 CISCA Recommends
Call for Papers:
 The Politics Of Environmental Challenges In India
The University of Oslo’s 4th annual contemporary India seminar
6th September 2012
Deadline for abstract submission is 1st of May 2012.
Click here to read more about the seminar and or call for papers.
 Seeing Matters(s) - Materiality and Visuality
SUMMER SCHOOL 2012
29 July – 4 August, Heidelberg, Germany
Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”
www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/summerschool
Click here to download the Summer School poster
 The new summer courses of the Nordic Centre in India (NCI) have been announced now.
For more information visit:
http://www.nci.uu.se/
 An intensive Hindi summer course is offered at the Universität Hamburg in August
For more information visit:
http://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/indtib/Hindi-Intensiv-2012.pdf
 Financial Crises: Historical Challenges*
by Dr. Sumit Roy (CSGR, The University of Warwick)
GR:EEN - Global Re-ordering: Evolution through European Networks
Follow the link or click here to read the Warwick working paper
Seminar:
 Announcement for the IUAES 2012 Inter-Congress "Children and Youth in a Changing World" with two panels of CISCA board members (Karen Valentin and Uwe Skoda)
Organized jointly by IUAES
Commission for Children, Youth
and Childhood and Centre for Children Studies, KISS, KIIT University
26th-30th November 2012
Click here to download congress flyer
Gallery
 Encounters III
Photographs taken by 2nd year South Asian Studies students, Karthek Kugathasan, Camilla Rothkegel Sternberg and Sally Teresa Gregersen
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Other News
 From 23th April to 8th May 2012, CISCA has the pleasure of welcoming two visiting professors from our partner institution Sri Venkateshwara College in New Delhi - CISCA board member Nirmal Kumar and Chandermohan Rawat, who have been annual guests in Aarhus. Their time in Aarhus will be spent co-teaching and assisting CISCA in writing an Erasmus Mondus application.
 In week 16, CISCA have the pleasure of two visiting professors from IIT Madras, namely Dr. Jyotirmaya Tripathy and Dr. Sudarsan Padmanabhan, who have visited Aarhus University several times before. Their time in Aarhus will be spent co-teaching and assisting CISCA in writing an application for Erasmus Mondus.
 From 15th to 22nd March 2012, Aarhus University and CISCA will welcome Dr. Pierre Gottschlich of University of Rostock. As a part of the ERASMUS programme, Dr. Gottschlich will take up the role as exchange teacher/guest faculty while he is in Aarhus.
IESCP (India-Europe Study Centre Programme) has published its last newsletter of 2011. Click on the name to read it.
 CISCA has also published their second and last newsletter of 2011. Click here to read it.
On 21st and 22nd of November, the final conference of the India EU Study Centre Programme in Delhi took place. An MoU to create the European Association of India Study Centres (EAISC) was signed. Click here to read more and see a few photos.
 SASNET (Swedish South Asian Studies Network) has written a small article on the "Visual Cultures in Contemporary India" workshop in Aarhus on 8th and 9th December 2011. Click here to read it or go to CISCA i
n the Press
 On 14th December, CISCA and Aarhus University welcomed a 2nd year class from Skive
Gymnasium. As the students are going on a 2-week study trip to Delhi and Chennai in January, they were presented with a History lecture by CISCA board member, Prof. Niels Brimnes, and another board member, Gitte Grønning Munk, provided them with basic knowledge of Hindi. Lastly, our Research Trainee Priyanka Dalal along with two older South Asian Studies students gave tips on India and university studies. .
 As a an extra feature, a CISCA Affiliation Map has been created. Click here to have an overview of CISCA's affiliates and contacts around the world.
 Aleksandra Machura, who was at Aarhus University and CISCA on an internship in August/September 2011, has now made her project about Indians living in Denmark available. Click here to download.
 Indians in Aarhus and Aarhus University have cooporated to create a language buddy programme. The programme puts students in contact with Hindi-speaking Indians in Aarhus. By this the Hindi Students will get a golden opportunity to get away from the grammer books and practice and improve their Hindi. In exchange the Hindi students offer to practice Danish with their Indian buddy. We are happy to announce this mutual beneficial language programme.
 CISCA is pleased to announce that an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) has been signed with the ICCR (Indian Council for Cultural Relations). The first ICCR visiting professor will be announced soon and is expected to teach in Aarhus in autumn / winter 2011. Click here to read more or here to read the official statement on Aarhus University's homepage.
 Priyanka Dalal has joined Aarhus University and the South Asian Studies programme as a Research Trainee to teach Hindi. Click here to read more about Priyanka.
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Lectures
Kinship Classification in Patterns of Public Order
