Conferences & Seminars

At the turn of the 20th century, the German organic chemical industry began exporting coal tar-based synthetic dyestuffs to China. Surprisingly, China, which for centuries had been the leading manufacturer of exquisite textiles and natural dyestuffs, became the world’s largest buyer of chemical dyestuffs. […]

Compared to the importance we attribute today to disinformation our reliable knowledge of its effects is still surprisingly low. The few empirical studies on the impact of disinformation so far mainly refer to the USA and Western Europe. They arrive at largely consistent findings, which seem to contradict the public perception of disinformation. […]

This talk introduces a new research project I will be conducting on digital lending and everyday forms of indebtedness in India through an analysis of scandals around “fake loan apps.” Developed by quasi-legal companies who engaged in aggressive loan recovery tactics “fake loan aps” were responsible for driving several borrowers to commit suicide. […]

My research focuses on the everyday lives of the Indigenous Ainu people as they negotiate the media and cultural landscape of settler colonial Japan and its discourse of racial homogeneity. I critique the normalization of settler society and its structures using various decolonizing methodologies from the Indigenous theoretical traditions. […]

Epidemiologists warn that China’s so-called “wet markets,” where poultry are sold live, may be potential sources of zoonotic diseases such as Covid-19 or pandemic influenza. […]

Join us for the book launch of ‘A Flutter in the Colony’ (Penguin Random House-SEA, 2022) featuring author Sandeep Ray in conversation with Gareth Richards, Director at Gerakbudaya. Sandeep Ray will speak about what inspired this book, his career from a documentary filmmaker to a historian turned writer. […]

Join us for the virtual book launch featuring Dr Nilanjan Raghunath’s new book. […]