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1. Project & Book Launch, 2. Workshop, Delhi, March 2024

From the 21st to the 22nd of March 2024, MIDA in coop­er­a­tion with the Max Weber Forum for South Asian Stud­ies, New Del­hi (MWF Del­hi) held two events in Del­hi: 21.03.2024 — Pub­lic Lec­ture and Book Launch Time: 15.00 — 20.00 hrs Venue: India Inter­na­tion­al Cen­tre (IIC), New Del­hi 1. Mod­ern India in Ger­man Archives 1706–1989: Intro­duc­tion to […]

What’s New?

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. […]