Stefan Pohlmann

* 1973

Contact information:

email: stefan.pohlmann@gmx.at

Education:

- 2004 - 2006 master program East European studies, Free University of Berlin (M.A.)

- 2000 (summer term) fellow at the department of Social Antropology at the State University in St Petersburg, Russia

- 1999 qualified as a teacher for German as a Foreign Language, Vienna, Austria

- 1998 (summer term) fellow at the department of Ethnography and Anthropology at the State University in St Petersburg, Russia

- 1995 - 2002 student of Social and Cultural Anthropology (Ethnology) and Russian Language and Literature, University of Vienna, Austria (Mag. phil.)

- 1989-1994 Marketing College, Graz, Austria

Research areas/topics:

- areas: Eastern Europe, Russian Federation and Central Asia

- topics: Social problems and processes of transformation in the new states of the former Soviet Union, economic anthropology, Russian and Soviet ethnography and sociology, development of a civil society, living conditions in the former SU and EE

Current research/work:

- since October 2002 working as a lecturer of German language at the Technical University of Liberec (Czech Republic)

- organizing of various cultural events in cooperation with the Austrian library in Liberec

- work in the Working Group Arctic and Subarctic; Vienna, Austria

Publications:

POHLMANN, S. Schamanismus: Außergewöhnliche Bewußtseinszustände und Alternative Heilmethoden, 2001. Online. See: http://www.sub-arctic.ac.at/arcticles/schaman2.htm.

POHLMANN, S. Sozialanthropologische Ausbildung am Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie der Universität Wien. In: Nabok, I. (Hg.) Realnost´ etnosa - II. Internationale Konferenz zum Thema regionale und nationale Komponenten ethnologischer Ausbildung. St Petersburg, 2001.

POHLMANN, S. Überlebensstrategien von Familien in St. Petersburg mit unterdurchschnittlichem Einkommen. Diplomarbeit, Universität Wien, 2002. (Survival Strategies of Families with Low Income. A Case Study in St Petersburg).

POHLMANN, S. Jazykový kurz v Kravsku. In: Stárová, H. und Nedomlelová, I. (Hg.) Rozšírená EU - Ekonomické a lingvistické aspekty spolupráce. S.48-53. Sborník príspevku z mezinárodní konference HF TU v Liberci. Liberec: Technická univerzita v Liberci, 2005, ISBN 80-7083-928-7.

POHLMANN, S. Civil Society and Social Capital in a Globalized Eastern Europe. In: Kolektiv autoru - úcastnici mezinárodní konference. Sborník z mezinárodní konference Globalizace versus Regionalismus. S. 436-444. Liberec, 2006, ISBN 80-7372-088-4. POHLMANN, S. Internal migration in the Russian Federation as a means of escaping poverty and social exclusion. M.A. thesis, Free University of Berlin, September 2006.

Research trips:

- 2000, Russia: St Petersburg, Moscow, Western Siberia (Surgut, Khanty-Mansijsk, Purovskij rajon)

- 1998, Russia: St Petersburg, Moscow, Republic of Altai

- 1997, Burgenland (Austria): Excursion with field work to study paid labour and lifestyle of commuters in Southern Burgenland

Conference and Festival participations:

- Globalizace versus Regionalismus, April 2006, Liberec, Czech Republic

- Rozšírená EU - Ekonomické a lingvistické aspekty spolupráce, April 2005, Liberec, Czech Republic

- Who Owns Siberian Ethnography? International Workshop on Methods and Approaches to Ethnography in the Russian North, March 2002, Halle/Saale, Germany

- DGV Tagung, October 2001, Göttingen, Germany

- First Working Seminar of Young European Scholars of Siberia, September 2001, Borek u Suchomost, Czech Republic

- VII Conference of the European Society of Central Asian Studies, September 2000, Vienna, Austria - Jugra 2000

- International Festival of Arts and Crafts of Finno-Hungarian Peoples, July 2000, Surgut, Khanty-Mansijsk

- Reality of the Ethnos - II. International Conference of National and Regional Components of Education, April 2000, St Petersburg

- Indigenous Peoples and Ecology, October 1998, Vienna, Austria

Other jobs and activities:

- with Working Group Arctic and Subarctic organization of various events (lectures with scolars and representatives of NGOs, film screenings, photo exhibitions, etc.)

- traineeship as a journalist for the "Sankt Petersburgische Zeitung" in July and August 2005

- traineeship and research work at the Centre for Independent Social Research (CISR) in St Petersburg in Spring 2000

- teaching: Seminar "Reading of anthropological literature in German Language" Faculty of Sociology, St Petersburg State University, spring 2000

- teaching: German language course, German-Russian Social Centre, St Petersburg, spring 2000

- traineeship in summer 1997 in Belorussia and in 1999 in France Foreign languages: - English - Russian - Czech