Contemporary India Study Centre Aarhus
CISCA's main focus is the enhancing and the strengthening of existing as well as building new teaching
capacities which disseminates and advances knowledge on modern India and South Asia. We offer a wide
array of litterature, audio and visual material at AU and of course lectures and workshops with scholars from
Denmark and abroad.
News
 The Politics Of Environmental Challenges In IndiaThe University of Oslo's 4th annual contemporary India seminar 6th September 2012 Deadline for abstract submission is 1st of May 2012. Click here to read more about the seminar and or call for papers. |
Seeing Matters(s) - Materiality and Visuality |
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The new summer courses of the Nordic Centre in India (NCI)have beenannounced now. 
An intensive Hindi summer course is offered at theUniversität Hamburg in August
Financial Crises: Historical Challenges*From the CISCA Team
 Aleksandra Machura, who was at Aarhus University and CISCA on an internship in August/September 2011, has now made her project about Indians living in Denmark available. Click here to download. |
 Priyanka Dalal has joined Aarhus University and the South Asian Studies programme as a Research Trainee to teach Hindi. Click here to read more about Priyanka. |
Other CISCA News
 'Indians in Aarhus' and Aarhus University have cooporated to create a language buddy programme. The programme puts students in contact with Hindi-speaking Indians in Aarhus. By this the Hindi Students will get a golden opportunity to get away from the grammer books and practice and improve their Hindi. In exchange the Hindi students offer to practice Danish with their Indian buddy. We are happy to announce this mutual beneficial language programme. |
 CISCA is pleased to announce that an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) has been signed with the ICCR (Indian Council for Cultural Relations). The first ICCR visiting professor will be announced soon and is expected to teach in Aarhus in autumn / winter 2011. Click here to read more or here to read the official statement on Aarhus University's homepage. |
 As a an extra feature, a CISCA Affiliation Map has been created. Click here to have an overview of CISCA's affiliates and contacts around the world. |
News & Events
Announcement for student travellers to Benares in 2012.
Please download this document which contains Important information [pdf] concerning your stay in India.
And please download this document regarding the final report as well.
Here is the Hindi Programme (ihDdl) pdf.
Due to a large number of photos from Varanasi, we will upload the photos over a short period. In order to see the first selection please click here or go to 'Gallery' where you can find the photos as well.
From 23th April to 8th May 2012, CISCA has the pleasure of welcoming two visiting professors from our partner institution Sri Venkateshwara College in New Delhi - CISCA board member Nirmal Kumar and Chandermohan Rawat, who have been annual guests in Aarhus. Their time in Aarhus will be spent co-teaching and assisting CISCA in writing an Erasmus Mondus application
In week 16, CISCA have the pleasure of two visiting professors from IIT Madras, namely Dr. Jyotirmaya Tripathy and Dr. Sudarsan Padmanabhan, who have visited Aarhus University several times before. Their time in Aarhus will be spent co-teaching and assisting CISCA in writing an application for Erasmus Mondus.
Announcement for the IUAES 2012 Inter-Congress "Children and Youth in a Changing World" with two panels of CISCA board members (Karen Valentin and Uwe Skoda). 26th-30th November 2012. Organized jointly by IUAES Commission for Children, Youth and Childhood & Centre for Children Studies, KISS, KIIT University.
On 21st and 22nd of November, the final conference of 'the India EU Study Centre Programme' in Delhi took place. An MoU to create the 'European Association of India Study Centres' (EAISC) was signed. Click here to read more and see a few photos.
SASNET (Swedish South Asian Studies Network) has written a small article on the "Visual Cultures in Contemporary India" workshop in Aarhus on 8th and 9th December 2011. Click here to read it or go to CISCA in the Press.
CISCA has also published their second and last newsletter of 2011. Click here to read it.
IESCP (India-Europe Study Centre Programme) has published its last newsletter of 2011. Click on the name to read it.
