NHDP film portrait on television

In December 2018, shortly after its launch, the project was getting attention from "Campus TV". The German television station produced a film portrait, that was broadcasted on German TV in December 2018 and is now available with English subtitles. The film portrait features project leader Prof. …

Prof. Brosius at SOAS Conference

NHDP project leader Prof. Christiane Brosius participates at the conference "Epicentre to Aftermath. Political, Social and Cultural Impacts of Earthquakes in South Asia", hosted by the South Asia Institute of SOAS, University of London on 11-12 January. Besides her talk under the title "Art as p…

Project Launch and joint fieldwork

The Heidelberg team and all staff members in Nepal joined forces to launch the project and begin the process of documentation in Kathmandu / Patan. Architects, draftsmen, photographers, anthropologists, philologists, digital humanities staff, and historians conducted field-work together with pro…