समुद्री जीवन के मौसम
Read “Religion and Urbanity Blog” in Hindi! A series of blogposts is available in Hindi. This post is a Hindi translation by Ahmad Ali of the blog post published by Sara Keller on “The Seasons of Maritime Life”.
Read “Religion and Urbanity Blog” in Hindi! A series of blogposts is available in Hindi. This post is a Hindi translation by Ahmad Ali of the blog post published by Sara Keller on “The Seasons of Maritime Life”.
After the workshop organised in 2021 at the Augustinerkloster in Erfurt, Sara Keller edited a volume entitled Accessing Water in the South Asian City. The book published by Primus and released this August contains an introduction by Sara Keller and 9 chapters in a broad range of disciplines by Julia A.B. Hegewald, Julia Shaw, Jutta Jain-Neubauer, Nicolas Morelle, Padma Sunder Joshi, Prakhar Vidyarthi, Akil Amiraly, Heather O’Leary and Laura Verdelli…
Port towns host unique forms of urban life, and they are often seen as particularly vibrant and dynamic cities. Maritime metropolises on all continents, such as Shanghai, New York, Bombay, Hamburg or Marseille, have gained a reputation of being exceptionally busy, diverse and connected places. This is also true of maritime cities of the past, and archaeology and history tell us that historical port towns were already busy, diverse and connected places…
बड़े सार्वजनिक चौकों में सुंदर फव्वारे, शानदार स्नानगृह और बड़ी बावड़ियाँ ही शहरी जीवन की निशानी नहीं हैं। शौचालय भी शहरी और सुसंस्कृत जीवन का हिस्सा हो सकते हैं, आज हम यही देखने वाले हैं तीन अलग-अलग समय और स्थानों के प्रसिद्ध शहरों के उदाहरण से – प्राचीन रोम का शहर आखन, मध्यकालीन स्पेन का मदीना अल-ज़हरा, और अंत में हड़प्पा सभ्यता के शहर। (शहरी दक्षिण एशिया में ऐतिहासिक जल स्थानों पर मेरे काम पर, यहां दी गई ग्रंथसूची सूची देखें और मैक्स वेबर सेंटर के साथ मेरी प्रोफ़ाइल देखें)।
„Borders“ (Grenzen) is the topic of this year history competition of the state president of Germany by the Körber Foundation (Netzwerktagung zum Geschichtswettbewerb des Bundespräsidenten 2024/2025). To kick start the event, Sara Keller and Sebastian Dorsch have been invited to give an impulse talk at the preparatory workshop of the Körber Foundation…
Sara Keller, postdoc with the Religion and Urbanity group, on the link between waste infrastructures and urban lifestyles. Not just prestigious fountains in large public squares, luxurious bath houses and monumental stepwells are outstanding expressions of urbanity: latrines also can contribute to the production of an urban, cultured and sophisticated way of life.
Our 9th City Walk engaged with the topic of temporalities of which we discussed three aspects: the question of multiple memories with the visit of the new Synagogue in Erfurt, spatial unity and temporal multiplicity at the St Ägidien church, and, finally, hierarchical temporality with the Christmas market as a significant urban manifestation of the Christian temporality.
In the 1980s, the significant paradigm shift in humanities and social sciences, better known as “spatial turn”, opened up discussions connecting geographical space and socio-cultural variables. From now on, space was not only perceived as a given physical and geographical entity, but it gained recognition as an essential social player: space is “produced” (Rau 2019: 2, see Lefebvre’s “production of space” 1974).
Our last city walk took us on an exploration of the atmosphere of Erfurt’s squares. Atmospheres, we concluded, are as fascinating as they are ephemeral and difficult to grasp…
Can we perceive Erfurt’s urbanity on its squares? In this hope, we hunted for perceptible atmospheres, attitudes and aspirations while other Erfurters went shopping, picked up their children or enjoyed the sun. The working hypothesis of our research group on “Religion and Urbanity” is that urbanity1 can be defined as a “way of life that emerges because of the size, density, diversity, mobility, instability, and transparency of a settlement or the people living there” (Rau 2020).2
Diversity is one of the distinctive features of urbanity as we define it in our research group. The plural character of urban life acts as a stimulating force enabling large-scale endeavours and remarkable achievements…
The exhibition invites you to discover the many dimensions of water in South Asia. There, water is not only an important element of livelihood, it also carries crucial spiritual and religious significance…
In pandemic times, some people call on pharmaceutical labs to rapidly defeat the virus, others directly address the disease. In India, informal devotional practices for a female deity called “Corona Mātā”…
On 20 October 2020, in the midst of a second coronavirus surge and unfavourable autumnal rains, our fifth City Walk was doubly compromised. Luckily, the weather indulged us, so that we could venture out of our tower…