Podcasts and Webinars

Lecture by Ravi Ahuja on May,5th, 2022, Institut für Zeitgeschichte München–Berlin:
Ravi Ahuja: Dynamiken der Demokratisierung und des Autoritarismus im Indien des 20. Jahrhunderts (in German)

Lecture (online) by Ravi Ahuja on February 8th, 2021, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies:
Ravi Ahuja: After Indenture: British Liner Companies and "Racial Management" in the Early Twentieth Century

Lecture (online in German) by Ravi Ahuja and Svenja von Jan on January 25th, 2021, at the Historic Museums Hamburg Foundation:
Ravi Ahuja and Svenja von Jan: Kolonisierte Arbeitswelten: Indische Seeleute im Britischen Empire und in Hamburg (ca. 1890–1939)

Book Launch and Discussion with Frank Perlin:
Frank Perlin: City Intelligible. A Philosophical and Historical Anthropology of Global Commodisation before Industrialisation.
A digital event on Zoom organised by the research group Modern Indian History at CeMIS on January 22nd, 2021 at 3 pm CET.
Panel: Frank Perlin, Jairus Banaji, Neeladri Bhattacharya, and Aditya Sarkar

Frank Perlin's City Intelligible is a thoroughgoing and profoundly original attempt to combine an empirical and historical anthropology with Kantian transcendental philosophy. Its subject-matter is the history of commoditization and commodity exchange prior to modern industrialization. The book delves into a diverse array of forms of evidence of such commoditization, and marshals them to make a case for the possibility of a universal - yet also irreducibly cultural - human nature underlying processes of human differentiation. As a philosophical treatment of empirical materials, City Intelligible marks an unprecedented attempt to conceptually reframe the ways in which we think about economic data. The discussion of the book will delve into both the philosophical stakes and the historical implications of Frank Perlin's endeavour.
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Webinar
REMINISCENCE & REVIVAL OF JAMIA’S GERMAN CONNECTIONS
to mark the Centenary Year of Jamia Millia Islamia (1920-2020)
November 9th, 2020
Organized by: Premchand Archives & Literary Centre; Deptt. of English and Centre for European & Latin American Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia
In collaboration with Modern India in German Archives (MIDA)
Chief Patron: Prof. Najma Akthar, Vice Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia
Chairperson: Prof. M. Assauddin, Dean, Faculty of Humanities, Jamia Millia Islamia
Guest of Honour: Dr. Syeda Hameed, Former Member, Planning Commission, GoI
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Podcast in German „COVID-19 and the crises of labour migration. German and Indian perspectives“ with Prof. Dr. Ravi Ahuja and Dr. Peter Birke, moderated by Dr. Karin Klenke
One of the existential social issues that is particularly pressing in the pandemic is that of employment, worldwide. Eva von Redecker speaks of "animalistic conditions" and a "mixture of exploitation, brutality and defamation" with reference to the all too well-known connection between working conditions and corona outbreaks in German slaughterhouses. The desperate situation of migrant workers in India is deplored internationally, but little followed in the media: "Arundhati Roy wrote that the lockdown "worked like a chemical experiment that suddenly illuminated hidden things". The historian Ravi Ahuja (CeMIS) and the sociologist Peter Birke (Sociological Research Institute/ University of Göttingen) talked to moderator Karin Klenke about the not so hidden conditions of exploitation, migration.
A cooperation between the Literary Centre Göttingen, the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), University of Göttingen and StadtRadio Göttingen
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