RePLITO Visiting Research Fellows at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (IAAW)

(since May 2023)

Dr. Bindu Bhadana

Host at IAAW: Prof. Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider, Gender and Media Studies for the South Asian Region (GAMS)

Dr. Bindu Bhadana is an independent scholar and Visiting Faculty at Anant National University in Ahmedabad. She has a PhD in Transcultural Studies from the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Following her Master of Arts in Medieval Indian History from Jawaharlal Nehru University Delhi with a course in Journalism and Mass Communications, she has been working extensively within the field of arts and culture for the past 30 years. Her thesis publication titled Postnational Perceptions in Contemporary Art is forthcoming in Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing within the series on Media and Cultural Studies edited by Professor Nadja-Christina Schneider.

(since October 2022)

Dr. Nagehan Uskan

Host at IAAW: Prof. Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider, Gender and Media Studies for the South Asian Region (GAMS)

Nagehan Uskan studied Cinema at the University of Bologna and Sociology at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. She works on video and documentary cinema, image and self-representation as a form of activism. She is based in Lesvos Island in Greece and produces collective videos with migrant self-organised collectives. She teaches Filmmaking in Exile at the Department of Gender and Media Studies for the South Asian Region (GAMS) at HU, affiliated with Off-University. She also works as a film programmer for different institutions and festivals.

(since February  2022)

Dr. Arshi Javaid

Host at IAAW: Prof. Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider, Gender and Media Studies for the South Asian Region (GAMS)

Arshi Javaid is a post-doctoral critical residency fellow at Freie Universität Berlin. Her post-doctoral project looks at the everydayness of life between Kashmiri Muslims and Kashmiri Pandits before 1989, in the old city of Srinagar.

(January – March 2022) 

Wikke Jansen 

Host at IAAW: Prof. Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider, Gender and Media Studies for the South Asian Region (GAMS)

Wikke Jansen is going to defend her PhD thesis on “Queer (Im)mobilities: Activism, Religion, and Everyday Life among Queer Indonesians” in July 2022. She was a doctoral fellow at the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS) and holds an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from Leiden University. On February 9th, 2021, Wikke gave a lecture in the framework of our RePLITO Visiting Fellows Lecture Series: 

“Ambiguous (Im)mobilities: Activism, Religion and Everyday Life among Queer Indonesians”

Contributions to the Digital Knowledge Archive: Extending an Indonesian Umbrella: A Case Study of Queer (Trans)national Solidarity by @kamusqueer and Queer(ing) Religion

(October – December 2021)

Dr. Parul Bhandari 

Hosts at IAAW: Dr. Fritzi-Marie Titzmann & Prof. Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider, Gender and Media Studies for the South Asian Region (GAMS)  

Parul Bhandari is a sociologist from Delhi, specialising in the study of marriage, family, gender, class and inequalities in contemporary India. On November 17th, 2021, Parul gave a lecture in the framework of our RePLITO Visiting Fellows Lecture Series: 

“In Togtherness and as Apart: Love, Marriage and Family in Contemporary India”

Contribution to the Digital Knowledge Archive: Romantic Love in India

(October - November 2021)

Dr. Robert Kramm

Host at IAAW: Prof. Dr. Claudia Derichs, Transregional Southeast Asian Studies

Robert Kramm is Freigeist Fellow (VW Stiftung) in the School of History at LMU Munich. At LMU, he is the principal investigator of the research group “Radical Utopian Communities”. On October 27th, 2021, Robert gave a lecture in the framework of our RePLITO Visiting Fellows Lecture Series: 

“A Global History From the Margins: Communal Life in the Twentieth Century”

Contribution to the Digital Knowledge Archive: Radical Utopian "Living Together"