Activities 2007
12/15/2007
Phd seminar, section "Text and Context"
Fahd Ashour made a presentation of his Phd project "The Qur'ân and narration: aspects of contextualization". Two exterior guests accepted our invitation and participated to the discussion: Dr. Johannes Thon (Institut of biblical studies) and Dr. Heidrun Eichner (O.W.Z.). The participants exchanged several opinions about the methods of analyze of a sacred text like the coranic text and the interest of the comparative perspective with biblical narratives. The discussion around coranic studies inspired us to organize a meeting about the Corpus Coranicum project. Nicolaï Sinaï from Berlin will present the Corpus Coranicum project during the summer semester.
12/10/2007
Dr. Tilman Lüdke (Erfurt University, Chair of West Asian History)
German Discourses on Central Asia 1914 - 1945: Imperialism or Indifference?
Meeting of the Central Asia Study Group (Halle)
Oriental Institute, Mühlweg 15, 06114 Halle/S., Seminar room I
12/04/2007
Transformation of customary law in Kazakhstan during the colonial period
Zhanar Jampeissova (Eurasian National University, Astana)
Oriental Institute, Mühlweg 15, 06114 Halle/S., Seminar room I
11/28/2007 - 11/29/2007
Academic Writing in English
Workshop on successful and optimistic writing and self management
[ Outline, Abstract ]
11/28/2007
Transformational Moves - Doctoral Colloquium
Oriental Institute, Mühlweg 15, 06114 Halle/S. [ more ... ]
11/24/2007
Phd seminar, section "Text and Context"
Antje Lenora presented her Phd about "Sirat al-Hâkim bi-amr Allâh". The discussion was about the mixture between historical and fictitious narratives in the text of Sîrat al-Hâkim.
10/19/2007
The Orientalist Gaze on/by Japan: Bygone Woe or Ongoing Affliction?
Interdisziplinärer Workshop, organisiert von Dr. Susanne Klien (GSAA)
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Advokatenweg 36, 06114 Halle
[ Workshop outline, Programme, Abstracts (PDF) ]
10/15/2007
Meeting of the Central Asia Study Group (Halle), Makset Karlibaev (Institute of History, Archaeology, and Ethnography in Nukus, Uzbekistan)
"Cult and Belief: The Role of ziyarat in Present-Day Karakalpak Life: Past and Present"
Oriental Institute, Mühlweg 15, 06114 Halle/S., Seminar room I
10/04/2007
Opening meeting of the winter term 2007/08 and welcoming of the new GSAA fellows
Oriental Institute, Mühlweg 15, 06114 Halle/S., Seminar Room I
10/01/2007 - 10/02/2007
Wissen um Veränderung: Entwicklung, Geschichte, sozialer Wandel
Herbsttagung 2007 der Sektion Entwicklungssoziologie und Sozialanthropologie (ESSA) der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie
MPI für ethnologische Forschung, Advokatenweg 36, 06114 Halle
07/12/2007
In Clan We Trust: Interpersonal trust after civil war in northern Somalia
Markus Höhne, fellow of the GSAA, gives a lecture on the conference of the AEGIS/ECAS (European Conference on African Studies) in Leiden (Netherlands), 11 - 14 July 2007.
07/12/2007
Race, ethnicity, genetics: Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging
Workshop, organized by Dr. Katharina Schramm (GSAA)
MPI for Social Anthropology, Advokatenweg 36, 06114 Halle [ more ... ]
07/09/2007
Meeting of the Central Asian Study Group
Dr. Christian Teichmann: Backward,Colonized, or Modernized? Recent Debates on Central Asia's Place in Soviet History
Orientwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Mühlweg 15, 06114 Halle, lecture room 1
07/02/2007
Talibanisation of Pakistan
Asma Shakir Khawaja (M. A.), fellow of the GSAA from the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (Pakistan)
Orientwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Mühlweg 15, 06114 Halle, lecture room 1 [ more ... ]
06/12/2007
Prof. Steven Robins (Department of Sociology & Social Anthropology University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, at present guest lecturer at the seminar for ethnology)
Stolperstein and Traces in Stone: Memory, Memorials and 'Master-Narratives'
Institute for Social Anthropology, Reichardtstraße 11, 06114 Halle/S.
06/11/2007
meeting of the Central Asia Study Group:
Dr. Krisztina Kehl-Bodrogi: The cult of the dead in Khoresm.
Orientwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Mühlweg 15, 06114 Halle/S., lecture room I
06/08/2007 - 06/09/2007
Religious Texts in Islam: Authority, Reception and Use
Workshop, organized by Dr. Asma Hilali (GSAA)
Orientwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Mühlweg 15, 06114 Halle, more
Protocol as PDF
05/31/2007
Dr. Verena Blechinger-Talcott, Ostasiatisches Seminar Freie Universität, Berlin
Korruption - Schmieröl oder Sand im Getriebe staatlichen Handelns? Japans Erfahrungen im Vergleich
Veranstaltungsreihe: Bürger-Staat-Beziehungen in der Krise
Audimax HS XXII, Universitätsplatz 1
05/24/2007
Dr. Guido Steinberg, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin
Vom Aufstand zum Bürgerkrieg. Der Irak nach 2003
Veranstaltungsreihe: Bürger-Staat-Beziehungen in der Krise
Audimax HS XXII, Universitätsplatz 1
05/21/2007
Central Asia Study Group:
Abdulhakim Aripov is going to talk about "The restoration of the waqf institutional system in Bukhara (18th-19th centuries)".
Time: 16.00
Place: Orientwissenschaftliches Zentrum, 06114 Halle/S., Mühlweg 15, SR I
05/14/2007
Central Asia Study Group:
Prof. Dr. Alexander Naymark (Hofstra University, Hempstead, N. Y.)
Varakhsha - Palace of the Rulers of Bukhara.
Place: Melanchthonianum, Hörsaal 21.
Time: Monday, 14th May 2007, 18.30
05/08/2007
Prof. Dr. Ricardo Mauricio Freire Soares, Universidade Federal da Bahia (Brasilien), at present Università La Sapienza, Rome
The Situation of Human Rights in Bahia.
Oriental Institute of the MLU, Mühlweg 15, 06114 Halle/S., Seminar room 1
05/07/2007
Dr. Katharina Schramm, GSAA
Welcome to the Slave Market: Signboards and the Transformation of a Historical Landscape in Ghana
OWZ, Mühlweg 15, 06114 Halle/S.
04/27/2007
Prof. Dr. Hermann Goltz from the Faculty of Theology is awarded an honorary PhD degree by the State University of Yerevan, Armenia, in recognition of his scholarly and socio-political achievements.
04/16/2007
PD Dr. Ildikó Bellér-Hann (OWZ)
Feudalism, Socialism and the Present Mixed Economy in Rural Eastern Xinjiang. Fieldwork report.
Oriental Institute, Mühlweg 15, 06114 Halle/S.
04/12/2007 - 04/14/2007
Judith Beyer: Best graduate student paper on Central Asia. At: "Nation, Community and the State", ASN World Convention, Columbia University, New York City, USA.
04/01/2007
PD Hans Harder has been appointed to a W3-professorship for Modern Indology (succession of Prof. Dr. Monika Böhm-Tettelbach) at the South Asia Institute of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. He will take up the appointment from 1 April 2007.
02/13/2007 - 02/14/2007
PhD-workshop Wittenberg [ Abstracts ]
01/26/2007
Tradition within and beyond the framework of invention
Workshop, organized by Dr. Susanne Klien (GSAA) and Patrick Neveling (GSAA)
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Advokatenweg 36, 06114 Halle [ more ... ]
01/25/2007
Portrait of Prof. Dr. Gesine Foljanty-Jost in weekly journal DIE ZEIT:
"Gesichter der Vernunft: Wie faszinierend Wissenschaft in Deutschland aussieht." Download as pdf-file (ca. 450 kb)
01/15/2007
Dr. des. Sören Stark
"Archaeological Prospections in Highland Usrushana (Northern Tajikistan). Preliminary Results of the 2005 and 2006 seasons"
January 15, 2007, 4:00 pm
Oriental Institute of the MLU Halle-Wittenberg, Mühlweg 15, Seminar room 1