HCTS Interactive Lecture Series 2018: Antoine Hennion
The interactive lecture series "Recalibrating Culture – Reenvisioning the (Trans-)Cultural – C’est quoi la (trans-)culture?" introduces key players from various disciplines and fields and engages in...
View ArticleHCTS Lecture by Magdolna Orosz
The diversity of Europe’s historical and spatial regions leads to manifold classifications by historians, cultural historians, or literary historians with respect to the different aspects of this...
View ArticleAcademic Ceremony for Gita Dharampal-Frick
On July 6, the Department for History of South Asia and the South Asia Institute (SAI) will hold an academic ceremony in honour of Prof. Dr. Gita Dharampal-Frick’s retirement. Gita Dharampal-Frick was...
View ArticleLecture by Christopher Gerteis
On Thursday, July 12, Dr. Christopher Gerteis, historian from the SOAS University of London and HCTS visiting professor with the Professorship of Cultural Economic History, will give a lecture about...
View ArticleNew volume co-authored by Susann Liebich
„The Transported Imagination: Australian Interwar Magazines and the Geographical Imaginaries of Colonial Modernity“ offers an analysis of Australian colonial modernity: In the early twentieth century,...
View ArticleGuest lecture by Christopher Gerteis
The lecture examines how Sasakawa Ryōichi used his philanthropic gambling empire to reshape the social conscience of young people and promote the re-introduction of morals education for Japanese youth....
View ArticleNew book by Barbara Mittler and Thomas Maissen
By engaging with the case of the "Renaissance," the book "Why China did not have a Renaissance - and why that matters" presents a dialogue between Profs. Barbara Mittler and Thomas Maissen. The authors...
View ArticleNew article by Eliane Ettmüller
Dr. Eliane Ettmüller, postdoctoral researcher at the HCTS, recently published the article "A submissive rebellion – women in the Islamic State," with Reim (Revista de Estudios Internacionales...
View ArticleNatalia Bachour joins the HCTS
The HCTS recently welcomed Dr. Natalia Bachour as a new member. Since the beginning of June, she has been working on her project "The human body as remedy out of a historico-cultural and medical...
View ArticleThree international guest lectures at the HCTS this week
On July 17, Prof. Joseph Dennis, historian of late imperial China from the University of Wisconsin-Maison, will talk about "Songs to Encourage the Cessation of Litigation," the so called xisongge...
View ArticleCall for Applications: Double Doctoral Degree Scholarship
The HCTS and Ca` Foscari University of Venice call for applications for a scholarship in their Double Doctoral Degree Program in Asian and Transcultural Studies. One doctoral student will be given the...
View ArticleKerstin von Lingen receives Heisenberg Fellowship
The Heisenberg Programme at the German Research Foundation (DFG) rewards researchers with outstanding work and aims, and enables them to prepare for a senior academic role while continuing their...
View ArticleHCTS Lecture by Paola Zamperini
A sinologist by training, studying Chinese literature with a focus on the early modern period (Ming and Qing), Professor Zamperini will engage in a transcultural conversation about studying and...
View ArticleHCTS Stadtgespräch at Karl Jaspers Centre
The fourth Heidelberg Stadtgespräch, organized by Dr. Eliane Ettmüller, is titled "Flüchtlingsbetreuung: Ehemalige Heimleiter/innen berichten aus den Krisenjahren 2015 und 2016." The event comprises a...
View ArticleHarald Fuess is Visiting Professor at Kyoto University
The Graduate School of Letters at Kyoto University invited Prof. Harald Fuess, the HCTS Professor of "Cultural Economic History," to conduct a research project on the sesquicentennial of the 1868 Meiji...
View ArticleNew volume co-edited by Monica Juneja
The volume "EurAsian Matters. China, Europe, and the Transcultural Object, 1600-1800" examines the mutually constitutive relationship between the materiality of objects and their aesthetic meanings....
View ArticleChristiane Brosius awarded grant by ARCADIA foundation
The project will focus on cataloguing buildings that have been destroyed or damaged by earthquakes and urban change and emphasise the need for their preservation or reconstruction. "The absence of...
View ArticleAxel Michaels re-elected secretary by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and...
Axel Michaels, former director of the Cluster "Asia and Europe" and former director of the Department of Classical Indology at the South Asia Institute was re-releceted as the secretary of the...
View ArticleHui-Ping Chuang joins the HCTS
Dr. Hui-Ping Chuang, a scholar of East Asian art history and Buddhist studies, was recently welcomed as an associate fellow at the HCTS for the period of 2 years. Since June, she has been working on...
View ArticleCluster held General Meeting
Prof. Nikolas Jaspert first welcomed the new HCTS fellows. Dr. Natalia Bachour joined the HCTS with her project "The human body as remedy out of a historico-cultural and medical perspective: Studies...
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