A group of students from the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University, accompanied by Dr. Philipp Zehmisch visited the Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan for a two weeks long research seminar. The international research seminar “Heritage Conservation in Postcolonial Pakistan” aimed to explore the heritage of postcolonial Pakistan.

The South Asia Institute is pleased to announce a book talk by Professor Jack Snyder of Columbia University on Human Rights for Pragmatists (Princeton University Press, 2022) alongside Professor Sebastian Harnisch. The event will be held in the CATS Lecture Hall (010.01.05) on Wednesday, April 26th between 16:15 and 17:45.

You can find more details about the event here. 

Nicole Merkel-Hilf was featured on the ANUBhasha podcast series on ‘Digital Repatriation in South Asia’. She talked about our digitisation and text recognition project for the CATS Library’s Naval Kishore Press collection. The podcast series is hosted by Christopher Diamond and Stephanie Majcher from the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. In their weekly podcasts, they talk to researchers, archivists, curators and even librarians about what digitisation means across a range of South Asian textual traditions. The Podcast can be found on the ANUBhasha website https://anubhasha.org/feature/podcast/ .