Institut für Ethnologie
Fachbereich 08

2020

Research Ethics (Izildöönun Etikasy). In: Toktogulova, M. (Ed.). Scientific Research Methods: Handbook on Social and Human Sciences. Bishkek: Online University, pp. 28-43 (in Kyrgyz)

2020

Methodological Foundation of Research (Izildöönün Usulduk Paidubaly). In: Toktogulova, M. (Ed.). Scientific Research Methods: Handbook on Social and Human Sciences. Bishkek: Online University, pp. 61-77 (in Kyrgyz)

2020

Interview Strategies (Interview Aluu Strategialary). In: Toktogulova, M. (Ed.). Scientific Research Methods: Handbook on Social and Human Sciences. Bishkek: Online University, pp. 91-113 (in Kyrgyz, co-authored with Gulzat Bayalieva)

2017

In Search of the Good Life. Value Conflicts and Dilemmas in the Practice of Islam in Kochkor, Kyrgyzstan. In: Hardenberg, R. (Ed.). Approaching Ritual Economy: Socio-Cosmic Fields in Globalized Contexts. Tübingen: SFB 1070 Publications, pp. 71-103

2015

Being a Kyrgyz Child. In: Behera, D.K. (Ed.). Contemporary Society: Tribal Studies (Vol. X: Tribal Children and their Childhood). New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, pp. 38-55

2014

Revisiting Ethics in Ethnographic Research with Children. The Oriental Anthropologists, 14(2), 223-236

2009

Belief and Knowledge in Healing Practices. In: Aitpaeva A. (Ed.). Sacred Sites of Issyk-Kul: Spiritual Powers, Pilgrimage, and Art. Bishkek: Aigine RC, pp. 299-309

2009

Let's Learn to Express our Thoughts. In ScholarForum: The Journal of the Open Society Institute's Network Scholarship Programs, 12, 4-5

2020

Co-organizer of the International workshop “Social Media and Religion”, October 22-23, GRADE, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Online workshop)

2019

Chair/discussant of the panel “Women, Agency and Identity in Central Asia”, 20^th Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS), October 10-13, George Washington University, Washington, USA

2018

Chair of the working group “Innovation and (Dis)Empowerment”, Workshop “Resource-based perspectives on the good life (Buen Vivir) in the humanities”, June 25-29, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2015

Organizer of the panel “Education and identity in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan”, 14^th Bi-Annual Conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS) “Central Asia in the XXI Century. Historical Trajectories, Contemporary Challenges and Everyday Encounters”, October 8-11, Zurich, Switzerland

2014

Convenor/chair/discussant of the panel “Childhood(s) and youth(s) of the future: children as cultural and social resources”, IUAES inter-congress “The Future with/of Anthropologies”, May 14-18, Chiba, Japan

2020

“‘Journey to the saint’: Materiality and mediation in the practice of Sufism in India”, 16^th EASA Biennial Conference: New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe, Lisbon (Online Conference)

2019

“Work as part of good tarbiya (upbringing) in Kyrgyzstan”, 20^th Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS), Washington, USA

2019

“The economy of light: Sufi networks and the role of Sufi shrines in the pursuit of well-being” poster presentation, Summer Symposium, Frobenius Institute for Research in Cultural Anthropology, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2019

“Re-Islamization processes and value-conflicts in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan”, workshop “Religious Speakers and Religious Speech – Authority and Influence of Word and People”, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2018

“Pilgrimage to Sufi shrines as a resource to achieve a good life”, workshop “Values and Valuation: Identifying Resources in the Quest for the Good Life”, Isfahan, Iran

2018

Value-conflicts in bringing up a ‘healthy’ child in Kyrgyzstan”, 19^th Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS), Pittsburgh, USA

2015

“Between the Past and Present. The Role of Schools in Shaping Values and Identities”, 14^thBi-Annual Conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS) “Central Asia in the XXI Century. Historical Trajectories, Contemporary Challenges and Everyday Encounters”, Zurich, Switzerland

2015

“Yrym (ritual) and its Role in ‘Constructing’ a Child”, Altay Communities conference “Religion and Belief Rituals – Language and History Issues”, Antalya, Turkey

2015

“The Value of a ‘Constructed’ Child”, 3^rd International Conference of the International Childhood and Youth Research Network “Theory and Method in Child & Youth Research”, Nicosia, Cyprus

2014

“Taking away our child’s anxiety: Islamic and non-Islamic concepts of healing child illnesses”, Summer School workshop “Religion and Resource: Local and Global Discourses”, Tübingen, Germany

2014

“Bringing up a child in a Kyrgyz way”, IUAES inter-congress “The Future with/of Anthropologies”, Chiba, Japan

2014

“Between Development, Soviet Science and Traditional Healing: An Ethnography of Childhood and Child Health in Kyrgyzstan” poster presentation, Global Supplementary Grant Program-Europe Conference “Active Academia: A Catalyst for Societal Change”, Oxford, UK

2014

“Self-identification and changing values of Kyrgyz people on the examples of child-related rituals”, workshop “Living in Asian Borderlands: An Appreciation of Resources”, Tübingen, Germany

2018

Goethe Research Academy for Early Career Researchers (GRADE), 
Junior Researchers in Focus, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

2013

Global Supplementary Grant Program, Open Society Foundation research grant

2012

Global Supplementary Grant Program, Open Society Foundation research grant

2012

University of Central Asia research grant

2011-2014

DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and University of Central Asia (CAFDP fellowship)