In 2016, the following researchers are invited for guest lectures:

• A. Revathi (former director of SANGAMA, Bangalore): Writing Autobiography as an LGBTIQ Activist in India

• Prof. Dr. Hidehiro Kato (Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology): Brief Overview of the Japanese Whaling History: With Some Notes on the Current Status of Japanese Whaling and Relevant Scientific Activities to Stock Managements

• Prof. Dr. R. Ramakumar (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai): Agrarian Distress in Rural India: An Assessment of 25 Years of Economic Reform

• Prof. Dr. Elliot Sperling (Indiana University Bloomington): Between China and the World: Issues in Tibet’s History

• Prof. Dr. Joachim Gentz (University of Edinburgh): Of Prophets and Scribes: Concepts and Taxonomies of Interpreting Texts in Early China and the Near East

• Prof. Dr. Hans Harder (University of Heidelberg): Herbert: Ein Kalkutta-Roman (Nabarun Bhattacharya)

• Dr. Giovanni Sorge (C.G. Jung Institute Zurich-Küsnacht): Western Understanding of the Yantra and the Mandala: The Work of Heinrich Zimmer and its Influence on C. G. Jung

• Prof. Dr. Ali Merthan Dündar (Ankara University): Japan, Islam, and the Turkic World

• Gisela Jahn: Japanische Keramik: Aufbruch im 20. Jahrhundert

• Prof. Dr. Michael Sommer (Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg): Nachhaltigkeit im Kontext verstehen: Fenhandel und Imperien zwischen Mittelmeer und Indischem Ozean (300 v.Chr. bis 300 n. Chr.)

• Prof. Dr. Jörg Quenzer (University of Hamburg): Von guten und von schlechten Träumen: Zum Traummotiv in der buddhistischen Literatur des japanischen Mittelalters

• Prof. Dr. Robert Simpson (Durham University): Death, Merit and Nation: Eye Donation Practices among Theravada Buddhists in Contemporary Sri Lanka

• Prof. Dr. Barend Ter Haar (Shaw Professor of Chinese, University of Oxford): The Historical Models for Violent Solutions in Maoist China and After

• Dr. Vijayanka Nair (New York University): The State of the Individual: Probing the Moral World of India’s National Biometric Identification Project