Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät - Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften

For the fourth edition of the 2026 summer term's Histories and Cultures of Central Asia (HCCA) lecture series, we will welcome Prof. Dr. Henny Piezonka (Free University of Berlin) who will give a lecture on:

Learning from the Experts: Ethnoarchaeological insights among North and Inner Asian hunter-reindeer herders

Since this is a public online event, we will be pleased to welcome you at

Central Asian Seminar

Institute for Asian and African Studies

Room 507, Invalidenstr. 118, 10115 Berlin

or on Zoom!

Please note, the talk will start at 6.15 p.m., the Zoom room opens at 6.00 p.m.

A PDF version of the poster is available for download here.

Auch im Sommersemester 2026 geht es weiter mit CARL - dem Central Asia Research Lab, das 14tägig dienstags von 16 bis 18 Uhr im Raum 507 stattifnden wird. Hier sehen Sie den Plan mit einer Übersicht der Einzelveranstaltungen.

Wir erhoffen uns von dem Format einen regen Austausch über Forschungen am ZA-Seminar und einen Rahmen für konstruktives Feedback.

Alle Interessierten sind herzlich willkommen.

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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. See the schedule with an overview of the individual sessions below.

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.

For the third edition of the 2026 summer term's Histories and Cultures of Central Asia (HCCA) lecture series, we will welcome Deepa Anappara who will give a lecture on:

Research and Imagination in the Postcolonial Historical Novel: A Practitioner's Viewpoint

Since this is a public online event, we will be pleased to welcome you at

Central Asian Seminar

Institute for Asian and African Studies

Room 507, Invalidenstr. 118, 10115 Berlin

or on Zoom!

Please note, the talk will start at 6.15 p.m., the Zoom room opens at 6.00 p.m.

A PDF version of the poster is available for download here.

For the second edition of the 2026 summer term's Histories and Cultures of Central Asia (HCCA) lecture series, we will welcome Khandama Tudebei who will give a lecture on:

Whose Language Counts? Activism and Erasure in Buryatia

Since this is a public online event, we will be pleased to welcome you at

Central Asian Seminar

Institute for Asian and African Studies

Room 507, Invalidenstr. 118, 10115 Berlin

or on Zoom!

Please note, the talk will start at 6.15 p.m., the Zoom room opens at 6.00 p.m.

A PDF version of the poster is available for download here.

For the first edition of the 2026 summer term's Histories and Cultures of Central Asia (HCCA) lecture series, we will welcome Barbara Gerke, Jan M.A. van der Valk, Tawni L. Tidwell, Calum Blaikie for an online book launch of their book “Crafting Potency”. The talk is titled:

The Collaborative Writing of “Crafting Potency”:  A Metadisciplinary Approach to Sowa Rigpa Medicine-Making across the Himalayas

Since this is a public online event, we will be pleased to welcome you on Zoom!

Please note, the talk will start at 6.15 p.m., the Zoom room opens at 6.00 p.m.