The Chair of English Literature and Cultural Studies maintains close contact with India. Within the DAAD program "A New Passage to India" the joint project "Literature in a Globalized World: Creative and Critical Perspectives" was created in cooperation with the Jawaharlal Nehru University Delhi, India. The German-Indian project is financed within the DAAD-framework Indo-German Partnerships in Higher Education”.
Project leaders: Prof. Isabel Karremann and Prof. Saugata Bhaduri
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If you are interested in literature in a globalized world and are also interested in India, the DAAD project "Literature in a Globalized World: Creative and Critical Perspectives" by the Chair of English Literature and Cultural Studies and the renowned Jawaharlal Nehru University Delhi offers you a wide range of possibilities.
DAAD has granted EUR 375,000 for Indo-German Projects
A powerful boost for the cooperation of the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) and partner universities in New Delhi. JMU gets around EUR 375,000 worth of funding for three new cooperation projects. In the framework of the Indo-German Partnerships in Higher Education, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) supports as many as three new projects that see the University of Würzburg cooperate with partners in Delhi.
One of the projects is being established at the Chair of English Literature and Cultural Studies. “Literature in a Globalized World: Creative and Critical Perspectives” is a joint project led by Prof. Isabel Karreman from the JMU Würzburg and Prof. Saugata Bhaduri from Jawaharlal Nehru University Delhi, India. The jointly founded teaching and research project is located in the new field of Literature and Globalization Studies and attempts to analyse the extent to which literary texts provide creative and critical perspectives on the processes of globalization.
The cooperation is made possible through the funding initiative Indo-German Partnerships in Higher Education of the Indian University Grants Commission (UGC) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). This project is financially supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with funds from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
