Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät - Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften

Aleah Connley

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Aleah Connley

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Name
Aleah Connley M.A.

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

Seminar für Südostasienstudien

Büro: Invalidenstraße 118, Raum 102

 

Tel.: +49 30 2093-66030

E-Mail: aleah.connley[at]staff.hu-berlin.de

 

 

 

Lebenslauf

Aleah Connley obtained her B.A. degree in Islamic Studies from the University of Melbourne in Australia. After moving to Germany, she continued her studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, graduating with a Master’s degree in Modern South and Southeast Asian studies with a particular focus on Islam in Indonesian.

During her studies, she spent time in Malaysia and Indonesia where she completed internships and conducted research for her M.A. thesis on the strategies which individual members of the controversial Ahmadiyah movement employ in order to overcome the wide spectrum of adverse and discriminatory experiences which are part of their daily lives.

Aleah Connley took up the position as research associate at Prof. Dr. Vincent Houben’s Department for Southeast Asian History and Society in October 2013. Since then, she has acted as the international coordinator for the International Summer School in Southeast Asian Studies, a program which is jointly conducted by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), and Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM). She also runs the department’s Nusantara Study Group for students interested in maritime Southeast Asia. Aleah is also currently working on her doctoral research project “Politicising Piety at the Periphery: Towards a Theory of the Dynamics of Islam and Local Politics in Middle Indonesia”.

 

 

Forschungsinteressen

  • Islamism and democratisation
  • Indonesian society and politics
  • Grounded Theory Methodology
  • Islamic theology

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Lehre

M.A.

  • WS 2015/2016 - Lecturer at the 2016 International Summer School in Southeast Asian Studies “The Return of the Past: Memory Making and Heritage in Southeast Asia” held at Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
  • WS 2014/2015 - Lecturer at the 2015 International Summer School in Southeast Asian Studies “The Return of the Past: Memory Making and Heritage in Southeast Asia” held at Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang, Malaysia.
  • WS 2014/2015 - "Religious Inequality in Contemporary Indonesia: A Post-authoritarian Socioculture in the Making?", Guest lecture in the lecture series "Inequality in South and Souteast Asia".
  • SS 2014 - "Contested Islam: The example of Jamaat Ahmadiyah Indonesia”, Guest lecture in the lecture series “Religionen und Kulturen in Süd- und Südostasien. Forschungszugänge zu einem transdisziplinären Feld“
  • WS 2013/2014 – Lecturer at the 2014 International Summer School in Southeast Asian Studies “The Return of the Past: Memory Making and Heritage in Southeast Asia” held at Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

 

B.A.

  • WS 2015/2016 - "Grounded Theory Methodology: Grundprinzipien und Praxis aus regionalwissenschaftlicher Perspektive"
  • WS 2014/2015 - “Länderkunde Südostasien“
  • SS 2014 - “Islam in Südostasien“
  • WS 2013/2014 - “Länderkunde Südostasien"

 

Publikationen

 

"Understanding the Oppressed: A Study of the Ahmadiyah and Their Strategies for Overcoming Adversity in Contemporary Indonesia", in: Current Journal of Southeast Asian Affairs, Vol. 35, 1 (2016) 29-58.

 

(with Vincent Houben). "Indonesien: Figurationen von Vielfalt in Einheit", in: Gunnar Stange/ Rolf Jordan/Kristina Großmann (Hg.), Handbuch Indonesien (Angermünde: Horlemann Verlag 2015). 15-44.