The Center for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) in Delhi, and the Forum Transregionale Studien with a base in Berlin, Germany invite scholars to apply for an international Winter School to be held in Delhi from 10—21 December, 2012 on the theme ”Philologies Across the Asias: The Translation, Transmission and Transformation of Knowledge in the Early Modern World”. The winter school is organised within the framework of the research project ”Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship” that aims to support research in neglected varieties of philology with the explicit aim to integrate, across the pre/modern divide, texts and scholarly traditions from Asia, Africa, the Middle East as well as from Europe itself.
This particular winter school will work with exploring the role that textual practices, language studies and archival policies have played in the constitution of knowledge across Asia since 1500.
Eligible candidates are post-doctoral students, and advanced doctoral students of language studies, history and cultural studies, whose philological work promotes an inter-Asian perspective. The organisers will cover travel costs and accommodation. Interested applicants should apply by 20 May 2012. Read full information about the application process.
The University of Würzburg, Germany organises a Summer School on ”Language and Culture of Karnataka (South India)” to take place 17 – 28 September 2012. The course will provide an introduction to the Kannada language, which is a classical Indian the language of the state of Karnataka spoken by more than 60 million people today. Introduction to spoken Kannada, as well as reading, writing and grammar skills will be given. The language course will be combined with an introduction to the history and culture of the Kannada–speaking areas of the Indian subcontinent. The state´s capital, Bangalore, a globalized IT-Boomtown is also called the “Silicon Valley of India”, whereas the Unesco World Heritage site Hampi gives a great impression of the capital of the late medieval Hindu kingdom of Vijayanagara (“City of Victory”), whose kings ruled over vast parts of South India for around 300 years. Cultural and religious traditions include the Islamic culture of North Karnataka, Jainism and Hinduism. The course is free of cost, but study literature and materials are to be covered by the students. Accommodation can be arranged upon request. Deadline for registration is 30 June 2012. 
The Heidelberg University's Cluster of Excellence ”Asia and Europe in a Global Context” organise a summer course that will focus on the way images and objects spread across geographical and cultural boundaries, and will take place in Heidelberg 29 July - 4 August 2012. The course is aimed at post-graduate students at Masters and PhD level from the areas of humanities and social sciences, and the program is structured around lectures, seminars and workshops. In terms of content, the emphasis is on the role and impact of visual and material culture. Among the topics addressed at the school are the formation of material worlds, the portrayal of intimacy and the exposition of images and objects in exhibitions and performances. The course will be given by academics from Germany, Canada, India, and the United States. The deadline for applications to sumbit application to participate in the school is 15 April 2012.
The Annual Winter Courses on Forced Migration are held each year in Kolkata, India, this year from 1 – 15 October 2012. The short-term courses, organised by the 
For the seventh year, the Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts, Leiden University, the Netherlands offers an Indological Programme during the period 16–27 July 2012. The Indological programme consists of four courses: – Features of Vedic poetry , and – The syntax of Vedic prose, both courses taught by Dr. Werner Knobl, University of Kyoto, Japan; a course on”Early Saiva Literature, taught by Peter Bisschop, Leiden University; and a course on ”Selected Passages of Sanskrit Prose Poetry”, taught by Csaba Dezső, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. 
For the sixth year, the Nordic Centre in India (NCI) consortium offers a 7.5 ECTS summer course on demography and gender in India, in collaboration with the 
The Puducherry (Pondicherry) Institute of Linguistics and Culture holds its regular Tamil Summer School from 30 July - 8 September 2012. The summer school offers an intensive education in spoken Tamil language at basic and intermediate levels, and it combines classroom lessons with field visits so that the participants can practice at most their language skills in the course of studies. Registration is open from 1 March – 30 April 2012. 
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