"Die hybride Insel? Kulturelle Diversität und Konflikt in Sri Lanka" ("The Hybrid Island? Cultural Diversity and Conflict in Sri Lanka")
B.A. course, Institute of Anthropology, University of Heidelberg
"Introduction to Medical Anthropology"
M.A. course, SAI, University of Heidelberg
SoSe 2012:
"Healing Systems in South Asia"
M.A. course, SAI, University of Heidelberg
"Violence, Trauma and Religion: The Anthropology of Suffering"
M.A. course, SAI, University of Heidelberg
WS 2011/12:
"From Rituals to Hospitals (and Back): An Introduction to Medical Anthropology"
M.A. course, SAI, University of Heidelberg
"Approaching Medical Anthropology: Fieldwork and Methodology Reconsidered"
M.A. course, SAI, University of Heidelberg
Conductor Working Group "Medical Anthropology"
SoSe 2011:
"Scrutinizing the Nature/Culture Dichotomy - Approaches in Social Anthropology and Science Studies" (together with Sandra Bärnreuther, M.A.)
B.A. course, Institute of Anthropology, University of Heidelberg
WS 2010/11:
"Medical Anthropology of South Asia in the Context of Modernity, Globalization and Transculturality"
M.A. course, SAI, University of Heidelberg
SoSe 2010:
"Vom 'Devil Dance' zum Kulturerbe: Ritual und Performanz am Beispiel Sri Lankas" ("From 'devil dance' to cultural heritage: Ritual and performance in Sri Lanka")
B.A. course, Institute of Anthropology, University of Heidelberg
SoSe 2009:
"Medizinethnologie und Moderne" ("Medical Anthropology and Modernity")
M.A. course, Institute of Anthropology, University of Tübingen
WS 2008/09:
Teaching assignment Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Germany Course "Einführung in die Medizinethnologie II" ("Introduction to Medical Anthropology II")
M.A. course, Institute of Anthropology, University of Tübingen
Assistance "Ethnography of Sri Lanka" (Prof. William S. Sax)
B.A. course, Institute of Anthropology, University of Heidelberg
2012:
"Possession and (Body) Politics: The Transformation of Healing Rituals in Sri Lanka"
Workshop "Bodies, Persons and the State in South Asia: Changing Concepts and Relations"
South Asia Anthropologists Group, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2012:
"From Multiculturalism to Transculturality: The Politics of Heritage in Sri Lanka"
Inaugral Conference "Critical Heritage Studies", Gothenburg, Sweden
2012:
"Tanz im Klassenzimmer: Ritual, Initiation und Wandel in Sri Lanka" (Dance in the Class Room: Ritual, Initiation and Change in Sri Lanka)
University of Tübingen, Germany
2011:
"Politics and Performance: Religion on Stage after the War"
Conference "The World in Sri Lanka; Sri Lanka in the World"
University of Zurich, Switzerland
2011:
"Trauma aus ethnologischer Perspektive" (Trauma from an anthropological perspective), Institute of Ethnology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
2011. (together with and presented by Prof. William S. Sax)
"Staging Religion in Sri Lanka: The Kandy and Kataragama peraheras"
Conference "South Asian Festivals on the Move", University of Oslo, Norway
2011. "From Hybridity to Purity: Performing Heritage in Sri Lanka"
Summer School "Heritage Conserved and Contested" IIAS, Leiden, Netherlands
2011. "A Celebration of Demons? Healing Rituals in Sri Lanka"
Medical Anthropology Working Group, University of Heidelberg
2011. "Religion on Stage: Performing Tourist Imaginaries in Sri Lanka"
Conference "Tourism Imaginaires", Berkeley, USA
2010. "Anthropological Approaches to HIV/AIDS"
Department of Sociology, University of Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka
2010. "Emotions in Sinhalese Healing Rituals"
International Conference "Emotions in South Asian and European Rituals", Goa, Indien
2009. "The Changing Image of Sinhalese Healing Rituals: Performing Identity in New Public Spheres"
Annual Conference Cluster Asia and Europe: "Flows of Images and Media", Heidelberg, Germany
2009. "Religion on Stage: Transformierte Heilrituale als kulturelle Ressource in Sri Lanka" ("Religion on Stage: Transformed Healing Rituals as a Cultural Ressource in Sri Lanka")
DGV (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde - "German Anthropological Association")-Conference "Kulturelle Aneignungen: Anpassung - Anverwandlung - Camouflage" ("Cultural Appropriation: Assimiliation - Adaptation - Camouflage"), Frankfurt a. M., Germany
2009. "Staging Religion in Sri Lanka"
SSEASR (South and Southeast Asian Association for the Study of Culture and Religion)-Conference "Waters in South and Southeast Asia: Interaction of Culture and Religion", Bali, Indonesia
2009. "Modernity and Possession in Sri Lanka: The Quest for Justice in the Context of Terror and Violence"
Workshop "Law of Possession", University of Münster, Germany
2009. "The Transformation of Healing Rituals in Sri Lanka due to Globalization"
SPARC (Social and Policy Analysis Research Centre), University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
2008. "Transformation of Subaltern Performances in Sri Lanka"
Course "Ethnography of Sri Lanka", University Heidelberg, Germany
2008. "Modernity and Possession in Sri Lanka"
EASAS (European Association of South Asian Studies)-Conference, Manchester, UK
Publications
2013: (together with William S. Sax) "Discipline and Ecstasy: The Kandy and Kataragama Festivals in Sri Lanka", in: Ute Hüsken and Axel Michaels (eds.), South Asian Festivals on the Move. Harrassowitz
2012. "Emotion and Healing Rituals in Sri Lanka", in: Axel Michaels and Christoph Wulf (eds.), Emotions in Rituals and Performance. New Dehli: Routledge.
2011. "The Changing Image of Sinhalese Healing Rituals. Performing Identity in the Context of Transculturality", in: Christiane Brosius und Roland Wenzlhuemer (Hg.), Transcultural Turbulences: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Flows of Images and Media. Heidelberg: Springer.
2010. "The Sidelining of the Demons? Modernity and Possession in Sri Lanka", in: Fabrizio Ferrari (Hg.), Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia. Disease, Possession and Healing. Routledge (South Asian Religions Series)
Short Biography
Eva Ambos studied Anthropology and Contemporary History (M. A.) at the University of Heidelberg where she graduated from in 2008 (1,2). Her first stay in Sri Lanka in 2006 where she was volunteering for a local NGO was funded by the DAAD. During her studies and afterwards, she has been working as a student assistant in several research projects and as a tutor for scientific working techniques, anthropology of religion and ethnolinguistics. In 2009, she received a PhD sponsorship from the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" where she became an active member of the research project B 14 "Religion on Stage". Since then, she conducted 14 months of fieldwork in Sri Lanka. Currently, she is co-coordinator of the Master program "Health and Society in South Asia" and is completing her PhD about nationalism, tradition and modernity and the 'heritagization' of healing rituals in Sri Lanka.
Curriculum Vitae
04/2013 - 06/2013: Visiting Scholar, University of Chicago (Heidelberg Prize Lectureship)
02/2013 - 03/2013: Visiting Student, University of Edinburgh (DFG-network AROGYAM grant)
10/2012 - now: Co-Coordinator Master program "Health and Society in South Asia", South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg
09/2011 - 09/2012: Coordinator Master program "Health and Society in South Asia", South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg
01/2009 - now: Active team member of the project "Religion on Stage - Traditional South Asian Performances in New Public Spheres and Media" (B 14) of the Cluster of Excellence at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany
01/2009 - 08/2011: PhD-Sponsorship of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany
01/2008: M.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology and Modern European History at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany
2003 - 2008: Studies of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Modern European History at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany
2001 - 2003: Studies of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Modern European History at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany
