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Winter semester 19/20: Lecture series "Ambivalent Enmity"

The Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) is cooperating with the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg in the winter semester 2019/20 for the lecture series "Ambivalent Enmity," which takes place on Thursdays at 6 pm at the Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies.

The Cluster mourns Professor Rudolf G. Wagner, who passed away on October 25, 2019 at the age of 77. Rudolf G. Wagner taught and conducted research as the professor of Sinology at the Center for East Asian Studies at Heidelberg University, and was co-initiator behind the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context."

Prof. Barbara Mittler is co-editor of “China and the World – the World and China: A Transcultural Perspective,” a recently published collection of four volumes of essays in honor of Prof. Rudolf G. Wagner, former director of the Cluster “Asia and Europe.” Several HCTS members figure among the contributors.

Dr. Cathrine Bublatzky published her ethnographic study “Along the Indian Highway,” which is based on a travelling exhibition of Indian contemporary art. Entrenched in the field of global and transcultural studies, the book is part of Routledge series “Visual and Media Histories” edited by HCTS Prof. Monica Juneja.

The closing conference of the Cluster "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" will take place on October 31, 2019. This final conference, titled "New Directions in Transcultural Studies," will mark the completion of the Cluster and its transition into the Heidelberg Centre of Transcultural Studies.

The student workshop "Ageing in the City" took place in the context of the project "New Directions in 'Active Ageing'" from September 27-30 at the School of Planning and Architecture in Delhi. It was organized by Prof. Christiane Brosius, the HCTS professor of Visual and Media Anthropology and architect and urban designer Prof. Arunava Dasgupta from the SPA.

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On Friday, October 18, German Ambassador Roland Schäfer and Cultural Attachée Paula Werner visited the Kathmandu Branch Office of the South Asia Institute – the Nepal Research Bhawan. In the course of the visit, which was meant to inform the delegation about ongoing projects, Christiane Brosius, the HCTS professor of Visual and Media Anthropology, presented the “Nepal Heritage Documentation Project,” located at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, and acquainted the Ambassador with DANAM, the “Digital Archive of Nepalese Arts and Monuments.” Former Cluster director Prof. Axel Michaels informed the Ambassador about the working procedure and the results “Documents on the History of Religion and Law of pre-modern Nepal,” a project at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.