Guest lectures 2016
In 2016, the following researchers are invited for guest lectures:
- A. Revathi (former director of SANGAMA, Bangalore): Writing Autobiography as an LGBTIQ Activist in India
- Prof. Dr. Hidehiro Kato (Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology): Brief Overview of the Japanese Whaling History: With Some Notes on the Current Status of Japanese Whaling and Relevant Scientific Activities to Stock Managements
- Prof. Dr. R. Ramakumar (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai): Agrarian Distress in Rural India: An Assessment of 25 Years of Economic Reform
- Prof. Dr. Elliot Sperling (Indiana University Bloomington): Between China and the World: Issues in Tibet’s History
- Prof. Dr. Joachim Gentz (University of Edinburgh): Of Prophets and Scribes: Concepts and Taxonomies of Interpreting Texts in Early China and the Near East
- Prof. Dr. Hans Harder (University of Heidelberg): Herbert: Ein Kalkutta-Roman (Nabarun Bhattacharya)
- Dr. Giovanni Sorge (C.G. Jung Institute Zurich-Küsnacht): Western Understanding of the Yantra and the Mandala: The Work of Heinrich Zimmer and its Influence on C. G. Jung
- Prof. Dr. Ali Merthan Dündar (Ankara University): Japan, Islam, and the Turkic World
- Gisela Jahn: Japanische Keramik: Aufbruch im 20. Jahrhundert
- Prof. Dr. Michael Sommer (Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg): Nachhaltigkeit im Kontext verstehen: Fenhandel und Imperien zwischen Mittelmeer und Indischem Ozean (300 v.Chr. bis 300 n. Chr.)
- Prof. Dr. Jörg Quenzer (University of Hamburg): Von guten und von schlechten Träumen: Zum Traummotiv in der buddhistischen Literatur des japanischen Mittelalters
- Prof. Dr. Robert Simpson (Durham University): Death, Merit and Nation: Eye Donation Practices among Theravada Buddhists in Contemporary Sri Lanka
- Prof. Dr. Barend Ter Haar (Shaw Professor of Chinese, University of Oxford): The Historical Models for Violent Solutions in Maoist China and After
- Dr. Vijayanka Nair (New York University): The State of the Individual: Probing the Moral World of India’s National Biometric Identification Project
- Writing Autobiography as an LGBTIQ Activist in India (24.11.2016)
- Brief Overview of the Japanese Whaling History (23.11.2016)
- Agrarian Distress in Rural India (22.11.2016)
- Between China and the World (17.11.2016)
- Of Prophets and Scribes (03.11.2016)
- Herbert (27.10.2016)
- Western Understanding of the Yantra and the Mandala (01.06.2016)
- Japan, Islam, and the Turkic World (26.05.2016)
- Japanische Keramik (18.05.2016)
- Nachhaltigkeit im Kontext verstehen (21.04.2016)
- Von guten und von schlechten Träumen (21.04.2016)
- Death, Merit and Nation (23.03.2016)
- The Historical Models for Violent Solutions in Maoist China and After (17.03.2016)
- The State of the Individual (02.03.2016)