From mandir to mudda — how a people’s movement changed the conversation in Karnataka. #NowScreening 🗓️25 June 2026 📍Waldweg 26, Room 2.112 ⏰14:00 hrs #karnataka #india #socialjustice #movement

Mahua Moitra fights the BJP for her seat in Krishnanagar after being expelled from Parliament. This is a story of redemption, retribution, & what democracy costs. Prof. Mukulika Bannerjee will be in conversation with Dir. Lalit Vachani post the screening. Q&A with the audience will follow.

What does it take to challenge entrenched power with nothing but determination? #NowScreening Ruke na Jo/Unstoppable Prof. Srirupa Roy will be in conversation with Director Prateek Shekhar post the screening, followed by a Q&A session w/the audience. 🗓️11 June 2026 📍ZHG, Lecture Hall 003 ⏰18:00 Uhr

As Hindu nationalism pushes Muslims to the margins, Owaisi plays a high-stakes political game. Beyond the headlines — what does this movement actually represent? #NowScreening Crescent in the Saffron Sky Discussant: Felix Pal (UWA) 🗓️28 May 2026 📍Méliès, Bürgerstraße 13, Göttingen ⏰ 20:00 hrs

The CeMIS Summer Colloquium 2026 began with an engaging lecture by @jusmeets.bsky.social on the spatiality of caste in the city of Ajmer. His talk explored how caste shapes urban space, patterns of segregation and mobility, structuring the experience of daily life. #caste #india #geography #space

As Hindu nationalism seeps southward, what does a state defined by Dravidian politics do with its own icons? #NowScreening as part of Election Diaries 2024: Our Symbol Is? 🗓️ 21 May 2026 📍Waldweg 26, Room 2.112 ⏰ 14:00 hrs #caste #symbol #contest #india

‘The Delivery Guy’ follows the labour struggles of delivery drivers in Berlin and beyond, exposing exploitation in the gig economy and the collective organising of migrant workers fighting back. Screening + panel discussion 📍 Lumière, Göttingen ⏰ 19 May 2026 | 19:00 Free entry #Migration #Work

Presenting the Summer Semester 2026 Colloquium, & Modern South Asian History Research Seminar. From partition, labour, & migration to capitalism, caste, & political campaigns — we have an incredible lineup of scholars unpacking modern South Asia in all its complexity. 🗓️ May - July CeMIS, Göttingen

Bangalore International Centre is set to screen The Battle Royale by Director & CeMIS faculty member, Lalit Vachani. The film tracks Mahua Moitra's re-election campaign as she fought for political survival & redemption post allegations of accepting cash for queries in Parliament. Details are below!

#Day1 of the workshop: Trajectories of Islam between Europe and South Asia #IslamicStudies #SouthAsia #Europe

Folks in South Asian/Islamic Studies: if you happen to be in Göttingen this weekend, please join us for this workshop I'm co-organizing with Mohammad Nabeel Jafri! (5-7th February) Detailed abstract and program here: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/workshop%...

CeMIS colloquium Summer 2025! #Colloquium #CeMIS @uni-goettingen.de

Hello to everyone on Bluesky! You can now find updates from the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS) here. We're also on Mastodon (@[email protected]), Facebook, and Instagram. Looking forward to engaging with all of you—who else is here? @uni-goettingen.de #CeMIS