Veranstaltungsarchiv
06.07.: 8th and 9th Humboldt India Project (HIP) Lectures
14:15 – 16:00 hrs.– 8th HIP LECTURE
'A vast sea of slums': From tenement to zopadpatti in 20th century Bombay
Dr. Nikhil Rao (Darmouth College)
16:15 – 18:00 hrs.– 9th HIP LECTURE
Urban Sociability: Indian Coffee House in the Middle Decades of the 20th century
Panel Discussion: Debating Gender Quotas and Political Participation in Afghanistan and Pakistan
"It's not charity, it's a chair of power"
Debate with Women Parliamentarians from Afghanistan and Pakistan
Pictures:
When?
Wednesday, 11 November 2015
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. (s.t.)
Where?
Seminar für Südasien Studien
Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften
Invalidenstrasse 118, 10115 Berlin
Room 217 (2nd floor)
Panel Members:
Dr. Andrea Fleschenberg dos Ramos Pinéu, DAAD Long Term Guest Professor, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
The discussion will be preceded by a short introduction to the forthcoming report "Debating Gender Quotas and Political Participation with Women Parliamentarians from Afghanistan and Pakistan", authored by Dr. Andrea Fleschenberg dos Ramos Pinéu and Dr. Farzana Bari.

November 14-16, 2014: Kochi 1514 Cross-cultural Networks between Central Europe, South Asia and Beyond in the Early Modern Period
Friday, Nov 14
3.00 pm
Opening Remarks
Panel A.
3.30-4.30 pm
Kochi 1514 as a beginning? The Central Europeans and the
S. Bartholomew Chapel.
Gregor M. Metzig.
4.30-5.30 pm
Mission beyond Mission: Cross-Cultural Networks in Eighteenth-Century South India.
Keyvan Djahangiri.
5.30-6.00 pm Coffee Break
6.00-7.00 pm
Keynote Lecture: Trading Goods from Southern Germa- ny to India 1533.
Dr. Dr. Wolfgang Knabe
8.00 pm Dinner Restaurant Neumond
Saturday, Nov 15
9.00-10.00 am
The Lure of India. Was there an Exchange of Visual Arts between Europe and India? Sune Erik Schlitte
Balthazar Springer and the King of Cochin: Early Modern Encounters between India and Europe.
Sebastian R. Prange.
11.00-11.30 am Coffee Break
PANEL B.
11.30-12-30 pm
Jeremias van Fliet in Siam. The cultural transgressions of a Dutch merchant scholar.
Sven Trakulhun.
Bilateral or Global? ‘ Indiennes’ in Eighteenth-Century France. Felicia Gottmann.
1.30-3.00 pm Lunch Break
3.00-4.00 pm
The Columbian Exchange from the West to the East and the Dutch Trading Companies acting in early Globalization.
Tim Wätzold.
4.00-5.00 pm
A Spidery Web: Global textile connections of Eighteenth- Century Danish trade between India, Guinea and Europe.
Vibe Maria Martens.
5.00-5.30 pm Coffee Break
PANEL C.
5.30-6.30 pm
Eighteenth-Century Europe- an Polymaths interested in Asian Languages: tracing the influence of Leibniz‘ linguistic research program.
Toon van Hal.
Sunday, Nov 16
9.00-10.00 am
Zainudheen Maqdoom and Malabar‘s global connections in the Sixteenth Century.
Nuaiman Keeprath Andru.
10.00-11.00 am
Diamonds. Transcultural Values and Cross-Cultural Trade between India and Central Europe.
Kim Siebenhüner.
11.00-12.00 pm
‘All to use’. Circulation and presence of Indian goods in Central European Art, Science, and Culture. Marília dos Santos Lopes.
12.00-12.30 pm Coffee Break
12.30-13.30 pm
Concluding Remarks.
12th HIP Workshop: 4th July 2014
When?
4th July 2014
2:00-7:00 pm
Where?
Department of South Asia Studies
Institute of Asian and African Studies
Invalidenstr. 118, Room: 217
Programm
2.15–3.00 pm | Keerthi K. Bandru, Division of Resource Economics, HU Berlin: Role of Citizen Environmental Complaints in Local Environmental Governance: A Case of Industrial Pollution Regulation in India |
3.00–3.45 pm |
Johanna Buß, Institut für Südasien-, Tibet und Buddhismuskunde, Universität Wien: Debates of Secularization in Nepali Newspapers and Blogosphere
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3.45–4.15 pm | Coffee/Tea Break |
4.15–5.00 pm |
Chen Tzoref-Ashkenazi, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg: German Soldiers In Colonial India: The Hanoverian Regiments in Colonial India 1782-1792
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5.00–5.45 pm |
Soham Das Gupta, Dept. of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata: Shifts and Continuities in Waging War in the North West Frontier: British Engagements between 1849-1913 and the Idea of ‘New Wars’.
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5.45–6.00 pm | Coffee/Tea Break |
6.00–6.45 pm | Anwesha Sengupta, Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Goettingen: Breaking Up Bengal: Land, People and Things, 1947-1952. |
Contact
If you have any questions, please email: sadia.bajwa@asa.hu-berlin.de
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11th HIP Workshop: 6th June 2014
When?
6th June 2014
2:00-7:00 pm
Where?
Department of South Asia Studies
Institute of Asian and African Studies
Invalidenstr. 118, Room: 217
Programm
2.15–3.15 pm | Ranjan Ghosh, Division of Resource Economics, HU Berlin: The Role of Social Information in Collective Action — A Proposal |
3.15–4.15 pm | Vikram Patil, Division of Resource Economics, HU Berlin: What Determines Rehabilitation Compensation Claim? An Analysis of Farmers' Decisions in India |
4.15–4.45 pm | Coffee/Tea Break |
4.45–5.45 pm | Jutta Jain-Neubauer: Curiosity and its Aesthetics: German Explorers in 19th Century India |
5.45–6.45 pm | Sarah Holz, BGSMCS, Freie Universität, Berlin: Pakistan, quo vadis? Visions of Islam and State in Pakistan. |
6.45 pm onwards | Drinks and Snacks |
Contact
If you have any questions, please email: sadia.bajwa@asa.hu-berlin.de
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Talk 27th May: Dr. Chandrika Kaul
Dr. Chandrika Kaul
Department of modern History, university of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK
When?
27th May, 2014
2–4 pm
Where?
Institute of Asian and African Studies
Invalidenstr. 118, Room: 217
Fotoausstellung: Framing Muslims
Ein Bild sagt mehr als tausend Worte, heißt es, und doch vergessen wir oft, dass wir mit Fotos nicht nur Realitäten abbilden, sondern diese auch schaffen. Im Akt des Fotografierens machen wir uns ein Bild von der Welt. In jeder Aufnahme wird auch etwas ausgeblendet.
Was als „muslimisch“ klassifiziert wird ist häufig gottesfürchtig, überwiegend männlich und uneingeschränkt traditionell. Ausnahmen bestätigen entweder die Regel oder reduzieren ihre Motive auf Formen des Protests und der Grenzüberschreitung. Das Ziel dieser ethnographischen Fotoausstellung ist es, alltägliche, banale, zum Teil unterrepräsentierte Aspekte des Lebens in islamisch geprägten Gesellschaften einzubeziehen. Die Fotografien zeigen die Komplexität alltäglicher Erfahrungen: konfliktträchtige Gebiete werden Orten gegenübergestellt, an denen das Gebet und das Bedürfnis nach Vergnügen und einfachen Freuden Hand in Hand gehen. Hinzu kommen Bilder von muslimischen Gemeinschaften im Dialog mit der nichtmuslimischen Mehrheit und von Situationen, in denen das Muslim-Sein der Dargestellten gegenüber ihrem Mensch-Sein in den Hintergrund tritt.
Das Projekt „framing muslims“ dokumentiert zugleich das breite Spektrum an regionalen und kulturellen Schwerpunkten, die die Vielfalt der Forschungsprojekte an der Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies ausmacht.
Ort
Invalidenstraße 118, 2.Etage
Seminar für Südasien-Studien
Zeit
30. April – 30 Juni 2014
Lecture 9th May: Prof. Amar Farooqui
10th HIP Workshop: 7th February 2014
When?
7th February 2014
4:00-7:00 pm
Where?
Department of South Asia Studies
Institute of Asian and African Studies
Invalidenstr. 118, Room: 217
Call for Presentations : "Theory matters!?"
In this workshop, we want to address the question of modernity as one of the most decisive theoretical challenges for the humanities until date. Critically discussed since decades, terminologies and contextualization remain hazy. Focusing on South Asia as a crucial point of reference for the formation of European modernity and its claims, we want to examine the impact of altering theories of modernity for the academic as well as the public/political sphere.
Format
Diverging from our usual format, this workshop will open with short introductory presentations by the two moderators, after which everyone attending is invited to prepare a 3-5 min presentation, addressing one or more of the following questions:
- One modernity or many? How do we define and where do we locate modernity?
- Is there a difference between the content and the form of modernity?
- Do we (still) need one or more theories of modernity?
- Does the theory of modernity matter for its practice?
- Does 'the' modernity have an agency?
- What is the relationship critique of society and the critique of modernity?
- Does an up-to-date academic contribution require the engagement with modernity?
- How do we deal with modernity's discontents?
- Is 'classical' modernity theory a European / German enterprise?
- Where is the place for a critical academic today?
- Does / in how far does gender matter?
Speakers will have the chance to intervene with their contributions at any time in the workshop. A speakers' list will be moderated. All those interested are welcome to attend and participate in the discussion (no registration required unless you are preparing a short presentation).
Language
English
Moderators
Dr. Hanna Werner, Dr. Georg Berkemer
Deadline
If you wish to contribute a presentation, please send in your name and question(s) to
by the 5th of February 2014.
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9th HIP Workshop: 6th December 2013
HIP brings together Berlin’s academic competence on South Asia.
When?
Where?
Programme
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4:15-5:15 pm Seyed Sadroddin Alavipanah, Geographisches Institut, HU Berlin:
Global Environmental Changes and the Impacts of Urbanization: An Intercontinental Framework -
5:15-6:15 pm Siddharth Tripathi, JNU, New Delhi/ Otto Suhr Institut, FU Berlin:
The European Union and Norms Promotion in Security Sector Reform: A Comparative Study of Bosnia- Herzegovina and Afghanistan - 6:15-6:45 pm Coffee/Tea Break
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6:45-7:45 pm Max Kramer, BGSMCS, FU Berlin:
Representation of Kashmiri Identities in Digital Films - 7:45 onwards Drinks and Snacks
Available downloads
If you have any questions, please email: sadia.bajwa@asa.hu-berlin.de
Invitation: Pakistan in its Region and Beyond
A talk about Pakistan’s place in the international arena and the geo-political and domestic challenges it faces as NATO prepares to withdraw from the region.
Who?
When?
22nd November 2013
5:00-7:00 pm
Where?
Department of South Asia Studies
Institute of Asian and African Studies
Invalidenstr. 118, Room: 217
Supported by the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Berlin.
8th HIP Workshop - 28th June, 2013 - Invitation
Programme
- 2:15-3:15 pm Simone Holzwart, Education Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Gandhian Symbolism and its Enactment in Basic Education
- 3:15-4:15 pm Sayantani Adhikary, JU, Kolkata/ IAAW, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Imprisoning Her Body: The Hindu Bhadramahila’s Experience of Physical Culture in Late Colonial Bengal
- 4:15-4:45 pm Coffee/Tea Break
- 4:45-5:45 pm Jens Rommel, LGF, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Endowment Heterogeneity and Leading by Example in the Provision of Public Goods: A framed field experiment on sanitation in Hyderabad, India
- 5:45-6:45pm Garima Mohan, BTS, Freie Universität, Berlin: EU’s Development Aid to India: Mapping Effectiveness and Impact
- 6:45 onwards Drinks and Snacks
Please find the abstracts here.
Waterspace, Empire and Mobility in Southeastern Asia, IAAW-Workshop-1, Friday, June 14, 2013
The recent spell of economic growth in India, China and countries across Southeastern Asia, have mostly impacted the Himalayan-Tibetan watershed. Thousands of large and smaller dams, completed or projected, on the Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Salwin, Mekong and Yangtze, among others, are set to alter the waterspace of the region in an unprecedented manner. Yet just about half of the world’s poor population depend either directly or indirectly on this watershed.
How do historians and social scientists grapple the qustion of maintaining ecological value of the waterspace amid the desire for ecnomic growth in Asia? This broader question would be discussed in this workship at the Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften at Humboldt-Universität Berlin. The IAAW seems to be a fitting place to engage this question as its different departments represent scholars of Central Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia where this watershed touches.
In this broader context and platform, the workshop would seek to examine trans-regional forces of the watersapce. In particular, it will study the river as a force of environmental, economic and cultural integration in the territories spanning Bangladesh, India (Northeastern provinces), Myanmar, China (Yunnan) and Southeastern Tibet as well as mainland Southeast Asia.
So far policy-makers, environmentalists and civil society activists have mostly based their approach to rivers on the externalities of the impact of interventions into the river systems, leaving the question of the river as a force in itself less focused. It may be argued that the interactions and exchanges of people, commodities and ideas around the watersapce of this region have given rise to a distinctive integrative force which must be taken seriously. Through such attempt to restore the value of the river as an integrative force, this workshop will seek to recover the ‘transnational self’ of the river. In doing so, the workshop aims to highlight the aspects of ecological “commons” as inherent in these rivers against the development practices that are spatially framed within the bounded space of the postcolonial nation-state.
Talks:
- Klara Feldes: The Polavaram Dam in Andhra Pradesh: a Project of “Modernity”
- Olaf Günther: State-Community-Relationsships in the Amudarya Delta
- Iftekhar Iqbal: Locating River at the Imperial Crossroads of India and China
- Diana Lange: The Significance of Waterways for the pre-modern Tibetan Transport System
- Jarmila Ptackova: Three Rivers‘ Headwaters Nature Reserve“ in Qinghai, China: Environmental Protection versus Economic and Political Interests
- Vincent Houben: Liquid Space and Southeast Asia
- Ashfaque Hossain: Water-space and Mobility in the Assam-Bengal Borders
- Hanna Werner: Handling Indian Rivers between Political Concerns and Religious Sentiments
Please find the abstracts here.
Invitation 28.05.2013: Prof. Janaki Nair - "The Curious Case of the NICE road to Mysore: A New Urbanism?"
- https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/de/region/suedasien/veranstaltungen/archiv/invitation-the-curious-case-of-the-nice-road-to-mysore-a-new-urbanism
- Invitation 28.05.2013: Prof. Janaki Nair - "The Curious Case of the NICE road to Mysore: A New Urbanism?"
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- You are cordially invited to the talk of Prof. Janaki Nair
- Wann 28.05.2013 von 14:00 bis 16:00
- Wo Department of South Asia Studies Institute of Asian and African Studies Invalidenstr. 118, Room: 217
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Dear Ladies and Gentleman,
you are cordially invited to the talk of Prof. Janaki Nair.
Janaki Nair is Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies and Chairperson of the Archives on Contemporary History, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi.
Invitation 30.05.2013: Prof. Sanjay Srivastava - "Class/consumerism/ urban life and contemporary forms of religiosity in India."
- https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/de/region/suedasien/veranstaltungen/archiv/invitation-30.05.2013-prof.-sanjay-srivastava-class-consumerism-urban-life-and-contemporary-forms-of-religiosity-in-india.
- Invitation 30.05.2013: Prof. Sanjay Srivastava - "Class/consumerism/ urban life and contemporary forms of religiosity in India."
- 2013-05-30T10:00:00+02:00
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- You are cordially invited to the talk of Prof. Sanjay Srivastava.
- Wann 30.05.2013 von 10:00 bis 12:00
- Wo Place: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Seminargebäude am Hegelplatz, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.504
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This talk will explore the changing meaning of politics through exploring relationships between class, consumerism, urban life and ideas of the 'global' city, legality and illegality, and new ideals of family life, leisure and work. Through exploring such contexts, the course will also investigate changes in the relationship between the state and different class fractions.
Sanjay Srivastava is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University. His publications include Constructing Postcolonial India. National Character and the Doon School(1998), Asia. Cultural Politics in the Global Age (2001, co-author), Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitudes. Sexualities, Masculinities and Culture in South Asia (2004, contributing editor),Passionate Modernity. Sexuality, Class and Consumption in India (2007), Sexuality Studies(2013, contributing editor), and, Entangled Spaces. Slum, Gated Community and Shopping Mall in Delhi and Gurgaon (forthcoming 2013). He is co-editor of the journal Contributions to Indian Sociology.
Please register for the session with Anandita Bajpai (Seminar für Südasien-Studien, IAAW, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) at AnanditaBajpai@gmail.com.
Invitation 30.05.2013: Prof. Sanjay Srivastava - "Postcolonial Modernities in India"
- https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/de/region/suedasien/veranstaltungen/archiv/invitation-prof.-sanjay-srivastava-postcolonial-modernities-in-india
- Invitation 30.05.2013: Prof. Sanjay Srivastava - "Postcolonial Modernities in India"
- 2013-05-30T16:00:00+02:00
- 2013-05-30T18:00:00+02:00
- You are cordially invited to the talk of Prof. Sanjay Srivastava.
- Wann 30.05.2013 von 16:00 bis 18:00
- Wo Department of South Asia Studies Institute of Asian and African Studies Invalidenstr. 118, Room: 217
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Dear Ladies and Gentleman,
you are cordially invited to the talk of Prof. Sanjay Srivastava.
Sanjay Srivastava is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University. His publications include Constructing Postcolonial India. National Character and the Doon School(1998), Asia. Cultural Politics in the Global Age (2001, co-author), Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitudes. Sexualities, Masculinities and Culture in South Asia (2004, contributing editor),Passionate Modernity. Sexuality, Class and Consumption in India (2007), Sexuality Studies(2013, contributing editor), and, Entangled Spaces. Slum, Gated Community and Shopping Mall in Delhi and Gurgaon (forthcoming 2013). He is co-editor of the journal Contributions to Indian Sociology.
Invitation: Situating Bangladesh, Workshop, 17th-19th May 2013
Situating Bangladesh in South Asian Studies 17.05-19.05.2013
Programme
- Friday, 17 May 2013
4.00-5.00 pm Opening Remarks
His Excellency the Ambassador of Bangladesh, Mosud Mannan (tbc)
Prof. Dr. Michael Mann, Director, Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften
Prof. Dr. Iftekhar Iqbal, Georg Forster Fellow, Humboldt Stiftung, Dhaka University
5.00-5:30 pm Coffee Break & Snacks
5.30-7.00 pm
Cláudio Costa Pinheiro
Mulaqat: Colonial Studies, Folk Art and Audio-Visual Making in India
(Documentary, Brazil 2010)
8.00 pm
Workshop Dinner at Restaurant “Honigmond”
- Saturday, 18 May 2013
10.00-11.00 am
Willem van Schendel (University of Amsterdam)
Biases and Blind Spots in Bangladesh Studies
11.00 am-12.00 pm
Neilesh Bose (University of North Texas, USA)
Periodization and the Twentieth Century: Grappling with the Pre-Histories of Bangladesh
12.00-1.00 pm
Eva Gerharz (Ruhr-University Bochum)
“We invite them and they come” –Transborder Exchange and Indigenous Activism in Bangladesh
1.00-3.00 pm Lunch Break
(at one’s own expense, small restaurants in 5 minutes walking distance)
3.00-4.00 pm
Iftekhar Iqbal (Dhaka University, Bangladesh/Humboldt University, Berlin)
The Bengal Muslim: Locating Identity through Mobility and Language
4.00-4.30 pm Coffee Break
4.30-5.30 pm
Hans Harder (South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University)
Between the Chairs: Some Problems of Textual Studies on Bangla/Bangladesh
5.30-6.30 pm
Sonia Nishat Amin (Dhaka University, Bangladesh)
Nawab Faizunnessa Chaudhurani and her Elusive Legacy
- Sunday, 19 May 2013
10.00-11.00 am
Annu Jalais (National University Singapore)
Tazia Trajectories in Bangladesh: Mapping Moharram’s North Indian Past
11-11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 am-12.30 pm
Elora Shehabuddin (Rice University, Houston/Texas, USA)
Purdah, Piety, and Progress:
Competing Notions of the Modern Woman in Late 20th Century East Bengal
12.30-1.00 pm
Concluding Debate and General Remarks
6th HIP Workshop - Programme
- https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/de/region/suedasien/veranstaltungen/archiv/6th-hip-workshop-1
- 6th HIP Workshop - Programme
- 2013-01-11T14:00:00+01:00
- 2013-01-11T18:00:00+01:00
- HIP brings together Berlin’s academic competence on South Asia
- Wann 11.01.2013 von 14:00 bis 18:00
- Wo Department of South Asian Studies Institute of Asian and African Studies Invalidenstr. 118, Room 217 2-8 pm
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2:15-3:15 pm
Jamila Adeli, IAAW, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin:
Media and Markets in a Globalizing World: Mapping the Contemporary Art World in India.
3:15-4:15 pm
Sabil Francis, GESI, Universität Leipzig:
Knowledge for Growth Changing Patterns of Migration and Urbanisation in an Emerging Indian Small Town. A Case Study of Kochi, India.
4:15-4:45 pm Drinks and Snacks
4:45-5:45 pm
Supriya Routh, Faculty of Law, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin;
Rita Orschiedt, IAAW, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin:
Active Agents of Change: Informal Workers Trade Unionism in Kolkata, India.
5:45-7:15pm
Claudio C. Pinheiro, LAI, Freie Universität, Berlin:
Mulaqat: Colonial Studies, Folk Art and Audio-Visual Making in India. (Documentary, Brazil 2010)
7:15 onwards Drinks and Snacks
5th HIP Workshop - Programme
- https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/de/region/suedasien/veranstaltungen/archiv/5th-hip-workshop
- 5th HIP Workshop - Programme
- 2012-11-30T14:00:00+01:00
- 2012-11-30T20:00:00+01:00
- 5th HIP Workshop 30th November 2012, 2:00-7:00 pm
- Wann 30.11.2012 von 14:00 bis 20:00
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5th HIP Workshop
Programme 5th HIP Workshop (PDF)
When?
30th Nov. 2012
2:00-8:00 pm
Where?
Department of South Asia Studies
Institute of Asian and African Studies
Invalidenstr. 118, Room: 217
Programme
2:00-3:00 pm Janine Wilhelm, IAAW, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin:
Early Debates and Conflicts around the Pollution of the Ganges, c. 1860-1930.
3:00-4:00 pm Hanna Werner, IAAW, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin:
Large Dams, Development and the Question of Modernity in India.
4:00-4:30 pm Drinks and Snacks
4:30-5:30 pm Sabil Francis, GESI, Universität Leipzig:
German-Knowledge for Growth Changing Patterns of Migration and Urbanisation in an Emerging Indian Small Town. A Case Study of Kochi, India.
5:30-6:30 pm Atoho Jakhalu, LGF, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin:
Governance of Inter-Sectoral Water Re-allocation within the context of Urbanisation in Hyderabad.
6:30-6:45 pm Drinks and Snacks
6:45-7:45 pm Mysore G. Chandrakanth, LGF, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin: Prospects for Academic and Research Collaboration in Social Sciences with India.