PD Dr Katharina Lange
University Education | Research and Teaching Positions | Fieldwork | Fellowships and Awards | Funded Projects | Research Interests | Languages | Academic Publications
University Education
07 / 2002 |
Dr. phil., University of Leipzig, Germany |
11 / 1997 |
MA in Cultural Anthropology, History and Islamic Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany |
Research and Teaching Positions
01/2014 –
present
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Coordinator of Working Group "The Politics of Resources"
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01/2008 – 12/2013 |
Coordinator,Working Group “Microcosms and Practices of the Local” |
07 / 2004 – present |
Research Fellow (wissenschaftl. Mitarbeiterin), Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (Centre of Modern Oriental Studies), Berlin |
08 / 2007- 01 / 2008 |
Visiting Professor of Anthropology and History, Jacobs University Bremen |
07 / 2001 – 06 / 2004 |
Research Fellow (wissenschaftl. Mitarbeiterin), Collaborative Research Center (SFB 586) Difference and Integration, Universities of Halle-Wittenberg and Leipzig |
1998 - 2002 |
Visiting Lecturer, Institut für Ethnologie, Leipzig University |
Fieldwork
09 / 2002 – 10 / 2003
12/2003 – 01/2004 |
14 months of fieldwork in northern Syria on oral history, memory and tradition among tribal Arab villagers in and near the Syrian Euphrates Valley, funded by the German Research Association (DFG), followed by continuous visits to the region till today (April 2011) |
01 / 1999 – 09 / 2000 |
14 months of fieldwork and bibliographical research on approaches to indigenization in Arabic anthropology at academic institutions in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt |
Fellowships and Awards
09 / 2002 – 01/ 2004 |
Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Aleppo / Syria |
2003 |
Publication Grant for outstanding doctoral research from VG Wort |
08 / 2002 |
Fellowship, European and American Young Scholars' Institute "Public Spheres and Muslim Identities", 2nd part, funded by Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation |
07 / 2002 |
Fellowship, International Summer Academy "The Ties that Bind and Kin that Matter" (Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin / Free University of Berlin), funded by Volkswagen Foundation |
08 – 09 / 2001 |
Fellowship, International Summer Academy "The Local Production of Islamic Knowledge" in Istanbul, funded by Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin and the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), Leiden |
04 / 1998 – 06 / 2001 |
Dissertation Scholarship, Landesgraduiertenförderung Sachsen, Germany |
09/1998-12/1998 |
Fellowship, ASA programme of Carl Duisberg Society, for project on urban planning in Aleppo, Syria |
Funded Projects
07 / 2006 – 06/2008 |
Images of War: Arab civilians’ experiences and memories of World War I and World War II, funded by the German Research Association (DFG) |
07 / 2004-06 / 2006 |
Images of War: Arab combatants’ experiences and memories of World War I and World War II, funded by the German Research Association (DFG) |
07 / 2001 – 06 / 2004 |
Life worlds of a nomadic tribe in Syria, 1900-2000: the Welde example, funded by the German Research Association (DFG) |
Research Interests
(post)colonial Syrian history, history and memory, anthropology of the Middle East, history of world wars, ethnography of Kurdish and Nomadic societies
Languages
German, English, Arabic, Kurdish (Kurmanci), French
Academic Publications
Books
- (ed., with Heike Liebau, Katrin Bromber, Dyala Hamzah, Ravi Ahuja): The World in World Wars. Perspectives, Experiences and Perceptions from Asia and Africa. Leiden u.a.: Brill 2010.
- „Zurückholen, was uns gehört.“ Indigenisierungstendenzen in der arabischen Ethnologie. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 2005
- (ed., with Katja Geisenhainer): Bewegliche Horizonte. Festschrift für Bernhard Streck. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag. 2005
Articles in edited volumes and journals
- 2015, Sardiyāt al-tārīḫ al-šafawī wa-intāğ al-tārīḫ: muqāraba iṯnūġrāfīya. In: Al-tārīḫ al-šafawī, Vol. 2. (Hrsg. Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies); Doha/Beirut, S. 25–42.
- 2015, "Bedouin" and "Shawaya": The Performative Constitution of Tribal Identities in Syria during the French Mandate and Today. In: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 58 (1-2), 200-235
- 2014, Special Issue (ed., with Katrin Bromber and Jeanne Féaux de la Croix), „The temporal politics of Big Dams in Africa, the Middle East and Asia“, The Journal of Water History 6 (4)
- 2014 (mit Katrin Bromber, Jeanne Féaux de la Croix), „The temporal politics of Big Dams in Africa, the Middle East and Asia: by way of an introduction“, The Journal of Water History 6 (4): 289-296.
- 2014, Producing (Tribal) History: Gendered Representations of Genealogy and Warfare in Northern Syria. in: NOMADIC PEOPLES 18 (2014): 34–52. doi: 10.3197/np.2014.180103
- 2014, Grenzen auf dem Reißbrett. Der Erste Weltkrieg und seine Folgen im Nahen Osten. In: Südlink 168 / Juni 2014, Sonderheft zum Thema Hundert Jahre Erster Weltkrieg - Der globale Süden zwischen den Fronten, S. 20-21
- 2013, (mit Sebastian R. Prange, Nitin Sinha): Reflecting on »Muslim Worlds – World
of Islam?« from a spatial perspective , ZMO Programmatic Texts No. 7, 9 S.
- 2013, Syrien: Ein historischer Überblick, Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, APuZ 8 [online].
- 2012, "There used to be terrible disbelief". Mourning and Social Change in Northern Syria, in Baudouin Dupret et al. (eds.), Ethnographies of Islam: Ritual Performances and Everyday Practices, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press / Aga Khan University London, 31-39.
- 2011, "Beduinenkriege", in: ABC des Nomadischen, Hamburg: Museum für Völkerkunde, 34-35.
- 2011, "Genealogie", in: ABC des Nomadischen, Hamburg: Museum für Völkerkunde, 78.
- 2011, "Mündliche Überlieferungen", in: ABC des Nomadischen, Hamburg: Museum für Völkerkunde, 230-231.
- 2011, "Zur Begegnung zweier Autoritäten", in: ABC des Nomadischen, Hamburg: Museum für Völkerkunde, 90-92.
- 2011, "Ethnologie und Archäologie: Die Arbeiter am Tell Halaf", in: Nadja Cholidis, Lutz Martin (eds.), Die geretteten Götter aus dem Palast vom Tell Halaf. Regensburg: Schnell und Steiner / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: 155-162.
- 2010, “Peripheral Experiences: Everyday Life in Kurd Dagh (Northern Syria) during the Allied Occupation in the Second World War”, in: Heike Liebau et al. (eds.), The World in World Wars. Perspectives, Experiences and Perceptions from Asia and Africa. Leiden u.a.: Brill: 401-428.
- 2010, “Proud Fighters, Blind Men: World War Experiences of Combatants from the Arab East”, in: Ulrike Freitag / Achim von Oppen (eds.), Translocality. The Study of Globalising Processes from a Southern Perspective. Leiden: Brill: 83-109.
- 2008, “La jeunesse de la campagne syrienne, à la découverte des normes dans les relations sociales entre jeunes filles et jeunes garçons. Lettre du Bureau Moyen-Orient / Agence universitaire de la Francophonie 48 – Cahier spécial 'Jeunesse': 10.
-2007, “Economic Change and Income-Generating Practices of Rural Youth in Northern Syria”, in: Sonja Hegasy / Elke Kaschl (Hg.): Changing Values among Youth. Examples from the Arab World and Germany. Berlin: Klaus-Schwarz-Verlag.
- 2006 „Heroic Faces, Disruptive Deeds. Remembering the tribal sheikh on the Syrian Euphrates”, in: Dawn Chatty (Hg.): Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa: Entering the 21st Century. Leiden: Brill: 940-965.
- 2005, „Shawāyā: Economic mélange, pure origins? Outsiders’ and insiders’ accounts of tribal identity in northern Syria”, in: Stefan Leder / Bernhard Streck (Hrsg.), Shifts and Drifts in Nomadic-Sedentary Relations. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag: 99-122.
- 2005, „Verlorene Kriege. Niederlagen und die Geschichte der Welde (Nordsyrien) ”, in: Katja
Geisenhainer / Katharina Lange (Hrsg.): Bewegliche Horizonte. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag 2005: 407-424.
- 2005, „Biographische Methoden als Zugang zur Geschichte ehemaliger Nomaden in Syrien.“ in: Jörg Gertel (Hrsg.): Methoden als Aspekte der Wissenskonstruktion. Fallstudien zur Nomadismusforschung. (Orientwissenschaftliche Hefte 17): 43–54.
- 2003, „Zwischen den Kategorien – Nomaden, Halbseßhafte, Seßhafte? Das Beispiel der Welde“, in: Thomas Herzog / Wolfgang Holzwarth (Hrsg.): Nomaden und Seßhafte – Fragen, Methoden, Ergebnisse (Orientwissenschaftliche Hefte 9): 253–287.
- 2002, „Die Welde zur Zeit des französischen Mandats“, in: Stefan Leder / Bernhard Streck (Hrsg.): Berichte aus den Arbeitsgruppen: Grenzen und Übergänge (Materialien des SFB "Differenz und Integration, 1): 13–22.
- 2001, „Indigenization tendencies in Arabic anthropology“, in: Istanbuler Almanach 5: 59–67.
Translations, Conference and Project Reports
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2010, Abdallah Hanna, in: Heike Liebau et al. (eds) The World in World Wars. Perspectives, Experiences and Perceptions from Asia and Africa. Leiden u.a.: Brill: (Translation from German)
- 2009, Rez. Walter Dostal (ed.) Tribale Gesellschaften der südwestlichen Regionen des Königreiches Saudi-Arabien, in: Anthropos 104-1/2009, 213-215.
- 2007, „The two World Wars (1914-1918; 1939-1945): Experiences, Perceptions and Perspectives from the Arab East.” (Conference Report, ZMO, 30th-31st March, 2006). in: Orient-Bulletin. History and Cultures in Asia, the Middle East and Africa 11: 5-6.
- 2006, „Views from the Margin. Experiences of Everyday Life in Northern Syria during the Allied occupation.“ in: DAVO-Nachrichten 24: 13.
- 2005, Hayder Ibrahim Ali, “Der Sudan: das Eigene und das Bild des Anderen.” translated from Arabic, in: K. Geisenhainer / K. Lange (eds.), Bewegliche Horizonte. Leipzig: Universitätsverlag: 93-122.
- 2005, (with Lutz Rogler) „World Wars and World Views. Arabic Perceptions of World War I and World War II”, in: Orient-Bulletin. History and Cultures in Asia, the Middle East and Africa 9: 3-5.
- 2005, „Arabische Weltkriegserfahrungen.“ in: DAVO-Nachrichten 22 / Dezember 2005:
22-23.
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