Ildiko Beller-Hann

Kort præsentation

Efter at have læst tyrkisk, arkæologi, og engelsk ved Lórand Eötvös Universitet i Budapest, skrev jeg min Ph.D. afhandling ved Cambridge Universitet (tyrkiske studier) og min Dr. Phil. (habilitation) grad ved Humboldt Universitet, Berlin i centralasiatiske studier. Mine hovedinteresser strækker sig over historie, samfund og kulturer i den tyrkisktalende verden, med specielt fokus på Xinjiang, Centralasien og Tyrkiet. I mit arbejde kombinerer jeg tekstbaseret forskning med empiriske metoder for data indsamling. Jeg har udført omfattende feltarbejde i nordøst Tyrkiet, nordvest Kina (Xinjiang) og Kasakhstan.

Primære forskningsområder

samfund og kulturer i den tyrkisktalende verden

historisk antropologi

social støtte, slægtskab

mundtlige og litterære traditioner

lokalhistorie

konstruktionen af historie

historie og identitet

regionalt fokus: Xinjiang (Nordvest Kina, Centralasien, Tyrkiet)

CV

UDDANELSE

• MA in English, Archaeology, Turkish, Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest
• PhD, Faculty of Oriental Studies (Newnham College) University of Cambridge
• 2005 habilitation degree, Seminar for Central Asian Studies,  Humboldt University, Berlin

Aktuel forskning

Feudalism, Socialism and the Present Mixed Economy in Rural Eastern Xinjiang (joint project with Chris Hann)

Between homogenization and fragmentation: textual practices as strategies of integration and identity maintenance among the Uyghurs of Xinjiang, China

http://ccrs.ku.dk/research/centres-and-projects/between-homogenization-and-fragmentation/

Støttet af Velux Fonden

Projektstart: 1. September 2017

Undervisnings- og vejledningsområder

Perspectives on Central Asia: regions, networks and identities on the periphery of the great powers

China’s Minorities

Continuity and Change among the Uyghur of Xinjiang

The interaction of nomadic groups and sedentary societies in Central Asia in the course of history

State policies and local responses in Western China

Religious currents in Central Asia

Qualitative research methods

Who controls the past? History and nationalism in Central Asia

Ethnographies of Central Asia

Topics in cultural history

Topics on state and society in modern Central Asia

Introduction to modern Turkish literature (with original and translated texts)

Xinjiang: past and present

The Silk Road

Travel in Central Asia: pilgrims, merchants, missionaries, explorers and adventurers along the Silk Road

Great Games, Old and New. Politics and Society in Modern Central Asia

The Literature of the Traveller, Travel in Literature

China’s Borderlands

Nationalism and Ethnicity in Central Asia, Afghanistan and Iran

Empires, states, tribes. An Introduction to the history and peoples of Central Eurasia

Readings of Turkish texts for advanced students

Post-Soviet Transformation in Central Asia and Afghanistan

Scientific Theory for Students of China and Tibetan Studies

Islam in Central Asia: from Everyday Islam to Radical Movements

Middle Eastern Literatures: Turkish literature