Christiane Brosius and Axel Michael accompany German President on Travels in...
On the first day, Axel Michaels will accompany Frank-Walter Steinmeier to Varansi, where the President will visit the Archeological Museum and the Buddhist place Sarnath, amongst others. Steinmeier...
View ArticleHarald Fuess received Toshiba Grant
The Toshiba International Foundation again granted Prof. Harald Fuess, Professor for Cultural Economic History at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, funds for a Visiting Professorship....
View ArticleJoachim Friedrich Quack receives DFG Grant
Prof. Joachim Friedrich Quack received a grant by the German Research Foundation (DFG). It promotes his “Demotic Paleographical Database Project”, which decodes ancient Egyptian documents. The DFG...
View ArticleNew Book edited by Kerstin von Lingen
„The Tokyo Tribunal has remained in the shadows of its famous sister, the Nuremberg tribunal for a long time,” explains editor von Lingen. “Unlike in Nuremberg, the task of delivering “justice” was...
View ArticlePublication of Dissertation by Milinda Banerjee
The Mortal God: Imagining the Sovereign in Colonial India is a study in intellectual history, which uncovers how actors in colonial India imagined various figures of human, divine, and messianic rulers...
View ArticleProf. Mittler gives James K. Binder Lecture
On April 5, Cluster Director Prof. Barbara Mittler will give the James K. Binder Lecture in Literature entitled “Feeling Matters: Gender Interactions and the Making of Cultural Memory in China’s...
View ArticleJule Nowoitnick publishes Dissertation
The name Genghis Khan is firmly embedded in the global memory. However, the general knowledge about the Mongolian ruler does often not exceed some basic facts. This scope between knowledge and...
View ArticleMonica Juneja holds keynote address in Otawa
Prof. Monica Juneja, HCTS Professor for Global Art History, will give the keynote speech "When Art Embraces the Planet. The Contemporary Exhibition Form and the Challenge of Multiple Archives" at the...
View ArticleSWAGATA Application Successful
The SWAGATA Consortium’s application for the European Union Erasmus+ programme was successful and now enables individuals to participate in the mobility programme with several partner universities and...
View ArticleThird Kyoto-Heidelberg Workshop "History and Memory"
The DAAD-JSPS funded project is led by Prof. Harald Fuess, Professor for Cultural Economic History at the HCTS, and Prof. Yoko Nagahara from Kyoto Universtiy. Following the first meeting in Kyoto in...
View ArticleLatest Thinking Video with Carsten Wergin
Dr. Carsten Wergin collaborated with the Open Access video journal Latest Thinking to talk about his current research in the environmental humanities on global crises and Australian Indigenous views of...
View ArticleHCTS and SNU Joint Workshop in New Delhi
After a round of introductions, the morning session of the workshop titled "Modernization and its Consequences in East Asia and South Asia" consisted of a joint presentation by Prof. Monica Juneja,...
View ArticleHarald Fuess at Shiv Nadar University with Erasmus+
On February 22 and 23, Prof. Harald Fuess, the HCTS Professor in "Cultural Economic History", visited Shiv Nadar University within the Erasmus+ Collaboration. During his visit, Prof. Fuess gave several...
View ArticleDFG Funding for Cathrine Bublatzky
“Entangled Histories of Art and Migration” sets out to conduct research on the interrelationship of migration and globalization as an important phenomenon of social transformation in the 20th and 21st...
View ArticleECR Grant for Ivan Sablin
Sablin returns to Heidelberg University with a team of researchers to work on the ERC project “Entangled Parliamentarisms: Constitutional Practices in Russia, Ukraine, China and Mongolia, 1905-2005” at...
View ArticleJoachim Kurtz holds Lecture at St. Barbara University
On Tuesday, April 10, Prof. Joachim Kurtz, HCTS Professor for Intellectual History, gave the lecture “Sovereignty Rests in Heaven. Confucian Revivalism and the Re-Enchantment of China’s Social and...
View ArticleAmelia Bonea and Simon Cubelic started Transcultural Forays Projects
Dr. Amelia Bonea and Simon Cubelic started their projects within the “Transcultural Forays” programme, at the HCTS. Dr. Bonea’s project “Fragile Objects, Fragile Histories: Paleobotany and the Making...
View ArticleCluster held General Meeting
Prof. Nikolas Jaspert headed the meeting; he took over the acting directorship from Prof. Barbara Mittler starting with the beginning of the summer semester. He first thanked he for her work as Acting...
View ArticleNew Issue of the E-Journal "Transcultural Studies"
The first and second article move from the exploration of urban art to the transcultural histories of politics and law. Two studies focus on an aspect of the early East Asian treaty port system that...
View ArticleMichael Radich gives Talk at SAI
Prof. Michael Radich, Professor for Buddhist Studies at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) will give the talk “A Triad of Anomalous Buddhist Scriptures from 5th Century China” at...
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