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The Department  Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures offers a new master degree program starting with winter semester 2015. The M.A. in Communication, Literature, and Media in Modern South Asian languages focuses on the study of languages, literature, and various media discourses (texts, manuscripts, movies, internet and audio sources) in Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, and Tamil.

From 5th to 25th August 2015 Anand Mishra (Dept. Classical Indology, South Asia Institute) and Naphtali Meshel (Religion and Judaic Studies, Princeton University) will conduct a Summer Seminar in Princeton and Varanasi on Exploring Universals: Ritual and Linguistic Structures. The Seminar is funded by the David A. Gardner '69 Magic Project, Princeton University.

"Sri Lanka" is the motto of several events at the South Asia Institute and the Heidelberg University from 21.7. - 23.07.15. As part of the Sri Lanka Working Group, lectures by Yulanie Perumbadage: Art in War and in Exile (21.07.2015, 6 p.m., South Asia Institute, R 317) and Indika Gamage: Journalism in the Civil War (22.07.2015, 6 p.m., South Asia Institute, R 316) will take place.

The TV station SWR broadcasted on 03.07.2015, 6 p.m. as part of the "Landesschau aktuell Baden-Württemberg" a short report of the Nepal Day.
The report shows impressions of the Nepal Day with the information desks, the lectures and the decoration of the building and an interview with Prof. Axel Michaels.

We cordially invite to "Performing Emotions", an event with presentations and dance performances organized by Anand Mishra (department of Cultural and Religious History of South Asia). The event takes place on Saturday, July 11th, 2 p.m. in room Z10 of the South Asia Institute. Further information and program: Poster