HCTS members publish wide range of articles

In the last few months, many current and former members of the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) had their contributions edited in a number of print and online media. Ranging from cultural anthropology to contemporary history, the articles encompass a variety of disciplinary approaches and regional expertise.

Anna Andreeva

• "Childbirth and the ‘Arts of Judgment’ in Medieval Japan," in: Dagmar Schäfer, Zhao Lu, Michael Lackner (eds.), Accounting for Uncertainty: Prediction and Planning in Asia’s History, Max-Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte: 2019.

Barbara Mittler

• "Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten!“ Klassische Musik-Kultur im Rahmen globaler Identitäts- und Haßdiskurse – Der Fall China," in: Carl Friedrich Gethmann, Friedrich Wilhelm Graf (Hrsg.), Identität, Hass, Kultur, Wallstein Verlag: 2019.

• "Re-con-figurations—Media and their Powers: an Anthropomorphic Perspective," in: Philipp Stoellger (ed.), Figurationen des Menschen. Studien zur Medienanthropologie, Königshausen & Neumann: 2019.

• "A (wo)men’s revolution? Small feet, large hands, Small Feet, and visions of womanhood in China’s long 20th century," in: Alan Baumler (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Revolutionary China, Routledge: 2019.

Cathrine Bublatzky

• “Memory, Belonging, Engaging. Artistic Production in a Migration Context," in: Burcu Dogramaci and Birgit Mersmann (eds.), Handbook of Art and Global Migraton, De Gruyter: 2019.

Chen Ruixuan

• "Vignettes of Buddhist Asceticism: Jottings on Six Fragments in Tocharian B," in: Central Asiatic Journal, Volume 61(2), 2018.

Davide Torri

• "Of Shadows and Fears: Nepalese Ghost Stories from Classical Texts and Folklore to the Social Media," in: Anastasios Panagiotopoulos, Diana Espírito Santo (eds.), Articulate Necrographies. Comparative perspectives on the Voices and Silences of the Dead, Berghahn: 2019.

• "Religious Identities and the Struggle for Secularism. The revival of Buddhism and Religions of Marginalized Groups in Nepal," in: Entangled Religions. Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, vol. 8, 2019.

• "Lo sciamanismo in Nepal" ("Shamanism in Nepal"), in: Stefano Beggiora (ed.), Il Cosmo Sciamanico. Ontologie Indigene fra Asia e Americhe, Franco Angeli: 2019.

He Shuqun 何書群 [Michael Radich]

• "Zhu Fahu shifou xiuding guo T474? 竺法護是否修訂過T474?" in: Foguang xuebao 佛光學報, New Series, 5(2), 2019.

Monica Juneja

• "Migration, Dispossession, Post-Memorial Recuperations. An “Undisciplined” View of the Partition of the Indian Subcontinent," in: Burcu Dogramaci and Birgit Mersmann (eds.), Handbook of Art and Global Migration. Theories, Practices and Challenges, De Gruyter: 2019.

Takuma Melber

• "Eroberungszüge seit 1941: Blitzkrieg und Schreckensherrschaft," in: Damals 51, Nr. 7: Krieg im Pazifik, 1937-1945, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2019, 24-30.

• "Strategischer Bombenkrieg: Verderben aus der Luft," in: Damals 51, Nr. 7: Krieg im Pazifik, 1937-1945, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2019, 38-41.

• "The Impact of the ‘China Experience’ on Japanese Warfare in Malaya and Singapore," in: Miguel Alonso, Alan Kramer and Javier Rodriguez (eds.), Fascist Warfare, 1922-1945: Aggression, Occupation, Annihilation, Palgrave MacMillan: 2019.