University of Heidelberg

Kontaktinformationen

Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies
Room 107
Voßstraße 2, Building 4400
69115 Heidelberg
Germany

Email:

brosius@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de

Telefon:

+49 (0) 6221 54 4343

Fax:

+49-(0) 6221-54 4490

Über Christiane Brosius

For information on office hours please visit Visual and Media Anthropology

Public Talks, Workshops and Conferences organised (since 2009)

Projekte

• B3 Urbane Sensorien
• B4 Transkulturelle Visualität
• B8 Gender neu überdacht
• B11 Neue urbane Vorstellungswelten
• D13 Multizentrische Modernismen
• HRA2 Globale Helden
• HRA6 HyperEvaluation
• HRA9 Satellites of Networks

Lebenslauf

08/2009 -
Full Professur (W3) ‘Visual and Media Anthropology’, Cluster „Asia and Europe in a Global Context“, Heidelberg University

02/2008
Habilitation in the Faculty of Behavioural and Cultural Studies. Venia Legendi in Cultural Anthropology

2007/08

Member of the European research initiative “Ritual, Media, and Conflict”, a collaboration between the Centre of Ritual Dynamics (Heidelberg) and Radboud University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and the German Research Foundation (DFG).

since 2006
Founding member of Tasveer Ghar (‚House of Pictures’). A Digital Network of South Asian Popular Visual Culture, a transnational network dedicated to research on, archiving and publication of visual popular culture (in cooperation with Sumathi Ramaswamy, Duke University; Manishita Das, Michigan University, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Sarai. The Media Initiative, New Delhi) (weblink).

since 2005
Head of subproject A4 ‚Agency and Territorial Rituals in India’ at the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 619 ‚Dynamics of Ritual’(DFG-film portrai, see here)

2005
Associate Guest Professor at the School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (Ford Foundation Fellowship)

2002-2009
Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University.

2002-2005
Member of the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 619 ‚Dynamics of Ritual’, subproject A4 ‚Agency and Territorial Rituals in India’ (Prof. W. Sax)

2000-2002
Research Fellow at the Institute of Theatre Studies, Gutenberg-University, Mainz. Research project entitled: ‘Colonialism and the representation of the Pacific Islands in early films (1900-1931), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the general project titled ‘Theatricality - Theatre as cultural model in the comparative cultural sciences’

05/2000
Ph.D. at the Department of Comparative Social and Cultural Anthropology, Europe-University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Prof. Werner Schiffauer. Title of doctoral thesis: Empowering Visions. A Study on Videos and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism in India (1989-1998).

05-08/1995
Co-curator for a long term exhibition project at the Commonwealth Institute, London, with special focus on South Asia.

1994-1995
Visiting postgraduate student at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (Art History, Anthropology, South Asian Cultures and Languages)

03-04/1991
Internship at the Royal Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh

1988-1989
Academic year at the Brooks University, Oxford (Art History, Photography; Printmaking)

1986-94
Studies of Art Education (MA), Art History and Cultural Anthropology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Professional service and memberships

Member of the German Museums Association (Deutscher Museumsverbund, since 2012)

Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Transcultural Studies (since 2009).

Member of the Advisory Board of the India Media Centre, University of Westminster, London (since 2009).

Member of the Steering Committee of the Heidelberg Research Architecture.

Member of the Executive Board of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows” (2007-09).

Member of the German Anthropological Association (GAA)/Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde (DGV) (since 2006).

Member of the Association of University Professors and Lecturers/Deutscher Hochschulverband (DHV) (since 2007).

Reviewer positions

Contributions to Indian Sociology, Journal of Economic and Social Geography, Oxford University Press (New York), Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Current Anthropology, Contemporary South Asia, Social Anthropology, Journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (Leiden), International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (Brighton, GB), Reviewer for the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Publication Series.

Member of the Editorial Committee for the newly launched series 'Religion und Neue Medien' (Religion and New Media), transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

Member of the Editorial Boards of the South Asia Institute Annual Report (2002-03).

Advisor for a filmic documentary on contemporary art and literature, Metropolis (ARTE/3-SAT), 2006.

Advisor for National Geographic (Germany), Special Edition India (March 2007).

Research and fieldwork

January/March-April 2012:

Fieldwork in Delhi, Kathmandu/Patan

2010/11

September - March: Fieldwork in New Delhi.

November 2010: Fieldwork in Nepal (KTM Valley).

2010
February/March: Fieldwork in New Delhi.

2009
August - September: Research in India (Delhi).

2006/07
August - March: Research in Nepal and India.

2005
January - May, October: Research for habilitation in New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Gandhinagar.  

2004
February - April: Fieldwork in New Delhi.

2003
February/March, October: Fieldwork in New Delhi.  

2000
February/March: Library and archival research in Hawaii (Honolulu), Australia (Sydney, Canberra), New Zealand (Wellington) und New Kaledonia (Nouméa) in the context of the DFG-SPP „Theatralität als kulturelles Modell“ [“Theatricality as cultural model”]

Since 2002
Short fieldwork on the Southasian diaspora in Germany (mainly in Frankfurt/Main)

Since 1997
Fieldwork in Northern India (mainly in Delhi) for 20 months in total, except from 2000-2002.  

Ausgewählte Publikationen

Monographs

 

2010. India’s Middle Class. New Forms of Urban Leisure, Consumption and Prosperity. New Delhi, London, New York: Routledge.

Reviews of the book:

• Mitu Sengupta. 2010. "From Middle Class to 'world class'". In Biblio XV (3&4), March-April
• Peter Gottschlich. 2011. In Internationales Asienforum/International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Nov. 2011, Vol. 3-4: 385-387
• Henrike Donner. 2012. In Asian Studies Review 36(1): 139-140

2005. Empowering Visions. The Politics of Representation in Hindu Nationalism. London: Anthem Press.

1997. Kunst als Denkraum. Zum Bildungsbegriff von Aby Warburg. Pfaffenweiler, Centaurus Verlagsgesellschaft.

Edited volumes

In preparation

(expected winter 2012). With Sumathi Ramaswamy, Yousuf Saeed (eds.). Housefull?!: Best of Visual Essays of Tasveerghar-The House of Pictures. Delhi: Yoda Press.

with Tina Schilbach. in peer review process. Mind the Gap. Thinking about in-between spaces in New Delhi and Shanghai

2011

With Roland Wenzlhuemer (eds.). Transcultural Turbulences. Interdisciplinary Explorations of Flows of Images and Media. Vienna, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag.

With Karin Polit (eds.). Ritual and Media. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag (Section II of the Volume Reflexivity, Media and Visuality in the IV-Volume Series Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual).

With Karin Polit (eds.). Ritual, Heritage and Identity. The Politics of Culture and Performance in a Globalised World. New Delhi: Routledge.  

2010

With Ute Hüsken. Ritual Matters. The Dynamics of Change and Stability. New Delhi: Routledge.

2006

With Ravi Ahuja (eds.). Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata. Annäherungen an Megastädte in Indien. [Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata: Approaches to Indian Megacities], Heidelberg: Draupadi Verlag.

With Urmila Goel (eds.). Masala.de. Menschen aus Südasien in Deutschland. [Masala.de. People from South Asia in Germany]. Heidelberg: Draupadi Verlag.

1999

With Melissa Butcher (eds.). Image Journeys. Audio-visual media and cultural change in India. New Delhi/London/Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

2008-2010

editor of an online-journal on popular visual culture in Asia. In collaboration with Tasveer Ghar/House of Pictures and Savifa, the information gateway for South Asian Studies. [weblink] 

 

Articles

In preparation

(expected spring 2012). “Contesting Emotions. Ritualising Romantic Love in Neoliberal Urban India”.  In Axel Michaels and Christoph Wulf (ed.). Rituals and Emotions in South Asia and Europe. New Delhi: Routledge.

(expected summer 2012) "The Perfect World of BAPS. Media and Urban Dramaturgies in a Globalised Context".In Public Hinduisms. (Selected papers from AHRC-funded network project of the same title), edited by Maya Warrier, Raymond Williams, John Zavos, Deepa Reddy. London: Sage Publication: 440-462

(expected winter 2012). „’Enclave Gaze’: Images and Imaginary of Neoliberal Lifestyle in New Delhi“. In Patsy Spyer and Mary Steedly (eds.). Images that Move. School for Advanced Research Press (SAR). Santa Fe. 

"Love Attacks: Romance, Media Voyeurism and Activism in the Public Domain". In Sanjay Srivastava (ed.). Sexuality Reader. New Delhi: OUP.

"Globalisierte Emotionen und Medienwelten: Gedanken zur multilokalen Ethnographie im urbanen Indien". In Zillinger, Martin und Cora Bender (Hg.). Medienethnographie. Ein Handbuch. Berlin: Reimer Verlag.

2012

"The Looks and Sites of Love. Valentine's Day greeting cards in urban India". Tasveerghar Visual Essay (February 2012)

2011

Encyclopedia entry: "Middle Class". In Arnold P. Kaminsky and Roger D. Long (eds.). India Today. An Encyclopedia on Life in the Republic. ABC-Clio: 459-464

Introduction with Roland Wenzlhuemer. "Transcultural Turbulences: Flows of Images and Media". In Brosius and Roland Wenzlhuemer (eds.). Transcultural Turbulences. Interdisciplinary Explorations of Flows of Images and Media. Wien, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag: 3-26.

"Love in the Age of Valentine and Pink Underwear: Media and Politics of Intimacy in South Asia". In Brosius, Christiane and Roland Wenzlhuemer (eds.). Transcultural Turbulences. Interdisciplinary Explorations of Flows of Images and Media. Wien, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag: 27-66.

"The Cultural Politics of Transnational Heritage Rituals: Akshardham Cultural Complex in New Delhi". In Christiane Brosius and Karin Polit (eds.).  Ritual, Heritage and Identity. The Politics of Culture and Performance in a Globalised World. New Delhi: Routledge: 97-125. 

"Globalisierte Gefühle. Die romantische Liebe in Zeiten neuer Medien". In UNIVERSITAS Orientieren! Wissen! Handeln! 66(776), Februar: 44-55 (reprint from Ruperto Carola volume, 2010)

2.9.2011. "Love is in the Air. Der indische Valentinstag". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, No 33, Page N3 (Natur und Wissenschaft).[weblink] [pdf]

"The Multiple Bodies of the Bride. Ritualising 'World Class' at Elite Weddings in Urban India". In Images of the Body in India, edited by Axel Michaels and Christoph Wulf. New Delhi: Routledge: 261-279.

"Review essay: 'Picturing more than the nation: Three spotlights onto the field of visual and media cultures in India'". In Social Anthropology 19 (1):103-108. [pdf]

2010

“Globalisierte Gefühle. Die romantische Liebe in Zeiten neuer Medien”. Ruperto Carola 3: 30-37. [weblink].

14.10.2010. "Schneller, höher, sauberer. Beginn der Commonwealth Games in Neu Delhi" ("Faster, higher, cleaner. The start of the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi"). Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung No. 239, Feuilleton: 32.

“Von Enklaven und Kosmopoliten. Zur Rhetorik des Westens im neuen Indien“ [Of enclaves and cosmopolitans. On the rhetoric of the West in the New India] In Bilder von Europa. Innen- und Aussenansichten von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, edited by Benjamin Drechsel, Friedrich Jaeger, Helmut König and Anne Kathrin Lang. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag (Reihe Europäische Horizonte): 175-192.

"Rituale der Liebe. Von der Unerträglichen Leichtigkeit der Zuneigung". In Spektrum der Wissenschaft, Spezialheft/Special Issue 'Rituale' (1/2011): 70-75.

2009

“Die Vorstellung vom ‘Neuen Indien’. Anmerkungen zur unfassbaren Mittelklasse”. [The Imagination of a ‚New India‘. Commenting the Ungraspable Middle Class] In Indien Special Issue ‚Der Bürger im Staat‘, Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Baden-Württemberg (3/4): 220-227.

“The Multiple Bodies of the Bride. Ritualising ‘world class’ at Elite Weddings in Urban India”. In Paragrana, Special edition: The Body in India, edited by Axel Michaels and Christoph Wulf : 267-283.

With Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, Marianne Hundt, Rajend Meshtrie. “Moodling beyond Bollywood: Language, literature and culture in the Indian Diaspora. Report on an interdisciplinary e-course experiment”, In English Today. The International Journal of the English Language 25(2). [pdf]

“The Gated Romance of India Shining: Visualising Urban Lifestyle in Images of Residential Housing Development”, in Moti Gokulsing und Wimal Dissanayake (eds.) Popular Culture in a Globalised India. A Reader. London: Routledge: 174-191.

2008

“Mapping the Nation’s Body - Territorial Processions in Propaganda Videos of the Hindu Right”. In Daniela Berti and Gilles Tarabout (eds). Territory, Soil and Society in South Asia. Delhi: Manohar Publications: 339-380.

“The Enclaved Gaze: Exploring the Visual Culture of ‘World Class-Living’ in Urban India”. In MARG Special Issue “India’s Popular Culture: Iconic Spaces and Fluid Images”, edited by Jyotindra Jain, Mumbai: 114-125.

“Parading Violence: The Politics of Spectacle in a Hindu Nationalist Procession”. In Jörg Gengnagel, Monika Horstmann, Gerald Schwedler (eds). Prozessionen, Wallfahrten, Aufmärsche: Bewegung zwischen Religion und Politik in Europa und Asien seit dem Mittelalter. Vol. 4 of the series ‚Menschen und Kulturen‘ of the Saeculum-Beihefte. Böhlau: Köln, Weimar: 312-335.

2007

With Nicholas Yazgi. “Is There No Place Like Home? Contesting Cinematographic Constructions of Indian Diasporic Experiences”. Contributions to Indian Sociology 41(3): 353–84 (peer-reviewed).

“The Unwanted Offering. Ubiquity and Success of Failure in Hindu Right Rituals”. In Hüsken, Ute (ed.). When Rituals go Wrong: Mistakes, Failure, and the Dynamics of Ritual. Leiden: Brill: 291-324 (peer-reviewed).

“‘Indien scheint’: Neu Delhi als Weltklasse-Stadt”[India Shining: New Delhi as World Class City]. Archplus 186 (Indischer Inselurbanismus): 66-69.

2006

“masala.de oder die Frage nach kaleidoskopischen Identitäten. Einleitende Bemerkungen.” In Brosius, Christiane und Urmila Goel (eds.). Masala.de. Menschen aus Südasien in Deutschland. Heidelberg: Draupadi Verlag: 7-15.

“Making Place for the Forgotten Dreams of the Past: Territory and Identity in Hindu Nationalist Processions”. In Peter Köpping, Bernhard Leistle, Michael Rudolph (eds.). Ritual and Identity. Performative Practices as Effective Transformations of Social Reality?. Hamburg/Münster/London: LIT Verlag: 165-207.

“Ikarus oder Tiger auf dem Sprung? Epilog zur indischen Megastadt”. With Ravi Ahuja (ed.) Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata. Annäherungen an Megastädte in Indien. Heidelberg: Draupadi Verlag: 299-308.

“Happy Ends und andere Krisen: Heimat und Familienglück im Spiegel Bollywoods”. Brosius, Christiane und Urmila Goel (eds.). Masala.de. Menschen aus Südasien in Deutschland. Heidelberg: Draupadi Verlag: 73-101.

“Filmen in Gottes Namen: Missionarische Visionen und Ritualisierungen in Melanesien.” In Rao, Ursula (ed.). Kulturelle VerWandlungen. Die Gestaltung sozialer Welten in der Performanz. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang: 151-181.

“Bollywood goes West. Annäherung an ein nicht so fernes Phänomen“. Forum Bibliothek und Information (Oktoberausgabe).

“‘I am a national artist‘: Popular art in the sphere of Hindutva”. In Richard Davis (ed.). Picturing the Nation. Iconographies of Modern India. Hyderabad: Orient Longman: 171-205 (peer-reviewed).

2005

“The Scattered Homelands of the Migrant. Bollyworld through the diasporic lens”. In Raminder Kaur und Ajay Sinha (eds.). Bollyworld: Popular Indian Cinema through a Transnational Lens. New Delhi: Sage Publications: 207-238.

2004

“Of Nasty Pictures and ‘Nice Guys’: The Surreality of Online Hindutva”. In Sengupta, Shuddhabrata und Monica Narula (eds.). Media.Crisis. Sarai Reader 4. New Delhi: 138-151 [pdf]

2003

“Mappare il corpo della nazione. Le prozessioni territoriali nei video di propaganda della destra indù”. Etnosistemi X(10). Special edition Terra, territorio e societá. Gilles Tarabout und Daniela Berti (eds.): 130-144.

“Kannibalismus im Film. Imaginierte Rituale zwischen Dschungel und Salon”. In Fischer-Lichte, Erika et al (eds.). Ritualität und Grenze. Tübingen und Basel: Francke (=Theatralität 5). 295-312.

“’... denn der Schmerz ist schwer erträglich’: Zur Inszenierung von Tätowierung als Medienereignis”. In Fischer-Lichte, Erika et al. (eds.). Performativität und Ereignis. Tübingen und Basel: Francke (= Theatralität 4): 163-184.

2002

“Kultur und Medien”. Mitautorschaft in Indien. Wege zum besseren Verstehen. Deutsch-Indische Gesellschaft, Clemens Jürgenmeyer et al. (eds.), Gotha und Stuttgart: Klett-Perthes: 131-148.

“Hindutva Intervisuality - Videos and the Politics of Representation”. In Ramaswamy, Sumathi (ed.). Beyond Appearances. Visual Practices and Ideologies in Modern India. Special Issue Contributions to Indian Sociology, New Delhi/Thousand Oaks/London: Sage Publications: 265-295 (peer-reviewed).

1999

“Is this the Real Thing? Packaging Cultural Nationalism”. In Christiane Brosius und Melissa Butcher (eds.). Image Journeys. Audio-visual media and cultural change in India. New Delhi/London/Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications: 99-138 (peer-reviewed).

With Melissa Butcher: “Introduction: Image Journeys”. In Christiane Brosius und Melissa Butcher (eds.). Image Journeys. Audio-visual media and cultural change in India. New Delhi/London/Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications: 11-40.

1997

“Motherland in Hindutva Iconography”. The India Magazine of her People and Culture 17(12), November: 22-30.

“Mapping the Nation”. In Pooja Sood (ed.). Mappings: Shared Histories ... a fragile Self

 

Review Articles

2011

Review on "Ritty A. Lukose. Liberalization’s Children. Gender, Youth, and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2009". Asian Studies Review 35(2): 373-4 (weblink)

"Review essay: 'Picturing more than the nation: Three spotlights onto the field of visual and media cultures in India'". In Social Anthropology 19 (1):103-108.

2008

“Thomas Hauschild: Ritual und Gewalt. Ethnologische Studien an europäischen und mediterranen Gesellschaften.” Journal-Ethnologie 6.

2004

“’Making the Gods more real’. Review on Christopher Pinney ‘Photos of the Gods. The Printed Image and Political Struggle in India, London: Reaktion Books 2004. In South Asian Studies: 111-113.

Comment on Shereen Ratnagar “Archaeology at the Heart of a Political Confrontation. The Case of Ayodhya”. In Current Anthropology 45 (4), April.

Public Talks, Workshops and Conferences organised (since 2009)

2012

April 19th, 2012
Lecture on Observation at the interdisciplinary Lecture Series "Key Concepts in the Humanities and Social Sciences", Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland (read more)

April 3rd - 6th, 2012
Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth (ASA): Arts and aesthetics in a globalising world, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Anthropology in the contemporary artworld (P19) – panel convenor, with Clare Harris (University of Oxford) and Kavita Singh (School of Arts & Aesthetics, JNU Delhi) (read more)

Presentation at P48 Weddings: identity and aesthetics in a globalising consumer world, on "For Love's Sake? Sonic and visual aesthetics of weddings in contemporary Nepal" (read more)

March 26th - 29th, 2012
Talk on "Public art and the creative city between world class and ordinary everyday" at Between Global Aspirations and Local Realities. India’s Cities in Interdisciplinary Perspective conference of the South Asia Institute, Auditorium of the School of Arts & Aesthetics, JNU, Delhi

2011

December 6th – 9th, 2011
"Gazing at Contemporary Indian Art", talk presented at the Conference "Exploring the Senses. Emotions, Performativity, and Ritual" in cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotions" (read more)
Location: Free University of Berlin, Berlin

November 23rd-25th, 2011
"Being Young in South Asia". International Workshop organized by Christiane Brosius and Karin Polit, Ritual Dynamics Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 619), Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies. (read more)
Talk on "Islands of privacy? Youth rituals in urban India."

November 12th - 13th, 2011
Invitation as an consulting expert to the first DFG-Network-Meeting "Mediatisation outside  Europe: South Asia"
Location: Humboldt University Berlin

October 11th, 2011
"One is a lonely number". Conversation with artist Koken Ergun(Berlin) during the 4th International Festival on Photography Heidelberg, Mannheim and Ludwigshafen, moderated by Solvej Helweg Ovesen URL: www.fotofestival.info/en/program/
Location: Kunsthalle Mannheim

June 23rd – 25th, 2011
„Delhi’s public art festival: 48°C Public.Art.Ecology”, talk presented at the Workshop "South Asian Festivals on the Move", organised by the Cluster project 'Religion on Stage' (B12) in cooperation with the research project "Perspectives on Festivity" of the Department for Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at Oslo University.
Location: University of Oslo, Norway (read more)

June 2nd – 5th, 2011
Co-organisation of the Workshop "Colours, Images, Materialities" held by the Research Project B4 "Transcultural Visuality", in Istanbul (read more)

January 19th 2011
Panel on Public Art at conference “Dialogues on Curating”, India International Centre, New Delhi, a collaboration  between  Pro  Helvetia  Swiss  Arts  Council, the  Foundation  for  Indian  Contemporary  Art  and  India  International  Centre, conceptualized  by  Dr  Kavita  Singh (School of Arts & Aesthetics, JNU) and  Vidya  Shivadas (Vadhera Art Gallery) (read more)
Location: New Delhi

2010

October 29th, 2010
Chair at Panel "Cultural Relativism and the Circuits of Display: from the Museum to the Art Fair"
Conference on "Art Practices in Age of Cultural Relativism" (read more)
Location: British Council, New Delhi

October 19th – 23rd, 2010
Organisation of the Workshop “Spaces in-between from non-place to shared space in developmental cities” held by research project B11 “New Urban Imaginaries” (read more)
Talk presented: "Public Art and urban space in Delhi"
Location: Goethe Institute Max Mueller Bhavan

June 4th- 5th, 2010
Workshop on "Changing Popular Visual Culture of Muslim Shrines: Transcultural Flows and Urban Spaces" organized with Yousuf Saeed
Location: Karl-Jasper Center, Heidelberg (read more)

April 29th, 2010
Transculturality and art: challenges for anthropology and art history. Joint presentation with Monica Juneja at meeting with representatives of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Location: Karl-Jaspers Center, Heidelberg

February, 17th – 20th, 2010
Organisation of the Workshop “Icons: Spectacle and Affect” held by the research project B4 “Transcultural Visuality” (read more)
Transcultural Visuality Workshop Series No. 2
Location: Gothe Institute New Delhi/ The Max Bhavan Mueller Center

January 25th, 2010
Invitation as an expert to the Workshop on "Sustainability, Culture and Public Life"
Location: Goethe Institute Shanghai, China

2009

October 7th – 9th, 2009
Organisation of the first Annual Conference of the Cluster "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", entitled on "Flows of Images and Media", co-organized with PD Dr. Roland Wenzelhuemer,
Talk presented: "Love in the Age of Valentine and Pink Underwear: Negotiating Romantic Love and the Asymmetries of Transcultural Image and Media Flows" (read more)
Location: University of Heidelberg

March 9th – 13th, 2009
Workshop and conference on “Archiving Practices: Reading Walter Benjamin and Aby Warburg in relation to the Cluster’s agenda – the innovative exploration of flows and asymmetries between Asia and Europe” held by research project B4 “Transcultural Visuality”
'Tasveer Ghar: A digital Network of South Asian Popular Visual Culture'
Location: Karl-Jasper Center, Heidelberg (read more)

 

Press, TV & radio

28.9.2011. RNF LIFE (live). Das Regionalmagazin für die Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar, Interview on dressing 'difference' in multicultural Germany 

DFG ScienceTV: Die Welt der Rituale; Folge 06, 22.06.2011; Jugendkulturen in Indien und deren Rituale. [watch online]

18.5.2011. The Christian Science Monitor: For Indians, the climb into the middle class is a family affair. But affluence – like a separate bedroom for the kids and a good education – could change the culture. [weblink]

Campus TV reports on Annual Conference, 29.10.2009. TV magazine postraits Christiane Brosius and the Cluster "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" (de/aktuelles/presse/press-commentaries/detail/m/campus-tv-flows-of-images-and-media.html