Category: Events
TM7 Workshop “Media aesthetics/Political aesthetics”; 5-7 January 2023; Kochi, Kerala
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...
Traveling Academy « De-Colonizing Knowledge – Views from India and Tunisia », New-Delhi; 21-25 November 2022
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...
Book discussion of ICAS:MP- Cambridge University Press book ‘Properties of Rent’ by Sushmita Pati
Book discussion: Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi by Sushmita Pati published in the ICAS:MP – Cambridge University Press series ‘Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches’. About the book: We...
TM4 Workshop “Post-/De-growth or Reinventing Life: Prospects and Projects”, 20-22 September 2022
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...
Cross-Modular Conference (CMC) ‘The Social and Political Life of Experience-Near Concepts’; 23-24 September 2022
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...
Public Panel Discussion: Societal Transformations for a Resilient Future
The panel discussion is a part of the Early Career Research Symposium on the topic of ‘Resilient Societies’ , jointly organised by the German Academic Exchange Service, the Max Weber Forum for South Asian...
‘Feminism and the Law: An Argument out of India’
Date and time: July 4th 2022, 6 p.m Venue: Welzhouse, Klinikstraße 6 Introduction Prof. Michael Erler (Chairman of the board of Directors, SCIAS) Prof. Doris Fischer (Vice-President for Internationalisation) Dr. Laila Abu-Er-Rub (Scientific Manager,...
TM 7 workshop: Media and the Political: Notes from the field
Date: 24 June 2022 Venue: CSDS and Zoom About the workshop: This workshop features presentations exploring a multi-sited articulation of media and the political. Themes include a political exploration of the Bangladesh censor board...
Thematic Module 4 Conference – Born Again Selves: New Religious Movements and the Norms of Belief; 6-8 June 2022
Date: 6 – 8 June 2022 Venue: Augustinerkloster, Erfurt Co-organised by: University of Erfurt About the workshop: ICAS:MP’s Thematic Module 4 (Normative Conflicts and Transformations) workshop on New Religious Movements (NRMs) seeks to explore...
TM 2: The Time and Space of Railways: Markets, Work, and Circulation in South Asia- An international workshop in honour of Ian J. Kerr
Organisers: M.S. Merian — R. Tagore International Centre for Advanced Studies “Metamorphoses of thePolitical” (ICAS:MP), Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin and Association of Indian Labour Historians Date: 16 –...
ICAS:MP funded study on Urban poor in Delhi in collaboration with Lokniti- CSDS
An ICAS:MP-funded Lokniti-CSDS study on slums in Delhi examines whether the ‘Delhi model of governance’ also applies to those residing in slums and taps into experiences of slum dwellers about the quality of basic...
TM 6 Workshop: Green Finance and the Global South – Money and Nature: questioning and reflecting on the global fragmented financialised mobilisation of capital for ecological good
Organised by Oliver Kessler, Indradeep Ghosh and Ismail Ertürk from The M.S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies ‘Metamorphoses of the Political’: Thematical Module 6 – Political Economy of Growth and...
TM1 & TM4 Workshop: The Idea of Heresy; 26-29 April 2022; Weimar, Germany
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...
Launch of ICAS:MP’s Open Access book by Anandita Bajpai on 28 March 2022
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...

