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New book by Jennifer Altehenger

Former Cluster member Dr. Jennifer Altehenger has published her monograph “Legal Lessons. Popularizing Laws in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1989” with Harvard University Press. Focusing on the history of law in socialist China, the book traces the dissemination of legal knowledge at different levels of state and society.
CfA: Master Programme in Transcultural Studies

The HCTS calls for applications for its Master Programme in Transcultural Studies for the winter semester 2019/2020. Across disciplines and national borders, students from around the globe can explore the dynamics of cultural exchanges. The emphasis lies on Asian, predominantly East and South Asian, and European cultures.
HCTS members featured in podcast “15past15”

Several current and former members of the Cluster “Asia and Europe" and the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies are featured in the new podcast series “15past15”. It is hosted by the University of Zurich’s Digital History Lab and was made possible by the HERA grant for the project “East Asian Uses of the Past.”
CfP: Transcultural Studies Student Conference 2019

The Cluster’s Student Association calls for papers for its conference “Voices of Dissent: Transculturality and Activism.” The conference is designed for Master and PhD students who are performing research that employs or is related to transcultural theory and aims at creating a next generation of discourse in all relevant fields.
New article on "Mapping Continents, Inhabited Quarters and The Four Seas"

Prof. Klaus Oschema and Dr. Christoph Mauntel, former associate members of the Cluster “Asia and Europe”, published an article in the Journal of Transcultural Medieval Studies. They co-edited the paper “Mapping Continents, Inhabited Quarters and The Four Seas” with Dr. Martin Hofmann, assistant professor of Intellectual History at the HCTS, and Jean-Charles Ducène.
New book on religious aesthetics by former Cluster members

The book "Religion and Aesthetic Experience: Drama – Sermons – Literature" was co-edited by Sabine Dorpmüller, Jan Scholz, Max Stille, and Ines Weinrich. It explores the links between transculturality and religious aesthetics and was published with the series Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality in Heidelberg University’s publishing branch, heiUP.
New issue of "The Journal of Transcultural Studies" online

The latest (double) issue of the Cluster's e-journal, "The Journal of Transcultural Studies", continues the exploration of novel interdisciplinary formats. It features five essays, which focus on local activity as well as on complex networks and linkages between states as inextricably linked to transcultural exchanges.
New Scholarships in HCTS Graduate Programme

The Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies (GPTS) at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) at Heidelberg University welcomes applications for up to four doctoral scholarships beginning in the winter semester 2019/20. The scholarships amount to 1200,- EUR per month for a period of three years.
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Prof. Barbara Mittler, co-director of the HCTS, and Prof. Thomas Maissen, former director of the Cluster "Asia and Europe," wrote a piece about their book "Why China did not have a Renaissance – and why that matters" for the De Gruyter blog "Conversations." Mittler focuses on the New Culture Movement in China in "Toward a History-In-Common," and Thomas Maissen presents his thoughts about history in context in "Why we should spell Renaissance with a capital R." Their book was published in June 2018 within the series "Critical readings in Global Intellectual History".
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Dr. Daniel Münster, associate member of the HCTS and former Junior Research Group Leader at the Cluster of Excellence, has completed his habilitation at the Faculty of Behavioral and Cultural Studies and has received the venia legendi in Social and Cultural Anthropology (Ethnologie). His habilitation is based on a monograph with the title "Cultivating Hope: Settlers, Suicides and Symbiosis at the Agrarian Frontier in South India". He is currently a visiting researcher at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Language (IKOS), University of Oslo, Norway. From April to September 2019 he will be visiting professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne.
Media Reports
https://www.swr.de/swr4/bw/-/id=233374/mqfgxh/index.htmlSWR4 interviewed Prof. Christiane Brosius about her Nepal project.
Deutschlandfunk interviewed Prof. Barbara Mittler for "Tag für Tag."
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published an article by Prof. Christiane Brosius.
SWR2 featured Prof. Joseph Maran in radio report.
SWR1 broadcasted an interview with Prof. Joachim Quack (at 7:20).
Deutschlandfunk interviewed Dr. Susan Richter.
WDR interviewed Takuma Melber on Pearl Harbor.
Deutschlandfunk broadcasted an interview with Prof. Monica Juneja.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published an article by Axel Michaels.
Nächste Termine
Workshop: "Engaging Translations and Circulations Across Asia and Europe"
Conference: "Local Knowledge and Global Problems: a transcultural approach"
Conference: 8. Forum Ostasiatische Kunstgeschichte im Deutschsprachigen Raum