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Dr. Schöttli receives Hengstberger Prize 2011

Dr. rer.pol. Jivanta Schöttli, department of political science at SAI, has been awarded with the Klaus-Georg and Sigrid Hengstberger Prizes for Young Scientists at the University of Heidelberg in 2011. The award includes the opportunity to conduct a scientific workshop on “Power and Governance in the Indian Ocean”. The selection followed a two-step process of application including a questioning by a committee of professors lead by rector Prof. Dr. Bernhard Eitel. Dr. Schöttli is not only the first awardee from SAI but her application is also the first successful one by a member of the faculty for economics and social sciences. Congratulations!

Prof. Dr. Dietmar Rothermund receives the Rabindranath Tagore-cultural price 2011
The Indo-German Society has awarded The Rabindranath Tagore Culture Prize 2011 to Prof. Dr. Rothermund. Rothermund is honoured with the prize for his outstanding work for supporting knowledge about India in Germany. The emeritus professor for South Asian History at the Heidelberg University has influenced the image of India in Germany during his 33-years of Teaching at SAI. He had helped to develop the South Asia-Institute to a leading centre for the Study of South Asia. Prof. Dr. Rothermund initiated the Heidelberg Südasiengespäche (Heidelberg South Asia Talks) to promote the exchange between representatives of science, economy and politics. His scientific activities including writings for general audiences find greater national and international resonance. Next to Prof. Rothermund this year the musician and producer Günther Paust was awarded with the Rabindranath Tagore Culture Prize 2011.

The Rabindranath Tagore Culture Prize is introduced by the Indo-German Society in the 1986 for unique contributions  for a deeper understanding of Indian cultures and ways of life in German speaking areas. The prize is named after the Poet and Nobel Prize Winner Rabindranath Tagore.

Fourth Inter-University Doctoral Workshop in Development Economics, September 28-29, 2011

organized by
Department of Development Economics
South Asia Institute
Ruprecht-Karls Universität
Heidelberg

Venue
Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg (IWH),
Hauptstraße 242, 69117 Heidelberg

Wednesday, September 28
17:30-19:30   
Panel Discussion on the Indian Microfinance Crisis in cooperation with Oikocredit
19:30     Informal Dinner (self-paid)

Thursday, September 29
09:00     Welcome and Introduction

09:15-13:45    
Household Decisions and Development

Antje Kröger (DIW Berlin): Migration, Parental Decision Making and Children's outcomes
Malte Reimers (University of Göttingen): The Role of Education for Agricultural Productivity
10:45-11:15     Coffee Break
Haa Lu (University of Frankfurt): Insurance and Agricultural Household Investment Behaviour: Evidence from Vietnam
Markus Olapade (University of Mannheim): Insurance Literacy and Insurance Demand – Evidence from a Field Experiment
12:45-13:45     Lunch

13:45-16:00   
Development and the Macroeconomy

Katerina Gradeva (University of Frankfurt): International Trade and Corruption
Jochen Laps (University of Heidelberg): Pension Schemes and the Sharing of Demographic Risk
Katharina Mühlhoff (University of Mannheim): Infectious Disease and the State - The Case of Smallpox Vaccination in 19th Century Germany and France
16:00-16:30    Coffee Break

16:30-18:45   
Ethnicity and Conflict

Hanne Roggemann (University of Frankfurt): Differences in Consumption Smoothing across Ethnic Groups - Evidence from Vietnam
Damir Esenaliev (DIW Berlin): Are Uzbeks better off? Ethnicity and Economic Welfare in Kyrgyzstan
Johannes Rieckmann (University of Göttingen): Violent Behaviour - The effect of Civil Conflict on Domestic Violence in Colombia

Discussants:
Prof. Dr. Tilmann Brück (DIW Berlin)
Prof. Dr. Markus Frölich (University of Mannheim)
Prof. Dr. Stefan Klonner (University of Heidelberg)
Prof. Dr. Matthias Schündeln (University of Frankfurt)
Prof. Dr. Michèle Tertilt (University of Mannheim)

Branch Office Kathmandu has moved
The SAI Branch Office Kathmandu has moved to Bhanimandal, Lalitpur. The new office is in the neighbourhood of the UK Department For International Developmemnt (DFID) and the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC). It is located in between the NGO Saathi and the Small Grant Program (SGP) of United Nations Development Project UNDP. The SAI Branch office hosts a small library open to local and international visiting scholars.
A new Mirror of Kāśī available on the Web
A HyperImage representation of Kailāsanātha Sukula's historical map Kāśīdarpaa (1876) is available now. This relaunch is based on the website www.benares.uni-hd.de published in 2001 by the Vārāasī Research Project of the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University. It was recently transferred into a Hyperimage representation that annotates images in great detail by Jörg Gengnagel & HyperEvaluation Team (Matthias Arnold, Peter Gietz, Eric Decker, Giovanna Niebler, Wen-Ting Wu) „Asia and Europe“, Cluster of Excellence Karl Jaspers Center, Heidelberg University 2011. Find more details at the Cluster website.

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