Central Asian Seminar
Current Teaching
Interesting seminars in the summer semester
"“Collecting the World“: Sammlungen und ihre Geschichten"
by Diana Lange
Wednesday, 12 a.m. - 2 p.m. CEST
Room 507; Module 08 (MA)
"Narrating diaspora: Artivism – Oral History – biographical narration"
by Fiona Naeem
Tuesday 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. CEST
Room 507; Module 10 (BA)
"Life in Crisis: Mongolia from Socialism to Capitalism"
by Björn Reichhardt
Tuesday 12 a.m. - 2 p.m. CEST
Room 507; Module 11 (BA)
"Russia in Central Asia: political and cultural entanglements"
by Jesko Schmoller
Monday 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. CEST
Room 507; Module 12 (BA)
Creating a Catalogue of Printed Heritage in Faizabad Public Library
Latest 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
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HCCA LECTURE SERIES
Sommer 2026
We are pleased to present the second edition of our lecture series, "Histories and Cultures of Central Asia," for the summer semester of 2026.
Here is an overview of the lectures:
CARL - Central Asia Research Lab
CARL – the Central Asia Research Lab – will continue in the summer semester of 2026, meeting every other Tuesday from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in room 507. The schedule with an overview of the individual sessions will be published soon.
We hope this format will foster a lively exchange about research at the Central Asia Seminar and provide a forum for constructive feedback.
All interested parties are warmly welcome.
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.
