The Ethnology Department of the South Asia Institute is pleased to invite you to the Lecture "Lecture by Imran Nafees Siddiqui: Pardes - Stories of Pakistani Migrant Workers to the Gulf States", hosted by Dr. Philip Zehmisch. The event will take place in the CATS Lecture Hall (010.01.05) on Tuesday, April 30th between 17:00 and 19:00.

This session will present the hidden stories of Pakistani migrant workers in the Gulf States. It aims to involve participants in the lives of these workers, exploring their desires for home, belonging, intimacy, and love as they navigate foreign environments.

The History Department of the South Asia Institute is pleased to invite you to the Launch of the DFG Project titled "A Sonic Approach to Anticolonialisim in Interwar India", with the participation of Prof. Dr. Kama Maclean, Anamitra Ghosh and Jacob Thomas.

Kama Maclean´s project aims to apply the methods of Sound Studies to a study of the history of anticolonialism in India. Extending on her earlier work, which draws extensively on visual archives to construct historical narratives, this project aims to explicitly trace the reverberations of sound - especially mediated speech, slogans and songs - in anticolonial mobilisation in the interwar period. Orality was a critical element of political communication, which, partly due to the difficulties in capturing the spoken word, has not yet been studied in detail. Yet the archives are full of sound.

The event will take place in the South Asia Institute (Voßstrasse 2, Building 4130), Room 130.00.02 on Monday, April 29th, 2024 between 10:00 and 12:30 CEST.

The South Asia Institute cordially invites you to the screening of the film "Once Upon a Time in India" in the company of its author Henning Stegmüller and with the participation of Prof. Hans Harder, Head of the Department of Modern Languages. The film will be shown in the Institute of Ethnology, building 4110, room 110.02.05 (2nd floor) on Friday, 12 April at 18:00.

Photographer and filmmaker Henning Stegmüller had his first encounter with the Indian state of Maharashtra in 1984 as part of a documentary for German television. While making the film, he met the Indologist Günther Sontheimer, through whom he became involved in a network of relationships between shepherds, scientists, writers and industrialists. They made documentary films together. In the illustrated book "Once upon a time in India", Henning Stegmüller documented his collaboration with Günther Sontheimer, who has since passed away. The film "A Divine Play on Earth: Sontheimer´s Discovery of India", which will be shown as part of the event, also tells of his work in India.