D4: Resource Conflicts and Ethno-Religious Diversity (Workshop)

Henryk Alff is a postdoctoral researcher, at TRANSECT research group at HNEE

Henryk Alff studied Human Geography, Slavic and Central Asian Studies at the University of Potsdam, Humboldt University Berlin, the Kazakh National University Almaty and the Pedagogical University Dushanbe and received his doctorate from University of Potsdam focusing on the role of transnational social networks of Mongolia’s Kazakhs in post-Soviet migration and integration processes. After that, he was postdoctoral researcher, among others, within the BMBF-funded competence network Crossroads Asia at the Centre for Development Studies of Freie Universität Berlin and Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research, as well a co-editor of of the online journal ‚Zentralasien-Analysen‘.

Beate Eschment is an expert on Central Asia and has been a researcher at ZOiS since 2016.

She gained her PhD in Russian history at the University of Hannover in 1992. Since then, her research has focused on contemporary developments in the former Soviet republics of Central Asia. She has worked at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Ebenhausen, the Central Asia Seminar at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Institute for Oriental Studies at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, and the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen. From 2008 to 2019, she was the editor of the Zentralasien-Analysen. She has taught at various German and Central Asian universities, including the German-Kazakh University and the Al-Farabi University in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and the Bishkek Humanities University in Kyrgyzstan.

CV Beate Eschment