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Bangladesh’s Democracy at Crossroads:
Challenges and Potentials

Panellists: 
Dr. Nasir Uddin, Dr. Eva Gerharz, Dr. ASM Mostafizur Rahman

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January 21, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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EASAS is offering three awards of €300 each to the most outstanding papers by research students presenting at #ECSAS2025.

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August 5, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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“The Sound of Silent Film: Newsreels from Bombay, 1930-1931” by Prof. Dr. Kama Maclean

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April 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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The South Asia Institute at Heidelberg University is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Stefan Lueder as Assistant Professor in the Department of History.

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April 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Caring for Capital Futures? Environmental Conservation and Indigenous Rights at an Urban Frontier
By Dr. Philipp  Zehmisch

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January 20, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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Slow Listening: A Workshop with Dr. Moushumi Bhowmik

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October 30, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Ways of Seeing: Revising Colonial Perceptions of the Himalaya 
by Amish Raj Mulmi

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November 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Chai Break for Breakthroughs: Brewing Brilliant Research Questions
by Dr. Stefan Lüder

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July 16, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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The Library of the Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS Library).

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February 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Exhibition: Sacred Dirt- Mother Teresa and Volunteering in Kolkata
by Dr. Egor Novikov
 
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July 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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“After the March 19 Crackdown: Is Turkey an Autocracy?”
By Dr. Berk Esen

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July 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Episode 3
Religious Minorities in Pakistan

Click here to listen to the third episode: open.spotify.com/episode/5c40...

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March 18, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Elephant Paths, Veterinarians, Mules and Refugees: The Multispecies Territorialization of an Asian Borderland
Prof. Dr. Cao Yin (Peking University)

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January 27, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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“Multi-scalar Histories of Gender and Decolonisation in South Asia”
By Rosalind Parr (Glasgow Caledonian University)

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February 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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“The Eightfold Mystery: Exploring the Evolution of Aṣṭamūrti Across Eras”
Dr. Nirajan Kafle
 
Image courtesy @Ninara

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January 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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“Atmospheric Knowledge: Environmentality, Latency and Sonic Multimodality”
Prof. Dr. Patrick Eisenlohr, book presentation

www.ucpress.edu/books/atmosp...

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June 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Digitally Conserving Bengaluru’s Stone Inscriptions: Technology, Data, and Public History
Session 1: Technology, Epigraphy & Public Engagement
by Udaya Kumar P. L.

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July 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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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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April 2, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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“Our City That Year“
Talk and Reading with Geetanjali Shree
Moderated by the literary critic Claudia Kramatschek

The event was part of SAI colloquium.

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December 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Bangladesh’s Democracy at Crossroads:
Challenges and Potentials
A Panel Discussion by Dr. Nasir Uddin, Dr. Eva Gerharz, Dr. ASM Mostafizur Rahman

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January 21, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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"Noisy" Photographs: Listening to Images from the Civil Disobedience movement in Bombay
by Prof. Kama Maclean
In Photographing Civil Disobedience: Bombay, 1930-31

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December 16, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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“Filmmusik im tamilischen Kino” 
ON South Asia - Episode 4

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YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBuB...

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April 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Crafting, Growing, Knowing: Flowers and Gardens in 17th to 20th Century Nepal
By Surabhi Pudasaini and Astrid Zotter
 
The lecture was part of the MWF Seminar Series.

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January 14, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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Deha: Invoking the Body.
21st International Conference on Maharashtra: Culture & Society 
19 June - 21 June 2025

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June 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism: Knowledge Providers and Propagandists in the ‘Third Reich’
By Dr. Baijayanti Roy

Link to Book: academic.oup.com/book/58187?l...

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December 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM