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The Department of Culture and History of India and Tibet, University of Hamburg is organizing the international conference ‚Democratizing Governance in India: a facet of aspirational polity‘.

The conference will take place on 2 and 3 November 2018 at the University of Hamburg.

Please find the concept note and four themes to be addressed in the sessions here.

Scholars are invited to submit their paper proposals including

a) title, b) name of the author, and c) an abstract of up to 250 words ...

Einladung zur Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Südasien in der DGfG, die am 19./20. Januar in Köln stattfindet.

Eine verbindliche Anmeldung wird bis 8. Januar bei Alexander Follmann (a.follmann@uni-koeln.de) erbeten. Die Kosten für die Teilnahme belaufen sich auf 30 EUR für Vollzahler*innen und 15 EUR für Doktorand*innen und Studierende.

Programm AK Sitzung Köln 2018

The French program Autoritas, a project funded by PSL (Paris Sciences & Lettres University), is focused on the study of the relationship between modes of authority and aesthetic practices from South Asia to Southeast Asia.

The project is conducted jointly by four French research units: The CASE (Center for Southeast Asian Studies), the CEIAS (Center for South Asian Studies), the LAS (Social Anthropology Laboratory) and the GSRL (Societies, Religions & Secularities Group). By opening a dialogue among historians, art historians, epigraphists and archaeologists ...

This conference aims to explore the diversity of Muslim cultures prevalent in the Indian Ocean region where, historically, Muslims have interacted for centuries with each other and with other peoples and cultures. Islam not only provided the scaffolding that facilitated cultural exchanges but was also the pivot for transforming local societies. The conference seeks to bring together experts from different disciplines and backgrounds including archaeologists, historians, sociologists, anthropologists, geographers, and scholars of related disciplines to explore various facets of this ...

Die Volkswagenstiftung möchte Sie heute ganz herzlich zum Symposium „Weltwissen – Kleine Fächer“ am 18./19. Oktober 2017 im Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover, einladen. Das nun vollständige Programm ist auf der Homepage zu finden.

Ab Ende September finden Sie dort ebenfalls Informationen zum neuen Förderangebot der VolkswagenStiftung, das auf die strukturelle Stärkung der sogenannten Kleinen Fächer zielt.

Das Symposium selbst wird sich mit Fragen zur Lage dieser Fächer im In- und Ausland, den strukturellen Herausforderungen und den Förderperspektiven beschäftigen.

Wenn Sie ...

Applications invited for Research Professorship in Digital and Computational Humanities applied to Ancient Writing [i.e., any Ancient Writing, including Indian …]

Poste de directeur d’études « Humanités numériques et computationnelles appliquées à l’étude de l’écrit ancien »

The research professor is expected to combine philological expertise and computer science proficiency concerning ancient writing on the highest level, in order to develop research and teaching activities at the interface between the fundamental sciences of writing (such as, e.g., paleography, epigraphy, codicology), the digital humanities ...