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Annual Review eZine 12/2012
HIGHLIGHTS 2012
Selected news of the past year
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January 14: The new issue of the Cluster’s E-Journal “Transcultural Studies” opens with an article
by Michael Falser with the title “Krishna and the Plaster Cast. Translating the Cambodian Temple of
Angkor Wat in the French Colonial Period”.
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January 18: A delegation from Heidelberg University and the Cluster “Asia and Europe” gives a
presentation to the German Research Foundation in Berlin. The presentation is part of the renewal
application of the Cluster for a second funding period.
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January 26: The lecture series “Global Philosophies? Reflections and Challenges between Asia and
Europe”, organised by Prof. Birgit Kellner, closes with a talk by Prof. Edward Slingerland.
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January 31: The first group of 13 doctoral students complete the Graduate Programme for
Transcultural Studies.
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March 16: “Imaging Disaster” is the topic of a conference organised by research project D17
“Images of Disaster”, coordinated by Prof. Monica Juneja and Prof. Gerrit J. Schenk. The event takes
place at the Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg.
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April 12 – 14: Research project A5 organise a conference on “Nationizing the Dynasty –
Dynastizing the Nation” at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in cooperation with
Prof. Patrick Geary and the UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies.
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May 11: “Entanglement of Histories, Circulation of Knowledge, and Transfer of Technologies:
Dimensions of Transcultural Statehood?” is the topic of an international conference organised by
PD Dr. Antje Flüchter, Rudolph Ng, Barend Noordam and Gauri Parasher from project A9.
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May 12: The South Asia Institute celebrates its 50th anniversary with a “Week of Celebration”. The
programme includes a ceremonial address by Prof. Sheldon Pollock who was welcomed by rector
Prof. Bernhard Eitel and SAI Director Prof. Marcus Nüsser.
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May 14: I-Wei Wu and Ulrike Büchsel, doctoral students in the Cluster’s Graduate Programme, are
awarded with a fellowship by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. I-Wei Wu also gets a Study Abroad
scholarship from the Taiwanese Ministry of Education.
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May 22 – 23: “The Culture of Stress” is the theme of a workshop organised by Dr. Christian
Strümpell, Dr. Adrian Loerbroks, Hasan Ashraf and Maria Steinisch from research project C5 “Stress
and Stress Relief”.
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June 5: “Visualising Stress Effects” is the topic of an exhibition by artist Kristin Herrmann. The
pictures are displayed in context of the conference “The Culture of Stress”.
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June 13 – 15: “Buddhism and the Dynamics of Transculturality” is the topic of a conference
organised by Prof. Birgit Kellner, Chair of Buddhist Studies.
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June 15: The decision in the Excellence Initiative is announced in which the Cluster is successful. In
the second funding period, the Cluster aims to the make the dynamics of transcultural interaction
into a field of research with strong institutional grounding and high international impact.
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June 21: Architectural drawings by the Newar people are presented in an exhibition on
“Architecture and Ritual” at Heidelberg’s Museum of Ethnology. It includes 20 of the works Prof.
Niels Gutschow, Coordinator of project D4, presented in his book “Architecture of the Newars”.
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June 22: “Transcultural History: Theories, Methods, Sources” is a new book by Prof. Madeleine
Herren, Martin Rüesch and Christiane Sibille. It is the next volume of the Cluster's book series
“Transcultural Research”.
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June 22: “Structures on the Move. Technologies of Governance in Transcultural Encounter” is a
new book by PD Dr. Antje Flüchter and Dr. Susan Richter. It is the next volume of the Cluster's
book series “Transcultural Research”.
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June 25: A delegation from Tohoku University, Japan, visit the Karl Jaspers Center to sign the
contract for a new cross-national doctoral programme between Heidelberg University and Tohoku
University. Prof. Harald Fuess is one of the initiators of the programme.
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June 26 – 28: “Asymmetrical Translations – Mind and Body in European and Indian Medicine” is
the topic of a conference, organised by project C3 “Mind and Body”, coordinated by Prof. William
Sax.
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July 3: Prof. Christiane Brosius, Chair of Visual and Media Anthropology, gives her inaugural lecture
on “Teilnahmslose Beobachtung? Feldforschung im Zeichen medialer Verflüchtigung” in the Old
Auditorium of Heidelberg University.
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July 3: Cluster member Dr. Johannes Quack is awarded with a fellowship of the Emmy Noether
Programme. His group will be supported for the next five years and is located at the Goethe
University in Frankfurt/Main.
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July 6 – 8: Prof. Harald Fuess, Dr. Martin Dusinberre and Takuma Melber, member of project C12
“The Asian Sea”, organise a conference on the topic “The Asia-Pacific Maritime World: Connected
Histories in the Age of Empire”.
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July 9: The ways disasters are imagined and visualised discusses the series of lectures “Imaging
Disaster”. It is organised by Prof. Monica Juneja and Prof. Gerrit Jasper Schenk.
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July 29 – August 4: Young scholars from various countries and disciplines participate at the
Cluster’s Summer School “Seeing Matter(s): Materiality and Visuality”. It is organised by Prof.
Christiane Brosius, Prof. Barbara Mittler and Prof. Sumathi Ramaswamy, coordinators of project B4.
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August 13: The members of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context"
elect a new Directorate, a new Steering Committee, and new Speakers of the four Research Areas
during their General Meeting.
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September 6: The Humboldt Foundation honours Prof. Patrick Geary, member of the Cluster’s
Advisory Board, with the renowned “Anneliese Maier Award”.
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September 11 – 19: Students from various countries participate at the Summer School “Reading
Pre-Modern Japanese Texts”. It is organised by Dr. Anna Andreeva and Dr. David Mervart.
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October 10 – 12: About 100 scholars from Heidelberg and around the world participate at the
Cluster’s Annual Conference. This year’s s theme is “Things that connect – pathways of materiality
and practice”.
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October 10: Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, opens the Cluster’s Annual
Conference with a keynote lecture on “Trajectories of meaning: the shifting power of things”.
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October 15: More than 40 students from 12 countries start the “M.A. Transcultural Studies” this
winter semester. Cluster professors and the programme coordinator welcome the second batch of
master students and introduce them to their studies.
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October 24: Prof. John Willinsky is giving a keynote lecture on “Revolutionizing academic
publishing? The open access challenge”. The lecture opens this year’s Doctoral Students’ Week of
the Heidelberg Graduate Academy. It was co-organised by the Cluster’s Publications Department.
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October 27: Cluster’s Acting Director Prof. Axel Michaels and Dr. Doris Hillger represent
Heidelberg University at the ceremonial opening of the German House of Research and Innovation
in New Delhi.
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October 29: Cluster member PD Dr. Roland Wenzlhuemer is awarded the Heisenberg Fellowship
and the Klaus-Georg and Sigrid Hengstberger Prize.
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November 1: The Cluster’s second funding period begins. The Cluster continues its work for the
next five years in the four research areas and the five established professorships.
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November 6: A new round of the Cluster’s Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies starts
in the winter term 2012/13.
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November 7: Prof. Joseph Maran and Dr. Philipp W. Stockhammer gain funds from the Innovation
Fund “FRONTIER”. The project on “Interculturality and Migration in the Southern Levant in the
Late Bronze and Early Iron Age” will continue the work of the former project D2.
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November 15: The second group of 16 doctoral students complete the Graduate Programme for
Transcultural Studies.
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November 27: Baden-Württemberg’s Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann meets the Cluster’s
Acting Director Prof. Axel Michaels, Prof. Monica Juneja and other Cluster members. They inform
Mr. Kretschmann about the Asian and Transcultural Studies at Heidelberg University.
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November 29: Prof. Patrick Geary, Member of Cluster’s Advisory Board, gives a lecture on the
topic “Völkerwanderung, Transculturality and Gene Flow at the End of Antiquity. The Dangers and
Possibilities of Genetic History in Contemporary Medieval Research”.
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December 12: The Cluster invites young scholars and postdoctoral researchers to its first Career
Day. The Career Day is organised by the Cluster’s Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies
and Scientific Project Management.
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CONTACT
www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de
Press and Public Relations Office
Cluster of Excellence
“Asia and Europe in a Global Context”
Heidelberg University
Karl Jaspers Centre for
Advanced Transcultural Studies
Voßstr. 2, Building 4400, Room 113
69115 Heidelberg, Germany
Phone: +49 6221 54 4008
Fax: +49 6221 54 4012
E-Mail: [email protected]
About the Cluster “Asia and Europe”
The Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a
Global Context” is an interdisciplinary network of
researchers at Heidelberg University. It was founded
in October 2007 as part of the Excellence Initiative
launched by the German state and its federal
governments.
Today, the Cluster has about 250 affiliated
researchers, who examine the processes of
exchange between cultures, ranging from migration
and trade to the formation of concepts and
institutions. A central question is in which dynamics
the transcultural processes between and within Asia
and Europe develop. These complex historical
relationships are of great relevance for the global
transformations of our time.
The Cluster is located at the Karl Jaspers Centre for
Advanced Transcultural Studies in Heidelberg,
Germany, and has a branch office in New Delhi, India.
Among its international partners are Chicago
University, Oslo University, Zurich University,
Jawaharlal Nehru University and Kyoto University.
