The ANUBhasha Podcast

Mar 30 2023

The ANUBhasha Podcast artwork

ANUBhasha is a collective of scholars working on South Asian language and literary traditions based at The Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. Our work currently is focused on the issue of 'Digital Repatriation in South Asia'. The current podcast series features conversations that ANUBhasha co-directors, Dr. Christopher Diamond and Dr. Stephanie Majcher, undertook with a variety of scholars, researchers, technologists, and community advocates who all work with digital spaces and cultural communities in some fashion. Through these conversations we try to figure out what responsible, community-oriented digital scholarship could look like.

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Librarians are our Heroes! | Nicole Merkel-Hilf | Digital Repatriation in South Asia

Mar 30 2023 37 mins

We chat to librarian and digital wizard Nicole Merkel-Hilf about her many digital projects in the spaces of online archives, publishing, and the use of digital tools to improve access to increase the development of digital collections.Nicole wears many hats and is involved with many digital projects. She is the subject librarian for Modern South Asian languages and the History and

Digital Preservation for a Submerging Valley, Part 2 | Jason Neelis, Murtaza Taj, & Atiq Hashmi | Digital Repatriation in South Asia

Mar 23 2023 36 mins

This is part 2 of a 2 part conversation that the ANUBhasha team (Chris Diamond & Stephanie Majcher) have with Jason Neelis, Associate Professor of Religion & Culture at Wilfrid Laurier (Canada), Murtaza Taj, Assistant Professor and Faculty Director of the Computer Vision and Graphics Lab and Technology for People Initiative at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (L

Digital Preservation for a Submerging Valley - Part 1 | Jason Neelis, Murtaza Taj, & Atiq Hashmi | Digital Repatriation in South Asia

Mar 16 2023 39 mins

This is part 1 of a 2 part conversation that the ANUBhasha team (Chris Diamond & Stephanie Majcher) have with Jason Neelis, Associate Professor of Religion & Culture at Wilfrid Laurier (Canada), Murtaza Taj, Assistant Professor and Faculty Director of the Computer Vision and Graphics Lab and Technology for People Initiative at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (L

Humble Researchers, Open Homes | Ronit Ricci | Digital Repatriation in South Asia

Mar 09 2023 49 mins

In this conversation, we are joined by Prof. Ronit Ricci of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where she is the Sternberg-Tamir Chair in Comparative Cultures and Professor in the departments of Asian Studies and Comparative Religion. She also holds an appointment at the School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University. Ronit is a specialist in the textu

'Trees and Rocks' in a Global Digital World | Joe Marino & Mike Skinner | Digital Repatriation in South Asia

Mar 02 2023 56 mins

In this episode, we hold a cross-Pacific conversation with our colleagues Joe Marino in Seattle (WA, USA) and Mike Skinner in Hilo (Hawai'i) about their work on Gandharan Buddhist manuscript sources from Pakistan/Afghanistan and Kushana inscriptions in India, respectively. We talk about the historical and contemporary Buddhist and regional heritage communities that direct our

Access, Privilege, and Purpose | Adrian Plau | Digital Repatriation in South Asia

Feb 23 2023 58 mins

In the first episode of ANUBhasha's 'Digital Repatriation in South Asia Series', Steph and Chris chat with Dr. Adrian Plau, the Manuscript Collections Information Analyst at Wellcome Collection in London (UK). He is currently undertaking a Headley Fellowship with the Art Fund (UK). Adrian talks to us about his own work transitioning from the traditional practices of

Introduction | Digital Repatriation in South Asia

Feb 09 2023 3 mins

The ANUBhasha team, Dr. Chris Diamond and Dr. Stephanie Majcher, introduce the new 'Digital Repatriation in South Asia' podcast series for 2023. For more details on the 'Digital Repatriation in South Asia' series, please visit: https://anubhasha.org/feature/podcast/For more general information about ANUBhasha, included some of its ongoing work on digital texts a