Prof. Dr. Frank Heidemann

New Publications:

Ethnologie Eine Einführung	The Modern Anthropology of India	Asian Ethnology	Manifestations of History
Stuttgart: V&R 22019 Price: 24,90 €	London & NY: Routledge 2013 Price: $42.84	Nanzan Institute for Religion & Culture 2014	Primus Books New Delhi, 2016 Price: $ 59.95

Video Program:

 International Conferences:

• "Sight meets Sound", University of Munich, June 17-19, 2016, with Richard Wolf (Harvard University)
• Workshop "The Challenge of Atmospheres", University of Munich, October 2014
• “New Hybridities: Societies and Cultures in Transition”, Kloster Seeon, July 2004 (DFG GK Postocolonial Studies)
• "Ritual, Art and Language: Making Indigenous Polities in India”, University of Munich, January 2011 (DFG HE 2034/21-1)
• “Manifestations of History in the Andaman Islands, South-East India”, University of Munich, June 2013 (DFG HE 2034/ 24-1)

Academic Appointments and other Professionel Experiences

• 1997 Professor, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich
• 1997 Habilitation, Free University Berlin
• 1993-1997 Assistant Professor, Free University Berlin
• 1990-1993 Research Fellow (Funded by German Research Foundation), LMU Munich
• 1989-1990 Research Fellow (Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation), Tokyo
• 1988-1989 Postdoctoral Research Fellow (DAAD), Madras, Fieldwork in Nilgiris
• 1988 Defence of Doctoral Thesis, University of Göttingen
• 1982-1984, 1985,1986 Fieldwork in Tamil Nadu

Teachings and Research Appointments / Scholarships

• Venice International University 2003, 2004, 2013, 2019, 2023
• Maldives National University", Malé 2021, 2023
• Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi 2018, 2019, 2020
• Australian National University, Canberra 2012, 2016
• Harvard University, Cambridge 2011, 2016
• University of Barcelona 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013
• University of Bhubaneswar 2004
• Tokyo University 2000, 2016
• University of Pondicherry 2000
• University of Madras 1988-1989, 1997, 2006, 2009
• Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 1989-1990
• University of Copenhagen 1997, 1998
• University of Peruja 1996
• University of Hawaii, Honolulu 1992, 1996, 2003

Scholarly Appointments and Academic Services (Selection)

• Graduate School “Postcolonial Studies”, Director, 2003-2005
• Department for Culture and Ancient Studies, Director, 2007-2010
• German Council of Science and Humanities, Member of Working Group “Research on Scientic Collections” 2008-2011
• South Asia Institute (Heidelberg), Academic Advisory Board, Speaker 2008-2017
• Ethnographic Filmfestival “Freiburger Filmforum”, Selection Committee 2000-2003
• Munich Ethnographic Filmfestival, Co-Founder, Selection Committee since 2003-2015
• Permanent Working Group “Visual Anthropology”, German Ethnographic Association, Speaker 2004-2013

Research

• Since 2020 - "Social Transformation in Minicoy and the Maldives" (Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation and DAAD)
• Since 1982 – Ongoing Fieldwork in South India (Tamil Nadu, Nilgiri) on Politics, Caste-System, Migration, Ritual and Religion
• Since 2011 – Fieldwork in the Andaman Islands on the Sri Lanka Repatriates
• Member of the DFG Focus Program Disputed Centers. Construction and Transformation of Socio-Cultural Identities in the Indian state of Orissa, 2001-2004
• Member of the DFG Research Group on Cultural Performance of Foreignness, 2003 - 2006
• Since 2005, several Research Projects (DFG) about the Society of the Nilgiri Region
• Head of the Project "The Kurumba Languages of the Nilgiris in South India" in the framework of the special program: "Documentation of Endangered Languages", from the Volkswagen’s Foundation (since 2009-2014)
• "Migration and Place-making in the Post-Colonial Settler Society of the Andaman Islands, India" (DFG HE 2034/19-1; 2011-2014)
• "Market, Community and Money in India. Conversations and Money Traffics in the Badaga "(DFG HE 2034 / 23-1; 2012-2015)
• "Participating Perception through Multisensory Evocation" (DFG 2034/25-1; 2013-2016)
• "Repatriates and Refugees from Sri Lanka to India" (DAAD together with Abhijit Dasgupta, Delhi University, 2017-2020)