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Takahiro Yamamoto awarded research grant by the Japan Science and Technology Agency
Dr. Takahiro Yamamoto was awarded a research grant by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) for his project “Historicizing personal identification and its implication for pandemic response: a case study of ID photographs in twentieth-century Japan.”
"Urban Heritage Mining" International Summer School in Nepal
An International Summer School on "Urban Heritage Mining" will take place in the Kathmandu Valley from the 22nd – 29th September, 2022. The Summer School is organised by the research project "Heritage as Placemaking: The Politics of Solidarity and Erasure in South Asia".
New article by Michael Brown on DFG-funded archaeological research in Iraqi Kurdistan at "Rabana-Merquly"
Dr. Michael Brown and colleagues have published a new article in the journal of world archaeology - Antiquity - about the 2000-year-old fortress of Rabana-Merquly in the Zagros Mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan.
Invitation to attend the hybrid Academy 'Lessons Learned? Transcultural Perspectives in Curating and Pedagogies'
The Heidelberg team of Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation has organised a three-day international Academy Lessons Learned? Transcultural Perspectives in Curating and Pedagogies (14-16 July) in collaboration with the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD).
New issue of "The Journal of Transcultural Studies" online
The latest issue of "The Journal of Transcultural Studies," is now online. It features four contributions engaging with a wide array of transcultural encounters and was edited by Prof. Dr. Monica Juneja and Prof. Dr. Diamantis Panagiotopoulos.
Welcome Prof. Dr. Tarini Bedi
Anthropologist Prof. Dr. Tarini Bedi, associate professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, will be staying at the HCTS for June-July 2022. She will be collaborating with Prof. Dr. Christiane Brosius. Her fellowship is supported by the Excellence Strategy and the International Office of the University of Heidelberg.
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Dr. Amelia Bonea was the inaugural winner of the Mercurians Prize of the Society for the History of Technology. She was awarded the prize for her peer-reviewed paper: “‘Contagion by Telephone’: Print Media and Knowledge about Infectious Diseases in Britain, 1880s–1914,” published in the 62nd volume of Technology and Culture (October 2021). The prize recognizes a peer-reviewed paper in the history of communication technologies published in 2020–21 and focused on a period at least 25 years before publication.
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Warm congratulations to Prof. Dr. Kerstin von Lingen for securing an European Research Council (ERC) grant for her project “Global Resettlement Regimes”! Kerstin von Lingen was a member of Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” (the predecessor of the HCTS), where she led the Junior Research Group "Transcultural Justice". She is currently a professor of Contemporary History at Vienna University. For more about the project, please see the press announcement from Vienna university.
