Christoph Bergmann, M.A.

• WS 2011/12. Scientific Working Techniques (SAI, M.A. Health and Society in South Asia)
• SS 2011. Interdisziplinäre Forschung in südasiatischen Hochgebirgen: Herausforderungen und Perspektiven (SAI, B.A. Anthropology & Geography), together with Dipl-Geogr. Martin Gerwin
• WS 2010/11. Anthropology of Space (SAI, B.A.)
• SS 2010. Border Studies (SAI, M.A. Anthropology), together with Prof. William S. Sax
• 2005 - 2007. Heidelberg University Hospital, Institute of Public Health Trainer for Internet and database applications (Short Courses in International Health & Master of Science in International Health)

Conference Papers

• 10.2012 Singapore - 3rd Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network on 'Connections, Corridors, and Communities' Titel: Flattening the Routes of Empire in the High and Tibetan Himalayas
• 07.2012 Heidelberg - Conference of the SFB 619 'Ritual Dynamics' on 'Ritual Journeys' Titel: Transaction with Empire: On Certain Ritual Journeys in the Himalayas
• 09.2011. Vienna - Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde (DGV), session on 'Contested Environments: The Political Ecology of Agrarian Change and Forest Conservation'
  
  Political Ecology and the Question of Scale: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Agro-pastoral Mobility in the High Mountain Border Region of Kumaon, India (together with Martin Gerwin)
  
  
• 09.2011. London - Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference, session on'Imagined Ruralities'
  
  Imagined Rurality and the Rurality of Imaginations in the Kumaon Himalaya, India (together with Martin Gerwin)
  
  
• 07.2011. Heidelberg - International Science Forum (IWH), DFG-conference on
  'Epistemological Effects of Development: The Case of Kinnaur'
  
  How Development Schemes Affect Society-Citizen-Nature Relationships: The Case of Kinnauri Pastoralists
  
  
• 03.2011. Heidelberg - Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, WIN-conference (Akademiekolleg für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs) on 'Normative Raumordnungen'
  
  From the Poetics of Place to the Politics of Space and Back Again
  
  
• 11.2010. Heidelberg - Colloquium of the Institute for Anthropology 2010 on 'Culture, Nature, Ecology'
  
  Zomia and the Politics of Scale in Kumaon
  
  
• 11.2010. Chiang Mai, Thailand - 2nd International Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network 'Asian Borderlands: Enclosure, Interaction and Transformation'
  
  Homeward Bound: Celebrating Harvest in the Darma Valley (Kumaon Himalaya, India)
  
  
• 07.2010. Heidelberg - Meeting of the regional group Himalaya (RG Himalayaraum) of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde (DGV) on 'Ritual and Performance'
  
  Seasonal Migration and the Darmanis' Ritual Cycle
  
  
• 05.2010. Heidelberg - Joint conference of the SFB 619, Cluster of Excellence 'Asia and Europe' and the DFG-project NU 102/10-1 on 'Border Rituals and Transcultural Studies'
  
  What Happens if the Border is Closed? On Ritual Mastery and Vertical Control
  
  
• 11.2008. Nainital, Indien - Indo-German conference on 'Living in High Altitudes: Culture and Environment in the Uttarakhand Himalaya'
  
  Appropriating Space in the High Mountain Border Region of Kumaon, India
  
  
• 07.2007. Heidelberg - SFB 619 workshop on 'Ritual and Exchange Relations'
  
  Borders, Trade and Rituals in Uttarakhand

Poster Presentations

• GERWIN, M., BERGMANN, C., SAX, W.S. & M. NÜSSER 2011. Scaling the Commons: Strategy of Resource Use among the 'Bhotyias' of the Kumaon-Himalayas, India. Leibniz Institute for Regional Devlopment and Structural Planning, International Research Workshop 'Territoriality of the Commons: Spatial Perspectives on the Governance of Public Goods in Past and Present', 29.-30. September 2011, Erkner (near Berlin).
• GERWIN, M., BERGMANN, C., SAX, W.S. & M. NÜSSER 2010. Saisonale Migration zwischen geopolitischer Grenzziehung und kultureller Identifikation: Die Bhotiyas im Darma-Tal des Kumaon-Himalayas, Indien. Aktuelle Forschung in Gebirgsräumen: Gemeinsame Tagung von ARGE & AK Hochgebirge, 3.-6. June 2010, Bayreuth.
• NÜSSER, M., SAX, W.S., GERWIN, M. & C. BERGMANN 2008. Strategien der Ressourcennutzung im Wandel: Die 'Bhotiyas' des Hochgebirgs-Grenzraums von Uttarakhand (Indien). Jahrestreffen des Arbeitskreises Hochgebirge. 19.-20. January 2008, Passau.

• BERGMANN, C. & M. Gerwin 2012. Political Ecology and the Question of Scale: Mountain Pastoralists in the Developing State of Uttarakhand, India. In: RCC Perspectives 5, Special Issue on 'Fields and Forests: Ethnographic Perspectives on Environmental Globalization' (edited by Münster, U. / Münster, D. & S. Dorondel): 69-74.
• GERWIN, M. & C. BERGMANN 2012. Geopolitical Relations and Regional Restructuring: The Case of the Kumaon Himalaya, India. In: Erdkunde: Archive for Scientific Geography 66(2): 91-107.
• BERGMANN, C. / GERWIN, M. / NÜSSER, M. & W.S. SAX 2012. State Policy and Local Performance: Pasture Use and Pastoral Practices in the Kumaon Himalaya. In: Kreutzmann, H. (ed.): Pastoral Practices in High Asia. Agency of 'Development' Effected by Modernisation, Resettlement and Transformation. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 175-194 (= Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research).
• BERGMANN, C. / GERWIN, M. / SAX, W.S. & M. NÜSSER 2011. Politics of Scale in a High Mountain Border Region: Being Mobile among the Bhotiyas of the Kumaon Himalaya, India. Nomadic Peoples 15(2): 104-129.
• PANDE, G. & C. BERGMANN 2009. Dharchula: A Border Town in the Mirror of History. Pahar 16: 317-324 (in Hindi).
• BERGMANN, C. / GERWIN, M. / NÜSSER, M. & W.S. SAX 2008. Living in a High Mountain Border Region: The Case of the 'Bhotiyas' of the Indo-Chinese Border Region. Journal of Mountain Science 5(3): 122-129.