SAI - News

Today we received the news from the Ministry stating that the M.A. South Asian Studies is approved. Beginning from Winter term 2011/2012 this course is thus opened. This is good news indeed! We expect that admission and inscription will be possible soon. Further information will be provided here as quickly as possible. 

<>On the occasion of the 70th birthday of emirita Prof. Dr. Monika Böhm-Tettelbach, a small delegation of SAI-members gathered to celebrate the event. Find attached some photos of the evening together with hearty congratulations.

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has recently approved the project “The Nepalese Wright-Chronicle – Edition princeps, new translation and topographical atlas”. Prof. Axel Michaels has successfully applied for the funding. Starting from September 2011 Dr. Manik Bajracharya will conduct the research for this project at the SAI at the department for Cultural und Religious History South Asia (Classical Indology). Congratulations!

The SAI is happy to announce that further eminent researchers are our guests during the months of June and July. Among these are Prof. em. Dr. Mufakharul Islam, Dacca, Senior Fellow of Humboldt-Stiftung (1.-30.6), as well as Prof. Dr. Lynn Zastoupil, Rhodes College,J.J. McComb Professor of History (1.6.-10.7.). Both are guests of the Department of History. In addition the Department for Politics is honored to host since late May already and for a  total of three months Prof. Dr. Bharat H. Desai (Jawaharlal Nehru Chair in International Enviromental Law, JNU).

On Thursday, June 9th at 13.00h (s.t.) at Z10 we invite all interested students to attend a first informative meeting on the upcoming MA South Asian Studies (MASAS). Prof. Harder and the academic counselors of the departments will report on the state of art as well as the upcoming possibilities for conducting studies under the MASAS. Everybody most welcome!