Final Conference „Sexing the City” Completes HERA SINGLE
SINGLE analyses the new cultural geographies of gendered urban space in Delhi and Shanghai, focusing on ‘single’ women across the life-course. The context of neo-liberal urbanisation in India and...
View ArticleNew Book on Exchange and Consumption
In her book “Fabrics of Indianness - The Exchange and Consumption of Clothing in Transnational Guyanese Hindu Communities”, she describes how Guyanese Hindus recreate Indian ethnic identity in...
View ArticleNew book on Sufism in South Asia
In their publication, Deepra Dandekar and Torsten Tschacher look at the study of ideas, practices and institutions in South Asian Islam, commonly identified as ‘Sufism’, and how they relate to politics...
View ArticleAnnual Conference "CityScapes"
The Annaul Conference "CityScapes" of the German House for Research and Innovation (DWIH) in New Delhi takes place from 29 September to 1 October 2016 at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi. One of...
View ArticleNew Book on Rituals by Udo Simon
The monograph aims to investigate rituals as well their denial. Rituals, as universal modes of human action, are always evaluated and criticized. Humans seem to need rituals, but they also reject them....
View ArticleFuess at HeKKSaGOn
Prof. Harald Fuess held the Chair of the Working Group III “Humanities and Social Sciences” at the 5th Japanese-German University Presidents‘ Conference of “Fostering Student Mobility to shape...
View ArticleMittler Acting Director 2016/17
Since October 1, 2016 Prof. Barbara Mittler is succeeding Prof. Joseph Maran in office as Acting Director of the Cluster of Excellence. Prof. Maran, who holds the chair for Pre- and Protohistory at...
View ArticleLena Henningsen Receives Leopoldina Award
The sinologist Dr. Lena Henningsen received the Leopoldina Early Career Award 2016, which is funded by the Commerzbank Foundation and endowed with 30,000 Euros. The National Academy of Sciences...
View ArticleStudent Lectureships at the University of Chicago
After a successful first round in 2011, the University of Chicago and the Cluster of Excellence both agreed to realise an annual awarding of the Heidelberg Prize Lectureships. The two student...
View ArticleNew Book on Rituals by Udo Simon
Dr. Udo Simon, Associate Member and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Cluster, and Prof. Ute Hüsken (Oslo University, Norway) jointly edited the book “The Ambivalence of Denial - Danger and Appeal of...
View ArticleNew Book on Exhibitions of Contemporary Chinese Art
In her book “Die ‘chinesische Avantgarde’ und das Dispositiv der Ausstellung. Konstruktionen chinesischer Gegenwartskunst im Spannungsfeld der Globalisierung”, she analyzes how art from the People’s...
View ArticleKeynote Address by Nayanjot Lahiri
In the speech, which was titled “Heritage at the Intersection of Politics and People – India’s Archaeological Heritage”, Prof. Nayanjot Lahiri looked at the archaeological heritage of India in the...
View ArticleKeynote Address by Sinan Antoon
In recent years, dictatorship and military occupations (or “interference”) have led to the disintegration of the state and the spread of proxy wars in Iraq and Syria. In addition to countless lives and...
View ArticleNew Book on Egyptomania in Early Modern Europe
Based on this masterpiece, crafted in Berlin in 1803, the monograph breaks open the mechanisms and ideas behind the movement of so called “Egyptomania” in early modern Europe. This phenomenon can...
View ArticleKyoto University Awards MATS Exchange Students
Kyoto University awards all five Heidelberg MATS exchange students a JASSO scholarship from the Japanese government for the duration of the 6 months in Kyoto as part of their third semester mobility...
View ArticleLecture on Japanese Bathhouses
On Tuesday, October 18, Christina Pietsch gave a lecture on “Sentô - Japanische Badehäuser im Wandel der Zeit“. In her lecture, she focused on the questions "why are there still about 630 bathhouses in...
View ArticleVisiting scholar Andrew Flachs joins C15
Anthropologist Andrew Flachs joined the Junior Research Group “Agrarian Alternatives” as a Volkswagen postdoctoral fellow. He received a PhD in cultural anthropology from Washington University with a...
View ArticleTalk on Mediatic Forms of Nationalism in Digital India
Her talk charts the digital media practices of young urban Indians in order to analyze new mediatic forms of nationalism that have emerged with the rapid expansion of social media. Taking up online...
View ArticleFilm Screening and Talk on K-Pop
The documentary with the title “Us & Them: Korean Indie Rock in a K-Pop World” will focus on the Korean independent music scene in the context of the global rise of K-pop. The spread of South...
View ArticleBarbara Mittler und Thomas Maissen took part in a discussion on humanities
Prof. Barbara Mittler, Acting Director of the Cluster and Prof. Thomas Maissen, former co-director of the Cluster took part in a discussion focusing on the role of the humanities in the field of...
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