IPS India Forum part of new ICAS:MP Centre of Advanced Studies

The M.S Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies ‘Metamorphoses of the Political’ (ICAS:MP) combines the benefits of an open, interdisciplinary forum for intellectual exchange with the advantages of a cutting-edge research centre. The centre will focus on key political processes that have emerged in parallel in many parts of the world during the twentieth century through to the present day, processes that are entangled yet heterogeneous. 

 ICAS:MP is the first International Centre of Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences abroad that is financed by the German Ministry of Education and Research. ICAS:MP has its main location in New Delhi and is organised collectively by an Indo-German consortium

• Centre for Modern India Studies (ZMIW), University of Würzburg
• Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), University of Göttingen
• Centre for the Studies of Developing Societies (CSDS), Neu-Delhi
• Centre the Studies of Social Sciences Calcutta (CSSSC), Kolkata
• Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), Neu-Delhi
• Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt
• Max Weber Foundation, Bonn, with its German Historical Institute London (GHIL)

The first ICAS:MP planning meetings and plenary session will take place in October 2015 in Delhi with all members of the India Forum taking part: PD Dr. Michael Becker and Dr. Matthias Gsänger from the Department of Political Theory as well as Prof. Dr. Gisela Müller-Brandeck-Bocquet, Philipp Gieg, and Timo Lowinger from the Department of European Studies and International Relations. Furtermore, Prof. Dr. Gisela Müller-Brandeck-Bocquet and PD Dr. Michael Becker are members of the module committee. An official Memorandum of Understanding between the Indian and the German side is expected to be signed in the coming months.

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