As part of the Cereal Cultures cooperation and the DFG project From ‘poor man’s food’ to ‘nutri-cereals Peter Berger and René Cappers visited the Frobenius Institute as Visiting Professors between March and June 2023. This enabled intensive discussions between the members of the Cereal Cultures network and included some highlights such as a book launch and the opening of an exhibition.
More information can be found here.
Fieldwork photographs taken by Indhubala Kesavan, researching for her project “A preliminary account on the socio-historic aspects in the making of the ‘rice bowl’ of Odisha”.
Fieldwork photographs taken by Suneet Kumat, researching for his project “Usage of Rice in Rituals and Meaning-Making of the ‘socio-cosmic’ World of Jodia Poraja”.
The panel “Towards collaborative research on cereal cultures in South Asia” by Roland Hardenberg (Frobenius-Institute, Goethe University Frankfurt, DE), Peter Berger (Institute of Indian Studies, University of Groningen, NL), and Sofia Filatova (Groningen Institue of Archaeology, University of Groningen, NL) has been accepted for the 27th European Conference of South Asian Studies (ECSAS) of the European Association of South Asian Studies (EASAS).
The ECSAS conference on “Building Sustainable Research Networks” will take place in Turin, Italy from 26th to 29th of July, 2023.
Further information can be found on the panel’s official ECSAS page.
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