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The Annual Report 2015 of the India Initiative can be downloaded here.
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On Thursday, 26.11.15 and Friday, 27.11.15 the Department of Indology is organizing the
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Transgender and Gender in India
Thursday, 26.11.15, Room 8U11b (Philosophiegebäude), 1:15 - 6:30 PM: Legal and Cultural Aspects of Gender Diversity in India
Friday, 27.11.15, Room 8U11b (Philosophiegebäude), 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM: Changing Norms of Gender Performing Gender Diversity
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The Annual Report 2014 of the India Initiative can be downloaded here.
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Performing Gender - Negotiating Space in Civil Society
Programm
9:30 - 9:45 Presentation of the newly founded International Centre for Advanced Studies: Present state of affairs (Prof. Dr. Heidrun Brückner, Chair of Indology)
9:45 - 10:30 Keynote lecture: Performing Gender in the Contemporary Indian City (Prof. Dr. Janaki Nair, Dept. of History, JNU)
11:00 - 11:15 Performing Gender and Transgender Identities in India and Germany (Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Schömbucher, Chair of Indology)
11:20 - 11:40 Gender Equality in Indian Polity and Politics: Theoretical and International Perspectives (PD Dr. Michael Becker, Philipp Gieg, M.A., Institute of Political and Social Studies)
11:45 - 12:00 Adult and Continuing Education (Prof. Dr. Regina Egetenmeyer, Professorship for Adult and Continuing Education, Institue for Education)
12:00 - 12:30 Summary and Comments by Prof. Janaki Nair, General Discussion
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Conference: Exploring emerging India
Akademie Frankenwarte, Würzburg
17. June 2014
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A European - Indian Dialogue: Roundtable on India in the Global Context An Emerging Global Power or a Lame Duck?
Akademie Frankenwarte, Würzburg
The Indian economy is projected to grow at 6 to 7 percent per annum in the next three decades, despite its temporary slowdown in recent years. The growth rate is likely to be about twice that of the global rate. Yet, as grand as India`s growth potential are the political, social and cultural challenges and questions related to this scenario.
India`s rise to a global power is closely interlinked with its integration into the global economy. Therefore the above mentioned challenges should be analyzed both from a domestic and an international perspective, putting local developments into a global context. A European-Indian Dialog on the Indian economy opens up new perspectives and potential for comparative analysis. The present workshop would focus on these critical issues and examine the convergence and conflict between the changes in the political economy and the socio-cultural processes of the country. 1. India in the Globalised world: The session will examine the differential growth scenario, in the context of investment pattern and distribution of growth within India across sectors and global demand and discuss the problems and possibilities of maintaining this over a long time. 2. Competition for Resources and Regional Inequality: The national and global companies would be looking for competitive locations and the governments in India at provincial level are likely to react with different incentive packages to attract them. This would have an impact on regional disparity within the country. Similarly, Indian and European companies are likely to enter into global competition for getting commitment of resources and market in other countries. How that would shape India’s role in the global economy. 3. Socio-religious Inequality, social tensions and Violence: The session will focus on limited impact of the growth process in bringing down social inequities including the gender gap in India. Currently, there is growing awareness about the problems but the interventions are generally designed in the context of electoral politics that tend to touch only peripheral issues. Values and norms are undergoing rapid transformation as the country gets increasingly linked to global market and imbibes the western values. Assertion of traditional values and institutions are resulting violent manifestations. The tensions and conflicts created as a result need to be understood and addressed. 4. Regional and Rural Inequality and Environmental Degradation: Growing regional inequality, accompanied by spatial segmentation of the cities and towns from rural areas has resulted in serious environmental issues in India. The cities are able to send their ecological footprints into distant regions. While Indian per-capita emissions remain low, it is growing rather rapidly, primarily due to change in the consumption pattern of the elites and upper middle class. The complex interdependencies between emergence of powerful middle class, regional and socio-economic inequality and overexploitation of natural resources for the benefit a select developed regions and powerful in metro cities and the politico-economic factors behind this, must be analysed in a cross cultural context in order to find meaningful solution to these. Programme |

![]() "India as a Linguistic Area ", Thursday, 6.12.2012, 4:15 pm, 8/U/11b "Language Policy and Language Planning", Friday, 7.12. 2012, 10:30 am, Ü14 "Introduction into Linguistic Fieldwork", Thursday,13.12.2012, 4:15 pm, 8/U/11b "Endangered Languages: Documenting Great Andamanese", Wednesday, 19.12.2012, 10:15 am, Ü14 Poster: Lecture Series Prof. Anvita Abbi Opening Lecture “Contact, Conflict and Convergence: Emergence of New Varieties of Hindi”, Friday, 14.12.2012, 5 pm, Hörsaal 3, Residenz. |


“Days of India” at Würzburg University
Hindi Diwas.
Studying Hindi: Teaching, Translating and Research
An international workshop on “Studying Hindi: Teaching, Translating and Research” is held on 14/15 December 2012, jointly organized by Prof. A. Abbi, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, Prof. C.P. Zoller, University of Oslo and the Chair of Indology, University of Würzburg.
This workshop will provide a platform for discussing experiences with changing trends and expectations of a new generation studying Indology. It aims at creating a closer network of teachers and researchers concerned with the teaching, translating and researching of Hindi at universities in Germany and Europe. All are cordially invited, especially students of Indology and Hindi!
For programme details see flyer
Poster Hindi Diwas
The workshop is supported by the DAAD programme “A New Passage to India”, by the University of Oslo and by the Embassy of India, Berlin.

![]() Professor of Kannada, Mangalore University Public Lecture and Workshop Do, 22.11.: SIRI – Narration and the Making of the Epic Universe, 16:15-17:45, 18:15-19:45, Raum 8U11b Public Lecture Do, 29.11.: Kannada Literature – Dialogues and Negotiations, 16:15-17:45, Raum 8U11b Seminar Fr, 16.11., Fr, 23.11., Mi. 28.11.: Readings from Modern Kannada Literature jeweils 9:15-10:45, 11:15-12:45, Raum 8U1 Poster (pdf) |
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The Chair of Ethnomusicology and the Würzburg Centre for Modern India announce a course on
Workshop in the context of the Euro-Indian Alumni Week
The Chair of Indology and the Würzburg Centre for Modern India announce a course on
International Workshop conducted by the Chair of Indology and Würzburg Centre for Modern India
The Chair of Indology and the Würzburg Centre for Modern India announce a course on
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