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Fachinformationsdienst Südasien der @ub-heidelberg.bsky.social und @unihd-sai.bsky.social | FID4SA = Digitale Ressourcen + @HASP-HD.bsky.social + Forschungsliteratur | Specialized Information Service South Asia www.fid4sa.de

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FID4SA @fid4sa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
📢Neu im #fid4sa Repository: Schriftenreihe des niederländischen Indologen Willem Caland (1859-1932) Eines seiner Interessengebiete war die Brāhmaṇa- und Sūtra-Literatur. Er galt als Pionier der Sāmaveda-Forschung. ➡️z.d. Artikeln & z. Download: fid4sa-repository.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/view/schrift...
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FID4SA @fid4sa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🤩Neue Ausstellung im Foyer der CATS-Bibliothek: „Stencil Art at the That Luang Temple in Luang Prabang“ 🎉Vernissage: Freitag, den 11.9. um 12:30 Uhr mit online-Zuschaltung des Künstlers! Die Ausstellung läuft bis 26.10.2026! Kommen Sie vorbei!👀 www.cats.uni-heidelberg.de/bibliothek/a...
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FID4SA @fid4sa.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
❓Interested in learning Malayāḷam❓ 🔜Join the Beginners Course in Winter Term 26/27 20 Oct 2026 – 5 Feb 2027 ‼️Hybrid: Tübingen University or online via zoom ➡️Registration for external students: uni-tuebingen.de/en/951 ➡️Application deadline: 1 Oct 2026 ⬇️More information⬇️
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FID4SA @fid4sa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
📢Call for Applications!📢 "SAARC Promoting Digital Technology for Preserving Cultural Heritage" Date: 16–18 September 2026 Venue: SAARC Cultural Centre, Colombo/ #Srilanka Application Deadline: 31 August 2026 ➡️More information about participation & registration: saarcculture.org/our_activiti...
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HASP - Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing @hasp-hd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
📢New #openaccess publication!📢 The current issue of the "International Quarterly for Asian Studies" (Vol. 57 No. 1) is now online! 🎉 "Youth Move­ments against Authoritarianism in Asia, Part I" ➡️Read & download: hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iqa...
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FID4SA @fid4sa.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
📢Die E-Book-Pakete, die mittels sogenannter "FID Lizenzen" zugänglich sind, wurden um zahlreiche Titel erweitert! 🎉 Schauen Sie mal rein!👀 Mehr Infos gibt's auf unserem Portal! ➡️https://www.fid4sa.de/fid-lizenzen
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FID4SA @fid4sa.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
bsky.app/profile/cros... 📢Auch für Forschende in den Südasienwissenschaften interessant!🤩
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Linden-Museum Stuttgart @lindenmuseum.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Save the date: #India Film Festival #Stuttgart 2026, 23 - 26 July indisches-filmfestival.de We will be partner again and looking forward to it.
Key Visual des 23. Indisches Filmfestival Stuttgart 2026
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HASP - Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing @hasp-hd.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
📢New #openaccess publication!📢 Nidān - Vol. 11 No. 1 (2026): "Authority, Lineage and Schism" is now online!🎉 Nidan is a bi-annual academic journal that focuses on Indian studies broadly including the Indian/South Asian diaspora. Read & download: ➡️ doi.org/10.58125/nid...
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HASP - Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing @hasp-hd.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
📢New issue of the "International Quarterly for Asian Studies" out now!👀 #openaccess "Scholar(ship) at Risk in Southeast Asia and Beyond", Vol. 56 No. 3 (2025). ➡️Read & download: hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iqa... About the Journal: hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iqas
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FID4SA @fid4sa.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
📢 Der #FID4SA ist heute & morgen mit einem Infostand in #Erfurt beim 4. Deutschen #Südasientag! Schauen Sie mal vorbei! Wir beraten Sie gerne zu unseren Angeboten, u.A. zu unserer Publikationsplattform @hasp-hd.bsky.social 📚 Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch mit unserer Fachcommunity!😊
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FID4SA @fid4sa.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
📢Neue Schriftenreihe im FID4SA Repository! In Zusammenarbeit mit dem "Indica et Tibetica Verlag" werden die Monographien der gleichnamigen Reihe aktuell von uns digitalisiert & #openaccess online gestellt. ➡️Lesen & Download: fid4sa-repository.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/view/schrift...
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FID4SA @fid4sa.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
📢Unser nächstes #Webinar steht an! 🖥️ "Digitale Bild- und Textsammlungen des FID Südasien" Dienstag, 30. Juni | 14:00-15:00 Uhr Wir zeigen Ihnen Nutzungsmöglichkeiten unserer digitalen Sammlungen zu #Südasienwissenschaften und #Indologie. ➡️Meeting link: heiconf.uni-heidelberg.de/keym-j6yc-96...
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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
What goes into digitizing 1,500+ Gandhāran artifacts?📜🤔 🗃️Alice Casalini speaks with Dr Jessie Pons and Dr Cristiano Moscatelli to learn more about the DiGA project. Part 2 coming soon! #CulturalHeritage #SouthAsianStudies #BuddhistStudies #academicsky #DH digitalorientalist.com/2024/10/08/t...
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The DiGA Project—Digitization of Gandhāran Artefacts: An Interview with Jessie Pons and Cristiano Moscatelli (Part 1)
In the field of Buddhist art, recent years have seen more and more digitization projects that center around the art and archaeology of Gandhāra.1 Produced between the 1st c. BCE and the 5th c. CE, …
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ORCID @orcid.org · 10/06/2026
These are all great reasons for researchers to get started with an ORCID iD. 💫 Others include name disambiguation, name flexibility, and reduced administrative burden. Check out our page for researchers for more: info.orcid.org/researchers/ #ResearchSky
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FID4SA @fid4sa.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
📢Join our upcoming online training course! 🖥️ "Specialized Information Services for South Asia-related Sciences (FID4SA) - An Introduction" Wednesday, 17 June 2026 | 2:00-3:00 pm (CEST) ➡️Meeting link: heiconf.uni-heidelberg.de/42zt-9nmm-zu...
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FID4SA @fid4sa.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
📢Am 26. & 27. Juni 2026 findet der #viertedeutschesüdasientag in #erfurt statt! Freuen Sie sich auf ein spannendes Programm➡️ www.uni-erfurt.de/universitaet... ‼️Der FID Südasien ist mit einem Stand vor Ort & stellt seine Angebote vor. Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch mit unserer Fachcommunity!😊
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Gemeinsame Veranstaltung des Seminars für Religionswissenschaft und des Max-Weber-Kollegs
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HASP - Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing @hasp-hd.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
📢New #openaccess publication!👀 " विद्याराधनम् - Vidyārādhanam. Festschrift zu Ehren von Thomas Oberlies", hrsg. von Siglinde Dietz, Ines Fornell und Konrad Klaus. ➡️Read & download: hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book... #indologie #südasienwissenschaften
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HASP - Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing @hasp-hd.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
📢New #openaccess publication!👀 "Flowers, Gods and Scholars. The Puṣpacintāmaṇi, a Nepalese Digest on Flowers in Worship" by Astrid Zotter. ➡️Read & download: hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book... #indology #sanskrit #nepal #worship
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FID4SA @fid4sa.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Join our upcoming online training course! "Making research visible – Open Access publishing with Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing" @hasp-hd.bsky.social Thursday, 28 May 2026 | 4:30-5:30 pm (CEST) Meeting link: heiconf.uni-heidelberg.de/mer-vnz-upa #openaccess #hasp #southasia #fid4sa
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
'London’s Wellcome Collection is to restitute 2,000 manuscripts that had been acquired in 1919 at “a low price” from a Jain temple in what is now Pakistan. This represents the largest group of Jain manuscripts outside South Asia.' 1/3
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London's Wellcome Collection returns 2,000 manuscripts to the Jain community
Unusually, the objects will not be transferred to their country of origin but to the UK Institute of Jainology at the University of Birmingham
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HASP - Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing @hasp-hd.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
📢New #openaccess publication!👀 "Coṉṉa Vaṇṇam Ceyta Perumāḷ Temple Inscriptions, Kāñcipuram" (G. Vijayavenugopal, transl. by V. Muralidaran) - Vol. 1 in the new book series Pathika: Studies in South Asian Texts and Traditions (eds. Hüsken/Anandakichenin) ➡️ hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book...
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FID4SA @fid4sa.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
📢NEU! Unser zweites Video-Tutorial - "Die digitalen Textsammlungen des FID Südasien" ist jetzt online! Entdecken Sie digitale südasienwissenschaftlich relevante Textsammlungen aus den Beständen der @ub-heidelberg.bsky.social und der CATS Bibliothek! ➡️https://www.fid4sa.de/service/video-tutorials
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ISTB University of Vienna, Austria @istb-univienna.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Sign up for the EurAsia Summer Academy taking place from September 14th to September 26th at the Chhahari Retreat in Budhanilakantha, Kathmandu. Applications are open until June 5th, 2026. Applications and queries should be sent to: pongsit.pangsrivongse@univie.ac.at
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
My inaugural lecture as Professor of South Asian Music & History will be held on 28th May at 6PM @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social "If there is a heaven on earth: life, death, and the spaces between in South Asian Music". Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...
The ghazal is a short, lyrical genre of poetry that has been widely embraced from Syria to Sumatra as a privileged form of emotional, artistic, and devotional expression. It originated in Arabic but made its main home further east in the Persianate world — in Iran, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. With its lilting metres and musical rhymes, the ghazal lends itself irresistibly to being set to melody, and has long enjoyed a second life throughout India and Pakistan as a major song form set in the classical ragas.
 
Moving backwards and forwards between the Mughal empire (1526–1858) and contemporary examples from India and Pakistan, in this lecture I will address the live musical performance of Persian and Urdu ghazals in two different, but ultimately linked, spaces: the secular mehfil — the intimate gathering for listening to elite music and poetry — and the majlis-i samā' (“assembly for spiritual listening”) at the Sufi shrine. Building on work I published twenty years ago on the occupational liminality of professional musicians, I will argue that in both the mehfil and the majlis, music acts to create a liminal space-time, or barzakh, in which listeners believe the isthmus between heaven and earth, the dead and the living, momentarily becomes thin, creating a highly emotionally charged experience. 

The quotation that forms my title is half of a Persian couplet attributed to the famous Indian poet Amir Khusrau (1253–1325): "If there is a heaven on earth, it is here, it is here, it is here". It is said to refer to Kashmir, or to the city of Delhi, or any number of other beautiful places built upon the Islamic idea of paradise as a garden. In this lecture I will explore how the ghazal when sung in raga works upon the listening body to create a heightened, in-the-moment experience of dwelling with the beloved in the garden that never dies — and in so doing serves to underline the listener’s own sense of transience and mortality: of life in the face of death.
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FID4SA @fid4sa.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
📢Online-Book Launch: The collaborative writing of: "Crafting Potency": A metadisciplinary approach to Sowa Rigpa medicine-making across the Himalayas. 📌Wednesday 29 April, 2026, 6-8 pm (CET) ➡️Join via Zoom! hu-berlin.zoom.us/j/6935571797... @humboldtuni.bsky.social @hasp-hd.bsky.social
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HASP - Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing @hasp-hd.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
📢New #openaccess publication!👀 "Patriotic Education Bases in China" by Gotelind Müller is based on printed and visual materials collected over many years across China, and combines them with personal on-site observations. #china #educationalsystem ➡️Read & Download: doi.org/10.11588/has...
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FID4SA @fid4sa.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
📢6th Bengali Summer School July 27 – August 7, 2026 at #WarsawUniversity ➡️Beginners‘ and Advanced levels (2 groups)! ➡️Registration deadline: June 15, 2026 More information here: orient.uw.edu.pl/en/2026/02/0... #bengali #summerschool #warsaw
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ISTB University of Vienna, Austria @istb-univienna.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
We warmly invite you to participate in this year’s Summer School on the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia. Registration is now open and you can sign up until May 15th. Further information on our website: stb.univie.ac.at/news-events/... We are looking forward to seeing you there!
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FID4SA @fid4sa.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
📢Neu im #FID4SA Repository! 📚Schriftenreihe des deutschen Indologen Franz Kielhorn (1840-1908), der insbesondere auf den Gebieten der Sanskrit-Grammatik und der indischen Epigraphik forschte. Jetzt im #openaccess Read & download: ➡️ fid4sa-repository.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/view/schrift...
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FID4SA @fid4sa.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
📢New #podcast Recommendation! Om-gnosis: The Occult South Asia Podcast🎧 by the Center for the Study of World Religions @harvardcswr.bsky.social ➡️ cswr.hds.harvard.edu/research-pro... Delve into the complex intercultural exchanges that shape the occult landscape. 👀Check it out! #southasia
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HASP - Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing @hasp-hd.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
📢New #openaccess publication!📢 Vol. 31 No. 1 (2026): Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies is now online: "Śaunakīya and Paippalāda. New Perspectives on the Two Recensions" ➡️Read & download: hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/ejv... #vedicstudies #electronicjournal
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Frederik Elwert @felwert.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026
It’s here! We just launched the new website of the #DiGA Collection, a collection of Buddhist sculptures from the Dir Museum in Chakdara, Pakistan. This site was built using an experimental static site framework for #CulturalHeritage collections that I developed over the last months. It’s a […]
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ISTB University of Vienna, Austria @istb-univienna.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Join us this Thursday, on March 19th at 3:30pm (CET), for a project presentation and discussion with Katharina Sabernig titled: “Trees of Knowledge: Artistic Visualisation of the Explanatory Tantra”. Participate online: univienna.zoom.us/s/6403102191... ID 640 3102 1911, Code 765836
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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
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Teaching Bengali Digital Texts to Anglophone Undergraduates: What Voyant Reveals about the Infrastructural Bias of DH Tools
In designing an introductory Digital Humanities class, I am often faced with the question of how best to incorporate linguistic diversity, particularly from the Global South, for a predominantly An…
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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
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Seeing the Text Arranged: Using Omeka to Critically Engage with Bengali Language Texts
In my previous post, I discussed how using Voyant reveals the infrastructural bias of DH tools when confronted with an Indic language such as Bengali. In what follows, I wish to outline the strateg…
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FID4SA @fid4sa.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
📢Neu!📢 Der FID Südasien hat Lizenzen für ausgewählte E-Books bei JSTOR & Routledge erworben!📚 Die Medien stehen deutschlandweit für die südasienwissenschaftliche Forschung und Lehre bereit. Mehr Infos ➡️ www.fid4sa.de/fid-lizenzen Hier für den Zugang registrieren! ➡️ crossasia.org/mein-crossas...
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FID4SA @fid4sa.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
📢Check out our #comic collection of ~500 titles in English, Hindi, Marathi & Sanskrit at CATS library! It includes the series Amara Citra Kathā. These comics are based on Indian epics, religious legends, or the lifes of historical figures. ➡️ katalog.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/titel/66963165
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FID4SA @fid4sa.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
📢Reisestipendien der #DMG 2026! Die Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft vergibt jährlich bis zu drei Reisestipendien für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs! Bewerbungsschluss für das Jahr 2026 ist der 28. Februar. Jetzt bewerben! Weitere Infos auf der Website der DMG ➡️ dmg-web.de/foerderung/r...
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Die Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG) ist die älteste wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für die Beschäftigung mit den Sprachen und Kulturen des Nahen Ostens und mit Teilen Asiens, Ozeaniens und ...
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ORCID @orcid.org · 03/02/2026
📣 New feature alert! Researcher Connect allows ORCID members to notify affiliated but unconnected researchers about connecting home institutional systems to ORCID records. Read more on the blog by @estene.bsky.social : wp.me/pcE4o3-9zO.
Members can now prompt resarchers to connect their ORCID records with home institutional systems.
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HASP - Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing @hasp-hd.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
📢New #openaccess publication!👀 "Crafting Potency: Sowa Rigpa Artisanship across the Himalayas" (by Gerke/v.d. Valk/Tidwell/Blaikie) investigates the intricate interweaving of knowledge, practice, and materials through which potency is sculpted in Sowa Rigpa. Download➡️ doi.org/10.11588/has...
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HASP - Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing @hasp-hd.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
📢New Open Access Publication!📢 Nidān - Vol. 10 No. 2 (2025): "Imagining Urbanity in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia, Part 2". Nidan is a bi-annual academic journal that focuses on Indian studies broadly including the Indian/South Asian diaspora. Read & download ➡️ doi.org/10.58125/nid...
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FID4SA @fid4sa.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
📢NEW📢 You can find, follow & interact with #FID4SA on #mastodon now! 😊 ➡️ openbiblio.social/@FID4SA #Fachinformationsdienst #SouthAsia #FID #Südasien
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0 Posts, 44 Following, 15 Followers · Fachinformationsdienst Südasien/ Specialized Information Service South Asia Digitale Ressourcen | Forschungsliteratur | Publizieren im Open Access #Fachinformati...
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Vitus Angermeier @vitusangrmr.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Next IIGRS in Napoli! iigrs.wordpress.com/date-and-ven... If you are a predoc or early postdoc in South Asian Studies/Indology, consider to submit a paper!
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The Next Symposium
Date and venue The 16th International Indology Graduate Research Symposium will take place on 24 and 25 September 2026 at L’Orientale University of Naples, Italy. Physical location: Palazzo Corigli…
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FID4SA @fid4sa.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
📢Neuer Gastbeitrag im Blog!📢 ☝️Diesmal stellen wir das "Proto-Śāradā-Project" der Universitäten Würzburg und Lausanne vor, das sich einer frühen Schrift Nordwestindiens widmet. 👀Zum Blog: ➡️ www.fid4sa.de/blog/kategor... 👀Zum Projekt: ➡️ www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/proto-sharad... Check it out! 😊
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FID4SA @fid4sa.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
📢Wir freuen uns, dass die Broschürenreihe: „Augenzeugenberichte vom Widerstand. Geschichten aus Myanmar nach dem Putsch“ (hrsg. v. d. Stiftung Asienhaus) nun auch im FID4SA Repository i. d. Sammlung fid4sa-repository.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/view/collect... verfügbar ist! Viel Spaß beim Lesen!😊
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FID4SA @fid4sa.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
📢Summer School 2026 - For spoken and written Hindi & Urdu for beginners and advanced students! ➡️When: 31 August - 18 September 2026 ➡️Where: Ca’ Foscari University of Venice ➡️Application deadline: 30 June 2026 Further information is available here: www.unive.it/pag/50411/
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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Want to level up your library career this year? We’re looking for international mid-career library and archive professionals to join us this summer at our International Library Leaders Programme. Learn more link.bl.uk/ILLP2026
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HASP - Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing @hasp-hd.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
📢Jetzt im #openaccess verfügbar: "Krise und Risiko: China und der Umgang mit Unwägbarkeit". In Zusammenarbeit mit der Deutschen Vereinigung für #chinastudien ist Band 17 jetzt als Online-Ausgabe bei #hasp erhältlich! Viel Spaß beim Lesen😀 Free download➡️ hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book...
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