Alumni
Our Alumni Initiative welcomes all former students, academics, visiting professors and stipendiaries of the South Asia Institue as well as all former participants of our yearly Summer Schools.
Heidelberg Alumni International (HAI) is a platform of Heidelberg University via which all alumni of the university may keep in touch. The South Asia Institute has its own group within HAI in order to foster the exchange between current and former students, members of staff and guests. Besides, every registered alumni of HAI is provided with an e-mail address free of charge (name.surname@alumni.uni-heidelberg.de).
For all alumni of the university who now live in India or neighbouring countries, there is also the alumni initiative Heidelberg Alumni India (HAIN).
Other contacts
Internship and international guidance of SAIBranch Office of SAI in New Delhi / India
Branch Office of SAI in Kathmandu / Nepal
Association of Friends and Patrons of the South Asia Institute
News
Graduation Ceremony of SAI 2014
On 12 December 2014 the graduation ceremony of the South Asia Institute takes place at 6 p.m. in the Heinrich-Zimmer-Chair (SAI-library).
Programme:
- Reception
- Welcoming Lecture - „Max Walleser (1874-1954) und die Universität Heidelberg: ein Blick in die Vorgeschichte des Südasien-Instituts“ - Prof. Dr. Birgit Kellner
- Tribute to the graduates - Apl. Prof. Dr. Jörg Gengnagel
- Student closing words - Julia Schumacher
- Indian dance performances - Karuna Sagari Venkatachalam and Swarali Paranjape
- Afterwards the SAI Winter Party
Information session of former students of SAI 2014
On 9 May 2014 an information session took place at the Heinrich-Zimmer-Saal (library) of SAI, in which former students of our institute gave an account of their further academic and/or occupational career.
Lecturers were:
- Marie-Christine Sürgers (winter term 2012/13) studies Intercultural Communication Studies at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder).
- Almut Büchsel (winter term 2012/13, live from London via Skype) studies Gender, Development and Globalisation at LSE (London School of Economics and Political Science) in London, UK.
- Anja Lutz (winter term 2011/12) did an internship in Berlin and then completed the Master's degree in International Relations at LSE in London, UK. She now works as a research assistant at FU Berlin.
- Lukas Schäfer (winter term 2011/12, live from Berlin via Skype) did some internships and a trainee programme in Berlin and then went for the Master's programme Urban Environmental Management at Wageningen University and Research Centre, Netherlands.
- Julie Pusch (winter term 2010/11) gave an account of her Master's programme South Asian Studies in Heidelberg
Graduation Ceremony of SAI 2013
On 13 December 2013 our very first graduation ceremony took place at the Heinrich-Zimmer-Saal (library) of SAI at 6 p.m.. All graduates who had completed their studies at SAI since 2012 were honoured.
Programme:
- Reception by the executive director - Prof. Dr. Hans Harder
- Heidelberg Alumni International - Jella Friedrich
- Ceremonial lecture - "Chanting the Nation" - Prof. Dr. Gita Dharampal-Frick
- Tribute to the graduates - Apl. Prof. Dr. Jörg Gengnagel
- Closing by the students - Rani Francis and Stephan Rühle
- Musical interlude - Dr. Ananda Samir Chopra on the sitar
- Afterwards the SAI Winter Party
Information session of former students of SAI 2013
On 28 June 2013 an information session took place at the Heinrich-Zimmer-Saal (library) of SAI, in which former students of our institute gave an account of their further academic and/or occupational career.
Lecturers were:
- Tobias Rottwinkel (graduation year 2010; live from India via Skype) gave an account of his work at a German enterprise in Banglaore
- Mira Burmeister-Rudolph (graduation year 2011; live from Switzerland via Skype) reported on her Master's Degree Programme "International Migration and International Relations" in Osnabück
- Manuel Singh (graduation year 2012) reported on his trainee programme at an enterprise in Reutlingen
- Felix Eickelbeck (graduation year 2010) gave an account of his acadamic career