Verschlagwortet: News
Talk on “The Incorporation of LGBTQs in Bengaluru: Toward a new sexual politics of risk”
Speaker: Lars Aaberg Date: 30 April 2025 Venue: Maple Hall, India Habit at Centre, New Delhi For registration, please send an email to events@mwsindia.org by Friday, 25 April 2025
Introducing the Official MediCluster Logo
We are excited to announce that our research project MediCluster finally has its very own logo! This project explores how local production practices, digital transformation, and global innovation dynamics converge in three medical instrument clusters: …
Talk on ‘The Uneven City: Potholes, Pain and Politics in Urban India’
Speaker: Sneha Annavarapu Date: Friday, 28 March 2025 Venue: Maple Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi For registration, please send an email to events@mwsindia.org by Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Talk on ‘The Paradox of Education in Muslim Minority Educational Institutions’
Speaker: Hem Borker Date: 7 March 2025 Venue: Durgabai Deshmukh Memorial Lecture Hall, 53 Lodi Estate, New Delhi For registration, please send an email to events@mwsindia.org by Wednesday, 5 March 2025
Winter School on In-between: Intermediaries and Intermediate Places in Global Labour – Past & Present
Organisers: Sebastian Schwecke, Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, New Delhi, IndiaMichaela Dimmers, Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, New Delhi, IndiaChristian G. De Vito, University of Vienna, AustriaHanne Osthus, Norwegian University of…
Conference on ‘Refugees in Global Transit: Encounters, Knowledge, and Coping Strategies in a Disrupted World, 1930s–50s’
February 13-14, 2025 Organisers: Simone Lässig (German Historical Institute Washington), Sebastian Schwecke (Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, Delhi), and Swen Steinberg (Queen’s University, Kingston) in collaboration with Christoph K. Neumann (…
Call for Papers (CfP): Summer Academy on the Entangled Histories of Concepts in the Bengal to Balkans Complex (B2B) [Closing date: 01 March 2025]
The Summer Meeting on the Entangled Histories of in the Bengal-to-Balkans Complex invites applications for its second installment which will take place in Istanbul between September 22nd–26th, 2025. The 2025 meeting will have a focus on concepts relate…
Talk on “The Middle Class in Neo-Urban India Space, Class and Distinction”
Speaker: Smriti Singh Date: 24 January 2025 Venue: Durgabai Deshmukh Memorial Lecture Hall, 53 Lodi Estate, New Delhi For registration, please send an email to events@mwsindia.org latest by 21 January 2025.
Call for applications for Post-doctoral Research Fellows at Max Weber Stiftung, Delhi
We are looking for two post-doctoral research fellows in the field of 1) Anthropology of markets/exchange & 2) Modern history of markets/exchange The post shall begin earliest on 1 February 2025 Application deadline: 31 December 2024 Interviews wil…
Talk on ‘Visualising Foodmaking: A Reading of Rural Cooking Vlogs in India’, 9th December, 2024
Speaker: Kiranmayi Bhushi Venue: Lecture Room 1, India International Centre (IIC) Annexe, New Delhi. To register, send an email to events@mwsindia.org
Academic Freedom in India and China
In the last panel of the conference of the Max Weber Stiftung, 2024, Sebastian Schwecke (MWF Delhi) and Ravi Ahuja (University of Göttingen) spoke with Dagmar Schäfer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) about “Academic Freedom in In…
Humanities in Dialogue on “Trust – naive or necessary”
One topic, three perspectives – On Tuesday, 29 October, 2024 ‘Trust’ was discussed in the Saxon Academy of Science and Humanities, Leipzig. Moderated by Ine Dippmann (Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) Landesfunkhaus Sachsen, Ute Frevert, Sebastian Schweck…
Conference on ‘Chronicling Unrealised Trajectories: The Plurality of Historical Experience in 1940s South Asia’, 18 October, 2024
To attend please register yourself here: robertrahmanraman@gmail.com
Talk on ‘The Object as Gift: Some Notes from 18th and 19th Century Awadh’, 18 October, 2024
Speaker: Nimra Rizvi Venue: Lecture Room 1, India International Centre (IIC) Annexe, New Delhi. To attend, please register at events@mwsindia.org.
Talk on, ‘Feminising Labour Protests: Women Workers’ Militancy and Collective Actions in Late Colonial Bombay (1920-1940)’
Speaker: Dr. Robert Rahman Raman Venue: Lecture Room 1, India International Centre (IIC) Annexe, New Delhi To attend, please send an email to events@mwsindia.org by 16 September
New Agrarian Histories of Modern South Asia, September 25–27 2024, New Delhi [Prior registration is mandatory]
Note: To register, please write to events@mwsindia.org by Monday, September 16. Please specify the date or panel that you wish to attend.