Prof. Dr. Achim von Oppen
African History
Academic Degrees
| 2003 | Habilitation: African History, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| 1990 | Doctorate: Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin |
| 1981 | Diplom: Geography; minors: Modern History, Development Sociology, Global Agricultural Trade, Freie Universität zu Berlin |
Professional Background
| Since 2012 | Director of the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, University of Bayreuth |
| 2010 – 2012 | Managing Director of the Institute of African Studies (IAS), University of Bayreuth |
| Since 2007 | Professor of History with a focus on African History, University of Bayreuth |
| 2003 – 2007 | Privatdozent in African History, Department of African and Asian Studies, Humboldt-Universität Berlin |
| 2001 – 2007 | Deputy Director of Research, Centre of Modern Oriental Studies in Berlin |
| 1993 – 2000 | Research Associate, Centre of Modern Oriental Studies, Humanities Centres |
| 1998 – 1992 | Doctorate, conferences, and freelance consultant for development politics |
| 1984 – 1989 | Research Associate, Development Sociology Team, Department of Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin |
| 1981 – 1984 | Freelance consultant in development sociology, adult education |
Other
| Since 2010 | Member of the Board of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Außereuropäische Geschichte (AAG), Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands (VHD) |
| 2008 – 2013 | Member of the scientific advisory board, Centre of Modern Oriental Studies in Berlin |
| Since 2007 | Principal Investigator der Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), Universität Bayreuth |
| Since 2007 | Member of the Executive Board of the Institute of African Studies (IAS), University of Bayreuth |
| Since 2007 | Member of the Editorial Board of the Archiv Orientálni (Czech Academy of Sciences), Prague |
| 2001 – 2012 | Member of the Overseas Editorial Board, Journal of Southern African Studies |
| 2001 – 2003 | Member of the Editorial Board of “Africa Spectrum”, Hamburg |
| 1991 | Tiburtius Prize, Berlin |
| 1982 – 1984 | Founding member on the board of “Bildungswerk für Demokratie und Umweltschutz Berlin“ (now the Heinrich Böll Foundation) |
African History
Regional Focus:
- Zambia
- Angola
- Tanzania
- Sudan
- Mali
Research Topics:
- social and religious movements in Africa
- history of cross-border mobility and identity since the end of the 19th century
African History
Selected publications
2018
Neubert, Dieter; von Oppen, Achim
The Kenya we want! : from the post-colonial departure to recent hopes
Bayreuth 2018. - VI, 23 page . - (Bayreuth African Studies Working Papers; 20)
http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:703-epub-3 ...
2010
Translocality : the study of globalising processes from a southern perspective
publ: Freitag, Ulrike; von Oppen, Achim
Leiden 2010 . - (Studies in Global Social History; 4)
2008
Angola on the Move = Angola em Movimento : Transport Routes, Communications and History = Vias ...
publ: von Oppen, Achim; Heintze, Beatrix
Frankfurt am Main 2008
von Oppen, Achim
Mitte Afrikas, am Ende der Welt : Der Kongo in historischer Perspektive
in Zur Debatte volume 38 (2008) issue 3. - page 1-5
2007
von Oppen, Achim
Orientalismen I. Der Orient in Berlin
in Wir : Magazin für die Ehemaligen der FU volume 7 (2007) issue 1. - page 35-37
http://wortwandel.de/pdf/wir_0107.pdf
von Oppen, Achim
The spread of Islam in East Africa - an outline history
Christianity and Islam in Ghana, Tanzania and Germany : documentation of the workshop from 9 to 12 october 2006 in Limburg/Gnadenthal
Frankfurt am Main : Zentrum Ökumene der Evangelischen Kirche in Hessen und Nassau, 2007. - page 14-23
2006
von Oppen, Achim
The painting and the pen : approaches to Heinrich Barth and his African heritage
Heinrich Barth et l'Afrique
Köln : Köppe, 2006. - page 105 . - (Studien zur Kulturkunde; 125)
von Oppen, Achim; Ahmed, Chanfi Abdallah
Sufi-Heiligtümer in Ostafrika als Schauplätze translokaler Erinnerung
Heilige Orte in Asien und Afrika : Räume göttlicher Macht und menschlicher Verehrung
Hamburg : EB-Verl., 2006. - page 199-218 . - (Asien und Afrika; 11)
von Oppen, Achim
The Village as Territory : Enclosing Locality in Northwest Zambia, 1950s to 1990s
in The Journal of African History volume 47 (2006) issue 1. - page 57-75
doi:10.1017/S0021853705001349 ...
2005
von Oppen, Achim; Freitag, Ulrike
Translokalität als ein Zugang zur Geschichte globaler Verflechtungen
in geschichte.transnational
. 2005
http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstream/handle/docum ...
von Oppen, Achim; Freitag, Ulrike
Translokalität als ein Zugang zur Geschichte globaler Verflechtungen = Transnationale Geschicht ...
in Programmatic texts volume 2 (2005)
https://www.zmo.de/publikationen/ProgramaticTexts/ ...
2002
von Oppen, Achim
Cinderella Province : Discourses of locality and nation state in a Zambian periphery, 1950s-199 ...
in Sociologus volume 52 (2002) issue 1. - page 11-46
1999
Kößler, Reinhart; Neubert, Dieter; von Oppen, Achim
Einleitung
Gemeinschaften in einer entgrenzten Welt
Berlin : Verl. Das Arab. Buch, 1999 (Zentrum Moderner Orient : Studien; 12)
Kößler, Reinhart; Neubert, Dieter; von Oppen, Achim
Gemeinschaften in einer entgrenzten Welt
Berlin : Verl. Das Arab. Buch, 1999. - 170 page . - (Zentrum Moderner Orient : Studien; 12)
1997
von Oppen, Achim
Dorf, Siedlung, Gemeinschaft
Geschichte in Afrika : Einführung in Probleme und Debatten
Berlin : Verl. das Arab. Buch, 1997. - page 231-260 . - (Zentrum Moderner Orient : Studien; 7)
Luig, Ute; von Oppen, Achim
Landscape in Africa - process and vision : an introductory essay
The making of African landscapes
Stuttgart : Steiner, 1997. - page 7-45 . - (Paideuma; 43)
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40341729?seq=1#page_sc ...
1992
von Oppen, Achim
Terms of trade and terms of trust : the history and contexts of pre-colonial market production ...
Studien zur Afrikanischen Geschichte
Münster, LIT, 1992. - VIII, 473 page (dissertation, 1990,
)
African History
Prof. Dr. Achim von Oppen
University of Bayreuth
95440 Bayreuth
GW II, Room 2.14
Phone: 0921 / 55-4193
E-mail: achim.vonoppen@uni-bayreuth.de
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