Bisherige Gastwissenschaftler/innen
Gastwissenschaftlerin Prof. Dr. Debjani Bhattacharyya
Prof. Dr. Debjani Bhattacharyya war vom 01. Juni bis 30. August 2020 als Gastwissenschaftlerin am Seminar für Südasienstudien.
Bio
Debjani Bhattacharyya is an assistant professor of history at Drexel University and the author of Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta (Cambridge University Press 2018) which received the Honorable Mention for the Best Book in Non-North American Urban History 2019. Most recently she was the Shelby Cullom Davis Center Fellow at Princeton University where she began work on her second book Monsoon Landscapes: Law and Climate Science in the Bay of Bengal. She will be at IAAW from June 1-August 30, 2020.
Monsoon Landscapes: Law and Climate Science in the Bay of Bengal
My current book project Monsoon Landscapes: Law and Climate Science in the Bay of Bengal is a history of colonial climate science and the development of an actuarial imaginary about Indian Ocean environments. Building upon a legal archive of insurance cases fought by the East India Company, ship-owners, the British Admiralty, and insurance companies spread across the British India through the eighteenth and nineteenth century, my book argues legal debates and marine insurance markets shaped and influenced the development of colonial weather science. For the parties involved in these cases developing the correct geographical nomenclature and science of tides, winds and rivers was central to settling insurance cases from the eighteenth century on. This book resituates the standard accounts of the origins of western meteorology to the littorals of the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal. Drawing on an archive of private papers of merchants in eastern India, Bangladesh and Burma, as well as documentation of shipwrecks and insurance claims settled across Calcutta, Rangoon, Glasgow and London, I show how complex categories were developed to administer “human error” and “natural calamity” in the Marine courts from the mid-eighteenth-century. These court records became a significant archive for colonial scientists to develop atmospheric and geological knowledge in the service of actuarial science and insurance laws. These courtroom debates became jurisgenerative sites of knowledge production about climate and geology. This book contributes to the growing field of colonial science studies to show how knowledge about the climate, natural worlds, and economic risk were shaped by both legal cases as well as laboratory science.
Gastwissenschaftler Prof. Dr. Iftekhar Iqbal
Dr. Iftekhar Iqbal war von Juli bis August 2019 auf einem Forschungsaufenthalt am Seminar für Südasienstudien.
Iftekhar Iqbal (PhD, Cambridge) is Associate Professor of History and International Studies at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei. Previously, he worked at the University of Dhaka. Iqbal´s research interests include intellectual history of South Asia and Asian environmental history.
Iqbal´s first monograph, The Bengal Delta (Palgrave, 2010), examines agrarian economy and wellbeing of colonial Bangladesh and West Bengal from a political-ecological perspective. The book received Honorable Mention by the Bernard S. Cohn Prize Committee of Association for Asian Studies and a Book Prize from University Grants Commission of Bangladesh. Iqbal is holder of Georg Forster Fellowship of Humboldt Foundation (2012-13) and British Academy Visiting Fellowship (2008). He serves as Chairman of the Asialoka Trust, a Dhaka-based non-profit think-tank, and sits on the international advisory board of South Asia: A Journal of South Asian Studies and Conservation and Society.
As a visiting fellow (July-August 2019) at the Institut for Asian and African Studies at Humboldt University Berlin, being sponsored by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Iqbal continues to work on a book project on the Tibetan-Himalayan rivers as a site of transregional mobility of human and non-human actors as well as commerce and commodities.
A list of publications by Iftekhar Iqbal is accessible here:
https://ubd.academia.edu/IftekharIqbal
Gastwissenschaftlerin Dr. Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska
Dr. Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska unterrichtet im Mai 2019 am Seminar für Südasienstudien.
Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska (PhD) is an assistant professor and 
supervisor of Asian Studies in Collegium Civitas, Warsaw. Her PhD thesis entitled Political Conditions of Democracy in India and Pakistan - Comparative Analysis (in Polish), defended at the Polish Academy of Sciences, was based on her own research, conducted among Pakistani and Indian political elites. Agnieszka made a monthly study visit to SciencesPo in Paris (Project co-funded by the European Social Fund). In Collegium Civitas, she teaches the following courses: Asia and its Regions in the Contemporary World, International Relations Workshop (in Polish), BA Seminar, Trade Aid and Develoment, Strategic Games (in English). Agnieszka also lectures at Warsaw University (Open University). She presented papers at international conferences dedicated to South Asia (25th European Conference on South Asian Studies, Paris, July 2018; International Conference on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Political, Economic and Social Perspective, University of the Pubjab, Lahore, Septemer 2017; Educating Women for Peace and Democracy, European Parliament, Brussels, May 2017). Agnieszka is a member of the European Association for South Asian Studies.
Gastprofessorin Prof. Dr. Vandana Joshi
Vandana Joshi
Dr. Vandana Joshi teaches at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi. She learnt German language, literature and history, Indian history and gender history at the Jawaharlal Nehru University and University of Delhi before coming to Germany as a DAAD fellow in 1995. She obtained her doctorate in 2001 from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Women and Gender (ZIFG), Technical University, Berlin, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Karin Hausen.
Since then she has received several honours and research awards such as the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History, Erasmus Mundus Visiting Fellowship, Charles Wallace India Trust Grant, MPI Geschichte Visiting Fellowship and recently, the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. Her ongoing research, “Wartime Sexuality: State Policies and Social Practices in Germany and Britain in WWII 1939-45” focuses on unwanted sexual relations between native women and prisoners of war or Black American GIs in World War Two, an embarrassing fact for the two nation-empires and an everyday lived reality for ‘the many' who retained their zest and love of life in an atmosphere of hatred.
Gastwissenschaftler Dr. Karl Dirk Voss
Dr. Karl Dirk Voss, Professor of History, St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Dr. Voss teaches history at the St. Louis Community College since 2002. He taught classes at Canterbury Christ Church University in the United Kingdom, at Ca Mau Community College in Vietnam, and summer classes at Hunan Normal University in Changsha and at Xi’an International University. A two-semester sabbatical leave allows him to participate in classes at the Institute for Asian and African Studies and enhancing his knowledge and understanding of modern Asian and African history. Upon his return to St. Louis Dr. Voss will teach the introduction courses into African and Asian history at his home college. Dr. Voss received several honors throughout his career such as the recent National Endowment for the Humanities award to attend a four-week workshop on modern Mongolia at the University of Pennsylvania in the summer of 2016.
Gastwissenschaftler Dr. Chris Moffat
Dr. Chris Moffat, Lecturer in South Asian and Global History, Queen Mary University of London, UK
I am a political and intellectual historian of modern South Asia with an interest in the shape and form of history’s ‘public life’ across the broader postcolonial world. To this end, my work engages both the philosophy and anthropology of the discipline. I joined Queen Mary in 2015, having completed my PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2014.
My research focuses on questions of historical methodology, especially where the discipline of history grapples with alternative conceptions of time and space, the interruptive influence of the dead, and the fraying or tangled threads of memory. I have written extensively on the Indian revolutionary martyr Bhagat Singh (1907-1931), tracing his continuing political potential into the twenty-first century and asking what it means to take such revenant figures seriously in the history of political thought.
I have a consonant interest in alternative or dissident commemorative practices, particularly as they relate to public space, public art and the politics of archival and architectural preservation.
Gastwissenschaftler Dr. Simon Layton
Dr. Simon Layton, Lecturer in Early Modern History, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Simon Layton joined the School of History in Queen Mary University of London, in 2015. His research explores oceans and other transnational spaces of historical enquiry, considering questions pertaining to empire, exploration, violence and sovereignty in the early-modern period. He is a specialist in the concept and manifestations of ‘piracy’ in world history, and has recently embarked upon a new project with the National Maritime Museum in London, exploring the material cultures of Pacific navigation and cross-cultural encounters. He has published articles in Itinerario (35:2, 2011), Journal of Early Modern History (17:1, 2013), and International Journal of Maritime History (25:2, 2013).
Gastprofessorin Prof. Dr. Anuradha Roy
Works focus on the intellectual and cultural history of modern Bengal. Specializes in the life of the Bengali bhadralok (middle-class literati) and bhadramahila (the women of the bhadralok family). Written in both Bengali and English. Quite a few books on Bengal Marxism, including two in English, both published in 2014 – Bengal Marxism: Early Discourses and Debates and Cultural Communism in Bengal, 1936-1952. Also authored Nationalism as Poetic Discourse in Nineteenth Century Bengal. Edited two big collections of nationalist songs and poems for the literary academies of the province of West Bengal and of India, covering the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries respectively.
Interested also in Gandhian social activism in Bengal. Contemplates a combination of Marx, Gandhi and Tagore for formulating an ideology for a better world.
Gastprofessorin Prof. Dr. Sudeshna Banerjee
Prof. Dr. Banerjee
After doing her Bachelor of Arts with honours in History from Presidency College, Calcutta, she did her Masters in History at the University of Calcutta. A Commonwealth Scholarship tenable in the UK enabled her to get her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Sudeshna Banerjee started her teaching career as a guest lecturer in Presidency College, Calcutta, even while she was an UGC Junior Research Fellow. She joined City College, Calcutta, as a full-time lecturer in February 1986. In September that year she joined Jadavpur University as a lecturer. In 1994 she was promoted to the post of senior lecturer by Jadavpur University. Readership was conferred on her in 1999. She became an associate professor with the nomenclature of the post of reader being changed to that of associate professor by an order of the Government of West Bengal. Additionally, she served as the Head of the Department of History, Jadavpur University, from 01.04.2010 to 31.03. 2012.
Gastprofessorin Prof. Dr. Vandana Joshi
Vandana Joshi
Dr. Vandana Joshi teaches at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi. She learnt German language, literature and history, Indian history and gender history at the Jawaharlal Nehru University and University of Delhi before coming to Germany as a DAAD fellow in 1995. She obtained her doctorate in 2001 from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Women and Gender (ZIFG), Technical University, Berlin, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Karin Hausen.
Since then she has received several honours and research awards such as the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History, Erasmus Mundus Visiting Fellowship, Charles Wallace India Trust Grant, MPI Geschichte Visiting Fellowship and recently, the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. Her ongoing research, “Wartime Sexuality: State Policies and Social Practices in Germany and Britain in WWII 1939-45” focuses on unwanted sexual relations between native women and prisoners of war or Black American GIs in World War Two, an embarrassing fact for the two nation-empires and an everyday lived reality for ‘the many' who retained their zest and love of life in an atmosphere of hatred.
Gastwissenschaftler Maj. Gen. (retd.) Shaukat Iqbal
Maj. Gen. (retd.) Shaukat Iqbal
Maj. Gen. (retd.) Shaukat Iqbal has served in Pakistan Army for 40 Years.
Has experience of fighting War on Terrorism and serving in Kashmir. He has also commanded Division of Nuclear Forces. He is a graduate of Pakistan Staff College, National Defence College and German Fuerungsakademie Hamburg. He was declared as best officer in German Staff College and was awarded Clausewitz Honor and Shorn Horst Prize.
In civil education he is Masters in Strategic Studies, Masters in International Affairs, Masters in Military Sciences and presently a student of PhD in International Affairs. He Served in diplomatic mission in Germany, Austria, Poland for a long time and has the distinction of travelling to more than 50 countries. He also served in Saudi Arabia and China on military missions for long time. He participated in many workshops and security seminars of West Europe, East Europe, Middle East and Far East.
He is author of two books:
1. The New Great Game and Security Challenges for Pakistan and
2. Turmoil in Muslim World – A moment of soul searching
Gastwissenschaftler Soham Das Gupta
Soham Das Gupta
He was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-University, Berlin, from June to October 2014. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D in Jadavpur University. His research deals with the British theories and practices of "small wars" in the North-West Frontier of British India between 1849-1913. The chief focus of the research is the patterns of wars waged by the British colonial masters against the frontier tribes. The engagements between the British colonial masters and tribesmen of the 'volatile frontier' ranged from 'butcher and bolt' expedition to 'winning the hearts and minds'.Moreover, here is an endevour to explore any shift & continuity in waging war in this particular region in recent times. Furthermore, here is an attempt to engage in the onging debate on the “new wars” by trying to see ‘how new are these “new wars”?'
Gastwissenschaftlerin Sayantani Adhikary
Sayantani Adhikary
Sayantani Adhikary (D.O.B - 28.08.1980) is currently working as Senior Research Fellow in the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. She was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Asian and African Studied, Humboldt University, Berlin, from April 2013 to August 2013. Sayantani completed her Masters in History from Jadavpur University with First class in 2004 and taught as a Guest Lecturer in Asutosh College from 2004 to 2009. She is currently doing her Ph.d on the topic titled “Politics of Physical Culture in Colonial Bengal, 1867-1947” under Dr. Sudeshna Banerjee, Department of History, Jadavpur University.
Her PhD dissertation focuses upon the interface between emerging national consciousness in colonial Bengal in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century and the world of physical culture. The thesis does not miss the coincidence between the bhadralok’s interest in physical culture and the emergence of anti-colonial nationalism. But, while recognizing the connection between the eagerness of the bhadralok nationalism for physical culture as a reaction to the colonial ascription of effeminacy on the middle class educated Bengali male, the thesis also seeks to raise the question as to whether historically this was the only determinant of the bhadralok enthusiasm for physical culture from the end of the nineteenth century. Secondly, the thesis identifies that the world of physical culture was a highly diversified sphere. The dissertation therefore tries to examine the different ideological positions that were at work in the revived world of physical culture.
Gastprofessor Prof Dr. Iftekhar Iqbal
Iftekhar Iqbal
Iftekhar Iqbal (PhD, Cambridge) is Associate Professor of History at Dhaka University. His recent book, The Bengal Delta (Palgrave, 2010), examines the political-ecological dynamics of the region in colonial times with a focus on agrarian economy and wellbeing. The book received Honorable Mention by the inaugural Bernard S. Cohn Prize Committee of the Association for Asian Studies. Iqbal is a holder of the British Academy Visiting Fellowship (2008) and an elected member of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society.
As a Georg Forster Fellow (2012-13) of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Humboldt University, Iqbal works on “Rivers and trans-regional integration: environment, culture and communication across the Eastern Himalayan-Tibetan Watershed, 1840-1947”. In particular, Iqbal will study the modern history of Yunnan, Myanmar, Assam and Bengal in a view to situate trans-regional forces of ecology in the territorially-bounded development practices of the nation-state.
Gastprofessor Prof. Dr. Irfan Habib
Irfan Habib
Prof. Dr. Irfan Habib started his career at the National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, New Delhi, in 1982. In 2009, he moved to the National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi. Since then, he occupies the Maulana Azad Chair.
Prof. Dr. Irfan Habib has worked on diverse issues related to science, technology and colonialism in mid 19th and early 20th century India. At present he is engaged in research on issues concerning science and Islam, mainly within South Asia. His book called Jihad or Ijtihad: Religious orthodoxy and modern science in contemporary Islam is due for publication soon.
Gastwissenschaftlerin Girija Natu
Girija Natu
Girija Natu:
2006- BA mit Hauptfach Deutsch, Pune Universität, Maharashtra, India.
2008- Masters in German from, Pune Universität, Maharashtra, India.
Seit 2009- M.Phil an der deutschen Abteilung, Universität Pune, Maharashtra, India.
2012 Juni-August- Forschungsaufenthalt am Seminar für Südasien, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
Über die Forschungsarbeit:
Indisch-deutsche Handelsbeziehungen und ihre Implementierung im Wirtschaftsdeutschkurs.
In der oben genannten Forschungsarbeit geht es um die Handelsbeziehungen zwischen Indien und Deutschland im Zeitraum von 1990-2010. Die Jahre 1990 und 1991 spielen für beide Länder – sowohl in Hinblick auf die Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands als auch bezüglich der wirtschaftlichen Öffnung Indiens – eine wichtige Rolle. In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden verschiedene Faktoren der indisch-deutschen Handelsbeziehungen berücksichtigt. Dazu gehören Geschichte, Indisch-Deutsche Kollaborationen, Wirtschaftskommunikation und die Darstellung der Beziehungen in der deutschen und indischen Presse.
In der Forschungsarbeit werden zudem didaktische Aspekte behandelt. Die Zielgruppe besteht aus Studenten, die den Kurs "Advanced Diploma" an einer staatlichen Universität in Indien absolviert haben und im indisch-deutschen Wirtschaftsbereich arbeiten wollen. Hierzu wird eine vergleichende Studie von Lehrplänen an ausgewählten Universitäten beider Länder durchgeführt, in der Lehrer des Wirtschaftsdeutschkurses und Mitarbeiter ausgewählter Unternehmen interviewt werden.
Gastwissenschaftlerin Urvashi Gautam
Urvashi Gautam
Currently pursuing her PhD in Contemporary European History from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Her area of research includes the Second World War (1939-1945) and propaganda and the response in Germany, Britain and India. Her PhD thesis is titled “A war of Information: Germany, Britain and India: 1939-1945.” She is looking at the representation of the “enemy” in propaganda mainly visual propaganda and is also comparing the process and means of information dissemination of the Axis and Allies in the Second World War. She has done her M.Phil and M.A from Jawaharlal Nehru University and her B.A in History from University of Delhi, Miranda House Delhi.