The Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in Global Context" (Heidelberg University, Germany) is delighted to announce its first collaborative event with Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi:

Popular Islam and Urban Spaces: The Nizamuddin Shrine in New Delhi
An Illustrated Talk by Yousuf Saeed

Friday, January 22, 2010 at 6:30 pm Siddhartha Hall, Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhawan 3, Kasturba Gandhi Marg New Delhi 110001

You are cordially invited to attend this talk by Yousuf Saeed on the popular image and media practices around Delhi’s Sufi shrine of Nizamuddin Aulia. The talk focuses on how the popular visuality around the shrine has changed over time in response to the changes brought about by urbanization, movement of pilgrims, new technology, and competition from the more orthodox tableeghi and Wahhabi ideologues in the vicinity. This work-in-progress is part of a research and documentation project tracing the transcultural flows between Europe and Asia in Muslim popular iconography, under the Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows’, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhawan
Tel.+91-11-2332 9506
http://www.goethe.de/newdelhi
Email: prog.mmb@delhi.goethe.org

Also see:
http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/heidelberg-research-architecture/hra-projects/satellites-of-networks.html