Franziska 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...
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 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 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 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 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 ArticleMonica Juneja receives Meyer-Struckmann Prize
Read the full press release of Heidelberg University here.
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 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 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...
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