Takuma Melber interviewed by Deutschlandfunk Kultur
The radio station Deutschlandfunk Kultur "Fazit" conducted an interview with Dr. Takuma Melber, lecturer and coordinator of the Master’s in Transcultural Studies, about the "comfort women" dispute...
View ArticleTakuma Melber presented at the Einstein Forum
Dr. Takuma Melber, lecturer and coordinator of the master’s in Transcultural Studies, gave a presentation on "Insulares Großmachtstreben. Japan im Zeitalter des Imperialismus und der Weltkriege" in the...
View ArticleMATS Graduation Ceremony goes virtual
As in the HCTS tradition, every year a ceremony is organized to celebrate the new graduate students from the M.A. Transcultural Studies (MATS). Due to the current COVID-19 restrictions, in 2021 the...
View ArticlePerformance workshop by Amelia Bonea now online
The immersive virtual workshop and performance “Along The Lines” was the result of a collaboration between Dr. Amelia Bonea, research fellow at the HCTS and a former member of the project “Diseases 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 ArticleTakuma Melber gives interviews for VRM and SWP
Dr. Takuma Melber, lecturer and coordinator of the master’s in Transcultural Studies, was interviewed by the Verlagsgruppe Rhein-Main (VRM) and the Südwestpresse (SWP) on the occasion of the 10th...
View ArticleConference on women and science to take place in May
Although the twentieth century has often been hailed as the period in which women became important in science, their participation in scientific inquiry and practice often remains buried – quite...
View ArticleNew volume in the Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality series
The book “Taming the Poisonous: Mercury, Toxicity, and Safety in Tibetan Medical Practice,” is a rich ethnographic and socio-historical account that uncovers how toxicity and safety are expressed...
View ArticleTakuma Melber guest speaker for the Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V. Villigst
On May 5, 2021, Dr. Takuma Melber, lecturer and coordinator of the master’s in Transcultural Studies, participated in an online evening discussion on "8. Mai 1945: Kriegsende? Deutsche, sowjetische und...
View ArticleAmelia Bonea guest on NewsEye podcast
Dr. Amelia Bonea, research fellow at the HCTS, was a guest on the multilingual podcast of the NewsEye H2020 project, an interdisciplinary undertaking in the Digital Humanities aimed at developing new...
View ArticleCfA: Master Programme in Transcultural Studies
The M.A. in Transcultural Studies is a research-oriented, interdisciplinary programme at the confluence of Humanities and Social sciences hosted at the HCTS. It has a transregional and...
View ArticleChristiane Brosius confirmed as speaker of FI TCH
The Flagship Initiative Transforming Cultural Heritage (FI TCH) is an 18-month project that brings together Heidelberg University's diverse disciplinary and region-specific competencies in researching...
View ArticleNew book in heiUP series "Documenta Nepalica"
The Mulukī Ain of 1854—the law code with constitutional features drafted at the initiative of Prime Minister Jaṅga Bahādura Rāṇā—is the foundational legal text for modern Nepal. It covers almost every...
View ArticleMA(T)SCOT DESIGN COMPETITION now open
2021 marks the 10th anniversary from the first edition of the Master’s in Transcultural Studies (MATS) at Heidelberg University. Since its inception in the winter semester 2010-2012, the programme has...
View ArticleChristiane Brosius co-editor of volume on care and ageing
Many societies are experiencing growing longevity and population ageing simultaneously with increasing urbanization and mobility. Such fundamental demographic and structural shifts are reflected in a...
View ArticleNew volume in heiUP series on Transculturality
One of the major challenges facing art history in recent decades has been the issue of globalization and its cultural implications—with regard to both retrospective historical narratives and...
View ArticleAmelia Bonea awarded the 2021 Colby Book Prize
HCTS research fellow Dr. Amelia Bonea is among the winners of the 2021 Robert and Vineta Colby Book Prize by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, an annual prize that honors original...
View ArticleNew monograph by Jo Ziebritzki
“Why are there no great women art historians?” To answer such provocative question, GPTS doctoral candidate Jo Ziebritzki digs into the art historiography of the past decades in her book "Stella...
View ArticleTarini Bedi to conduct a workshop series in Urban Studies
How to study the many layers and narratives of the city? How to catch a sight of what is often invisible, reluctant to surface and to manifest, yet ubiquitous? Can we find tools that facilitate the...
View ArticleMonica Juneja keynote speaker at ECSAS in Vienna
The European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS) is an annual conference operating under the auspices of the European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS). Since 1968, it serves as a...
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