Following the workshop “My First Time in India: Places, Peoples, Impressions and Stereotypes at the First Encounter,” held in Palermo on 6–7 February 2026, we are pleased to invite contributions to the resulting publication project First Encounters with India. The workshop, organised within the framework of WG2 – Encounters between Europeans and Indians, Past and…
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Special issue of Slavonica Guest editors:Zsuzsanna Varga, University of Glasgow, zsuzsanna.varga@glasgow.ac.ukNemanja Radulović, University of Belgrade, nem_radulovic@yahoo.comTomasz Ewertowski, Shanghai International Studies University, tewert@shisu.edu.cn In this special issue of Slavonica (https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ysla20), we invite scholars to examine the development of Eastern European encounters with India, following the call of ESIND – COST Action CA23144, “Europe’s Representations of India:…
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…
Dr. Giuseppe Resta, ESIND member and co-leader of Working Group 4, has been awarded the 2026 Edilia and François-Auguste de Montêquin Senior Fellowship by the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) for his research project “Indo-Portuguese architecture through a female gaze: Gritli von Mitterwallner, the Tata Family, and the East-Indian community of Mumbai.” Giuseppe works at…
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…
