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Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows (at Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany), on the theme &quot;Circulation of Popular Images and Media in Muslim Religious Spheres&quot;.</span></span><o:p><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br /> </span></span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Out of the several excellent proposals that we received, the following six candidates have been selected for their respective themes.</span></span><o:p><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br /> </span></span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">1. Shirley Abraham/Amit Madheshiya (Mumbai) &ndash; &ldquo;Devotional Visual Culture at the Shrine of Sailani Baba&rdquo;</span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br /> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">2. Yogesh Snehi (</span></span><st1:city w:st="on"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Amritsar</span></span></st1:city><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">) &ndash; &ldquo;Replicating Memory, Creating Images: Pirs and Dargahs in Popular Art and Media of Contemporary </span></span><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">East Punjab</span></span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">&rdquo;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">3. Abeer Gupta (Pune/Ladakh) &ndash; &ldquo;The culture of Islam in the </span></span><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Western Himalayas</span></span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">&rdquo;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">4. Fiza Ishaq/Annapurna G. (</span></span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Bangalore</span></span></st1:city></st1:place><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">) &ndash; &ldquo;Shia devotional art and material culture: Visual narratives of transculturation, social memory and community identity&rdquo;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">5. Noman Baig (</span></span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Karachi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">) &ndash; &ldquo;Mediating Belief and Senses: Dawat-e-Islami's Emerging Madina of Visuality&rdquo;</span></span><o:p><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br /> </span></span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The fellows will be working on their respective themes for the next six months and their research results would be published in the form of an edited volume.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">More details about these fellows and their respective subjects would soon be available on our website.</span></span><o:p><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br /> </span></span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Thanks</span></span><o:p><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br /> </span></span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The Tasveer Ghar team</span></span><o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>&nbsp;</p> </td></tr><tr><td align="right"><a href="cluster_1.html" class="navigation-a">Next</a></td></tr></table></td></tr></table> <script type="text/javascript">var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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