Speakers
Conference:
Diaspora as a Resource:
Comparative Studies in Strategies, Networks and Urban Space
04-06 June 2010, Hamburg
Speakers
Christine Avenarius (PhD) is associate professor at the Department of Anthropology Faculty, University of East Carolina, USA. Her main research areas are social networks, cognition, legal anthropology, economic anthropology, ethnicity, and migration. Her geographic focus is East Asia and China in particular, as well as locations of Chinese migration in the US and countries of Africa.
Ina Baghdiantz McCabe (PhD) is professor of history at the Department of History, Tufts University, Medford, USA. Among other fields, she specializes in Armenian history and is the first holder of the Darakjian and Jafarian Chair in Armenian History. She has published several books on Eurasian trading networks and intellectual exchange in the early modern period.
Milena Benovska-Sabkova (PhD) is professor of ethnology at the New Bulgarian University and part-time senior research fellow at the Ethnographic Institute with Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Her major areas of research include anthropology of religion and the anthropology of socialism and postsocialism; kinship, friendship and clientelism, mainly focused on Bulgaria, Southeast Europe and Russia.
Freek Colombijn (PhD) is professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He specializes in urban anthropology and environmental studies with a regional focus on South East Asia, especially Indonesia.
Hauke Dorsch (PhD) is director of the African Music Archives at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. He is an expert in (West) African diaspora, transnational migration, anthropology of music and oral history.
Bernhard Fuchs (PhD) is assistant professor at the Department of European Ethnology, University of Vienna, Austria. His main research areas are ethnicity and economy, migration and media.
Christian Giordano (PhD, Dr. habil) is professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. His main interests are political and economic anthropology with a regional focus on Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean area.
Maja Korac-Sanderson (PhD) is sociologist and works as a reader in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of East London, Great Britain. She focuses on forced migration, ethnicity and nationality as well as on gender and conflict situations.
Max Leimstättner (MA) is currently working as external lecturer at the Department of European Ethnology, University of Vienna, Austria. His major interests include visual anthropology and ethnographic film as well as landscape cultures.
Flip Lindo (PhD) is anthropologist and senior researcher at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES), University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has done research on migrant youth and children and their living conditions and is currently participating in a research project comparing migrant biographies in Europe.
Rena Molho (PhD), a historian, is senior interviewer and coordinator at the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, Greece and co-founder of the Society for the Study of Greek Jewry. She also taught Jewish history at Pantheion University from 1999 to 2007. She is an expert on Sephardic and Greek Jewry and has published several books on this topic.
Janet Tai Landa (PhD) is professor at the Department of Economics, York University, Toronto, Canada. Her main focus is on law and economics and their effects on social norms. She is an expert in ethnic trading networks, trust and middleman diasporas and has specialized in Chinese merchants in Southeast Asia.
Khachig Tölölyan (PhD) is professor in the College of Letters at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA. He is also the founding editor of the journal DIASPORA. His interests include diasporas, transnationalism, the world/globe polarity and the Armenian diaspora.
Eftihia Voutira (PhD) is professor at the Department of Balcan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece. While she focuses on social networks, migrants and refugees, she has done extensive fieldworks on Ponti-Greeks in post-Soviet countries.
Discussions
Waltraud Kokot (PhD) is professor at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg, Germany and the director of the research project "DiaspoRes - Diaspora as a Resource". Her main areas of research are diaspora and transnationalism, urban anthropology and forensic anthropology. She also has a geographical focus on Southeast Europe and currently does research on the Armenian diaspora in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Roland Mischung (PhD) is professor at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg, Germany. He specializes in anthropology of religion, cultural ecology and the anthropology of space while he has a regional focus on mainland Southeast Asia.
Julia Pauli (PhD) is research assistant at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne, Germany. She specializes in ethnodemography, the anthropology of gender and kinship and cognitive anthropology and has a regional focus on Latin America and Southern Africa.
Erwin Schweitzer (MA) is research assistant at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg, Germany. His main research areas are political anthropology, anthropology of governance and political economy and he currently is working on his PhD thesis on indigenous collective action in South Africa.
Astrid Wonneberger (PhD) is research assistant at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg, Germany. Her main research areas are urban anthropology, migration and diaspora and she currently does research on processes of transformation at the Dublin Docklands.