Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Institute of Asian and African Studies

Prof. Dr. Manja Stephan-Emmrich

 

 
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Room: 502

Phone: +49 30 2093-66052
Fax: +49 30 2093-66048

Digital consultation hours:

Wed 2-4 pm

 

Please contact the secretary to arrange an appointment:

Bidollah Aswar (Room 510)

Phone:  (030) 2093-66067 

Email: transza.asa (at) hu-berlin.de

 

Student assistants:

  • Schirin Frosch (B.A.), froschsh@hu-berlin.de
  • David Amiri (B.A.), amiridav@hu-berlin.de

 

 

 

 

PROFILE

 

Manja Stephan-Emmrich has studied Anthropology and Central Asian Studies at the University of Leipzig, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Freie Universität Berlin.

2002 - 2006 she was a member of the international projects "Civil Religion" at the Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, and "Islamic Education in the Soviet Union and its Successor States" at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. She received her PhD in Social Anthropology from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (PhD title: "In Need of Balance: Moral Education, Islam and Being Muslim in Tajikistan Between Secularization and Religious Revival" (in German)).

Since May 2010 Manja Stephan-Emmrich has been the Junior Professor for the cross-section Islam in Asian and African Societies at the Institute of Asian and African Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In addition she has been the Principal Investigator (PI) at the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (funded within the framework of the German Excellence Initiative, FU Berlin) since 2011.

In the summer term of 2014 she was a visiting professor at the Department for Southeast Asian History and Society at the Institute of Asian and African Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

In the summer term of 2016 she was a fellow of the international research center re:work. Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History, and in the following winter term she worked as a visiting scholar at the research network "Re-Configurations. History, Remembrance and Transformation Processes in the Middle East and North Africa" at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the Philipps-Universität Marburg.

Her research interests cover Islamic education, the transmission of religious and moral knowledge, the anthropology of religion, Islamic piety, urban religion, youth and family studies, and the entanglement of migration/mobility and religion. Her regional focus is on Central Asia (Tajikistan). She carries out fieldwork in Tajikistan and the United Arab Emirates.

In her current research project Manja Stephan-Emmrich is investigating the complex entanglements of translocal Islamic educational networks, youth work experiences, and lifeworlds that span Tajikistan and the Arab world.

Since April 2013, she has been leading the research project "Translocal Goods - Education, Work, and Commodities between Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, China, and the Arab Emirates". The project is funded by the Volkswagenstiftung.

In her teachings Manja Stephan-Emmrich combines theoretical perspectives from Anthropology and Area Studies with ethnographic case studies. Following a transregional approach, her courses cover a wide range of topics such as Islamic education, youth/generation, the anthropology of Islam, Muslim subjectivities, secularism, urban religion, migration/mobility and religion, translocality, and globalization.

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RESEARCH FOCI

 

  • Transregional Islam in Central Asia
  • Muslim Mobilities
  • Anthropology of Islam
  • Religious Economies
  • Muslim Professionalism
  • Gulf Migration from Central Asia

More detailed information can be found here

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CURRICULUM VITAE

 

  • Since 05/2020 Professor for Transregional Central Asian Studies with focus on Islam and migration, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • 2010 - 2020 Junior Professor Cross-Section Islam in Asian and African Societies, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 
  • Since 2011 Principal InvestigatorBerlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS)
  • 10/-04/2014 Guest Professor Department for Southeast Asian Studies, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • 06/2009 PhD Martin-Luther-Universität zu Halle/Wittenberg
  • 2007 - 2003 Doctoral fellow research group “Civil Religion, Identity, Postsocialism”, Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle/Saale)
  • 2005 - 2002 Doctoral fellow research project “Islamic Education in the Soviet Union and its Successor States” (VolkswagenFoundation), Department of Oriental and Islamic Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum
  • 07/2002 MA Anthropology and Central Asian Studies Humboldt-Universität and Freie Universität zu Berlin and at Universität Leipzig

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THIRD-PARTY FUNDED PROJECTS

 

  • Research project “Women's Pathways to Professionalization in Muslim Asia: Reconfiguring Religious Knowledge, Gender, and Connectivity”, part of the “Shaping Asia” network initiative 2020-2023, funded by DFG (project leadership with Claudia Derichs)

  • PhD Programme „Eurasian Studies and Beyond - Implementing the Structured Ph.D. Programme. A Joint Initiative by Nazarbayev University, Astana, and Humboldt University, Berlin“, 2018-2022, by VolkswagenFoundation (project participation)

  • Research project "Translocal Goods - Education, Work, and Commodities between Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, China, and the Arab Emirates", 2013-2017, by VolkswagenFoundation (Project Leadership)
  • research consortium / network project “De:link//Re:link - Local perspectives on transregional (dis-)entanglements”, 2021-2024 (funded by BMBF) (Principal Investigator)
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FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS & AWARDS

 

  • Short List Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Award Best Teaching 2019/20 (awarded research seminar: Dinge, Dienstleistungen, Konsum: Spirituelle Ökonomien und religiöses Unternehmertum in Berlin und Nur Sultan (Astana), focus-topic: forward-thinking themes in teaching)

  • KSBF Faculty Award for Best Teaching 2018 (awarded research seminar „Knowledge and matters: ethnographies of the moral and religious world of material things“, co-headed by Dr. Jeanine Elif Dagyeli (Leibniz-ZMO)

  • Fellowship Visiting Scholar Research Network “Re-Configurations. History, Remembrance and Transformation Processes in the Middle East and North Africa”, Universität Marburg (BMBF funded), 09/2016-01/2017

  • Research fellow International Research Center “Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History (re:work)”, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (BMBF funded), 07/2016-03/2016

  • PhD Research fellowship Graduate School “Society and Culture in Motion”, 03/2008-07/2007

  • PhD research fellowship VolkswagenFoundation, 2005-2002

  • Awarded participation in Berlin’s Mentoring Program „ProFil – Professionalisierung von Frauen in Forschung & Lehre. Mentoring – Training – Netzwerke“ („ProFil – Professionalising Women in Academic Research and Teaching. Mentoring – Training – Networking“), 02/2011 - 02/2012

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PUBLICATIONS

 

MONOGRAPHS

  • Forthcoming, Geographies of piety. Muslim mobilities in the Tajik Dubai Business.

ARTICLES

  • Stephan-Emmrich, M.  "A Material Geography of ‘Dubai Business’: Making and Re-Making Muslim Worlds across Central Asia and the Gulf", in: Jeanine Dagyeli,  (eds.): Claiming and Making Muslim Worlds. Religion and Society in the Context of the Global, ZMO-Studien, 2021.

  • Stephan-Emmrich, M. (2018). „Playing cosmopolitan: Muslim self-fashioning, migration, and (be-)longing in the Tajik-Dubai business“. In: Laruelle, Marlene (ed.). Being Muslim in Central Asia: Practices, Politics, and Identities. Leiden, Boston: Brill, pp. 187-207, as well as in: Central Asian Affairs 4/3 (2017), pp. 270-29.

EDITED VOLUMES

  • Muslim Women's Pilgrimage to Mecca and beyond: Reconfiguring Gender, religion, and mobility. Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel, and Tourism, Routledge: together with M. Buitelaar, and V. Thimm, 2022 (Open Access).

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CONFERENCE PAPERS & LECTURES

 

  • "The Aesthetics of Arab-Donored Koran Books: Towards a Material Geography of Bourgeois Islam"
    lecture as part of the workshop "Translocal Ethnographies of Mobilities and Boundaries" at the Institute for Asian and African Studies of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 7th December 2018. More information here.
  • "Frömmigkeit und Pelze: Moralische Geographien und räumliche Zugehörigkeiten tadschikischer Migrantinnen und Migranten in Dubai"
    (engl.: Piety and Furs: Moral Geographies and spatial Belonging of Tajik Migrants in Dubai), lecture as part of the 'Kolloquium zu laufenden Forschungsarbeiten WS 18/19' at the Frobenius-Institut of the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 12th November 2018. More information here.
  • "Crossing and Dwelling: Geographies of Belonging in Muslim Travelling"
    Keynote lecture as part of the NISIS Autumn School 'Travelling Muslims' at the University of Groningen, 15th October 2018. More information here.
  • "Being Muslim abroad: Mapping moral geographies of Tajiks’ migration to the Gulf" 
    Lecture as part of the panel Mobilities, Hospitality, Moral Geographies at the 2nd International Conference of the Central and West Asia and Diasporas Research Network (CWADRN), 23rd Juli 2018. More information here.
  • "'Bourgeois Islam', Gulf Migration, and Post-national Sentiments"
    within the Central Asia Program on "'Bourgeois Islam', Prosperity Theology and Ethics in Muslim Eurasia" an der George Washington University (program here), 29th January, 2018. More information and CAP podcast here.
  • "Business, self-branding, and making Dubai a 'Muslim place': Tajiks working in the Arab Emirates"
    within the 13th annual meeting of the German Association for the Study of Religions (DVRW) at the Philipps-Universität Marburg 13-16 September 2017, more information here
  • "Making Dubai a Muslim Place: Imagination, Work, and Piety"
    within the Joint Institutes Colloquium "Place and Space" at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, organized by Christoph Brumann, Hatem Elliesie, Tobias Holzlehner, Tabea Scharrer and Anita Schroven, 04 July 2017, 4:15 - 6 p.m.
  • "Frömmigkeit und Pelze: Zum Verhältnis von Arbeit, Religion und Zugehörigkeit im tadschikischen 'Dubai-Business'"
    (engl.: Piety and Fur: on the Relationship between Work, Religion and Affiliation in Tajik 'Dubai Business'"), within the social-anthropological colloquium "Care/work" at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin, organized by Birgitt Röttger-Rössler and Mechthild von Vacano, 23 May 2017, 6-8 p.m
  • "Beyond the Authoritative Islamic Script: Hajj Stories of Mobile Tajik Muslims"
    within the colloquium "At the Centre of the World? A Spatial Approach to the Hajj Pilgrimage" organized by the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS), the Institute for Asian and African Studies (IAAW) and Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), 27 April 2017, Institute for Asian and African Studies
  • "Religion in the city: Making a place in this world"
    Academic dialog between Prof. Dr. Manja Stephan-Emmrich and Dr. Ayse Cavdar on religion and place making with the regional focus on Tadjikistan/Emirates and Turkey/Germany. Joint event between the research network Reconfigurations, the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, and the Center for Interdisciplinary Religious Studies (ZIR), 17 January 2017, Philipps-Universität Marburg
  • "'I am Muslim, I am Tajik': Cosmopolitanism, multiple belonging, and 'homing desire' among Tajiks in the Arab Emirates"
    within the conference "Global Muslim Encounters: Homogenisation and Diversity across Time and Space", 9-10 December 2016, Cambridge
  • "Digital mediations: iPhones, Emotions and Piety in the Spatial Biographies of Tajik student travelers in Dubai"
    within the 5th International Crossroads Asia Conference “Area Studies’ Futures”, Panel “Mapping the Socio-Spatial Complexity of Human and Non-Human Interactions”, at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn (program here), 22nd-23rd September 2016.
  • “Dubai as ‘Best’ and ‘Worst Place’: Work and Piety in the Tajik Dubai fur coat business”
    within the Final Conference Fellow Year 2015/16, re:work, International Research Center “Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History”, Humbloldt-Universität zu Berlin,  (program here), 30th June - 1st July 2016
  • "Displaying a Progressive 'Dubai Islam': The Popularization of Reformist Muslim Lifestyles in Urban Tajikistan"
    within the International Conference "Trans-l Encounters: Religious Education and Islamic Popular Culture in Asia and the Middle East" at the Philipps-Universität Marburg (infos here), 26th -28th May 2016
  • "Promoting the common good: Muslim professionalism in translocal religious education networks. Case Studies from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan"
    within the conference "Mobile Muslim Professionals: Trans-Regional Connectedness and (Non-) State Cooperation in Asia and the Middle East" at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, organisation: Claudia Derichs (Philipps-Universität Marburg), Manja Stephan-Emmrich (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies), Shirin Saeidi (Centre for Global Cooperation Research Duisburg), 15th April 2015, 11:30-12:15 a.m.
  • "Displaying Dubai's Cosmopolitanism(s): The Reform Projects of Tajiks Studying and Working in the Arab Emirates"
    within the Central Asia Program with the subject "Religion-Branding? Central Asia's Integration into the International Scene through Religion" at George Washington University (Program here). 26th January 2016 11:30 a.m -13 p.m.
  • "'Mittelklasse'-Frömmigkeit und 'Dubai Boom’: Islamische Konsumkultur im urbanen Tadschikistan"
    (engl.: "'Middleclass'-piety and 'Dubai Boom': Islamic Consumer Culture in Urban Tajikistan")
    Lecture Series "Middle-Classness in Asia" of the Cross Section Mediality and Intermediality, Organization: Prof. Dr. Nadja Schneider. 18/06/2015 4-6 p.m.
  • "Tracing ‘Translocality’ and the Pious Endeavours of Mobile Tajik Muslims in the Middle East"
    Intermediary Book Workshop: "Exploring Translocality: Methodological Reflections and Ethnographic Cases" at the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
    In the context of the VW-project Translocal Goods - Education, Work, and Commodities between Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, China, and the Arab Emirates", 7th-8th April 2015
  • "Die Forscherin als "Gelehrte", "Freundin" und "Ungläubige": Bekehrungsversuche im Feld als ethnografischen Daten lesen"
    (engl: "The Researcher as "Scholar", "Friend" and "Infidel": Reading Attempts to Convert as Ethnographic Data")
    Workshop “Methodische Probleme in der Erforschung religiöser Gegenwartskultur in Asien -  Berichte und Reflexionen aus der Forschungspraxis” (engl.: Methodic Problems in the Exploration of Religious Modern Culture in Asia - Reports and Reflections of Research Practice), Department for Japanology (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen), 19-20/02/2015
  • "Al-Azhar & Co.: Zur Sakralisierung  religiöser Ausbildungsorte in den Frömmigkeitsnarrativen tadschikischer Muslime"
    (engl.: "Al-Azhar & Co.: "The Sacralization of Religious Study Destinations in the Pious Narratives of Tajik Muslims")
    Lecture Series "Sakralität und Mobilität in Südosteuropa und im Kaukasus II" (engl.: "Sacrality and Mobility in South East Europe and in the Caucasus II") by the Department for Caucasus Studies and the Institute for Slavic Studies (Friedrich Schiller University Jena), Organisation: Prof. Dr. Thede Kahl and Dr. Tsypylma Darieva, 28/01/2015
  • "Zuhause ist anderswo: Religiöse Mobilität und translokale Frömmigkeit tadschikischer Islam-Studentinnen in der arabischen Welt"
    (engl: Home is elsewhere - Mobility and Translocal Piety of Female Tajik Islam Students in the Arab World)
    within Weingartener Asiengespräche (engl: "Discussions about Asia in Weingarten" by the academy of the diocese of Rottenburg Stuttgart at Tagungshaus Weingarten, 14/11/2014
  • "Study to work, work to study - Tajik students' mobility and translocal networks in the Arab world and beyond"
    21st International DAVO-Kongress of Contemporary Research on the Middle East at the University of Cologne, 25/09/2014
  • "Transnationale Erziehungspraktiken tadschikischer Familien in der Migration: Eine intergenerationale Perspektive"
    (engl: "Transnational Educational Practices among Tajik Migrant Families: an Intergenerational Perspective")
    24th congress of the German Society for Studies in Education in the panel "Educational processes and transnational migration" by Prof. Dr. Christine Hunner-Kreisel (Vechta) and Prof. Dr. Anatoli Rakhochkine (Leipzig), 12/03/2014, 1 - 4 p.m. (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Working group AG III 71; Dorotheenstraße 24, 1.101)
  • "'A Healthy Education for Tajikistan's Muslims!' State Attempts to Reform Tajikistan's Islamic Education Sector"
    Workshop "Rethinking Politics of Private Higher Education in the Middle East and Central Asia. Ethnographic and Social Sciences Perspectives" at the Graduate School "Society and Culture in Motion", Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, organization: Daniele Cantini, 15/11/2013
  • “Navigating ‘Translocal Pious Lives’:
    Tajik Students of Islam between Religious Ideals and Everyday Secular Realities”
    Seminar Series for the Global Culture Research Group at the Department of Anthropology & Sociology; University of Amsterdam, 14/06/2013
  • "'Islam ist die Lösung': Junge Muslime zwischen religiöser Erweckung, Unsicherheit und erhoffter Zukunft"
    (engl.: "'Islam is the Solution': Young Muslims between Religious Awakening, Uncertainty, and Desired Future")
    Public lecture series "Conflicts in the Present and Future" of the Center for Conflict Studies and the Seminar on Ecology and Safeguarding the Future (ISEM); Philipps-Universität Marburg, 27/05/2013
    And in the context of the lecture series "Youth and Upheaval in Asian and African countries" of the Institute of Asian and African Studies; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 28/01/2013
  • "Islamische Bildung, Imaginationen und sakrales Kapital: Neue (Im)Mobilitäten junger Frauen in Tadschikistan"
    (engl.: "Islamic Education, Imagination and Sacral Capital: New (Im)mobilities of Young Women in Tajikistan)
    Presentation in the context of the lecture series "Religion and Mobilities" of the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 09/01/2013
  • "Across Borders: Researching Translocal Livelihoods in-between Central Asia, Russia, China and the Middle East"
    Presentation with Dr. Philipp Schröder in the context of the international conference "Crossroads Asia - Figurations of Mobility" at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,
    22 - 24/11/2012
  • "Islam as 'Last Option'? Narrations on Uncertainty and the Muslim Self in Today's Tajikistan"
    Presentation in the context of the 12th conference "Uncertainty and Disquiet" of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, University of Paris Quest Nanterre La Défense, 12/07/2012
  • "Islam as Lifestyle - Focus on Media and Consumerism"
    Comment in the context of the international conference  "New mobilities and evolving identities: Islam, Youth and Gender in South and Southeast Asia" of the cross-section Mediumship and Intermediality in Asian and African Societies (Institute of Asian and African Studies), the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, the Cluster of Excellence Normative Orders and the Goethe University Frankfurt; 20 - 21/04/2012
  • "Islamische Bildung als Karriereoption? - Jugend und Islam in Tadschikistan"
    (engl.:"Islamic Education as Career Option? - Youth and Islam in Tajikistan")
    Presentation in the context of the anthropological colloquium "Islam in Asia and Africa" in Cologne, 24/01/2012
  • "Bleiben, Gehen, Zurückkommen: Islamische Bildung und transnationale Mobilität in Tadschikistan"
    (engl.: "Staying, Leaving, Returning: Islamic Education and Transnational Mobilities in Tajikistan")
    Presentation in the context of the advanced seminar of the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich; 16/01/2012
  • "Wie erforscht man 'Islam' und 'Muslime'? - Eine kritische Reflexion akademischer Klassifizierungen aus ethnologischer Perspektive"
    (engl.: "How to Explore 'Islam' and 'Muslims'? - A Critical Reflection of Academic Classifications from an Anthropological Perspective")
    Presentation in the context of the public discussion event "Christian Occident - Islamic Orient: a Relationship of Misunderstandings?
    A cooperation between the Muslim Academy in Germany and the cross-section Islam in Asian and African societies at the Institutie of Asian and African Studies, 15/07/2011
  • "Muslim Youth in post-Soviet Central Asia - A 'Lost Generation'?"
    Presentation in the context of the lecture series "Muslim Identities in the post-Soviet Space" as well as the CAS Public Colloquium Summer Semester 2011: "Reflexive Area Studies: Disciplines, Methods and Areas Reconsidered", eurient e.V., Center for Area Studies Leipzig; 04/05/2011
  • "Young, Educated and Muslim: Islam and Identity among Tajikistan's New Economic Elite"
    Presentation in the context of the international symposium "Religious Dynamics in Central Asia: Islam in Focus", Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; 15 - 17/12/2010
  • "'Public Islam' in Tadschikistan: Zur Bedeutung der Moschee im städtischen Kontext"
    (engl.:"'Public Islam' in Tajikistan: The Role of the Mosque in an Urban Context")
    Presentation in the context of the 31st German Oriental Studies Conference at Marburg, 20 - 24/10/2010

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SCIENTIFIC EVENTS

 

  • Workshop: "Translocal Ethnographies of Mobilities and Boundaries"
    7th December 2018
    Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    organised with Philipp Schröder (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität-Freiburg)
    more informationen here
  • Panel: "Migration, tourism, buisness: Reconfiguring Muslim pilgrimage through the lens of women's new mobilities"
    14th-17th August 2018 (TBA)
    EASA2018: Staying, Moving, Settling
    organised with Marjo Buitelaar (Universität Groningen) und Viola Thimm (Universität Hamburg)
    more information here
  • Workshop: "Global Islam": Muslim Communities, and Ideas of Connectedness in the Modern and Contemporary World
    6th July 2017
    Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies
    organised with Eileen Kane (Connecticut College)
    more information here
  • Workshop: "Mobile Muslim Professionals: Trans-regional Connectedness and (Non-State) Cooperation in Asia and the Middle East"
    14th-15th April 2016
    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In cooperation with Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Philipps-Universität Marburg (see report on the workshop here and see comment here), more information here
  • Intermediary Book Workshop: "Exploring Translocality: Methodological Reflections and Ethnographic Cases"
    7th-8th April 2015
    American University of Central Asia in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
    In the context of the VW-project Translocal Goods - Education, Work, and Commodities between Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, China, and the Arab Emirates"
    more information hier
  • Summer School: "Society and Conflict in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan"
    4th -14th July 2013
    Summer School in Dushanbe, Tajikistan
    Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
  • Workshop "Tracing Migration and Global Connectedness - Urban Contexts in Central Asia and Beyond"
    30th -31th May 2013
    Workshop for PhD-candidates at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Lecture Series "Religion und Mobilität" (engl.: "Religion and Mobilities")
    Winter semester 12/13
    Course for BA and MA students at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Lecture "Ethnologie des Islams" (engl.: "Anthropology of Islam")
    Summer semester 2012
    Course for MA students at the Institute of Asien and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Lecture Series "Beyond Oil and Radical Islam: From Classifications to Links of Economy and Religion in Central Asia"
    Winter semester 11/12 and Summer semester 12 (October 2011 - June 2012)
    In cooperation with the "Zentrum Moderner Orient" (ZMO) and the competence network Crossroads Asia
  • Scientific Colloquium "Gender und Islam: Säkulare und religiös begründete Geschlechterdiskurse in transregional vergleichender Perspektive"
    (engl.:"Gender and Islam: Secular and Religiously Justified Gender Discourses in Transregional Comparing Perspectives")
    08th - 09th December 2011
    In cooperation with the Transdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies and the cross-section Mediumship and Intermediality in Asian and African Societies at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Conference "Christliches Abendland - Islamisches Morgenland: Verhältnis der Missverständnisse?"
    (engl.: "Christian Occident - Islamic Orient: a Relationship of Misunderstandings?")
    15th July 2011
    In cooperation with the Muslim Academy in Germany
  • Symposium"Religious Dynamics in Central Asia: Islam in Focus"
    15th - 17th December 2010
    In cooperation with the Central Asian Seminar at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

 

More detailed information can be found here. (partly in English)

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MEMBERSHIPS & FUNCTIONS

 

  • Member of the German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (DHV)
  • Member of the Institute Council at the Institute of Asian and African Studies
  • Coordinator of ERASMUS at the Institute of Asian and African Studies
    (until February 2012)
  • Member of the library commission at the Institute of Asian and African Studies
  • Principal Investigator (PI) at the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS)
  • Member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
  • Member of the American Association of Anthropologist Association (AAA)
  • Member of the Central and West Asia and Disaporas Research Network (CWADRN)
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