Ines Stolpe

Sonderforschungsbereich 640 (SFB 640) - TP C1 Sitz: Mohrenstr. 40/41 Raum 119 Tel.: +49 30 / 2093-4836 Fax: +49 30 / 2093-4893 Email ines.stolpe@rz.hu-berlin.de

 

Curriculum Vitae

• 1995 – 2001 Double-Degree Master Studies: Mongolistics and Education at Humboldt
  University Berlin, Degree: M.A. with distinction
• 1997 Studies of Mongolistics at the Mongolian National University, Ulaanbaatar
• Since 2002 Dissertation: „School versus Nomadism? Interdependencies of Education and
  Migration in Mongolia.”

Teaching

• 2001 – 2003 Humboldt University Berlin, Institute of General Education, Department of
  Comparative Education (Theory and Practice of Cultural Awareness; Applied Project
  Evaluation)
• Since 2001 Humboldt University Berlin, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Central Asian
  Seminar (Modern and Classical Mongolian; Ethnographies of Socialist Campaigns; Field
  Research Methodology)

Academic Practice

• Since 2004 Research Associate: SFB 640 „Repräsentationen sozialer Ordnungen im Wandel“,
  Subproject C1: „Socialist Campaigns in Central Asia“, Field of Research 2: Mongolia, Humboldt University, Berlin
• Member of AG Repräsentationen auf Reisen
• Member of AG Transfer

Field Research

• 1996 Research on marginalization and social work, Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar
• 1998 Research on the situation of rural schools, Mongolia, Southgobi Province
• 2002 Research on educational reform approaches, Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar
• 2003 Research on education and migration, Mongolia, Eastern Province
• 2005 Research on socialist campaigns in Mongolia; provinces: Khovd, Zavkhan, Övörkhangai,
  Dornogov’; cities: Ulaanbaatar, Nalaikh
• 2006 Research on Socialist Campaigns in Mongolia; Sükhbaatar Province; cities: Nalaikh, Ulaanbaatar

Research Interests

• Cultural, social and political history of Mongolia; main focuses: "Alltagsgeschichte" and anthropology of social relationships, campaign policy, education, transfer
• Postsocialism; main focus: Eastern Europe and Central Asia
• Ethnolinguistics; main focus: new semantic constructions after social changes
• Nomadism; main focus: Central Asia

Selected Projects and International Cooperation

• Since 1996: founder and complimentary co-director of the GER-Project, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (focuses: Education for drop outs and left outs, poverty alleviation)

• 2003 Award: Human Rights Award of the Mongolian Democratic Union (in gold)

• 2003/04: Awarding of the GER-Project as „Child-Friendly School“

• 1998 u. 1999: Seminar assistant for members of the Mongolian government (German Foundation for International Development – DSE)

• since 2000: Founding member of the Institute for the Didactics of Intercultural Action (INDIK)

• 2003: Evaluation of the teacher education program „Bagsh 2005“, State University of Education Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

• Since 2004: Board-Member of the Mongolian Education Alliance (MEA) 

Selected Academic Presentations 

• 2006 “Soyolyn dovtolgoony baiguulalt.” [The Organisation of Cultural Campaigns] Presentation at the International Congress of Mongolists, Ulaanbaatar (August)
• 2006 “Self-Exotization and Double-Talk: Framing the Term ‘Nomadism’ In- and Outside
  Dominant Western Discourses.” Presentation at the International Workshop “Alternative Globalizations”, Humboldt University, Berlin (June)
• 2006 “Socialist Cultural Campaigns in Mongolia.” Public Lecture at the Institute of East Asian Studies, Charles University, Prague (March) 
• 2005 “Die Mongolisierung des Sowjetsterns.“ Presentation at the Workshop Locating Transfer der AG Transfer, SFB 640, Humboldt University, Berlin (December)
• 2005 “Die Ankunft ungebetener Gäste. Hygienekontrollen in der Steppe.” Presentation at the International Workshop "Die Ankunft des Anderen" der AG Repräsentationen auf Reisen, SFB 640, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin (December)

• 2005 “School versus Nomadism? School-Related Migration in Mongolia.” Lecture at the Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit (MIASU), University of Cambridge (November)

• 2005 “Socialist Cultural Campaigns in Mongolia.” Presentation at the International
  Conference on Conflict, Religion and Social Order in Tibet and Inner Asia, Humboldt University, Berlin (November)

• 2005 “’Bolovsrol’, ‘surgan khümüüjil’ gedeg ügsiin mongol ukhagdakhuun.” [The Meaning of Different Mongolian Educational Terms]. Presentation at the International Conference of Young Mongolists, Ulaanbaatar (July); awarded the first price for the best presentation

• 2004 “The Transformation of Boarding Schools in Mongolia during the Long Decade of Neglect (1991-2003).” Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Mongolia Society, Bloomington/Indiana (October)

• 2003 “Mongol bichig zaakhyn talaarkhi zarim asuudal” [Recent Developments in the Teaching of Classic Mongolian Script.] Presentation at the 800th anniversary of classic Mongolian script, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar (September)

• 2003 “Nomadic Education in Mongolia: Implications for Research on International Cooperation in Education.” Presentation at the doctoral pre-conference workshop of the
  Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), New Orleans, USA (March)

Publications

1. Publications within the scope of SFB-Research:

• 2006 Die Ankunft ungebetener Gäste: Hygienekontrollen in der Steppe. In: Die Ankunft des
  Anderen. Peripatetische Repräsentationen im interkulturellen und intertemporalen Vergleich, SFB-Reihe, Campus-Verlag (forthcoming).
• 2006 Die Mongolisierung des Sowjetsterns. Ein Beispiel für die Rolle des Zufalls beim Transfer von Symbolen. In: Comparativ. Leipziger Beiträge zur Universalgeschichte und
  vergleichenden Gesellschaftsforschung. Themenheft “Locating Transfer” (in press).
• 2006 Display and Performance in Mongolian Cultural Campaigns. In: “Conflict, Religion and Social Order in Tibet and Inner Asia”, Conference Volume (forthcoming, to be published with Brill publishers, Leiden).

2. Selected other Publications:

• 2006 Together wit Gita Steiner-Khamsi: Educational Import: Local Encounters with Global Forces in Mongolia. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Publisher.
• 2005 “Bolovsrol”, “surgan khümüüjil” gedeg ügsiin mongol ukhagdakhuun. [The Meaning of Different Mongolian Educational Terms]. In: Ministry of Education, Culture and Sciences; Mongolian Academy of Sciences; National Association of Mongol Studies; Mongolian State University of Education (eds.): Gadaadyn Zaluu Mongol Sudlaach Erdemtdiin Zuny Surguuliin Iltgeliin Emkhetgel. Ulaanbaatar: Mongol Sudlalyn Ündesnii
  Kholboo.
• 2005 Together with Gita Steiner-Khamsi: Non-traveling ‘Best Practices’ for a Traveling
  Population: the case of nomadic education in Mongolia. In: European Educational Research Journal, Vol. 4 (1): 22-35.

• 2004 Together with Gita Steiner-Khamsi: De- and Recentralization Reform in Mongolia: Tracing the Swing of the Pendulum. In: Comparative Education, 40 (1), pp. 29-53.

• 2003 Together with Gita Steiner-Khamsi und Sengedorj Tümendelger: Bolovsrolyn Tölöökh
  Nüüdel. [School-Related Migration.] In: Shine Toli, 45 (4), pp. 82-112.

• 2003 Erschaffung eines Drittweltlandes: Nomadenbildung in der Mongolei. Tertium Comparationis, 9 (2), pp. 162-177.

• 1998 Über Kultur und Bräuche traditioneller Nachrichtenübermittlung der Mongolen. & Der
  Toroo-Baum im Schamanismus. [Translation from classical Mongolian script] Beijing: Öbür monggol-un bicig keblekü üiledbüri, öbür monggol-un soyol-un keblel-ün qoriy-a.

Main Focus in the Subproject

The research field 2 (Mongolia) within the subproject C1 can be regarded as a bridge in two directions of intrasocietal comparison: especially concerning the past, there have been tight cultural interconnections with Tibet; with Uzbekistan there arose an imagined confraternity regarding the ideological alignment towards the future. The historical timeframe, which is examined respectively, brings in a diachronic level of comparison between the research fields 1-3: in the case of Uzbekistan the focus lies on the post-revolutionary time, in the case of Tibet the focus is on recent history, whereas in Mongolia the late cultural campaigns after 1959 are analysed.

These mega-campaigns aimed at a new code of the “cultivated” as a central representation of the new order by combining semantics of education and hygiene. In the 1960s, the implementation of socialist concepts into everyday life concentrated on the rural population. Their nomadic way of life predisposed the logistics and infrastructure of campaigns and also retroacted on the official agenda.

Of particular interest for the analysis are communicative interactions while negotiating
models of symbolic images of change as well as actor-centered concepts of representations
at the implementation level. The latter are in the center of the empirical explorations: based
on rich sources (150 interviews with time witnesses, amongst others) the situative constellations of interaction between implementers and their target groups are considered. Equally accounted for are questions of institutional arrangements, changing role conceptions, new linguistic creations and monitoring capacaties witin an environment of peripatetic statehood.

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