Project presentation: Early Chinese Periodicals Online (ECPO)
Recently, the project “Early Chinese Periodicals Online” (ECPO) - funded by the Institute of Chinese Studies and the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies entered a new phase. With its preceding...
View ArticleMichael Radich visiting professor at Stanford
Prof. Michael Radich, the professor of Buddhist Studies at the HCTS, is a visiting professor at Stanford University during the summer semester 2019. He is teaching a reading seminar on early Chinese...
View ArticleMichael Radich receives DFG grant
The DFG Sachbeihilfe grant, summing up to 335,906 Euros, will finance the project "Intertextuality in the Chinese Buddhist Canon: Computational-Philological Assessment of Sources,...
View ArticleNew volume co-edited by Nikolas Jaspert
The decades between ca 1280 and ca 1380 were marked by a striking affinity to the Mendicant orders on the part of many female members of royal and princely courts. And yet, "Queens, Princesses and...
View ArticleMonica Juneja new member of the Transnational Advisory Board at the Tate...
Prof. Monica Juneja, the HCTS professor of Global Art History, was appointed a member of the Transnational Advisory Board at the Tate Research Centre, Tate Modern, London. The Hyundai Tate Research...
View ArticleTakahiro Yamamoto presents in Oxofrt
On May 10-11, Dr. Takahiro Yamamoto, assistant professor of Cultural Economic History, was invited to present a paper at Reopening the "Opening of Japan," an international conference at the Nissan...
View ArticleMonica Juneja joined the European Research Foundation’s Consortium
Prof. Monica Juneja, the HCTS professor of Global Art History, was invited to join the European Research Foundation’s Consortium. The Consortium comprises of five major European research funding...
View ArticleDavide Torri interim professor at the SAI
Dr. Davide Torri, associate research fellow at the HCTS, has been appointed as interim professor for Anthropology for the summer semester 2019 at the South Asian Institute (SAI), Heidelberg University,...
View ArticleSusann Liebich held lecture in Mainz
On May 8, Dr. Susann Liebich, postdoctoral fellow at the HCTS, talked about "Constructing and representing a globalising world: Geographical imaginaries in Australian magazines of the 1920s and 1930s"...
View ArticleReminder: CfA for Master's in Transcultural Studies
Reminder: Students holding a B.A or equivalent (minimum three years of study) in a discipline of the humanities or social science, can still apply for the Master Programme in Transcultural Studies at...
View ArticleWorkshop and Lecture with Bruce McCoy Owens
During a workshop on Wednesday, May 22, members of the Nepal Heritage Documentation Project introduced Bruce Owens to DANAM, the Digital Archive of Nepalese Arts and Monuments, which has been and...
View ArticleCfP: "New Directions in Transcultural Studies"
By October 31, 2019, the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" will have completed its run of some 12 years. Its main contribution to scholarship over this period has been the...
View ArticleCard Game for Tibetan language invented at HCTS
Since 2010, the HCTS Professorship for Buddhist Studies has offered courses of both classical and colloquial Tibetan in equal measure every semester. The teaching was first made possible under the...
View ArticleCfA: Conference on Transcultural Connections
Human mobility has long been an important feature within and across cultures. This conference will look at this age-old phenomenon reflecting worldwide contemporary public and academic debates with an...
View ArticleCfA: Double Doctoral Degree Program in Asian and Transcultural Studies
The Joint Doctoral Degree Program seeks applications that explore cultural exchange processes within or between Eurasia and the Mediterranean. The program employs a transcultural approach to study...
View ArticleTakahiro Yamamoto invited to Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies at Oxford
On 10-11 May, Dr. Takahiro Yamamoto, assistant professor of cultural economic history, was invited to present a paper at Reopening the "Opening of Japan", an international conference at the Nissan...
View ArticleArunava Dasgupta visits HCTS as Erasmus+ Fellow
Dasgupta’s visit is made possible through a Mobility scholarship awarded by the Erasmus+ programme SWAGATA. SWAGATA consists of the University of Cologne, the University of Göttingen, and Heidelberg...
View ArticleVisiting Fellows at HCTS
By the invitation of the professorship of Cultural Economic History, two Visiting Fellows will stay at the HCTS until the beginning of August: Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer (Yale) is an anthropologist...
View ArticleCATS officially opens with Sheba Chhacchi and Ai Wei Wei
The new Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) opened its doors at the beginning of the summer semester. CATS comprises the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS), the Institute...
View ArticleCATS opening ceremony to watch via livestream
The opening ceremony at 5 pm can either be watched at the CATS Greens, which is located behind the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, in seminar rooms in the surounding buildings or online...
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