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The Rothermund Memorial Lectures

As a collaboration between the Historisches Seminar and the History Department of the South Asia Institute at Heidelberg University, this winter semester colloquium aims to honour the life and work of Prof. Dr. Dietmar Rothermund (1933-2020), an innovative, generous and creative scholar, colleague and friend. The series will feature speakers who exemplify his work, from the fields of Environmental History, the History of Emotions, Art History, Indian Ocean History and Global History.

*05.11 | Oceanic Settlements: Law, Climate and Finance in the Bay of
Bengal | Debjani Bhattacharyya- Drexel University

*19.11 | Potential stories: Tracking the lives of concepts in global (art) history | Monica Juneja- HCTS, Heidelberg University

*03.12 | Nehruvian hauntings. Development, planning and the
presence of ghosts | Margrit Pernau - Max Plank Institute for
Human Development

*17.12 | Tba | Sunil Amrith - Yale University

*21.01 | Geschichte in weltbürgerlicher Absicht?” Dietmar Rothermund über Geschichte und Geschichtsschreibung | Jürgen Osterhammel -Albert-Ludwig Universität Freiburg

*04.02 | The Jazz Age in the Global South: Consumption, Culture and
Conflict (1919-1939) | Harald Fischer-Tiné - ETH, Zürich

*18.02 | Indian Foodways in European Discourses, 15th-17th Centuries: A Cultural History | Anil Paralkar - HCTS, Heidelberg University