Elisabetta Ragagnin - Curriculum Vitae#

RESEARCH INTERESTS

The research interests of Elisabetta Ragagnin include the fields of linguistics, philology, cultural studies and literature of Turkic and Mongolic languages and peoples, as well as Silk Road Studies, covering a vast geographical area stretching from the Near East and the Caucasus to Central Asia and Mongolia. Within this broad range of interests, her focus is on Turkic and Mongolic linguistics, especially ethnolinguistics, sociolinguistics and contact linguistics. She has undertaken extensive fieldwork on endangered Turkic languages and cultures of Mongolia and Iran. Old and Middle Turkic sources, particularly the trans-regional languages Chaghatay and Ajemi Turkic, as well as pre-classical and classical Mongolian literary monuments are also central to her research interests. Moreover, she has a broad interest in anthropology, ethnography and literature including Turkic and Mongolian culinary culture, Central Asian nomadic culture, shamanism, Turkic and Mongolian throat-singing, mediaeval and pre-modern odeporic literature, as well as Turkic and Mongolian oral literatures and folklore.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Good competence in: Italian, English, German, Mongolian, Azerbaijanian, Turkish, Dukhan, Tuvan, Hungarian, Persian, Dutch; reading knowledge of: French, Russian, Arabic; Scholarly language competence in: Pre-classical and classical Mongolian, Old and Middle Turkic (Chaghatay, Ajemi Turkic and Ottoman), Latin

FIELDWORK SOJOURNS

• 2022 Mongolia & Azerbaijan
  
• 2021 Mongolia
  
• 2019 (April): Azerbaijan
  
• 2018 (August): Mongolia
  
• 2017 (August-September): Mongolia
  
• 2016 (October): Azerbaijan
  
• 2016 (August-September): Mongolia
  
• 2015 (October): Iran; (mid-August – mid-September): Mongolia; (March): Iran
  
• 2014 (April-May, October-November): Azerbaijan; (September): Mongolia
  
• 2013 (March): Mongolia; (September): Iran
  
• 2012 (April-October): Silk Road expedition (from Venice to the Jade Gate, through Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Xinjiang and Gansu/China)
  
• 2011 (August-October): Mongolia
  
• 2009 (September): Mongolia
  
• 2008 (August): Mongolia
  
• 2006 (August-September): Russian Federation (Tuvan Republic)
  
• 2002 (August-September): Mongolia
  
• 2001 (August-October): Mongolia
  
• 2000 (August-November): Mongolia
  
• 1999 (August-September): Mongolia
  
• 1998 (August): Mongolia

Organized conferences, symposia, and workshops (a selection):

• 3-5.05.2022: Second Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia (CELEA 2): Time in endangered languages and endangered languages through time, at the Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
  
• 29-30.11.2019: International Symposium “Endangered languages in Northern Asia” at the Department of Turcology, Free University Berlin (& Prof. Dr Bayarma Khabtagaeva)
  
• 19-20.10.2018: International Symposium “Language Islands and Language Contact in Iran” (ISEIL 2018) at the Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin. Organized together with Dr. Saloumeh Gholami (Institute for Empirical Linguistics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main), Dr. Mandana Seyfeddinipur (Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP), SOAS, University of London), Professor Alberto Cantera (Institute for Iranian Studies, Free University Berlin), Professor Manfred Krifka (Leibniz-Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin) and Professor Shabo Talay (Seminar for Semitic and Arabic Studies, Free University Berlin)
  
• 05.02.2018: Workshop “Uyghur language and culture” at the Institute for Turcology, Free University Berlin (& Dr Giulia Cabras)
  
• 09.02.2017: Workshop “Taiga Sayan Turkic in Mongolia” at the Institute for Turcology, Free University Berlin (& Chuluu Oyunbadam, Tsagaannuur, Mongolia, & Dr. Bayarma Khabtagaeva, Szeged University)
  

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