Kolloquium

Abteilungskolloquium - Sommersemester 2023

In the Summer Semester, we will circle around a series of timely interventions in modern South Asian History, featuring talks from distinguished scholars. Topics include Friendship, Emotions and the Global History of Pedagogy; Caste from an Intellectual History approach; Citizenship, Belonging, and Muslimness in Postcolonial Pakistan and the social and Intellectual History of a Dalit performance. All talks are in person, in Heidelberg.

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Our program:

• 20.04.2023 | Jamia Millia Islamia. Emotions, Friendship and the Global History of Pedagogy
  Margrit Pernau (Max Planck Institute for Human Development - Berlin)


• 04.05.2023 | Saviours and Attackers: Neighbour Relations in Ethnic Pogroms in India
  Raheel Dhattiwala (Baden-Württemberg Fellow)


• 25.05.2023 | Book Presentation:The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India (Stanford University Press, 2022)
  Shailaja Paik in conversation with Anandita Pan (14:00h CEST)


• 15.06.2023 | Being Pakistani: Crafting Citizenship, Belonging, and Muslimness in the Postcolonial Moment
  Ali Usman Qasmi (LUMS University)


• 29.06.2023 | Caste: An Intellectual History
  Anupama Rao (Barnard College - Columbia University)


• 06.07.2023 | Material Hermeneutics and Visual Remediation: Missionary Messaging in Colonial and Postcolonial India, 1820-1950
  Tim Allender (University of Sydney)