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Laila Abu-Er-Rub
PhD Candidate
Laila Abu-Er-Rub is working on her PhD thesis about the Representation of Western Women in Indian Media and is Project Manager of the Project B4 "Transcultural Visuality Learning Group". She has taught undergraduate courses in gender and media studies at the Department of Anthropology, Heidelberg University. (read more)
Jan Bardsley
Professor of Japanese Humanities
Jan Bardsley is Associate Professor of Japanese Humanities at University of North Carolina, Chapell Hill. She is co-editor of "Manners and Mischief: Gender and Power in Japanese Conduct Literature". Her major research interests are Japanese feminism, literature and popular culture. (read more)
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Christiane Brosius
Professor of Visual and Media Anthropology
Christiane Brosius is Professor of Visual and Media Anthropology at the Cluster "Asia and Europe in a Global Context". She has a background in Cultural and Social Anthropology, Art History and Art Education (Frankfurt/Oder, Oxford and SOAS/London). Her research focus is on Media and Visual Cultures in South Asia and her latest book entitled "India's Middle Class: New Forms of Urban Leisure, Consumption and Prosperity" (2010 Routledge New Delhi), includes case studies about real estate advertising and urbanisation, religious leisure parks, heritage tourism, themed weddings, lifestyle specialists and magazines. Additionally, her research interests are Urban Anthropology, Diaspora Studies and Ritual Studies. She is co-founder of Tasveer Ghar/House of Pictures: A Digital Network of South Asian Popular Visual Culture (www.tasveerghar.net). (read more)
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Cathrine Bublatzky
PhD Candidate
Cathrine Bublatzky is working on her PhD thesis about Indian Contemporary Art in a Transcultural Context and is the Assistant to the Chair of Visual and Media Anthropology. Her latest article has been published in the volume "Global Studies: Mapping Contemporary Art and Culture" (2011) edited by Hans Belting et al. Furthermore, she is lecturer for undergraduate courses in contemporary art and museum anthropology at the Institute of Anthropology, Heidelberg University.(read more)
Kenneth George
Professor of Anthropology
Kenneth M. George has been a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1999, having served previously at Harvard University and the University of Oregon. He is a specialist on Southeast Asia and a Past Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies (2005-2008). His ethnographic research in Indonesia has focused on the cultural politics of minority ancestral religions (1982-1992), and more recently (1994-2008), on a long-term collaboration with painter A. D. Pirous, exploring the aesthetic, ethical, and political ambitions shaping Islamic art and art publics in that country. His books include: Showing Signs of Violence: The Cultural Politics of a Twentieth-Century Headhunting Ritual (awarded the 1998 Harry J. Benda Prize for best book on Southeast Asia by the Association for Asian Studies). Ken has been the recipient of major postdoctoral fieldwork fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture. (read more)
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Kajri Jain
Professor of Visual Culture in South Asia
Kajri Jain is Assistant Professor of South Asian Visual Culture, Contemporary Art and New Media at University of Toronto, Mississauga. She is author of "Gods in the Bazaar: the Economies of Indian Calendar Art" (2007). Her research focused so far on visual and material objects outside institutional spaces and the on-going business between art and religion in South Asia, especially in India. (read more)
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Monica Juneja
Professor of Global Art History
Monica Juneja is Professor of Global Art History at the Cluster "Asia and Europe" Heidelberg University since 2009 and Speaker of Research Area D "Historicities and Heritage". Before she came to Heidelberg she has been Professor at the University of Delhi. Her latest publication is the anthology "Multi-Centred Modernisms: Reconfiguring Asian Art of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries" co-edited with Franziska Koch. Her areas of research span the fields of European and Indian studies and include practices of visual representation, the disciplinary trajectories of art history in South Asia, gender and political iconography in modern France and many more. (read more)
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Christoph Lind
Christoph Lind hold the position as Vice Director of Fine Arts and Cultural History and Head of the Department "Exhibition Managment and Education" at the Reiss-Engelhorn Museums in Mannheim. Furthermore he is the Bord Member of the "International Council of Museums - International Committee for Exhibition and Exchange" (ICOM-ICEE). He holds a Doctorate in Art History and studied in Berlin and Taipei in Taiwan.
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Barbara Mittler
Professor of Chinese Studies
Barbara Mittler is Director and holds the Chair of the Institute of Chinese Studies at the Heidelberg University. Furthermore she is the Speaker of Research Area B "Public Spheres". She is author of various monographs such as "A Continuous Revolution: Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture" (2009) and is currently co-editing the volume "Transcultural Sexualities" with Christiane Brosius. Her research interests are Chinese music, gender, nationalism and print media such as newspapers and women magazines in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. According to her research interests she is mainly involved in projects of Research Area B "Public Spheres" and D "Historicities and Heritage". (read more)
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Sumathi Ramaswamy
Professor of History
Sumathi Ramaswamy is Professor of History at Duke University and Coordinator of Research Area B4 "Transcultural Visuality". In her research she focused so far on Cultural History of South Asia and the British Empire. In her latest publication "The Goddess and the Nation: Mapping Mother India" (2010) she follows an interdisciplinary line in the research areas of visual studies, gender and cartography. In her new research agenda she studies the cultures of learning in colonial and postcolonial India. One of her new research programs holds the title "Global Itineraries: The Indian Travels of a Worldly Object". (read more)
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Kavita Singh
Associate Professor of Art History
Kavita Singh is Associate Professor of Art at the Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi and one of the key partners to the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context". She is co-editor of the recently published book "InFlux: Contemporary Art in Asia" (2011). In her research and curating projects she followed her interest in museum politics and art institution from the 19th century to the present. (read more)
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Patricia Spyer
Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Patricia Spyer holds the Chair of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Contemporary Indonesia at Leiden University and is Global Distinguished Visiting Professor at New York University. She is co-editor of "Handbook of Material Culture" (2006) and has written "The Memory of Trade: Modernity’s Entanglements on an Eastern Indonesian Island" (2000). Besides visual and material culture she focuses on research topics related to religion, violence and media in the context of Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia. (read more)
Melanie Trede
Professor of Japanese Art History
Melanie Trede is Professor of Japanese Art History at Heidelberg University since 2004, after she had taught at Columbia University and New York University. She also holds the positions as Deputy Speaker of Research Area B "Public Spheres". She is the author of the monograph "Hiroshige. One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" (2007) and works currently on two projects that involve the Political Iconography of Pictorial Narratives, and art exhibition strategies between Japan and Germany in the 1930s and 40s. Her research and publication interests include pictorial narratives, gender issues and art history, collecting histories, art historiographies and terminologies. (read more)
Paola Zamperini
Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture
Paola Zamperini is Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture at Amherst College. Her research interests are principally the body, gender, popular culture and sexuality in China. Furthermore her research and teaching expands to film and media studies with an regional focus on China. Her latest published work is "Lost Bodies. Prostitution and Masculinity in late Qing Fiction" (2010). (read more)
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