Reminder: 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 ArticleVisiting fellows at the HCTS during the summer semester
Atul Bhalla is a conceptual artist working with environmental issues, particularly on water, for more than two decades. His work invites the audience to engage directly with urban and metropolitan...
View ArticleRudolf G. Wagner presented with funding for E-Journal
The day’s program was scheduled in honor of Prof. Rudolf G. Wagner and his lifelong commitment to Chinese and Transcultural Studies. Thus, the program included discussions and lectures that covered...
View ArticleExhibtion “The Scholar's Choice” at Völkerkundemuseum
Within the context of the official opening of the Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS), the vernissage to "The Scholar’s Choice" took place at the Völkerkundemuseum Heidelberg on June 25....
View ArticleChristiane Brosius co-edits new volume “Out of Space”
Prof. Christiane Brosius, the professor of Visual and Media Anthropology at the HCTS and Prof. Holger Schulze from the University of Copenhagen have assembled fourteen articles for publication in the...
View ArticleHCTS members convene series of workshop at ICAS 11
How can we trace the circulation and translation of texts, images, sounds, and objects across national and regional boundaries, and how can we make sense of the involved agents’ actions and...
View ArticleJennifer Altehenger now associate professor at Oxford
From September 2019 onwards, former Cluster member Dr. Jennifer Altehenger will be taking up the Associate Professorship in Chinese History and the Jessica Rawson Fellowship in Modern Asian History at...
View ArticleRoundtable hosted by Shaping Asia network at ICAS 11
The roundtable, which takes place during the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) at Leiden University, introduces an emerging network of scholars, in the Humanities and Social Sciences...
View ArticleRetrospect: "Salon for Slow Reading and Deep Looking"
The third iteration of the “Salon for Slow Reading and Deep Looking” convened at a time when monuments and memorials of all sorts, but especially statues, are both troubled and troublesome. During two...
View ArticleRussell Ó Ríagáin gave lecture at IMC 2019 in Leeds
On July 3, Russell Ó Ríagáin, managing editor at the HCTS, gave a talk at the International Medieval Congress 2019 at the University of Leeds. Within the panel "New Approaches to Viking-Age...
View ArticleFeng He covenes panels at ICAS 11
During ICAS 11, HCTS associate member Feng He is convening two panels on transcultural studies of Chinese ceramics, titled “Global Localities of Chinese Ceramics” I and II. Approaching six in-depth...
View ArticleCfA: Heidelberg-Tohoku Joint Degree Programme
The Joint PhD Programme between Heidelberg University and Tohoku University is a three-year doctoral programme offering international access to an interdisciplinary research environment. Students...
View ArticleScholar's Choice exhibition at Völkerkundemuseum
Collected 100 years ago by Victor Goldschmidt, numerous objects from Asia are on display at the Völkerkundemuseum Heidelberg. He thus laid the foundations for numerous disciplines at Ruperto Carola...
View ArticleShaping Asia Network hosts conference at Bielefeld
The two-day event will be attended by twenty scholars from academic institutions across Asia and Germany and is geared at sharpening and developing research methodologies for conducting research on...
View ArticleHeidelberg University hosts 7th HeKKSaGOn President's Conference
Heidelberg University through its HeKKSaGOn alliance maintains an important strategic partnership with the universities of Kyoto, Tohoku and Osaka as well as Göttingen and the Karlsruhe Institute of...
View ArticleCfA: Winter school "Global History - Challenges and Opportunities" in New Delhi
Prof. Monica Juneja, the HCTS professor of Global Art History convenes the winter school toghehter with Debarati Bagchi, Felix Brahm, Pablo Holwitt, and Indra Sengupta, is directed at PhD and early...
View ArticleSvenja Nagel publishes dissertation
During the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial periods, the cult of the Egyptian goddess Isis and closely associated deities successively spread around the whole Mediterranean, reaching its peak during the...
View ArticleFellowship for Lorenzo Andolfatto
With his project "Three Faces of Utopianism Revisited (Once Again): Braiding Utopian Traditions Between Europe and China," Dr. Lorenzo Andolfatto aims to expand his preliminary work on utopian and...
View ArticleTakuma Melber at panel discussion about outbreak of World War II
On September 19, Dr. Takuma Melber, lecturer and MATS programme coordinator at the HCTS, is the moderator of a panel discussion that deals with the outbreak of World War II 80 years ago. The event is...
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...
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