I. Concluding Remarks After nine years of working together and on the cusp of our final funding period, it seems appropriate to look back at the road already travelled. In November 2014 a dedicated team of students, coordinators, principal investigators, and our innovative tandem-duos, teaming up Indian and German pre- and post-docs, began with the […]
Film screening Hamburg — 23.11.2023
During the India Week Hamburg, which takes place from 20 to 26 November 2023 and comprises more than 70 events, there will be another opportunity to see Anandita Bajpai’s film “The Sound of Friendship: Warm Wavelengths in a Cold, Cold War” and to talk to the director afterwards. Location: ELBE cinema, Ostdorfer Landstraße 198, 22549 […]
Film Screening, Conversations and Food Sharing — Berlin — 14.10.2023
The event Film screening: Post-Socialist Kinship across Space and Time offers another opportunity to see Anandita Bajpai’s film “The Sound of Friendship: Warm Wavelengths in a Cold, Cold War” in Berlin. Place: nGbK am Alex, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 11/13, 10178 Berlin Date: Saturday, 14 October 2023 Time: 16:00 – 18:00 Organized by: neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst Film […]
Book launch “Modernes Indien in deutschen Archiven (MIDA). In Memoriam Dietmar Rothermund” 13.02.2023
A book launch of the anthology “Modern India in German Archives (MIDA). In Memoriam Dietmar Rothermund”, published by Draupadi, was held at the Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies of the University of Heidelberg on 13 February 2023. After the presentation of the book and the work of the MIDA project by editor and principal […]
Private Film Screening – The Sound of Friendship, 08th September, 2022
After several successful private screenings in Germany and India and very positive feedback in the international press, we are happy to announce that the film is now also being shown to an American audience. On the 8th of September, 2022, a private screening of the film followed by a Q&A session with Anandita Bajpai, the […]
(Workshop) Nodes of Translation: Rethinking Modern Intellectual History between South Asia and Germany
Nodes of Translation: Rethinking Modern Intellectual History between South Asia and Germany7–9 July 2022The Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Workshop registration: razak.khan@cemis.uni-goettingen.de The workshop examines the translation of key German texts into the modern languages of India and translations from the classical and vernacular languages of South Asia into German. Our key […]
Private Film Screenings & Book Launch – The Sound of Friendship & Cordial Cold War
After the premiere and several private screenings in Germany as well as the positive feedback in the international press, Anandita Bajpai’s film “The Sound of Friendship: Warm Wavelengths in a Cold, Cold War” was finally shown in India as well. The first event was organized and funded by The M.S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre […]
Workshop ‘Benjamin Schultze‘s dialogue book on Madras. A critical approach to a cultural-historical missionary source’
01. & 02.03.2022 Workshop organised by MIDA, (Das Moderne Indien in Deutschen Archiven) in Cooperation with the Franckesche Stiftungen, Halle. Introduction Benjamin Schultze (1689–1760) was one of the most prolific, but also most controversial missionaries of the Danish English-Halle Mission, which worked in South India in the 18th and early 19th century. His conversation book »The […]
Film screenings — The Sound of Friendship: Warm Wavelengths in a Cold, Cold War, a film by Anandita Bajpai, 19.10. & 21.11.2021
The film premiered on 19.10. in the hallowed halls of the Funkhaus — the erstwhile seat of Radio Berlin International (RBI) — which made the following podium discussion and Q&A with the director and former employees of RBI all the more special. See here for more information on the film. See below for some impressions from […]
Eröffnungsworkshop 30.–31. Januar 2015 (Bericht)
Am 30. und 31. Januar 2015 fand am Seminar für Südasien-Studien, Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin die Eröffnungskonferenz des DFG-geförderten Langfristprojekts “Das moderne Indien in deutschen Archiven, 1706–1989” statt. Das Projekt hat offiziell am 1. November 2014 begonnen, wobei die Forschungen arbeitsteilig an drei in Göttingen und Berlin ansässigen Partner-Institutionen durchgeführt werden. […]