#SouthAsia@podcasts - our podcast recommendations
In recent years, podcasts have gained an increasing importance in academia. Researchers are interviewed about their careers, research projects and book publications are discussed, and the use of digital methods is examined - research is not only visible, but also audible. Listen to research in South Asian Studies!
Here we have compiled a list of podcast recommendations for you:
Journalist Christopher Lydon travelled to Pakistan in 2011, microphone in hand, ready to talk to the people of this embattled nation. The result is Another Pakistan, a candid and thought-provoking series created in collaboration with the Asia Society and the Watson Institute at Brown University, produced by Zarminae Ansari and Ben Mandelkern, with local support from Aman ki Asha.
ANUBhasha - Textual Digitisation and Repatriation in South Asia
Dr. Christopher Diamond and Dr. Stephanie Majcher, lecturers at the Australian National University in Canberra, discuss with researchers, archivists, curators, and practitioners how digitisation can contribute to the restitution of cultural property and to an open exchange of knowledge.
The Bridge Project features conversations with academics, experts, and entrepreneurs, typically with a focus on relations between Australia and India.
Dr. Kate Hartmann, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Wyoming, offers profound insights into the field of Buddhist Studies. The podcast features candid conversations and interviews with scholars of Buddhism across the disciplines of Religious Studies, Indology, Art History, South Asian Studies, Anthropology, and more.
Centre of South Asian Studies: Seminars
Audio files of the weekly seminars held at the Centre of South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge, as well as of other events in the Centre's academic programme.
The Channel - the podcast of the IIAS at Leiden University
The Channel is the podcast of the IIAS at Leiden University. Each episode delves into a particular topic related to Asian Studies from across the social sciences and humanities. Through a mixture of interviews, lectures, discussions, readings, and more, The Channel is a platform to connect scholars, activists, artists, and a wider audience in sustained conversations about Asia and its place in the contemporary world.
How do empires emerge? Why do they fall? And how have they shaped today's world? William Dalrymple and Anita Anand explore stories, personalities and events of empires in the course of history. The first episode focuses on the British in India: the East India Company, India as crown colony, Mahatma Gandhi, the Independence Movement and Partition of India.
Gandhāra: Die ältesten Handschriften des Buddhismus (German)
In the 1990s, the oldest manuscripts of Buddhism and the oldest manuscripts of South Asia were found in the ancient region Gandhāra, located in what is now Pakistan and Afghanistan. These manuscripts are edited and researched within the research project "Frühbuddhistische Handschriften aus Gandhāra" (Early Buddhist Manuscripts from Gandhāra) at the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. The project leader, Dr. Stefan Baums, offers insights in this research project.
Gebundene Schönheit - Tell me a history (tmah021) (German)
Dr. Friederike Weis, who leads a DFG project on Indian albums at the Museum for Asian Arts in Berlin, allows insights in the historical origins of collector's albums, a format which emerged in the 15th century in Persian-speaking regions. These gorgeous albums, illustrated with miniatures, also circulated in India and were quite popular in the Mughal Empire.
The Heritage as Placemaking Podcast
This series is presented by the international research project Heritage as Placemaking. The project is organised into four theoretical strands - decolonisation, erasure, commoning, and bureaucracy - and the accompanying podcast follows the same overarching themes. For the second year of the series, the project focuses on erasure and collaborates with Nepal Conversations. Erasure is curated by Dr. Stefanie Lotter, Senior Research Fellow at SOAS University of London, and Dr. Uma Pradhan, lecturer at University College London.
Kit Patrick, a teaching fellow at the University of Bristol, offers a guided journey through Indian history. The podcast ran for five seasons and allows insights into ancient India.
A podcast featuring conversations with authors and writers who have published new books covering South Asia. Host Karthik Nachiappan has a PhD in South Asian Studies from King's College, University of London, and is currently a Fellow at the National University of Singapore.
A project by the Goethe-Institute trying to capture, document, explore and invite music, poetry, research and discourse on the intersections of music and activism in South Asia. The thematic frame of M.A.P // A.M.P interfaces with other topics, especially pertaining to civil society, minorities, feminism, and queer activism.
A multidisciplinary podcast that hosts scholarly and expert content on South Asia. Focusing on fields within humanities and social sciences, it offers content curated for those interested in a deeper engagement with topics related to South Asia.
Das Mogulreich - Tell me a history (tmah012) (German)
In this episode, Prof. Dr. Eva Orthmann, who has been Professor of Iranian Studies at the University of Göttingen since 2018, explores what life was like for people of the many different ethnicities and religions in the Mughal Empire, how their artistic self-representation can be distinguished, and how it was subsequently perceived.
Nepal Conversations is a podcast series in which Dr. Uma Pradhan, lecturer at the University College London, speaks to scholars and researchers about their interesting work on various aspects of Nepali society. For its fourth season, the podcast focuses on erasure, Dr. Uma Pradhan collaborates with Dr. Stefanie Lotter from the international research project Heritage as Placemaking.
New Books Network - South Asian Studies
In this podcast, researchers present their latest book publications.
Om-gnosis: The Occult South Asia Podcast
Launched by the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School, the podcast aims to uncover the rich tapestry of hidden knowledge and practices rooted in South Asian traditions, including yoga, Hindu and Buddhist tantra, and Islamic esotericism.
ON South Asia is a podcast from the Department of Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg. It features a wide variety of topics related to modern and contemporary South Asia, including literature, cinema, book history, and cultural politics as well as debates around new media and “vernacular” languages and public spheres. Various scholars working on South Asia share their experiences, the challenges they faced and the insights they gained while conducting their research.
Online Gods - A Podcast about Digital Cultures in India and beyond
Online Gods is part theoretical exploration into some of the key concepts in the anthropology of media, and part research into how increased online interaction is changing the public sphere. Focusing on India and the India diaspora, the podcast continues in the great anthropological tradition of bringing the global and the specific into conversation with one another as it analyses what online discussions do to political participation, displays of faith and feelings of national belonging.
The Partition of British India
The Mittal Institute at Harvard University presents a series of podcasts in which distinguished faculty and visiting scholars explore the history, context, and ongoing impact of the Partition of India and Pakistan. The episodes were recorded during the Mittal Institute's Partition Seminars, featuring a range of Harvard faculty from various disciplines and schools presenting themes including humanitarian consequences, nationalism, cities and settlements, long-term impacts, and more.
Dr. Antonia Ruppel, research assistant at the Institute of Indology and Tibetology at LMU Munich, in conversation with Sanskrit researchers.
SASSpod - South Asian Studies at Stanford Podcast
This podcast covers a wide range of topics, from poetry to politics, from manuscript collections to music, from science to Bollywood.
Dr. Finnian Gerety, professor at the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia at Brown University, speaks with colleagues from around the world about Hindu nationalism, street shrines in India, stories of saints in Afghanistan, mantras, astrology in Jainism and much more.
South Asia - University of Oxford Podcast
This podcast features lectures, panel discussions and book presentations on topics related to South Asia.South Asia Chat - National University of Singapore
A weekly podcast covering important political developments in South Asia.
South Asian Conversations Podcast - Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge
Dr. Edward Anderson, Dr. Partha Pratim Shil and Dr. Anjali Bhardwaj-Datta in conversation with international South Asian studies researchers. The conversations were recorded in Spring 2020.
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