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Cluster held General Meeting
On Thursday afternoon, July 19, the Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies held its second General Meeting of the 2018 summer semester. The meeting took place at the Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies.
Christiane Brosius awarded grant by ARCADIA foundation
HCTS professor Christiane Brosius was awarded a grant of €775,000 by the British foundation ARCADIA to document endangered historical sites in Nepal. Over a test period of two years, four hundred temples, monasteries, and other building types will be documented and inventoried.
New volume co-edited by Monica Juneja
Prof. Monica Juneja, HCTS Professor for Global Art History, recently co-edited the volume "EurAsian Matters: China, Europe, and the Transcultural Object, 1600-1800" with Dr. Anna Grasskamp, associate member of the HCTS. The volume provides case studies on transcultural objects regarding their mobility, identities, and meanings.
HCTS Stadtgespräch at Karl Jaspers Centre
On Friday, July 27 at 6 pm, the next HCTS Stadtgespräch "Flüchtlingsbetreuung: Ehemalige Heimleiter/innen berichten aus den Krisenjahren 2015 und 2016" will take place at the Karl Jaspers Centre. It is the third event in a series initiated at the HCTS to engage in conversations with members of the Heidelberg community.
HCTS Lecture by Paola Zamperini
On July 25, at 6 pm, the next HCTS lecture takes place as part of the Tandem Fellowship that Prof. Paola Zamperini holds at the HCTS together with Prof. Barbara Mittler. Prof. Zamperini will talk about "Will the (Disciplinary) Twain Ever Meet? Thinking Sex East and West."
Kerstin von Lingen receives Heisenberg Fellowship
The German Research Foundation (DFG) appointed Dr. Kerstin von Lingen, associate member of the HCTS, as a Heisenberg Fellow. Her research project "Consumer Boycott as Female Ethics, 1800-1990," hosted by the Department of History at Heidelberg University, will commence in October 2018 with a duration of three years.
Three international guest lectures at the HCTS this week
This week, three lectures will take place organised by the professorships at the HCTS. The invited speakers are Prof. Joseph Denis (University of Wisconsin-Maison), Prof. Ben Brose (University of Michigan), and Prof. Sheldon Garon (Princeton University). They will provide insights into Chinese legal culture and history, a Chinese novel, and lessons learned from World War II.
New book by Barbara Mittler and Thomas Maissen
Prof. Barbara Mittler, co-director at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, recently published "Why China did not have a Renaissance - and why that matters," a book co-authored with former Cluster director Prof. Thomas Maissen. The volume was published with De Gruyter and is part of the series "Critical Reading in Global Intellectual History."
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On June 28, Dr. Eliane Ettmüller, postdoctoral researcher at the HCTS in the Transcultural Forays initiative, was invited by Furtwangen University to give a lecture about "Frauen im Kampf für das Kalifat. Einblicke in die von Frauen propagierten Aspekte der dschihadistischen Ideologie." The lecture was part of the Studium Generale lecture series at Furtwangen University. At the HCTS, Ettmüller is working on "The Transcultural Ideology of Modern Jihad: a Response to the Fragile Lifeworlds in Europe and in the Post-Revolutionary Middle East?"
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Dr. Hui-Ping Chuang, a scholar of East Asian art history and Buddhist studies, was recently welcomed as an associate fellow at the HCTS for the period of two years. Since June, she has been working on her research project, "The stone sutra project of the Cloud Dwelling Monastery during the Jin Dynasty (1115–1234)." It is a follow-up of her previous work at the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 933 "Material Text Cultures" and will add to the understanding of one of the largest epigraphic projects in world history. Chuang’s research is funded by a two-year grant of the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation (CCKF) in Taiwan.
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
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.
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
Upcoming Events
Workshop: Recalibrating Culture (Burkhard Liebsch, Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover)
Workshop: Buddhist Manuscripts as Mediums of Transcultural Interactions