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Events at SAI

Monday, May 11, 2026

2:15 PM

Guest Talk by Lisa Björkman “Drama of Democracy: Enacting Representation in Mumbai”

Lisa Björkman
CATS, Building 4130, Great Lecture Hall, 010.01.05

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

4:15 PM - 5:45 PM

The Making of India’s Managerial Class: Understanding Year Books from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 1972-1980

Prof. Douglas E. Haynes - Dartmouth College
SAI Building (4130), Room 03 (130.00.03)
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Indo-Capitalism: India’s Resurgence in Historical and Comparative Perspective

Prof. Indrajit Roy (University of York)
CATS, Building 4310, Great Lecture Hall, 010.01.05

Monday, May 18, 2026

9:00 AM

Early Career Researchers’ Workshop

Karlstraße 4, 69117 Heidelberg
2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Miracles, Molecules, and Machine Learning: The Cow Urine Discourse with Indian YouTube Influencers

Joyojeet Pal
CATS, Building 4130, Great Lecture Hall, 010.01.05

Friday, May 29, 2026

9:15 AM

From Text to Image: The Iconographic Transformation of the Pathomasambodhigāthā in Thai Art and Sculpture

Dr. U-tain Wongsathit and Dr. Tiwa Sukhum (Silpakorn University)
Zoom

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

From Indian Sociology to a Critical Sociology in India: A Disciplinary History of more than 100 Years

Dr. Sunjata Patel
CATS, Building 4130, Room 010.00.06

Wednesday, July 1, 2026

4:15 PM - 5:45 PM

Towards a postcolonial welfare state? Women’s organisations and early childhood care and education in India, 1945-1975

Dr. Jana Tschurenev - Freie Universität Berlin
SAI Room 130.00.03

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

4:15 PM

The Path Not Taken: Meghanadari Suri’s Exclusion of Śudras

Manasicha Akepiyapornchai - University of Texas at Austin
Room 010.00.06

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