The Political Science department of SAI has the pleasure to invite you all to the lecture "Formal and informal factors of Muslims´ marginalisation in today´s India" by Professor Christophe Jaffrelot from the King´s India Institute. The event will take place in CATS Lecture Hall (Voßstrasse 2, Building 4130) on December 15.

Dr. Christophe Jaffrelot is Senior research fellow at CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS, Professor of India Politics and Sociology at the King´s India Institute (London), President of the French Political Science Association and Chair of the British Association for South Asian Studies. He works as a Non Resident Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peaces and as a Permanent Consultant at the Centre for Policy Planning Staff of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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All South India enthusiasts are warmly welcome to our newly launched South Indian Cultures Forum! We invite scholars and students to come together and exchange on diverse topics and enjoy a selection of films this winter semester. The forum aspires to be a space of dialogue and informal networking. Alongside film viewings we will have Brown Bag Lunch Talks – here members of the wider South India Studies community briefly present their ongoing work, while we have lunch together (bring your own food and drinks). After the Christmas break a Pongal Celebration on January 15 brightens up the long German winter and we end the semester with some Kaapi and Snacks on the 6th of February! The Forum is jointly organized by the Department of Cultural and Religious History of South Asia and the Department of Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures. More Information here.

The SAI cordially invites you to the presentation about eHeritage Project: Digitization of Gandharan Artefacts (DiGa), to be presented online on Friday, Nov. 10 between 9:15 - 10:45.

Since 2021, the BMBF-funded eHeritage project Digitization of Gandharan Artefacts (DiGA) has been documenting a collection of ca. 1500 Buddhist sculptures preserved in the Dir Museum in Chakdara, Province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. These have been excavated in a dozen of acvhaeological sites around present-day Chakdara by the Directorate of Archaeology and Museum, KP and the Department of Arcaheology of the Peshawar University in the 1960s and 1970s. The DiGA team completed its final photographic campaign in May and has published an important portion of the collection on HeidICON, the multimedia platform of the University of Heidelberg´s Library.

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