The past ten years have rapidly accelerated what Miriam Hansen once called the ‘political ecology of the senses’, a condition that emerged after twentieth century media modernity. Today, cognition, public affect, experience and memory...
Colonial structures, institutional as well as epistemological, still persist in academies across the world. One central goal of the Merian Centres is to face up to this challenge and work towards a decolonization of...
ICAS:MP’s Thematic Module 4 (Normative Conflicts and Transformations) in collaboration with School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Shiv Nadar University will organise a workshop on ‘Post-/De-growth or Reinventing Life: Prospects and Projects’ from...
ICAS:MP’s upcoming Cross-Modular Conference (CMC) on ‘The Social and Political Life of Experience-Near Concepts’ aims to facilitate academic debates between its thematic modules, which serve as different vantage points for investigating the overarching research...
Topic: The Idea of Heresy Venue: Schloss Ettersburg, Weimar, Germany Organisers: Shail Mayaram (TM1), Martin Fuchs (TM4) and Rajeev Bhargava (TM4) The History Module (TM1) along with the Module on Normative Conflicts and Transformation...
We are pleased to launch ICAS:MP’s Open Access book Cordial Cold War: Cultural Actors in India and the German Democratic Republic by Anandita Bajpai. Cordial Cold War examines cultural entanglements, in various forms, between...
We are delighted that Peter Gottschalk, our current fellow in TM 4 (Normative Conflicts and Transformations) and Professor of Religion at the Wesleyan University, USA, will hold a virtual lecture on 3 March 2022....
Time: 12.30 pm to 6.30 pm IST (8 am to 2 pm CET) ICAS:MP will once again be present at the Indo-German Research Day on 24 February 2022 where we will exhibit our fellowship...
ICAS:MP’s CUP series, Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches, seeks to publish new books that both expand and de-centre current perspectives on politics and the ‘political’ in the contemporary world. It examines, from a...
We are thrilled to introduce our latest edited media volume with Sage, titled: Media and the Constitution of the Political: South Asia and Beyond. This volume features the writings of leading media scholars from...
We are delighted to reveal our next edited volume in our ICAS:MP Sage Series : “Politics and Society in India and the Global South“. The book is titled: Wage Earners in India 1500-1900: Regional...
We are pleased to announce the release of the latest edited volume in our ICAS:MP Sage Series : “Politics and Society in India and the Global South“. The book is titled: Discourses on Corruption:...
ICAS:MP members of the thematic module 7 (TM7: Media and the Constitution of the Political) and thematic module 1 (TM1: History as a Political Category) have contributed towards the special issue of Bioscope: South...
Lalit Vachani from our partner institution CeMIS, the Centre for Modern Indian Studies at the University of Göttingen, organised an online documentary film festival titled ‘Crossings’. It showcases the state of the art of...
Organised by ICAS:MP’s thematic module ‘The Challege of Gender’ (TM5) In spite of the diversity in the roles and backgrounds of gender advocates, global gender norms are often associated with cultures and intellectual traditions of...
