Lecture by Michael Falser at Sorbonne
On Friday, June 2, PD Dr. Michael Falser will give a lecture at Sorbonne University in Paris on "L'échelle européenne existe-t-elle?" ("Does the European scale exist [in the History of Art]?"). The...
View ArticleLecture by Laila Abu-Er-Rub
On June 1, 2017, Laila Abu-Er-Rub will give a lecture on "Golden Times: Fashion, Luxury and Metallic Aesthetics in Neoliberal India" at the Workshop "Dress Matters. Transcultural Perspectives on...
View ArticleAwards for Svenja Nagel
On Friday, May 26, a festive ceremony for the prize-winners of the Lautenschlaeger Award was organized by the Research Center for International and Interdisciplinary Theology (FIIT). The...
View ArticleNew Book on Reformation and Governance by Susan Richter
In the context of the Reformation movement, European rulers were often initiators and active actors of confessional and political change in a divine mission. They took over the leadership role in the...
View ArticleLecture by Monica Juneja
On June 6, Prof. Monica Juneja will give a public lecture on "Alternative, peripheral or cosmopolitan? Modernism and the Challenge of Globality". Her lecture focuses on recent studies that look at...
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...
View ArticleTalk by Swetlana Torno
On Thursday, June 8, Ph.D. Candidate Swetlana Torno gave a talk on “Old age care as a life course management strategy: Perspectives from women’s lives in Tajikistan” at the conference “Culture,...
View ArticleJoseph Maran gave Ventris Memorial Lecture
Prof. Maran’s lecture dealt with three centuries in the history of Tiryns. From its seemingly sudden growth into a major Mycenaean center in the 14th century BC and then - following the destruction of...
View ArticleMovie projection „Pacific War – der Krieg geht weiter“ (ZDF-History)
On Saturday, June 10, at 7 pm, Cluster member Takuma Melber will give an expert talk, which follows the ZDF movie projection “Pacific War – der Krieg geht weiter” (ZDF-History). The movie deals with...
View ArticleLecture by Cathrine Bublatzky in London
On Friday, June 16, Dr. Cathrine Bublatzky, Assistant Professor to the Chair of Visual and Media Anthropology, will give a lecture on “Another Country. Art and Archivism” in London. The talk will take...
View ArticleLecture by Rudolf Wagner at HKU
Former Cluster Director Prof. Rudolf Wagner gave a lecture entitled “The Last Stand of the Cultural Revolution: Film, Society, and Politics” at Hong Kong University, on June, 7. Wagner’s talk focused...
View Article“OUT OF SPACE?” co-organized by Christiane Brosius
From June 21-22, 2017, several Cluster members will participate in the symposium “OUT OF SPACE? Erratic, ephemeral & emerging cultural practices in illegal, illegitimate or intangible locations” in...
View ArticleLectures organized by Institute of Chinese Studies at KJC
On Wednesday, June 21, 2017, two lectures with a focus on transculturality will take place at the Karl-Jaspers-Center. Tansen Sen (Baruch College, University of New York) will talk about “The Zheng He...
View ArticleExpert Talk by Takuma Melber
On Tuesday, June 20, Cluster member Takuma Melber will give an expert talk introducing the movie “Tora! Tora! Tora!” at the Filmmuseum Potsdam. In his conversation with Martin Schaad (Einstein Forum),...
View ArticleTakuma Melber participates at conference in London
On Thursday, June 22, Cluster member Takuma Melber will participate in the conference “When East Meets West: The Second World War in Global Perspective” at King’s College, London. Alongside renowned...
View ArticleKerstin von Lingen fellow in the DAAD-Cambridge Programm
From June 21 until the end of July 2017, Research Group Leader at the Cluster “Asia and Europe” Dr. Kerstin von Lingen and her College Dr. Barak Kushner (Cambridge University) will be fellows in the...
View ArticleJour Fixe by Prof. Harish Naraindas
This talk claims that the epithet medical tourism, which is of recent provenance, tacitly subscribes to a particular and narrow understanding of ‘medicine’, namely the Anglo-American variant of...
View ArticleInternational Workshop at the Cluster
During the one-day workshop, speakers such as Arunava Dasgupta, Head of the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), Sujan Chitrakar, Assistant Professor at the School of Art and Center for Art and...
View ArticleMonica Juneja at DOC
On Wednesday, June 28, Prof. Monica Juneja, Chair of Global Art History at the Heidelberg Center of Transcultural Studies, participated in the Dialoge of Civilization Anniversary Event in Berlin. The...
View ArticleSteven Ivings Lecturer at Kyoto University
Cluster member Dr. Steven Ivings accepted a position as a lecturer in Economic History at Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Economics, beginning in July 2017. Kyoto University is linked to...
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