Barbara Mittler on “Chinese Music”
On October 26, Prof. Barbara Mittler will give a talk named “Ex Oriente Lux? China und die Macht der Musik – von Yao bis Mao”. In the talk, Prof. Mittler will question how and when is music...
View ArticleCluster Held General Meeting
Acting Director Prof. Barbara Mittler headed the meeting and welcomed the Cluster members. She first reported about the latest awards and appointments and publications and then passed the word over to...
View ArticleInternational Workshop on Maritime Literary Cultures
The sea has seen a recent resurgence in scholarly interest across history and literary studies, in part spurred by a desire to understand the processes and effects of globalisation in its historical...
View ArticleTwo Lecture Series on Environmental Humanities and Global History
In cooperation with History Department, the Cluster is organising a lecture series “Global History Lecture Series” (Vortragsreihe zur Globalgeschichte). With different research prospectives, five...
View ArticleInternational Conference on Temporality
An international conference focusing on temporality in the social sciences and humanities organized by Prof. Barbara Mittler, Acting Director of the Cluster "Asia and Europe", will take place over two...
View ArticleAndrew Flachs joins Agrarian Alternatives
From September 1, 2016 to May 31, 2017, Dr. Andrew Flachs joins JRG “Agrarian Alternatives” as a Volkswagen postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Flachs received a PhD in anthropology from Washington University...
View ArticleInterships at United Nations Office in Geneva
Two internships at the United Nations Office in Geneva are open for graduate students specializing in a field related to the work of the United Nations. They are intended to provide a better...
View ArticleConcluding Conference “Order Into Action”
In recent years, research on premodern systems of world order, like concepts and practices and the categories they employed, has considerably intensified: numerous enlightening studies focus on the...
View Article“The Cinema Travellers” Won Three Awards
The film first won the Grand Jury Award at the New Hampshire Film Festival, which took place from October 13 to 16. And on October 27, at this year’s Mumbai Film Festival, the documentary took home two...
View ArticleJour Fixe by Ivo Smits: Emblem as Episteme
Histories of early modern Japan (1600-1868) that deal with Japan’s contact with the rest of the world will mention that one result of the contact with the Netherlands was the creation of the Japanese...
View ArticleInternational Conference on Architectural Regionalism
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 ArticleGraduate Seminar in Kyoto
“The Kyoto Graduate Seminar 2016 on Economic Development and Sustainability Studies” will be held in Kyoto from 9th to 16th December. Consisted of lectures, fieldtrips and group works, the event will...
View ArticleNew Book on War Crimes Trials in Asia
This book investigates the political context and intentions behind the trialling of Japanese war criminals in the wake of World War Two. After the Second World War in Asia, the victorious Allies placed...
View ArticleFourth Heidelberg-Kyoto Graduate Student Workshop
On December 2, a group of students from Kyoto University in Japan will join the students of M.A. Transcultural Studies in the workshop “Global Economy in Europe and Asia: Past and Present”, where...
View ArticleBarbara Mittler at Studium Generale
On November 28, Prof. Barbara Mittler will give a talk on "Das Bild in meinem Auge. Die Genese des "chinesischen Traums" - China und Europa im langen 20. Jahrhundert". In this talk, Prof. Mittler will...
View ArticleThurst into heaven
On November 29, at 7 pm, Cluster member Dr. Jürgen Schaflechner will screen his film "Thrust Into Heaven" at the Karlstor cinema. It deals with the highly complex issue of alleged forced conversion and...
View ArticleFilm Documentation “Pearl Harbor”
December 7, 2016 is the 75th anniversary of Japan’s torpedo bomber attacks on Pearl Harbor. The historical event led to the USA entering the Second World War, and ultimately to the defeat of Japan and...
View ArticleSymbosium by Leopoldina
Prof. Barbara Mittler is Scientific Coordinator of the symposium “Eindrückliche Menschenbilder – Geschlecht, Beziehung und ihre (Be)Deutungen”. The symposium brings together renowned scholars in...
View ArticleClosing Ceremony of MATS and GPTS 2016
The ceremony started with welcoming remarks by Acting Director Prof. Barbara Mittler, who congratulated the students on their hard work and achievements during their time at the Cluster “Asia and...
View ArticleEliane Ettmüller gives speech about Abou Naddara
Dr. Eliane Ettmüller, Alumna and Associate Member of the Cluster "Asia and Europe", will give a speech on "L’exil du patriote Abou Naddara et l’origine de la presse satirique illustrée arabe à Paris"...
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