Dr. Irina Morozova

Forschungsschwerpunkte

• Modern and contemporary history of Central and Inner Asia
• Social and cultural history of socialist revolutions in Asia
• The global history of Asia, Africa and the Middle East and the Cold War
• Comparative area studies of Central Asia and Eastern Europe
• Imperial legacies and cultures in Eurasian space
• Economic reform and publc debate in socialist and post-socialist societies
• Geopolitics and contemporary security arrangements in Central Eurasia

Ausbildung, Funktionen

• geb. 1975 in Moskau
• Nationalität: Niederländerin
• verheiratet, eine Tochter

Studium

• 2015-2021: Habilitandin, Lehrstuhl für Geschichte Südost- und Osteuropas (Die Habilitationsschrift “The economic reform and the discussions on progress and development in Central Asia, the 1980s (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia)” ist am 03.09.2021 abgegeben.)
• Dezember 2002: Promotion zum Dr. phil. (PhD in history, PhD thesis “Social transformation in Mongolia, the 1920-1940s”) an dem Institut für Asien und Afrikawissenschaft, Lomonosow-Universität Moskau
• 1999-2002: Promotionsstudium an dem Institut für Asien und Afrikawissenschaft, Lomonosow-Universität Moskau
• 1997-1991: Masterstudium an dem Institut für Asien und Afrikawissenschaft, Lomonosow-Universität Moskau (abgeschlossen mit MA Diplom „Geschichte Zentralasiens“)
• 1993-1997: Bachelorstudium an dem Institut für Asien und Afrikawissenschaft, Lomonosow-Universität Moskau (abgeschlossen mit BA Diplom „Asienwissenschaft, Orientalistik mit Kenntnisse von der Mongolischen Sprache“)

Beruf

• 2019: Visiting Professor at the National Museum of Ethnography (Osaka, Japan)
• Seit 2017: affiliated researcher of the Graduate School for East and Sotheast European Studies, Universität Regensburg
• 2014-2017: wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin des Leibniz-Instituts für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung, Regensburg
• 2014-2016: PostDoc der Graduiertenschule für Ost- und Südosteuropastudien (Universität Regensburg und LMU München)
• 2010-2014: wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (eigene Stelle, PI und Nachwuchswissenschaftlerin des Projekts „Die Geschichte der Perestroika in Zentralasien und in der Mongolei“, gefördert von der VolkswagenStiftung) des Zentralasien-Seminars des Institutes für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• 2007-2009: wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Alexander von Humboldt Stipendiatin) an dem Nach-Ost Institut, German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Hamburg

• 2006-2010: wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und Lektorin an dem Institut für Asien und Afrikawissenschaft, Lomonosow-Universität Moskau
• 2004-2005: wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Leiden University (the Netherlands)
• 2003-2010: Research Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University und the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands)
• 2003-2004: NATO Science Fellow (gefördert durch the Dutch Research Council (NWO) im Rahmen des Projekts “Towards social stability and good governance in Central Eurasia: challenges to regional secruity”) at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University und the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands)

Funktionen

• 2019-2021: Beirat, ICAS Book Price (the Russian language edition)
• 2019, 2016: External examiner for PhD theses, Centre for Development Studies, Cambridge University.
• Seit 2010: Mitglied, the International Commission on the Studies of Revolutions.
• 2007-2009: Mentorin und Lektorin, CARTI and ReSET programmes in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, Open Society Institute.
• 2007: Beirat, Iran and the Caucasus, Brill Academic Publishers.
• 2005-2009: Vorstandsmitglied, the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS).
• 2004: Regional editor (on Central Asia), the IIAS Newsletter (Leiden, the Netherlands).
• Seit 2001: Mitglied, the International Institute for the Study of the Nomadic Civilizations.
• 2000-2014: Mitglied of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS).
• 1997-1999: Mitglied und wissenschaftliche Sekretärin, the Council on Methodologies for teaching history, Institut für Asien und Afrikawissenschaft, Lomonosow-Universität Moskau

Gutachtertätigkeit für Zeitschriften

International Quarterly for Asian Studies, The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, International Labor and Working-Class History, Journal of Eurasian Studies, Springer books, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Routledge books, Iran and the Caucasus, Ab Imperio.

Aktuelle Buchprojekte

• “The economic reform and the discussions on progress and development in Central Asia, the 1980s (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia)”, Brill Academic Publishers. (geplant für 2022)
•  Edited volume “The History of Mongolia in the Twentieth Century”. (geplant für 2023)

Forschungs- und Drittmittelprojekte

• 2010-2014: Nachwuchsgruppenleiterin und PI, Project “The History of Perestroika in Central Asia (social transformation in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia, 1982-1991)” gefördet von der Volkswagen Foundation (Im Rahmen des Projekts haben 8 Wissenschaftler gearbeitet.) hpica.pz.nl
• 2007-2009: Stipendium von der Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Projekt “Transformation of political elites in Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia, 1924-2008: a comparative historical analysis”. www.iias.asia/profile/irina-morozova
• 2007-2009: International Scholar, Projekt “Political Elites in Kyrgyzstan”, The Central Asia Research and Training Initiative, OSI Europe.
• 2003-2004: NATO Science Fellowship, Projekt “Towards social stability and good governance in Central Eurasia: challenges to regional secruity”, gefördert durch the Dutch Research Council (NWO). www.iospress.com/node15242/books/towards-social-stability-and-democratic-governance-in-central-eurasia

Förderung für Konsolidation- und Netzwerkprojekte (Auswahl)

• 2016: (zusammen mit Prof. Dr. Ulf Brunnbauer), Förderung 
zur Anbahnung internationaler Forschungskooperationen, Bayerische Forschungsallianz.
• 2014-2015: Consolidator im Rahmen des Projekts “Rethinking Asian Studies in a Global Context” gefördert von Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. www.iias.asia/the-newsletter/article/central-inner-asia-new-challenges-independent-research
• 2014: Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung Förderung für die Organisation der Konferenz “Die Geschichte der Perestroika in Zentralasien”, Bishkek, Mai-Juni 2013.
• 2004: NATO Advanced Research Workshop Grant.

Andere Stipendiums (Auswahl)

• 2005, 2003: National Association for Mongol Studies Scholarship, Mongolia.
•  2001-2002: Lomonossow PhD Stipendium of Excellence, Lomonosow-Universität Moskau, Russia.

Organisation von akademische Veranstaltungen

• 2019: Roundtable “The History of Industry in Central Asia: Economic Models and Ideas of Progress”, ICAS 11, Leiden University.
• 2019: Panel “Industries, economic planning, and development paths in the Central Asian Republics (1970-1990s)”, 16th ESCAS Conference, University of Exeter.
• 2017: co-convener of the Roundtable “The future of Central Asian studies” at the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) 10, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
• 2016: organizer of the International Workshop “Dynamics of geopolitical landscapes in Central Asian studies: new avenues for research”, Leibniz Association Office, Brussels.

• 2016: co-organizer of the International Seminar “Around the Changbai Mountains. A Seminar on the narratives of the ethnic groups in Northeast Asia”, Vladivostok.
• 2015: co-convenor and co-organiser of the International Seminar “Transnational Religious and Ideological Influences in Modern Central and Inner Asia” at the LIOS, in co-operation with the IIAS, IUCIAS, sponsored by the Mellon Foundation (New York) in Regensburg.
• 2014: co-organiser of the International Conference “Changing Patterns of Power in Historical and Modern Central and Inner Asia” in co-operation with the IIAS, Ulaanbaatar University and IUCIAS in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
• 2014: co-convenor and co-organiser of the International Seminar “Knowledge Production and Knowledge Transfer in and on Central and Inner Asia” (with the IIAS), sponsored by the Mellon Foundation (New York) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
• 2014: Workshop “Left movements and ideology in Asia, Africa and the Middle East at the last quarter of the twentieth century: towards a comparative-historical analysis”, Zentrum Moderner Orient and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin.
• 2013: convenor and organiser of the International Conference “The History of Perestroika in Central Asia”, sponsored by Volkswagen Foundation and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bishkek.
• 2012: convenor of the International Workshop “The Legacy of perestroika discourses in knowledge production on Central Asia” at Ulaanbaatar University.
• 2011: Panel “Memories of Perestroika in Central Asia”, ESCAS XII Conference, Cambridge University.
• 2009: Member of the Organizing Committee of the ESCAS Conference XI "Studying Central Asia: in quest of new paths and concepts?", Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
• 2008: Colloquium "Power Models, Social Transformation and Elite Groups in Present Central Asia", GIGA IMES, Hamburg.
• 2004: co-director of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop “Towards Social Stability and Democratic Governance in Central Eurasia: Challenges to Regional Security”, IIAS, Leiden.

Monographs

The economic reform and the discussions on progress and development in Central Asia, the 1980s (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia). (under review by Brill Academic Publishers)  

Socialist Revolutions in Asia: Social History of Mongolia in the Twentieth Century. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009)

The Comintern and Revolution in Mongolia. (Cambridge: White Horse Press, 2002)

Edited volumes

The Legacies of Perestroika Discourses in Knowledge Production on Central Asia. (Ulaanbaatar: Ulaanbaatar University, 2013). (in co-editorship with Boldbaatar, J.).

 Towards Social Stability and Democratic Governance in Central Eurasia: Challenges to Regional Security (IOS Press, Amsterdam: NATO Science Series, 2005)

Contributions to peer-reviewed books           

“The Perestroika Period and the End of Soviet Power (1985-1991)” in: Edmund Herzig and Annette Bohr (eds.) The Cambridge History of Inner Asia: The Modern Age. (Cambridge University Press, 2021) (forthcoming)

“Mongolian revolution and its international effect” in: Dogramaci, B., Balme, Ch., Nicolosi, R., Renner, A., Hilgert, Ch. (eds.) The Culture of the Russian Revolution and Its Global Impact: Semantics – Performances – Functions. “DigiOst” Series 9. (Frank & Timme Verlag, 2021), pp. 241-266.

“On the causes of socialism's deconstruction: conventional debates and popular rhetoric in present Kazakhstan and Mongolia” in: U. Bläsing, V. Arakelova, M. Weinreich (eds.) Studies on Iran and the Caucasus (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 551-576.

“The year 1989: southern “peripheries” of the Soviet Union at the time of perestroika” in: Engel, U., Hadler, F., Middell, M. (eds.) 1989 in a global perspective (Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2015), pp. 151-176.

Preface in: Roche, S. (ed.) Central Asian Intellectuals on Islam: between Scholarship, Politics and Identity (Berlin: ZMO Studien, 2014), pp. 9-17.

“Perestroika in Soviet Central Asia and socialist Mongolia: the new forms of inequalities via elitist debates” in: Boldbaatar, J., Morozova, I. (eds.) Proceedings of the International Workshop “The Legacies of Perestroika Discourses in Knowledge Production on Central Asia” (Ulaanbaatar: Ulaanbaatar University, 2013), pp. 145-167. (in Russian)

“Patterns of Elite Consolidation and Rivalry in Kyrgyzstan between 1960-2010”, in: Akcali, P. and Demir, C. (eds.) Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: Politics, Identity, Education (Routledge, 2013), pp. 9-32.

“Russian Energy Policy in Central Asia. Impediments for India” in: Warikoo, K. (ed.) Central Asia and South Asia: Energy Cooperation and Transport Linkages (Pentagon Press, 2011), pp. 59-67.

“Ethnic Factor in Establishment of the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic and the Mongolian Peoples’ Republic” in: Sevostyanov, G., Ishakov, S. (eds.) The Tragedy of the Great Power: national question and the dissolution of the USSR (Moscow: Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Science, 2005), pp. 227-253. (in Russian)

“Nation-building in Central Asia: Creating New State Mythologies” in Towards Social Stability and Democratic Governance in Central Eurasia: Challenges to Regional Security (IOS Press, Amsterdam: NATO Science Series, 2005), pp. 67-81.

Introduction in Towards Social Stability and Democratic Governance in Central Eurasia: Challenges to Regional Security (IOS Press, Amsterdam: NATO Science Series, 2005), pp. 1-19.

“The Public Discussions on the ‘State of Law’ and Contemporary Political Regimes in Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus” in Johnson, W. & Popova, I. (eds.) Central Asian Law: An Historical Overview (The University of Kansas: Journal of Asian Legal History, 2004), pp. 237- 259.

“Buddhism and Revolution in Mongolia” in Gervers, M. and Schlepp, W. (eds.) Religion, Customary Law and Nomadic Technology (Toronto: Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia, 2000), pp. 101-112.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

“The paradox of progress: the decline of the Soviet Modernity and the rise of the oil industry in Gur’ev (the 1980s in focus)”, Central Asian Affairs (under review)

“Normativity against uniformity in late- and post-socialist Central Asia and Mongolia” in The Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology  (under review)

“The ground waters of neoliberal revolution in Mongolia (end 1980s-beginning 1990s).”, in Tüühijn Suudlal. Studia Historica. XLVIII/1. (Ulaanbaatar: Institute for History and Ethnology of the Mongolian National Academy of Science, 2019), pp. 348-359.

“Economic History of Dismantling Socialism. Perestroika Reform and Transformation in Kyrgyzstan (on the example of Osh province)” in Asiatische Studien (under review)

“On the causes of socialism's deconstruction: people's perceptions in contemporary Kazakhstan and Mongolia” in The Cambridge Central Asia Forum Reviews, Vol. 1, Issue 1 (2014), pp. 43-60.

“Adaptive compromisers or inventive reformers: communities, religion and ideology in late socialism in Central and Inner Asia” in Inner Asia 15 (Brill, 2013), pp. 57-76.

“Islam and Politics of Late Socialism in Central Asia” in Leidschrift, jaargang 26, Nummer 2 (Leiden University, September 2011), pp. 77-94.

“Regional Factor in Intra-Elite Rivalry in Present Kyrgyzstan” in Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 37 (Brill, 2010), pp. 55-83.

“Political parties against the background of neo-liberal reform in present Mongolia” in The Journal of The Mongolian Society, Volume XXXII (Bloomington: Indiana University, 2010), pp. 55-76.

“External Powers' Influence upon Kyrgyz Political Elite” in Caucasian Review of International Affairs Vol. 3 (1) (Winter 2009), pp. 86-97.

“Elites, Reforms and Power Institutions in Soviet Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia in the 1920-1930s: a Comparative Historical Analysis” in Ab Imperio, The Politics of Comparison, 2 (Kazan, 2007), pp. 369-403.

“The Impact of Collectivisation and Industrialization on the Transformation of Central Asian Societies” in Vestnik MGU, Asian studies 3 (Lomonosov Moscow State University, 2006), pp. 59-69. (in Russian)

“Contemporary Azerbaijani Historiography on the Problem of “South Azerbaijan” after WWII” in Iran and the Caucasus, Vol. 9 (Brill, 2005), pp. 85-120.

“Comparative Historical Analysis of Pan-Asiatic Social Movements in Inner and Central Asia. Z.V. Togan and E.D. Rinchino” in Journal of Central Asian Studies, Vol. VII, No.2 (Oklahoma State University: 2003), pp. 2-19.

“Japan and its Influence towards Panbuddhism and Panmongolism” in International Journal for Central Asian Studies, no. 4 (Seoul: Institute of Asian Culture and Development, 1999), pp. 146- 161.

“The Strategies of the Comintern and Baron Ungern in Central Asia” in Orient: History, Philology, Economics (Moscow: 1999), pp. 49-56. (in Russian)

Review articles

“Collectivization and Social Engineering. Soviet Administration and the Jews of Uzbekistan, 1917–1939” by Zeev Levin in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. jgo.e-reviews 8 (2018, 1), pp. 31-33.

“Macht der Unordnung. Stalins Herrschaft in Zentralasien 1920-1950” by Ch. Teichmann in Slavic Review, Volume 76, Issue 4 (winter 2017), pp. 1108-1109.  

“HERDSMAN TO STATESMAN: The Autobiography of Jamsrangiin Sambuu of Mongolia”. Introduced and edited by Morris Rossabi; Translated by Mary Rossabi. In: Pacific Affairs: Volume 85/1 (2012), pp. 195-196.

“Mongolian Foreign Policy: the Chinese Dimension” in IIAS Newsletter 46 (Leiden, 2008), pp. 36.

 H-Diplo Article Review on “Mongolian Politics in the Shadow of the Cold War”, JCWS 8.1 (2006)

 “Truth, History and Politics in Mongolia” in IIAS Newsletter 34 (Leiden, 2004), p. 33.

Other publications

“Die neue Geopolitik in Zentralasien”, IOS Informationen, 2/2016, pp. 1-2. 

“Central and Inner Asia. New Challenges for independent Research” in IIASN, No. 70 (Leiden, 2015), pp. 24-26. (in co-authorship with Alexander Cooley and Willem Vogelsang).

“To the studies of Soviet vostokovedenie: the precarious Marxist debates” in IIASN, No. 70 (Leiden, 2015), p. 26.

“Die Perestrojka in Zentralasien” in Religion & Gesellschaft in Ost und West, 8 (Zürich, 2014), pp. 16-17.

“On the causes of socialism deconstruction: Elitist discourses and people's perceptions in contemporary Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia” in IIASN, No. 60 (Leiden, 2012), pp. 6-7.

“The Mongol Empire and its Historical Legacy” in Boldbaatar, J., Choi Key Ho (eds.) Proceedings of the International Conference “The Tradition of Genghis’ Mongols’ Law and Mongolian Law of the 13th century” (Ulaanbaatar: Ulaanbaatar University, 2012), pp. 46-66.

“National Monuments and Social Construction in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan” in IIAS Newsletter 49 (Leiden, 2008), pp. 18-19.

“The Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party: reconstruction of history” in Tsyrendorzhyiev Readings (Kiev, 2006), pp. 203-219. (in Russian)

"To the Problem of Partnership and Co-operation between the EU and Central Asian States” in The World between Partnership and Terrorism (Varna: Varna Free University Press, 2005), pp. 49-59. (in Russian)

“Nomadic Culture in Written and Oral Epic Traditions” in Rasuly-Paleczek, G., Katschnig, J. (eds.) Central Asia on Display. Proceedings of the VII Conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies, Vienna 2000. Vol. 2. (Reihe: Wiener Zentralasien Studien, 2005), pp. 139-143.

“Legal Systems and Political Regimes in Post-Socialist Central Asia” in IIAS Newsletter 34 (Leiden, 2004), p. 16.

“Education and Nation-Building in Contemporary Azerbaijan” in IIAS Newsletter 33 (Leiden, 2004), p. 3.

“Revolutionary Mongols, Lamas and Buddhism (1921-1941)” in IIAS Newsletter 31 (Leiden, 2003), p. 24.

“Epic Traditions of Nomadic Peoples” in Problems of History and Culture of the Nomadic Central Asian Civilizations, Volume III (Ulan-Ude, 2000), pp. 244-249. (in Russian)

“China – Mongolia – Russia in the 13th century. The Penetration of Social Models” in Lomonosov-96 (Moscow, 1996), pp. 89-90. (in Russian)

Vorträge auf nationalen und internationalen Konferenzen (Auswahl)

• “Mongolian Revolution of 1921 through the prism of 1989: the politics of ‘historical and cultural heritage’ in socialist and post-socialist Mongolia”, invited lecture at Mongolei-Kolloquium, Zentralasien-Seminar, Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaft, Humboldt-Universitäten zu Berlin, ZOOM meeting, 19 May 2021.
•   “The paradox of progress: the decline of the Soviet Modernity and the rise of the oil industry in Atyrau (Guriev), 1980-1990s”, invited lecture at the Third Global Research Network Workshop “Cooperation in Eurasia: Science and Politics”, ZOOM meeting, 27 June 2020.
• “Debates on resource-dependency and new neo-colonialism in late Soviet Central Asia. On the history of oil industry in Western Kazakhstan in the 1980s”, invited lecture at the Special Seminar of the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, 6 November 2019.
• “New debates on the Mongolian revolution of 1921: history as a political resource”, ESCAS 11, Leiden University, 18.07.2019.
• “Economic reform in Osh province and ala kachuu practices, the 1980s”, 16th ESCAS Conference, University of Exeter, 29.06.2019.
• “Behind kazakhisation: the birth of oil elites in late- and post-Soviet Kazakhstan”, Fünfte Schweizerische Geschichtstage, Zürich, 07.06.2019.
• “The culture of remembrance of the WWII in Central Asia”, invited lecture, KZ-Gedenkstätte Flossenbürg, 23.08.2018.
• “Post-colonialism, ‘Kazakh autocracy’ and international oil companies' representations in Atyrau”, International Conference “Borderlands Spaces: Ruins, Revival(s) and Resources”, Bishkek, 14.08.2018.
•  “The meaning of chronologies: Central Asian societies in the context of international change in the 1960-80s”, invited lecture, EHESS, Paris, 9.04.2018.
• “Central Asian ‘Shadow Economy’ and the Disintegration of the Soviet Union: Soviet ‘peripheral’ response to neo-liberal economic models”, Workshop “Reevaluating the Soviet Collapse: Domestic and International Frameworks of Politics and Economics”, LSE, London, 23.03.2018.
• “Socialist solidarity or market rationality: the debates and politics on economy and resources between Moscow and Central Asian Republics, 1989-1991”, Workshop “Culture and Islam in Late Soviet Central Asia”, The George Washington University, Washington, 15.02.2018.
• “Soviet and post-Soviet archives on the history of perestroika in Central Asia”, International Conference “Silk Roads Again II: Eurasian Studies in the Digital Age”, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea, 9.12.2017.
• “Revolutions in the 20th century history of Mongolia: 1921 and 1989”, invited lecture at the Asia-Pacific Research Centre, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea, 8.12.2017.
• “EU-Central Asian relationships: one step forward, two steps back”, 4th Interdisciplinary Central Asia Day “Central Asia: Institutional adaption, political continuity?”, Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik, Universität Hamburg, 17.11.2017.
•  “Metamorphoses of 'connectivity': how debates on strategies to Central Asia shape European identities and practices within the EU”, International Conference “Beyond Globalisation” Prospects for Eurasia”, Cambridge University, 12.05.2017.
•  “Progress as economy or progress as cultural heritage: Central Asia on the move from Soviet to global “South”, 1985–1995”, invited lecture at Institutskolloquium des Zentrums für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, 27.04.2017.
•  “The Year 1989: Southern “Peripheries” of the Soviet Union at the Time of Perestroika”, invited lecture at Lehrstuhl Geschichte Aserbaidschans, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, February 2017.
• 
“Perestroika from the 'periphery'? Central Asia on the edge of neo-liberal revolution”, invited lecture, Lehrstuhl für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte mit dem Schwerpunkt der Geschichte Osteuropas der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, May 2016.
• “Weird entrepreneurs of socialist “south”: auto-transport and regional integration in Fergana valley”, invited key-note, Workshop “Fluid mobilities for cities in transformation: spatial dynamiocs of marshrutkas in Central Asia and the Caucasus”, Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunder, 12.02. 2016.
•     “Central Asian societies at the time of perestroika: the meaning of chronologies”, Workshop “Neue Forschungen zur Geschichte der Perestrojka”, Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena, October 2015.
• “Perestroika economic reforms in Soviet Central Asia, 1982-1991 (on the example of Osh oblast)”, 14th Bi-annual Conference of ESCAS, University of Zürich, October 2015.
• “The History and Narratives of Dismantling Socialism in the Mongolian People’s Republic”, International Conference “Ethnographic Research in Mongolia: past, present and future”, Mongolian Academy of Science, Ulaanbaatar, September 2015.
• Key-note round table “Can small actors be heard? Experiences of former peripheries in the international arena and academia”, International conference “Orientalism, Colonial Thinking and the Former Soviet Periphery”, Vilnius University, August 2015.
• “To the studies of Soviet vostokovedenie: the precarious Marxist debates”, Workshop “Wissensproduktion und Wissenszirkulation zwischen Russland und Asien”, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, May 2015.
• “Regional representation among late socialist and contemporary Mongolian elites”, International Symposium “Mongolian Responses to Globalisation Processes”, University of Bonn, January 2014.
• “Central Asian intertwine of nationality, religion and democracy in the ‘hall of mirrors’ of Western and Soviet historiographies (1950-1980)”, the international conference “Social and Human Sciences on both Sides of the Iron Curtain”, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, October 2013.
• “The discourse on socialism’s deconstruction in the Soviet periphery: encounters of perestroika in Central Asia”, International Conference “D’une Révolution À L’autre. Histoire des circulations révolutionnaires (18e -21e siècle)”, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, June 2013.
• “The impact of Central Asian elites on Soviet policies and identities in the 1980s”, invited lecture, Orient-Institut Istanbul, May 2013.
• “The History of Perestroika in Soviet Central Asia and socialist Mongolia”, invited lecture, Krymski Institute for Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, May 2013.
• “The Rise of New Inequalities via Elitist Debates of Perestroika Period in Soviet Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan and socialist Mongolia”, the VIII Congress of Russian Orientalists, the Institute of Oriental Studies and International Relations, Kazan Federal University, September 2012.
• “Adaptive compromisers or inventive reformers: the role of religious activists and popular intellectuals in “communism-building” in Central and Inner Asia”, Workshop “Religion and Communism: Comparative Perspective, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, May 2011.
• “South-North Dilemma in Kyrgyzstan Regional Politics”, ESCAS XI Conference, Budapest, 2009.
• “Power Models in Nomadic Pastoralists’ Societies of Central and Inner Asia: an Historical Perspective”, International Workshop “Reconceptualising Cultural and Environmental Change in Central Asia: an Historical Perspective on the Future”, the National Institutes for the Humanities, Kyoto, Japan 2009.
• “Russia's Energy Policy in Central Asia: Imperatives for India” at the International Seminar “Energy and Transport Linkages between Central Asia and South Asia”, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India 2006.
• “China's Strategic Interests in Central Asian Region through the Prism of its Co-operation with Russia”, the Second World Forum on China Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai, China 2006.

Veranstaltungsarchiv

2014-2016: Master Seminars at Chair for the History of South-East and Eastern Europe, Universität Regensburg:

• “Transfers of revolution: Sino-Soviet relationships and competing ideologies, 1917-1991”;
• “Sino-Soviet rivalry and ‘friendship’: competing models of socialism, 1949-1991”;
• “The comparative history of socialist movements in Asia, Africa and the Middle East at the last quarter of the 20th century”.

2012: Invited Lecturer at the Module of the History of Islam for the students and academic staff, the Institute of Oriental Studies and International Relations, Kazan Federal University:

• “Discussions on post-colonialism in recent approaches to the study of Central Asia”;
• “Reformers and agitators: communality, religions and ideology in Soviet Central Asia and the Mongolian People’s Republic, 1970-80s”. 

2011-2012: MA course, Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin:

• “Current Debates in Central Asian Studies”.

2008-2009: Invited Lecturer for the MA course at the NATO School, Oberammergau:

• “Security arrangements in Central Eurasia”.

2009: Invited Lecturer at the Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching (ReSET), OSI, University of “Turan”, Almaty:

• “Social history of twentieth century’s Central Asia” for PhD students and young faculty members.

2007-2009: courses at MA and BA levels at: Institut für Asien und Afrikawissenschaft, Lomonosow-Universität Moskau:

• “Socio-political history and international relations in Central Asia in the twentieth century”;
• “Political economy of oil and gas complex in Russia and Asian countries”.

2006: Invited Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam:

• “From protectorate to independency: Central Asia since the late 19th century to the present”.

2001-2002: BA courses at: Institut für Asien und Afrikawissenschaft, Lomonosow-Universität Moskau:

• “The history of Mongolia”;
•  “The history of Tibet”;
• MA Seminar “Modern history of Asian, African and Middle Eastern countries”.

Consultancy, supervision and coaching of MA, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows

2019, 2016: invited external examiner for PhD dissertations, Centre for Development Studies, Cambridge University.

2017-2018: co-supervision of MA thesis, Chair for the History of South-East and Eastern Europe, Universität Regensburg.

2015: Theory Seminar, Chapter Workshop, Summer School in Bishkek (co-organisation) for PhD students at: Graduiertenschule für Ost- und Südosteuropastudien, Universität Regensburg und LMU München.

2010-2014: supervision of 2 PhD students at the Faculty for Humanities, Kyrgyz Russian Slavic University, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and at the Chair for History, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and 1 junior researcher at the Centre for Developing Democracy in Central Asia, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

2007-2009: supervision of junior researcher at the Institute for Strategic Analysis and Estimation attached to the President of Kyrgyzstan within CARTI OSI programme.

2006: Colloquiums and consultations for PhD students at: Institut für Asien und Afrikawissenschaft, Lomonosow-Universität Moskau.

1997-1999: member and academic secretary of the Council on methodologies for teaching history, Institut für Asien und Afrikawissenschaft, Lomonosow-Universität Moskau.