Central
European University A Program
for University Teachers, Advanced Ph.D. Students, Researchers and Professionals
in the Social Sciences and Humanities Summer University
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Central
European University A Program
for University Teachers, Advanced Ph.D. Students, Researchers and Professionals
in the Social Sciences and Humanities Summer University |
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July 21
- August 4, 2000
Hungary) Resource Persons: Zourabi ALOIANE (Working Group Modern and Islam, Berlin, Germany) Gyula WOJTILLA (Department of Ancient History, University Szeged, Hungary) Andrej TERENTEV (Institute for Buddhist Studies, Saint Petersburg, Russia) Avihai SHIVITEL (Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Leeds) Alice SÁRKÖZI (Research Group for Altaic Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary) Erdeniin PÜREWJAW (University of Foreign Languages, Osaka, Japan) István KAMARÁS (University Veszprém, Hungary) Anvar GALIEV (Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Academy of Kazakhstan, Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan) Sándor FODOR (Department of Arabic and Semitic Studies, University ELTE, Budapest, Hungary) Mihály DOBROVITS (Research Group for Altaic Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary) Luwsanjaw CHULUUNBAATAR (Department of ForeignNational University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Language and Culture School of Mongolian Studies) Zourabi Aloine (born 1968) graduated from St. Petersburg State University (1993, MA History), Central European University in Budapest (1994, MA Medieval Studies) and the Department of Arabic and Semitic Studies of ELTE University in Budapest (1998, PhD Linguistic). He worked as a visiting lecturer at the ELTE University between 1995-1998, and at the Humboldt University in Berlin (1998-1999). Since 1998 he works in the Working Group „Modern and Islam" in Berlin. Ágnes Birtalan (born 1961) studied Mongolian studies, Russian philology and literature, world and Hungarian history at the ELTE University in Budapest (graduated in 1985). She defended her PhD degree in 1990 on the topic „Complex Analysis of the Westmongolian Oirad Folksongs Collected by B. Ya. Vladimircov". She studied Manchu language in 1991 at the University of Bonn, and Korean language and religions in 1996-1997 at the Yonsei University in Seoul. She's associate professor and deputy head at the Department of Inner Asian Studies of the ELTE University in Budapest. She participates in fieldworks for more than 15 years in Mongolia and Inner-Mongolia (China). She has published several books and articles on the Mongolian shamanism, folklore and traditional culture. Luwsanjaw Chuluunbaatar (born 1952) studied Mongolian language and literature at the National University of Mongolia and graduated in 1981. Between 1981 and 1989 he was a lecturer of the Department of Mongolian Language at the National University of Mongolia. Since 1989 to 1991 he worked as a visiting lecturer of the SOAS London University. In 1994-1998 he was the head of the Department of Foreign Relation (National University of Mongolia) and in 1998 he became the leader of the Department of Foreign Language and Culture School of Mongolian Studies at the same university. He has published three books and several articles about the Mongolian language and the Buddhist culture. Mihály Dobrovits (born 1963) gradueted from the University ELTE, Budapest. Magister of Arts in turkology and Medieval Studies. 1987-90 postgradueted student at the Department of Medieval History in ELTE University, Budapest. 1990-93 lecturer of Turkology at the Arts Department Society, Miskolc, Hungary. 1993-98 Research Fellow, The Research Group in Altaic Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Siences. Since 1993 Regularly Lecturer of the History of Early and Post-mongol Inner Asian, ELTE University, Budapest. 1999 finished the PhD courses in Mongolian Studies, ELTE University, Budapest. Sándor Fodor (born 1941) M.A. (1965 - Arabic Language and Literature - History), Ph.D. (1980 - Title of thesis: The Arabic Legends about the Pyramids) professor and head of the Department of Arabic Studies at ELTE University, Budapest. Vice-Dean: 1990-92, 1993-, Acting Dean 1992. Field of research: Islam, popular heritage in the Middle East, ethnography of the Arab World. Courses taught: Arabic Language and Literature, History of the Arabs, Islam. Editor in Chief of „The Arabist" (Published by the Department of Arabic Studies of the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) since 1988. Anvar Galiev (born 1959) He studied ethnography at the State University of Kazakhstan 1976-81. 1988 - PhD degree State University of Kazakhstan, „Semiotics and Culture on the examples of Kazakh folktradition. 1981-84 he was a lecturer of the Kustanay Teacher Training College. 1984-92 - Research fellow of the Institute of History, archeology and Ethnography of the Academy of Kazakhstan. 1992-98 - Chief of the Department of the History of Culture and Religion of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Since 1992 Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre of Oriental Studies, Almaty, Kazakhstan. Field of research: semiotics of the Culture, Traditional lifestyle of the Kazakhs, Kazakh religious believes, Interethnic problems. Istvan Kamarás (born 1941) graduated from the University ELTE, Budapest in Hungarian Literature, Library Science and Sociology: 1968-85: worked for National Library Centre for Library Science and Methology. Since 1996 has been a professor at the Janus Pannonius University of Pécs, since 1999 at Veszprém University: teaching courses in philosophy, antropology, the sociology of arts, and the sociology of religion. He has published numerous books on the sociology of culture, of the arts, and the sociology of the religion. Erdeniin Pürewjaw (born 1961) in 1985 graduated from the Mongolian State University, Faculty of Mongolian Language and Literature, „Nominal Formatives of Modern Mongolian". 1993 degree - Mongolian Academy of Sciences, „Some Question of the Mongolian Speech Culture". Since 1985, researcher of the Mongolian Acedemy of Sciences, Institute of Linguistic. 1995 - visiting professor of the University of Foreign Languages, Osaka, Japan. Alice Sárközi (born 1942) studied Mongolian-English Studies at the University Eötvös Lorand Budapest under guidance at Prof. Louis Ligeti. 1971 - Dr. phil. ELTE University, Budapest. 1987 - Candidate of Linguistics (Political Prophecies in Mongolia in the 17-20th centuries). Since 1992 senior research fellow at the Research Group for Altaic Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. 1969-92 research fellow at the same institute. 1990-92 Guest assistant Professor at the Indiana University, Bloomington. 1994-97 substitute head of the Department for Inner Asian Studies of the ELTE University in the absence of Prof. G. Kara. Since 1994 substitute head of the Research Group for Altaic Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in the absence of Prof. G. Kara. 1990-96 President of the Oriental Section of the Research Support Fund of Hungary. Avhai Shivtel (born 1940) studied Arabic and Hebrew at Jerusalem University. 1969 gradueted from the Jerusalem University, diploma in teaching Arabic and Hebrew. M.A. 1971 from the same University. 1977 PhD. Arabic Linguistics Cambridge University. 1972-76 Lecturer in Hebrew and Supervisor in Arabic in Cambridge University. 1976-79 Lecturer in Arabic, Tel-Aviv University, and Lecturer in Arabic, and Hebrew Beer Sheva University. Since 1979 Lecturer in Semitic Languages and Literatures, and since 1994 Senior Lecturer in Arabic Studies, Leeds university. 1994-98 Senior Research Fellow, and Lecturer in Hebrew, and Supervisor in University of Cambridge.1982-92 Head of Department of Semitic and since 1994 Modern Arabic Studies. Andrej Terentev (born 1948) graduated from the Leningrad State University in 1975, where he studied Indian Philosophies and Religions. After his graduation became a research assistant at the Leningrad State Museum of History of Religions and Atheism. In 1983 he received the 'candidate of History' degree from the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow. In 1990 he spent 6 months in the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamsala (India) and in 1991 and 1994 he was in UK as a visiting fellow of Aberdeen University. Between 1994-1995 he was also a part-time lecturer in the Higher Philosophy and Religious School of St. Petersburg. He has published more than 50 scholarly papers (not counting numerous articles on Buddhism and Jainism in Encyclopedias and Dictionaries). Gyula Wojtilla (born
1945) M.A. Ph.D. D.Sc. professor and head of the Department of Ancient
History at Szeged University. He was a research fellow at the Banaras Hindu
University in 1973-74 and visiting lecturer at the Delhi University in
1980-83. He is member of the Linguistic Society of India and Asiatic Society
of Bengal and the Advisory Committee of IASS (Paris). His main fields of
interest are Sanskrit phylology, Indian history and comparative history
of religion. He has published seven books and more than 140 papers in Europe,
India and the U.S.A.
The remarkably rapid spread
of new religious movements raises important questions:
Course Description
July 24, July 25:
Shamanism and Ancient Religions (Ágnes BIRTALAN, Erdeniin PÜREWJAW)
July 26, July 27:
Indian Religions (Gyula WOJTILLA, István KAMARÁS)
July 28, July 31:
Buddhism (Alice SÁRKÖZI, Andrej TERENTEV, Luwsanjaw CHULUUNBAATAR)
August 1, August 2:
Islam I. (Sándor FODOR, Avihai SHIVITEL, Zourabi ALOIANE)
August 3, August 4:
Islam II. (Anvar GALIEV, Mihály DOBROVITS)
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