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New book co-edited by Barbara Mittler
Prof. Barbara Mittler, co-director of the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, edited the book "Women and the Periodical Press in China's Long Twentieth Century. A Space of their Own?" with Prof. Michael Hockx and Prof. Joan Judge. It was published with Cambridge University Press in May 2018 .
HCTS Interactive Lecture Series 2018: W. J. T. Mitchell
The HCTS Interactive Lecture Series "Recalibrating Culture – Reenvisioning the (Trans-)Cultural – C’est quoi la (trans-)culture?" takes place from May to July and October to December. It is supported through an Activity Grant in the Transcultural Forays and continues on June 15 with a guest lecture by Prof. W. J. T. Mitchell from the University of Chicago.
Kerstin von Lingen's JRG at Tokyo Tribunal conference
The international conference "70 Years Later: The International Military Tribunal for the Far East" took place in Nuremberg from May 17–19, convened by the International Nuremberg Principles Academy. At the invitation of the academy, Kerstin von Lingen helped organize the event. Members of her former Cluster Junior Research Group were on the panels.
Arunava Dasgupta visits HCTS as Erasmus+ Fellow
From June 3 to July 2, Prof. Arunava Dasgupta, head of the Department of Urban Design at the School of Planning and Architecture in Delhi, will visit the HCTS as an Erasmus+ teaching fellow. He is being hosted by the Professorship of Visual and Media Anthropology and will teach classes, tutorials, and workshops in close cooperation with Prof. Christiane Brosius.
New volume co-edited by Nikolas Jaspert
Prof. Nikolas Jaspert, acting director of the HCTS, co-edited the volume “Ein Meer und seine Heiligen. Hagiographie im mittelalterlichen Mediterraneum,” which was published with the Wilhelm Fink Verlag. The publication is comprised of articles about the relationship between religion, piety and the sea from the viewpoints of various disciplines such as art history, archeology or Byzantine studies.
Heidelberg Graduate Student Workshop at HCTS
The Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies hosted the Graduate Student Workshop “Eurasian Connections“ at the Karl Jaspers Centre on May 25-26. It was organized by HCTS Professor Harald Fuess and Prof. Patrick Heinrich from the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. The workshop’s participants were selected from the HCTS’s strategic partner universities.
HCTS Lecture by Barbara Beßlich
On May 24, at 6 pm, the next HCTS lecture took place as part of the Tandem Fellowship "Conceptions of Mitteleuropa in early 20th century German, Austrian and Hungarian literature." Prof. Barbara Beßlich’s talk was titled "Europa als Ersatz. Vielvölkerstaatsverlust und kontinentale Kompensations-Ideen bei Hugo von Hofmannsthal."
HCTS Stadtgespräch at Heidelberger Kunstverein
On Thursday, May 17 at 6 pm, the next HCTS Stadtgespräch will take place at the Heidelberger Kunstverein. It is the third event in a series initiated at the HCTS to engage in conversations with members of the Heidelberg community. The upcoming event features a performance and concluding discussion with the Pakistani artist Naiza Khan.
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Prof. Axel Michaels, director of the Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) and former co-director of the Cluster “Asia and Europe” was elected as a new member to the board of trustees of the Portheim-Stiftung. The foundation is the supporting organization of the Heidelberg Museum of Anthropology (Völkerkundemuseum VPST) and is composed of eight commitee members. Eckart Würzner, head mayor of Heidelberg, its chairman.
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Dr. Satoshi Naiki, who is a DAAD visiting professor from Kyoto University at the HCTS from June 8 to July 27, will give a lecture on "Narrative Sets of Buddhist Reliefs Found at Thareli in the Gandhara Region." It takes place on Thursday, June 14 at 4 pm and focuses on narrative panels found at Thareli, an archaeological site in Pakistan excavated by a Kyoto University Expedition in the 1960s. During his time at the HCTS, Dr. Naiki is also giving a seminar on "Archaeological Analyses of Buddhist Culture in North-West India" as part of the Joint Degree Master Programme in Transculture Studies between the Kyoto University Graduate School of Letters and the HCTS.
Media Reports
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.
Neue Südtiroler Tageszeitung interviewed Dr. Kerstin von Lingen.
SWR1 broadcasted an interview with Prof. Joachim Quack (at 7:20).
Deutschlandfunk interviewed Dr. Susan Richter.
WDR interviewed Takuma Melber on Pearl Harbor.
Deutschlandfunk broadcasted 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.
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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
Hunan University Workshop: Articulating the Distant: A Workshop on Sino- Western Communications
Workshop: Recalibrating Culture (Burkhard Liebsch, Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover)
Workshop: Buddhist Manuscripts as Mediums of Transcultural Interactions