The Department of Political Science cordially invites everyone to a lecture by Professor Madhulika Banerjee titled "The Political Economy of ´Traditional/Local´ Knowledges in the Global South: Existing and Possibles Solutions to the Climate Crisis", on Monday May 15th, 2023. The event will take place in room 0130.00.06 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm. You can find more information about the event here.

The Chair of South Asian Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland, in collaboration with the South Asia Institute at Heidelberg University, Germany, and the Institute of Asian Studies at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, invites you to an intensive language workshop in the Bengali language. In the introductory course, participants will develop speaking, reading, listening, and writing skills and acquire a basic vocabulary of Bengali. The advanced course aims to develop a deeper understanding of grammar, communicative skills, and the ability to understand literary texts. Each course consists of 36 classes, 90 min each, over 13 days. For further information on the workshop please click on the link or contact m.panasiuk@uw.edu.pl

Dr. Isabell Haag started working as a postdoctoral researcher and teacher at the Department of Geography in October 2022. She holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Bayreuth, an MA in Climate Change from the University of East Anglia and a BA in Geography from the University of Bayreuth.

For her transdisciplinary PhD thesis on climate trend detection in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan, she was awarded the Vladimir Koeppen Price of the Cluster of Excellence "Climate, Climatic Change, and Society" in 2021. Her research interests cover the fields of transdisciplinary climate change research, climate statistics, climate adaptation and the combination of different knowledge systems with a regional focus on high mountain regions. At SAI, Isabell aims to apply her previous research experience to the Western Himalayan region, further exploring the evidence base of local knowledge in climate change research. Before coming to SAI, Dr. Haag was working as a project coordinator in a collaborative research project on climate change and health at the Bavarian Environmental Agency.