Eliane Ettmüller participates at 32nd Asia-Pacific-Roundtable
Dr. Eliane Ettmüller was invited by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung as a speaker to the 32nd Asia-Pacific-Roundtable held in Kuala Lumpur from May 7-9. On the panel "Future-Proofing against Violent...
View ArticleConference on Cultural Heritage of Europe conceptualized by Michael Falser
Dr. Michael Falser, HCTS associate member and visiting professor at Paris-Sorbonne University, conceptualized and, with Dany Sandron and Elinor Myara Kelif, organized the international conference „The...
View ArticleNew volume co-edited by Nikolas Jaspert
Storms and tempests, distress and shipwreck, attacks by pirates, disorientation or stranding on a foreign coast – these and similar motifs frequently appear in travel reports or literary depictions of...
View ArticleArunava Dasgupta visits HCTS as Erasmus+ fellow
Prof. Arunava Dasgupta will also lecture within the introductory lecture on urban geography held by Prof. Ulrike Gerhard at the Institute of Geography. Dasgupta’s visit is made possible through a...
View ArticleTakuma appointed guest professor
Dr. Takuma Melber is guest lecturer at Osaka University for the period from May 25 to June 9. The position was granted in the scope of the International Study and Training Partnerships (ISAP) programme...
View ArticleLorenzo Andolfatto co-organizes workshop in Hong Kong
Dr. Lorenzo Andolfatto, who is a HCTS postdoctoral reseracher in the HERA project of Prof. Joachim Kurtz, co-organized the workshop “Translating Science Fiction, Translation in Science Fiction: Chinese...
View ArticleHyojin Lee receives Korean Studies Grant 2018
Dr. Hyojin Lee, the lecturer for Korean language and studies for the Professorship of Cultural Economic History at the HCTS, received a Korean Studies Grant from the Academy of Korean Studies. The...
View ArticleMichael Brown receives grants for Transcultural Forays project
Dr. Michael Brown, postdoctoral researcher in Near Eastern Archaeology and at the HCTS, received joint Anglo-German funding for trial fieldwork in Iraq. This research is part of his Transcultural...
View ArticleKerstin von Lingen's JRG at Tokyo Tribunal conference
The conference "70 Years Later: The International Military Tribunal for the Far East" marked the 70th anniversary of the delivery of the judgment of the so-called Tokyo Tribunal. It is to date the...
View ArticleLecture bz DAAD Visiting Professor Satoshi Naiki
Dr. Satoshi Naiki, who is a DAAD visiting professor from Kyoto University at the HCTS from June 8 to July 27, will give a lecture on "Narrative Sets of Buddhist Reliefs Found at Thareli in the Gandhara...
View ArticleAxel Michaels is a new Member of the Portheim-Stiftung’s Board of Trustees
Prof. Axel Michaels, director of the Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) and former co-director of the Cluster “Asia and Europe” was elected as a new member to the board of trustees of...
View ArticleNew book co-edited by Barbara Mittler
In this new collection of essays, an international team of scholars examines the relationship between the Chinese women's periodical press and global modernity in the late nineteenth and twentieth...
View ArticleProf. Christian Henriot recieves ERC Advanced Grant
Prof. Christian Henriot, former associate fellow and Humboldt Research Awardee at the Cluster “Asia and Europe,” received an ERC Advanced Grant for his project “Elites, networks, and power in modern...
View ArticleAleida and Jan Assmann to Receive the 2018 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
Profs. Aleida and Jan Assmann will receive the 2018 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. The Board of Trustees has thus chosen to honour two exceptional scholars who have inspired and complemented...
View ArticleGuest lecture: Nada Raza from Tate Research Centre: Asia
Nada Raza’s lecture deals with the the inaugural Kochi-Muziris Biennale, which, in 2012 claimed its site, Fort Cochin in Kerala, as a heterogeneous, free space with a cosmopolitan history, allowing for...
View ArticleJoachim Kurzt co-edits commemorative volume for Michael Lackner
Over more than 40 years, the sinologist Michael Lackner has studied a broad range of issues in China’s past and present. On the occasion of his 65th birthday, this volume brings together essays from...
View ArticleGPTS Job Market at the HCTS
This year's GPTS Job Market, the final selection process for the Graduate Programme in Transcultural Studies, took place on June 6. Fourteen candidates were selected out of 94 international applicants...
View ArticleMonica Juneja participates in symposium in Oxford
From June 22 to 23, Prof. Monica Juneja participated in the Royal Historical Society 2018 Symposium "The Future of History: Going Global in the University." The event was hosted by the Oxford Centre...
View ArticleDAAD visiting professors at the HCTS
During the summer term, film studies expert Prof. Wada-Marciano from Kyoto University visited Heidelberg as the first DAAD Visiting Professor from May 8 to June 14, teaching a seminar on Asian Cinema....
View ArticleDouble Doctoral Degree students selected
Six doctoral students were selected for the Double Doctoral Degree Program in Asian and Transcultural Studies at Heidelberg University and the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Two of the candidates...
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