Curriculum Vitae – Prof. Dr. Monika Arnez

Current Appointment

University of , , Department of Comparative 09-2017 - Development and Cultural Studies 08-2018 Guest Professor of Comparative Development and Cultural Studies with a focus on

Previous Appointments

University of , Germany, Asia-Africa Institute 07-2012 - Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Studies 08-2017 , Germany, Asia-Africa Institute 04-2009 Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Studies 03-2012

University of Frankfurt, Germany, Department of Cultural 12-2008 - Anthropology, Research Associate 03-2009

University of Passau, Germany, Department of Southeast Asian Studies 12-2005 - Research Associate, Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer 12-2008

University of Cologne, Germany, Department of Oriental Studies 10-2001 - Lecturer 10-2003

Periods of Maternal leave: 03-2012 - 07-2013 10-2003 - 11-2005

Fellowships and Honours

➢ ERASMUS Visiting Professor at the Department of 11-2015 Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (ToRS), Copenhagen University, Denmark ➢ Recipient, Teaching Innovation Grant, Hamburg University 07-2015 ➢ Performance Evaluation as Assistant Professor (very good) 11-2011 ➢ Visiting Professor at the Department for Cultural Studies, 08-2013 Gajah Mada University, , ➢ Recipient, Fellowship, Universitas Indonesia, Faculty of Social 07-2008 - and Political Sciences 08-2008 ➢ Postdoctoral Fellowship, Elite Network of 12-2006 - 09-2007 ➢ Postdoctoral Fellowship, Passau University 12-2005 - 11-2006 ➢ Scholarship for Bilateral Exchange of Academics, German 08-2006 - Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) 09-2006 ➢ PhD Scholarship, Cologne University 03-2000 - 06-2002

Curriculum Vitae – Prof. Dr. Monika Arnez

Education

University of Cologne, Indonesian and Malay Languages and Literatures • Ph.D. in Indonesian and Malay Languages and Literatures 10-2002 Dissertation: Political Violence and Power in Indonesian Literature from 1945 to the present (Predicate: Magna cum laude) • MA, Indonesian and Malay Languages and Literatures 06-999 • (Minors: Cultural Anthropology, English Literature and Language Studies)

Academic Self-Administration

• Equal opportunities officer, Asia Africa Institute 04-2009 - Hamburg University 04-2012 • Advisor of student affairs since 04-2009 • Board Member, Asia Africa Institute since 04-2009 • Board Member, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Austronesistik since 04-2009 • Board Member, Deutsch Indonesische Gesellschaft since 04-2009

Third-party funding (cross-disciplinary projects)

• European Commission’s 7th Framework Program “Competing 12-2017 - Regional Integrations in Southeast Asia” (CRISEA), 12-2020 Individual project: Ethnoreligious communities in Central - Environmentalism and identity, as researcher • European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme 12-2012 - „Integration in Southeast Asia: Trajectories of Inclusion 03-2016 Dynamics of Exclusion (SEATIDE),” individual project: “Environmentalism in and East Kalimantan: transregional dimensions of integration,“ as researcher German Research Foundation (DFG) Project “Orders of Education 02-2012 - and Morality in Contemporary Indonesian Fiction,” 12-2015 As principal investigator • German Research Foundation (DFG) 03-2013 - Project “The Reciprocal Perception of Europe and 02-2015 Southeast Asia in Travel Accounts,“ As principal investigator • German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) 08-2011 „Fact Finding Mission“ to facilitate cooperation with Gajah Mada University (UGM) in Yogyakarta, together with Jürgen Sarnowsky • German Research Foundation (DFG) Project „Re-defining gender in contemporary Indonesia; 03-2008 Empowerment strategies of Muslim and secular women 03-2009 activists,” as researcher, under the supervision of Susanne Schröter

Editorial Board Member

• Asien, since 2016

Curriculum Vitae – Prof. Dr. Monika Arnez

Scientific Advisory Board Member

• Asien, since 2016

Co-Editor

• Hamburger Südostasienstudien, since 2009

Peer Reviewer

• Expert peer reviewer for Fritz Thyssen Foundation since 02-2016 • Expert peer reviewer for Alexander van Humboldt since 04-2013 Foundation (AVH) • Expert peer reviewer for the German Research since 03-2011 Foundation (DFG) • Expert peer reviewer for Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie 02-2010 - van Wetenschapen (KNAW) 11-2012 • Peer reviewer in the commission of the German Academic • Exchange Service ‘Student Exchange’ 05-2009 - 05-2011 • Referee for the peer-reviewed journals Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land-, since 07-2010 en Volkenkunde, and Indonesia and the Malay World since 04-2010

Convenor of Conferences and Panels

• Student Conference “Culture and the Environment in Asia and 06-2017 Africa,” University of Hamburg • Conference “70 years of Textual Production in Indonesia: 10-2015 Cultural Traditions Informing Modern Productions,” Frankfurt University, Germany (together with Edwin Wieringa, Arndt Graf and Jan van der Putten) • Workshop “The mutual perception of Europe and insular 11-2015 South East Asia: Reports on , Politics and Society since the 16th century,” Hamburg University, Germany (together with Jürgen Sarnowsky) • Conference: “Reciprocal perception of religion of Europe and 07-2013 insular Southeast Asia in travel reports: the role of ,” Gajah Mada University, Yogyakarta (together with Jürgen Sarnowsky) • Panel: “Da’wah in Southeast Asia,” 07-2013 Technical University of Lisboa, Portugal, 7th EUROSEAS Conference (together with Johan Meuleman)

Teaching Experience

Passau University, MA Development Studies 2017-2018

Current courses: - Gender and Development - Sustainability and Resources - Foundation Course: Interdisciplinary Development Seminar - Foundation Course: Methods and Theories of Development Research (together with Michael Grimm and Rüdiger Korff)

Curriculum Vitae – Prof. Dr. Monika Arnez

- Research Colloquium (together with Michael Grimm and Rüdiger Korff)

Passau University, BA International Cultural and Business Studies 2017-2018

- Introduction to Cultural and Regional Studies of Southeast Asia

Hamburg University, MA Languages and Cultures of 2009-2017 Southeast Asia Courses held: - Natural Resources and Landscapes - Urbanization and the Environment in Maritime Southeast Asia - The Environment and Sustainability in the Malay World - Mobility and Migration: Case Studies from maritime Southeast Asia - Ethnicity, Religion and the Nation in Indonesia and - Memory and History (together with Jan van der Putten) - Cultural Heritage and Javanese and Malay Traditions (together with Jan van der Putten) - Travel Writing (together with Jan van der Putten) - Indonesian Literature in its Social, Cultural and Natural Milieu (together with Jan van der Putten) - Colloquium for MA candidates

Hamburg University, BA Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia Courses held: - Languages and Literatures of Southeast Asia - Regional Studies: Southeast Asia (Introduction to Southeast Asian Studies) - Indonesia and Malaysia: Cultures and Conflicts - Gender Roles in Maritime Southeast Asia - Post-processing of the term abroad - Islam in Indonesia - Dynamics of Education in Maritime Southeast Asia - Travelogues in the Malay World (together with Jürgen Sarnowsky) - Indonesian Short Stories - Traditional Medicine and Healing - Colloquium for BA candidates

University of Copenhagen, ToRS (Erasmus Visiting Professor) 11-2015 - Disputed Lands - Gender and Islam in Southeast Asia - The events of 1965 in Sang Penari

Universitas Gajah Mada / Fakultas Ilmu Budaya - Kapita Selekta Sastra Indonesia di Jerman (MA programme) 09-2014 - Studi Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia di Luar Negeri (BA programme)

Summer School for MA students, together with Jürgen Sarnowsky 08-2013 - Travellers’ reports as sources - How to get published? - Globalization in the Early Modern Age

- Bilateral Exchange of Academics (DAAD)

- Sastra wangi dan sastra Islam di Indonesia 08-2006 - - Organisasi Islam dan peran perempuan 09-2006

Curriculum Vitae – Prof. Dr. Monika Arnez

University of Passau, BA International Cultural and Business Studies 2005-2007

Courses held: - Modern Indonesian Literature - Southeast Asian Literature - Arts in Southeast Asia

Cologne University, BA Indonesian and Malay Studies 2001-2003 Courses held: - The Indonesian Islamic Muslim Association - Islamic intellectuals - Realism in Indonesian literature

Experience in building new academic programmes

- contributed to building the new MA programme Languages 2011 and Cultures of Southeast Asia, University of Hamburg - contributed to restructuring the BA programme Languages 2010 and Cultures of Southeast Asia, University of Hamburg Supervision of research work and postgraduate studies

• Von Malaysia nach Dubai: Muslimisches Pilgern und Geschlecht since 2016 im Kontext von Konsumpraktiken (Advisor, Postdoctoral research project) • Everyday Feelings in the Feminised Global Labour: since 2016 Emotions at Work in Narratives of Migrant Domestic Workers from Southeast Asia (Postdoctoral research project) • Proselytization in the writers’ forum Forum Lingkar Pena 2011-2013 (Advisor, Postdoctoral project; Concluded) • Shari’ah Law, Matrilineal System and Agrarian Conflict in since 2016 Minangkabau: Why Does Language Matter? (Primary Advisor, PhD thesis) • Feministische Praxis und widerständiges Handeln in Indonesien. since 2016 Eine transnationale Bewegung im lokalen Kontext normativer Ordnungen (Primary Advisor, PhD thesis) • Globalization and Colonial Memory: Indonesian Travel Literature since 2015 on Europe since the Reform Era (Primary Advisor, PhD thesis) • Cultural attitudes towards post mortem organ donation and brain 2012-2016 Death among Malay and Chinese Malaysians (Primary Advisor, PhD thesis; concluded) • Ideologies in the Translation of Literary Works; An Analysis of 2009-2012 two German literary works by Karl May and Franz Kafka (Secondary Advisor, PhD thesis, Prasuri Kuswarini, concluded) • A glance at the lives of Vietnamese women in the Nguyễn Dynasty 2013-2016 (1802-1945) in proverbs and folksongs” (Secondary Advisor, Katrin Puttfarken)

Professional Development

• Participation in the Agathe Lasch Programm, Hamburg 06-2015 University, designed for female scholars to advance their 06-2016 Careers

Curriculum Vitae – Prof. Dr. Monika Arnez

• Participation in selected courses in the BASIS Programme Hamburg University, designed to professionalise teaching since 04-2009 • Participation in the Programme ‘International Navigator’ 2010, 09-2010 – designed for assistant professors and managers 12-2010 • Participation in the “Academy on Learning and Teaching” 09-2009 ‘Lehren, Hamburg University and Toepfer Foundation • Rhetoric and Presentation Skills, Bavarian Elite Network 06-2007 • Conference: “Körper und Moral: Ordnungsvorstellungen 07-2011 in mehrheitlich muslimischen Ländern,” University of Hamburg, Asia Africa Institute (together with Katja Niethammer) funded by the Academy of Sciences and Humanities Hamburg • Panel: “Debates on Sex and Morality in Southeast Asia” 08-2009 International Convention of Asia Scholars 6, Daejeon, Korea (together with Susanne Schröter) • Conference: “Narrating morality and sexuality. Continuity and 07-2009 change in Southeast Asian literatures”, University of Hamburg, Asia Africa Institute • Panel: “Gender and Islam in Southeast Asia”, 09-2007 University of Naples l’Orientale, 5th EUROSEAS Conference (together with Susanne Schröter) • Panel „Islamischer Feminismus, Feminismus im Islam“, 09-2007 Freiburg University. Deutscher Orientalistentag, (together with Susanne Schröter)

Presentations and Invited Lectures (Selection)

• “Coal Mining, Flooding and Pollution; The Mahakam River 05-2017 in Samarinda, Indonesia,” Lecture Series “Flows of Change – Rivers and Megacities in Southeast Asia,” University of Hamburg • “Narratives of awakening in Indonesia and Malaysia,” 01-2016 Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics, University of Münster • “A transnational trellis of morality,” 70 years of textual 10-2015 production in Indonesia. Cultural Traditions Informing Modern Productions,” Frankfurt University • „Ethnic diversity, networks and environmentalism in urban 08-2015 centers of Kalimantan,“ EUROSEAS conference, Vienna University • “Natural Resources and Sustainability in Balikpapan Bay,” 02-2015 Research Workshop, EU project Integration in Southeast Asia: Trajectories of Inclusion, Dynamics of Exclusion (SEATIDE) Hanoi • “Loving God and the countryside in the eco-pesantren,” 02-2014 Research Workshop, EU project Integration in Southeast Asia: Trajectories of Inclusion, Dynamics of Exclusion (SEATIDE), Chiang Mai • Islamism or post-Islamism in Indonesia? A Critical Analysis” Mapping topographies of Islamic political and cultural practices 12-2013 and discourses, Frankfurt University, Cluster of Excellence ‚Normative Orders’.“

Curriculum Vitae – Prof. Dr. Monika Arnez

• A devout Christian with a wandering spirit? Ernst Christoph 08-2013 Barchewitz’ perceptions of local religion and culture,” International Workshop: “The reciprocal perception of Europe and insular Southeast Asia in travel reports: the role of religion.” Gajah Mada University, Fakultas Ilmu Budaya • “Religious propagation, morality and education in Indonesian 07-2013 Muslim communities.” 7th EUROSEAS Conference, Technical University of Lisbon, School of Social and Political Sciences • “Between propagation and mediation: Negotiating Islamic 06-2013 norms in Forum Lingkar Pena.” DORISEA mid-term conference University of Göttingen • “Geschlechtergerechtigkeit durch Revolution? Aktivistinnen 12-2012 im Spannungsfeld politischer, religiöser und kultureller Entwicklungen in Indonesien.” Conference: Islam, Gender, Gesellschaftliche Transformation. Geschlechtergerechtigkeit durch Demokratisierungen. Frankfurt University, Cluster of Excellence ‚Normative Orders’ • “Körper und Moral im Spiegel muslimischer 07-2011 Massenorganisationen in Indonesien. Körper und Moral: Ordnungsvorstellungen in mehrheitlich muslimischen Ländern.” Hamburg University, Asia-Africa Institute • “Notions of Green Citizenship: Contributions of Muslim Actors 06-2011 in Indonesia.” Conference: Climate Change in and Southeast Asia. Essen University, Institute for Cultural Studies • “Religion in the Practice of Daily Life: Indonesia.” Panel: 10-2010 The Religion and Daily Life Project, Conference: American Association of Religion, Atlanta • “Visions of a journalist and writer: Sirikit Syah’s Sensasi Selebriti.” 07-2009 Conference: Narrating morality and sexuality. Continuity and Change in Southeast Asian literatures. Hamburg University, Asia Africa Institute • “Moving against immorality? The debate about the Indonesian 08-2009 Pornography Bill.” International Convention of Asia Scholars 6 Chungnam National University/Center for Asian Regional Studies, Daejeon Convention Center

Languages

German: native, English: fluent, Indonesian: fluent, French: good