Happy new year to all participants of the COST Action ESIND!
We begin 2026 with a new and exciting step in ESIND’s development: the creation of thematic research clusters. In response to last November’s call, we received 14 proposals. We would now like to invite all of our members to join one or several of the ESIND Research Clusters. To join a cluster, please write an email to its contact person.
If none of the themes relates to your research, please do not feel compelled to join any cluster; the COST Action ESIND will continue to encourage other forms of cooperation and the call for proposals remains open.
Below you will find a list of the research clusters with their respective contact persons. Please find a brief description of the research clusters by clicking here.
ESIND Research Cluster: “India in European Education: Teaching and Practices”
Contact: Prof. Dr. Andjelija Ivkov Dzigurski (University of Novi Sad, Serbia)
Email: ivkova@gmail.com
ESIND Research Cluster: “Indian Stories in European Representations”
Contact: Ms. Maja Sevenant (Ghent University, Belgium)
Email: maja.sevenant@ugent.be
ESIND Research Cluster: “Everyday Life and Modernity in Post-Independence India: European Travelers’ Perspectives (1947-1970s)”
Contact: Dr. Elif Güvendi Yalçın (Gümüşhane University, Türkiye)
Email: eguvendiyalcin@gumushane.edu.tr
ESIND Research Cluster: “The Female Gaze in the European Encounter with India”
Contact: Prof. Dr. Marianna Ferrara (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy)
Email: marianna.ferrara@uniroma1.it
ESIND Research Cluster: “European Representations of Health Care in India”
Contact: Dr. Víctor L. Vélez-García (Universidad de Huelva, Spain)
Email: victorluis.velez@gmail.com
ESIND Research Cluster: “Ethno-spatial and Sacred Imaginaries: Locating the Himalayas in the European Imagination”
Contact: Dr. Santanu Dey (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Email: santanu.dey@uj.edu.pl
ESIND Research Cluster: “Alternative Representations of India in Central and South-Eastern Europe”
Contact: Prof. Dr. Róbert Gáfrik (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia)
Email: robert.gafrik@savba.sk
ESIND Research Cluster: “Europe and India: Representations and Encounters in Philosophy”
Contact: Ms. Madéni Claudel (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Email: claudelmadeni@gmail.com
ESIND Research Cluster: “Jesuit Image(s) of India”
Contact: Prof. Dr. João Teles e Cunha (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal)
Email: jtelesecunha@gmail.com
ESIND Research Cluster: “Protestant Missionary Movements from Europe and America to India: A Prosopographic and Institutional Representation Database (18th–20th Centuries)”
Contact: Dr. Mahmut Cihat İzgi (Sakarya University, Türkiye)
Email: cizgi@sakarya.edu.tr
ESIND Research Cluster: “Indian Thought in Romantic Visions of Europe”
Contact: Prof. Dr. Halina Marlewicz (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Email: halina.marlewicz@uj.edu.pl
ESIND Research Cluster: “Visual, Material, and Museum Culture”
Contact: Dr. Michael T. Heneise (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
Email: michael.t.heneise@uit.no
ESIND Research Cluster: “The Bilateral Relations between Yugoslavia and India (1948 – 1991), in the Context of the Non – Aligned Movement”
Contact: Prof. Dr. Vladimir Janev (Institute of National History, Skopje, North Macedonia)
Email: janev_vlatko@yahoo.com
