Amelia Bonea featured in BBC article
HCTS research fellow Dr. Amelia Bonea was featured in a recent BBC article titled “Why India's fossil wealth has remained hidden”(January 17, 2022). The article sought to uncover why India’s rich...
View ArticleTakuma Melber executive board member of AKM
Dr. Takuma Melber, coordinator of the Master’s in Transcultural Studies and historian by training, was elected as new executive board member of the Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte e.V. (AKM) during the...
View ArticleEarly Chinese Periodical Online (ECPO) receives Research Council grant
In recent years, the Heidelberg Research Architecture project Early Chinese Periodicals Online (ECPO) has evolved from a data silo into an open-access research platform. In the first decade of its...
View ArticleVistit of German Ambassador and Cultural Attaché at the Nepal Research Bhavan
On March 10, 2022, the newly appointed German Ambassador to Nepal, Dr. Thomas Prinz, and Cultural Attaché, Gregor Czaja, visited the Nepal Research Bhawan to see the Kathmandu branch office of the...
View ArticleHCTS awards German ICAS Book Prize 2021
The twelfth International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 12), co-organised by Kyoto Seika University (Kyoto, Japan) and the ICAS Secretariat at the International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS,...
View ArticleTakuma Melber features in a podcast
Dr. Takuma Melber recently contributed to three episodes of the Podcast series “Short History of…”. The episodes focused on Pearl Harbour and were produced by Noiser, an award-winning Podcast network....
View ArticleTakuma Melber gives interview to Radio Bremen 2
Dr. Takuma Melber was recently featured on the German radio station Radio Bremen 2, where he was interviewed about a “conflict in the shadow of the current war between Russia and the Ukraine” – the...
View ArticleNikolas Jaspert receives Opus Magnum grant from the Volkswagen Foundation
In April 2022, the Volkswagen Foundation announced the conferral of an Opus Magnum grant to Nikolas Jaspert – a Professor of History in Heidelberg and an occupant of a Bridge Professorship at the HCTS...
View ArticleNew Volume by Theresa Deichert
What are the politics of picturing the end times? Theresa Deichert, doctoral candidate of the GPTS, has recently published the volume Imagining the Apocalypse: Art and the End Times with Courtauld...
View ArticleMonica Juneja co-curates “Motherland” Exhibition & Symposium
As part of the sixtieth anniversary celebrations of the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University, Monica Juneja, Professor of Global Art History at the HCTS, has co-curated an exhibition –...
View ArticleTakuma Melber interviewed by Deutsche Welle
Dr. Takuma Melber was recently interviewed by the German public international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) about the war in Ukraine. The interview titled ‘Lässt sich der Krieg zähmen?’ (‘Can the war...
View ArticleWelcome Prof. Dr. Tarini Bedi
Anthropologist Prof. Dr. Tarini Bedi, associate professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, will be staying at the HCTS from June to July of 2022. She will be collaborating on research and...
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 ArticleInvitation to attend the hybrid Academy 'Lessons Learned? Transcultural...
At the three-day international academy – which will take place in-person in Dresden and online – more than 30 international scholars, emerging researchers, curators and cultural professions will gather...
View ArticleDr. Melber interviewed about Shinzo Abe Assassination
Dr. Takuma Melber, historian of Modern Japanese History, was interviewed by the German newsportal t-online.de about the assassination of Shinzō Abe, former prime minister of Japan. The articles are...
View ArticleNew article by Michael Brown on DFG-funded archaeological research in Iraqi...
The mountain fortress of Rabana-Merquly was a major regional centre of the Parthian period (first century BC) in the Zagros Mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan. The iconography of two rock-reliefs that show...
View ArticleCongratulations to Prof. Dr. Kerstin von Lingen!
Warm congratulations to Prof. Dr. Kerstin von Lingen for securing an European Research Council (ERC) grant for her project “Global Resettlement Regimes”! Kerstin von Lingen was a member of Cluster of...
View Article"Urban Heritage Mining" International Summer School in Nepal
The research project "Heritage as Placemaking: The Politics of Solidarity and Erasure in South Asia" is organising an International Summer School on "Urban Heritage Mining" in collaboration with the...
View ArticleAmelia Bonea wins Inaugural Mercurians Prize
Dr. Amelia Bonea was the inaugural winner of the Mercurians Prize of the Society for the History of Technology. She was awarded the prize for her peer-reviewed paper: “‘Contagion by Telephone’: Print...
View ArticleTakahiro Yamamoto awarded research grant by the Japan Science and Technology...
Dr. Takahiro Yamamoto, assistant professor of Cultural Economic History at the HCTS, was awarded a PRESTO research grant by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). During this time, he will work...
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