Asia and Europe in a Global Context
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The Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context“ is an interdisciplinary network of researchers at Heidelberg University.
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Congratulations to Sumathi Ramaswamy! The cultural historian from Duke University receives the Anneliese Maier Research Award by the Humboldt Foundation. With the prize money, she will research at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) over the course of five years. In Heidelberg, she will collaborate with the Chairs of Visual and Media Anthropology, Christiane Brosius, Chinese Studies, Barbara Mittler, and Global Art History, Monica Juneja. One focus of her work will be the digital humanities project “No Parallels: the Fatherly Bodies of Gandhi and Mao”. http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsevents/news/detail/m/sumathi-ramaswamy-receives-anneliese-maier-research-award.html
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"Elderscapes. Ageing in Urban South Asia" explores the contemporary everyday life of older people in urban South Asia, namely Kathmandu and Delhi. Older people show their city and their activities from their own view and reflect on the changes they have witnessed. The transmedia project combines films, interviews, texts, and sounds in a non-linear format. It was launched yesterday by doctoral students Annika Mayer and Roberta Mandoki, who developed the project together with filmmaker Jakob Gross. The project was supervised by the Chair of Visual and Media Anthropology, Prof. Dr. Christiane Brosius. Browse through the website: www.uni-heidelberg.de/elderscapes
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#TransculturalBookWorm In the new book “Suicide and Agency: Anthropological Perspectives on Self-Destruction, Personhood, and Power”, the authors explore how interplay of self-harm, suicide, personhood and agency varies markedly across site (Greenland, Siberia, India, Palestine and Mexico) and setting (self-run leprosy colony, suicide bomb attack, cash-crop farming, middle-class mothering). Without starting from a set definition of suicide, they empirically engage the wider domains of practices and of sense making, out of which realized, imaginary, or disputed suicides emerge. The book explores a number of ontological assumptions about the role of free will, power, good and evil, personhood, and intentionality in both popular and expert explanations of suicide. The volume was edited by Dr. Daniel Münster, leader of junior research group “Agrarian Alternatives”, and Ludek Broz (Czech Academy of Sciences). To read more about this book: http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsevents/news/detail/m/new-book-on-the-anthropology-of-suicide.html
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The workshop “Border Crossings: Migration Arts and Arts of Migration” took place from January 14 to 16 at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies. While the meaning of "migration" changes according to the historical, geographical and social circumstances, various other phrases, such as exodus, expulsion, exile, or labour migration, need to be taken into account to verify movements and experiences of migrants. In relation to the subject-related topic of border crossing and the role of artists and art, this workshop critically addressed the methodological dimension in related studies. Applied to individual research topics, the participants reflected on the analytical usage and qualities of concepts such as ‘transculturality’, ‘transnationality’, ‘translocality’, ‘transaesthetics’ or ‘critical transregionality’ as they seem to facilitate further analytical fine-tuning. More about the workshop, please visit http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsevents/news/detail/m/workshop-on-migration-and-arts.html
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#TransculturalBookWorm Rituals combining healing with spirit possession and court-like proceedings are found around the world and throughout history. For example, in order to heal a person who is suffering from an illness, a ritual needs to be performed, involving a prosecution and a defense, a judge and witnesses. Divine beings then speak through oracles, spirits possess the victim and are exorcized, and local gods intervene to provide healing and justice. Despite the prevalence of rituals involving some or all of these elements, this volume represents the first attempt to compare and analyze them systematically. The book "The Law of Possession: Ritual, Healing, and the Secular State" brings together historical and contemporary case studies from East Asia, South Asia, and Africa, and argues that despite consistent attempts by modern, secular states to discourage, eliminate, and criminalize them, types of healing rituals persist and even thrive because they meet widespread human needs. The volume is edited by Prof. William Sax and Prof. Helene Basu. Read more about the book: http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsevents/news/detail/m/new-books-on-ritual-healing-and-pilgrimage.html
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
"museum global? Multiple Perspectives on Art 1904 - 1950" is the topic of a conference at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Jan 20-22. Follow the talks globally via livestream on below given website or via Twitter #mglobal16. It is opened by Monica Juneja on Wednesday evening at 6.30 pm with the lecture "Alternative, Peripheral or Cosmopolitan? Modernist Art and the Challenges of Globality". International Conference "museum global?" // January 20-22, 2016 // Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf
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#TransculturalDays Today is the eighth day of the La Month (or Layue 臘月,腊月), the twelfth month of the Chinese calendar. It is the day for Chinese people to celebrate the enlightenment of Gautama Buddha. In China, the festival is called Laba Festival (or Laba Jie, 腊八节). Eating Laba congee (originated in India) was an important element of the festival. The earliest form of this dish was cooked with red beans and has since developed into many different kinds. It is mainly made up of many kinds of rice, beans, dried fruit, tofu, potato, meat and vegetables. If you don't have time today to prepare Laba congee, at least put some garlic into vinegar to make some “Laba garlic”. Although the specific history of Laba garlic is unknown, the dish is said to have close connection with Buddhism. Laba garlic and vinegar that preserved garlic, together with dumplings are traditional foods for the Spring Festival in China. Do you remember that we celebrated Bodhi Day in Japan on the 8th of December? In China, people celebrate for the same reason but on another date, since they use the Chinese lunar calendar.
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The Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies welcomes applications for up to four doctoral scholarships at Heidelberg University. Applicants should submit their papers until March 15, 2016. Applicants with an M.A. or equivalent in a discipline of the humanities or social sciences with an above-average grade are invited to propose a research project with a strong affiliation to the research framework of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”. Find more information here: www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/gpts
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