Michael Falser gives keynote address at NYU Abu Dhabi
On October 11, PD Dr. Michael Falser, associate member at the HCTS, gave the keynote address "Who owns the past? Challenges of Cultural Heritage" at the Dhakira Cultural Heritage Center of NYU Abu...
View ArticleHCTS Interactive Lecture Series: Burkhard Liebsch
The interactive lecture series "Recalibrating Culture – Reenvisioning the (Trans-)Cultural – C’est quoi la (trans-)culture?" introduces key players from various disciplines and fields engages in...
View ArticleKerstin von Lingen interim professor at Department of History
PD Dr. Kerstin von Lingen, associate member at the HCTS, has been appointed as interim professor for Modern History for the winter semester 2018/19. She will be taking over the professorship that...
View ArticleMichael Falser interim professor for Global Art History
PD Dr. Michael Falser, associate member of the HCTS, will take on the position as interim professor of Global Art History during the winter term 2018/19 at the HCTS. He will substitute Prof. Monica...
View ArticleEvening Chats with Perry Link during winter semester
Chinese intellectuals have a traditional duty, for which there is no equivalent in the West: to worry, to “take responsibility for all under heaven,” to argue the question “What can we do with China?”...
View ArticleConference „Spaces and Flows“ at Heidelberg University
The Spaces & Flows Research Network is brought together around a shared interest in the changing shape of human spaces and the social, economic and informational flows that connect these spaces....
View ArticleIvan Sablin publishes new book
The book „The Rise and Fall of Russia's Far Eastern Republic, 1905–1922“ explores the region of the Russian Far East between Lake Baikal and the Pacific Ocean, including the territories annexed from...
View ArticleWeberWorldCafé: “Transoceanic Cultures” on October 26
Oceans are key arenas of mobility, both in past and present times. They connect far-away shores and form specific “Ocean Worlds.” But how do such transoceanic worlds form and what holds them together?...
View ArticleTill Knaudt interrim professor for Cultural Economic History
Dr. Till Knaudt will take on the position as interim professor of Cultural Economic History at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies during the winter term 2018/19. He will substitute for...
View ArticleProf. Juneja joins advisory board
Prof. Monica Juneja has been invited to join as a member of the advisory board to a newly established research department, starting January 2019, of the German Lost Art Foundation (Deutsches Zentrum...
View ArticleGuest lecture by Parul Mukherji
Culture and photography in India have converged around the concept of darshan, first theorized by the art historian Diana Eck. She proposes Indian visuality based on a model of a religious exchange of...
View ArticleHCTS welcomes new Master's students
53 candidates were selected out of 88 applications that came from more than 25 countries. The two-day event started with a welcome address by Scientific Project Manager Dr. Oliver Lamers. Then MATS...
View ArticleBarbara Mittler gives Victor Goldschmidt Lecture
On November 3, Prof. Barbara Mittler gave the Victor Goldschmidt Lecture "Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten! Von Kultur, Identität … und Hass—Chinesische Musiker auf den klassischen...
View ArticleInaugural lecture by Prof. Michael Radich
Prof. Michael Radich took up the Professorship of Buddhist Studies at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies in January 2018. Before becoming the new HCTS professor for Buddhist Studies,...
View ArticleMonica Juneja is first lecturer of Studium Generale
On November 5, Prof. Monica Juneja, the professor of Global Art History and co-director of the HCTS, was the first lecturer of the public lecture series “Kulturelles Erbe.” She talked about “Wessen...
View ArticleRetrospect: "Salon for Slow Reading and Deep Looking"
In an age where different – often contesting – visual regimes cohabit the same spaces, and where digitality has enabled the proliferation and endless manipulation of existing repositories of iconic...
View ArticleTakahiro Yamamoto takes part in international conferences
Takahiro Yamamoto, assistant professor of Cultural Economic History, recently took part in two international conferences. On 26 October, at Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in Middelburg,...
View ArticleNew book by Axel Michaels
Currently about 20,000 Germans travel to Nepal per year, with numbers steadily rising; the fascination for the mysterious, colorful country on the roof of the world is undiminished – a fact that is...
View ArticleMonica Juneja participates in symposium in Abu Dhabi
Prof. Monica Juneja, the HCTS professor of Global Art History, participated in the Worlds in a Museum Symposium held from November 10 to 11 at the Louvre Abu Dhabi. In the scope of session three...
View ArticleWorkshop lab „Asthetics and materiality of knowledge“
Archives of migration remain often invisible. Hosting objects of memory, letters, diaries or photographs, such collections contain important knowledge of migrants’ histories and the narratives of...
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