Cathrine Bublatzky co-editor of Special Issue on migratory archives
HCTS assistant professor of Visual and Media Anthropology Cathrine Bublatzky and Dr. Fiona Siegenthaler (Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Basel) are the guest-editors of the Special...
View ArticleTakuma Melber new article on Der Spiegel
The German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel recently published an article about German Prisoners of War in Japan during World War I, focusing on Dr. Takuma Melber’s current research project. Takuma...
View ArticleSecond issue of CATSarena online
The second issue of CATSarena, the newsletter of the Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS), is now online. The present issue focuses on the topic of “COVID-19 and Epidemics in Asia,” and...
View Article“Heritage as Placemaking” awarded a € 1.5 million grant
The trans-regional project “Heritage as Placemaking: The Politics of Solidarity and Erasure in South Asia” is a partnership between four international research institutions: the University of...
View ArticleSwetlana Torno guest of AGENET on Sep. 8
Dr. Swetlana Torno, associate HCTS member and former doctoral candidate of the JRG “Demographic Turn,” was invited by the EASA’s Age and Generations Network (AGENET) to give a talk on her PhD research...
View ArticleTakuma Melber contributed to exhibition of the German Embassy in Japan
The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Tokyo, in collaboration with the Japan office of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the Japanese creative branding agency Eat Creative, is currently...
View ArticleMichael Falser awarded the ICAS Book Prize 2021
PD Dr. Michael Falser, former HCTS research member and project leader at the Cluster “Asia and Europe in a Global Context,” is the author of the two-volume monograph “Angkor Wat. A Transcultural...
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 ArticleMichael Falser awarded accolade in the Humanities at the 2021 ICAS Book Prize
PD Dr. Michael Falser, former HCTS research member and project leader at the Cluster “Asia and Europe in a Global Context,” is the author of the two-volume monograph “Angkor Wat. A Transcultural...
View ArticleTakuma Melber chair at DIJ workshop
On October 7–9, 2021, Dr. Takuma Melber, historian and coordinator of the MA Transcultural Studies at the HCTS, will participate in the online workshop "Fascism in Motion: Concepts, Agents and the...
View ArticleHealth and safety regulations for in-campus teaching and learning
To protect your health and safety and create a safe environment for everyone, the HCTS requires that everyone on campus follows the rules listed below: Masks are mandatory everywhere (medical/FFP2)....
View ArticleTakuma Melber at the Nachwuchskolloquium zur Militärgeschichte
On October 14-15, 2021, Dr. Takuma Melber, lecturer and coordinator of the Master’s in Transcultural Studies at the HCTS, participated in the "Nachwuchskolloquium zur Militärgeschichte" at the...
View ArticleCfA: Master’s 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 ArticleAmelia Bonea publishes article in "Technology and Culture"
Dr. Amelia Bonea, research fellow at the HCTS, published an article on infectious diseases and technologies of communication in the latest issue of Technology and Culture. Titled "‘Contagion by...
View ArticleCathrine Bublatzky awarded grant from the Thyssen Foundation
The Fritz Thyssen Foundation has extended its support for the organisation of the workshop Populist Aesthetics in Cultural Perspectives: Truthmaking, Faking, and the Politics of Affect in (Digital)...
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 ArticleTakuma Melber interviewed on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor
On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor (7 December 1941), national and international media representatives from the Tagesschau, The Daily Telegraph, La...
View ArticleSecond International PhD Student Symposium took place in Venice
On November 17-18, 2021 the Second International PhD Student Symposium took place at the Department of Asian and North African Studies at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. The workshop, organized...
View ArticleAmelia Bonea gave lecture on Infectious Media and Technologies
On December 10, 2021 Dr. Amelia Bonea, research fellow at the HCTS, gave a public lecture and tutorial on "Communicating Contagion: Infectious Media and Technologies, 1870–1914" at Science Gallery...
View ArticleMATS Orientation took place successfully in October
Since its inception in 2010–2011, the Master’s in Transcultural Studies (MATS) at Heidelberg University has attracted a large number of students and young researchers from around the world, which has...
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