News

News

June 2024

Hiro Fujimoto receives the Japan Past & Present's Spring 2024 Project Grant

Film Screening and Discussion of Documentary “Survey City” by/with Sanjay Srivastava

May 2024

New Lecture Series “Commoning”

Lineup complete for this semester's Buddhist Studies Lecture Series

New Special Issue of the Journal of Transcultural Studies, “Ambivalent Enmity”

April 2024

Tasveerghar uses AI for an interactive artwork

December 2023

New edited volume by Martin Hofmann and Joachim Kurtz

Martin Hofmann and Joachim Kurtz (Intellectual History) co-edit volume Wissensorte in China (Sites of Knowledge in China). The volume has just been published by Harrassowitz.

CfA: Doctoral Scholarships in Transcultural Studies - Deadline extended!

The Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies (GPTS) at the HCTS welcomes applications for two doctoral scholarships beginning in October 2024.

November 2023

Opening Ceremony of the Research Training Group “Ambivalent Enmity”

The Research Training Group (RTG) “Ambivalent Enmity” will celebrate its opening ceremony on November 30, 2023, at 5 PM in the Alte Aula of Heidelberg University. The keynote will be delivered by Derek J. Penslar (Harvard University) with the title “Between Amity and Enmity: Jewish and Arab Mutual Perceptions in the 20th Century.”

Monica Juneja receives Meyer-Struckmann Prize

Monica Juneja is being honoured for her lifelong academic achievements. She is to receive this year’s Meyer-Struckmann Prize, which is awarded by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and acknowledges her accomplishments as an expert on Global Art History. The award comes with 20.000 Euros and is granted annually for work on topics alternating between the humanities and social sciences.