Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät - Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften

"It's not charity, it's a chair of power"

Debate with Women Parliamentarians from Afghanistan and Pakistan

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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:

Sabrina Saqeb,, Member National Assembly of Afghanistan (Wolesi Jirga) (2005-2010)

Shah Gul Rezai , Member National Assembly of Afghanistan (Wolesi Jirga) (2005 – 2015)

Shinkai Karokhail, Member National Assembly of Afghanistan (Wolesi Jirga) (2005 – 2015)

Shazia Marri, Member National Assembly of Pakistan  (2013 - )

Shaista Pervaiz, Member National Assembly of Pakistan (2013 - )

Dr. Farzana Bari, Founding Director Center of Excellence for Gender Studies at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad

 

Moderator:

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.

 

 

 

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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.

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

Contact

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Programme + Abstracts

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

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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

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

Prof. Dr. Amar Farooqui

Delhi University
Member of the DFG/ICHR Delegation of Indian Historians


When?
9th May, 2014
2:00-4:00 pm

Where?
Institute of Asian and African Studies
Invalidenstr. 118, Room: 410

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

sadia.bajwa@asa.hu-berlin.de

by the 5th of February 2014.

If you wish to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the HIP mailing list, please write to the email above.

HIP brings together Berlin’s academic competence on South Asia.

When?

Where?

Programme

• 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
• 6:45-7:45 pm Max Kramer, BGSMCS, FU Berlin:
  Representation of Kashmiri Identities in Digital Films
• 7:45 onwards Drinks and Snacks

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Programme of 9th HIP Workshop

Abstracts of 9th HIP Workshop

If you have any questions, please email: sadia.bajwa@asa.hu-berlin.de

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?

Supported by the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Berlin.

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.

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.

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