Guest Lectures

The «Great Muslim Invasion of Assam». Anti-Migrant/Muslim Politics and its Resistance in Colonial Assam, c.1920s-1947

On the formation and self-representation of Buddhist monastic orders (nikāya) in ancient South Asia

Dalit Assertion and its Confines: The Case of Punjab

Mohandas K. Gandhi against the Liberal State

Das Śarannavarātrī-Fest und die Śaṅkarācāryas von Śṛṅgerī. Zur Performanz von Sakralität und Macht in einer südindischen Tradition

The Uncertain State: Uncertainty as Everyday Experience and Mode of Governmentality in Contemporary India

Is Sallekhanā a form of Suicide? A Critical Examination of the Legality and Ethicality of the Jain Fast to Death

India’s Authoritarianism -- in the Time of Modi and Climate Change --

Scholarly Confusion in Recent Debates on Race-Caste Comparison

The Aesthetics of Clientelistic Politics: Visual Symbolism in Indian Local Politics

Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India’s Professional Elite

RASA & BHAVA: The Aesthetics of Indian Classical Dance Kathak

The Richness of Simplicity: Interlocking Dimensions in Some Hindustānī Music Forms

Inschriften und Münzen als Quellen indischer Geschichte

Aloys Sprenger (1813-1893) and the beginning of press history in India

Buddhismus auf dem Weg zur Weltreligion: Die Entwicklung von Kunst und Philosophie in Ghandara

Das Kastenwesen in der tamilischen Diaspora

Antrittsvorlesung: Vote banks, vote buying, and coercion in Indian elections: an ethnographic worms eye view from the Indian Punjab

Ethnographic enquiry and evolutionist theory in colonial India, c. 1881-1911

Democracy and elections in North India

Western Understanding of the Yantra and the Mandala: The Work of Heinrich Zimmer and its Influence on C. G. Jung

Hinduistische Priesterinnen in Pune

What Can Tales (kathas) Tell Us about Multilingual Literary Culture in India?

Prof. Dr. Francesca Orsini (School of African and Oriental Studies, London)
December 11, 2015, 12:15–13:45, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Zurich, Room RAA E-08, Rämistrasse 59, 8001 Zurich

Indian/South Asian Literature in English

Prof. em. Dr. Therese Steffen (University of Basel)
December 9, 2015, 12:15–13:45, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Zurich, Room RAA G-15, Rämistrasse 59, 8001 Zurich

Philosophie für buddhistische Mönche: Über das philosophische Kurrikulum in Klosteruniversitäten im mittelalterlichen Indien

Prof. Dr. Eli Franco (Leipzig University)
May 27, 2015, 12:15, University of Zurich, University of Zurich, Main Building, Room KOL F-104, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich

Erasmus-Veranstaltung: Flüche, Eideslisten und Rätselfragen - Zur erzählerischen Gestaltung von Mythen, Märchen und Fabeln in Indien

Prof. Dr. Thomas Oberlies (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
May 19, 2015, 12:15–15:45, University of Zurich, Room RAF 1 103, Rämistrasse 66, 8001 Zurich