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January 2026

Allama Iqbal Professional Fellowship - H.E. Pakistan Ambassador Saqlain Syedah visits the South Asia Institute

Ambivalent Enmity in Bordering Processes - Dr. Philipp Zehmisch interviewed for the “Us and Them” podcast

SAI Colloquium - “Caring for Capital Futures? Environmental Conservation and Indigenous Rights at an Urban Frontier” by Dr. Philipp Zehmisch

New episode of ON South Asia (in German)

December 2025

Call for Applications: Joint Scholarship Program of the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University and the Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies Delhi (MWF Delhi) for young scholars from South Asia - Summer of 2026

New Publication by Dr. Philipp Zehmisch - “Who Cares?: On fieldwork, family and violence in South Africa and Pakistan”

November 2025

New episode of ON South Asia

Welcome to Ojaswini Shekhawat - Visiting Researcher from Yale University

New Publication by Prof. Kama Maclean - '"Noisy"' Photographs: Listening to Images from the Civil Disobedience movement in Bombay'

Welcome to Mallory Cerkleski - Visiting Researcher from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy

Welcome to Haruki Tsuji - Visiting Researcher from the University of Tokyo

Welcome to Prof. Nasir Uddin

October 2025

Dr. Deepra Dandekar was awarded a DFG Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project "“Hamid Dalwai: Democratic Socialism and Muslim Politics in India, 1947-1977”

Prateek Pankaj granted a Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes for his doctorate studies

Welcome to Surabhi Pudasaini

Prof. Dr. Kama Maclean Special Lecture Series in University of Pennsylvania

Ashwani Sharma granted a Visiting Scholar position at Yale University

Presentation-Performance by Moushumi Bhowmik

Songs Grow out of a Land

Film Festival convened by H. Mander (PhD)

India Through Cinema

September 2025

New Languages - New Worlds: Beginner Courses Starting in the Winter Semester 25/26

August 2025

New Issue of Indian Politics & Policy

Indian Politics & Policy Summer 2025 Issue

July 2025

EASAS Research Student Awards

Conversation with Pakistani author Syed Kashif Raza

New episode of the podcast ON South Asia

Exhibition: Sacred Dirt- Mother Teresa and Volunteering in Kolkata

SAI Colloquium - “Mother, Lover, Śakti: Female protagonists in Rabindranath Tagore's novels” by Prof. Hans Harder

June 2025

“Raibari” by Ashwani Sharma: Monograph published

Revival, Reform or Revolution? The Bhakti Period and its Modern Interpreters

SAI Colloquium “Breaking Frames, Building Bridges”

Photo Competition - Looking for SAI in Heidelberg

Become an ECSAS Conference Ambassador!

May 2025

21st International Conference on Maharashtra: Culture & Society - 19th and 21st of June

Talk by Prof. Indrajit Roy

Prof. Indrajit Roy in the Lecture Series on Governance and Politics

Call for Applications: Joint Scholarship Program of the SAI and the Max Weber Forum Delhi

Political Science Colloquium

Vihang Jumle in the Lecture Series on Governance and Politics

Funding for two of Prof. Dr Axel Michaels short-term projects

Talk by Prof. Rahul Mukherji on 21.05.2025

India’s Democracy and Attacks on Civil Society

5th Bengali Summer School 2025

April 2025

Samosas & Chai - The SAI Welcomes Summer Semester 2025!

Talk by Dr. Denzil Fernandes SJ on 22nd April, 2024

The Changing Nature of the Indian State: A Christian Perspective

The Honorable Badri Prasad Pandey, Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Government of Nepal, visited Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS)

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