Newsletter of the Heidelberg Center South Asia
The Heidelberg Center South Asia (HCSA) published a new issue of its newsletter. It reports about the latest news, events and developments. HCSA is the branch office of Heidelberg University and the...
View ArticleUniversity of Bruxelles awards Kerstin von Lingen
The International Chair for the History of the Second World War is organised by the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Université libre de Bruxelles to invite an internationally renowned...
View ArticleInternational Workshop on Media, Technology and Family
Project Members Roberta Mandoki M.A. and Annika Mayer M.A. contributed to the workshop “Media, Technology and Family – Changing Concepts and Practices of Relatedness in India”, held at the Humboldt...
View ArticleKyoto-Heidelberg Student Workshop
During the workshop students from both partners learned about and discussed the history and transcultural dynamics of migration between and within Asia and Europe in light of the current developments...
View ArticleHarald Fuess appointed to Advisory Board of Tohoku University
In addition to his service on the International Advisory Board, Professor Fuess has been invited as a Visiting Faculty Fellow for The 21st Century Hasekura Project in Japanese Studies at the Tohoku...
View ArticleGraduate Programme welcomes Applications
The Graduate Programme offers a monthly scholarship of 1200 Euro. Future scholarship holders will be supported in framing their research through advanced courses, individual supervision, and mentoring....
View ArticleCall for Panels: Annual Conference 2016
The conference is organised by Research Area D as a collaborative enterprise of the Cluster “Asia and Europe”, the Forum Transregionale Studien, the Max Weber Stiftung- Deutsche...
View ArticleNew Book on the Post-Imperial Russian-Qing Borderland
The book demonstrates that indigenous actors of the former Russian–Qing imperial borderland played a crucial role in the development and implementation of the global Soviet project, and that Buddhism,...
View ArticlePodium Discussion at International Weeks against Racism
Jan Scholz, graduate student with project MC2 "Sufism", will participate in a podium discussion at the Heidelberg Taeter Theater on March 19, 2016. The discussion follows the theatre play "Nathan the...
View ArticleJulia Poerting to join Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene
Julia Poerting, PhD student of JRG C15 “Agrarian Alternatives”, has received a grant from the Aarhus University Research Foundation (AUFF) to be a visiting PhD student in the Aarhus University Research...
View ArticleJulia Poerting receives Grant from Aarhus
Julia Poerting will join AURA for 5 months from June to October 2016, to benefit from the interdisciplinary environment, discuss findings from her PhD research and deepen her understanding of the...
View ArticleSAI Newsletter
The South Asia Institute (SAI) published the eighth issue of the SAI newsletter. It contains information about current news, the latest events, and new publications related to the SAI.
View ArticleChristiane Brosius appointed as Marsilius Fellow
The appointment is a remarkable honour, because fellows are selected by the University's rectorate applying strong criteria such as scholarly excellence, confirmed by publications, and a proposal that...
View ArticleNew Book on Politics in India and China
The volume proposes to shift the discussion on what constitutes the ‘Other’ as opposed to the ‘Self’ from philosophy and cultural studies to the social sciences and explores how the structural...
View ArticleFellowship for Lion König
Dr. Lion König, Associate Researcher of the Cluster "Asia and Europe", has been awarded a fellowship by the German Research Council (DFG) to carry out postdoctoral research at Oxford University. He...
View ArticleUniversity newspaper Unispiegel reports about „Elderscapes“ project
Heidelberg University’s newspaper Unispiegel published an article about the transmedia project "Elderscapes. Ageing in Urban South Asia" that presents short films, text and sound files on an...
View ArticleSymposium on Religion in Urban Contexts
The symposium explored the topic of religion in contemporary urban contexts. Doctoral students and researchers from various disciplinary backgrounds and countries presented case studies from Asia and...
View ArticleJulian Strube edited Special Issue of Aries
The special issue features an introduction by Dr. Julian Strube on "Transgressing Boundaries. Social Reform, Theology, and the Demarcations Between Science and Religion". This editorial argues for a...
View ArticleGreat Attention for XML Tool by HRA
The workshop "Getting in the Game: Three Free Tools that Take You From Flat Data to RDF" was conducted by Matthias Arnold together with Greg Reser (Metadata Librarian, UC San Diego) and Jeff Mixter...
View ArticleRoundtable on the Chinese Cultural Revolution with Barbara Mittler
Prof. Dr. Barbara Mittler will participate in a roundtable dicussion on the topic "The 50th Anniversary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: Legacies and Continuities". It will address the Great...
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