University of Heidelberg

The Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development at Leiden University is an important partner in the Erasmus programme established in cooperation with the Insitute of Ethnology.

The Goethe-Institut is the Federal Republic of Germany’s cultural institution operational worldwide. It promotes the study of German abroad and encourages international cultural exchange. It also fosters knowledge about Germany by providing information on its culture, society and politics.

As a cultural institution, the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe holds a unique position in the world. It responds to the rapid development in information technology and today's changing social structures. Its work combines production and research, exhibitions and events, coordination and documentation.

GAM – Global Art and the Museum was initiated by Peter Weibel and Hans Belting in 2006 at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. The project represents a first attempt at documenting the contested boundaries of today’s art world; its aim is to spark a debate on how the globalization process changes the art scene and to undertake a critical review of the development 20 years after its onset.  

The JNU School of the Arts and Aesthetics is one of the few places in India that offer post-graduate degree courses in the theoretical and critical study of the cinematic, visual and performing arts.

In 1962 the South Asia Institute was founded as an interdisciplinary centre for research and academic teaching on South Asia. As a central academic institution within Heidelberg University, it today has seven professorships namely Anthropology, Development Economics, Geography, History, Cultural and Religious History of South Asia (formerly Classical Indology), Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures (formerly Modern Indology) as well as Political Science.  

The Heidelberg Institute of Ethnology's research foci currently are on Medical Anthropology, Ritual and Performance, Cognitive Anthropology, Anthropology of Aging, Urbanisation, Migration and Media Anthropology. The Institute’s regional foci represented by the majority of the staff are currently South Asia, Indonesia and Oceania, but other regions are not excluded in teaching.  

The Virtual Library of Social Anthropology EVIFA tries to meet the scientific community's growing demand for a fast, comprehensive access to subject specific information, and offers a high-quality gateway, regardless of the where about.

The task of the Virtual Library of Social Anthropology is the acquisition of anthropologically relevant online sources and resources (Ethno-Guide), and to make these accessible for research and information retrieval. These resources will include databases, the inventories of the Special Subject Collections in Berlin and in Frankfurt/Main, various library catalogues, online publications and online journals.

Tasveer Ghar ("house of pictures") is a trans-national virtual "home" for collecting, digitizing, and documenting various materials produced by South Asia’s exciting popular visual sphere including posters, calendar art, pilgrimage maps and paraphernalia, cinema hoardings, advertisements, and other forms of street and bazaar art.

In doing ethnographical research on images and media, the Chair provides data and theoretical input into the construction and promotion of the HRA's database HeidICON. HeidICON is a major tool for research work on visualities, providing a platform not only for Cluster members, as the project on the Priya Paul collection illustrates. Additionally, the database plays an important role in teaching seminars, conducted partly with eLearning or blended courses, which also allows further cooperation with national and international partner-institutes.