Dr. Aditya Sarkar
14.4.
Coffee and a lot more: the Indian Coffee House and the Production of Public Space in Calcutta, 1940-2000
Bhaswati Bhattacharya, CeMIS, University of Göttingen
28.4.
“An’ You Will Fight, Till The Death Of It...”: Past and Present in the Challenge of Kashmir
Suvir Kaul, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
5.5.
Offical and Amateur: Exploring Information Film in India, 1920s-1940s
Ravi Vasudevan, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi
[jointly organized with ZTMK, Institut für Kulturanthropologie/ Europäische Ethnologie, Herzberger Landstr. 2, PH 05, 4.15-5.45]
12.5.
Sacred Place, Ancient Past: Preservation of Religious Monuments in Colonial India and Victorian Britain
Indra Sengupta, CeMIS, University of Göttingen
31.5. 3.30 pm. - 5.00 pm.
Is there an ‘Indian’ Urbanism?
Janaki Nair, Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, New Delhi
[jointly organized with the MPI MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, 4.30-5.00]
19.5.
The Censored Turn Censor – Censorship in India in the 1950s
Devika Sethi, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi
26.5.
The Recruiter’s Eye on “the Primitive”: to France and back in the Indian Labour Corps
Radhika Singha, Lichtenberg-Kolleg Göttingen/Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, New Delhi
1.6.
A Farrago of Nonsense? Legend and History on the Malabar Coast
Sebastian Prange, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
[please note: this seminar is on a Wednesday]
9.6.
The Food Question in Urban India: Dimensions, Ambiguities, and one Best Practise Activity from Hyderabad
Christoph Dittrich, Department of Geography, University of Göttingen
16.6.
From Beggar to Saint: Personal Transformation through Ascetic Practice in Gujarat, India
Carolyn Heitmeyer, Department of Anthropology, University of Sussex
23.6.
The Embarassment of Studying the Middle Class in India
Henrike Donner, CeMIS, University of Göttingen
30.6.
Exploring the 1940s in India
Indivar Kamtekar, Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, New Delhi
5.7.
‘Fire Eaters’: Debating Widow Immolations in Colonial Times
Tanika Sarkar, Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, New Delhi
[jointly organized with the Graduiertenkolleg Gender & Space, 4.15-5.45, Paulinerkirche (Vortragsraum), Papendiek 14; please note: this seminar is on a Tuesday]
International Workshop
6.-8.7. The Politics of Poverty and the Politics of the Poor
History Research Group, Akademie Waldschlösschen
[by invitation only]
15.7.
Sublime Aftershocks: South Asian Disaster in Comparative Perspective
Ed Simpson, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
[please note: this seminar is on a Friday]