Kama Maclean
@kamamaclean.bsky.social
Historian of social and political communication in South Asia, currently working on a multisensory history of interwar anticolonial movements, with an emphasis on sound. South Asia Institute, Universität Heidelberg. She/Her.
Am I the only one who gets a real kick out of citation chains? Reading people's writing and footnotes, and making assessments and notes, finding the sources in the footnotes and reading them yourself, and making more notes? I...love it?
Ryan Hagen@alltheshapes.bsky.social · 8mo agoNot for academics it isn’t. You learn by reading and by following citation chains and talking to other people in the field. Letting the AI do the summary is abdicating your job.
Learn about unique digital primary sources for South Asian studies.
FID4SA@fid4sa.bsky.social · last yr.📢Join our upcoming online couse!🖥️ „FID4SA - An Introduction“ on Thursday, April 24, 2025, 3-4 pm (CEST). We will give you a useful overview of our central services for researchers! The course will be held in English. Meeting room link: heiconf.uni-heidelberg.de/42zt-9nmm-zu... See you there!
Colleagues in South Asian Studies, the deadline for submitting papers for ECSAS is January 30, 2025. People have asked me why, when they have had their panels accepted already, do they need to ask their panelists to submit paper proposals.
Panels – ECSAS 2025
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This is indeed Required Reading, delightful and insightful. I am hooked and can see how it can be used in seminars to bring colonial documentation into conversation with the rich ecosystem of texts in which they were written.
Interested in doing research in Global Environmental History and the Environmental Humanities in Germany? I am scouting! Offering an up to 2 year research fellowship with the Humboldt Foundation. Deadline, December 13. www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet...
Humboldt Fellows
uni-augsburg.de
The European Conference for South Asian Studies (ECSAS) 2025 is being held at the University of Heidelberg, Oct 1-4. The Call for Papers is now open. Please check the list of accepted panels and consider submitting a paper proposal. Details are at ecsas2025.com/call-for-pan... See you in Heidelberg!
The South Asia Institute at the University of Heidelberg is looking to appoint an anthropologist, and the search is open rank. Please share: www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/...
Open Position: Professorship of Anthropology of South Asia (f/m/d) - Tenure Track Professorship (W1 to W3) or Full Professor (W3) - South Asia Institute
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