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...
View ArticleJohanna Beamish receives award for dissertation
On November 9, cluster associate member Dr. Johanna Beamish was awarded one of three Albert Ballin Awards, the „Albert Ballin Awards for Globalization,“ presented by the Hapag-Lloyd AG at a gala...
View ArticleGuest lecture by Tadashi Tanabe
Dr. Tanabe will reflect on a tale from the kingdom of Sibi. It produced many virtuous kings of whom one was the son and successor of King Ushinara. This new Sibi king was known for his philanthropy...
View ArticleRoundtable Discussion “Taking Offense” on November 28
What makes an image, a performance or an object offensive? The roundtable engages in this question that forms the subject of the volume “Taking Offense,” which was published by Christiane Kruse, Birgit...
View ArticleConference: „Ambivalent Times“ in Heidelberg
From December 1 to 3, the conference „Ambivalent Times: The Myceanaen Palatial Period between Splendor and Demise“ will take place in Heidelberg. The Karl Jaspers Centre will be hosting the third day...
View ArticlePostdoctoral fellowship for Takahiro Yamamoto
With the Postdoctoral Fellowship for Leading Early Career Researcher the Baden-Württemberg Foundation supports excellent postdoctoral scientists at a university in Baden-Württemberg who aim for a...
View ArticleGraduation Ceremony of GPTS-7 and MATS (2018)
On December 6, 2018, at 6 pm, the HCTS graduation ceremony for the students of the M.A. Transcultural Studies and for the members of GPTS-7 will take place. It will be a joined ceremony for all...
View ArticleCartes Wergin gives lecture at Australian National University
Dr. Carsten Wergin, member of the steering committee of the HCTS, gave a talk about "Australia and the World: A Transcultural Approach" at the Australian Studies Institute at the Australian National...
View ArticleNew cooperation with Vietnam National University
On November 29, Prof. Harald Fuess met with Dr. Nguyen Phuong Thuy, who is a lecturer at the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Vietnam National University (VNU) in Hanoi. She visited the HCTS and the...
View ArticleKerstin von Lingen accepts call to the University of Vienna
"Genocide, Violence, and Dictatorship" is one of the research foci at the Department for Contemporary History (Institut für Zeitgeschichte), which is part of the Faculty of Historical and Cultural...
View ArticleCfA: Heidelberg-Tohoku Double Degree Programme
The Joint PhD Degree Programme between Heidelberg University and Tohoku University is a three-year doctoral programme offering international access to an interdisciplinary research environment....
View ArticleJadwiga Kamola publishes dissertation
The volume investigates a series of Chinese tumor patients shown in the format of the classical portrait, and locates them within a global spectrum of medical oil portraits and medical atlases. The...
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Prof. Monica Juneja, the HCTS professor of Global Art History, had a contribution published in the volume ”Zwischen Kulturen: Mittler und Grenzgänger vom 17. bis 19. Jahrhundert”, which was edited by...
View ArticleNew Scholarships in HCTS Graduate Programme
In accordance with the research scheme of the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, the three-year graduate programme focuses on the dynamics of cultural exchange processes between and within...
View ArticleNew issue of "The Journal of Transcultural Studies" online
The Journal of Transcultural Studies is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal committed to promoting research on transculturality. Launched in 2010, it is published by the Cluster of Excellence, "Asia...
View ArticleNew book on religious aesthetics by former Cluster members
The volume focuses on religious aesthetics, which have gained increasing importance over the past few years in the fields of Religious studies and Islamic studies. It highlights the transcultural...
View ArticleProf. Reuven Amitai at HCTS as guest professor
Prof. Reuven Amitai, Eliyahu Elath Professor for Muslim History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will be a guest professor at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies from January 17–28....
View ArticleAnn-Sophie Schoepfel receives Jean-Baptise Duroselle Thesis Award
The award, which Schoepfel received on December 14, honored her dissertation “War crimes and decolonization in the courtroom: France at the Tokyo and Saigon Trials.” She conducted her research under...
View ArticleNew research project by Takuma Melber
Dr. Takuma Melber, lecturer and MATS programme coordinator at the HCTS, received a grant by Heidelberg University's Field of Focus 3: Cultural Dynamics in Globalised Worlds to start a his research...
View ArticleNew article on "Mapping Continents, Inhabited Quarters and The Four Seas"
The article “Mapping Continents, Inhabited Quarters and The Four Seas. Divisions of the World and the Ordering of Spaces in Latin-Christian, Arabic-Islamic and Chinese Cartography in the Twelfth to...
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