Eliane Ettmüller gives lecture at Furtwangen University
On June 28, Dr. Eliane Ettmüller, postdoctoral researcher at the HCTS in the Transcultural Forays initiative, was invited by Furtwangen University to give a lecture about "Frauen im Kampf für das...
View Article"OpenDACHS" introduced at the CATS and HCTS
The Digital Archive for Chinese Studies (DACHS) project aims to identify, archive and provide accessibility to websites relevant for Chinese Studies before they are deleted, shut down or otherwise...
View ArticleDominik Collet now Professor for Environmental History in Oslo
PD Dr. Dominik Collet, JRG Leader at the Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE) and associate member of the Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies (HCTS), will take up the position as the...
View ArticleJohanna Beamish publishes Dissertation
Im Transit auf dem Ozean, published with Campus, follows intercontinental passages of the 19th century from the moment of embarking until the final arrival at the destination port. By focusing on...
View ArticleMichael Radich publishes article
Prof. Michael Radich, the professor of Buddhist Studies at the HCTS, recently published the article “A Triad of Texts from Fifth-Century Southern China: The *Mahāmāyā-sūtra, the Guoqu xianzai yinguo...
View ArticleScholarship for Katharina Rode
Katharina Rode, doctoral student in the Graduate Programme at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, was granted a one-year scholarship by the Geschwister-Supp-Foundation for her dissertation...
View ArticlePriya Paul Collection now in open access format
The Priya Paul Collection of Popular Art contains over 4.200 images of Indian popular culture from the late 19th and early 20th century. A large part of the collection consists of old posters,...
View ArticleCall for Papers: International workshop “Recalibrating Culture”
Thinking through and beyond – in other words “trans” – established understandings of culture, the International Workshop “Recalibrating Culture – Reconfiguring the (Trans-)Cultural” sets out to rethink...
View ArticleKerstin von Lingen publishes habilitation
The publication "Crimes against Humanity" addresses the normative account of the concept of crimes against humanity from an intellectual history’s perspective. The concept is based on earlier attempts...
View ArticleOpus Magnum grant for Barbara Mittler
HCTS co-director Prof. Barbara Mittler received an Opus Magnum grant by the Volkswagen Stiftung for her book project “No Parallel? The Fatherly Bodies of Gandhi and Mao”. The book is based on research...
View ArticleSusan Richter publishes new book about atheism
People who deny the existence of a god have been subjected to persecution throughout Europe’s history. Here, Atheism was above all a confrontation with Christian doctrine. In the face of growing...
View ArticleLecture by Anna Andreeva in Kyoto
Dr. Anna Andreeva, research fellow at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, is currently based at the Nichibunken International Research Centre for Japanese Studies as visiting research...
View ArticleWorkshop, Autumn School and Film Festival on "Active Ageing" in New Delhi
The DAAD-funded cooperation project "New Directions in 'Active Ageing' and 'Age-friendly Culture' in India and Germany" between Heidelberg University and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), will host a...
View ArticleNew volume co-edited by Nikolas Jaspert
The history of individual seascapes has recently become a vibrant and innovative field of research. Yet, connections between seas (Entre mers) and imaginations of lands "beyond the sea" (Outre-mers)...
View ArticleWorkshop, Autumn School and Film Festival on "Active Ageing in New Delhi
The DAAD-funded cooperation project "New Directions in ‘Active Ageing’ and ‘Age-friendly Culture’ in India and Germany" between Heidelberg University and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) will host a...
View ArticleMATS-students visit the Lindenmuseum´s Hawaii exhibition
The curator of the Hawaii exhibition, Dr. Ulrich Menter, a political scientist by training who has been doing research on Hawaii for many years, gave the student group a guided tour. The focus of the...
View ArticleNew book co-edited by Eliane Ettmüller
This volume gives an insight into the exceptional circumstances during which many people came together in the centre of Vienna at Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7. During the so-called European refugee crisis...
View ArticleTwo articles by Anna Andreeva
Cluster research fellow Dr. Anna Andreeva recently published two articles, which both are a result of her current DFG research project "Buddhism, Medicine, and Gender in 10th–16th Century Japan." The...
View ArticleMATS Orientation Days
On October 10 and 11, the HCTS will hold the MATS Orientation Days for the incoming students of the M.A. Programme Transcultural Studies for the winter semester 2018/19. The Orientation Days aim at...
View ArticleNew book by Tonio Hölscher
Visual culture was an essential part of ancient social, religious, and political life. Appearance and experience of beings and things was of paramount importance. In „Visual Power in Ancient Greece and...
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