Programme for Annual Conference online
The conference takes place from October 12 – 14, 2016 in Heidelberg and opens with a keynote at the Great Hall of the Old University. This year’s opening keynote will be delivered by David Freedberg...
View ArticleInstitute for Advanced Study Invites Klaus Oschema
The Institute for Advanced Study is one of the world’s leading research centers for curiosity-driven basic research, built up of four departments: The School of Historical Studies, the School of...
View ArticleWorkshop "Treaty Ports in East Asia, 1850-1910"
At that time, relatively isolated economic and political spheres were forced to accommodate with global systems of trade, finance, and military and political power. These new ports of the...
View ArticleWorkshop "(Post)colonial Archives and Photography in Africa and South Asia"
Workshop venue: Museum Folkwang, Essen and Duisburg-Essen UniversityDr. Cathrine Bublatzky (Visual and Media Anthropology, Heidelberg University) and Kerstin Meincke (Studies in Photography Theory,...
View ArticleConference "Law, Empire and Global Intellectual History"
In the last few years, the domain of global intellectual history has emerged as one of the most exciting and debated fields of academic research. Nevertheless, a desideratum exists in terms of bringing...
View ArticleJour Fixe: Cultural and Political History of Mirages
Fata morgana have long astonished travellers, and “waterless seas” have beguiled thirsty desert voyagers. Complex cultural histories long predate the first English usage of the term “mirage” in 1800....
View ArticleResearch Prize for Daniel König
Prof. Daniel König receives the prize of 10,000 Euro for his work “Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West. Tracing the Emergence of Medieval Europe”. He is Start-up Professor in Transcultural Studies...
View ArticleSeminar on Chinese Silent Films
The innovative teaching concept is introduced by Prof. Paul Pickowicz, who is a leading scholar in the field of Modern Chinese History at the University of California in San Diego. Prof. Pickowicz is...
View ArticleWorkshop “The Body in/and Space”
with Sonia Khurana (Delhi), Rakhee Balaram (Berlin), and Bindu Bhadana (Heidelberg)July 07, 2016 Workshop venue: Institute for Medical Psychology, Bergheimerstrasse 20, 69115 Heidelberg Prof....
View ArticleNew Book on Socialist Religion in 19th-century France
Under the title "Sozialismus, Katholizismus und Okkultismus im Frankreich des 19. Jahrhunderts. Die Genealogie der Schriften von Eliphas Lévi", the study reformulates the importance of socialist trends...
View ArticleWorkshops on Smart Cities in India
Under the umbrella of the German House for Research and Innovation (DWIH) in New Delhi, Heidelberg Centre South Asia will organize, coordinate and conduct four Indo-German workshops that focus on the...
View ArticleGuest Lecture by Lin Chen-kuo
The widespread consensus about Buddhist epistemology (pramāṇa-vāda) is that it has never received any serious attention outside of the development of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. As clearly shown in the...
View ArticlePhilippika Prize for Svenja Nagel
The prize-winning thesis is entitled “Die Ausbreitung des Isiskultes im Römischen Reich: Tradition und Transformation auf dem Weg von Ägypten nach Rom. Eine Untersuchung zur Entwicklung des Isiskultes...
View ArticleHarald Fuess appointed as Project Professor at Kyoto University
Prof. Harald Fuess, Chair for Cultural Economic History at the Cluster "Asia and Europe", was appointed as Project Professor at Kyoto University under the “Kyoto University Top Global Program". This...
View ArticlePartnership between HCTS and Volkswagen Foundation
The first postdoctoral fellowship offered by the Volkswagen Foundation enables postdoctoral fellows based in Germany to conduct studies at six distinguished institutions in the U.S. and Canada. The...
View ArticleGuided Tour through the Art Exhibition ‘with/against the flow’
Exhibition venue: Heidelberger Kunstverein, Hauptstr. 97, 69117 Heidelberg Dr. Cathrine Bublatzky (Visual and Media Anthropology, Heidelberg University) will lead a guided tour through the art...
View ArticlePresentation of web-documentary Elderscapes at the EASA conference in Milan
In the context of the EASA conference in Milan project member Annika Mayer presents the web-documentary Elderscapes. Mayer elaborates on the contribution of this multi-media format to contemporary...
View ArticleWorkshop with Lung Ying-tai
Lung Ying-tai is one of the most important public intellectuals in the Chinese-speaking world. She is the author of more than 30 books, many of them bestsellers, as well as a respected academic. She is...
View ArticleSeminar on Chinese Silent Films
The innovative teaching concept was introduced by Prof. Paul Pickowicz, who is a leading scholar in the field of Modern Chinese History at the University of California in San Diego. Prof. Pickowicz is...
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