Michael Radich co-editor of encyclopedia on Buddhism
The Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism aims to be a comprehensive work offering readers a balanced and detailed treatment of the plurality of Buddhist traditions across Asia in six thematically arranged...
View ArticleThe HCTS welcomes new MATS students
In 2019, the Master´s in Transcultural Studies of Heidelberg University received 70 applications from more than 15 countries. 33 students out of 46 applicants admitted to the programme eventually...
View ArticleSophie Roche publishes book on jihad in Tajikistan
Since the end of the Soviet Union, the people from the republic Tajikistan have struggled to find a place in the larger Muslim world - a painful process unfolding in relation to global events,...
View ArticleMatthias Arnold receives FoF3 Grant
HCTS member Matthias Arnold received a grant by Heidelberg University's Field of Focus 3 (FoF 3) to create a ground truth for the early Chinese press in the frame of the Early Chinese Periodicals...
View ArticleMichael Falser publishes volume on Angkor Wat
The book "Angkor Wat. A Transcultural History of Heritage," unravels the formation of the modern concept of cultural heritage by charting its colonial, postcolonial-nationalist and global trajectories....
View ArticleEmily Graf receives Ruprecht-Karls prize for dissertation
Emily Mae Graf´s doctoral dissertation “Lu Xun on Display: Memory, Space and Media in the Making of World Literary Heritage or the Materiality of World Literary Heritage: Memory, Space and Media in the...
View ArticleCfA: Heidelberg-Tohoku Joint Doctoral 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 ArticleSWAGATA Call: Staff Mobility for Training
The SWAGATA Consortium is calling for applications for a staff mobility for training within the programme "Erasmus+ Key Action 107 (Mobility with Partner Countries)." The grant is offered to a staff...
View ArticleDAAD grants Christiane Brosius funding for exchange initiative
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has approved a three-year funding that will allow for an inter- and transdisciplinary exchange between German and South Asian institutions on the topic of...
View ArticleCfA: Institute for World Literature at Belgrad University
Reminder: 10th session of the Institute for World Literature, presented by Harvard University, will take place at the University of Belgrade from July 6 - 30, 2020. The seminars and lectures will be...
View ArticleRudolf Wagner among editors of volume on leisure
The volume “Testing the Margins of Leisure. Case Studies on China, Japan, and Indonesia” offers eight studies on different historical and present-day aspects of leisure in Asia. It critically engages...
View ArticleTakuma Melber gives talk in Narashino, Japan
On January 26, Dr. Takuma Melber, lecturer at the HCTS and coordinator of the Master´s in Transcultural Studies, will give a talk about "Heidelberg University's Digital Tsingtau Archive and German...
View ArticleAndrea Bréard publishes book on mathematics in China
The volume "Nine Chapters on Mathematical Modernity. Essays on the Global Historical Entanglements of the Science of Numbers in China" addresses the dynamics associated with the modernization of...
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 Heidelberg Centre for...
View ArticleWinter School "Global History - challenges and opportunities", New Delhi
From February 16-21, a Winter School on the challenges and opportunities of global history will take place in New Delhi. It is addressed to PhD and early career scholars in Germany and India. A panel...
View ArticleGlobal Art History receives "Social Innovation Grant" to reorient global art...
The eleven founding members of the network “Transnational and Transcultural Arts and Culture Exchange – TrACE” include Monica Juneja and Franziska Koch from the Professorship of Global Art History. For...
View ArticleNew book on Standards of Validity in Late Imperial China published
The essays in Powerful Arguments reconstruct the standards of validity underlying argumentative practices in a wide array of late imperial Chinese discourses, from the Song through the Qing dynasties....
View ArticleChristiane Brosius and Roberta Mandoki publish edited volume on Caring for...
The volume results from project B19 "Ageing in a Transcultural Context" at the Cluster Asia and Europe that was headed by Christiane Brosius, Andreas Kruse and Axel Michaels, including the PhD...
View ArticleMax Stille awarded the Walter Witzenmann Prize
Max Stille, associate member of the HCTS and associate researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, was awarded the Walter Witzenmann Prize for the year 2020. The award was...
View ArticleCarsten Wergin and Christiane Brosius successful in the first round of...
Provenance and repatriation are inherently transdisciplinary and transcultural themes. They are concerned with cultural, socio-political and juridical problems. The project "Provenance and...
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