Scholars, Texts, Ideas

The symposium 'Scholars, Texts, Ideas: The Networks of Intellectual Traffic Between India and Germany,' commemorates two centuries of interactions between India and Germany that has shaped and enriched the intellectual landscape of both nations. It takes its cue from the recent podcast series created by the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata to commemorate the 200th birth anniversary of the German Indologist Friedrich Max Müller, which revealed fascinating networks of texts, scholars, and ideas crisscrossing India and Germany. The symposium seeks to further explore these knowledge networks and their impact on the intellectual history of both India and Germany over the past two hundred years.

Through lectures and panel discussions from esteemed scholars and experts, the symposium seeks to celebrate the shared intellectual history of Germany and India and reinforce the enduring bond between the two countries in the realms of scholarship and cultural exchange.

Lecture Sessions

The pioneering work of the German Indologist Johann Georg Bühler in the field of epigraphy and his interaction with Indian and European scholars by Annette Schmiedchen, Author, scholar of Sanskrit epigraphy, indologist, a researcher at the Humboldt University of Berlin and a member of faculty of Indology at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg

Keshub Chandra Sen, Max Müller and the Hermeneutics of Interreligious Dialogue by Angus Nicholls, Professor of Comparative Literature and German and Director of Research for Comparative Literature and Modern Languages at Queen Mary University of London

Kant in India, India in Kant by Arindam Chakrabarti, Professor of Philosophy at Ashoka University

Toward an Oriental Renaissance in Depth Psychology: Jung’s Transformations of Indian Symbols by Sonu Shamdasani, Vice-Dean (Health), Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Co-Director of the UCL Health Humanities Centre

The 'Marx' factor : Exploring the Indo-German intellectual Experience by Sobhanlal Dattagupta, Retd. S. N. Banerjee Chair Professor, Department of Political Science, Calcutta University

Goethestrasse, Charlottenburg — Anticolonial Indians of Berlin in the 1920s by Gautam Pemmaraju, Independent Filmmaker, Writer and Researcher 

Panel Discussions

Development of Contemporary German Studies and German Language Educational Networks

Panelists: Parnal Chirmuley, Associate Professor. Centre of German Studies, School of Language Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Romit Roy, Associate Professor of German, Centre for Modern European Languages, Literatures and Culture Studies , Bhasha-Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, Puneet Kaur, Head of Educational Cooperation, Goethe-Institut, New Delhi.

Contemporary Publishing and Literary Exchange between India and Germany

Panelists: Christian Weiss, Publisher, Draupadi Verlag, Parnal Chirmuley, Associate Professor. Centre of German Studies, School of Language Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Subroto Saha, Literary Translator and German Instructor, Goethe-Institut, Kolkata
 

How to Participate

Participation in this symposium is open by registration. Scholars, students, and anyone with an interest in Indo-German intellectual exchanges are encouraged to join this two-day event.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 27.11.2024

*Free Registration is available for both Offline and Online Participation (limited seats)

*Offline Registration available for limited seats on first come first served basis (subject to confirmation)
 

For further queries contact: Sharanya.Chattopadhyay@goethe.de