Topic: 'Perspectives in practice – challenging architecture and development'
  • Timothy LIVSEY, African history, Oxford University, UK
    • 9 May 2019, Topic: 'Histories of late colonial Africa from housing: Some Nigerian case studies'
  • Daniel TÖDT, African studies, Humboldt University, Berlin
    • 23 May 2019, Topic: 'Home Improvement: Urban Segregation, Modern Housing, and Politics of Domesticity in the Belgian Empire'

 

Housing for workers and (others) in African cities, Winter Term 2017

Invited guests
  • Luce Beeckmans, Ghent University, Belgium, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning
    • 30 November 2017, Topic: ‘The city about to dissolve. The SICAP neighborhoods of Dakar: past, present, future'
  • Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues, The Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden
    • 07 December 2017, Topic:  ‘Configuring the living environment in mining areas in Angola: contestations between mining companies, workers, local communities and the state’
  • Robert Home, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, Land Management
    • 14 December 2017, Topic: 'Worker housing in colonial and postcolonial Africa: Legal history and field research from South Africa, Kenya, Zambia and Nigeria'
  • Garth Myers, Trinity College, Hartford, Urban International Studies
    • 11 January 2018, Topic: ‘The Future and Africa's Cities’

 

University Exchange Erasmus+ Program 

Thanks to our project and in cooperation with the International Office, University of Vienna, a staff mobility program Erasmus+ was initiated between the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna and the University of Zambia, Lusaka for the period 2018-2020. This means that one of the Viennese colleagues will teach at the University of Zambia, Lusaka, for ten days and, vice versa, a colleague from UNZ will teach at the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna for another ten days. We are looking forward to that exchange! Another staff mobility is currently being applied for.