SASNET visit to Aarhus University

Uwe Skoda, CISCA with Julia Velkova, SASNET

Julia Velkova from SASNET visited Aarhus University during 8-9 December 2011 in order to meet Professor Uwe Skoda from the Contemporary India Study Centre Aarhus – CISCA and discuss potential future collaborations with SASNET. The visit was done also in connection to the workshop on ”Visual Cultures in Contemporary India” that took place at the same time, and was arranged by CISCA.

The Contemporary India Study Centre Aarhus is one of the several centres financially supported by the India-EU Study Centres Program and was established in 2009. Shortly after the establishment of CISCA it was held a workshop on ”Contemporary India Study Centres in Europe: Status & Further Developments” in Paris where all newly established India Study Centres were present, and in which SASNET also participated being represented by Lars Eklund and Stig Toft Madsen. More information about the Paris meeting.

During the two days in Aarhus, Julia Velkova discussed with Uwe Skoda the potential for collaborations around joint seminars or exchange of guest lecturers in 2012, as well as the future developments for both CISCA and SASNET (CISCA's EU financial assistance expired on 14 December 2011). CISCA also has partnerships with the Nordic Centre in India and the Norwegian Forum on South Asia in terms of teaching in Hindi that take place in Varanasi.

On the photo from left to right: Julia Velkova - SASNET, Radhika Chopra - Delhi University (third left to right), Kirti Sharma - Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, New Delhi

During the two days of workshop, Julia Velkova networked also with a number of scholars from other European and Indian universities, among which were Delhi University, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Humboldt University Berlin and others. 

Julia Velkova with the activist and filmmaker from Orissa, Samarendra Das

The Aarhus workshop will have a follow up in Delhi in exactly one month – on 8-9 January 2012 and will have as a goal to analyse and document the visual past of Delhi and, more broadly, urban India and wish to explore and document how Delhi has been seen and portrayed in various forms of visual cultures. Read more about the workshop.

Participants at the workshop on Visual Cultures in Contemporary India