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Meeting of South Asian Alumni
Former and current scholars from the Cluster and from Heidelberg University in South Asia will come together for an inaugural Alumni meeting. The event will be held at the end of March in New Delhi, India.
New Book on Historical Disasters
Prof. Gerrit Jasper Schenk is one of the editors of the new book “Historical Disasters in Context.” The book takes a close look on the ways past societies dealt with threatening environments, how they transformed through such disaster experiences, and how they processed and communicated these experiences.
Three Cluster Members take up New Positions
The careers of three members of research project B12 "Rethinking Trends" have taken new turns: Jennifer Altehenger, Lena Henningsen, and Petra Thiel were appointed to positions at different institutions in Germany and the UK.
Conference on Historical Justice in Melbourne
Dr. Kerstin von Lingen and PhD Candidate Lisette Schouten from the Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies gave a talk at the first conference on Historical Justice and Memory. They spoke on Thursday, 16th February, in Melbourne, Australia.
Conference "Imaging Disaster"
Representation and perception of disasters in different cultures is the topic of the conference "Imaging Disaster" organised by research project D17 "Images of Disaster". It will be held from March 1-3, 2012, at Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg (IWH).
Call for Panels: Annual Conference 2012
The organisers of the Annual Conference invite scholars to submit panel proposals. The theme of this year's conference is "Things that connect – pathways of materiality and practice". The conference will take place from October 10-12 in Heidelberg, and is being organised by Research Area D "Historicities & Heritage".
Call for Applications: Summer School 2012
The Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" welcomes applications for its Summer School "Seeing Matter(s): Materiality and Visuality" to take place at the Karl Jaspers Centre from Sunday, July 29, to Saturday, August 4, 2012.
TV Interview with Susan Richter
Dr. Susan Richter, Junior Research Group Leader, has been interviewed about her book "Thronverzicht". The Interview has been broadcasted on TV in Germany (RTL) and Switzerland (SF1).
Cooperation with Jawaharlal Nehru University
The Cluster "Asia and Europe" cooperates with various institutions around the globe, for instance the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India.
Film with Deepali Gaur Singh on Afghan Diaspora
Dr. Deepali Gaur Singh and her research work are introduced in this film portrait. The researcher and media practitioner focuses on the Afghan diaspora in Germany.
Valentine's Day
"Valentine's Day greeting cards in urban India" is the title of an article by Prof. Christiane Brosius on the website Tasveer Ghar.
Careers Service
Funding and career opportunities for young researchers.
Gender and Diversity
Newsletter by the Equal Opportunities Office (PDF, German)
E-Journal
Peer-reviewed, open-source e-journal on Transcultural Studies
Cluster Book Series
"Transcultural Turbulences" was edited by Prof. Christiane Brosius and PD Dr. Roland Wenzlhuemer.
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Transcultural Studies
The first volume of the new book series was edited by project D1 "Historicizing Violence".
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Reports, Interviews & Films
Find reports, interviews and films on our new Page 2.
eZine
Find more eZines (PDF, 3 MB)
in the press area
DFG Cluster Portrait
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Cluster introduction on the DFG Video Portal on the Excellence Initiative.
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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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.
A1 Citizenship as conceptual flow: Asia in a comparative perspective
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.
Research Area C: Health & Environment
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.
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C1 Medical Systems in Transition: The Case of the Ancient Near East
C2 Large Dams: Contested Environments between Hydro-Power and Resistance
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.
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.
Upcoming Events
Summer School 2012 "Seeing Matter(s): Materiality and Visuality"
Keynote Lecture: "From Kitsch to Cool: The Geisha Apprentice in Japanese Visual Culture"
Annual Conference 2012 "Things that connect - pathways of materiality and practice"
Selected Books
- Feb 20, 2012
- Jan 17, 2012
- Sep 26, 2011
- Sep 26, 2011
- Sep 22, 2011
Selected Articles
- Feb 22, 2012
- Dec 20, 2011
- Dec 06, 2011
- Nov 22, 2011
- Nov 08, 2011
Selected Films
- Dec 23, 2011
- Nov 02, 2011
- Nov 01, 2011
- Oct 13, 2011
- Jun 03, 2011
supported by the German Research Foundation
