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New Call for Application: Transcultural Forays
The Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies is calling for application for its program “Transcultural Forays”. After the first call in spring, it again encourages researchers in an early career stage to apply for the start-up grants and begin their own transcultural project at the HCTS.
New publication by Kerstin von Lingen on war crime trials
PD Dr. Kerstin von Lingen, Independent Research Group Leader at the Cluster, edited the volume "Debating Collaboration and Complicity in War Crimes Trials in Asia, 1945-1956", published by Palgrave Macmillan in August 2017. It reflects, in particular, the results of an international symposium entitled "Rethinking Justice? Decolonization, Cold War, and Asian War Crimes Trials after 1945", which was held in Heidelberg in October 2014.
Cluster's Open Access Book Series in HTML
The second volume in the open access book series "Heidelberg Studies in Transculturality" is called "The Transformative Power of the Copy - A Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Approach" and was edited by former Cluster members Prof. Philipp W. Stockhammer and Dr. Corinna Forberg. It is equipped with an interactive HTML version and was recently published on the homepage of Heidelberg University Publishing (HeiUP).
New Issue of Journal “Material Religion”
The latest issue of the peer-reviewed journal “Material Religion - The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief” contains a themed section on cultural heritage in the wake of the Nepal earthquake in 2015. The section was compiled and edited by Prof. Christiane Brosius and includes articles by members of the Cluster “Asia and Europe”, who participated in a panel on Nepal held at the Cluster’s Annual Conference 2016.
Monica Juneja published article “The Body as a Stage”
Prof. Monica Juneja, Chair of Global Art History at the Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies (HCTS), published the article “Beyond Man and Woman. The Body as a Stage” in the latest issue of Heidelberg University's science magazine Ruperto Carola. In her article, Juneja analyzes the differences between painted portraits and texts of men and women from the North Indian Mughal courts.
New books edited by Nikolas Jaspert
Prof. Nikolas Jaspert, designated Director of the Cluster "Asia and Europe", co-edited two new volumes: „Locating Religions. Contact, Diversity, and Translocality“ and „Die Kreuzzugsbewegung im römisch-deutschen Reich (11.-13. Jahrhundert)“. The volumes were published in 2016 and 2017 with Brill.
Cluster held General Meeting
On Thursday afternoon, the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" held its second General Meeting in the summer semester 2017. The meeting took place at the Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies.
International Conference on Migration and Persistence
Prof. Nikolas Jaspert and Prof. Bernd Schneidmüller organized the conference “Migration and Persistence – Medieval Discourses”. It will take place from July 27-29 at the Universitätsbibliothek of Heidelberg University and the Karl Jaspers Center for Transcultural Studies.
Publications
New site offering information on research published by the Cluster and its members.
Latest Newsletter Issue
Short News
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Yale University invited Prof. Harald Fuess as Visiting Professor in East Asian Studies during the fall semester of 2017 to pursue a multi-year tri-continental academic collaboration on Japanese history in a global context. In the third of a series of major international conferences, Prof. Fuess gave a presentation on the Meiji Restoration. The conference "The Meiji Restoration and Its Afterlives: Social Change and the Politics of Commemoration" took place at Yale University on September 14-15.
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From September 13-15, Prof. Monica Juneja participated in the symposium "The Role of Encyclopedic Museums in Complex Political Times" in Dresden. She also gave a presentation there with the title: “What Do We Know when We See? On the Usefulness of the Encyclopedic Museum to Renew Art History" in the panel on Thursday, September 14, at 4 pm. The symposium took place at the Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau and was organized by the Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden.
Media Reports
Haaretz quotes Josef Maran and Philipp Stockhammer.
Neue Südtiroler Tageszeitung interviewed Dr. Kerstin von Lingen.
SWR1 broadcast an interview with Prof. Joachim Quack (at 7:20).
Deutschlandfunk interviewed Dr. Susan Richter.
WDR interviewed Takuma Melber on Pearl Harbor.
Deutschlandfunk broadcast an interview with Prof. Barbara Mittler.
Deutschlandfunk broadcast an interview with Prof. Monica Juneja.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published an article by Axel Michaels.
Donations for Nepal
The South Asia Institute, supported by Cluster/HCTS members, runs "SAI help Nepal" for the earthquake victims.
Research
Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies
The Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies (GPTS) offers a structured PhD programme within the interdisciplinary research environment of the Cluster. The doctoral programme offers (a) an introduction to theories and methodologies of transcultural studies, (b) access to a well-equipped work environment supported by European and Asian institutions, (c) participation in the gathering of textual and nontextual source material, (d) support of PhD projects which are linked to the broad research fields pursued by the Cluster.
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Read more about the Current Graduates and their Projects ...
Research Area A: Governance & Administration
This Research Area deals with the cultural flows through which concepts, institutions and practices that have to do with governance and administration are transferred across cultures locally, regionally, or globally, and are reconfigured in a continuous but non-linear historical process.
All projects in Research Area A
Research Area B: Public Spheres
Central themes of Research Area B are public spheres - as media, events and spaces - that have been and are built by political and cultural flows between Asia and Europe. There are three research foci: a) aspects of mediality, visuality and textuality, b) aspects of public life, events and performance, and c) aspects of public space and urbanity.
All projects in Research Area B ...
Research Area C: Knowledge Systems
Research Area C focuses on the transfer between Asia and Europe of practices concerning, institutions for, ideas about, and perceptions of health and environment. Practice is the privileged point of access in this Research Area because the processes underlying both health and environment are juxtaposed here with the often pressing need to find a working solution.
All projects in Research Area C ...
Research Area D: Historicities & Heritage
This Research Area analyses different concepts of histories as competing interpretations of time and space. Instead of focusing on models of unified universal or world history, it puts the emphasis on the entanglement of multiple historicities with different cultural background through cultural flows in the way in which history, memory, and their trajectory are handled.
All projects in Research Area D
Heidelberg Research Architecture
The Cluster brings together a multicultural, multilingual scholarly community for purposes of research in an interdisciplinary field. Efficient collaboration among the researchers in the analysis of transcultural flows requires an IT infrastructure for data storage and exchange, communication and on-line team-work, and, importantly, for information retrieval and analysis.
