German War Grave Commission publishes interview with Takuma Melber
The Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V. (German War Grave Commission) published in its biannual magazine ‚Frieden‘ (Issue 2/2020) an interview with historian Dr. Takuma Melber, coordinator of...
View ArticleMiriam Oesterreich co-editor of Miradas
Dr. Miriam Oesterreich, member of the HCTS research project Worlding Public Cultures: the Arts and Social Innovation, co-edited the double issue "Miradas 3/4 - Journal for the Arts and Culture of the...
View ArticleHCTS welcomes new GPTS students
Every year, the HCTS welcomes new doctoral students through its Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies (GPTS). In 2020, the programme has reached its twelfth edition. New GPTS members are...
View ArticleTakuma Melber´s “Pearl Harbor” translated in English
An English translation of the volume “Pearl Harbor: Japans Angriff und der Kriegseintritt der USA” by Dr. Takuma Melber was recently published for Polity Press with the title "Pearl Harbor: Japan's...
View ArticleDigital Teaching Days at the HCTS
Upon a joint initiative of the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) and its non-teaching representatives, eight members of the HCTS participated in the “Digital Teaching Days”, a training...
View ArticleHCTS hosts international workshop on mobility and the state
Migration and settler colonialism are both widely discussed topics in modern Japanese history. Yet, the state-employed technologies of documentation that conditioned people’s movements remain...
View ArticleNew co-edited volume by Sophie Roche and Davide Torri
For a long time, scholars dealing with shamanism focused mainly on its male declinations. Alternatively, shamanism has been analyzed as a "neutral category," which inherently blinded ethnographers and...
View ArticleAndrea Bréard appointed Humboldt Professor at FAU
Prof. Andrea Bréard, science historian and former member at the HCTS, is among the eight professors appointed for the 2021 Alexander von Humboldt Professorship. She is also among the three women...
View Article2020 issue of "The Journal of Transcultural Studies” available
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 ArticleMichael Brown publishes report and talk on fieldwork in Kurdistan
Associate HCTS member Dr. Michael Brown published a preliminary report (PDF available) and an online talk about his recent fieldwork at the mountain fortress of Rabana-Merquly, in Iraqi Kurdistan. The...
View ArticleNew article by CATS and HRA members
The edited volume “Bilddaten in den Digitalen Geisteswissenschaften/ Image data in the digital humanities” features a selection of presentations from the workshop “Image Data in the Digital Humanities...
View ArticleCfA: Master Programme in Transcultural Studies
The M.A. in Transcultural Studies is a research-oriented, interdisciplinary programme in the humanities and social sciences hosted at the HCTS. It has a transregional and transdisciplinary focus. The...
View ArticleCfA: Doctoral Scholarships in Transcultural Studies
In accordance with the research scheme of the HCTS, the three-year Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies (GPTS) focuses on the dynamics of cultural exchange processes between and within Asia and...
View ArticleRuixuan Chen awarded the 2020 Ernst Waldschmidt Prize
The Ernst Waldschmidt Prize commemorates the world-renowned German Indologist and doyen of Turfan Studies (Turfanforschung) in Germany Ernst Waldschmidt (1897–1985). It is awarded every five years by...
View ArticleInaugural Issue of CATSarena online
The inaugural issue of CATSarena, the newsletter of the Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS), is now online. It is focused on the topic of social distancing in Asia. As the two founding...
View ArticleResearch-based blog launched by CATS students
As the world grapples with the Covid-19 pandemic, fraught with the new challenges and concerns posed by a shared yet unequally distributed crisis, students at the Heidelberg University Institute of...
View ArticleNew publication by Fabienne Wallenwein
In China, traditional residential areas have often been at the heart of redevelopment projects involving the demolition of traditional housing structures and their replacement with high-rise apartment...
View ArticleHCTS welcomes first semester MATS students
Since its inception in 2010-2011, the Master’s in Transcultural Studies (MATS) at Heidelberg University has attracted large numbers of students and young researchers around the world, which has...
View ArticleTakuma Melber gave expert interview
Dr. Takuma Melber, lecturer and coordinator of the M.A. Transcultural Studies, gave an expert interview about the life of Japanese Emperor Hirohito and his New Year’s statement of January 1, 1946, also...
View ArticleAcademic blog celebrates Monica Juneja´s work
Prof. Monica Juneja, the professor of Global Art History at the HCTS, has celebrated her 65th birthday on December 30, 2020. On this auspicious occasion, four members of the Global Art History team...
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