Südasien-Institut / South Asia Institute

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Interdisciplinary Centre for Research and Academic Teaching on South Asia. linktr.ee/sai_heidelberg

Austin Simões-Gomes explores women’s agency and unseen labour through a striking ritual that highlights the dynamic between Newar Buddhist women mediums (dyaḥmāṃ) and male vajrācārya priests, in a recent lecture organised by SAI Kathmandu Branch Office and Alliance Française Kathmandu.

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Denationalisation, Statelessness, and Refugeehood: A Case of the Rohingya “Subhuman” Life By Prof. Nasir Uddin The talk discusses the plight of the Rohingyas, treated as “subhuman life” by the state. First denationalised, they have been rendered stateless and submerged in protracted refugeehood.

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