Curriculum Vitae

Academic Education

2002-2007
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany), Doctoral Program.  
Subjects: History, Social Anthropology.
Supervisors: Prof. V. Grabowsky, Prof. J.D.M. Platenkamp
PhD thesis: Geschichte, Nationsbildung und Legitimationspolitik in Laos: Untersuchungen zur laotischen nationalen Historiographie und Ikonographie.
[History, nation-building and politics of legitimacy in Laos: Examinations of Lao national historiography and iconography.]

1996-2002
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany), Master of Arts.  
Subjects: Social Anthropology, History, Sociology.
M.A. thesis: Die ikonographische Repräsentation des Nationalstaates. Eine ethnologische Untersuchung des laotischen und thailändischen Geldes.
[Iconographical representations of the nation-state: An anthropological analysis of Lao and Thai money.]

2001-2002
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (France).
Subject: Social Anthropology.
Erasmus program.

Teaching Activity

2009/10
“Introduction to the History of Anthropology”. Seminar, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle, Institute for Social Anthropology.

2009
“Laos: State and Society”. Seminar, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Institute for Social Anthropology (with Andrea Schopohl).

2008/9
“State, nationalism and ethnicity in Southeast Asia”. Seminar, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Institute for Historical Anthropology.
“Nation-state and ethnicity in Southeast Asia”. Seminar, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institute for Social Anthropology.

2008
“Introduction to political anthropology”. Tutorial, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Institute for Historical Anthropology.

2007/8
“Theories of history and memory”. Seminar, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institute for Social Anthropology.
“Introduction to academic work”. Tutorial, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Institute for Historical Anthropology.

2006
“Revolution and reform in Laos and Vietnam”. Seminar, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institute for Social Anthropology (with Patrice Ladwig).

Conference presentations

2011
“Pasason lao banda phao: state, minorities and the Lao multi-ethnic people”.
Werkstatt. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, 18 January.
“Revolutionary Legacies and Socio-Cultural Challenges in Upland Laos: The Hmong and the ‘Lao Multi-ethnic People’ of Viengxay, Houaphan Province”.
Hmong in Comparative Contexts Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, 4-6 March.
“Mimetic aspects of inter-ethnic relations in upland Laos”.
Portuguese-German Workshop ’Colonial crisis and mimetic processes’, ICS/MPI, Lisbon, Portugal, 12-13 April.

2010
“Viengxay as Birthplace of the Lao PDR”.
3rd International Conference of Lao Studies, Khon Kaen University, Thailand, 14-16 July.
“Sacrifice, heroism and the construction of a revolutionary lieu de mémoire – The case of Viengxay, Lao PDR”.
6th EuroSEAS conference, Panel “Haunted Landscapes and Ambiguous Memories: Interactions with the Past in Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia” (convenors: Vatthana Pholsena & Oliver Tappe), University of
Gothenburg, School of Global Studies, 26.-28. August.
“State-making vs. state-evading? James Scott and the history of the Lao multi-ethnic people”.
Workshop, Between China and Southeast Asia: Social order, identity and interethnic communication, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 31 August – 1 September.

2009
“Landscapes of memory in Laos – between trauma, heroism and entertainment.”
ASA annual conference, Anthropological and archaeological imaginations: past, present and future. University of Bristol, UK, April 6-9.
“Development politics and land reform in Laos.”
DGV annual conference. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, September 30 - October 3.
„Macht, Ideologie und Repräsentation in Laos“.
Collaborative Research Center SFB 586 „Difference and Integration“, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 6 November.

2008
“Nachbarschaftsstreit am Mekong: Das Lao-Thai-Verhältnis und seine Geschichte.” [Neighbourhood dispute at the Mekong: The Lao-Thai-relationship and its history.]
3rd SEAS Conference on South-East Asia, University of Vienna, June 13-14.
“Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungsorte und Fragen nationaler Identität in der Laotischen Demokratischen Volksrepublik.” [History politics, sites of memory and questions of national identity in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic.]
XXX. Deutscher Orientalistentag, University of Freiburg, September 24-28.

2007
“The Escape from Phonkheng Prison – Revolutionary Historiography in the Lao PDR.”
2nd International Conference on Lao Studies, Tempe, Arizona State University, May 3-6.

2006
“The Shaping of the National Topography of Laos.”
16th Annual ASEN Conference, Nations and their Pasts: Representing the Past, Building the Future, London School of Economics, March 28-30.

Language skills

German (native)
English (fluent)
Lao (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Thai (basic)
Spanish (basic)

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