NHDP at E-Science Days
From March 27-29, the Heidelberg E-Science Days 2019: "Data to Knowledge" will take place at the Neue Universität. On Thursday, Ina Buchholz-Chebbi and Matthias Arnold will present the Nepal Heritage...
View ArticleNew volume on "Engaging Transculturality"
Engaging Transculturality also provides a template for the study of transcultural dynamics across a variety of key concepts. It is an extensive and comprehensive survey of the rapidly developing field...
View ArticleTakuma Melber is guest lecturer in Vienna
Dr. Takuma Melber, lecturer and MATS programme coordinator at the HCTS, was a guest lecturer at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte at the University of Vienna in March. He tought a method workshop titled...
View ArticleRudolf Wagner participated in symposium at UC Berkley
On March 26, Prof. Rudolf G. Wagner, former director of the Cluster “Asia and Europe” and senior professor of Chinese Studies at Heidelberg University, participated in the symposium “Entangling the...
View ArticleWalter Bosshard Exhibition opens on April 28, 2019
Envisioning Asia: Gandhi and Mao in the Photographs of Walter Bosshard focuses on images from a critical decade in the life of two vast Asian countries, China and India. The Swiss photojournalist...
View ArticleDANAM launched in Nepal Heritage Documentation Project
The Nepal Heritage Documentation Project (NHDP) recently launchen DANAM, the Digital Archive of Nepalese Arts and Monuments, which documents endangered monuments and sites of Nepal's cultural heritage....
View ArticleECPO at E-Science-Days
From March 27–29, the Heidelberg E-Science Days 2019 titled "Data to Knowledge" took place at the Neue Universität. On Friday, Lena Hessel and Matthias Arnold presented the ECPO project in a long-paper...
View ArticleOpenDACHS at E-Science-Days
From March 27–29, the Heidelberg E-Science Days 2019 titled "Data to Knowledge" took place at the Neue Universität. On Thursday, Matthias Arnold, Hanno Lecher, and Sebastian Vogt presented the...
View ArticleCharlotte Schaefer wins fellowship by Kyoto University
Ms Charlotte Schaefer has been offered a on-year Japan Foundation dissertation fellowship to conduct further fieldwork at Kyoto University. She has already begun fieldwork in Tokyo supported by a...
View ArticleLorenzo Andolfatto publishes article on CLEAR
Dr. Lorenzo Andolfatto, HCTS postdoctoral researcher in the HERA project of Prof. Joachim Kurtz, had a contribution published on CLEAR, the western-language periodical devoted to Chinese literature....
View ArticleHyojin Lee publishes article
Dr. Hyojin Lee, the lecturer for Korean language and studies for the Professorship of Cultural Economic History at the HCTS, recently had an article published in The Journal of Asian Women. The piece...
View ArticleNew book by Lorenzo Andolfatto
In “Hundred Days’ Literature,” Dr. Lorenzo Andolfatto explores the landscape of early modern Chinese fiction through the lens of the utopian novel, casting new light on some of its most peculiar yet...
View ArticleShigeru Akita will be visiting professor at the HCTS
During the winter semester 2019-2020, Professor Shigeru Akita from Osaka University will teach a class on Global History in the M.A. Transcultural Studies at the HCTS. For his three-months teaching...
View ArticleNepal Heritage Documentation Project launches DANAM
DANAM, the Digital Archive of Nepalese Arts and Monuments, is has been and continues to be developed by the Nepal Heritage Documentation Project. Its first commitment is a series of temples, monuments...
View ArticleManly Matters Workshop 2019
Prof. Christiane Brosius, the HCTS professor of Visual and Media Anthropology, documentary filmmaker Yousuf Saeed and Prof. Sumathi Ramaswamy, recipient of the Humboldt Foundation’s Annelies Maier...
View ArticleLecture by Axel Michaels at Harvard
On May 2, Prof. Axel Michaels, former director of the Cluster and founding director of the Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS), will give a lecture on "The Meaning of the Meaninglessness...
View ArticleTakuma Melber publishes article
Dr. Takuma Melber, lecturer and MATS programme coordinator at the HCTS, had a contribution published for the Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik regarding the resignation of Japanese...
View ArticleThe 2019 TSSC programme is online
The programme of the second Transcultural Studies Student Conference “Voices of Dissent: Transculturality and Activism” is online. The conference, organized and managed by Master´s and PhD students of...
View ArticleNew book by Amelia Bonea on Medicine and Modernity
Much like the Information Age of the twenty-first century, the Industrial Age was a period of great social changes brought about by rapid industrialization and urbanization, speed of travel, and global...
View ArticleThe DAAD grants additional fellowships for the MATS Joint Degree Students
The Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies had another scholarship success with the DAAD and was granted five more fellowships per year to Kyoto University for the MATS Joint Degree Students. The...
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