Monica Juneja receives Opus Magnum from the Volkswagen Foundation
In March 2020, the Volkswagen Foundation/VK Stiftung announced the conferral of an Opus Magnum to Monica Juneja, the professor of Global Art History at the HCTS, to support her research in the area of...
View ArticleInterview with Max Stille for RNZ
On May 5th, 2020, the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung published an interview with Dr. Max Stille, associate member of the HCTS and managing director of NETZ e.V., under the title "70 Millionen Menschen sind...
View ArticleMATS Student Voices: the Kyoto Experience and PhD Success
The opportunity to study abroad at Kyoto University has provided the MATS students with a diverse range of experiences, and many of them have decided to pursue doctoral studies after their study...
View ArticleCathrine Bublatzky publishes two new articles
Because of the inherently transcultural nature of diasporic movements, the field of Migration Studies is a critical component of the ongoing research at the HCTS. Dr. Bublatzky´s work is the result of...
View ArticleArticle of Mumbai Mirror on the Tasveer Ghar project
On May 27, 2020, the Mumbai Mirror published an article about Tasveer Ghar, the digital archive of South Asian popular visual culture founded by Christiane Brosius, the HCTS professor of Visual and...
View ArticleTwo CATS/HRA projects published in conference volume
The conference E-Science-Tage 2019 "Data to Knowledge," which took place at Heidelberg University in March 2019, brought together leading experts from the field of research data management to create a...
View ArticleNew publication on Jesuit heritage by Lianming Wang
In the early modern world, no individual, institution, or organization could match the impact of the Jesuit missionaries. As the “global patrons” in the Age of the Counter-Reformation, the members of...
View ArticleThe HCTS welcomes new guest fellow Prem Poddar
Prof. Prem Poddar from Roskilde University is conducting part of his research as a guest fellow at the HCTS chair of Intellectual History, held by Prof. Joachim Kurtz. Poddar is working on the...
View ArticleMonica Juneja member of the Executive Board of the Geschwister Supp Foundation
Monica Juneja, the professor of Global Art History at the HCTS, has been elected to the Executive Board of the Geschwister Supp Foundation, located at Heidelberg University. Prof. Juneja will also act...
View ArticleTakuma Melber guest at SWR2 Forum
On August 3, 2020, the MATS coordinator and ad interim general manager of the HCTS Dr. Takuma Melber participated in the radio discussion SWR2 Forum moderated by SWR-journalist Doris Maull. Together...
View ArticleHCTS successful with three internationalization projects
Starting from Winter Semester 2020, the HCTS will strengthen its international profile thanks to a series of collaborations with international scholars, who will be hosted for a semester or longer at...
View ArticleKerstin von Lingen awarded the Ernst-Otto Czempiel Prize
The Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) awarded former HCTS member Prof. Dr. Kerstin von Lingen (University of Vienna) the Ernst-Otto Czempiel Award 2020 for her book titled “‘Crimes against...
View ArticleThomas Stock is Humboldt-visiting fellow at the HCTS
Dr. Thomas Stock is an intellectual historian of Korea and the Cold War, specialized in the evolution of North Korean ideology, global Marxism-Leninism, and comparative Communism. Upon the invitation...
View ArticleComprehensive documentation of Nepal’s cultural heritage approved
Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, has awarded almost €2.5 million to the Nepal Heritage Documentation Project (NHDP). The new grant will continue and expand the project...
View ArticleMariachiara Gasparini publishes dissertation on Central Asian textile art
The book “Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textile Images” analyses the transcultural production and textile circulation at the heart of the...
View ArticleNew book on Japanese Role-Playing Games by Björn-Ole Kamm
Nowadays, non-digital role-playing games – such as table-top RPGs and live-action role-plays – are experiencing a second boom worldwide and are increasingly gaining scholarly attention. In...
View ArticleNew appointment for Axel Michaels at the Portheim Foundation
Former Cluster director and CATS founding director Prof. Dr. Axel Michaels is now Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Portheim Foundation, a sponsor of the Völkerkundemuseum Heidelberg. Prof....
View ArticleHRA participates in OCR workshop of State digitisation initiative
On October 16, HRA member Matthias Arnold participated in an OCR workshop organised by the State- and University Libraries of the State of Baden-Württemberg. Title of the workshop was "Document...
View ArticleHCTS hosts webinar on China-India scientific historiography
On November 19, 2020, the HCTS and India-China Conjunctures will host a webinar on “Trans-Himalayan Science in Mid-Twentieth Century China and India.” The lecturer, Prof. Arunabh Ghosh (Harvard...
View ArticleNew Digital Collection of Essays by Tasveer Ghar
Tasveer Ghar – A House of Pictures serves as a trans-national network for the collection and digitalization of the rich visual cultures of South Asia, and in parallel as an educational platform to...
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