University of Heidelberg

Laurent Pordié joins the CNRS in Paris

The coordinator of project C4 has been appointed as a permanent Senior Researcher by the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. He will join a world leading center on medicine, science and society (CERMES3), that is run jointly by CNRS, EHESS, Inserm and University of Paris-Descartes. Laurent Pordié will however continue to contribute to the activities of the Cluster of Excellence in Heidelberg. More details.

David Picherit earns a Postdoctoral Fellowship in SOAS, London.

Anthropologist David Picherit earns a fellowship jointly awarded by the Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme, the European Commission (Program Action Marie Curie, COFUND, 7th PCRD) and the Fondation Fritz Thyssen. The resident member of the project C4 will spend a year at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS), University of London, starting in autumn 2011.  

Sandra Bärnreuther receives a Fulbright Scholarship.  

The Fulbright scholarship will allow Sandra Bärnreuther, a PhD Candidate on transnational reproductive care with the project C4, to study as a non-degree student at the Department of Anthropology at New York University for a full academic year.  

Laurent Pordié has been offered a Visiting Appointment by the University of Chicago.

The coordinator of Project C4 is an anthropologist and pharmacologist specialized in the social study of science and medicine in South Asia. He will join the Department of Anthropology, an outstanding institution in the field.  

Sandra Bärnreuther won the “SAI Advancement Award 2010” of the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg.

Ms. Bärnreuther received the award from the Association of Friends and Patrons of the South Asia Institute in recognition of her M.A. thesis on the anthropology of birth in the Himalayas.  

Burton Cleetus received the Rockefeller Archives Center Grant Award.

A Postdoctoral Fellow in History at the French Institute of Pondicherry (Unit 21 of CNRS-MAEE) and Associate Staff to Research Project C4, Dr. Burton Cleetus won the 2009 Rockefeller Award for his project "Framing Public Health, Generating Sovereignty: Locating Health within the Context of Ayurveda and Biomedicine in Kerala, 1900-1950".  

Laurent Pordié won the ICAS Book Prize 2009, Colleagues Choice Award.

The ICAS Book Prize, bestowed biannually, honours the best academic books in Asian studies, after a global competition. The coordinator of the project C4 received his award in Korea during the ICAS 6 for the book Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World (Routledge, 2008).