Axel Michaels at panel discussion on Heinrich Zimmer
On Thursday, September 21, Cluster Director Prof. Axel Michaels participated in a panel that discussed the academic and personal life of German indologist Heinrich Zimmer. The panel was part of a...
View ArticleChristiane Brosius and Nikolas Jaspert coordinate “Transcultural Studies”
Since summer 2017, the project "Transcultural Studies" is being coordinated and conceptually accompanied by Prof. Christiane Brosius and Prof. Nikolas Jaspert. They are replacing Prof. Vera Nünning as...
View ArticleBalzan Prize for Jan and Aleida Assmann
Profs. Jan and Aleida Assmann were awarded the Balzan Prize for their groundbreaking research on "collective memory". The International Balzan Prize Foundation awards four annual monetary prizes to...
View ArticleAlex Michaels gives Lecture at Princeton
On September 27, Cluster Director Prof. Axel Michaels will give a lecture at Princeton University with the titel "Ritual and Ritual Handbooks", which is organized by the Department of Religion and the...
View ArticleHarald Fuess gives Lecture at Yale University
On September 28, Prof. Harald Fuess, Chair of Cultural Economic History at the Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies, will give a lecture at Yale University with the title "Industrial Ruins as...
View ArticleSumathi Ramaswamy organizes conference at Duke
It has become something of an academic fashion in the last decade or so to bring China and India, these two “Asian” giants and fast-growing global economies, into the same comparative framework. These...
View ArticleBarbara Mittler holds lectures at Chao Center for Asian Studies
Prof. Barbara Mittler, Director of the Cluster "Asia and Europe", will give two lectures at the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas. As part of the "Transnational Asia"...
View ArticleNew Book by Susan Richter
The volume “Konstruktionen Europas in der frühen Neuzeit – Geographische und historische Imaginationen” features articles both in English and German and reflects the results of the conference...
View ArticleSwetlana Torno at CESS Conference
Swetlana Torno, PhD candidate at the Cluster, will give a talk at the 18th Annual CESS Conference at the University of Washington, Seattle, which takes place on October 5-8, 2017. She will present her...
View ArticleLena Henningsen receives ERC Starting Grant
JunProf. Lena Henningsen, former member of the Cluster "Asia and Europe", is receiving an ERC Starting Grant for her project “The Politics of Reading in the People’s Republic of China (READCHINA)”. In...
View ArticleNext Generation Global Workshop in Kyoto
Since its first meeting in 2008, the NGGW has annually brought together young researchers in the humanities and social sciences to Kyoto from its global partner institutions and has proven to be an...
View ArticleNew Issue of the E-Journal "Transcultural Studies"
The five individual essays are closely related and based on contributions to the workshop "Transregional Crossroads of Social Interaction". This workshop of the BMBF-funded Crossroads Asia Competence...
View ArticleKerstin von Lingen at the University of Vienna
PD Dr. Kerstin von Lingen, former Junior Research Group Leader at the Cluster, accepted a position as guest professor at the University of Vienna. For one year, she will be teaching and researching at...
View ArticleLecture Series "October Revolution"
This semester's lecture series "October Revolution 1917" will take place on Wednesdays from 6-8 pm at the Neue Universität in lecture hall 6 and starts on Wednesday, October 25. The lecture series is...
View ArticleAmelia Bonea wins Prize for Publication
Amelia Bonea, former member of the Cluster "Asia and Europe" was awarded the 2017 Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize in the History of Journalism by the American Historical Association. The prize is dedicated...
View ArticleJulia Poerting now at Bonn University
Julia Poerting, PhD student in the Junior Research Group C15 "Agrarian Alternatives", has accepted a position as research associate at the department of geography at the University of Bonn. She is part...
View ArticleCluster held General Meeting
Acting Director Prof. Barbara Mittler headed the meeting and welcomed the members of the Cluster and HCTS. She first gave an update on the latest publications, awards, grants and appointments. New...
View ArticleKyoto-Heidelberg Student Workshop 2018
The purpose of the workshop was to ask students to engage with historical moments of creating peace after conflict, for example the establishment of the EU after World War II. Therein, the focus was...
View ArticleMax Stille now researcher at MPI for Human Development in Berlin
Former Cluster member Dr. Max Stille has taken up a position as a at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin in January 2017. He joined the project “Emotional Transitions: Religious...
View ArticleCluster held General Meeting
Acting Director Prof. Barbara Mittler headed the meeting and welcomed the members of the Cluster and HCTS. She first gave an update about the latest publications. Prof. Mittler then informed the...
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