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Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies
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📍New Delhi, India
The following two days had a lineup of engaging papers foregrounding ‘the fraudulent’ as a key analytic to reorient our understanding of south asian modernity. @maxweberstiftung.de
September 22, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Last week, @mwfdelhi.bsky.social organised a workshop on ‘Fake, Fraud, Counterfeit’ in collaboration with Ashoka University. It was a truly dynamic and successful event. It started off with the brilliant keynote lecture by Lawrence Cohen. @maxweberstiftung.de
September 22, 2025 at 7:03 AM
On 11-12 September 2025 we had an engaging #workshop at Shiv Nadar University on ‘Rethinking #businesshistory of South Asia.” Participants from all over the world got together to deliberate on fresh ideas, perspectives and topics to bring within the ambit of the field. @maxweberstiftung.de
September 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Insightful #discussion, as the researchers from @mwfdelhi.bsky.social engaged with Prof. Satish Deshpande at the OPUS #Workshop ‘Situated #SocialScience: #Caste-Class, #Education and Location’
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September 1, 2025 at 4:28 AM
On 12 Aug 2025, @mwfdelhi.bsky.social had #workshop, #InheritanceEconomyandLaw with IIT Kanpur’s #Humanities & #SocialSciences deptt.
Lively sessions with insights from scholars. Thanks to all who made this dialogue possible!
#IITKanpur #InheritanceEconomyLaw #AcademicDialogue #Collaboration
August 13, 2025 at 5:38 AM
@mwfdelhi.bsky.social in collaboration with the department of #Humanities & #socialsciences, IIT Kanpur, is organising a #workshop ‘Inheritance, Economy and Law: A Sociological Inquiry’, on Tuesday, 12 August, 2025 at IIT Kanpur
August 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Lars Aaberg from Jindal Global University (India) delivering a #talk on “The Incorporation of #LGBTQs in Bengaluru: Toward a new #sexual politics of risk”, as part of the #MWF Seminar Series at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
April 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Our next #talk under @mwfdelhi.bsky.social #seminarseries is on the Incorporation of #LGBTQs in Bengaluru by Lars Aaberg
📆Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
🕔16:30-18:00 hrs
🏟️Maple Hall, India Habit at Centre, New Delhi
Register by sending an email to [email protected] by Friday, 25 April 2025
April 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
@snehaannavarapu.bsky.social from National University of Singapore talked about 'The Uneven City: #Potholes, #Pain and #Politics in Urban India' as part of the MWF Seminar Series today.
March 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The next talk under
@mwfdelhi.bsky.social #seminarseries
🗣️Sneha Annavarapu, National University of #Singapore
📆Friday, 28 March 2025
🛐Maple Hall, India Habitat Centre, Delhi
Registrations mandatory.
To register send 📩 to [email protected] by
19 March 2025
March 11, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Last Friday Hem Borker spoke on 'The #Paradox of #Education in Muslim Minority Institutions' as part of the MWF Seminar Series.
March 10, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Today at the #OpusWorkshop, Jonathan Parry led a deep dive into #Axes of #Inequality in Indian Society, their #Intersections and #Contradictions.
February 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The #IndianOcean #Symposium and #BookLaunch by Ravi Ahuja concluded the week-long #WinterSchool: In-Between #Intermediaries and #IntermediatePlaces in #GlobalLabour Past & Present.
February 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The book 'Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers', by Ravi Ahuja, was launched last Friday - followed by a review & discussion with Neeladri Bhattacharya, Christian G. de Vito, chaired by Sebastian Schwecke.

#BookLaunch
February 24, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Mahmood Kooria introduced the #IndianOceanPlatform during the #IndianOcean #Symposium.
February 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Last Friday, at the #IndianOcean #Symposium, Crispin Bates introduced the #BelowDecks Project, followed by a #Roundtable discussion with Michaela Dimmers, Mahmood Kooria, Noelle Richardson, Sebastian Schwecke and Lakshmi Subramanian.
February 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Day 4 of #WinterSchool: a lecture by Michaela Dimmers on #Coerced #Intermediation, film screening of "Vagrants, Vagabonds, Immorals" by Nina Tedesco and Paulo Cruz Terra & a teaching block on #Sources and #Methods in #History
February 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Day 3 of the #WinterSchool with a lecture by Christian G. de Vito on #Punishment and #LabourRegimes, two panels on the #Intermediation of #Migration and #Labour and a teaching block on the #Anthropology of Labour.
February 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Impressions of Day 2 of the #WinterSchool on #Intermediaries and #IntermediatePlaces with lectures, panels and teaching blocks conducted by Paola Revilla Orías, Hanne Østhus, Christian G. de Vito & Michaela Dimmers.
February 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The first day of #WinterSchool including a panel chaired by Michaela Dimmers and a teaching block by Paola Revilla Orías on #Inspiring #Texts
February 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Opening remarks by @mwfdelhi.bsky.social #Director Sebastian Schwecke today at the #WinterSchool: In-between #Intermediaries and #IntermediatePlaces, followed by a #keynote by Crispin Bates
February 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
February 17, 2025 at 3:50 AM
February 14, 2025 at 4:18 AM
The #keynote speaker for today, Atina Grossmann, being introduced by the Director of @ghiwashington.bsky.social, Simone Lässig

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February 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The participants of the #workshop on #Refugees in #GlobalTransit warmly welcomed by Ute Frevert, the President of the Max Weber Stiftung @maxweberstiftung.de

@ghiwashington.bsky.social @ghilondon.bsky.social @mariaframke.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 4:21 AM