Farewell lecture by Axel Michaels
The ceremony was opened with a laudation by the President of Heidelberg University, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Eitel, and the Executive Director of the South Asia Institute (SAI), Prof. Dr. Stefan Klonner, who...
View ArticleHERA Funding for Joachim Kurtz
The birth of philosophy in ancient Greece, the fall of the Roman Empire, the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions, the Enlightenment, the Holocaust: such emblematic...
View ArticleCluster held General Meeting
Acting Director Prof. Joseph Maran headed the meeting and welcomed the Cluster members. He first reported about the latest awards and appointments, among which were various prestigeous prices,...
View ArticleCall for Papers: “Picturesque Modernities”
In the last twenty years, architectural historiography approached regionalism as a pan-European movement between 1890 and 1950 as a flipside of the International Modern Movement with its rationalist...
View ArticleAnnual Conference Online Registration open
The conference will address some of the urgent questions that surround heritage as a political and cultural issue at a historical juncture when the idea of culture is being drawn into a field of...
View ArticleNew Issue of the E-Journal “Transcultural Studies”
The present issue offers several new thematic and methodological foci. Although focusing on different places as Berlin and the border region between India, Tibet, and the eastern Himalayas, the...
View ArticleMaria Roemer attends conference in Vienna
“Maria Roemer, Ph.D. Candidate with the Graduate Program for Transcultural Studies, participated in the 21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association from July 21st – 27th...
View ArticleGengnagel and Lazzaretti take part at Conference in Warsaw
Jörg Gengnagel and Vera Lazzaretti (Milano) attended the 24th European Conference on South Asian Studies on 27 - 30 July, 2016 at the University of Warsaw. They participated in the panel "Spatial and...
View ArticleGengnagel and Lazzaretti participated at Conference in Warsaw
Jörg Gengnagel and Vera Lazzaretti (Milano) attended the 24th European Conference on South Asian Studies on 27 - 30 July, 2016 at the University of Warsaw. They participated in the panel "Spatial and...
View ArticlePrakruti Ramesh, doctoral student from Aarhus University, Denmark is a...
Prakruti Ramesh is a doctoral student affiliated to the program in Anthropology, International Area Studies and the Study of Religion in Aarhus University, Denmark. She is a visitor to Heidelberg...
View ArticleNew HyperImage Project on Pilgrimage Scroll
“A Pilgrimage Scroll (tīrthapaṭṭa) from Rajasthan: Visual Journeys and Confluences of Devotion at the three Cities of Gayā, Kāśī and Prayāg” is the topic of a new research project launched in early...
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The database “Early Chinese Periodicals Online” (ECPO) assembles several important digital collections of the early Chinese press and makes them available to scholarly communities around the world. It...
View ArticleNew Book “Authenticity in Architectural Heritage Conservation”
The book contributes to a recontextualization of authenticity by investigating how this value is created, reenacted, and assigned. Over the course of the last century, authenticity figured as the major...
View ArticleNew Book on Liberty
In the new publication “What is Liberty? An historical approach” (Was ist Freiheit? Eine historische Perspektive), the authors the concept of “liberty” and its essential role in identity formation in...
View ArticleMax Stille received an EASAS Research Student Award
Max Stille received an EASAS Research Student Award for his paper, entitled "Communities of Code-switching Connoisseurs: Multilingualism in Islamic sermons in Bangladesh", which he submitted and...
View ArticleExchange Programme “New Directions in Active Ageing”
In recent years, the issue of ageing has been discussed widely. Alongside rapid urbanization and climate change, many consider it to be one of the most fundamental problems of this century. This...
View ArticleMonica Juneja Holds Keynote Lecture in Bern
Prof. Monica Juneja will deliver the first keynote address at the Summer School of the Walter Benjamin Kolleg (University of Bern) on „Border Regimes – Confrontations, Configurations and...
View ArticleNew Publications on Islam in China
In “Muslim Sanzijing, Shifts and Continuities in the Definition of Islam in China (1710-2010)”, Roberta Tontini traces the development of Islam and Islamic law in the country, while responding to two...
View ArticleLea Stepan will present at SIEF 21th International Ethnological Food Research...
Lea Stepan will present at SIEF 21th International Ethnological Food Research Conference on "Places of Food Production. Origin, Identity, Imagination", 31. August - 2. September 2016 at the Institute...
View ArticleHumboldt Foundation awarded Sumathi Ramaswamy
Prof. Ramaswamy will be involved in the HCTS and the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at Heidelberg University. The cultural historian will collaborate with the Chairs of...
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