Research Interests:

Anthropology of migration, diaspora, memory, post-socialist city

Research Areas:

Europe, Caucasus

Sonderforschungsbereich 640: Repräsentationen sozialer Ordnungen im Wandel

Mitarbeiterin im Teilprojekt B4: Identitätspolitik (Kaukasus)

Mitglied der Arbeitsgruppe Raum

Postdoc Research Fellow at the Collaborative Research Centre 640 “Changing Representations of Social Orders”
Lecturer at the Department for European Ethnology, Humboldt University Berlin
2003-2004
Postdoc Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany
2002-2003
Researcher in the project “Transmission of Grievance”, Department for Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Sciences, UK
1997-2002
PhD in European Anthropology, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, Member of the graduate college „Comparing Societies in Anthropological, Historical and Sociological Perspectives“; Thesis: Producing Identity. Post-Soviet Migrants and Media in Berlin and London
1995-1996
Research fellow at the Free University Berlin, Germany, research project “Ethnic Communities in Big Cities”
1992-1994
Free University Berlin, Departments for Anthropology, Turcology and Religious Studies, Germany
1989
Diploma from the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) State University, Department for Oriental Studies, History and Turcology, Russia

Academic Awards

1991-1992
Russian Academy of Sciences, Departement for Social Sciences, Siberian Branch, Institute for Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg, grant graduates
1997
Fazit Stiftung (Germany), Dissertation development grant
1997-2001
PhD stipend from the Heinrich-Böll Stiftung (Germany), member of the Graduate College "Comparing Societies in Anthropology, Sociology and History,
Free University Berlin and Humboldt University Berlin
2003-2004
Post-doc research stipend at the Max_planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany

Membership in Professional Bodies

• European Association of Social Anthropologists
• European Network for Migration Studies
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde
• SOYUZ Association of Cultural Studies in Postsocialist Countries
• Central Eurasian Studies Society, Havighurt Center

Research Interests:

Anthropology of migration, diaspora, memory, post-socialist city

Research Area:

Europe, Caucasus

Research Projects:

Sonderforschungsbereich 640: Repräsentationen sozialer Ordnungen im Wandel

Humboldt University Research Area “Changing representations of social orders”

Laufzeit II (07/2008 - 06/2012):

Mitarbeiterin im Teilprojekt B4: Identitätspolitik (Kaukasus),

Forschungsprojekt "Identitätspolitiken im Südkaukasus. Nationale Repräsentation, postsozialistische Gesellschaft und urbane Öffentlichkeit"

http://www.sfb-repraesentationen.de/teilprojekte/b4

Laufzeit I (07/2004 - 06/2008):

Postdoctoral research fellow,

Research project “Armenian identity politics and national representation in transition”

http://www.repraesentationen.de/site/lang__de/3865/teilprojekt_b4.aspx

Institut für Europäische Ethnologie an Humboldt-Universität

2009
Das Erbe des Sozialismus. Ikonen und Alltagspraktiken in Eurasien
The Heritage of Socialism: Pas and Present of Icons and Everyday Practices

2008
Diaspora, Migration und Religion
Diaspora, Migration and Religion

2008
Member of Resource Faculty, Three Years ReSET Programme "Building Anthropology in Eurasia", (Harvard University, USA/ AUCA Kyrgyzstan), seminars on anthropology of migration, urban anthropology, regional group "Caucasus"

2007
Erinnern und Vergessen. Zur Anthropologie des Kollektiven Gedächtnisses
Remembering and Forgetting: Anthropology of Collective Memory

2006
Neue Migration in urbanen Räumen
New Migration in Urban Context

2005
Ethnologische Herangehensweise in der MIgrationsforschung
Anthropological Approach in Urban Context

Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching (ReSET) “Building Anthropology in Eurasia”  (Postgraduate Courses)

04.2008-03.2010     Faculty Member, leader Dr. John Schoeberlein (Harvard University) and AUCA (American University of Central Asia), Research Center “Aigine”, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

2008, July                     "Towards Anthropology of Migration"
2008, August                 "Urban Anthropology"
2008, August                 "Regional and Area Studies (Caucasus)"

Workshops and Conferences organized:

24.02.2010, Urban Spaces after Socialism: Ethnographies of Public Places, co-organizer Madlen Pilz, at Humboldt University Berlin, Department for European EthnologyUrban Spaces: Caucasian Places. Transformations in Capital Cities.
( http://www.sfb-repraesentationen.de/veranstaltungen/tagungen-und-workshops/urban-spaces-workshop/)

22.-23.09. 2009, Urban Spaces-Caucasian Places: Transformations in Capital Cities, co-organizers Wolfgang Kaschuba, Ketevan Khutsishvili, Madlen Pilz, in Tbilisi (Georgia), Tbilisi State University

28.04.2008, Representing Transnationalism beyond the Ethnic Lens, Collaborative Research Center Humboldt University Berlin, co-organized with Sandra Gruner-Domic

20.03.2006, Shifting Landscape of Monuments, Department for European Ethnology, Humboldt University Berlin, 20.03. 2006

12.04.2005, Doing Ethnographic Research in Armenia co-organizer with Wolfgang Kaschuba and Ashot Voskanian, Yerevan State Language University after V. Brusov

Panels organized:

August 26-29.2008, Homecomings in Transnational Age, panel, co-organized with Riina Isotalo at the 10th Biennale of European Association of Social Anthropologists, Ljubljana, Slovenia

November 14-18, 2007, Memory and Silence in (Post)socialist Societies at the AAASS (American Association of Advanced Slavic Studies), New Orleans, USA

24-27. August 2002, Stuck in between? Native Anthropologists in a globalizing world co-organized with Daniella Sacca and Sandra Gruner-Domic at the 7th EASA Biennale, in Copenhagen, Denmark

Recent conference papers and invited talks:

Making place: A sea promenade between centre and periphery in Baku, Workshop URBAN SPACES AFTER SOCIALISM. ETHNOGRAPHIES OF PUBLIC PLACES, Department of European Ethnology (Humboldt-University, Berlin), Wednesday 24th February 2010

Is There a Postsocialist City in Transcaucasia? WORKSHOP URBAN SPACES: CAUCASIAN PLACES. TRANSFORMATIONS IN CAPITAL CITIES, Humboldt University Berlin and Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi 22.-23.09.2009

Post-Soviet Homecomings: Some Insights into the German, Kazakh & Armenian Diasporas in Motion, National Identity in Russia from 1961 : Traditions & Deterritorialisation, National Identity in Eurasia II : Migrancy & Diaspora, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, 10-12 July 2009

Transnational Berlin: Transnational Berlin: Russian Speakers in the City after the Fall of the Wall, National Identity in Russia from 1961 : Traditions & Deterritorialisation National Identity in Eurasia I : Identities & Traditions, New College, University of Oxford, 22-24 March 2009

Die russischsprachige Medienlandschaft. Eine neue Kontaktzone und kulturelles Kapital. Tagung  Migration und Medien. Standortbestimmungen aus Wissenschaft, Politik und Journalismus. Herbert Quandt-Stiftung, in Frankfurt am Main, 04.11.2008*

Homecomings in the Transnational Age at the EASA Conference, 26-30.09.2008 in Ljubljana

Instead of Loss.  Reshaping Remembrance of Violent Past in Armenia paper at the international workshop “Landscapes of Violence: Memory and Sacred Space” at the Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), 07.07.2008*

Homecoming beyond the Ethnic Lens? Some Encounters in postsocialist Armenia at the workshop Representing Transnationalism beyond the Ethnic Lens? Anthropological Perspectives. Humboldt University Berlin, 28.04.2009

Forgetting Armenian Loss during the Soviet Rule: The Power of Silence, at panel “Memory and Silence in (Post)socialist Societies” at AAASS Conference (American Association of Advanced Slavic Studies), November 14-18, 2007, New Orleans

Locating the Homeland. Armenia between East and West, between the ‘Second’ and the ‘Third’ Worlds at the Annual SOYUZ Symposium Locating Eurasia in Postsocialist Studies: The Geopolitics of Naming, Princeton University, April 27-29.04.2007

V promezhutke ne zhutko. The image of Russian Migrants in Germany”, 2006 Winter Symposium, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, symposium Beyond the Empire: Images of Russia in the Eurasian Cultural Context in Sapporo, Japan, 13-15.12.2006*

Recruiting for the Nation: Homeland Politics and Returning Diaspora at the 3d Armenia Diaspora Conference in Yerevan, Armenia, 18-19.09.2006*

Changing Politics of Memory of Loss in Post-Soviet Armenia at the 11th ASN (Association of Studies of Nationalities) Convention in New York, Columbia University, 23-25.03.2006

The National Ideal and New Migrants in Kazakhstan at the Davis Centre for Eurasian Studies, Harvard University in Cambridge Massachusetts USA, 27.10.2005*

Changing borderlines and transnational migrants strategies in Central Asia presented at the EASA Conference in Vienna, 8.-12.09.2004, workshop “Facing Distance and Proximity. Migration, Translocalities and Nation-State”

Inter-ethnic Harmony as an National Ideal and Diaspora Discourses in Modern Kazakhstan presented at the 29. German Association for Oriental Studies in Halle, 20.-24.09.2004, panel “Nation State and Local Identities in Central Asia”

Monographien und herausgegebene Schriften (Auswahl):

• Tsypylma Darieva, Viktor Voronkov (Hg): Rethinking South Caucasus. Migration, City and Gender after Socialism. Special Issue of the Journal Laboratorium. Russian Review of Social Studies , 2009. (mehr) Forthcoming 07/2010
• 2007, Erinnerung an Gewalt, special issue in Berliner Debatte Initial, Volumes 3 und 4,  Berlin: Verlag Soziokultur, together  with Ingrid Oswald
• 2007, Representations on the Margins of Europe. Politics and Identities in the Baltic and South Caucasian States. Frankfurt/Main: Campus, together with Wolfgang Kaschuba
• 2004, Russkij Berlin. Migrants and Media in Berlin and London, Münster: LIT Verlag
  

Artikel und Aufsätze (Auswahl):

• 2010/11, New Cosmopolitan Sociabilities. Locating Transnational Religious and Diasporic Networks as special issue in the Journal Ethnic and Racial Studies together with Nina Glick-Schiller and Sandra Gruner-Domic*
• 2010/11, Diasporic Homecomings beyond the Ethnic Lens? Creative Cosmopolitanism in post-Soviet Armenia, in: Ethnic and Racial Studies*
• 2010, Rethinking South Caucasus. Migration, City and Gender after Socialism as second volume of Laboratorium. Russian Review of Social Studies, together with Viktor Voronkov*
• 2010, Post-Soviet Diasporic Homecomings: Some Insights into the German, Kazakh & Armenian Diasporas in Motion, in: Antropologichesky Forum, St. Petersburg, Russia*
• 2010, Instead of Loss. Making a Landscape of a Violent Past in Armenia, in: History and Memory, special issue Landscapes of Violence, edited by Katharina Schramm*
• 2009 Die russischsprachige Medienlandschaft in Deutschland. Eine neue Kontaktzone und kulturelles Kapital. In: Herbert Quandt-Stiftung (Hg.): Migration und Medien. Standortbestimmungen aus Wissenschaft, Politik und Journalismus. Frankfurt am Main: Societäts-Verlag, pp. 84-102*
• 2008, Chelovek-Amfibia. The Image of Russian Migrants in Germany, in: Slavic Eurasian Studies Volume 17, Tetsuo Mochidzuki (ed.) Beyond the Empire. Images of Russia in the Eurasian Cultural Context. Hokkaido University, Sapporo, in Russian, pp. 297-319*
• 2008, Ot molchaniya k glasnosti. Rekonfiguraciya pamyati ob armyanskoi utrate v post-socialisticheskoi Armenii (From Silence to Grasnost: Reconfiguring Memory of Armenian Loss after Socialism) Ethnograficheskoe Obozrenie (Ethnographic Review), Volume 3, Summer, Moscow, pp. 32-54 in Russian*
• 2008, ‘The Road to the Golgotha’. Representing Loss in Postsocialist Armenia, in: Focaal, European Journal for Anthropology, Volume 52, pp. 92-108*
• 2008, Das Armenische Trauma. Zur Transformation von Erinnerungspraktiken im post-sozialistischen Jerewan. OAW Arbeitspapiere zur Sozialanthropologie. Band 2, Andre Gingrich und Luca Helmut (Hg.), Wien*
• 2007, How powerful are Russians in Berlin? Post-Soviet Russian Immigrants in Germany. In: Sociological Papers. Volume 12, 2007 Bar-Ilan University Press, Israel, pp. 35-46
• 2007, Migrationsforschung in der Ethnologie, in: Brigitte Schmidt-Lauber (Hg.) Ethnizität und Migration. Einführung in Wissenschaft und Arbeitsfelder, Berlin: Reimer-Verlag, S. 69-94*
• 2007, Introduction, in: Representations on the Margins of Europe. Politics and Identities in the Baltic and South Caucasian States. Frankfurt/Main: Campus Verlag, pp. 11-27*
• 2007, From Silenced to Voiced. Changing Politics of Memory of Loss in Armenia, in: Representations on the Margins of Europe. Politics and Identities in the Baltic and South Caucasian States, Frankfurt/Main: Campus Verlag, pp. 65-88.*
• 2007, Von Lokalen zum Globalen. Zur Transformation armenischer Erinnerungspraktiken. In: Berliner Debatte Initial, Volume 3, Special Section Erinnerung an Gewalt, pp. 10-23
• 2006, Russlanddeutsche, Nationalstaat und Familie in transnationaler Zeit. In:
• Sabine Ipsen-Peitzmeier, Markus Kaiser (eds.) Zuhause fremd. Russlanddeutsche zwischen Russland und Deutschland, Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, pp. 132-150*
• 2006, Bringing the Soil back to the Homeland. Reconfigurations of Representation of Loss in Armenia, in: Comparativ. Leipziger Beiträge zur Universalgeschichte und vergleichenden Gesellschaftsforschung. Heft 3, Transfer lokalisiert: Konzepte, Akteure, Kontexte, pp, 87-101*
• 2005, Recruiting for the Nation. Transnational Migrants in Germany and Kazakhstan. In: Kasten, Erich (ed.) Rebuilding Identities: Pathways to Reform post-Soviet Siberia. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, pp. 153-172*
• 2005, Pathways of Migrant Incorporation in Germany, together with Schiller Glick Nina, Schlee Günther, Nieswand, Boris. In: Transit, Volume 1, Issue 1, Migration, Culture and the Nation State. pp. 1-17, article 50911*
• 2003, Von anderen Deutschen und anderen Juden. Zur kulturellen Integration russischsprachiger Zuwanderer in Berlin. In: Warneken, Bernd / Hauschild, Thomas (eds.) Inspecting Germany. Internationale Deutschland-Ethnographie der Gegenwart, Münster, pp. 405-420

Reviews:

• 2009, Vladimir Davydov, Nikolai Karbainov, Veronika Simonova, Veronika Tselishcheva (eds.) Aginskaya Street. Fire Dance and Aluminum Arrows. Claiming Cultural Landscapes, Kahbarovsk: DVO RAN, 2006. In: Laboratorium. Russian Review of Social Research, volume 1, pp. 285-287
• 2009, Bruce Grant & Lale Yalcin-Heckmann (eds.) Caucasus Paradigms: Anthropologies, Histories and the Making of a World Area. Münster: LIT Verlag. In: Anthropological Quarterly, Summer, Volume 82, No 3, pp. 843-848    
• 2006, Susanne Schwalgin, ‚Wir werden niemals vergessen!‘ Trauma, Erinnerung und Identität in der armenischen Diaspora Griechenlands. In: H-Soz-Kult, Rezensionen von 06.11.2006
• 2005, Hornstein, Caroline S. Grenzgänger. Probleme interkultureller Verständigung. In: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, Volume 130/ 2, pp. 348-350