Curriculum Vitae
Education
July 2015
“Habilitation” (postdoctoral degree “Dr. phil. habil.”) at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany (post doctoral thesis: Social Construction and Development of “Indonesian Hinduism” in Bali and Beyond: Religion, Law, and Ethnic Identity Politics in Modern Indonesia)
1997
Dr. phil. at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany (doctoral thesis: Weltbild, Heilspragmatik und Herrschaftslegitimation im vorkolonialen Bali – Eine Analyse des höfischen Diskurses)
1988 – 1996
Doctoral program at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany (anthropology, European ethnology, social psychology)
1988
Magister Artium at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany (MA thesis: Indonesische Kulturpolitik und die Revitalisierung der balinesischen Darstellenden Künste)
1981 – 1988
Magister Artium program at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany (anthropology, European ethnology, social psychology, prehistory, Indian studies)
Academic Positions
April – September 2016
Fellowship at the Centre of Advanced Studies “Multiple Secularities”, Leipzig University, Germany
November 2015
Guest professor at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL) in Oñati, Spain (Sociology of Law Master-course: Law and Anthropology)
Winter 2015/2016
“Privatdozent” for the BA-level course: Die Entwicklung ethnographischer Methoden innerhalb der Ethnologie”
October 2015 – present
Member (“Privatdozent”) of the Philosopical Faculty I, Martin Luther Univeristy Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
June 2015 – August 2015
Visiting fellow at the KITLV/Royal Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribean Studies in Leiden, the Netherlands
February 2015
Guest professor at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL) in Oñati, Spain (Sociology of Law Master-course: Law and Anthropology)
Summer 2014
Guest lecturer at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany (BA-course: Kulturelle Übersetzung in der Rechtsethnologie)
March 2014 – February 2015
Fellowship at the Käte Hamburger Centre of Advance Studies “Law and Culture”, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University Bonn, Germany (Project: Cultural Translation of International Legal Norms – “Indigeneity” and “Indigenous Rights” in Bali)
March 2014 – present
Associated researcher at the “Law & Anthropology” Department of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/S., Germany
February 2014
Guest professor at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL) in Oñati, Spain (Sociology of Law Master-course: Law and Anthropology)
March 2012 – February 2014
Senior researcher at the “Law and Anthropology” Department of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/S., Germany (Projects: The Cultural Translation of Buddhism into Different European Jurisdictions; The Social Construction of “Hinduism” and “Buddhism” in Modern Indonesia: Law, Religion and Ethnic Identity Politics)
Winter 2010/2011
Guest lecturer at the Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany (BA- and MA-course: Recht und Religion: Zum Verhältnis von Normativität und Identitätskonstruktion)
October 2006 – February 2012
Senior researcher in the Project Group ”Legal Pluralism” at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/S., Germany (Project: Religion in Disputing Processes: The Juridification of “Hindu Law” in Bali)
Summer 2002
Guest lecturer at the Department of Cultural Anthropology, Katholieke Universiteit te Nijmegen, the Netherlands (Undergraduate course: Globalised Religious Identity in Southeast Asia)
Winter 2001/2002
Guest lecturer at the Theological Faculty, Katholieke Universiteit te Nijmegen, the Netherlands (Undergraduate course: The Spirituality of Predominantly Oral Cultures)
November 2001 – October 2006
Researcher at the “Dutch Ethnology” Department of the Meertens-Institute in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (Projekt: Detraditionalization and the Development of New Forms of Religiosity in Contemporary Dutch Society)
Winter 2001
Guest professor at the International Graduate School of Theology, Katholieke Universiteit te Nijmegen, the Netherlands (Lecture course: Cultural Sciences: Anthropologists and Sociologists on Religion)
Summer 2001
Guest professor at the International Graduate School of Theology, Katholieke Universiteit te Nijmegen, the Netherlands (Lecture course: Cultural Sciences: Anthropologists and Sociologists on Religion)
Summer 2001
Guest lecturer at the Department of Cultural Anthropology, Katholieke Universiteit te Nijmegen, the Netherlands (Undergraduate course: Globalised Religion and Local Identity in Southeast Asia)
Summer 2001
Guest lecturer in the Advanced Master Program “Ritual, Religion, and the Construction of Sacred Space” of the Research School CNWS (Center for Non-Western Studies) Leiden University, the Netherlands
December 2000 – March 2001
Senior research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) in Leiden, the Netherlands (Project: Hinduism in Modern Indonesia)
Summer 2000
Guest lecturer at the Department of Cultural Anthropology, Katholieke Universiteit te Nijmegen, the Netherlands (Undergraduate course: Global Religion and Local Tradition in Southeast Asia)
Winter 1998/1999
Guest lecturer at the Department of Anthropology and Non-Western Sociology, Leiden University, the Netherlands (Undergraduate course: Hinduism in Modern Indonesia)
Summer 1998
Guest lecturer at the Institute of Anthropology, Westfälische Wilhelms University Münster, Germany (Undergraduate course: Hinduismus in Indonesien: Von der Frühgeschichte bis heute)
December 1997 – November 2000
European Science Foundation research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden, the Netherlands (Project: Hinduism in Modern Indonesia)
Field Research
2015
Preparatory fieldwork on “Heresy, Blasphemy, Apostasy in Indonesian State Law” in Yogyakarta and Jakarta, Indonesia
2014
Preparatory fieldwork in the unauthorized Shaolin Temple in Kaiserslautern, Germany, and the authorized Shaolin Temple in Vienna, Austria
Summer 2012 – present
Preparatory fieldwork in the authorized Shaolin Temple in Berlin, Germany
July 2012
Fieldtrip to Medan (Sumatra) and Denpasar (Bali) in connection with a research project on the development of Buddhism in modern Indonesia
March 2011
Fieldtrip to Jakarta, Central Java and Bali in connection with a research project on the development of Buddhism in modern Indonesia
June 2010
Fieldtrip to Jakarta in connection with a research project on the development of Buddhism in modern Indonesia / archival research on religious disputes in the National Archive
February – April 2009
Fieldtrip to Java in connection with a research project on the development of Buddhism in modern Indonesia, and to Bali in connection with a project on the juridification of Balinese customary law
January – July 2008
Fieldtrip to Bali, Java and Riau in connection with a research project on the development of Buddhism in modern Indonesia and a project on the juridification of Balinese customary law as well as elements of the Shari’a
April – May 2007
Fieldtrip to Bali in connection with a project on the juridification of Balinese customary law
2001 – 2006
Continuous fieldwork in different Dutch cities and towns in connection with a research project on new forms of religiosity in contemporary Dutch society
October 2003
Fieldtrip to Bali and Java in connection with a research project on the development of Hinduism and Buddhism in modern Indonesia
September – October 2000
Fieldtrip to Bali, Java and Central Kalimantan in connection with a research project on the development of Hinduism in modern Indonesia
July 2000
Fieldtrip to Bali in connection with a research project on the development of Hinduism in modern Indonesia
November – December 1999
Fieldtrip to India in connection with a research project on transnational relations between India and Bali
September – October 1999
Fieldtrip to Bali and Java in connection with a research project on the development of Hinduism in modern Indonesia
October 1998 – February 1999
Fieldtrip to Bali and Java in connection with a research project on the development of Hinduism in modern Indonesia
January – February 1998
Fieldtrip to Bali and Java in connection with a research project on the development of Hinduism in modern Indonesia
August 1995
Fieldtrip to Bali in connection with an ethno-musicological recording project
July 1993
Preparatory fieldtrip to Bali in connection with an ethno-musicological recording project
December 1989 – January 1990
Fieldtrip to Bali, Central and East Java in connection with a doctoral research project on notions of legitimate and illegitimate rule in the Balinese and Old-Javanese literary tradition
November – December 1988
Fieldtrip to Bali in connection with a doctoral research project on notions of legitimate and illegitimate rule in the Balinese and Old-Javanese literary tradition
November – December 1986
Fieldtrip to Bali in connection with a Magister Artium research project on the influence of Indonesian cultural politics on the revitalization of classical Balinese performing arts genres
Grants / Scholarships
2015 German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD) lecture and travel grant for Yogyakarta and Jakarta (Indonesia)
2003 German Research Foundation lecture and travel grant for Indonesia
1999 Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research conference grant
1997 German Research Foundation lecture and travel grant for Indonesia
1997 Oskar-Karl-Forster grant for the publication of the doctoral thesis
1992 Erasmus scholarship for Leiden, the Netherlands
1990 German Research Foundation lecture and travel grant for the US
1988 – 1990 Doctoral scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
Organization of Workshops and Conferences
March 2015
Co-Organization of a Roundtable on “Pluralism and Politics in Indonesia: Aspects of Mitigating Extremism and Promoting Democracy“ at the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Berlin, Germany
November 2012
Co-Organization (together Franz and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann) of an International Conference on “Temporalities of Law“ at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/S., Germany
October 2010
Co-Organization (together with Franz and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann) of an International Conference on “Religion in Disputes“at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/S., Germany
March 2009
Co-Organization (together with Fadjar I. Thufail) of an International Workshop on “Religion, Law and Governance in Indonesia“ in Lembang, Indonesia
April 2006
Co-Organization (together with Marinka Copier) of an International Workshop on “Strange Convergences: Performance and Performativity in Fantasy Game Cultures, the Gothic Milieu and Pagan Spirituality” at the Meertens-Institute in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
June 2004
Co-Organization (together with Ineke Hogema) of the Workshop on “Spiritualiteit en het Nederlandse Bedrijfsleven“ at the Meertens-Institute in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
September 1999
Organization of an International Workshop on “Hinduism in Modern Indonesia“ at the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden, the Netherlands
Membership in Professional Associations
American Anthropological Association
Association for Asian Studies
Commission on Legal Pluralism
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Asienkunde / Arbeitskreis Sozialwissenschaftliche Chinaforschung
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Religionswissenschaft
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde
Law and Society Association
Languages
German (mother tongue)
English (fluency)
Dutch (fluency)
Indonesian (fluency)
Malay (fluency)
French (reading ability only)
Spanish (reading ability only)
Balinese (reading ability only)
Old-Javanese
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