Cluster held General Meeting
Acting Director Prof. Joseph Maran headed the meeting and reported about latest awards, appointments and publications by Cluster members. Further, he introduced new members and projects. He then gave...
View ArticleLecture by Monica Juneja in Barcelona
Prof. Monica Juneja will give the keynote lecture of the international conference "Global Art Challenges: Towards an Ecology of Knowledges" at the University of Barcelona. The talk with the title "The...
View ArticleOffer for Joachim Kurtz by Humboldt University
Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz declined an offer for the Chair for Societies and Cultures of Modern China by Humboldt University, Berlin. Prof. Kurtz will remain in Heidelberg where he holds the Chair of...
View ArticleWorkshop in Honor of Sumathi Ramaswamy and Patrick Geary
The Anneliese Maier Research Award is one of the world’s best-endowed award awards in the humanities and social sciences and comes with 250.000 € in funding. The funding, presented by the Alexander von...
View ArticleAppeal for Donations after Earthquakes in Kumamoto
Several thousand houses and buildings were entirely destroyed or heavily damaged during the two earthquakes and various aftershocks not far from the city of Kumamoto. Tens of thousands of inhabitants...
View ArticleDavide Torri spoke at University of Manchester
Dr. Davide Torri, member of project MC3.3 "Buddhism between South Asia and Tibet" and the Chair of Buddhist Studies, has been invited to the workshop "Religious Authority beyond the Nation" taking...
View ArticleMichael Falser at ICCROM Rome
PD Dr. Michael Falser (project D18 “Picturesque Modernities” and Global Art History) is Visiting Researcher at the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural...
View ArticleCathrine Bublatzky new speaker of the interdisciplinary working group ‘Art...
Together with her colleagues Prof. Burcu Dogramaci (LMU, Munich) and Prof. Kerstin Pinther (LMU, Munich), Cathrine Bublatzky will guide the activities of the group (e.g. workshops, conferences and...
View ArticleDocumentary of former Cluster Fellows premieres at Cannes Film Festival 2016
Their film depicts how showmen riding cinema lorries have brought the wonder of the movies to faraway villages in India once every year. Seven decades on, as their cinema projectors crumble and film...
View ArticleArticle on Transcultural Historiography
The article is the outcome of a workshop by a group of German, Nepalese, and Swiss historians, Indologists, and an architectural historian, that took place in 2013 in Nepal. It aims at developing a new...
View ArticleJour Fixe on the Iconic Status of Gandhi and Mao
The joint and comparative presentation focuses on the funerals of two of the most iconic men of the twentieth century, Mohandas K. Gandhi of India and Mao Zedong of China and examines the posthumous...
View ArticleHCTS Lecture by Guy Stroumsa
The lecture seeks to shed light on the complex web between scriptures, oral traditions and communities of faith across political and linguistic borders. It discusses whether we can speak of a...
View ArticleJour Fixe: Cultural and Political History of Mirages
Fata morgana have long astonished travellers, and “waterless seas” have beguiled thirsty desert voyagers. Complex cultural histories long predate the first English usage of the term “mirage” in 1800....
View ArticleNew Book on Ottoman and Western Satire
Dr. Elif Elmas, former PhD student of the Cluster “Asia and Europe”, has published a book on Ottoman and Western caricature covering the timespan of the Balkan Crises in the 19th century. The monograph...
View ArticleM.A. Transcultural Studies welcomes international applicants
M.A. Transcultural Studies (MATS) welcomes applications from perspective international students. The application deadline for non-German applicants is June 15, 2016. The MATS, annually starting in...
View ArticleJapan Workshop "Religion und Kultur"
The universities of Tübingen and Heidelberg have established the largest centres of Japan research in the state of Baden-Württemberg. Both universities are the most important locations in Germany for...
View ArticleOffer for Barbara Mittler by SOAS, University of London
Prof. Barbara Mittler declined an offer for the position of Director of the China Institute at SOAS, University of London. Prof. Mittler will remain in Heidelberg, where she is Director of the...
View ArticleNew Open Access Book Series Launched
Dr. Sander’s monograph examines how children experience international mobility by focusing on a specific yet diverse group of expatriate youths in contemporary Shanghai and investigating how those...
View ArticleCall for Papers: Next-Generation Global Workshop in Kyoto
The theme of this year’s workshop is “Transcultural Dynamics of Asia and Europe: Mobility, Negotiation and Transformation.” The concept of “transculture” is still a newcomer to the social sciences and...
View ArticleGuest Lecture by Prof. Bert Fragner
Viewing “Iranian” cultural history one encounters permanently questionable or even suspect concepts like “cultural circles”, “cultural areas”, “areas of cultural influence”. Instead of abstract...
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