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 […]

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 […]

The fol­low­ing report was first released in July 2019 as part of the ZMO Bul­letin No. 36. In the fifth year of its exis­tence, the DFG-fund­ed, long-term project MIDA (Mod­ernes Indi­en in Deutschen Archiv­en 1706–1989) cel­e­brat­ed the launch of its online research por­tal (Recherchep­or­tal; https://www.projekt-mida.de/rechercheportal/). A pub­lic event was held on May 10 at the […]

Entan­gled Archives: Per­spec­tives from Mod­ern India in Ger­man Archives, 27.09.2018 9:00–19:00, 28.09.2018 9:00–18:00, Depart­ment of South Asian Stud­ies, Insti­tute for Asian and African Stud­ies, Hum­boldt-Uni­ver­sität zu Berlin, Invali­den­straße 118, Berlin. The first two Pan­els were ded­i­cat­ed to dif­fer­ent insti­tu­tions and actors whose actions can be  raced through Ger­man archives. In Pan­el 1, which was chaired […]

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. […]