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Nepal Heritage Documentation Project launches DANAM

The Nepal Heritage Documentation Project (NHDP) at the HCTS recently launched DANAM, the Digital Archive of Nepalese Arts and Monuments, with the aim of documenting the endangered cultural heritage of Nepal. Its datasets include monument descriptions, their history and iconography, architectural drawings, site plans and photographic documentation.

Dr. Lorenzo Andolfatto, postdoctoral researcher at the HCTS, recently published his book “Hundred Days’ Literature: Chinese Utopian Fiction at the End of Empire, 1902–1910” with Brill. The volume, published in the series “East Asian Comparative Literature and Culture,” addresses the literary landscape of late imperial China via the notion of utopia.

From April 28, 2019 to June 10, 2019, the Völkerkundemuseum VPST Heidelberg will host the exhibition “Envisioning Asia: Gandhi and Mao in the Photographs of Walter Bosshard”. The project is the result of a joint collaboration between the Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) of Heidelberg University, the Völkerkundemuseum VPST, the Swiss Foundation for Photography, and the Critical Collective.

The volume “Engaging Transculturality: Concepts, Key Terms, Case Studies” was recently co-edited by associate members and Cluster members Dr. Laila Abu-Er-Rub, Prof. Christiane Brosius, Dr. Sebastian Meurer, Prof. Diamantis Panagiotopoulos, and Prof. Susan Richter. The book illustrates the thematic and disciplinary diversity underlying the research triggered by the Cluster "Asia and Europe"

The Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies calls for panel proposals for its conference "New Directions in Transcultural Studies," which will take place on October 31, 2019. The conference will mark the completion of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" and its transition into the Heidelberg Centre of Transcultural Studies.

The Double Doctoral Degree Program in Asian and Transcultural Studies, which was established between the Faculty of Philosophy at Heidelberg University and the Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in 2018, welcomes applications for doctoral fellowships again.

The Nepal Heritage Documentation Project, based at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, is one of the cooperation partners to host the opening of the Nepal Research Bhavan in Kathmandu. The event comprises a reception, the vernissage of the exhibition "Opposite Dreams" and kicks off a two day conference.

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.

The new issue The Journal of Transcultural Studies 2018/1-2 is available.

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During the winter semester 2019-2020, Professor Shigeru Akita from Osaka University will teach a class on Global History in the M.A. Transcultural Studies at the HCTS. For his three-months teaching project, Prof. Akita has been granted a TIFO Visiting Professorship by the Toshiba International Foundation (TIFO). Osaka University is one of Heidelberg University´s HeKKSaGOn partners.
Ms Charlotte Schaefer has been offered a on-year Japan Foundation dissertation fellowship to conduct further fieldwork at Kyoto University. She has already begun fieldwork in Tokyo supported by a fellowship from the German Institute of Japanese Studies in Tokyo, which is part of the Max Weber Stiftung: Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland. Ms Schaefer explores autism and disability in the Japanese workplace for her dissertation under the supervision of HCTS Professor Harald Fuess.

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Media Reports

Prof. Barbara Mittler and Prof. Axel Michaels wrote an article about CATS for the IIAS newsletter.

SWR4 interviewed Prof. Christiane Brosius about her Nepal Heritage Documentation Project (NHDP).

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.

WDR interviewed Takuma Melber on Pearl Harbor.

Deutschlandfunk broadcasted an interview with Prof. Monica Juneja.

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Research

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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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