Institute of Indian Studies

Activity Highlights

• June-August 2024: Hybrid Summer school cum conference: “Two is One: Nondualism in Metaphysics, Aesthetics, and Society: a cross-cultural perspective” in collaboration with the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen (Prof. Andrea Sangiacomo)
• "The Frobenius Institute for Research in Cultural Anthropology, in collaboration with the University of Groningen, has organized an interdisciplinary workshop from 22 May to 25 May 2024 on the theme of “Cereal Cultures in South and Central Asia” at the Taunus Tagungshotel, Frankfurt. For more information see "Workshop: Cereal Cultures in South and Central Asia".
• Between 19 and 23 February 2024 the Winter School on Changing Local Life-Worlds took place at IIT New Delhi, hosted by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (Prof. Sarbeswar Sahoo) and co-organized and co-funded by the University of Groningen (Dr. Peter Berger) and the Goethe University Frankfurt (Prof. Roland Hardenberg).
  For more information about this event, see our summer/winterschool webpage.
• Humour is Serious Business!
  12th Coffee Break Conference on Irony, Sarcasm and other techniques for mobilising religious, cultural and epistemic capital.
  Program
  More info on Coffee Break Network.

• Lecture by Peter Berger on “Subaltern Sovereigns: Rituals of Rule and Regeneration in Highland Odisha, India"
  at the Institute for Asian and Transcultural Studies, Institute of Anthropology, University of Heidelberg.

• Exhibition:
  23 June 2023: Opening of the exhibition on "Related Beings" at the Frobenius Institute (Frankfurt/M) as part of the summer symposium 2023. The exhibition deals with the entanglements between humans, plants (esp. cereals) and animals and shows photographs (and objects) made by Peter Berger and René Cappers.
• Between March and June 2023 Peter Berger and René Cappers are Mercator Visiting Professors at the Frobenius Institute (Frankfurt/M). Their stay at the FI is part of the research collaboration on millets in India.
• New book by Peter Berger available in Open Access!
  Berger, Peter. Subaltern Sovereigns: Rituals of Rule and Regeneration in Highland Odisha, India, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110458831
  Link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110458831/html
• The University of Groningen, the Frobenius Institute (Frankfurt), and the Utkal University (Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India) have organized an international workshop on Cereal Culture in Odisha on 10 February 2023 (for details of the program see the Frobenius Institute website). Ongoing research was discussed, as well as the status quo of the 2023 UN International Year of Millets and related activities in Odisha. One highlight was also the inauguration of the new website of the cooperative research project on Cereal Cultures: https://cerealcultures.wordpress.com/
• Past activities

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