October 15, 2026

Events & Training

The workshop and seminar ‘Cultural Heritage and Visual Representations of India,” co-organised by ESIND (CostAction23144) and ID-SCAPES (ERC/COG/101125057), addressed the study of India’s visual heritage within broader debates on colonial knowledge, artistic exchange, and the making of global cultural histories. Over the centuries, the Indian subcontinent has been represented through a wide range of media—including…

On June 29th and 30th, the workshop “Cultural Heritage and Visual Representations of India” will take place at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, Portugal. The workshop is co-organised by the European Research Council Project ID-SCAPES – Building Identity: Religious Architecture and Sacral Landscapes of Christian Minorities in India and Bangladesh and the COST…

From the mid-16th to the mid-18th century, Jesuits played a major role in shaping European perceptions of India, influencing much of what Europeans read and discussed about the region. No other European institution in the early modern period produced as many texts, published as much material, circulated as many ideas, and shaped more concepts about…

Titled “Develop and standardise early-phase archival acquisition protocols,” this hybrid workshop addressed the transition from scattered fieldwork data and private collections to professional archival management. Contributing to WG1’s Tasks T1.3 and T1.4 (Deliverables D3 and D4), the session used the Yalıboyu Evleri (Riverfront Houses) Digital Inventory in Amasya as a case study. Discussion centred on…

Working Group 2's one-day policy workshop, Great Power Politics and the Future of Alliances, took place at Bilkent University in Ankara on 13 September 2026. Scholars and policy practitioners spent the day examining how alliance politics is evolving under intensifying great power competition, and what that evolution means for European security. Accommodation in Ankara and…