Workshop on Roles in Agricultural Developement
The workshop takes place on April 28 and seeks to connect the complicated forces shaping farmer identity to direct environmental management. It therefore explores the ways in which farmers respond to...
View ArticleNew Book on Historical Disaster Experiences
The volume discusses the experiences of natural disasters in different cultures, from Europe across the Near East to Asia. It focuses on the pre-industrial era and on the question of similarities,...
View ArticleNew Catalog on Indian Paintings and Miniatures
Two collections, hitherto all but unknown, of Indian painting from the late 17th and early 18th centuries, which are part of the Dresden Copper Plate Cabinet, are the focus of these miniature stories....
View ArticleMonica Juenja holds Keynote Lecture at Aarhus University
On Thursday, April 27, Prof. Monica Juneja will hold the keynote lecture “Where does art belong? The travails of a migrant concept“ within the lecture series “The Politics of Comparison. Relation –...
View ArticleKarl-Jaspers-Prize 2017
On Thursday, April 4, Profs. Jan and Aleida Assmann will be awarded the Karl-Jaspers-Prize at the Alte Aula of Heidelberg University. The prize, endowed by Heidelberg University, the Heidelberg Academy...
View ArticleCluster held General Meeting
Acting Director Prof. Axel Michaels headed the meeting and welcomed the Cluster members. He also announced the election of the new directorate to fill the positions of Prof. Joseph Maran and Prof. Axel...
View ArticleDavide Torri co-organized Workshop in Athens
Davide Torri, Associate Member of the Cluster “Asia and Europe”, co-organized the workshop “Shamanism and Eco-Cosmology. A cross-cultural Perspective”, held at Panteion University in Athens on April...
View ArticleFollow-up to the Annual Conference 2016
The follow-up to the last Cluster´s 2016 Annual Conference “Making, Sustaining, Breaking – The Politics of Heritage and Culture” entitled "A Conversation: Negotiating Cultural Heritage. Making,...
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On Saturday, May 6, Director of the Cluster "Asia and Europe" Prof. Axel Michaels held the keynote speech "Nepal und seine Stellung in der Welt" at the "Nepaltag 2017: 50 Jahre Brücken bauen". The...
View ArticleKerstin von Lingen gives lecture at Studium Generale
On Monday, May 15, Junior Research Group Leader PD Dr. Kerstin von Lingen will give a lecture on “Menschenrechte strafrechtlich schützen – die Genese des Konzepts von 'Crimes against Humanity'” at...
View ArticleShalong in Honor of Rudolf Wagner
The shalong - Chinese for salon - starts with a welcome by Acting Director Prof. Axel Michaels and a gratulatory greeting by Prof. Gerrit Kloss, the Dean of the Philosophical Faculty. The event will...
View ArticleInternational Conference on "Korea in Global History"
The long nineteenth century has received renewed scholarly attention as a key transformative period in global history for its accelerated engagement between Europe, America, Asia and Africa. Within...
View ArticleJour Fixe by Prof. David L. Howell
The lecture will focus on excrement, which was a hot commodity in the cities of nineteenth-century Japan. The widespread use of night soil as an organic fertilizer meant that residents of cities such...
View ArticleRudolph Wagner at Hong Kong University
From May 15 to June 15 2017, Prof. Rudolph Wagner will be Distinguished Visitor at the Hong Kong Baptist University. As "2017 HKBU Institute of Creativity Distinguished Visitor-cum-Jao Tsung-I Academy...
View ArticleNew Book on Religious Dynamics
This sourcebook offers rare insights into a formative period in the modern history of religions. Throughout the late 19th and the early 20th centuries, when commercial, political and cultural contacts...
View ArticleWorkshop on Labor and Citizenship in the 20th Century
This kick-off workshop was related to the collaborative research project “Entangled Pasts in a Global Present: Gender, Labor and Citizenship”, led by Prof. Harald Fuess (HCTS) and Prof. Yoko Nagahara...
View Article5 DAAD Scholarships for MATS Students
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has grant five full scholarships for MATS students for the year 2017-2019. The scholarship will enable five students of the Joint M.A. Transcultural Studies...
View ArticleNew Book on Pashupati Area by Axel Michaels
The book features the fieldwork by Axel Michaels in the periods between 1982 and today, that has been greatly supported by Govinda Tandon during this time. It includes numerous maps and photos that...
View ArticleTalk Gurukkal
On May 30, at 6 pm, Prof. Rajan Gurukkal from the Centre for Contemporary Studies at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore will give a lecture entitled „Overseas Exchange Relations as...
View ArticleMaksym Grinenko accepted into IUC program
Maksym Grinenko, PhD Candidate in the Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies (GPTS), was accepted into a ten-month advanced language program at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language...
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