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Interdisciplinary Centre for Research and Academic Teaching on South Asia. linktr.ee/sai_heidelberg
SAI invites you to attend the following events this week. You can find programs and more information about the events (including links) in sai.uni-heidelberg.de
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4 days ago
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SAI invites you to attend the following events this week. You can find programs and more information about the events (including links) in sai.uni-heidelberg.de
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9 days ago
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The first session of the SAI Colloquium - SS 2026 took place on April 30th, with a lecture called "Residing Across an Ocean: Property, Gender and Community between the Coromandel Coast and the Strait of Malacca, c. 1740-1940", led by Torsten Tschacher, Tamil lecturer of the SAI.
12 days ago
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SAI invites you to attend the following events next week. You can find programs and more information about the events (including links) in sai.uni-heidelberg.de
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19 days ago
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22 days ago
Kulturell bedeutende Privatsammlung an nepalesischen Staat übergeben: Palmblattrollen und weitere historische Schriftstücke wurden an der Universität Heidelberg konserviert, digitalisiert und wissenschaftlich ausgewertet
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SAI welcomes you to the Summer Semester 2026! and invites you to attend the following events next week. You can find programs and more information about the events (including links) in sai.uni-heidelberg.de
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25 days ago
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Austin Simões-Gomes explores women’s agency and unseen labour through a striking ritual that highlights the dynamic between Newar Buddhist women mediums (dyaḥmāṃ) and male vajrācārya priests, in a recent lecture organised by SAI Kathmandu Branch Office and Alliance Française Kathmandu.
about 2 months ago
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Inking an Identity: The Stories Behind Tharu Tattoo Motifs By Sanjib Chaudhary Organised by the SAI Nepal Branch Office and Alliance Française, this recent talk reflected on the cultural meanings, histories, and changing practices of traditional Tharu tattoo motifs in Nepal.
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3 months ago
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Denationalisation, Statelessness, and Refugeehood: A Case of the Rohingya “Subhuman” Life By Prof. Nasir Uddin The talk discusses the plight of the Rohingyas, treated as “subhuman life” by the state. First denationalised, they have been rendered stateless and submerged in protracted refugeehood.
3 months ago
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Signing of MoU: Allama Iqbal Professional Fellowship H.E. Pakistan Ambassador Saqlain Syedah,
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4 months ago
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Elephant Paths, Veterinarians, Mules and Refugees: The Multispecies Territorialization of an Asian Borderland Prof. Dr. Cao Yin (Peking University)
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4 months ago
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SAI invites you to attend the following events next week. Please note that the event "Inking an Identity: The Stories Behind Tharu Tattoo Motifs" will take in Lalitpur, Nepal. You can find programs and more information about the events (including links) in sai.uni-heidelberg.de
4 months ago
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Bangladesh’s Democracy at Crossroads: Challenges and Potentials Panellists: Dr. Nasir Uddin, Dr. Eva Gerharz, Dr. ASM Mostafizur Rahman
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4 months ago
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Bangladesh’s Democracy at Crossroads: Challenges and Potentials A Panel Discussion by Dr. Nasir Uddin, Dr. Eva Gerharz, Dr. ASM Mostafizur Rahman
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4 months ago
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Caring for Capital Futures? Environmental Conservation and Indigenous Rights at an Urban Frontier By Dr. Philipp Zehmisch
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4 months ago
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SAI invites you to attend the following events next week. You can find programs and more information about the events (including links) in sai.uni-heidelberg.de
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4 months ago
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Crafting, Growing, Knowing: Flowers and Gardens in 17th to 20th Century Nepal By Surabhi Pudasaini and Astrid Zotter The lecture was part of the MWF Seminar Series.
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4 months ago
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Welcome to Ojaswini Shekhawat - Visiting Researcher from Yale University
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4 months ago
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SAI invites you to attend the following events next week. You can find programs and more information about the events (including links) in sai.uni-heidelberg.de
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4 months ago
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Vegavatī, a dance-drama choreographed by Dr. Aneesh Raghavan and featuring 25+ dancers, was performed on Oct 3 at Heidelberg University during
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4 months ago
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Hindi Rusi Bhai Bhai – An Equal Partnership? Commemorative Postage Stamps in Indo-Soviet Relations during the Cold War Era By Seraphim Kirjuhin
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4 months ago
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SAI extends its warmest wishes to its academic family, those near and those far too, for this Christmas. May this holiday season bring you joy and a much needed break.
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#MerryChristmas
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#HeidelbergerWeihnachtsmarkt
5 months ago
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The South Asia Institute (SAI) in cooperation with the Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies Delhi (MWF) calls for applications for a (up to) three-month fellowship to be spent at the South Asia Institute in summer 2026. More information:
karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/5...
5 months ago
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Episode 9 Moderne Strömungen in der Hindi-Literatur On Spotify:
open.spotify.com/episode/1Skb...
On Youtube:
youtu.be/I-l5RN_2cr0
For suggestions:
[email protected]
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5 months ago
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Queering Heritage - Xploring Interventions Ritual Space/Time: The Newar Experience
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5 months ago
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"Noisy" Photographs: Listening to Images from the Civil Disobedience movement in Bombay by Prof. Kama Maclean In Photographing Civil Disobedience: Bombay, 1930-31
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5 months ago
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SAI invites you to attend the following events next week. You can find programs and more information about the events (including links) in sai.uni-heidelberg.de
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5 months ago
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Welcome to Mallory Cerkleski - Visiting Researcher from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy
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5 months ago
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The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism: Knowledge Providers and Propagandists in the ‘Third Reich’ By Dr. Baijayanti Roy Link to Book:
academic.oup.com/book/58187?l...
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5 months ago
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“Our City That Year“ Talk and Reading with Geetanjali Shree Moderated by the literary critic Claudia Kramatschek The event was part of SAI colloquium.
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5 months ago
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SAI invites you to attend the following events next week. Please note that the event "The Blurred Boundaries of Traditions" will also be presented via Zoom:
us02web.zoom.us/j/8298260915...
You can find programs and more information about the events in sai.uni-heidelberg.de
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6 months ago
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Himalayan Socio-Hydrology: Dynamics, Disasters, Development By Marcus Nüsser The event was part of SAI colloquium.
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6 months ago
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The Department of Cultural and Religious History of South Asia (Classical Indology) welcomes Haruki Tsuji, a visiting researcher from the University of Tokyo.
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6 months ago
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Episode 8 A place to immerse deeply into a language: The Urdu Summer School 2025 in Heidelberg Listen on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/episode7hKFM...
Listen on Youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-thJ...
For suggestions:
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6 months ago
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SAI invites you to attend the following events next week. You can find programs and more information about the events in sai.uni-heidelberg.de
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6 months ago
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China in Indian and Middle Eastern Eyes: Perceptions from the Age of Steam and Print By Nile Green, UCLA Green is host of the podcast Akbar's Chamber:
akbarschamber.podbean.com
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6 months ago
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At
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, the roundtable “Researching South Asia in a Polarised World: Academic Freedom and Strategies across Borders” brought together scholars to reflect on the increasing pressures and threats faced by researchers around the world.
6 months ago
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SAI invites you to attend the following events next week. You can find programs and more information about the events in sai.uni-heidelberg.de
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#SAIWeekly
6 months ago
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Prateek Pankaj granted a Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes for his doctorate studies
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6 months ago
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SAI is pleased to announce that Dr. Deepra Dandekar has been awarded a DFG Eigene Stelle Postdoctoral Fellowship for three years for her project “Hamid Dalwai: Democratic Socialism and Muslim Politics in India, 1947-1977".
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6 months ago
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Ways of Seeing: Revising Colonial Perceptions of the Himalaya by Amish Raj Mulmi
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6 months ago
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SAI invites you to attend the following events next week. You can find programs and more information about the events in sai.uni-heidelberg.de
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6 months ago
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Knowing About Places and Cases in the Era of Big Data: The Role of Comparative Area Studies in Interdisciplinary Global Knowledge Production by Prof. Rudra Sil
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6 months ago
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Deep Histories: Goddess Temples, Communities, and Memory in Kanchipuram By Dr. Emma Natalya Stein The talk was part of “Sacred Spaces, Living Traditions: Visual and Oral Cultures of South Indian Temples”.
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6 months ago
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SAI welcomes Prof. Nasir Uddin as a Visiting Professor for Winter Term 2025/26, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
6 months ago
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SAI invites you to attend the following events next week. Please note that the event "Ambivalent and Intimate Enemies" requires registration at
[email protected]
You can find programs and more information about the events in sai.uni-heidelberg.de
6 months ago
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Surabhi Pudasaini joins us for three months as the inaugural fellow of the joint South Asia Institute-Max Weber Forum fellowship program.
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6 months ago
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Plenary Session, “Rethinking Constitutionalism and Democracy in India and Pakistan” held during
#ECSAS2025
, Maryam Khan, Ornit Shani and Rohit De engaged in a rich discussion on the public life of Constitution-making in the two countries. The session was moderated by Imran Ahmed.
6 months ago
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When Viṣṇu Became Śiva: The Tirumēṟṟaḷīśvara Temple and the Multimodal Transmission of Temple Legends in Kanchipuram By Dr. Jonas Buchholz
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7 months ago
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One month since
#ECSAS2025
— and we’re still grateful! Hosting over 800 participants across four days was both an honour and a joy.
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7 months ago
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