Christiane Brosius and Astrid Zotter receive a nine-month seed funding for a new project on the “Anthropology of Inscriptions: Memory and Cultural Heritage in the Public Sphere” within the frame of the Flagship Initiative “Transforming Cultural Heritage”, which Simon Cube…
NHDP has received a grant to continue its work for six more years. The new grant will allow us to continue the work in the Kathmandu valley, and expand it to western Nepal and other places that are culturally and historically related to the Kathmandu valley. NHDP is the first project to comprehe…
The Char Narayana temple (built-in 1566) is the oldest multi-tiered temple on Patan Darbar Square. It was completely destroyed by the 2015 earthquake. In a r…
On January 27, 2020, Prof. Dr. Christiane Brosius, director of the Nepal Heritage Documentation Project presents a talk about ‘Documenting Cultural Heritage: Urbanisation and Natural Disasters in the Case of Nepal” (Kulturerbe dokumentieren: Urbanisierung und Naturkatastrophen am Bei…
On Friday the 18th October German Ambassador Roland Schäfer and Cultural Attachée Paula Werner were visiting the Nepal Research Bhawan to see the Kathmandu Branch Office of the South Asia Institute and get an idea about ongoing projects. Within the informal meeting the newly appointe…