Studium Generale with Christiane Brosius
This semester’s topic in the Studium Generale lecture series at Heidelberg University is “Die Stadt von Morgen. Zukunftsfragen der Gesellschaft”. It takes place on Mondays at 7:30 pm at the Aula of the...
View ArticleNew HCTS Professor of Buddhist Studies: Michael Radich
“I see great potential in the intersection of Buddhist Studies and Transcultural Studies. I would like to see us contribute to two main sets of questions: What light can a transcultural perspective...
View ArticleDavide Torri in Taiwan
Davide Torri, postdoctoral researcher in the Transcultural Forays Program, was invited to give two lectures in Taiwan last week. The first, titled "Indigenous Nepal. Religions, Landscapes and...
View ArticleHeKKsaGOn Conference in Osaka
From April 11 to April 13, the biannual conference of the strategic HeKKsaGOn Alliance took place at Osaka University. Prof. Harald Fuess, the HCTS Professor for Cultural Economic History and speaker...
View ArticleFirst Transcultural Studies Student Conference at HCTS
The goal of the Transcultural Studies Student Conference was to establish an annual student conference in the methodology of Transcultural Studies, in which advanced students of all fields and places...
View ArticleSymposium „Messias-Zarathustra-Laozi-Buddha”
The symposium brings together scholars from interdisciplinary fields such as philosophy, theology, religious studies and musicology. It aims at addressing the reasons for the reinterpretation of the...
View ArticleTakuma Melber presents his dissertation
On May, 3, Dr. Takuma Melber gave a book presentation on his dissertation "Zwischen Kollaboration und Widerstand: Die japanische Besatzungspolitik in Malaya und Singapur, 1942-1945" organized by the...
View ArticleMonica Juneja at Berkeley
Prof. Monica Juneja, the HCTS Professor of Global Art History, talked about “The Hunter and the Squirrel: Writing Art History in a Post-Anthropocentric Mode” at the conference “Eco Art Histories:...
View ArticleHCTS Stadtgespräch at Heidelberger Kunstverein
Naiza Khan reads from her journal, in which she recorded her decade-long engagement with Manora, an island close to Karachi. Khan revisted Manora's sites through a range of media, including...
View ArticleMitsuyo Wada-Marciano DAAD Guest Professor at the HCTS
Prof. Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano from Kyoto University is DAAD Guest Professor at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies from May 9 - June 13, 2018, and will teach a seminar about “Global/Local...
View ArticleMaksym Grinenko recieved grant to conduct research in Japan
Maksym Grinenko, who is a doctoral candidate in the Cluster’s Graduate Programme, was awarded a grant in the Japanese Studies Fellowship Program of the Japan Foundation. The grant covers a nine-month...
View ArticleSumathi Ramaswamy is James B. Duke Professor of History
Sumathi Ramaswamy, Anneliese Maier Research Awardee at the HCTS and Professor in the Department of History at Duke University, was appointed to a distinguished professorship by the Board of Trustees....
View ArticleGuest lecture by Elena Valussi
On Monday, May 14, Elena Valussi, PhD, from the Department of History at Loyola University Chicago, will give a lecture at the Karl Jaspers Centre. In her talk "Gender, Religion, and Nationalism in...
View ArticleHeKKsaGOn Conference in Osaka
From April 11 to April 13, the biannual conference of the strategic HeKKsaGOn Alliance took place at Osaka University. Prof. Harald Fuess, the HCTS Professor for Cultural Economic History and speaker...
View ArticleBlog Post by Matthias Arnold
The INFODITEX-BLOG, the Interdisciplinary Forum of Digital Textual Sciences, published a comment by Matthias Arnold, member of the Heidelberg Research Architecture (HRA), and Christopher Nunn, Quality...
View ArticleHCTS Lecture by Barbara Beßlich
At the beginning of the 20th century, Mitteleuropa is a highly disputed concept. It is understood rather differently by the deputy of the German Reichstag, Friedrich Naumann (Mitteleuropa [1915]), than...
View ArticleStudent's Workshop by Franziska Koch and Hyojin Lee
On Saturday, May 26, Dr. Franzsika Koch and Hyojin Lee, PhD, will give a student's workshop at the Department of Chinese Studies on "Exchanging Views on Korea Transformations of Art and History". The...
View ArticleHeidelberg Graduate Student Workshop at HCTS
In their call for papers, the organizers sought contributions from the humanities and the social sciences for this jointly organized PhD and post-doc workshop. They invited abstracts of ongoing or...
View ArticleMonica Juneja gives talk at international conference in Basel
HCTS co-director Prof. Monica Juneja is participating in the international conference "Burckhard.Renaissance - Internationale Tagung zum 200. Geburtstag von Jacob Burkhardt," which takes place at the...
View ArticleHCTS Interactive Lecture Series 2018 starts on May 28
The lecture series "Recalibrating Culture – Reenvisioning the (Trans-)Cultural – C’est quoi la (trans-)culture?" introduces key players from various disciplines and fields that are engaged in...
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