Noch kurz vor dem Ende des Jahres 2020 ist Band 37 der Zeitschrift für Indologie und Südasienstudien beim Hempen Verlag erschienen (hg. v. Prof. Hans Harder und Prof. Ute Hüsken). Dieser Band enthält auch zwei Beiträge von Mitgliedern des Südasien-Instituts (Prof. Ute Hüsken, Dr. Justyna Kurowska). Zwei weitere Beiträge (Heidi Pauwels, Stefano Pellò) sind aus der Veranstaltung “Speaking Across Borders” zu Ehren von Frau Prof. em Monika Boehm-Tettelbach (Jan 2018) hervorgegangen. Das Inhaltsverzeichnis des Bandes finden Sie hier.

you are kindly invited to join the talk on the rock-ice avalanche that happened in Uttarakhand last Sunday:

Cryospheric Hazard in the Nanda Devi Region, Uttarakhand

Time: Wednesday, February 10th, 5pm
Speaker: Dr. Rakesh Bhambri (Department of Geography, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University)

Content: In the morning (~10.30 AM) of 7 February 2021, a major rock-ice avalanche detached (~5,600 m a.s.l.) near the Trisul Peak in the Nanda Devi massif. After this avalanche, a massive debris-flow-type flood occurred in the Rishi Ganga / Dhauliganga river, that caused the loss of life and destroyed infrastructure in the downstream areas including two hydropower plants, bridges and roads. We present an overview of this disaster based on available remote sensing images and ground observations collected by local reports.

Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81555357150?pwd=SEdvSTNiQkdoZDJJUTE4NXNxUkdoUT09

Ein neuer Artikel von Christophe Jaffrelot und Pratinav Anil zum Thema “Interpreting the Emergency” wurde in den Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics - HPSACP, (No 79, 2021) veröffentlicht. Der Artikel ist hier verfügbar: https://crossasia-journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/hdpapers/issue/view/928

The inaugural issue of CATSarena, the newsletter of the Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS), is now online. It is focused on the topic of social distancing in Asia. As the two founding directors of CATS, Axel Michaels and Barbara Mittler, with the help of two generous designers, Susann Henker and Jennifer Landes, have served as editors for this inaugural issue of CATSarena.

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