Curriculum Vitae Dr. Peter J. Bumke Dr. Peter J. Bumke was born on April 29, 1945, in Bad Wiessee, Germany. From 1951 to 1964, he attended school in Tegernsee and Munich. Between 1964 and 1970, he pursued studies in Social Anthropology, International Politics, and Southeast Asian Studies at the universities of Munich, Freiburg, and Heidelberg, as well as at Yale University in the United States. In 1967, he conducted fieldwork among the Miao/Hmong people in Northern Thailand. He earned his doctorate (Dr. phil.) from Heidelberg University in 1970 with a dissertation on the Miao/Hmong. From 1973 to 1979, Dr. Bumke worked as a lecturer in Social Anthropology in Berlin, during which time he conducted fieldwork among Kurdish Alevis in Anatolia. Between 1980 and 1982, he served as a Rural Extension Officer for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Jamaica. From 1983 to 1985, he worked as an Adult Educationist focusing on Turkish labor migration in Munich. From 1989 to 2010, Dr. Bumke was a staff member of the Goethe-Institut, serving as Director of Institutes in Hyderabad (India), Jakarta (Indonesia), and Hanoi (Vietnam). Starting from 2005 until today he has initialised and evaluated trauma therapy training projects in SE-Asia, KRI/Iraq and Ukraine. Since 2010, on his retirement he has been engaged in a documentary video project on Kurdish migrants from Dersim and has presented photographic exhibitions in Dersim and Istanbul.