Takuma Melber Advisor to WW2 Book
The book "Erzähl mal: Zweiter Weltkrieg", edited by journalist and historian Frank Schmidt-Wyk, was published by the Vergangenheitsverlag (Berlin). Dr. Takuma Melber cooperated with Schmidt-Wyk and was...
View ArticleMatthias Arnold Publication in Digital Studies
An article by Matthias Arnold, titled "Multilingual Research Projects: Non-Latin Script Challenges for Making Use of Standards, Authority Files, and Character Recognition" has been published by the...
View ArticleWelcome to Rafal Felbur & Wikke Jansen
Rafal Felbur joins Michael Radich and his Buddhist Studies team from the University of Leiden, where he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS). He received his...
View ArticleTakuma Melber moderates Book Launch
Dr. Takuma Melber has been invited to moderate the book launch of ‘Revolusi – Indonesien und die Entstehung der modernen Welt’ (Suhrkamp, Berlin 2022) written by Belgian author David van Reybrouck. In...
View ArticleNew Research Training Group: How Does Enmity Arise?
A new Research Training Group (RTG) “Ambivalent Enmity” has received 6.5 million euros from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a period of five years. It will focus on “Dynamics of Antagonism in...
View ArticleCATS Long Library Night
On Friday, November 18, the CATS-Library opens until 12 am. Starting at 5 pm, a variety of workshops, presentations and lectures (in English) for writing term papers and dissertations will be on offer....
View ArticleCalls for Papers “Cohabitation – Worlding the Sinophonecene and Planetary...
Dr. phil. Franziska Koch, Assistant Professor of Global Art History, and four international emergent scholars in the field of contemporary Chinese Art invite those interested to submit papers for the...
View ArticleNew edited volume on mobility and the Japanese empire by Takahiro Yamamoto
This book tackles the question of border control in and around imperial Japan in the first half of the twentieth century, with a specific focus on its documentation regime. It explores the...
View ArticleSummer School "Urban Heritage Mining" in Kathmandy
Streets, squares, palaces, temples and cafès of the Kathmandu valley have been the sites for a dynamic teaching format which highly engaged the participants with the built and social realities of 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 ArticleWergin member Association for Critical Heritage Studies
At their 2022 Conference in Santiago de Chile, the members of the Association for Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS) voted PD Dr Carsten Wergin, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the HCTS, into...
View ArticleRTG Ambivalent Enmity welcomes applications for Pre- and Post-Doctoral...
Applicants are expected to have an excellent academic record within one of the RTG's participating disciplines and to propose an innovative research project suitable to at least one of the three...
View ArticleProject "Worlding Public Cultures" holds hybrid international conference
All sessions are open and free to the public to attend in person, but registration is required for Day 2. Please find the full program and links for registration here. The WPC 2023 Worlding...
View ArticleDAAD-funded field lab in Delhi: “Un/belonging to and in the city”
In most traditional settlement fabrics, the street has remained the social space of community life for centuries, where the private worlds of families gave way to the public sphere of the community....
View ArticleTarini Bedi returns to the HCTS
As part of these collaborations, in summer 2023, she will be working with Prof. Dr. Brosius on a DAAD funded urban excursion and on planning future project and teaching partnerships between Heidelberg...
View ArticleOnline Symposium on "Cohabitation"
Through their case studies framed in a transcultural perspective, speakers investigated different forms of cohabitation and interspecies relationships as they are reflected in artistic practices and...
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Christiane Brosius has published a short article on the concept of Shared Heritage in the last issue of Athene, the magazine of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. Brosius uses examples from the...
View ArticleFranziska Koch co-edited seventh volume of Miradas
The issue has been initialized in a workshop-cum-seminar with the same name co-taught by Koch and Oesterreich virtually across Heidelberg University as well as Universität der Künste Berlin between 16...
View ArticleMonica Juneja publishes "Can Art History be Made Global?"
The book responds to the challenge of the ‘global turn’ in the humanities from the perspective of art history. While cautioning against the conceptual traps of a facile globalism, it builds on a theory...
View ArticleKnowing and Living (in) the City - Differently!
Over 20 students from participating schools shared a week of field visits, joint fieldwork and discussions with professors, experts and stakeholders of knowledge and experience in and of the city. An...
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