Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies CATS Forum

11.00–11.20: Malini AMBACH (SAI, Classical Indology / Heidelberg Academy of Sciences)
Mythological Narratives as a Spatial Guide Through the South Indian Temple City of Kanchipuram

11.20–11.40: Dr. Vincent LESCH (ZO, Japanese Studies)
Current Developments in Japanese Consumer Protection and Consumer Education

11.40–12.00: Leon HOUF (Economics/Ethnology)
Between Anthropology and Behavioral Economics: Interdisciplinary Research in a Resettlement Community in Laos

12.00–12.20: Egor NOVIKOV (GPTS, Anthropology)
Filth and Transgression in Humanitarian Kolkata

12.20–13.00: Break

13.00–13.30: Dr. Philipp ZEHMISCH, Gulnar TABASSUM, Victoria JEBSEN, Saba AHMED, Yolden KWAN (SAI, Anthropology)
International Research Seminar “Heritage Conservation in Postcolonial Pakistan”

13.30–13.50: WANG Zifei (GPTS, Chinese Studies)
Indie Histories: Exploring Chinese Independent Cinema through the Lens of Transculturality

13.50–14.10: Prateek PANKAJ (SAI, History)
Decolonisation and the Nationalist Adoption of Colonial Policing: the Congress in Bihar, 1937–42

14.10–14.30: Dr. Oliver TAPPE (Anthropology)
Digging Deeper: A historical anthropology of tin mining in Laos