New Volume on Oriental Cults
The volume was edited by Prof. Joachim Friedrich Quack, Deputy Speaker of Research Area C, former Cluster member Prof. Christian Witschel and Associate Member Dr. Svenja Nagel. It originated in an...
View ArticleMovie by Philipp Kohl
Former Cluster member Philipp Kohl produced the documentary „Niemandsland – Über die Zukunft einer verlassenen Stadt“. It deals with the urban development project in the abandoned FRANKLIN area in...
View ArticleLecture by Fabian Drixler from Yale University
His lecture deals with volcanic winters, which have emerged as a vibrant new genre of global history since during these winters an eruption briefly changes the climate of an entire hemisphere. These...
View ArticleCathrine Bublatzky co-organizes symposium “Looking Both Ways”
With a strong focus on Visual and Media Anthropology, the symposium examines the situation and the work of artists from the Arab world and Iran, dealing with political and social issues as well as...
View ArticleProf. Ramaswamy elected president of AIIS
Prof. Sumathi Ramaswamy was elected as president of the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS). She will replace the current president Prof. Philip Lutgendorf on July 1, 2018. Sumathi Ramaswamy...
View ArticleDavide Torri joins CNRS
Cluster Associate Member Davide Torri Ph.D. was invited to join the Centre for Himalayan Studies (CEH) at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in France as Postdoctoral Research...
View ArticleTalk by Cathrine Bublatzky at ICI, Berlin
On Thursday, July 6, Dr. Cathrine Bublatzky, Assistant Professor at the Chair of Visual and Media Anthropology, will give a talk about "Fiction in Documentary Photography and Its 'Making of Iran'". The...
View ArticlePresentation by Harald Fuess
Prof. Harald Fuess, Chair of Cultural Economic History at the Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies, gave a presentation on “Dejima as a Gun Trade Island”, discussing 800 pages of handwritten...
View ArticleNew Book by Milinda Banerjee
The volume, which Banerjee edited together with Charlotte Backerra and Cathleen Sarti, was inspired by debates on transculturalty that where initiated during his time at the Cluster in project A5...
View ArticleFourth Ethnographic Filmpresentation
On Wednesday, July 12, the 4th Ethnographic Filmpresentation took place at the Ethnographisches Museum in Heidelberg at 4 pm. Students of the seminar „Ethnographischer Film“ presented five films that...
View ArticleTakuma Melber at ICWC Marburg
On Tuesday, July 11, Cluster member Takuma Melber gave a lecture on "Der Pearl Harbor-Angriff aus japanischer Perspektive". With a strong focus on Japanese sources, the lecture shifted perspectives...
View Article"Transcultural Forays" launched at HCTS
The call was addressed to researchers in an early career stage and encouraged them to conceptualize their own transcultural project in view of an individual third party funding application. Applicants...
View ArticleBook on Afghan war by Tanja Penter
Prof. Tanja Penter, who holds the chair for Eastern European History at Heidelberg University, together with Esther Maier published the book “Sovietnam. Die UdSSR in Afghanistan 1979-1989”. It was...
View ArticleNew book by Ravi Baghel and Lea Stepan
The dramatic transformation of our planet by human actions has been heralded as the coming of the new epoch of the Anthropocene. Human relations with water raise some of the most urgent questions in...
View ArticleInternational Conference on Migration and Persistence
The conference will bring together international scholars from the United Kingdom, Germany, Norway, Israel, Austria, Estonia and the United States. It aims at discussing the discourses resulting from...
View ArticleTakuma Melber gives talk at Würzburg
On Friday, Cluster member Takuma Melber will give a talk on his book “Pearl Harbor – Japans Anriff und der Kriegseintritt der USA” at the Siebold Museum in Würzburg. In his book, contrary to most other...
View ArticleLatest Thinking interviewed Cluster members
The Open Access Video Journal “Latest Thinking” recently published video interviews with Prof. Axel Michaels, Prof. Christiane Brosius, Dr. Lena Henningsen and PD Dr. Klaus Oschema. They are talking...
View ArticleMittler and Abu-Er-Rub participated at Taiwan Conference
Cluster director Prof. Barbara Mittler and Cluster member Dr. des. Laila Abu-Er-Rub participated in the International Conference "Chinese Women in World History", which took place at the Institute of...
View ArticleCluster held General Meeting
Acting Director Prof. Axel Michaels headed the meeting and welcomed the Cluster members. He first announced that Prof. Harald Fuess and Björn-Ole Kamm were able to negotiate a Joint Degree Master in...
View ArticlePhD Candidate gave a presentation in Thailand
On July 20, Cluster PhD candidate Feng He gave a presentation at the "10th International Convention of Asia Scholars" in Chiang Mai, Thailand. His presentation "The Global Lives of a Female Dancer:...
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