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”
Likes to give insight 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
Department of English Studies
Likes to give insight into:
- First and second language acquisition
- Multilingualism
- Language and the brain
- Language and discrimination
Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Kurt Hahn
Department for Romance Studies
Likes to give insight into:
- Transatlantic exchange processes: cultural and knowledge transfers between Europe and Latin America
- Modern and postmodern French and Spanish literature
- Media technologies and literature
- Ethics and literature (especially poetry)
- Figures and figurations of comedy: what makes us laugh?
Department of German Studies
Likes to give insight into:
- Narrative patterns, motifs and ideologies from the Middle Ages in contemporary fantasy literature
- Building blocks of fantasy literature: images of heroines, good/evil orders, interaction with mythical creatures, knightly adventures, etc.
- Roles of women in medieval thinking and storytelling
- Journey into the world of medieval literature. Brave knights, dangerous dragons, cunning magicians and exciting adventures
Department of English Studies
Likes to give insight into:
- Media and Propaganda
- Analysis of Bias in the Media
- War Propaganda
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
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on Consequences of War
Likes to give insight into:
- 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
Department of Classics
Likes to give insight into:
- Latin literature
- Ancient fable
- Ancient epic
- Figurative language (parables etc.)
Assoz. Prof. Dr.phil. Mag. Margit Linder
Department of Classics
Likes to give insight into:
- Violence in ancient societies
- War propaganda
- The Roman military as a power factor and cultural force
- Ancient life and work
- Historiography
- Gender roles and sexuality in ancient societies
Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Mag. Georg Marschig
Department of History
Provides insight into:
- What is the ‘blueprint’ for historiography? What are the principles of historical research?
- What is collective memory? How can I help shape it?
- Pupils become historians
Univ.-Prof. Christine Schwanecke
Department of English Studies
Likes to give insight into:
- English drama from the early modern period to the present day
- Narrative literature and culture
- Gender studies
- Intermediality (literature and photography, literature and film, literature and digital media)
- Literature and artificial intelligence
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
