The Department of Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg in collaboration with Institute of Asian Studies, Charles University, Prague and Chair of South Asian Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw is offering a two-week Bengali intensive course for beginners and advanced learners.
 
Beside Instructive and engaging classes, accompanying programs with fun activities will provide an additional platform for intellectual exchange with Bengali and Bangladeshi scholars and our doctoral students. The course will take place from 01.08 to 17.08 here at the South Asia Institute in Heidelberg.

For registration and inquiry, please contact Alice DeFlorian via email until the 31.05. For more information please also click here.

Are you interested in learning Urdu? We will offer a three-week Urdu summer intensive course for beginner, intermediate, and advanced students of Urdu. Not only will it be filled with lots of instructive classes, the accompanying programme filled with fun activities can also provide an additional platform for an intellectual exchange with Pakistani and Indian lecturers and doctoral students. 
The course will take place from the 02.09 to the 20.09 here at the South Asia Institute in Heidelberg. You may also choose to receive credit points (ECTS) for your attendance if you fulfill the necessary requirements. You can register until the 31.05 by contacting Alice Deflorian via email alice.deflorian@stud.uni-heidelberg.de For more information please also go here. 

Dr Hans Harder, Head of the Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures Department at SAI, recently published a blog post. In the post, Prof Harder delves into the diversity of South Asian languages, cultures and media beyond purely linguistic perspectives. (Entry in German only).

You can read the complete post here.