Centralasiatisk Selskab

Danish Committee for Aid to Afghan Refugees (DACAAR)

DACAAR is a development non-governmental organisation which works towards sustainable livelihoods in rural Afghanistan including the lasting return of refugees and internally displaced people. DACAAR works at village level in close cooperation with the local population in order to enable them to meet basic needs and secure improved livelihoods. At the national level, DACAAR is actively involved in nation building with the Government of Afghanistan. DACAAR was established in 1984 specifically to provide support and relief to Afghan refugees in Pakistan. In 1989, DACAAR started activities in Afghanistan where the organisation is now concentrating on rehabilitation and long-term development work. www.dacaar.org

Folkekirkens Nødhjælp - Østeuropa og Centralasien gruppen

Folkekirkens Nødhjælp arbejder i alle dele af den fattige verden. Vores indsats er mest koncentreret i Afrika og Asien. Men vi har også aktiviteter i Mellemøsten, Mellemamerika, Østeuropa, Rusland og Centralasien. Folkekirkens Nødhjælp arbejder både med nødhjælp, udviklingshjælp og fortalervirksomhed. Vores hovedfokus i Centralasien ligger på Kirgistan og Kasakhstan, hvor vi har været siden 1998. Her støtter lokale organisationer (NGOer), der arbejder med hjemløse, gadebørn, immigranter, kvinder og pensionister samt med mere rettighedsbaseret arbejde. Operation Dagsværk indsamlingen i 2005 gik til vores partner i hovedstaden i Kirgistan, der arbejder med at få børn og unge tilbage på skolebænken. Læs mere om Folkekirkens Nødhjælps arbejde i Centralasien på www.noedhjaelp.dk/sider_paa_hjemmesiden/her_arbejder_vi/oesteuropa_og_centralasien

International Media Support

IMS supports local media in countries affected by armed conflict, human insecurity and political transition. IMS was established in 2001 in the wake of the tragic events in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. In the 1990s, these and other conflicts saw media being manipulated and used as a tool to fuel violent conflict. IMS was set up in response to this trend with aim to helping local media working in conflict-affected areas to remain operative and professional. Today, IMS activities cover three thematic areas of engagement. In addition to media and conflict, IMS is engaged in media and democracy activities in countries in transition in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and in media and dialogue activities mainly covering the Arab world and Iran. Homepage: www.i-m-s.dk

Firdawsi National Library of the Republic of Tajikistan

Akbaþ, Gülsüm

Alfoneh, Ali

Holds a Master's Degree in Political Science from Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (June 2003) and graduated with the dissertation: "Alliancer I regionen omkring Den Persiske Bugt. Et neorealistisk studie af alliancer i perioden 1954-2002" ("Alliances in the Persian Gulf Region. A Neo Realist Study of Alliances during 1952-2002"), co-authored with Mr. Thomas Gyldal Petersen.

Andersen, Verner Jul

Research Librarian, Cand. Phil. (Persian Language and Culture). Apart from the Classical Persian Literature (ca. 1000-1500 AD) and history, I have occupied myself with Persian Bookpainting Art in my time at Davids Samling (1970-83) and afterwards, but my current, primary interest is Iran in the Qajar Period (ca. 1785-1925), particularly the reign of Naser al-Din Shah (1848-96).

Andersen, Alma Bekturganova

Journalist, member of international coalition genders journalists «CaucAsia». Member of the Kazak Republic Association of sociologists and politologists. Member of the coalition of NGO’s in Kazakstan. Leader of the women NGO ”Verdens kvinder i Danmark”. Nationality: Kazak

Andersen, Erna

Andersen, Anders Højmark

Äsäd, -

Professor of philology at the School of Humanities of Xinjiang University in Urumchi, China since 2005. Presently working as Humboldt Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle and Institute for Turcology of Free University Berlin since February 2008. Interested in the language, literature, culture, folklore, history and modern society of Uyghurs of Xinjiang of China. In the meantime, I am also interesting in Western China and Central Asian Turkic philology and anthropology.

Avus, Cem

Studying linguistics and Turkish, University of Copenhagen.

Bakir, Katerina

BA. student in turkish at cph.university

Baums, Stefan

Ph.D. student at the University of Washington, Asian Languages and Literatures. Research interests: Buddhist philology, narrative and kavya literature, historical linguistics, epigraphy and palaeography. Homepage: http://students.washington.edu/baums

Benwell, Ann Fenger

Phd candidate at the Institute for Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen: focus on rural-to-urban migration and gender issues. Since 1994, four years work in Mongolia, mainly the Gobi, on non-formal distant education.

Berneke, Kirsten

Birk, David Walther

Studying near eastern archaeology at the Carsten Niebuhr Department, University of Copenhagen.

Birk-Petersen, Ulrik

First Secretary at the Royal Danish Embassy in Moscow, covering i.a. the five Centralasian republics.

Bjørkman, Simon

I have travelled in the region several times and have recently lived in Tehran where I studied Persian language and litterature. My main interests lie with both Central Asian Islam and litterature -predominantly Persian.

Boesen, Inger W.

Boesen Lindbo Larsen, Henrik

Borring, Teddy

Advanced Degree in Middle East Studies. Thesis: The development between Turkey and Europe/EEC in the periode 1999-2007 with reference to islam and AKP political aims towards Europe.

Braae, Christel

Anthropologist, Mag. Art., Lic. Phil. from Aarhus University. Senior Researcher at Etnografisk Samling, the Danish National Museum with grant from the Carlsberg Foundation for writing a contribution to the Foundation's Nomad Research Project about the Mongolian collections of the Museum which has been collected during Danish expeditions to Central Asia led by Henning Haslund Christensen in the 1930s. The final product will be published with the title: "Mongol Herders. Material Culture and Daily Life 1 & 2" (Rhodos & Carlsbergfondets Nomadeforskningsserie).

Brendstrup, Rasmus

MA of Modern Culture and Cultural Communication. Film critic and teacher.

Broch, Zenia

Anthropologist, MSc, Life Sciences and Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. Trained archaeologist in the Near East, MA in Material Analysis, Southampton University BA in Near Easter Ancient History and European Ethnology, University of Copenhagen Main interest: Early Islamic periods, technological analysis, social and historical mapping,Anthropologist, MSc, Faculty of Life Sciences and Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. Trained archaeologist in Near East, MA in Material Analysis, Southampton University BA in Near Easter Ancient History and European Ethnology, University of Copenhagen Interest: Early Islamic periods, technological analysis, social and historical mapping of land use, gender and minorities issues, human perception of environment and adaptability, visual representation of cultures.

Burchardi, Anne

Cand. Mag. Tibetan, Ph.D. student. Research Librarian at Oriental and Judaic Department of the Royal Danish Library, and external lecturer on the Department for Asian Studies at the Institute for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at Copenhagen University (Denmark). I am working with the creation of the library's collection of Tibetan literature, and teaching Tibetan language and culture as well as Buddhist philosophy. I work as a translator at guest lectures from Tibetan lamas and translate Tibetan texts to Danish. My Ph.D research focus on Tibetan-Buddhist Soteriology and Ontology. Furthermore, I am connected to the Twinning Library Project between the Royal Danish Library and the National Library of Bhutan.

Bøgholm, Paul Remi Ademola

Well I am just curious to know as much about these part of the world because it has given so many innovations and culture of a very high level to the rest of the world. And geo-politically, a very important part of the world because of huge oil fields and so and a place where islam meet christanity and judaism.

Castenfeldt, Svend

Etnograf, Moesgård Museum. Æresmedlem af Centralasiatisk Selskab fra 2007.

Chernova, Anna

Academic and professional experience in different regions of Russia, the Balkans, and Central Asia. Cover (follow political events, and frequently travel to the region) Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmensitan for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's Parliamentary Assembly - headquartered in Copenhagen.

Christensen, Morten

Journalist, cand.public. Uddannet fra Danmarks Journalisthøjskole, 2001. Kandidatgrad i journalistik (cand.public) fra Syddansk Universitet, 2007, med speciale i international politik og global terrorisme. Mine arbejdsområder er indenrigs- og udenrigspolitik, økonomi, kultur, religion og samfundsforhold i de centralasiatiske lande, især Kirgistan (Kirgisistan). Jeg er bosiddende i Bishkek, Kirgistan, siden januar 2008. Journalist, cand.public. Graduated from Danish School of Journalism, 2001. I hold a MA in journalism and international relations (cand.public) from University of Southern Denmark, 2007. My master thesis focused on global terrorism. My interests in relation to the Central Asian republics are domestic and foreign policies, economy, culture, religion and societal matters in general. I am living in Bishkek since January 2008.

Christensen, Inge

My field of specialisation is the former Soviet Union. Therefore I am interested in Central Asia, particularly the Soviet Successor States.

Crawfurd, Birgitte Samsøe

MA Classical Archaeology (Univ.of Cph.),and student of art history. Freelance lecturer on the Ancient Silk Roads. Freelance photo-journalist. Independent researcher of the ancient Silk Roads,cross-cultural trade and cultural connections between East and West. Silk Road student of Prof. Daniel Waugh, prev.Univ.of Seattle, Washington. Presently I am launching a cross-cultural workshop (English) in Moscow on The Ancient Silk Roads - In Search of Old Russia`. Including power-point assisted lectures, interactive studies, and individual presentations on Russia´s ancient East-West relations and cross-cultural contacts along the Silk Roads, esp. the Steppe Route, as preparation for field trips and travels within Russia, in Central Asia (Oasis Route) and China, and visits to relevant overseas exhibitions. Independent Silk Road research expedition (five weeks) in China in April-May 2006, following the northern Silk Road route around the Taklamakan desert in Xinjiang province: From the Karakorum Highway (KKH) in the far west, via rumqi, Kashgar,Lake karakul, Yarkand, Aksu, Turfan, Jiayuguan, Dunhuang, Lanzhou, Xian, Hangzhou, and Suzhou to Shanghai in east. Only assisted by my 23 old son. I have lived in Beijing (1981-85), Toronto (1986-92),Seoul (1994-98), Tokyo (1998-99),and The Hague (2002-06), and moved to Moscow in 2006. Has worked as a cultural travel and tour guide in China, and as a special teacher at the Royal Ontario Museum`s Education department (depts. of China, Italy, and Greece). In Copenhagen and in The Netherlands I investigated the Maritime Silk Road and presented (power point assisted) slide shows on the ancient Silk Roads for international organizations. In Seoul I founded the International Dragon Circle to introduce the Korean culture and to bridge cultural differences, wrote articles on Korean culture, and partcipated in a TV film on Korean Buddhism.

Dadalauri, Nino

I am PhD student at the Political Science Department, the Aarhus University, Denmark. My research project is on the state-building processes and political elites in post-revolutionary Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan.

Dahy, June

MA (mag.art.) in Semitic Philology, assistant teaching professor at the Carsten Niebuhr Department at the University of Copenhagen. Thesis “Tendenser i historieskrivningen om Bagdads fald til Mongolerne i 1258/656 h” (‘Tendencies in historical accounts of the fall of Bagdad to the Mongols in 1258/656 h’). Teaches Arabic propaedeutics and communicative Arabic. Has developed material for distance teaching in Arabic.

Dalsgaard, Andreas Møl

BA in Ethnography and Social Anthropology from University of Århus and Université Denis Diderot in Paris. Studying film directing at the Danish Film Academy (2005-). Special interest in Afghanistan with several journeys there since august 2003. Director of the documentary "Afghan Muscles" (2005) and producer of the documentary "Afghanistan Forever". (2005). Homepage:www.haslund.org or www.afghanistanfilm.dk

Dalsgård, Johanne Høeg

Damgaard, Kristoffer

BA (hons.) Cand. Mag. (MA) in Islamic archaeology. Part-time lecturer (ekstern lektor) at University of Copenhagen. Assistant Director, Danish-Jordanian Islamic Jarash Project; Area Director, International Aqaba Archaeological Project. Specialised in the transition from Roman to Islamic rule in the Middle East (600-1100 CE), with particular focus on the formation of an Islamic political apparatus, urbanisation strategies and the creation of socio-economic infrastructures.

De Cordier, Bruno

Bruno De Cordier works for the Conflict Research Group and was with the UN World Food Programme and other humanitarian organisations before that. His main research themes include humanitarian policy, military and security issues as well as Eurasia and the Islamic world. He regularly publishes in the Belgian paper De Standaard and in specialised journals like Central Asian Survey, ISIM Review, Disasters and Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and wrote a book about Central Asia where he lived for several years and returns regularly.

Delman, Jørgen

Ph.D., Director of Nordic Institute for Asian Studies (NIAS). Interest in Xinjiang.

Dessau, Erling

I 30 år United Nations Coordinator i 7 lande, nu special advisor to the Rector, University for Peace of the United Nations, advisor to Kings College, London (Humanitarian Futures) mv.

Devald, Ida

Studying Russian at the Eastern European Department, University of Copenhagen. I have interest in political and cultural aspects of the post-USSR republics and I have traveled in the region, especially in Kyrgystan.

Duetoft, Peter

Former MP for Centrum-Demokraterne (the Centre Democrats) in the Danish parliament Folketinget. Homepage: http://duetoft.dk

Dyrhagen, Pia

Graduating from department of Social Anthropology from University of Copenhagen in autumn 2005, I am now working as JPO for DanChurchAid (Folkekirkens Nødhjælp) in Central Asia: Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kasakhstan. My master thesis focused on Europeanisation of young Hungarians, and my interests are religious, national and ethnic identity including conflict prevention. PR managing officer of DSCA.

Ege, Anne Møller

Ekebjærg, Lars-Chresten

Elling, Rasmus Chr.

PhD Fellow in Iranian studies at the University of Copenhagen. Visiting researcher at Hagop Kevorkian Center, New York University(January-July 2009). Area of interest: the history, politics and languages of Iran, Central Asia and Afghanistan. Current research area: Ethnic and national identity in Iran.

Érdy, Miklós

Eriksen, Sonja

Har haft den spændende oplevelse to gange at gæste bekendte i Kazakhstan (russisksprogede). Finder det meget svært at følge med i udviklingen i området via de ordinære medier. Fornemmer at den del af verden er gået i glemmebogen til fordel for f.eks. Kina.

Eskandani, Ulla

Teacher and architect. My Husband is Iranian and I have two nationalities (danish/iranian):We arrange cultural trips to Iran -1-2 times per year. My husband is lecturing re persian architecture and culture. I have been teaching social science and languages (German, bit of French and English for about 25 years). We are both very interested in political matters - and also cultural; we want to be more actice re the present cartoon scandal etc.

Faartoft, Anne Bojsen

Studerende ved Østeuropæisk afdeling ved ToRS, KU. Afventer specialekarakter.

Fabrin, Søren Vester

Arbejder frivilligt med "kulturel nødhjælp" til gadebørn og børnehjem, inden for musikudveksling. Hjemmeside: www.gadeboern.dk

Farr, Nicholas T.

www.farr.dk

Fentz, Mytte

Cand.Mag. Medieval Archaeology and Ethnology.

Fentz, Christine

Director and dramaturg (cand.phil), working with theatre, performance and dance. Several travels to Tuva. In 2007 I finished a documentary together with Benedikte M. Kristensen, English title something like: “When the Soul sits in the Hair”, shown on Danish television and festival in Sweden. Future film projects are in planning. Primary interests are shamanism and Tuvan/Centralasian music. Plays khomuz, and studies khöömei and igil. Instruktør og dramaturg (cand.phil.) Arbejder med scenekunst, mest performance og dans. Flere rejser til Tuva. I 2007 færdiggjorde jeg dokumentarfilmen ”Når sjælen sidder i håret”, sammen med Benedikte M. Kristensen, vist på DR og på svensk filmfestival. Fremtidige filmprojekter er under udvikling. Hovedinteresser: Shamanisme og tuvinsk/centralasiatisk musik. Spiller khomuz (mundgænge) og studerer khöömei og igil.

Fihl, Esther

Anthropologist, Associate Professor, dr.phil., Head of Centre for Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. Research interests: The Carlsberg Foundation's Project Danish Nomad Research: Expeditions to Central Asia. Danish Colonialism and Cultural Meetings. Fishing Communities in Tranquebar, Southern India. Main publication: "Exploring Central Asia. Collecting Objects and Writing Cultures from the Steppes to the High Pamirs" (Thames & Hudson & Rhodos International Science and Art Publishers, vol. I-II. 2002).

Fischer, Per

Studerer tyrkisk på Carsten Niebuhr Afdelingen, ToRS, Københavns Universitet. Er interesseret i stort set alle aspekter af Centralasien. Særlige interesser: Religion, sprogpolitik, musik, Uighurerne, husdyrhold, kameler, fjerkræracer, hanekamp, botanik og zoologi. Stiftende medlem af og tidligere formand for Centralasiatisk Selskab. Presently studying Turkish at the Carsten Niebuhr Department, Copenhagen University. Interested in almost every aspect of Central Asia, special interests being: Religion, language policies, music, the Uighur people of Xinjiang, camels, poultry and cock-fighting in Central Asia, Botany and Zoology. Founding member and former Chairman of DSCA.

Fledelius, Karsten

Historian, associate professor at the Department for Film and Media Science at the University of Copenhagen. Chairman of Dansk-Russisk Forening

Foverskov, C.E.

MSc in chemistry, former associate professor at the Danish Technical University. Secretary of the Danish Association for Research on the Caucasus. Presently studying history, specializing in economical history and Eastern European studies. Special area of interest: Chechnya.

Frederiksen, Martin Demant

Ph.D student at the Department of Anthropology, University of Aarhus. Currently working on a comparative project on marginalized youth and social innovation. Regional interest in the Southern Caucasus, primarily Georgia. Others interests include issues of social change, post conflict and perceptions of time and the future.

Frederiksen, Birthe

Friborg, Anders Tang

Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs employee; general interest in Central Asia.

Gilberg, Rolf

Museum Inspector and Senior Researcher at the Ethnographic Collection of the National Museum of Denmark. Working on a book in the Nomad Research Project, the topic being the Shamanist material collected by Henning Haslund-Christensen in Mongolia in the 1930s. Working title: "Mongol Shamans - Shaman Costumes in the National Museum of Denmark".

Granberg, Antoaneta

Works as university lecturer at the university of Göteborg (Sweden), the department of Slavic languages. Research interests embrace the Hunno-Bulgarian language and runic alphabet, Church Slavonic etymology, lexicology and philology, Bulgarian medieval studies and Balkan linguistics.

Gratschew, Maria

Gregersen, Jette Land

Gørsing, Åse

Cand.mag. Interesseret i silkevejen, både geografi og samfunds-forhold

Hakenbeck, Susanne

Junior Research Fellow, Newnham College and Affiliated researcher, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. My research focuses on the social changes during the late Roman to early medieval transition on the European continent and in Britain. I am interested in migration and shifting identities in early medieval Bavaria, as reflected in changing burial practices. I use a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing on mortuary studies, a detailed knowledge of the material culture of the period and on techniques from archaeological science, in particular stable isotope analysis. My work considers the history and theoretical basis of concepts such as migrations, ethnicity, race, typology and archaeological cultures.

Hartwell, Birgitte

PhD student "Small ruminant nutrition and production in Syria". ICARDA, Syria/BOKU, Austria. Have travelled extensively in Central Asia (Kazakhstan,Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan), evaluating livestock projects and conducted farmer workshops and training sessions. Special interests are; livestock production systems, natural resource management of grazing areas, culture, people and nature.

Harvig, Bjørn

Traveled several times in central asia, mainly on bike. Interested in nature, geography, history and religion. http://www.gaiagroup.dk/

Haslund-Christensen, Michael

Educated film producer from the Danish Film Academy (1989-1991). Has produced feature films and documentaries on areas covered by the Society, among these Mongolia, Xinjiang, India, and Afghanistan since 1986. Titles: From Mongolia: "Asiens Trommer" (1987); "Den Danske Gård i Mongoliet" (1991); "The Wild East - portræt af en storbynomade" (2002). From India: "Larger than Life" (2004). From Afghanistan: Film for DAC (2003), "Afghan Muscles" (2005). From China: "China Through the Back Door" (in production). Grandchild of Danish traveller Henning Haslund-Christensen, who had Central Asia as his special area of interest. For more on activities and CV please enter: http://www.haslund.org.

Hauge, Marie-Luise

Political scientist (cand.scient.adm.) from Aalborg University. Areas of special interest are: political, economical, social and religious structures and development in Kyrgyzstan. Has in the last years worked at Dan Church Aid (Folkekirkens Nødhjælp) in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia desk. Currently on maternity leave.

Heegård Petersen, Jan

Linguist, Ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen. Ph.D. Thesis on the Kalasha language of the Dardic family in NW Pakistan. Co-editor of the DSCA Journal

Helms, Mette

BA Persian Language and Culture, Copenhagen University. Working at COWI A/S as a consulting engineer specializing in wastewater topics. Special area of interest: Afghanistan.

Hermansen, Bo Dahl

MA (cand. phil.) in Near Eastern archaeology, external lecturer at the Carsten Niebuhr Department, University of Copenhagen. Member of the editorial board of the egyptological periodical "Papyrus".

Hertoft, Mikael

MA (Cand. mag.) Russian language and Eastern Affairs, (Russisk og øststatskundskab). Assignments at the Northern and Southern Caucasus, Russia, Kazakhstan and Kyrghystan etc. Publications about Iraq war and Kazakhstan in Danish.

Heurlin, Bertel

Jean Monnet Professor i europæisk sikkerhed og integration ved Inst. for Statskundskab, Københavns Universitet, Formand for Dansk Institut for Militære Studier, Co-director for Copenhagen Middle East Research Project. Jean Monnet professor in European security and integration at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. President of the Danish Institute for Military Studies, Co-director of Copenhagen Middle East Research Project.

Holm, Kirsten Gynther

Horvath, Izabella

Independent Scholar. MA Linguistics, BA Anthropology; BA Art History. Does fieldwork in China in folklore an anthroplogy of northern grassland peoples (Mongols, Turks, Evenki, etc). Published 2 books and 30 + articles on comparative ethnography/anthopology. Areas of interest: Early history of Turks, Mongols, Hungarians and other grassland peoples of Central Asia. Frequent presenter at CESS and other international conferences.

Hraundal, Thorir Jonsson

My field of interest is mainly the spread of Islam northwards, i.e. through the Caucasus and into Central Asia along with the languages, history and numismatics of that time and place. M.Litt dissertation from Cambridge 2005: The Islamization of the Volga Bulghars.

Hyllested, Adam

Comparative linguist, MA in Indo-European Studies. Ph.D. fellow at the “Roots of Europe” centre, University of Copenhagen. Former editor at Gyldendal (2003-2007), Politiken Publishers (2001-2002) and the Danish National Encyclopedia (Danmarks Nationalleksikon, 1996-2000). Relevant areas of research: Contacts and remote affinities between Indo-European, Uralic and Yukaghir; the Indo-European homeland problem; the prehistory of Tocharian, Indo-Iranian, Slavic, Fenno-Ugric and Samoyed; etymologies of culture-words in Northern Eurasia and along the Silk Road. Founding member of DSCA, co-editor of the DSCA Journal and Oxus. Website: http://rootsofeurope.ku.dk/

Højer, Lars

Assistant professor at the Centre for Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Thesis “Fjendskab og usikkerhed i det post-socialistiske Mongoliet” (Hostility and insecurity in post-socialist Mongolia’) based on one year’s fieldwork in Mongolia. Present research includes economic culture in Mongolia. Expert in sociality and exchange, religion and magic, economical anthropology, history of anthropological theory, post-socialism. Board Member of The Danish Mongolian Society. Member of Mongolian and Inner Asia Studies Unit (MIASU), The Nordic and East/Central European Network for Qualitative Social Research (NECEN) and The East/Central Europe Research Group (ECEG).

Irgens-Møller, Christer

Jääskeläinen, Kira

MA in Eastern European studies and film studies, documentarist. Thesis about indigenous peoples and media in Russia. Fieldwork in Chukotka, North-East Russia and Mongolia. Main interests in cultural studies, minority rights, visual anthropology. Areas: Siberia, Central Asia, Mongolia, Tibet.

Janhunen, Juha

Basic education in Uralic and Altaic Studies from Finland, Hungary, and Japan (1970-1979). Ph.D. in Samoyedology (1986), Docent in North Asian Studies (1986-1994), Professor in East Asian Studies (since 1994) at the University of Helsinki. Field work in and publications on Siberia, Manchuria, Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and Gansu-Qinghai (Amdo). Head of the project "Aspects of Ethnic Interaction and Adaption in Amdo Qinghai" (since 2005). Basic disciplines: Comparative linguistics, ethnic history. Issues of interest: Ethnic policies, linguistic endangerment.

Janniche, Hanne

Jarnvig, Søren

Description: Master\'s Degree Student, Development Studies and PA. Keywords: Community Based Natural Resource Management Strategies, Equality of Opportunity, Governance, Economic Development. Lived in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 2006, working with the Kyrgyz Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project.

Jensen, Kurt Villads

Lecturer, Ph.D., Institute for History, Syddansk Universitet. Research in Western Europeans' view on Mongols and other foreigners in the Medieval Ages.

Jensen, Søren Kromann

Surgeon and urologist. Retired consultant surgeon at Sønderborg Sygehus. Major at the Royal Danish Medical Corps. Surgeon and medical coordinator i Pakistan and Afghanistan, hence my interest in the Afghan population, as well as the buddhists in Northern India and Tibet. Has published "From the other side of nothing" a photographic report on the Indus river.

Jepsen, Jonas Kjærgaard

Political scientist, MSc (cand.scient.adm.) from Aalborg University. Areas of interest and specialisation: post-Communist transition/transformation processes, in particular in the former Soviet Union; Russian foreign and security policy. Special interests in Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan; Azerbaijan, the national homelands in Russia.

Johansen, Tobias Stern

Johanson, Éva Ágnes Csató

Prof. of Turkic languages at the Institute of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University.

Johnsen, Britta June

Jørgensen, Anders Gerhard

Student of Political Science at University of Copenhagen. I have a profound interest in political and cultural aspects of the post-USSR republics, mainly those located in Central Asia. Furthermore, I am interested in the minority groups of Western China. I spent 5 months in Xinjiang (near Yining/Guldja) representing a Danish folk high school. My main task was teaching English at a minority high school.

Jørgensen, Hemming

Cand. polyt./HD. Retired from an international finance institution. Special interest in Persian-speaking regions.

Khan, Taj

MA Human Rights-Central European University Activist Representative-Advocating rights and visions of Kalasha People through talks,presentations and film screenings to wider audience. Currently working on vernacular literacy-developing and Preserving ancient language of Kalasha- the last remaining indigenous nation of Hindukush mountains in NWFP Pakistan. Special Interests in Archeology, Mythology, documentary filming, languages, traveling, vines, music, Agro-Pasturalism.

Knudsen, Jakob

I am the International Project Manager of the Danish NGO \"SILBA - Support Initiative for Liberty and Democracy in the Baltic Area\". SILBA is a Danish Cross-Political Youth NGO. We work mostly in Belarus, Ukraine, Kaliningrad and Moldova, but will slowly start working in Caucasus as well. Our activities are mainly finansed by The Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Neighbourhood Program. Our activities includes seminars, summercamps, election monitoring, rock concerts and homepages in te above mentioned countries and lectures about the countries in which we work, in Danish NGOs. Visit www.hviderusland.dk and www.silba.dk.

Knudsen, Vibeke

Artist and MA in Art Theory and Communication from the Royal Danish Academy of Finearts. Member of BKF, Danish Union of Artist. Fieldwork-experence in art-related subjects periodiacly through 2002-2006 in Mongolia

Kocbay, Havva

Studerer historie på Københavns universitet, og har religion som tilvalg.

Krag, Anne Hedeager

Archaeologist, MA (mag.art). Interest in the study of archaeological silk and the Silk Road.

Krarup, Anette

Krath, Rasmus

Kristensen, Benedikte Møller

Anthropologist with interest in Siberia and Mongolia. Made thesis about Shamanism among the Duha of Northern Mongolia. Done several fieldworks among Tuvan People in Mongolia and southern Siberia (Tuva). Made a documentary in coorporation with Chrisitine Fentz about my Tuvan-danish daughter journey to her fathers homeland, where she went through the traditional hair cutting ritual.

Kristoffersen, Hans Sloth

Cand.scient.pol. in spe from Aarhus University. Chairman of SILBA-Århus (Support Initiative for Liberty), regional SILBA-manager for Caucasus, and Policy Expert at Young Europeans for Security. My interest in Central Asia has developed from an overwhelming interest in Belarus, Caucasus and Russia.I am policy expert in the NGO YES (Young Europeans for Security) regarding to The Transition of Eastern Europe and chairman of the Aarhus branch of SILBA (Support Initiative for Liberty & Democracy in the Baltic Area). SiLBA has recently expanded its activities to the Caucasian area. I hold a BA degree in political science, and plan to recieve my cand. degree during the spring 2006

Larsen, Kjeld Allan

Lecturer in Geography, Chairman of Dansk-Kinesisk Forening (Danish-Chinese Society), special area of interest: Xinjiang.

Larsson, Jenny Helena

Cand.mag. og Ph.d. i indoeuropæisk sprogvidenskab, forskningsadjunkt på Institut for Nordiske Studier og Sprogvidenskab (INSS), Københavns Universitet, siden 2004. Lige nu arbejder jeg med et projekt om nominaldannelse i det oldiranske sprog avestisk. Modtager af Det Frie Forskningsråds Ung Eliteforskerpris 2007. Hjemmeside: http://nordisk.ku.dk/ansatte/ MA and Ph.D. in Indo-European Studies, research assistant professor at the Institute for Nordic Studies and Lingustics, University of Copenhagen, since 2004. My current research project is about noun formation in Avestan, an ancient Iranian language. Reciever of the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation's "Young Elite Researcher prize" 2007. Homepage: http://nordisk.ku.dk/ansatte/

Laura, Heidi

Cand.phil, ph.d i Hebraisk Sprog og Jødisk Kultur. Informationsmedarbejder ved Dansk Jødisk Museum. Kulturskribent og litteraturanmelder ved Weekendavisen. Ekstern lektor i Jødisk kultur og litteratur, CNa, TORS. Jeg interesserer mig blandt andet for bukharisk jødisk kultur. Cand. Phil & ph.d, Jewish Studies. Information officer, the Danish Jewish Museum Freelance journalist, Weekendavisen. Teaches Jewish culture & literature, Carsten Niebuhr afdeling, TORS, University of Copenhagen. Interested in Bukharan Jewish culture.

Lillelund, Ole

Louw, Maria Elisabeth

Maria Louw er antropolog og i øjeblikket postdoc stipendiat ved Afdeling for Antropologi og Etnografi, Aarhus Universitet. Hun har udført omfattende feltarbejde i post-sovjetisk Centralasien, specielt med fokus på religion, moral og politik i konteksten af post-sovjetisk social forandring. Se hendes hjemmeside på http://au.dk/da/etnolouw@hum Maria Louw is an anthropologist and currently a postdoc scholar at the Deparment of Anthropology and Ethnography, University of Aarhus. She has done extensive fieldwork in Central Asia, focusing in particular on everyday religion, morality and politics in the context of post-Soviet social change. See her homepage on http://au.dk/da/etnolouw@hum

Lütken, Jens-Kristian

Experience in election observing in the former USSR. Democratization and civil society in transition countries.

Lymer, Kenneth

Prehistorian, Rock art researcher, Ph.D, Museum of London Archaeology Service (MoLAS). Research interests include: rock art of Central Asia, so-called "animal style" (animal art), the Sako-scythians/Scytho-Siberians (Early Nomadic period of greater Central Asia and Southern Siberia), popular religions, folklore, shamanism and contemporary healing practices, indigenious perceptions of archaeology and the past.

Lyngby, Rasmus

Madsen, Sten

Cand. Mag. in Near Eastern Archaeology December 2003. Have worked several seasons at the Bronze Age mound, Anau Depe in Turkmenistan. Main interests are trade, communication and interaction in the Bronze Age of Central Asia. Co-editor of OXUS.

Mamteli, Mehriay

Presently studing Swedish language at the Introduktionenheten at the Värmdö kommun, Stockholm, Sweden since July, 2006. Interested in the media, art, music, culture, folklore, history and modern society of Uyghurs in Western China and Central Asia. Before came to Sweden 2004, worked as Lecturer at the Faculty of Journalism and Research Institute for Altaistic of Xinjiang University for more than 8 years.

Mehdi, Rubya

Ph.D (Law)Associate Research Professor Carsten Niebuhr Institute. University of Copenhagen.

Melchior, Anna Amiri

Studerer antropologi ved Københavns Universitet.

Merganova, Lailo

Er av tadjikisk opprinnelse, 41 år, master, og har gjennom eget arbeid og studier god kjennskap til forholdene i regionen.

Mikkelsen, Heini

Jeg ønsker at kende mere til Azerbaijan og de omkringliggende lande. Har boet i Baku i 1 1/2 år i forbindelse med et arbejde. Starter muligvis en lille virksomhed i Baku til næste år.

Mochizuki, Jytte

Mogensen, Irina Noskova

Mogensen, Anders

Mogensen, Peter

Mogensen, Jens

Mortensen, Inge Demant

Munk, Iver

MA Student of Law, BA of Arabic and Persian from Copenhagen University. Has lived in Khujand (Tajikistan) and studied at the local university KHGU. Is currently writing thesis on the peace proces after the Tajik civil war.

Mørk, Janus Gohr

Holds a MA in political science from University of Copenhagen. Especially interested in the political and so called transitional aspects of post-soviet states. Has lived several years in Russia and has taken part in election observation missions on NGO-level in Belarus, Russia and Moldova. Russian speaking.

Nedergaard, Lise Marie

Storyteller and songwriter, BA in Russian, interested in folktales from Centralasia, Persia, and other contries along the Silk Road.

Nielsen, Mette

I am studying Business and Development at Copenhagen Business School, and have just started my thesis research on Tajikistan, the economic situation and poverty.

Nissen, Søren Windfeldt

Jeg har været udviklingsarbejder både i Tadsjikistan og i Kyrgyzstan har jeg blandt andre arbejdet for Det Danske Menneskerettighedsinstitut, OSCE og Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke. I have been employed in both Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. In Kyrgyzstan by The Danish Institute for Human Rights establishing a secretariat for human rights. In Tajikistan by The OSCE as a program officer on land reform and by The Danish Association for International Cooperation (MS) examining youth exchange activities.

Nyamaa, Burmaa

Stud. cand. scient. adm. Special interest in conflict resolution in Georgia.

Nøhr, Thomas

Tegneserietegner, illustrator

Obrusánszky, Borbála

Ph.D, Historian-orientalist, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Inst. Of Ethnography Shamanism Archive. Does fieldwork in Mongolia and Northern-China among Mongolian people. Areas of interest: ancient history and social organisation of the Inner Asian nomadic people. History of Southern Hun, and its capital, Tongwancheng (White City), Ancient cults of women among Mongolians. She has good connection with Mongolian State Universtiy, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, and with Inner Mongolian scholars. She began to get connected with the Hun researchers from the Shaanxi Normal University. She published 1 book, and 20 articles on comparative history.

Odgaard, Liselotte

Associate Professor, Ph.D., Department of Political Science, Aarhus University (Denmark)

Öker, Anne Grete

Research Librarian, Cand. Mag. Turkish Philology. Working with Turkey- and Central Asia-related literature at the Royal Library of Denmark.

Olsen, Pelle Valentin

Öner, Mustafa

Associate Professor, Ph.D. Ege Universitesi, Faculty of Letters, Department of Turkish Language and Literature Head of the Modern Turkish Language Interest: Turkic philology. Edition of literary text in Tatar, Kazakh, Bashkir, Chagatai. Lexicology. Etymology and historical morphology in Turkic languages. Historical comparative grammar of Kipchak languages (Ph.D.) Problems of alphabet, language, identity, repression and etnogenesis in Soviet-Turkic area in 20th century.

Otteslev, Ole

Has previously been working as Acting Country Director and Head of Finance and Administration for Danish Refugee Council in Russia, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Intrested in projects in Central Asia for substainable solutions for SME.

Özcan, Mevlüde

Pedersen, Morten Axel

Ph.D., assistant professor, Institute of Anthopology, University of Copenhagen. Based on more than three years of fieldwork in Mongolia, my current research essentially falls within three subfields of anthropology. First, I am in the process of writing up my recently collected data on economical and political forms in Ulaanbaatar, with particular focus on what I call the "phenomenology of trading" as well as, more generally, the construction of personhood in the postsocialist market. Second, I am involved in ongoing debates concerning human "cognition in the wild", with a particular ethnographic emphasis on the complex interplay between religious art, environmental forms and the nature of Darhad Mongolian social ontologies. Finally, I have a long-lasting interest in the anthropology of religion, especially with respect to the historical tension between Buddhism, shamanism and various imperial polities in Northern and Inner Asia.

Pedersen, Michael Viberg

Educated as a Language Officer (Russian) in the Danish Defence, area expertise in the countries of the former WAPA. Trade attaché at the Danish Embassy in Moskow, support for Danish trade and investment in Russia, Belarus, and Central Asia. Led the official export venture "Danish Days in Kazakstan" together with Danish officials and 19 Danish companies. Since August 2004 the chief of the Danish Trade Office in Almaty, Kazakstan.

Pedersen, Claus V.

Associate professor in Persian, Ph.d., University of Copenhagen, The Carsten Niebuhr Department.

Pedersen, Charlotte Flindt

Head of Unit for New Independent states of the Danish Institute for human rights international department

Petersen, Steen Estvad

Architect MAA, writer. Has written "Drømmen om Paradiset - Islamisk Havekultur" (Gyldendal, 2005).

Petersen, Thomas

Associate Professor, emeritus Russian and Soviet history (ex-Soviet Republics)

Poulsen, Rikke Lindum

I have a great interest in Central Asia, specially Kyrgystan, where I have travelled.

Prien, Ulla

MA (cand.phil.) in Arabic, assistant teaching professor in Arabic at the Carsten Niebuhr Department at the University of Copenhagen. Has developed material for distance teaching in Arabic.

Prip, Hanne Skovgaard

Prip, Christina

Architect

Rasmussen, Niels Aadal

Minister counsellor, senior analyst. Interested in Central Asian security policy, relations between the region and Russia and China, Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

Raudvere, Helena Catharina

Professor in religion at the Institute for Intercultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. Fieldwork in Turkey, research interest in Iran and Uzbekistan.

Refsgaard, Marie Louise

M.Phil. in Development Studies, MA in Political Science.

Rosén, Staffan

Professor of Korean language at the Institute for Oriental Languages, Stockholm University (Sweden). Research areas: Korean and Altaic lingvistics and language history, Korean history and historiography, early contacts between Korea, Central Asia and the Silk Road cultures. Engaged in a project with the title: "The Role of Korea and Japan in the SIlk Road System".

Rømer, Mikael

Journalist.

Rønningen, Anne Gry

MA Human Geography. Completed MA thesis on water management in Central Asia, emphasising Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Extensive travelling in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

Saritas, Eyup

I am studying Central Asian Turkic tribes history, the Silk Road and the Southwestern region of China during the Sui-Tang dynasties according to Chinese sources.

Sattrup, Søren

Scharlipp, Wolfgang

Æresmedlem af Centralasiatisk Selskab fra 2007. Employed at the Carsten Niebuhr Department, Copenhagen University. Having studied Turkology as a major and Indology and Tibetology as minors, I recieved my doctor degree in Turkology in 1983, and was given the titel of Dr. phil. habil. as well as the "venia legendi" in 1994 following the German "habilitation". My special fields of interest are: cultural contacts of Turkic peoples, focusing on linguistic contact, reforms of writing systems and language reforms and their effect on culture and education, reception and description in modern Turkic societies of their own history and culture. Turkology, mainly Turkish linguistics and history of litterature. Personal homepage: http://wolfgang.scharlipp.de/

Schlyter, Birgit M.

Ass. Professor, Director of the Department of Central Asian Studies, Stockholm, University (http://www.orient.su.se/centralasia), and Head of the Swedish Central Asia network Forum for Central Asian Studies. Lecturer of Turkish, Uzbek, Central Asian Linguistics and Central Asian Cultural History. Previously published works on modern Turkish and is at present conducting research on language development and language policies in the Central Asian region. Edited anthologies on current Central Asia research: "Return to the Silk Routes" (London, 1999)(on Scandinavian research) and "Prospects for Democracy in Central Asia" (Stockholm/Istanbul, forthcoming).

Schmidt, Søren

Ph.d., projektforsker, DIIS. Ekspertise inden for Mellemøstens moderne historie.

Schwarz, Florian

Teaches history of the Middle East and Central Asia at the University of Washington, Seattle. M.A. in Islamic and Iranian Studies and Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from the University of Tübingen in 1998. From 1999 to 2005 research assistant at the Ruhr University in Bochum. Area of research: The social, cultural and intellectual history of the eastern Arab world, Iran and Central Asia from the 16th century to the present. Publications include a monograph and articles on Sufi brotherhoods and the state in early modern Central Asia. Currently working on Islamic religious thought in the 17th century.

Seiffert, Karina

I´m interested in all activities in Russia and Central Asia, especially Kyrgyzstan. My professional field is international business / logistics and I look for possibilities to work with developing the region by setting up new structures.

Sellin, Mattias

Statistician with a big interest in central Asia and the Caucasus. Has travelled through the soviet \'stans and the Xianyang-province for about 2 months.

Sharif, Toshev

Director of the Firdawsi National Library of the Republic of Tajikistan.

Sharipova, Muborak

Sociologist, MSc, Ph.D. Freelance consultant and socio-political analyst on Central Asian and other post-Soviet countries (history, modern developments, gender, human rights, religion and culture). Member of Russian Sociologists Society, Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF), Danish Society for Central Asia (Vice-Chairman), Servas, OPEN ASIA (Co-Founder). Nationality: Tajik.

Shin, Lissa

Cand.phil.i Religionssociologi fra Kbh. Universitet. Arbejder desværre ikke indenfor mit fag. Interesserer mig meget for Central- og Østasien hvad angår historie, religion og sociologi/etnologi.

Shukurova, Khilola

Originally from Tashkent, Uzbekistan. MA Economics from Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics (Russia), MSc in Economics and Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School (CBS), and CEMS double degree in International Management from CBS and Bocconi University (Italy). Professional experience consists of 2 year working experience in private banking, UNDP consultancy. Currently JPBureau Group in Denmark.

Skjeggedal, Steinar

I am doing a master project on the interrealtion between Politics and Economy in post-Soviet Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.

Sletbjerg, Mads Rye

Geographer, former trekking-guide in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

Sperling, Vibeke

Journalist, Politiken.

Ståhlberg, Sabira

Independent researcher. Doctorate on Centralasian and Chinese cultural meeting in the Gansu area (China). Have studied Mongol literature, the Turkic minority of Bulgaria, and the Tatars of Finland.

Stasch, Jessica

Svanberg, Ingvar

Researcher at the Institution for Eastern European Studies, Uppsala University (Sweden), is working with ethnobiological (ethnobotanical, ethnozoological) questions in Eurasia. Furthermore research and writings on minority questions and religious issues, particularly among Kazaks and other Turkic peoples in Central Asia and Siberia. Has written books on the Kazaks of Xinjiang, but also articles on the ethnic and cultural diversity of Central Asia.

Søhuus, Ulla

Søltoft, Mette Hedemand

MA in Persian language and literature, religion and women/gender studies. MA Thesis: “Arthur Christensen, Iransk filologi og jagten på det indoeuropæiske. En videnskabshistorisk rejse” (‘Arthur Christensen, Iranian Philology and the search for the Indo-European heritage. A scholarly journey’)

Sørensen, Gert Lynge

Journalist. I have travelled in all of the former Soviet Central Asia, Xinjiang, and Iran since 1992. Apart from travel reporting from Iran and writing a school text book, I am also travel guide for Viktors Farmor - World Wide Expeditions, and in that regard, I travel 2-3 times a year to Central Asia and Iran. I have written many articles on the history, politics, and sociology of the area, as well as environment. I have a great collection of literature and approximately 1.000 newer pictures from the area. I have also studied Middle Eastern societies at Syddansk Universitet, Odense (Denmark) from 2002-2004.

Sørensen, Jørgen Podemann

Associate professor of History of Religions at the University of Copenhagen, Institute of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies. Main interests in Central Asia: 1.Traditional religions. 2. Gnostic currents.

Tamm, Ditlev

Law Professor (Dr. Phil.), University of Copenhagen.

Tepe, Ayse Dudu

Assyriologistuderende ved Carsten Niebuhr Afdelingen, Københavns Universitet Student of Assyriolgy, Carsten Niebuhr Department, University of Copenhagen

Thau-Knudsen, Erik

MA (cand. mag. & ling. merc.) in Balkan linguistics, Bulgarian & Russian. Contributor to the Great Danish Encyclopedia of articles about "Altaic" languages (Turkic, Uralic, Tunguzo-Manchurian). Research in Balkan linguistics and Siberian socio-linguistics. At present job-seeking. Homepage: http://www.thau-knudsen.dk

Thaulow, Mirja

Mag. Art. in History of Art. Have written MA thesis on contemporary, visual nationalism and gathered a large amount of empirical material in Uzbekistan in 2001 - official state art as well as visual material of the popular culture. As an external lecturer I have taught this topic at the Institute for Art History and is now seeking a Ph.D. stipend same place with a project on nation-promoting visual cultures within "The Axis of Evil", where Iran is to be incorporated together with North Korea and USA.

Theisen, Søren

Chairman of Dansk Kaukasusselskab since 5 May 2009.

Thomsen, Jørgen

Program Coordinator for Danish Church Aid, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Travelled and worked with local partners in Central Asia since 1996 (Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan). Chairman of the Ecumenical Consortium for Central Asia - consisting of Christian Aid GB, Interchurch Organization for Development Co-Operation NL, and Norwegian Church Aid - and working closely with a common development program through the Dushanbe office. In 2005 closely involved with Danish Church Aid's cooperation with the Danish Operation Dayswork, and their Kyrgyzstan campaign.

Thomsen, Michael

Studying Turkish at the Carsten Niebuhr Department at the University of Copenhagen. Interested in Mongolian and Uyghur languages.

Thomsen, Dagmar Hernandez

Master student in International development Studies and Public Administration. Currently writing my Thesis on the effects of Natural Resource Extraction (and production) on the political and economic structures in CA. I Have lived and worked in Central Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, and have traveled extensively through all five countries since 1999 - and there acquired a tremendous interest and passion for the study of Central Asian State and Economy.

Thomsen, Henning

Thuesen, Ingolf

Head of Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (TORS), University of Copenhagen

Toft, Katja Clausen

MA student at East European Department, Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at University of Copenhagen.

Toktalieva, Nazira

PhD student/LLD candidate at Diplomacy Academy of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kyrgyzstan.

Tosta, Pier Vegner

Interested in contemporary art from Central Asia

Trolle, Soon

MA in Persian and Indo-European Studies from the University of Copenhagen. MA thesis: "Outline of Compounds in Bactrian" from Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.

Trolle, Annette Lerche

Archaeologist/art historian and journalist, writer and translator of children literature comprising history

Tychsen, Svend

Verberkt, Preben

Student at Ghent University, Belgium.

Vokstrup, Allan

DACAAR + ASF-Dansk Folkehjælp

Wahlquist, Håkan

Senior Curator Asia. Keeper of the Sven Hedin Foundation, National Museum of Ethnography (Sweden).

Walmsley, Alan

Guest lecturer (ass.prof.) in Islamic art and archaeology at the Carsten Niebuhr Department, University of Copenhagen. MA 1977 from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in ancient history, archaeology and anthropology/prehistory. Doctor of Philosophy 1987 from the University of Sydney, Australia. Thesis title: The Administrative Structure and Urban Geography of the Jund Filastin and the Jund al-Urdunn. Director of the Islamic Jarash Project, Jordan. Interested in the art, archaeology and architecture of the Arab-Islamic World, especially Syria-Palestine, Egypt and Iraq, and focusing on urban development (continuity and change); trade, production and the economy; social transformations; and numismatics. Homepage: http://www.hum.ku.dk/cni/stab/Personer/alan_walmsley.htm

Waugh, Daniel C.

Editor of the Silk Road Journal.

Weisser, Georg

Er 42 år, bachelor, og sosialsjef i Kragerø Kommune i Norge. Har fra tidligere arbeid, og egne reiser, en mangeårig politisk og kulturell interesse for regionen.

Wiingaard, Peter Christian

Student of sociology at the University of Copenhagen. I have previously studied the politics of Central Asia at Istanbul Bilgi University, but am interested in all aspects related to the region.

Wilkinson, Claire

Ph.D. Candidate, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. Specific research interests are Kyrgyzstan, Copenhagen School security theory, identities and communities and their interactions with the state, and more widely, the CIS and SCO and Central Asia's role in these organisations, Central Asian national and regional politics. Details of my Ph.D. research can be found at www.crees.bham.ac.uk/study/postgradute/wilkinson.htm.

Willerslev, Rane

PhD Cambridge 2003, Associate Professor, University of Aarhus 2003, Lecturer in Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester 2004. Fieldwork among Yukaghir hunters in North-Eastern Siberia. Topics of interest: subsitance, Shamanism, psycological anthropology and visual anthropology.

Windemuller, Floor

Yücel, Nevin

Zand, Misha

Zukhuritdinova, Vasila

I am from Central Asia, from Tajikistan and I would like to collaborate with your organization and do my best to support it, because you provide knowledge about my region and establish cultural network between Danmark, where i am studying now and my region.

Østergaard, Mads

Student at the Slavic Department, University of Aarhus