Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Institute of Asian and African Studies

Central Asian Seminar

Current Teaching


Summer term 2024/25

01.04.2025 - 30.09.2025

Interesting seminars in the summer semester

 

"Beyond Progress and Crisis: Ways of Collective Life in Mongolia (and Inner Asia)" with Björn Reichhardt

Tuesday, 12:00-14:00 CEST
Room 1.505, Doro24

"Language Course Pashto I"
for beginners with Dr. Lutz Rzehak

Wednesdays & Fridays, 08:00–10:00 CEST
Room 507 & Zoom

"Lived diaspora: Afghan life worlds in Berlin"
with Prof. Dr. Manja Stephan
with accompanying tutorial

Tuesday, 2 - 4 p.m.
Room 507; module 10, 17 (BA)

Further offers
Summer school of Balochi (Beginners)

15.09.2025 - 19.09.2025

Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Celetná 20, Prague 1, room 240

Central Asian Seminar

 

News

 
PHD-Colloquium Transregional
Central Asian Studies
Tajik visual Culture in transition: From Behzad to Bolsheviks
Mahsa Moazzen
02.07.2025
Tajik visual Culture in transition: From Behzad to Bolsheviks, Mahsa Moazzen, 02.07.25, 4-6 pm, online
 
Spaces & traces of belonging: Koryo Saram lifeworlds in South Korea
Tobias Stefan
09.07.2025
Spaces & traces of belonging: Koryo Saram lifeworlds in South Korea, Tobias Stefan, 09.07.25, 4-6 pm, Invaliedenstr. 118 Room 507
 
New article: 
Mongolia’s Mother Ocean
Ecologies of Transformation at the Intersection of Land, Growth and Pollution in Inner Asia

Author: Björn Reichhardt

Mongolia’s Mother Ocean

New project:

 

Studies

Research

 

Publications

Events

 

 

 

Latest publications (selection)
 

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 

von Joanna Bialek. 2022.

 

 
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

von Diana Lange. 2020.

 

 

Source of Life. Revitalisation Rites and Bon Shamans in Bhutan and the Eastern Himalayas.

von Toni Huber. 2020.

 

 
Amdo Tibetan Language. Introduction to Normative Oral Amdo.

von Huadan Zhaxi. 2016.