Roofing ceremony for CATS
On Tuesday, August 1, the roofing ceremony („Richtfest“) for the Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) took place at the construction site in Heidelberg Bergheim. After an introduction by...
View ArticleBrosius and Jaspert are new Coordinators of TCS
Prof. Christiane Brosius and Prof. Nikolas Jaspert are the new Coordinators of the "Zukunftskonzept Transcultural Studies", replacing Prof. Vera Nünning and Prof. Bernd Schneidmüller. Brosius and...
View ArticleCongratulations to Annika Mayer!
The thesis was part of a project B19 “Ageing in a Transcultural Context” at the Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Abstract of the research: The ethnographic study pursued the...
View ArticleNew books edited by Nikolas Jaspert
The collection of articles in "Locating Religions. Contact, Diversity, and Translocality" are an innovative contribution to religious studies, picking up concepts developed in the wake of the so-called...
View ArticleMonica Juneja published article “The Body as a Stage”
The Body as a Stage deals with portraits painted at North Indian Mughal courts during early modern times. They reveal an appealing quality as the portrayal of men and women is remarkably similar, often...
View ArticleObituary on Dina Bangdel (*1963-2017)
With most of her higher education undertaken in the USA, she received her PhD from Ohio State University. Since several years, she was director of Art History Program at Virginia Commonwealth...
View ArticleMichael Falser was visiting researcher at Cambridge University
Cluster member PD Dr. Michael Falser was Visiting Researcher at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge University during the Easter Term 2017. He gave a presentation on Cold...
View Article"The Cinema Travellers" won at Indian Filmfestival Stuttgart
The documentary movie "The Cinema Travellers" was awarded the "German Star of India - Best Documentary" at the Indian Filmfestival in Stuttgart, which took place from July 19-23. The movie by former...
View ArticleTakuma Melber won prize for dissertation
Cluster member Takuma Melber won the second "Förderpreis 2017 für Militärgeschichte und Militärtechnik", which honors his dissertation "Zwischen Kollaboration und Widerstand: Die japanische...
View ArticleNew Issue of Journal “Material Religion”
"Material Religion" is an international, peer-reviewed journal, which seeks to explore how religion happens in material culture. It is regularly published by De Gruyter Saur and provided by Taylor and...
View ArticleFeng He gives presentation at 2nd EAAA conference
Feng He, Graduate Student at the Cluster "Asia and Europe", organized a panel for the Second Conference of the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (EAAA) with Prof. Kitty Zijlmans...
View ArticleMichael Falser will be Professeur Invité in France
Michael Falser, Project Leader of project D18 "Picturesque Modernities", embarks on a position as "Professeur Invité" to France. Within the academic year of 2017/2018 he will spend the winter term at...
View ArticleCongratulations to Sheba Chhachhi for the Thun Prize for Art and Ethics 2015!
Sheba Chhachhi has been a leading chronicler and participant in the women’s rights movement in India for decades. She believes that Indian women who deviate from conservative cultural norms are facing...
View ArticleSheba Chhachhi receives Thun Prize
Sheba Chhachhi, Delhi-based artist and associate of HERA’s project SINGLE, received the second Thun Prize for Art and Ethics for her commitment to women's rights and environmental awareness. The Indian...
View ArticleProf. Juneja at Symposium in Dresden
From September 13-15, Prof. Monica Juneja, Chair of Global Art History at the Heidelberg Center of Transcultural Studies, will participate in the symposium "The Role of Encyclopedic Museums in Complex...
View ArticleCluster's Open Access Book Series in HTML
"I am delighted with the publication of this volume," says Dr. Andrea Hacker, Managing Editor at the Cluster. “The research is highly relevant and is presented beautifully in two different digital...
View ArticleNew publication by Kerstin von Lingen on war crime trials
This volume examines the nexus between war crimes trials and the pursuit of collaborators in post-war Asia and was published as part of the book series "World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence"...
View ArticleFuess Visiting Professor of East Asian Studies at Yale University
Yale University invited Prof. Harald Fuess as Visiting Professor in East Asian Studies during the fall semester of 2017 to pursue a multi-year tri-continental academic collaboration on Japanese history...
View ArticleNew Call for Application: Transcultural Forays
The call is addressed to researchers in an early career stage and encourages them to conceptualize their own transcultural project in view of an individual third party funding application. Applicants...
View ArticleAida Murtić gave Presentation at Conference in Basel
Aida Murtić, Doctoral Fellow at the Cluster "Asia and Europe", participated in the international conference "Cities on the Move: Turkey and Yugoslavia in the Interwar Period" organized by the...
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