Looking for a science ambassador?
The following scientists from the Faculty of Humanities visit school classes and give exciting insights into their research topics - so that science comes alive for children and young people too!
“Fachdidaktikzentrum Deutsch als Zweitsprache & Sprachliche Bildung”
Provides insights into
- Language awareness: Reflection on language(s), conscious perception of one's own language use
- Multilingualism: meaning and effects of multilingualism
- Language diagnostics
- Scientific text competence: Writing scientific texts
©Volkan Akbulut
Department of English Studies
Provides insight into:
- First and second language acquisition
- Multilingualism
- Language and the brain
- Language and discrimination
©Uni Graz/Leljak
Department of History
Likes to give insight into:
- History of Central and Southern Europe (19th-20th century): History of Austria and Italy in a transnational and global perspective (colonialism, world wars, fascism, National Socialism)
- Visual history: image practices and image politics
- Historical anthropology: history of experience and everyday life
- Memory and remembrance research: family memories and collective memory in public space
- Public history: Digital mapping of memory landscapes
©ifk Wien
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on Consequences of War
- Occupation in Austria
- Prisoner of war during the Second World War
- Forced labour 1939-1945
- Secret and intelligence services in Austria during the Cold War
- Aryanisation and expropriations in Austria 1938-1945
©Dieter Bacher
Department of Classics
Likes to give insight into:
- Latin literature
- Ancient fable
- Ancient epic
- Figurative language (parables etc.)
©Sarah Lang
Assistant Professor Michaela Zinko
Department of Classics
Likes to give insight into:
- Writing and writing in antiquity
- Comparative linguistics
- Different writing systems: starting with the first images, through hieroglyphic and cuneiform writing systems to alphabetic writing and letters and back to images/emojis
