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International Workshop at the Cluster
On Thursday, June 29, the workshop “Open Access? The city as laboratory, studio, archive” will take place at the Karl Jaspers Center. It is organized by the Chair of Visual and Media Antropology in cooperation with the School of Planning and Architecture in Delhi, the Department of Art and Design at Kathmandu University and the Forum Urban Spaces.
Jour Fixe by Prof. Harish Naraindas
On Thursday, June 29 from 4-6 pm, Prof. Harish Naraindas from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, will give a talk at the Cluster’s Jour Fixe. His lecture is entitled “Is Medical Tourism Transcultural Hypogamy?”.
“OUT OF SPACE?” co-organized by Christiane Brosius
The symposium “OUT OF SPACE?” from June 21-22 will provide an innovative format of ‘think-spaces’ to investigate locations that allow the emergence of new cultural practices and how those practices constitute locations.
Joseph Maran gave Ventris Memorial Lecture
Prof. Joseph Maran, Director of the Cluster “Asia and Europe”, gave the “Michael Ventris Memorial Lecture” at the University of London on May 17. It focused on “Tiryns-From the Rise of Its Palace to the Post-Palatial Resurgence”.
New Book by Susan Richter
Cluster member Susan Richter, co-edited the volume “Herrschaft und Glaubenswechsel. Die Fürstenreformation im Reich und in Europa in 28 Biographien“. In reference to the „Lutherjahr“ 2017, the book was published by Universitätsverlag Winter in Heidelberg.
Awards for Svenja Nagel
Dr. Svenja Nagel, former Ph.D. student and Associate Member of the Cluster “Asia and Europe”, received the Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise as well as the Heidelbgerg Academy of Sciences and Humanities’ Academy-Prize. She was honored for her dissertation on the spread of the Isis cult in the Roman Empire.
New Book on Pashupati Area by Axel Michaels
Prof. Axel Michaels, Acting Director of the Cluster "Asia and Europe", and Dr. Govinda Tandon published a book titled "Paśupatikṣetra – A Historical Inventory" with Himal Books. The volume is a revised version of the supplement to Axel Michaels’ book "Die Reisen der Götter: Der nepalische Pashupatinatha-Tempel und sein rituelles Umfeld" published in 1994.
Workshop on Labor and Citizenship in the 20th Century
On Friday, April 14, 2017, several scholars from the Cluster “Asia and Europe” and further institutes of Heidelberg University participated in the workshop entitled “Labor and Citizenship in the Twentieth Century”, which took place at Kyoto University.
Publications
New site offering information on research published by the Cluster and its members.
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On Wednesday, June 28, Prof. Monica Juneja, Chair of Global Art History at the Heidelberg Center of Transcultural Studies, will participate in the Dialoge of Civilization Anniversary Event in Berlin. The Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute celebrates its opening in 2016 at its Anniversary Summerfest with a roundtable discussion on the subject of “Protecting our Cultural Heritage“.“Prof. Juneja, who will be part of the roundtable, will introduce the topic “The importance of the Humanities in preserving heritage”.
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Dr. Kerstin von Lingen, Junior Research Group Leader at the Cluster “Asia and Europe”, won a spot in the prestigious “Research Hub for German Studies” program at the University of Cambridge. After her successful nomination for the program, she will now work with Dr. Barak Kushner from the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge on the project “Germany as a role model? Contested memory politics after the Second World War in Japan and Germany” until the end of July 2017. In their project, von Lingen and Kushner will examine the development of transcultural values in terms of memory politics after the end of the Cold War in Germany and Japan.
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.
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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
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
Global Histories of Natural Resources (Third International Research Award in Global History)