Brigitta Busch

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Brigitta Busch (born 1955 in Vienna ) is an Austrian - Swiss Slavic scholar , communication scientist and former professor of linguistics at the University of Vienna . Busch is an expert in intercultural communication and multilingualism and has led, among other things, projects of the Council of Europe on these topics. Her main research areas include multilingual education , minorities and migration . She has been an elected member of the University Council of the University of Klagenfurt since 2018 .

Life

Brigitta Busch grew up in Vienna, where she graduated with distinction in 1972 . In 1973 she began a three-year apprenticeship as an agricultural master (with a focus on regional development ) in France and Switzerland and then worked on farms in Carinthia and France until 1992. At the same time, from 1980 to 1992, she worked as a freelance journalist for the Fédération Européenne des Radios Libres and Le Monde diplomatique , among others .

academic career

In 1989/1990 Busch started her studies in Slavic Studies and intercultural communication at the University of Klagenfurt , earned her master's degree in 1996 with a thesis on intercultural and bilingual training in Austria and in 1998 with the dissertation The virtual village square. Minority Media, Globalization and Cultural Identity the Ph.D. In 1999 she took over the management of the Center for Intercultural Studies (CIS) at the University of Klagenfurt for four years. While she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Linguistics at the University of Vienna from 2003 to 2010 and regularly gave lectures at the Institute for Cultural Studies at the University of Klagenfurt, she completed her habilitation in Vienna in 2004 with a thesis on languages ​​in dispute. Media and the public in multilingual societies . Since 2003 she has been working on the international research project Changing city spaces: challenges to cultural policies at the Institute for Linguistics at the University of Vienna. From 2010 to 2012 she took over the interim professorship for applied linguistics and discourse analysis from Ruth Wodak at the University of Vienna , which was followed by a Berta Karlik professorship for applied linguistics from 2012 to 2015 .

From 2005 onwards, Busch held visiting professorships at the University of Cape Town for multilingual education in a pan-African context, at the University of Kassel , the Danube University Krems , the University of Education in Vienna and in 2014 at the University of Strasbourg and the University of the Western Cape .

Activities at the Council of Europe

During her studies she worked from 1992 to 1999 at the Human Rights Department and the Political Department of the Council of Europe . In 2009 she became a member of the Expert Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. As part of this activity, she was repeatedly a member of delegations reporting on the situation of minorities in various countries; including Cyprus, Norway, Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation. Busch was Vice President of the committee from 2016 to 2018.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Drava Verlag : Moving Identities Edited by Brigitta Busch, Brigitte Hipfl, Kevin Robins
  2. ↑ a b c d Institute for Linguistics at the University of Vienna / heteroglossia.net: Curriculum Vitae Brigitta Busch
  3. ^ University of Vienna: New professorships in February 2012 - Univ.-Prof. Doz. Brigitta Busch
  4. ^ University of Vienna: Promotion of Women: Award of the Berta Karlik Professorships , March 1, 2012
  5. ↑ derstandard.at: University of Vienna awards Berta Karlik professorships for the first time , January 18, 2012
  6. ↑ Expert Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities : Cyprus - visit of the Advisory Committee December 2014
  7. ↑ Expert Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities : Norway - visit of the Advisory Committee June 2016
  8. ↑ Expert Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities : Azerbaijan - visit of the Advisory Committee July 2017
  9. ↑ Expert committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities : Fédération de Russie: visite du Comité consultatif octobre 2017
  10. ^ Council of Europe / National Minorities (FCNM): News 2016 - Advisory Committee: election of the new bureau
  11. ↑ kaernten.orf.at: kaernten.orf.at Rizzi Prize for Brigitta Busch , December 3, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Busch, Brigitta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Swiss linguist
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna