The KFG: A Short Video Introduction
Susanne Rau, one of the spokespersons of the KFG, introduces the research group in a short video presentation…
Susanne Rau, one of the spokespersons of the KFG, introduces the research group in a short video presentation…
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…
In the winter semester 2020/21, KFG junior fellows Elisa Iori and Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli organized a lecture series (Ringvorlesung) on the theme of “Religion and Urbanity in Time and Space”…
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 —
If I asked you to describe a mining city, the picture you will paint would be probably that of a dusty, smoky, ugly and polluted city dominated by a somehow melancholic atmosphere due to both the poor and dangerous conditions of the mining workers and the predictability of the city’s decline once resources are exhausted or extraction unviable…
The KFG “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations” organized a lecture series at the university of Erfurt in the winter semester 2020/21 under the title “Religion and Urbanity in Time and Space”. You can now watch the lectures online.
We are pleased to announce the publication of a further batch of articles in “Religion and Urbanity Online”, a peer-reviewed...
Sunil Kumar was a future fellow, who was supposed to come to Erfurt for three months in 2021. He supported the KFG since its inception and was present at our first annual conference, held in November 2018, where everyone benefitted from his inisghftul questions and critical comments…
It’s been a while since I wrote about Calicut. Since my departure at the end of March I haven’t returned to India. Until further notice, my research visa is still suspended. But the situation is now also completely different than in March…
We are happy to publish the programme for our annual conference on “Co-Spatiality: Changing rules of double use, excluding, inviting, imagining”.
Interview with the KFG Fellow Prof. Dr. Ranjeeta Dutta on her research and work as part of the Centre for...
In our most recent video interview, Susanne Rau, co-spokesperson of the KFG “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations” discusses her career,...