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New Issue of the E-Journal "Transcultural Studies"
The latest issue of the Cluster's E-Journal "Transcultural Studies" continues the exploration of novel interdisciplinary formats. It features five essays, and – for the first time – a "Report from the Field."
ERC Starting Grant for Lena Henningsen
JunProf. Lena Henningsen, who is a former member of the Cluster "Asia and Europe", was chosen to receive funding from one of the most significant European sources of support for junior researchers. The European Research Council (ERC) will support her project “The Politics of Reading in the People’s Republic of China (READCHINA)” with an ERC Starting Grant of nearly 1.5 million Euro.
Next Generation Global Workshop in Kyoto
From September 28 to 29, the 10th Next Generation Global Workshop (NGGW) took place at the Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University. Under the title "Delineating Borders in a Borderless World", the workshop was organized by the Kyoto University Asian Studies Unit and featured presentations and workshops by several Cluster members.
New Book by Susan Richter
The volume is called "Konstruktionen Europas in der frühen Neuzeit" and was edited by Cluster member Prof. Susan Richter, former Cluster member Sebastian Meurer and Michael Roth. It was recently published on the homepage of Heidelberg University Publishing, where it is available for download.
Sumathi Ramaswamy organizes conference at Duke
From September 29-30, the interdisciplinary arts and media conference “China Rising? India Shining? – The Art of Comparison” will take place at Duke University, USA. It is organized by Sumathi Ramaswamy and features talks by several Cluster members.
Christiane Brosius and Nikolas Jaspert coordinate “Transcultural Studies”
Profs. Christiane Brosius and Nicolas Jaspert were appointed as the new coordinators of the project "Transcultural Studies", which is part of the Excellence Initiative. They will supervise the project, which consists of two Junior Research Groups. Their appointment is a significant step towards a conceptual conjunction with the Cluster "Asia and Europe in a Global Context".
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.
Publications
New site offering information on research published by the Cluster and its members.
Latest Newsletter Issue
Short News
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Julia Poerting, PhD student in the Junior Research Group C15 "Agrarian Alternatives", has accepted a position as research associate at the department of geography at the University of Bonn. She is part of the research groups of Prof. Dr. Nadine Marquardt (Social Geography) and Prof. Dr. Julia Verne (Development Geography). She took up the new position in August 2017
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Amelia Bonea, former member of the Cluster "Asia and Europe" was awarded the 2017 Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize in the History of Journalism by the American Historical Association. The prize is dedicated to her book “The News of Empire: Telegraphy, Journalism, and the Politics of Reporting in Colonial India, c. 1830–1900”. The book is based on her PhD thesis, which she worked on at the Cluster as part of Junior Research Group B9 "Information Flows". The prize will be awarded at the Association's 132nd annual meeting in Washington, DC in January 2018.
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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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.
