SAI - News

We cordially invite to the lecture by Dr. Chris Rajendram entitled “Non-violent Communication and the Process of reconciliation in Sri Lanka” on November 8th, 2013, 9:15 a.m. in room 317 of the South Asia Institute.

Juliane Dame was honored with the Wilhelm Lauer Prize for her doctoral thesis entitled "Ernährungssicherung im Hochgebirge. Eine akteursorientierte Studie in Ladakh, Nordindien" supervised by Prof. Dr. Marcus Nüsser (Department of Geography). The awarding took place at the central ceremony at the 58th Deutscher Geographentag in Passau.

Several researchers of the South Asia Institute are participating at upcoming external conferences and events. Dr. Christina Oesterheld and Jürgen Schaflechner, M.A. are represented at a conference (School of Philosophy, Munich) and Dr. rer. pol Siegfried O. Wolf moderates a conference at the European Parliament in Brussels.

The South Asia Institute cordially invites to the lecture entitled „How Global is the Global Contemporary? Persistence of Ethnicity Then and Now” by the Baden-Württemberg Fellowship-Holder Prof. Parul Mukherji (Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India).

Congratulations to the PhD students Anand Mishra, Boryain Larios and Silke Bechler of the Department Cultural and Religious History of South Asia (Classical Indology) of the South Asia Institute for completion of their dissertation projects (Prof. Dr. Axel Michaels).