Podcast of a lecture by Sara Keller in which she examined the question of the wide-ranging effects of global mobility and exchange on Indian societies and cities. The audio was recorded at the lecture series on “Global Exchanges”, organised by Elisa Iori and Mateusz Fafinski.
Historian and building archaeologist Sara Keller currently conducts a research project on Water and Water places in urban South Asia in the framework of the KFG “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations” (FOR 2779). In this regard, she is particularly looking at gardens and green landscapes as spaces of urbanity…
The exhibition “India. Life around Water”, organised in July 2021, was recently covered by the Guajarati daily newspaper “Sandesh” (article published on the 30.01.2022)…
We have just published a video visit of the exhibition “India. Life around Water”!
On h-soz-kult, you can read the conference report of the KFG’s most recent conference on water in the South Asian city. the conference was organized by Sara Keller and the report written by Klara-Maeve O’Reilly.
The photo exhibition “INDIA. Life around Water” / “INDIEN. Leben am Wasser”, curated by KFG post-doc Sara Keller is still available to view free of charge in the Augustinerkloster, Erfurt…
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…
The workshop “Accessing Water in the South Asian City” will take place in a hybrid modality on 8 and 9 July 2021…
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”…
— see here for the upated programme —
Junior Fellow and Post-Doctoral Researcher Dr. Sara Keller introduces...
We are interested in the connections between urbanity and religion.
This blog is connected to the DFG-funded Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations” (FOR 2779). We are based at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at Erfurt University.
