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Awards for transcultural architecture project
On February 5, 2010, the transcultural project "Ziegel - der Turm zu Bhaktapur in Nepal" ("Bricks - the Tower of Bhaktapur in Nepal") will receive a special award granted by the industry association "Ziegel Zentrum Süd". The project is coordinated by Cluster member Prof. Dr. Ing. Niels Gutschow and Prof. Wolfgang Rang (FH Frankfurt) and has already been awarded by "Deutscher Designer Club" (German Designers' Club) recently.
NZZ am Sonntag: "Helvetische Kosmopolitin"
"Is the academic system able to overcome the Europe and nation centric perspective?", Prof. Dr. Madeleine Herren-Oesch enquires in a recent article in Neue Zürcher Zeitung am Sonntag.
The challenges we are facing today are of global nature. Yet, the Humanities still attempt to analyse the global sphere by means of national categories.
Read here, how the Cluster "Asia and Europe" strikes new paths in developing new structures and concepts to meet the global challenge (pdf, 252 KB) ...
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.
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Upcoming Events
Parcours Exhibition by Project B16: "Becoming Intense, Becoming Animal, Becoming ..."
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach: The Role of Natural Law in Gandhi’s Social Utopia
Workshop by Research Project B4: "Icons: Spectacle and Affect"
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