JANUARY 2017 11 URSULA RAO University of Leipzig Biometric Bodies or, how to make fingerprinting technology work in India 25 RUCHI CHATURVEDI University of Cape Town Becoming Major, Making Minor: Democracy and Violence in South India NOVEMBER 2016 MON 07 4pm CITIES OF SLEEP Film Screening Screening and discussion with director Shaunek Sen at the Lumière Cinema 09 FAISAL DEVJI University of Oxford The making of a Muslim political language in 19 th century India 23 STEPHANIE TAWA LAMA-REWAL Centre for South Asian Studies (CEIAS) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris Avatars of participation. The development of participatory practices in the city-state of Delhi CeMIS COLLOQUIUM WINTER SEMESTER ‘16/17 DECEMBER 2016 07 ROMOLA SANYAL London School of Economics (LSE) Crossing Borders, Making Homes: Refugees and the Politics of Property Contact: Birgit Priemer [email protected] www.uni-goettingen.de/cemis OCTOBER 2016 26 MICHAEL LEVIEN Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Dispossession Without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India MON 31 8pm PLACEBO Film Screening Screening and discussion with director Abhay Kumar at the Lumière Cinema Wednesdays 4.15pm – 5.45pm. Except film screenings Conveners Srirupa Roy Patrick Eisenlohr Room 0.138, Waldweg 26 Altbau. Screenings at Lumière Cinema Centre for Modern Indian Studies