UN Volunteer · Rescue Mission for Street Life
Outreach work supporting children experiencing street life, placed through the UNV programme and working with an international team on the ground in Kampala.
Personal Papers & Scholarly Work
Berlin Repository · est. MMXXVI
Finding Aid
Reference code · Fonds AT
52.4499° N · 13.2920° E
52.4499° N · 13.2920° E
Fonds AT — Description
Aigerim Topoeva
Айгерим Топоева
Historian. M.A. candidate in Global History at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, a joint program of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
ISeries I
Writing
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A divided island, a divided people. When in the modern world we talk about Ireland, do we mean Dublin, as well as the so-called Northern Ireland? And what if the fact that the island remains split between two states, two identities and two political traditions is the legacy of one of the world’s biggest empires?
Traces the road from the Plantation system and Penal Laws through the Ulster Crisis, Easter 1916, and the 1920 Government of Ireland Act. Sets the partition of Ireland alongside India to argue that imperial partition followed a recognisable pattern.
ChaptersCreating Division · The Road to Partition 1801–1921 · The Divided Irish · Comparative Perspective: India
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The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 gave the world fifteen newly independent states, each of which claimed sovereignty on the basis of national identity. But where did these nations come from? To a significant extent, they were created by the very state whose collapse they celebrated.
Argues that statehood on the imperial periphery was neither top-down nor spontaneous, but a negotiation between imperial authorities and local intellectuals, shaped by tsarist categories that the early Soviet state then inherited and reworked.
ChaptersTwo Peripheries · Revolution and Its Consequences, 1917–1924 · Nationhood, late 1920s–1930s
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When sixteen young Germans were asked to sort fifty statements about peace, five distinct positions emerged: idealistic realists, egalitarian humanists, domestic realists, and others. Each held a different relationship to past, present, and future.
A Q-methodology study presented at the Berlin University Alliance Conference. Q-methodology is a mixed-methods technique for surfacing the structure of subjectivity, useful when the question is not “what is true” but “what positions exist.”
SectionsMethodology · Q-Sort Process · Interviews · Temporal Dimensions · Theoretical Contribution
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Engagement
Model United Nations
Position papers, simulations, policy briefings. The mechanics of multilateral debate, ahead of the work toward international policy.
Student Researcher · Peace Perception Study
Designing and conducting Q-methodology research on how young Germans perceive peace across past, present, and future. Sixteen respondents, five factor positions. The poster lives in Writing, above.
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Experience
Tutor & Cultural Coordinator
Organising and leading weekly social and cultural events for international students. Coordinating the arrival and integration of new students into university life and the Berlin environment. Peer support on academic and everyday matters. Administrative work at the student rental office.
Volunteer · Bundesfreiwilligendienst
Daily operations in the patient admission department. Preparing patient documentation, creating admission records, assisting the clinical team, and communicating with patients in a working German-speaking environment.
Junior Staff Member · Kyrgyztest
Administered Russian-language testing sessions end to end: preparation of room and materials, ID verification, pre-test instructions, invigilation, and reporting. Developed and reviewed test items, aligning tasks with target proficiency levels and supporting quality control.
Volunteer Teacher · Secondary School
Taught history and social studies. Planned and delivered lessons across different learning levels, encouraging critical thinking and discussion of social questions.
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Education
M.A. Global History
Joint Master's programme between FU and HU. One of Europe's leading centres for the global and transregional turn in historical scholarship.
B.A. History
Foundational training in historical method, archival reading, and the history of Central Asia.
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Languages
Extent · 4 working languages
- Russian Native Native
- Kyrgyz Native Native
- English IELTS Academic 7.5 (R 9.0 · L 7.5 · S 7.0 · W 6.0) C1
- German Working level. Daily life, work, and study in Berlin B1+
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Contact
Berlin, Germany. Reachable on tmpmdtaa@gmail.com. Curriculum vitae available on request.
Erreichbar in Berlin, auf Englisch, Deutsch, Russisch oder Kirgisisch.