4 Dissertationen und Habilita- tionen / Dissertations and Habilitations

ARBEITSGRUPPEN WORKING GROUPS
1.5 DAVO-Arbeitsgruppen
Working Groups of DAVO
New DAVO-Working Group "Post-Communist
Eurasia as a Part of Islamic and Turkic World"
This newly founded platform is intended for all those
who take a professional interest in the various aspects
of former communist countries with Muslim majorities
as well as of the regions of Islamic cultural background
like the Volga-Ural-Area.
We decided at the 18. DAVO-Congress, hosted at
Free University Berlin, to make our scientific aims
and fields of research more perceivable and to draw
more attention to the research of this Islamic and
Turkic part of Eurasia (and their links to the Near and
Middle East studies).
Set up as a vehicle to more effectively interlink,
network and find colleagues who share similar interests
for joint projects, for interviews, for questions of
advice and consultancy, for the exploration of joint
research agendas, or in order to find resource persons,
you are welcome to take part on creating our blog.
You can get in touch with other users of this blog in
order to think about next events, new research topics
or opportunities to apply for grants and jobs.
We would like to discuss at first how to deal with
our topics of research and how to categorize them.
While we deal with interdisciplinary views on the
history, policy, language, culture and literature of
Muslim and Turkic people of former communist
countries of Eurasia, we have two opportunities. On
one hand we define our fields of research along geographical
units like Central Asia / Turkestan, Volga-
Ural-Area, Caucasus and Black Sea region, the Baltic
and the Balkans. On the other hand we have to specify
the topics of research as the following:
- History and specific formations of Islam in Northern
and Central Asia and Eastern Europe (including
reformist movements like Djadidism, Muftiyat-policy
in USSR a.s.f.);
- Muslim cultural legacy in post-communist context
/ Islamophobia and Racism in former communist
countries;
- Theoretical concepts of Euro-Islam and implication
of these ideas in through the state policy and
socio-cultural practices in CIS and autonomous
subjects of Russian Federation;
- New directions of Islam in post-communist states
(ṭuruq, Awqāf, syncretistic new pathes);
- Language policy and language reform projects
(mother tongue education, calligraphy etc.);
- Place and role of Muslim culture in a contemporary
non-Islamic society, in mega-cities and different
public and cultural spaces where Muslim
people live as minority or majority as well as indigenous
Muslims or migrants from abroad.
While we are working on English, German, Turkic
and Slavic language functions, not everyone is ready
to use all kind of languages. So we would like to use
the blog bilingual (English + second language) and
please do not hesitate to write us, if you need help
with translations of your statements. We will also be
pleased to help you to establish your profile in case
you have linguistic difficulties.
Our preliminary blog http://davoakeurasia.word
press.com/ is provided by DAVO-members and by
support of the Institute for Caucasica-, Tatarica- and
Turkestan-Studies Berlin (ICATAT) on an "as-is"
basis: This is a service to all DAVO members who
like to share their experience and expertise with those
who demand it which does not result in any costs to
its users.
Awaiting your responses and looking forward for a
fruitful research cooperation!
Prof. Dr. Swietłana Czerwonnaja (Torun, Polen),
Dr. Mieste Hotopp-Riecke (Berlin), Prof. Dr. Ismail
Kerimov (Aqmescit/Simferopol, Crimea/Ukraine),
Prof. Dr. Iskander Gilyazov (Kazan, Tatarstan/Russia),
Prof. Dr. Güljanat Kurmangaliyeva-Ercilasun
(Seoul/Istanbul)
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Arbeitskreis „Wirtschaft im Vorderen Orient“
Mitglieder des Arbeitskreises „Wirtschaft im Vorderen
Orient“ (Anja Zorob, Christian Steiner und Steffen
Wippel) organisierten auf der DAVO-Tagung im
Oktober 2011 in Berlin das Panel "Golfökonomien im
Umbruch/Gulf Economies in Transition", auf dem
acht Referenten ihre Beiträge vorstellten (siehe Tagungsberichte).
Auf der anschließenden Sitzung des Arbeitskreises
wurden mit den anwesenden Mitgliedern weitere
Aktivitäten diskutiert. Im Hinblick auf den anstehenden
relaunch der DAVO-Homepage soll an bisher
bereits Interessierte ein Fragebogen gesendet werden,
um Angaben, die auf eine spezielle Unterseite des
Arbeitskreises gestellt werden sollen, einzuholen.
Für die nächste Jahrestagung der DAVO 2012 in
Erlangen wurde bereits über ein Panel nachgedacht,
das wirtschaftliche Entwicklungsperspektiven und
Entwicklungschancen in der MENA-Region nach
2011 erörtern soll. Interessierte werden gebeten sich
an die Organisatoren des Arbeitskreises unter
azorob@zedat.fu-berlin.de, C.Steiner@em.uni-frank
furt.de oder steffen.wippel@rz.hu-berlin.de zu wenden.
Steffen Wippel
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