FWF Esprit Grant for Dayana Lengauer

09.03.2026

Bild der FWF Esprit Verleihung mit PI und FWF Delegation. — Credits: Martin Slama

ISA post-doc researcher Dayana Lengauer has received the FWF ESPRIT grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for her project "Activist Publics in Indonesia: A Study of Student (Online) Activism Since 1998". She accepted her award at a ceremony held in the run-up to International Women's Day from Barbara Weitgruber, Head of the Scientific Research and International Affairs Section at the Federal Ministry for Women, Science and Research (BMFWF), FWF President Christof Gattringer, and Vice President Ursula Jakubek. Dayana Lengauer is one out of 43 female scientists who received ESPRIT career funding for outstanding research projects in 2025.

The project

Biography

Dayana Lengauer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (AAS). Her research interests include youth and youth movements, religion (Islam) and social media in Indonesia.

She studied social and cultrual anthropology at Vienna University, where she obtained her PhD in 2022. For her dissertation thesis „Pluralism as Practice: Offline and Online Forms of Sociality in the Technopolitan City of Bandung, Indonesia“, for which she obtained the AAS Doc Fellowship, she studied groups of predominantly student activists and their praxeological conceptualizations of pluralism and interfaith dialogue largely directed at young people in the capital city of the Muslim-majority province West Java. Herein, she focused on the use of social media not only as means of mobilization, but also of intimate address and engagement among so called komunitas perdamaian (peace communities).

Prior to her dissertation project, she conducted research among communities of young Indonesian Muslims focusing on pious practices and online socialities for the FWF-funded project „Islamic (Inter)Faces of the Internet“ at the Institute for Social Anthropology at AAS.

Her current research explores emerging online publics and their impact on Indonesia’s student movement since the 1998 political reform. She is essentially interested in the empirical study of publics that goes beyond the interpretative analysis of online content.

Name	Purpose	Storage duration	Type	Provider
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_pk_cvar	Short-term cookie to save temporary data from the visit.	30 minutes	HTML	Matomo-cvar
_pk_hsr	Short lived cookie used to temporarily store data for the visit.	30 minutes	HTML	Matomo

Name	Purpose	Storage duration	Type	Provider
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SoundCloud	A connection to SoundCloud will be established to play audio files.	-	Connection	SoundCloud
Twitter	A connection to Twitter will be established to display tweets.	-	missing translation: type.	Twitter
_cs_c	Indicates whether the user has consented to ContentSquare tracking.	394 days	missing translation: type.	Spotify (ContentSquare)
_cs_id	Stores a unique user ID for ContentSquare session analysis.	394 days	missing translation: type.	Spotify (ContentSquare)
_ga	Used to distinguish users.	400 days	missing translation: type.	Google Analytics
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_scid	Spotify advertising ID used for analytics and retargeting.	395 days	missing translation: type.	Spotify
_scid_r	Spotify advertising ID used for analytics and retargeting.	395 days	missing translation: type.	Spotify
eupubconsent-v2	Stores the IAB Transparency & Consent Framework string.	364 days	missing translation: type.	IAB / Spotify
OptanonAlertBoxClosed	Saves the state of your data protection consent.	364 days	missing translation: type.	OneTrust
OptanonConsent	Saves the state of your data protection consent.	365 days	missing translation: type.	OneTrust
sp_adid	Spotify advertising identifier.	365 days	missing translation: type.	Spotify
sp_landing	Tracks which page the user landed on within Spotify.	1 days	missing translation: type.	Spotify
sp_m	Stores the user’s market region (Spotify).	399 days	missing translation: type.	Spotify
sp_t	Session token used for Spotify playback and access.	365 days	missing translation: type.	Spotify

The Institute

FWF Esprit Grant for Dayana Lengauer