Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kirsten Rüther, M.A.

2025S

• 143076 KU On Air! Radio and New Publics in Late Colonialism and Beyond
• 143254 SE Laughter and Pain in Historically and Socially Tense Situations
• 143338 VU The History of African Studies: Knowledge Production about/with/in African Societies
• 143371 SE Master Coaching Seminar

2024W

• 143079 SE African History and African Studies
• 143087 KU KU Photo Session - Working with Photographs and Historical Images in the Context of Colonialism, Museum Exhibitions and Commercialisation
• 143089 SE SE Thinking "community" in South Africa and what "realities" look like at times
• 420011 SE The World Entangled and Multiply Narrated

2024S

• 141063 VO Southern Africa 2 - New Historiographical Orientations in 30 Years of South African Majority Democrac
• 141069 PS 30 years into South African Majority Rule: Transformation, Twists and Turns
• 141076 KU Guided Reading: - Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage - Critical Readings in Response to the ANC, The Struggle and the Images of Two All-Too Well-Known Heroic Characters
• 143338 VU Knowledge about /in / with Africa: Reflect and Produce

2023W

• 141076 VO Southern Africa 1: Historiographical Themes from the 1960s to the 1980s
• 141080 KU Methods in African Studies - With a Focus on Space, Time, and Spaces of Knowledge in African Studies
• 141089 SE Full of Wit, Humour and with a lot of Disrespect - Colonial and Postcolonial Settings of Laughter

2023S

• 143232 SE African History and African Studies
• 143338 VU History of African Studies - Knowledge about/ in/ with/ "Africa": reflect and produce
• 143385 VO The Burial of Dennis the Goat - Politics, Satire, Life, Death and Humanity in South Africa's Transition Years

2022W

• 143144 SE Aspirations to Social Advancement and Religious Reform through Christianity and Islam - Case Studies from the African Continent
• 143179 KU Methods in African Studies - Taking Concern with "The Archive" and Oral History Research
• 143210 VO The Ego, the Self and Notions of Personhood - Constructions of "Life" and "Living" in Auto/Biographical Accounts from African Studies Perspectives
• 143226 PS Introductory Seminar: African History and Societies - Writing History Essays - (with a Focus on the Use of Images)

2022S

• 143086 VO Conflicts, Politics and the Sphere of the Everyday in Southern Africa: - Trajectories through the 19th and 20th Centuries
• 143220 KU Current Research Trends and Concepts in African Studies (Top 10 Themes in African studies)
• 143255 KU Of Monkeys, Human Beings, the "Holy Spirit Mobile Forces" - and some bits about African Photography - Heike Behrend's Autobiography of her Discipline
• 143338 VU History of African Studies - Knowledge about*in*with* "Africa": Reflect, Produce, Reflect
• 420005 SE Working with photographs - photographs working

2021W

• 143213 KU Family Stor(i)es - Challenges for historians to handle a genre rubbing shoulders with popular and literary writing
• 143218 VO Southern Africa in Longitudinal Perspective: - Thematic, Conceptional and Discursive Diggings into the Past
• 143226 PS Introductory Seminar: African History and Societies - Past and Present, Connected

2020W

• 143004 SE Bachelor Seminar: African History and Societies
• 143213 KU Health-Seeking Strategies and the Provision of Health in African Societies - Local and Global Entanglements
• 143218 VO Apartheid Years - what they were about and how they are remembered

2020S

• 143220 KU Current Research Trends and Concepts in African Studies
• 143227 KU Welfare and Development? - Control agendas, playing power and so-called middling figures in the colonial state and its bureaucracy, c. 1930-1960
• 143321 VU Advanced Course African History: - To get at the details, to read broadly and to consider one's ethics of research
• 143371 SE Master Coaching Seminar
• 420009 SE Religion and religious change as a theme of investigation in historical, cultural and social scienti - geschichts-, kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung

2019W

• 140086 VO Kenya, Karen Blixen, and Colonialism: - Perspectives from Scandinavian and African Studies
• 140129 KU Housing and Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and African Studies
• 140132 VO Biographies, Memory and Personal Reflection: - Narratives about individual and group-specific "lives" - samples and secondary literature

2019S

• 140220 KU Current Research Trends and Concepts in African Studies
• 140255 KU 20th-Century Perspectives on Town Planning and Infrastructure in Africa - within the Colonial/Metropolitan Divide
• 140321 VU Advanced Course African History: Digging Deep - Using Source Material and Interpretations in African History
• 140371 SE Master Coaching Seminar - Preparing for Your Degree - Thinking of Strategies for Thereafter
• 140385 VO Spheres of Politics and Everyday Experience in Southern Africa: - Moving across the 19th and 20th Centuries

2018W

• 140169 KU "I am a broken bridge between two worlds!" - Selected Examples of Life Writing
• 140218 VO History of Southern Africa 1
• 140219 PS "Freedom is coming tomorrow!" Music and Liberation. Vignettes from Ghana and South Africa

2018S

• 140220 KU Current Research Trends in African Studies
• 140255 KU Religion and Politics
• 140316 VO A Transgenerational History of the Winter-Rawat Family in South Africa, 1847-2017
• 420002 SE Writing Biography and Life History, Telling Stories and Listentin to What is Said: - Analytical Approaches to Personal Narratives in the Context of Area and Historical Studies

2017W

• 140038 VO Housing for Workers (and Others) in African Cities
• 140077 KU Guided Reading: Taking a Closer Look at Africa - Reflections, Academic Arguments and Reading Incentives for People who Want to Know
• 140138 SE Memory, Space and Migration: A Seminar to Prepare a Student Excursion to Mozambique and South Africa - Seminar zur Vorbereitung einer Exkusion nach Mozambique und Südafrika
• 140219 VO Life Stories from Africa - a Historical-Critical Survey

2017S

• 140220 KU Current Research Trends in African Studies
• 140255 KU Oral History in African Studies research
• 140385 VO South African History: Images in the Head and in front of the Camera
• 420009 SE The Archive: voices of the subaltern between dust and paper files.

2016S

• 070215 VO Cultural History
• 140245 SE Grasping Difference: Travel und Cultural Encounters
• 140257 SE The Micro, the Macro, Empirical Data and Overarching Argument
• 140316 VO "I have always wanted to do a book about Africa" - a 10-Chapter Approach to Representations of Africa and a Hopefully Innovative Choice of Topics
• 140354 SE Bachelor Seminar: A Focus on Cities

2015W

• 140061 KU Violence and Crime in South Africa in Historical Perspective
• 140090 SE Photography and (Post)-Apartheid
• 140219 VO Christianisation and Colonial Transformation in 19th- Century African Societies
• 140221 KU Writing Skills for Doctoral Students
• 420011 DS Housing, Living, Interior: constructions and imaginations cultural localization

2015S

• 140245 SE The Circulation of People, Commodities, Ideas and Objects in Africa
• 140249 VO Health-Seeking in Colonial Africa
• 140314 VO+UE Spreading News in South Africa: A Short History of 19th and 20th Century Media - Eine kleine Mediengeschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts

2014W

• 140063 SE Bachelor Seminar: History and Societies of Southern Africa
• 140090 SE Copper, Gold and Gem Stones: Insights into Labour and Life in African Mining Towns - 19th to 20th Cenuries
• 140219 VO New Perspectives or Old Wine rebottled? - Postapartheid Interpretations of South African History
• 420003 SE History and Societies of Africa

2014S

• 140138 VO "Honor me I sing to you" - Life histories in Africa
• 140151 KU Life histories in Africa - Readings
• 140241 KU Youth, Language, City
• 420001 KO Trends and Debates in AfricanStudies:Taking Up Current Academic Arguments in Respective PhD Research

2013W

• 140090 SE African Studies and focuses on Africa at Austrian universities - preparation of a conference meeting
• 140254 SE Bachelor Seminar: African History and Literature
• 140356 VO Global history or just area studies? - Tensions and Dynamics between African historiography and more recent approaches to global history?
• 140357 KU Practical Course: About Job and Research Opportunities
• 420002 KO Interdisciplinary Conversatorium for Doctoral Candidates

2013S

• 140056 SE Bachelor Seminar: African History and Literature
• 140133 VO History of Southern Africa
• 140137 MAKU Master Course
• 140178 PS Introductory Seminar African History: Johannesburg - A History of the Largest City in South Africa
• 140185 SE Conversion Narratives and Gender Constructions in 19th Century South Africa

2012W

• 140087 SE Bachelor Seminar: African History
• 140090 SE Recent Historical Approaches in the Study of African Family and Kinship
• 140121 MAKU Master Course
• 140186 VO Christianisation and Colonial Transformation in 19th-Century African Societies - 19. Jahrhunderts
• 140356 VO History/ies of Africa - Facets of a Research Area
• 420013 KO Interdisciplinary Conversatorium for Doctoral Candidates