CfA: Doctoral Scholarships in Transcultural Studies
In accordance with the research scheme of the HCTS, the three-year Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies (GPTS) focuses on the dynamics of cultural exchange processes between and within Asia and...
View ArticleMarlène Harles publishes dissertation with heiUP
Artists' collectives are becoming a driving force in the art field. They activate new spaces for artistic practice and presentation. They design newly emerging formats, from neighborhood art projects...
View ArticleOpening Ceremony of the Research Training Group “Ambivalent Enmity”
Derek J. Penslar is William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University. He is known for his comparative and transnational approaches, and is currently working on a book on the...
View ArticleMonica Juneja receives Meyer-Struckmann Prize
Read the full press release of Heidelberg University here.
View ArticleNew edited volume by Martin Hofmann and Joachim Kurtz
All knowledge is local. The sites in which knowledge is produced, stored, or transmitted shape its form and content. In the wake of the spatial turn questions regarding the situatedness of knowledge...
View ArticleResearch Training Group "Ambivalent Enmity" started
In the RTG, twelve doctoral candidates from seven countries, two postdocs, a coordinator and eleven principal investigators focus their research on the “Dynamics of Antagonism in Asia, Europe, and the...
View ArticleTwo new research projects funded by the Flagship Initiative "Transforming...
In the project “Queer Heritage-Making in Times of Political Turmoil: A Transcultural Approach” Wikke Jansen, Marion Wettstein, and Ute Hüsken of the South Asia Institute explore how queer communities...
View ArticleKnowing and Living (in) the City - Differently!
Over 20 students from participating schools shared a week of field visits, joint fieldwork and discussions with professors, experts and stakeholders of knowledge and experience in and of the city. An...
View ArticleMonica Juneja publishes "Can Art History be Made Global?"
The book responds to the challenge of the ‘global turn’ in the humanities from the perspective of art history. While cautioning against the conceptual traps of a facile globalism, it builds on a theory...
View ArticleFranziska Koch co-edited seventh volume of Miradas
The issue has been initialized in a workshop-cum-seminar with the same name co-taught by Koch and Oesterreich virtually across Heidelberg University as well as Universität der Künste Berlin between 16...
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Christiane Brosius has published a short article on the concept of Shared Heritage in the last issue of Athene, the magazine of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. Brosius uses examples from the...
View ArticleOnline Symposium on "Cohabitation"
Through their case studies framed in a transcultural perspective, speakers investigated different forms of cohabitation and interspecies relationships as they are reflected in artistic practices and...
View ArticleTarini Bedi returns to the HCTS
As part of these collaborations, in summer 2023, she will be working with Prof. Dr. Brosius on a DAAD funded urban excursion and on planning future project and teaching partnerships between Heidelberg...
View ArticleDAAD-funded field lab in Delhi: “Un/belonging to and in the city”
In most traditional settlement fabrics, the street has remained the social space of community life for centuries, where the private worlds of families gave way to the public sphere of the community....
View ArticleProject "Worlding Public Cultures" holds hybrid international conference
All sessions are open and free to the public to attend in person, but registration is required for Day 2. Please find the full program and links for registration here. The WPC 2023 Worlding...
View ArticleRTG Ambivalent Enmity welcomes applications for Pre- and Post-Doctoral...
Applicants are expected to have an excellent academic record within one of the RTG's participating disciplines and to propose an innovative research project suitable to at least one of the three...
View ArticleWergin member Association for Critical Heritage Studies
At their 2022 Conference in Santiago de Chile, the members of the Association for Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS) voted PD Dr Carsten Wergin, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the HCTS, into...
View ArticleCfA: Doctoral Scholarships in Transcultural Studies
In accordance with the research scheme of the HCTS, the three-year Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies (GPTS) focuses on the dynamics of cultural exchange processes between and within Asia and...
View ArticleSummer School "Urban Heritage Mining" in Kathmandy
Streets, squares, palaces, temples and cafès of the Kathmandu valley have been the sites for a dynamic teaching format which highly engaged the participants with the built and social realities of the...
View ArticleNew edited volume on mobility and the Japanese empire by Takahiro Yamamoto
This book tackles the question of border control in and around imperial Japan in the first half of the twentieth century, with a specific focus on its documentation regime. It explores the...
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