🎉New Open Access Book We are pleased to announce the publication of Crafting India’s Skill Ecology: Reproductions, Recalibrations, and Reimaginations, edited by Saikat Maitra & Sebastian Schwecke @mwfdelhi.bsky.social, under @routledgebooks.bsky.social. 🔓 www.routledge.com/Crafting-Ind...

The SAI Heidelberg University and MWF Delhi is seeking applications for their Joint Scholarship Programme. Last date is 11 jan. Please check this link for more details: karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/5... @unihd-sai.bsky.social @maxweberstiftung.de @uniheidelberg.bsky.social

#CfA "Mobility Fellowships - Global Indo-Pacific" to conduct research for 1-2 months at @arinus.bsky.social @dijtokyo.org @ghilondon.bsky.social @mwfdelhi.bsky.social @dhi-paris.fr @ghiwashington.bsky.social or IAAS @humboldtuni.bsky.social Details ➡️ karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/7...

#CfP PhD training school "Knowing How to Labor. (Disruptive) Knowledge in Global Labor" 📌#Training school | 13/04/2026 | in #BuenosAires, Argentina | organised by @mwfdelhi.bsky.social and CALAS 📝 Deadline: 30/10/2025 🔗www.maxweberstiftung...

Our Fellow Yamini Agarwal reviews Laurence Gautier ’s book ‘Between Nation and ‘Community’: Muslim Universities and Indian Politics After Partition’, read more 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Last week, @mwfdelhi.bsky.social organised a workshop on ‘Fake, Fraud, Counterfeit’ in collaboration with Ashoka University. It was a truly dynamic and successful event. It started off with the brilliant keynote lecture by Lawrence Cohen. @maxweberstiftung.de

On 11-12 September 2025 we had an engaging #workshop at Shiv Nadar University on ‘Rethinking #businesshistory of South Asia.” Participants from all over the world got together to deliberate on fresh ideas, perspectives and topics to bring within the ambit of the field. @maxweberstiftung.de

We are delighted to welcome Sunil Amrith (Yale University) on 13 October 2025, when he will give our next #ThyssenLecture. 📯 His talk is entitled 'Colonialism and the Climate Crisis: Rethinking Legacies and Trajectories'. 1/4

Insightful #discussion, as the researchers from @mwfdelhi.bsky.social engaged with Prof. Satish Deshpande at the OPUS #Workshop ‘Situated #SocialScience: #Caste-Class, #Education and Location’ @maxweberstiftung.de

📢New in our @universitypress.cambridge.org series Shifting Landscapes: Education and Urban Transformations in India by Geetha B. Nambissan (JNU Delhi), Nandini Manjrekar (TISS), Shivali Tukdeo(Mahindra University) & Indra Sengupta @ghilondon.bsky.social Open Access www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

EASAS is offering three awards of €300 each to the most outstanding papers by research students presenting at #ECSAS2025. For more information: www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/... #SaiHeidelberg #SouthAsiaInstitute #UniversitätHeidelberg #Heidelberg #SaiResearch #ECSAS2025 #ECSAS #EASAS

On 12 Aug 2025, @mwfdelhi.bsky.social had #workshop, #InheritanceEconomyandLaw with IIT Kanpur’s #Humanities & #SocialSciences deptt. Lively sessions with insights from scholars. Thanks to all who made this dialogue possible! #IITKanpur #InheritanceEconomyLaw #AcademicDialogue #Collaboration

Happy to announce that @mwfdelhi.bsky.social affiliated fellow, Dr Soheb Niazi, has secured the DN Ghosh Prize for the best paper in #EPW 2024 for the paper, Towards a #History of Non-ashrāf Muslims: Notes on the Muslim Occupational Castes in Late #ColonialIndia Details 👇 www.epw.in/d-n-ghosh-pr...

@mwfdelhi.bsky.social in collaboration with the department of #Humanities & #socialsciences, IIT Kanpur, is organising a #workshop ‘Inheritance, Economy and Law: A Sociological Inquiry’, on Tuesday, 12 August, 2025 at IIT Kanpur

🪧Applications invited from post-doctoral/early career scholars at German universities and research institutions, for a three-month #fellowship 🕔26 September 2025 (23:59 CET) Details👇 karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/f... @ghilondon.bsky.social @maxweberstiftung.de @icasmp.bsky.social

📣 Auch in diesem Jahr vergeben wir die Gerald D. Feldman-#Reisebeihilfen an international orientierte Wissenschaftler*innen in der Qualifikationsphase. 📚 🌏 Bewerbungsschluss ist der 5. Oktober 2025. 🔗 Alle Infos zum Förderumfang und zur Bewerbung unter: www.maxweberstiftung...#Reisebeihilfen

Private papers of Muhammad Mujeeb (1902-1985) are now public. We begin with a Bio-Biographical Introduction. Photographs and private correspondences in Urdu, German and English will follow tazkirajamia.hypotheses.org/m-mujeeb-pri... @icasmp.bsky.social @ghilondon.bsky.social @ddhankhar.bsky.social

🪧#Applications for a 3-month travel grant, invited from highly qualified #humanities and #socialscience academics of any nationality. Age no bar 🕔5 October 2025 (23:59 CET) Details 👇https://karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/2f54feb34721776c74edaf99767a5311b425643b0 @icasmp.bsky.social

How do colonial-era racial theories continue to influence modern science in India? In our latest GHIL #podcast interview we're exploring this question by examining new research which traces the transnational connections between Germany and colonial India in the field of racial science. 🎧 1/5

Morgen 17 Uhr geht's weiter mit #HistoriansonDemocracy 📅 Jetzt anmelden für die spannende Diskussionsrunde über Rechtsstaatlichkeit unter Moderation unserer Präsidentin Ute Frevert! 👉https://uni-bielefeld.zoom.us/meeting/register/QOnTazZgTC-A6-V5AAI31w#/registration

The SAI is launching a (up to) three-month fellowship program in cooperation with the Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies Delhi (MWF). The program is aimed at young researchers from India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka or Bangladesh who wish to establish a research collaboration with the SAI.

Am nächsten Dienstag geht es bei den Historians on Democracy @democracyhistory.bsky.social um transatlantische Bündnisse. 🗺️ 🔗Jetzt anmelden und mitdiskutieren: uni-bielefeld.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 📅 20 Mai | 17 Uhr | via Zoom & Youtube #HistoriansonDemocracy #Democracy #skystorians 🗃️

"New on the GHIL #Podcast! 🎧 Coinciding with tonight's #ThyssenLecture, our latest episode is a recording of the fourth lecture in our series in collaboration with the Fritz Thyssen Foundation on 'Science, Knowledge, and the Legacy of Empire', given by Dhruv Raina 1/6

#Deadline today. Hurry up!! bsky.app/profile/mwfd...

Thinking Between Languages conference @maxweberstiftung.de ends with panel discussion Simultaneous Interpretations: the Max Weber institutes as translators of languages, (academic) cultures, methodologies @ghilondon.bsky.social @ghiwashington.bsky.social @dhiroma.bsky.social @mwfdelhi.bsky.social

📣📰 Die neue Ausgabe unseres Magazins #WeltweitVorOrt ist da! Im neuen Heft blicken wir auf aktuelle Diskurse zur Künstlichen Intelligenz in den Geisteswissenschaften. 🔗 Hier geht's zum ePaper: www.maxweberstiftung...#WeltweitVorOrt @dhiparis.wisskomm.social.ap.brid.gy @dijtokyo.org @ghiwashington.bsky.social

🗣️Debarati Bagchi, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director @mwfdelhi.bsky.social is speaking at the transatlantic conversation series “Historians on Democracy” 📆Tuesday, May 6, 2025 🕔8.30 pm – 9.30 pm IST/11-12 a.m. EST/17-18 o’clock CET For details and to register click 👇 mwfdelhi.hypotheses.org/15127

Lars Aaberg from Jindal Global University (India) delivering a #talk on “The Incorporation of #LGBTQs in Bengaluru: Toward a new #sexual politics of risk”, as part of the #MWF Seminar Series at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

🗣️@mwfdelhi.bsky.social invites #applications from Germany-based doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars in the #humanitiesandsocialsciences for a 12 month #scholarship Hurry up. Deadline is 15 May 2025. For details, go to mwfdelhi.hypotheses.org/14954 @maxweberstiftung.de @mpiwg.bsky.social

Our next #talk under @mwfdelhi.bsky.social #seminarseries is on the Incorporation of #LGBTQs in Bengaluru by Lars Aaberg 📆Wednesday, 30 April, 2025 🕔16:30-18:00 hrs 🏟️Maple Hall, India Habit at Centre, New Delhi Register by sending an email to [email protected] by Friday, 25 April 2025

🎙️Unsere Podcastserie "The Ends of War" ist da! In drei Folgen blickt Janine Funke mit Forschenden unserer Institute aus transnationaler Perspektive auf das Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Jetzt reinhören! 🔊 www.maxweberstiftung... #TheEndsOfWar #EndOfWWII #WWII80 #Erinnerungskultur #Podcast

@snehaannavarapu.bsky.social from National University of Singapore talked about 'The Uneven City: #Potholes, #Pain and #Politics in Urban India' as part of the MWF Seminar Series today.

#Call #CfA: The College invites advanced international researchers in #socialsciences / #humanities to apply for the Senior #Fellowship Programme until 25 May 2025. Join the #UARuhr for a six-month #research fellowship starting in 2026 www.college-uaruhr.de/cfa-fellowships-2026-27

The next talk under @mwfdelhi.bsky.social #seminarseries 🗣️Sneha Annavarapu, National University of #Singapore 📆Friday, 28 March 2025 🛐Maple Hall, India Habitat Centre, Delhi Registrations mandatory. To register send 📩 to [email protected] by 19 March 2025

Last Friday Hem Borker spoke on 'The #Paradox of #Education in Muslim Minority Institutions' as part of the MWF Seminar Series.

Call for Applications! 🎓 Each year, the GHIL offers research scholarships for postgraduate students, Habilitanden, and postdocs at German universities, providing an incredible opportunity to conduct research in the UK! Applications for the period from July 2025 are open until 31 March!📥 1/2

PhD students and Prof. Dr Maclean of the History Department, met for a workshop in New Delhi to discuss their archival finds of the last few months, at the Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies in Delhi.   #SouthAsiaInstitute #UniversitätHeidelberg @mwfdelhi.bsky.social @kamamaclean.bsky.social

Today at the #OpusWorkshop, Jonathan Parry led a deep dive into #Axes of #Inequality in Indian Society, their #Intersections and #Contradictions.

The #IndianOcean #Symposium and #BookLaunch by Ravi Ahuja concluded the week-long #WinterSchool: In-Between #Intermediaries and #IntermediatePlaces in #GlobalLabour Past & Present.

The book 'Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers', by Ravi Ahuja, was launched last Friday - followed by a review & discussion with Neeladri Bhattacharya, Christian G. de Vito, chaired by Sebastian Schwecke. #BookLaunch

Mahmood Kooria introduced the #IndianOceanPlatform during the #IndianOcean #Symposium.

Last Friday, at the #IndianOcean #Symposium, Crispin Bates introduced the #BelowDecks Project, followed by a #Roundtable discussion with Michaela Dimmers, Mahmood Kooria, Noelle Richardson, Sebastian Schwecke and Lakshmi Subramanian.

Day 4 of #WinterSchool: a lecture by Michaela Dimmers on #Coerced #Intermediation, film screening of "Vagrants, Vagabonds, Immorals" by Nina Tedesco and Paulo Cruz Terra & a teaching block on #Sources and #Methods in #History

Day 3 of the #WinterSchool with a lecture by Christian G. de Vito on #Punishment and #LabourRegimes, two panels on the #Intermediation of #Migration and #Labour and a teaching block on the #Anthropology of Labour.

Impressions of Day 2 of the #WinterSchool on #Intermediaries and #IntermediatePlaces with lectures, panels and teaching blocks conducted by Paola Revilla Orías, Hanne Østhus, Christian G. de Vito & Michaela Dimmers.

Join the debut of the German Science Diplomacy Podcast with Science Counsellor Viktoria Apitzsch as we discuss Women in Science. This episode explores women's role in science and policy, sharing stories, opportunities in India and Germany, and why this conversation remains vital today.

The first day of #WinterSchool including a panel chaired by Michaela Dimmers and a teaching block by Paola Revilla Orías on #Inspiring #Texts

Opening remarks by @mwfdelhi.bsky.social #Director Sebastian Schwecke today at the #WinterSchool: In-between #Intermediaries and #IntermediatePlaces, followed by a #keynote by Crispin Bates

A few snippets from the Day 2 panels of our #workshop on #GlobalTransit @ghiwashington.bsky.social @maxweberstiftung.de #OIlstanbul #OIBeirut @mariaframke.bsky.social

#CfA Gerda Henkel Visiting #Professorship 📍 ab 1. September 2026 oder 1. September 2027 | im Bereich Deutsche #Geschichte des 19. & 20. Jahrhunderts in globaler Perspektive | vergeben durch das @ghilondon.bsky.social Bewerbungsschluss: 31. März 2025 🔗 karriere.maxwebersti...