Central Asian Seminar
Current Teaching
Winter term 2025/26
01.10.2025 - 31.03.2026
Interesting seminars in the summer semester
"Einführung in gesellschaftliche Wandlungsprozesse in Zentralasien" by Diana Lange & Manja Stephan
Thursday, 2-4 p.m. CEST
Room 507; Module 2 (BA)
"Anthropology of Food: From Soil to Supper"
by Björn Reichhardt
Tuesday 12 a.m. - 2 p.m. CEST
Room 217; Modul 11 (BA)
Creating a Catalogue of Printed Heritage in Faizabad Public Library
New articles:
Mongolia’s Mother Ocean
Ecologies of Transformation at the Intersection of Land, Growth and Pollution in Inner Asia
Copyright: Björn Reichhardt
Sources of Wealth:
Milk, Microbes, and the Making of Heritage in Central Asian Pastoralism (p. 204-223)
Copyright: Björn Reichhardt
Central Asian Seminar
News
New Mailing List
News about the activities of the Chair of Histories and Cultures of Central Asia (HCCA) can now be received via the following mailing list:
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Events:
HCCA Lecture Series
Winter 2025/26
After an initial launch in the summer term 2025, we are pleased to announce the Histories and Cultures of Central Asia (HCCA) Lecture Series, which will take place throughout the 2025/26 winter semester on selected Wednesday evenings from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Room 507. Here you will find an overview of the upcoming lectures, which focus on Central Asia, particularly Mongolia and Tibet/Himalaya.
All interested parties are welcome to attend.
CARL - Central Asia Research Lab
In the winter semester 2025/26, we will launch CARL – the Central Asia Research Lab, which will take place every two weeks on Tuesdays from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in room 507. Here we present the schedule with an overview of the first eight individual events for the winter semester 2025/26.
We hope this format will encourage and facilitate a lively exchange about research at the Central Asian Seminar and provide a framework for constructive feedback. 
Latest publications (selection)
Among Tibetan Materialities:
Materials and Material Cultures of Tibet and the Himalayas
eds. Emma Martin, Trine Brox, Diana Lange
Muslim Mobilities. Geographies of Piety and
and Belonging in Tajik Dubai Business
by Manja Stephan
Making a Homeland. Roots and Routes of
Transnational Armenian Engagement
by Tsypylma Darieva
Publications
Classical Mongolian: A Textbook for Students,
Scholars and Everyone Interested in Mongolian
by Ganchimeg Altangerel
Maps and Colours. A Complex Relationship
von Diana Lange und Benjamin van der Linde
Dari-Persisch Lehr- und Übungsbuch
von Lutz Rzehak und Bidollah Aswar
A Textbook in Classical Tibetan
Crossing Boundaries. Tibetan Studies Unlimited.
von Diana Lange, Jarmila Ptackova, Marion Wettstein und Mareike Wulff. 2021.
An Atlas of the Himalayans by a 19th Century Tibetan Lama. A Journey of Discovery
Amdo Tibetan Language. Introduction to Normative Oral Amdo.
