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A fascinating range of lectures at the Summer School
A fascinating range of lectures and seminars on "Knowledge on the Move" is currently being given at the Summer School 2010. The presentation of all the many different perspectives and positions has resulted in fruitful discussions among the participants.
Cluster holds General Meeting
On Thursday afternoon, the Cluster "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" held its General Meeting at the Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies.
Panel discussion: "Contemporary art in Asia and Europe"
Research project D13 "Multi-Centred Modernisms", coordinated by Cluster Professor Monica Juneja, organised a public panel discussion on global entanglements in the arts at the German-American Institute ("DAI") on Monday.
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DFG Cluster Portrait
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Cluster introduction on the DFG Video Portal on the Excellence Initiative.
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
"Lock’n’Loll Is Here To Stay": Stereotyping, Domesticating, and Inventing Popular Musics in/of Asia
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