Prof. Dr. Manja Stephan
Research and Teaching Field: Transregional Central Asian Studies with the Focus of Islam and Migration
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- Prof. Dr. Manja Stephan
- manja.stephan (at) asa.hu-berlin.de
Room: 502
Phone: +49 30 2093-66052
Fax: +49 30 2093-66048
Consultation hours WiSe 2024/25 (in-person):
Tuesday 4-6 pm; Room 502
To make an appointment, Bachelor's and Master's students register in the consultation hours function on Moodle.
To make an appointment, PhD students register in the consultation hours function on Moodle.
International and transregional teaching cooperation
Conference Papers and Lectures
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
RESEARCH FOCI
- Anthropology of transregional Islam
- Muslim mobilities and religious geographies
- transregional Central Asian and Gulf studies (Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, United Arab Emirates)
- Muslim professionalism
- religious economies
- material religion
- cultural heritage policies
More detailed information can be found here
PUBLICATIONS from 2018
Monographs:
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(To be published in 2024) Muslim Mobilities. Geographies of Piety and Belonging in Tajik Dubai Business (Berlin: DeGruyter Anthropology of Islam Series) open access
Edited volumes & Special Issues:
- (2023) Special Issue “Gender and Religious Knowledge in Asia: Muslim Women Going Professional”, IQAS -International Quarterly for Asian Studies Vol. 54/2023, (co-edited Claudia Derichs and Faiza Muhammad Din), peer-reviewed and open access
- (2021) Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond. Reconfiguring Gender, Religion, and Mobility. London and New York: Routledge (co-edited Marjo Buitelaar and Viola Thimm), peer-reviewed and open access
- (2018) Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas: Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers (co-edited Philipp Schröder), peer-reviewed and open access
Articles (peer-reviewed):
Single authorship
- (2021). “A Material Geography of ‘Dubai Business’: Making and Re-Making Muslim Worlds across Central Asia and the Gulf”. In J. Dağyeli, C. Ghrawi & U. Freitag (eds.), Claiming and Making Muslim Worlds: Religion and Society in the Context of the Global (pp. 55-76). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, open access
- (2018) “iPhones, emotions, mediation. Tracing translocality in the pious endeavors of Tajiks studying and working in the Middle East". In: Manja Stephan-Emmrich and Philipp Schröder (eds.). in: Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas: Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, open access
- (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 u. Boston: Brill (2018). 187-207
Co-authorship
- (2023). “Female, Veiled, Active: Muslim Professionals in Self-development Training in Today’s Kyrgyzstan”, in: IQAS - International Quarterly for Asian Studies Vol. 54/2023 IV, pp. 213-238 (co-authored Mukaram Toktogulova), open access
- (2023). “Mosques and Meeting Rooms: Professional Lives of Muslim Women. Editorial, in: IQAS - International Quarterly for Asian Studies Vol. 54/2023 IV, pp. 343-353 (co-authored Claudia Derichs and Faiza Muhammad Din), open access
- (2021). “Introduction: Muslim Pilgrimage through the Lens of Women’s New Mobilities”. In M. Buitelaar, M. Stephan-Emmrich, V. Thimm (eds.), Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond. Reconfiguring Gender, Religion, and Mobility (pp. 1-18). London and New York: Routledge, (co-authored Marjo Buitelaar and Viola Thimm), open access
- (2018) "Crossing Economic and Cultural Boundaries: Tajik Middlemen in the Translocal ‘Dubai Business’ Sector" (together with Abdullah Mirzoev). In: Manja Stephan-Emmrich und Philipp Schröder (eds.). Mobilities, Boundaries, andTravelling Ideas: Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, open access
- (2018) “Introduction. Mobilities, Boundaries, and Traveling Ideas in Central Asia and beyond: A Translocal Perspective" (together with Philipp Schröder). In: Manja Stephan- Emmrich and Philipp Schröder (eds.). Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas: Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, open access
Other articles:
Single authorship
- (2021). “In Mecca with the second wife: un/scripted hajj stories of Tajik migrant women in the United Arab Emirates”, in: The Written and The Spoken in Central Asia. Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit in Zentralasien. Festschrift für Ingeborg Baldauf, ed. By Redkollegiia. Potsdam: Edition tethys: Wissenschaft, pp. 483-504. DOI: 10.36201/tethys.science.4, open access
Co-authorship
- (2022): “Becoming professionals: virtual mobility, gender, and religious knowledge”. In Fleschenberg, A. et al. (Eds.):Local Responses to Global Challenges in Southeast Asia. A Transregional Studies Reader. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. (co-authored Claudia Derichs and Faiza Muhammad Din)
- (2018) IAAW-Newsletter #2, co-authored Henning Klöter and Baz Lecocq
RESEARCH PROJECTS (current)
- "Women’s Pathways to Professionalization in Muslim Asia: Reconfiguring Religious Knowledge, Gender, and Connectivity“; the project is funded by DEUTSCHE FORSCHUNGSGEMEINSCHAFT (DFG) and is part of the SHAPING ASIA network.
- “De:Link // Re:Link - Local perspectives on transregional (dis-)entanglements”; the project is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung – BMBF).
CURRENT COURSES
- Summer semester 2024, more information here.
INTERNATIONAL AND TRANSREGIONAL TEACHING COOPERATION
CONFERENCE PAPERS & LECTURES from 2018
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“The aesthetics of trans/formative knowledges: Kyrgyz Muslim women’s knowledge circuits ‘shaping Asianness’”, presentation in panel: Crossroads of Tradition and Innovation: Exploring the Professional Pathways of Muslim Women in Asia, Workshop Shaping Asia through Knowledge Circuits, Bielefeld University, 28-29 Sept 2023.
- “Whose dream and what about? Linking urban development and national heritage economies with China’s presence in Tajikistan’s capital city Dushanbe”, presentation in De:Link//Re:Link Workshop Translating the "Chinese Dream". Narratives and Languages in New Silk Road Regions, HU Berlin 21 Oct 2022.
- “A Critical Approach to Cultural Heritage Studies in Central Asia: the example of Museums”presentation given at Academy of Science/University of Vienna, 12 June 2023.
- “Cultural Heritage Studies in Central Asia: Critical Approaches”, lecture given during Summer School Pasts, Presents, Futures? Critical Approaches to Heritage in Central Asia, Summer School DAAD Go East Program, UCA Tajikistan, Dushanbe 16 Sept 2022.
- “Making Dubai a Muslim Place: Imagination, Work, and Piety”, paper presentation Workshop on Anthropology of Islam, Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art (Garage), 26 Oct 2019.
- “From ‘post-‘ to ‘trans-‘…?: Why and how translocality matters in new Central Eurasian Studies”, conceptual note Lecture Series “Central Eurasian Studies and Translocality – A Debate Unfolding”, Zentrum Moderner Orient, 09. Sept 2019.
- “Bourgeois Islam and other post-national sensibilities: Tracing im/-material flows across Central Asia and the Gulf”, paper presentation in panel “Challenging the North/South Divide: Multicentric Flows in Muslim Worlds”, final conference, International Conference “Claiming and Making Muslim Worlds: Across and Between the Local and Global”, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin (3-5 April 2019).
- "The Aesthetics of Arab-Donored Koran Books: Towards a Material Geography of Bourgeois Islam"
Vortrag im Rahmen des Workshops "Translocal Ethnographies of Mobilities and Boundaries" am Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 7. Dezember 2018. - "Frömmigkeit und Pelze: Moralische Geographien und räumliche Zugehörigkeiten tadschikischer Migrantinnen und Migranten in Dubai"
Vortrag im Rahmen des Kolloquium zu laufenden Forschungsarbeiten WS 18/19 am Frobenius-Institut der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 12. November 2018. - "Crossing and Dwelling: Geographies of Belonging in Muslim Travelling"
Keynote-Vortrag im Rahmen der NISIS Autumn School 'Travelling Muslims' an der University of Groningen, 15. Oktober 2018. - "Being Muslim abroad: Mapping moral geographies of Tajiks’ migration to the Gulf"
Vortrag im Rahmen des Panels Mobilities, Hospitality, Moral Geographies der 2nd International Conference of the Central and West Asia and Diasporas Research Network (CWADRN), 23. Juli 2018. - "'Bourgeois Islam', Gulf Migration, and Post-national Sentiments"
Vortrag im Rahmen des Central Asia Program zum Thema "'Bourgeois Islam', Prosperity Theology and Ethics in Muslim Eurasia" an der George Washington University (Program here), 29. Januar, 2018. More information and CAP-Podcast here.
SCIENTIFIC EVENTS
- Workshop “Museums as Cultural Infrastructures: Claiming History and Heritage in Central Eurasia”, De:Link//Re:Link-Research Consortium Workshop, 1-2/06/2023, HU Berlin (together with Jeanine Dağyeli, University of Vienna)
- Scholars in Residence Programme DFG research project Women’s Pathways to Professionalization in Muslim Asia: Reconfiguring Religious Knowledge, Gender, and Connectivity, (co-organized by Claudia Derichs and Faiza Muhammad Din), IAAW/HU Berlin, 27 June – 09 July 2022
- DGSKA Panel “Taking Stock of China’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ - Empirical, Theoretical and Methodological Contributions from Current Anthropological Research” (co-organized by Philipp Schröder NU Kazakhstan), at DGSKA – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie Tagung, Munich, 25-28 July 2023
- Lecture Series Berlin Transregional Talks/Berliner Transregionale Gespräche (co-organized by Claudia Derichs and Faiza Muhammad Din), since summer term 2022
- DGSKA Panel “Beyond the Anthropocene: Rethinking Central Asia and Caucasus Studies through ‘New Materialism’ ”(co-organized by Philipp Schröder, NU Kazakhstan), at DGSKA – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie Tagung, Bremen, 27-30 Sept 2021
- Online-Workshop “Religious Knowledge, Women, and Professionalism”, DFG research project Women’s Pathways to Professionalization in Muslim Asia: Reconfiguring Religious Knowledge, Gender, and Connectivity(co-organized by Claudia Derichs and Faiza Din Muhammad), IAAW/HU Berlin, 26-27 Aug 2021
- Workshop: "Translocal Ethnographies of Mobilities and Boundaries" 7th December 2018
Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, cooperation with Philipp Schröder (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität-Freiburg) - Book launch edited volume Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas, 6 December 2018 at ZOiS Center for Eastern and European Studies, discussants: Dr. Tsypylma Darieva (ZOiS Berlin) and PD Dr. Katrin Bromber (Leibniz-ZMO)
- Panel: "Migration, tourism, business: Reconfiguring Muslim pilgrimage through the lens of women's new mobilities”, 14th-17th August 2018 EASA Conference “Staying, Moving, Settling”, co-organised by Marjo Buitelaar (Universität Groningen) und Viola Thimm (Universität Hamburg), moor information here
- Lecture Series "At the Centre of the World? A Spatial Approach to the Hajj Pilgrimage”, Oct 2016 – Jan 2018 (collaboration with the Seminar for African History, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), and Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies)
EDITORSHIP
- ANOR Central Asian Studies Book Series (DeGruyter), moore information here.
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)