NewsroomNewsOctober 2026Wecome back to Dr. Padma Ladon at the Geography Department Welcome to the new Assistant Professor at the Department for Anthropology Dr. Shikhar Goel September 2026The South Asia Institute welcomes the new head of the Anthropology Department: Jun. Prof. Dr. Sandhya FuchsAugust 2026Call for Applications: Joint Scholarship Programme 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 2027July 2026Leo Sedlmair awarded with the Geschwister-Supp-Stiftung PhD ScholarshipOpus Magnum Award for Prof. Dr. Kama Maclean of SAIJune 2026Call for Papers: The Geological Turn in Himalayan Environmental History WorkshopDr. Seyed Hossein Article Publication in The Wire titled “How Islamabad Mediated, New Delhi Watched”Dr. Astrid Zotter's latest publication - “Flowers, Gods and Scholars. The Puṣpacintāmaṇi, a Nepalese Digest on Flowers in Worship” (Ethno-Indology, Vol. 19)Welcome to Dr. Srishtee Sethi - New Fellow of the Joint South Asia Institute/Max Weber Forum Fellowship ProgramMay 2026Semester start with “Samosas and Chai”Prof. Ute Hüsken in the new issue of 'Ruperto Carola'Guest Professor Indrajit Roy at Department of Political ScienceNew Open Access Publication by HASP - Coṉṉa Vaṇṇam Ceyta Perumāḷ Temple Inscriptions, Kāñcipuram by G. VijayavenugopalApril 2026Walter Rindfleisch Collection - Handover Ceremony in SAIObituary for Hermann KulkeThe European Indian Diaspora Meeting at the South Asia InstituteMarch 2026Tibetan Archives From Mustang: Reconstructing the Lives of “People without History” by Prof. Dr. Charles Ramble Inking an Identity: The Stories Behind Tharu Tattoo MotifsIndian Politics & Policy New Issue Announcement - Winter Issue 2025 on Indian Foreign PolicyDeutschlandfunk Podcast on the Election in Nepal New episode of ON South Asia: Book Talk: International Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree in conversation with literary critic Claudia KramatschekFebruary 2026Prof. Dr. Axel Michaels reappointed as Senior ProfessorPrateek Pankaj latest publication: 'New Genealogies of the Contemporary Indian Political Moment' in South Asia: Journal of South Asian StudiesDr. Deepra Dandekar's latest publication ""The Bible Tongue: Pandita Ramabai's Marathi Bible" in The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in India (2026)New Issue of Nidan: International Journal for Indian Studies (HASP) Announcement of the International Course “Readings in Indian and Jewish Ritual Texts: The Science of Ritual” - July 5-10,2026New episode of ON South Asia: Literature, Gandhi, and Feminist Defiance: In conversation with Dr. Sudhir ChandraBook Release “Garments and Growth: State, Ideas, Policy Learning, and Globalization in Bangladesh” (2026) by Dr. ASM Mostafizur RahmanArticle Publication by Department Lecturer Dr. ASM Mostafizur RahmanMob Rule As Political Strategy: Reshaping Bangladesh's Secular Memory And Pluralistic Bengali CultureJanuary 2026Allama Iqbal Professional Fellowship - H.E. Pakistan Ambassador Saqlain Syedah visits the South Asia InstituteAmbivalent Enmity in Bordering Processes - Dr. Philipp Zehmisch interviewed for the “Us and Them” podcastSAI Colloquium - “Caring for Capital Futures? Environmental Conservation and Indigenous Rights at an Urban Frontier” by Dr. Philipp ZehmischNew episode of ON South Asia (in German)December 2025Call 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 2026New Publication by Dr. Philipp Zehmisch - “Who Cares?: On fieldwork, family and violence in South Africa and Pakistan”November 2025New episode of ON South AsiaWelcome 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, ItalyLoad more
