VLAD NAUMESCU |
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Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology Current position Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Budapest. (temporary contract) Education 2003 - 2006 PhD in Social Anthropology (magna cum laudae) 2000-2002 MA in Social Anthropology 1995-2000 BA in Social and developmental psychology Other academic studies 2007-2008 SIAS Summer Institute: The Vision Thing: Studying Divine Intervention. 2007 (July) SUN Summer course Cognition and Culture 2003 (July-Aug) Ukrainian Language Summer School, L’viv Ukraine. 2001(July) SUN Summer course The Plight of the Roma and Gypsy People: The culture and politics of ethnic transformations in post-communist societies . Grants and honors 2009 CEU Research Support Scheme grant for a pilot study on St. Thomas Christians in Kerala, India. 2008-2009 SAIA teaching scholarship in the framework of the Slovak National Scholarship Programme for the Support of Academic Mobility. 2008- 2009 Junior Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Traditions, CEU, Budapest. July 2008 Short-term Visiting Fellow at the Collegium Budapest in the frames of ‘The Vision Thing’ SIAS Summer Institute. 2007-2008 SIAS grant for SIAS Summer Institute workshops at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto (CA) and Collegium Budapest. 2007 Film development grant from the Media programme of the EU and the Romanian Center for Cinematography. 2007 Research grant from the Center for Urban History, L’viv, Ukraine. 2006 Conference travel grant from Kennan Institute/Woodrow Wilson Center for the Kennan Institute Workshop on Democracy and Civil Society in Ukraine held at the Second Annual Danyliw Research Seminar in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies, University of Ottawa 2003-2004 Research grant MPI for Social Anthropology for 15 months fieldwork in Western Ukraine. Teaching experience 2007- present - Adjunct professor of anthropology, Dept. of Sociology and Social Anthropology, CEU Budapest. Graduate courses: key issues in social anthropology, anthropology of religion, social memory, visual anthropology. 2007-2009 – Visiting lecturer, Institute of Ethnology, Commenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia. 3rd year and MA courses: anthropology of religion, ethnographic methods. 2006-2008 Visiting lecturer, MA program in social anthropology. Faculty of Political Sciences, National School of Political Sciences and Administration, Bucharest, Romania. MA course: anthropology of religion. 2001-2002 Introductory lectures in Social Anthropology and Ethnopsychiatry for the MA program in Social anthropology, National School of Political and Administrative Studies, Bucharest, Romania. Research and filming 2007-2009 Co-director of Birds Road, a documentary film on Old Believers in the Danube Delta (RO, 52 min, release June 2009). http://www.librafilm.net/birds-road 2007 - 2008 Associate Researcher – Center for Urban History, L’viv, Ukraine. 2007 Research consultant for the External EU Land Border Monitoring Project (Hungarian part) part of the Friendly EU Border project of Stefan Batory Foundation, Poland. 2006 Research consultant for Csangos, a documentary film on a Catholic minority in Moldova, Romania (Dir. Fekete Ibolya, HU, 2008, 90 min.) 2003-2006 Researcher with the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany with a PhD project on Modes of religiosity in Eastern Christianity: Religious Processes and Social Change in Ukraine. www.eth.mpg.de/people/naumescu Fieldwork 2007-9 / Romania –research on religious transmission among Old Believers in the Danube Delta. 2007 June-Oct./ Ukraine – research on urban space in a post-Soviet district of L’viv. 2005 May / Ukraine - research on healing practices in a Greek catholic monastery in Ternopyl oblast, Ukraine. 2003- 4 / Ukraine: 15 months multisited fieldwork in urban and rural communities in L’viv and Ternopyl oblast. 2003 April-June/ Romania: research on social memory in Greek Catholic communities in Transylvania. 2000-2 Romania: long-term fieldwork on Greek Catholic communities in Bucharest. Languages Romanian (native), Membership in professional bodies EASA – European Association of Social Anthropologists Publications Books, edited volumes Mahieu, S. & Naumescu, V. (in press). Churches In-between: Greek Catholic Churches in Postsocialist Europe, Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia Bd.16, Berlin : Lit Verlag. Naumescu, V. 2007. Modes of Religiosity in Eastern Christianity: Religious Processes and Social Change in Ukraine, Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia Bd. 15, Berlin: Lit Verlag. Book chapters Naumescu, V.(forthcoming Fall 2009). Exorcising demons in post-Soviet Ukraine: a monastic community and its imagistic practice. In Hann, Chris & Hermann Goltz (eds) Orthodoxy, Orthopraxy, Paradosis: Eastern Christians in Anthropological Perspective. pp. 129-146. Berkeley: University of California Press. --(forthcoming) Encompassing religious plurality: The Orthodox Imaginary of Ukraine. In Paul D'Anieri ed. The Contest for Social Mobilization in Ukraine: From Revolution to Civil Society? Washington D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press. --(in press). Continuities and Ruptures of a Religious Tradition: Making ‘Orthodoxy’ in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. In Mahieu S. & V. Naumescu (eds.) Churches In-between: Greek Catholic Churches in Postsocialist Europe. Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia, Berlin : Lit Verlag. -- 2008. The Religious Imaginary of Western Ukraine: Understanding social change through religious apparitions In Valtchinova G.(ed) Religion on the Boundary and the Politics of Divine Interventions, Istanbul: Isis Press. --. 2006 Religious pluralism and the imagined Orthodoxy of Western Ukraine in Chris Hann and the Religion and Civil Society group (eds). The Postsocialist Religious Question: Faith and Power in Central Asia and East-Central Europe. Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia Bd. 11, Münster: Lit Verlag. --.2004 Burying two bishops: legitimating church through the politics of the past in Romania, in Frances Pine, Deema Kaneef, Haldis Haukanes (eds) Politics, Religion and Memory: the present meets the past in contemporary Europe, Halle studies in the anthropology of Eurasia Bd.4. Münster: Lit Verlag. Reviews 2008. Wanner, Catherine. 2007. Communities of the Converted. Ukrainians and Global Evangelism. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. Submitted to Anthropological Notebooks. Work in progress Religious learning in Eastern Christian monasticism , to be submitted to Ethnos for a special issue on ‘Learning spirit possession’, co-edited with Arnaud Halloy, Uni Nice. The past as a lost resource: Old Believer’s 'failed' transmission, for “Transmissions" a special issue of Terrain: Revue d’Ethnologie de l’Europe, forthcoming 2010. Recent and forthcoming conferences and workshops 2009 July 22-25 – ‘Feeling the Divine: Emotions in Religious Practice. Historical and Cross-Cultural Approaches.’ Organized by the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. Paper on The silence of the senses: ritual and emotion in Eastern Christianity. 2009 May 26 - Invited lecture at Université Libre de Bruxelles with the title: The past as a lost resource: Old Believer’s ‘failed' transmission. 2009 May 8-10 - Workshop ‘Ethnographies of Doubt’, Centro Incontri Umani, Ascona. Paper on Old Believers' passion play: faith and failure in a ritualist movement. 2008 April 28–30. – Workshop discussant. 5th Marie Curie SocAnth seminar. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle. 2009 March 27-8 - Eastern Christianity in Post-Imperial Societies, Religious Studies Program, CEU. Conference co-organizer, also presenting a paper on Churches In-Between? The Politics of Religious Syncretism in Greek Catholicism. 2009 Feb. 18 - Cognitive Development Center Seminar Series, CEU Budapest. Paper on Religious learning in monasticism: a case for the role of the imagination in religious transmission. 2008 Nov. 4-5. - Colloque sur 'Le fait religieux en Europe' organizé par Collegium Budapest, l’Institut Français de Budapest, RSP CEU et L'Atelier. Titre de la communication :Rester dans la tradition: les greco-catholiques de l'Ukraine. 2008 Aug. 26-30. – 10th EASA Biennial Conference: Experiencing Diversity and Mutuality, Ljubljana. Co-convenor of a panel on 'Rethinking spirit possession. 2008 June 30- July 11. - The "Vision Thing" – Studying Divine Intervention. 2008 June 13-14. – Panel discussant. Panel II: Approaching Religious Modernities: Constructions, Contestations, Mobilizations. Post-Graduate Conference: Framing Struggles. Critical Approaches to Anthropology and Sociology. Organized by the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, CEU, Budapest. 2008 April 22–25. – Workshop discussant. 4th Marie Curie SocAnth seminar. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle. 2007 October 20 – Center for Urban Research, L'viv, Ukraine. Presentation of the project Sykhiv from microraion to macrohistory. 2007 May 31-June 1. Comparative Urban Studies workshop, CEU, Budapest. Paper on Taking over the city: religious pluralism in a postsocialist microraion. 2006 October 12-14 - Participant at the Kennan Institute Workshop on Civil Society and Democracy in Ukraine at the Second Annual Danyliw Research Seminar in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies, University of Ottawa. Paper on: Religious pluralism and the Orthodox Imaginary of Western Ukraine. 2006 September 18-21 - 9th EASA Biennial Conference: Europe and the world, Bristol, UK. Paper on Peripheries of Eastern Christianity: the Greek Catholics of Western Ukraine in the panel “New perspectives on 'European' Christianity”. 2006 April 14-18 -‘Religion on the Boundary and the Politics of Divine Interventions’, Sofia. Centre for Advanced Study Sofia. Paper on The Religious Imaginary of Western Ukraine: Understanding social change through religious apparitions . 2005 September 23-25 - ‘Eastern Christianity in Anthropological Perspective.’ MPI for Social Anthropology. Conference co-organizer with Chris Hann, Hermann Goltz and Juraj Buzalka. Paper on The making of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church: peripheries of a religious tradition . 2005 May 23-27 - Workshop of the Religion and Civil Society Project, Przemysl, Poland. Organized by MPI for Social Anthropology. Paper on Religious pluralism and the imagined Orthodoxy of Western Ukraine. |
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