French Revolutionaries in the Ottoman Empire
The monograph “French Revolutionaries in the Ottoman Empire: Diplomacy, Political Culture, and the Limiting of Universal Revolution, 1792–1798” examines the political and cultural impact of the French...
View ArticleYip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture by Barbara Mittler
On March 15, 2017, at 5 pm, Prof. Barbara Mittler will hold the 2017 Annual Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture at the Auditorium of the Asian Centre at the University of British Columbia. In her lecture...
View ArticleFuess Receives Grant for Korean Studies
Prof. Harald Fuess received a total of 140.000 Euro external grants to further develop Korean Studies at Heidelberg University. The Korea Foundation, the Academy of Korean Studies and the German...
View ArticleAnna Andreeva receives Research Grant by DFG
Dr. Anna Andreeva, an associate in research at the Cluster “Asia and Europe” received a new three-year grant by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Her new project is entitled Buddhism, Medicine, and...
View ArticleGuest Lecture by Michael Falser
PD Dr. Michael Falser is invited to give a lecture at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University (CSESAS) with the title “Angkor Wat: From Jungle Find to Global Icon. A Transcultural...
View ArticleHarald Fuess gives Keynote Lecture in Venice
Prof. Harald Fuess was invited to give a keynote address on “Cholera, Extraterritoriality and Free Trade in Meiji Japan.”. The speech will take place on March 20 at the Department of Asian and African...
View ArticleDAAD-JSPS Funding for Harald Fuess
The project focuses on Japan's and Germany's emergence as newly formed nation-states in the late nineteenth century. Uncertain political identities were then covered-up by a rhetoric of grand...
View ArticleStudents Visual Essays on Cultures of Photography
The publication is a result of the interdisciplinary seminar “Cultures of Photography. (Post)colonial Archives and Photography in Africa and South Asia” which took place during the summer semester of...
View ArticleFuess establishes joint PhD Programme with Ca’ Foscari University
Prof. Harald Fuess established a Joint PhD training program in Asian and Transcultural Studies with the Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, which is the foremost research center of East and South Asian...
View ArticleSijia Chen receives Scholarship by the MPI
Sijia Chen, Graduate Student at the Cluster “Asia and Europe”, received a 6-month residential scholarship to join the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, from September 1, 2017...
View ArticleNew Book on Post-Earthquake Nepal
"Breaking Views. Engaging Art in Post-Earthquake Nepal" asks the question how artists look at their lifeworld after a catastrophe such as the earthquake in Nepal 2015. What does art mean in this...
View ArticleFrederica Lume Pereira recieves doctoral degree funding
Federica Lume Pereira, PhD Candidate in the Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies and member of MC 8.2, received a funding support for the completion of her doctoral degree from the Graduate...
View ArticleHarald Fuess initiates TIFO Visiting Professorship
Prof. Harald Fuess initiated the TIFO Visiting Professorship in Transcultural Japanese Studies at the Heidelberg Center of Transcultural Studies and the Center of East Asian Studies. The Toshiba...
View ArticleAxel Michaels Acting Director 2017
Since April 1, 2017, Prof. Axel Michaels succeeds Prof. Barbara Mittler in office as Acting Director of the Cluster of Excellence. Prof. Axel Michaels is Senior Professor and former Director of the...
View ArticleSusann Liebich Resident Fellow in Wellington
Susann Liebich is currently a Resident Fellow at the Stout Centre for New Zealand Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington. She is in Wellington for three months to undertake archival research...
View ArticleNew Initiative “Manly Matters” in “Tasveer Ghar”
Within the network “Tasveer Ghar”, the initiative “Manly Matters” sets its focus on representations of maleness, since little or no attention has been paid to masculinity as problematic or presence....
View ArticleNew Issue of the E-Journal "Transcultural Studies"
The individual essays follow the global linkages that shaped the literary and artistic worlds of Taishō era Japan and sustained the proliferation of street art in post-“Arab Spring” Egypt and therefore...
View ArticleFuess held Lecture at Kyoto University
Prof. Harald Fuess held a lecture within the lecture series “Japanese History in a Global Context: Endemic Violence, Global Arms Trade and the Meiji Restoration” at Kyoto University on April 19. In his...
View ArticleSusan Liebich co-edited Issue of "Transfers"
In the seventh issue of the journal “Transfers: International Journal of Mobility Studies” the contributors explore the way, in which print culture was part of the practices, experiences, mediations...
View ArticleFollow-up to Annual Conference 2016
On Monday, April 24, the Cluster "Asia and Europe" reconvened with the Forum Transregionale Studien, the Max Weber Stiftung and the German Archeological Institute in Berlin for a follow-up of the...
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