Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context"
| Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" 
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| founding | October 2007 |
| The End | 2019 |
| place | Heidelberg |
| Seat | Karl Jaspers Center for Transcultural Research, Heidelberg University |
| Website | www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de |
The Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context ( Asia and Europe in a Global Context ) was a transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary research network at Heidelberg University . It was set up in October 2007 as part of the federal and state excellence initiative and extended in 2012. Funding by the DFG ended in 2019. The cluster of excellence dealt with exchange processes between cultures, societies and states, ranging from migration and trade to key terms for the language and structures of the state. A central question was the dynamics in which cross-cultural processes develop between and within Asia and Europe.
tasks and goals
The aim of the cluster was to contribute to a better understanding of the complex interactions between and within Asia and Europe - an area of great importance for the academic world as well as for today's society and politics. To this end, the exchange processes between cultures should be examined.
In the first funding phase, from 2008 to 2012, the scientists analyzed the changing asymmetries in cultural, social and political exchange processes. Based on this research, the second funding phase until 2017 examined the dynamics in which transcultural processes develop between and within Asia and Europe.
The main goals of the cluster were
- to establish the dynamics of transcultural interaction as a key issue with an international signal effect and to anchor it structurally;
- to systematically explore the analytical potential of the term transculturality in an empirical, conceptual and methodological way;
- to further link and strengthen the strong competencies of the Asian, humanities and social sciences at Heidelberg's comprehensive university;
- To increase the potential of transcultural research by creating career paths for young scientists and not only doing research on Asia, but also working with institutions and scientists in Asia.
organization
The institutional seat of the cluster is the Karl Jaspers Center for Transcultural Research (KJC). There was another office in the “Heidelberg Center South Asia” in New Delhi , India .
The management of the cluster was incumbent on the board of directors consisting of Joseph Maran (prehistory and early history), Axel Michaels (classical Indology) and Barbara Mittler (sinology). The Acting Director position rotated every six months and was supported by a project manager. The board of directors makes structural decisions.
The board of directors and the board of directors were supported by an advisory board. These included Patrick J. Geary (Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton), Angela Leung ( Hong Kong University ), Patricia Spyer ( Leiden University ), Colin Renfrew (University of Cambridge) and the Chairman of the Advisory Board Christoph Wulf ( Free University of Berlin ).
Research structure
The more than 80 research projects were divided into four research areas.
- Research Area A: Government Art and Administration
- Research Area A deals with cultural processes through which concepts, institutions and practices related to the art of governance and administration are transferred between cultures at a local, regional or global level and transformed in a continuous but non-linear historical process.
- Speaker: Diamantis Panagiotopoulos; Deputy: Harald Fuess, Susan Richter
- Research Area B: Public and Media
- Research area B deals with the emergence and conceptualization of different types of “publics” (from art exhibitions and blogs to rock concerts and satirical books) that arise as a result of cultural, economic, political, social or artistic exchange processes in and between Asia and Europe.
- Speaker: Christiane Brosius; Deputy: Melanie Trede, Hans Harder
- Research area C: Knowledge systems (health, environment, science and epistemological approaches)
- Research Area C concentrates, in addition to the original focus on health and the environment, on the different types of knowledge production.
- Speaker: Joachim Kurtz; Deputies: William S. Sax, Joachim F. Quack
- Research Area D: History and Heritage
- Research Area D analyzes different concepts of history as competing interpretations of time and space.
- Speaker: Monica Juneja; Deputy: Joseph Maran, Birgit Kellner
Scientific staff
The cluster's researchers come from a wide variety of disciplines, including Egyptology , archeology (see Institute for Classical Archeology at Heidelberg University ), Assyriology , ethnology , European history , health care , Indology , Islamic studies , Japanese studies , art history , media and communication studies , musicology , philosophy , Political science , religious studies , sinology , sociology and many more.
In order to strengthen the connections between the disciplines and create development opportunities for young scientists, the cluster has created five sustainable professorships and six groups of young researchers.
- Buddhist Studies (Birgit Kellner)
- Global Art History (Monica Juneja)
- History of ideas and knowledge (Joachim Kurtz)
- Cultural and Economic History (Harald Fuess)
- Visual and Media Anthropology (Christiane Brosius)
The “Global Art History” professorship is the first of its kind in Germany.
Junior research groups
Each junior research group is led by a young scientist who also supervises dissertations in his project.
- A16 “Transcultural Justice: Legal Flows and the Emergence of International Justice within the East Asian War Crimes Trials, 1946-1954” ( Kerstin von Lingen )
- B21 "Transcultural Dynamics of Pentecostalism: The Pentecostal Movement Between Globalization and State Control in Singapore" (Katja Rakow)
- C15 “Agrarian Alternatives: Agrarian Crisis, Global Concerns and the Contested Agro-ecological Futures in South Asia” (Daniel Münster)
- C16 “The Demographic Turn in the Junction of Cultures” (Sophie Roche)
- “Digital Humanities with Focus on 'Archaeological Information Systems' and 'Digital Cultural Heritage'” (Armin Volkmann)
Already completed junior research groups:
- A4 "The fascination of efficiency: Migrating ideas and emerging bureaucracies in Europe and Asia since the early modern era" (Susan Richter)
- A6 “Disaster Cultures. Changing asymmetries between societies, cultures and nature in a comparative historical and transcultural perspective "(Gerrit J. Schenk)
- A9 "Culture transfer as a factor in state building" ( Antje Flüchter )
- B9 "Asymmetries in cultural information flows: Europe and South Asia in the global information network since the 19th century" (Roland Wenzlhuemer)
- B10 "Transgression of Spaces and Identities in Urban Locations - the Harbin Case (1898–1949)" (Frank Grüner)
- C4 "India as a Destination for Health Tourism: A Study of High-Tech Hospitals and Neo-Oriental Spas" (Laurent Pordié)
Teaching
Graduate program
The Graduate Program for Transcultural Studies (GPTS) is a structured doctoral program within the interdisciplinary research environment of the cluster. Among other things, it offers:
- an introduction to the theories and methodologies of transcultural research;
- a fully equipped work environment supported by European and Asian institutions;
- Participation in the collection of textual and non-textual source material;
- Support of doctoral projects related to the research fields of the cluster.
Since it was founded in 2008, around 8 candidates - half of them from Asia - have started the graduate program.
There are also doctoral students in the individual research projects.
MA Transcultural Studies
On the initiative of the cluster, the master's program “Transcultural Studies” was set up at Heidelberg University for the 2011 winter semester. As one of the first courses of its kind, it offers students an interdisciplinary education with a transcultural focus. The language of instruction is English. The lectures and seminars are held by the five cluster professors, often in collaboration with scientists from established disciplines.
In the first semester, students receive an introduction to the theories and methods of transcultural studies. You can then choose from the following major subjects:
- Society, Economy and Governance
- Knowledge, Belief and Religion
- Visual, Media and Material Culture
A stay abroad is planned in the third semester, which the students can use either for project work or for courses abroad. The last semester is reserved for the preparation of the master’s thesis and for a research colloquium.
Heidelberg Research Architecture
Under the name Heidelberg Research Architecture (HRA), IT specialists, developers of software and databases, academically trained e-learning specialists and IT support work closely with scientists and students at the cluster in a section for digital humanities on interdisciplinary research projects.
The HRA's area of responsibility thus covers the entire area from the development of a sophisticated metadata framework to IT support for the Karl Jaspers Center. The HRA enables transcultural relationships to be identified and analyzed using different types of media (text, image, film, audio) and disparate objects (texts, concepts, social networks).
Publications
In cooperation with Springer Science + Business Media , the cluster published the book series “Transcultural Research. Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context ”. Up to 15 peer-reviewed books are published each year. The series is edited by the directors of the cluster and coordinated by Andrea Hacker. The first volume, "Transcultural Turbulences - Towards a Multi-Sited Reading of Image Flows", was edited by Christiane Brosius and Roland Wenzlhuemer and brings together eleven contributions from the cluster's first annual conference in 2009.
Another series of books entitled “Heidelberg Transcultural Studies” was initiated by Susanne Enderwitz, Melanie Trede and Stefan Weinfurter.
The refereed e-journal “Transcultural Studies” was launched in December 2010. Available at www.transculturalstudies.org, it appears twice a year and provides an international platform for transcultural research. Authors can use all multimedia publishing options on the Internet and enrich their texts with images, audio or video files and links. The editor is Rudolf G. Wagner and the chief editor is Andrea Hacker.
Events
The research projects and chairs of the cluster regularly organize events at the Karl Jaspers Center or elsewhere. Particular attention was paid to the inaugural lectures of the cluster professors and their joint lecture “Where is the border between Asia and Europe?” In June 2011. The ceremonial opening of the Heinrich Zimmer Chair for Indian Philosophy and Intellectual History associated with the cluster - the first professorship in Germany to be carried by India's highest-ranking institution for the promotion of international cultural exchange - was broadcast live on the Internet.
A highlight is the annual conference that takes place in October:
- Managing Empires. Cooperation, Competition, Conflict (2013)
- Things that Connect: Pathways of Materiality and Practice (2012)
- Frontiers of Knowledge: Health, Environment, and the History of Science (2011)
- The Flow of Concepts and Institutions (2010)
- Flows of Images and Media (2009)
Every year there is a summer school for young scientists:
- Sites of Knowledge: Space, Locality and Circulation between Asia and Europe (2013)
- Seeing Matter (s): Materiality and Visuality (2012)
- Cultures of Consumption in Asia and Europe (2011)
- Knowledge on the Move: Circulation, Domestication and Transcultural Reconfigurations (2010)
- Objects on the Move - Circulation, Social Practice and Transcultural Intersections (2009)
The most important lecture series are:
- Disaster images: Imaging Disaster (2012)
- Global Philosophies - Reflections and Challenges between Asia and Europe (2011/12)
- Global Concepts? Keywords and Their Histories in Asia and Europe (2010/2011)
- The Power of Things and the Flow of Cultural Transformations (2009/10)
- Transculturality - Theories and Explorations (2008)
In addition, there are around 100 international conferences and workshops every year.
partner
The following institutions at Heidelberg University are involved in the cluster:
- Collaborative Research Center 933 "Material Text Cultures"
- Collaborative Research Center 619 "Ritual Dynamics"
- South Asia Institute
- Center for Classical Studies
- Center for European History and Cultural Studies
- Center for East Asian Studies
- Seminar for Languages and Cultures of the Middle East
The cluster also cooperates with the following institutions:
- Arizona State University , Department of Religious Studies
- German UNESCO Commission
- Duke University , Department of History
- Harvard University , Asia Center
- Harvard University , Harvard Medical School
- Hong Kong University , Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts
- Jawaharlal Nehru University , School of Arts and Aesthetics
- Kanagawa University , Research Center for Nonwritten Cultural Materials
- Kansai University , Institute for Cultural Interaction Studies
- Leiden University , Faculty of Social and Behavioral Science
- Kyoto University , Organization for the Promotion of International Relations
- Peking University , Department of History
- University of Zurich , university research focus "Asia and Europe"
- University of Chicago , Department of History
- University of Oslo , Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages
Web links
- Website of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context"
- Project description at the German Research Foundation
- Film portrait in the DFG video portal on the Excellence Initiative
- EXC 270: Asia and Europe in a global context: The dynamics of transculturality (entry in the DFG's Gepris system, overview of projects and people involved)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Decisions in the second program phase of the Excellence Initiative , German Research Foundation, June 15, 2012, accessed on November 27, 2012.
- ↑ Tasks and Goals , Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, accessed on March 20, 2013.
- ^ Karl Jaspers Center for Transcultural Research , Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, accessed on January 16, 2012.
- ↑ Ruperto Carola opens Heidelberg Center South Asia in New Delhi , Heidelberg University, November 11, 2009, accessed on January 16, 2012.
- ↑ Detailed view EXC 270 , Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, accessed on August 5, 2015.
- ↑ Executive Board ( Memento of December 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, accessed on January 16, 2012.
- ↑ Advisory Board ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) ,. Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, accessed on January 16, 2012.
- ↑ Research , Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, accessed on January 16, 2012.
- ↑ Inaugural Lecture: The Last Supper in the Red Desert , University of Heidelberg, January 26, 2010, accessed on January 16, 2012.
- ↑ Young researcher groups ( Memento of February 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, accessed on March 20, 2013.
- ↑ Graduate Program for Transcultural Research , Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, accessed on January 16, 2012.
- ↑ PhD students ( Memento of May 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, accessed on January 16, 2012.
- ^ Stress researcher in the Sweatshop , Die Zeit, March 2, 2011, accessed on January 16, 2012.
- ^ Bulletin of the Rector of Heidelberg University No. 18/10 (PDF; 83 kB), Heidelberg University, September 27, 2010, accessed on January 16, 2012.
- ↑ Funding for young researchers in transcultural studies , Heidelberg University, December 20, 2010, accessed on January 16, 2012.
- ↑ Key areas of study ( Memento of October 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, accessed on January 16, 2012.
- ^ The Heidelberg Research Architecture , Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", accessed on January 16, 2012.
- ↑ From the Indian Valentine's Card to the Arabic Superman , Science Information Service, December 7, 2011, accessed January 16, 2012.
- ↑ New book by Project D1 on Historicizing Violence http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsevents/news/detail/m/new-book-by-project-d1-on-violence.html , Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, accessed on January 16, 2012.
- ↑ E-Journal on “Transcultural Studies” , Heidelberg University, December 14, 2010, accessed on January 16, 2012.
- ↑ "Where is the border between Asia and Europe?" , University of Heidelberg, November 11, 2009, accessed on January 16, 2012.
- ↑ Endowed Professorship for Indian Philosophy and Intellectual History , Cooperation International, June 28, 2010, accessed on January 16, 2012.
- ^ Conference report “Things that Connect: Pathways of Materiality and Practice” , H-Soz-u-Kult, February 19, 2013, accessed on March 20, 2013.
- ^ Frontiers of Knowledge. Health, Environment and the History of Science , H-Soz-u-Kult, August 4, 2011, accessed January 16, 2012.
- ^ The Flow of Concepts and Institutions. Annual Conference of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" , H-Soz-u-Kult, March 25, 2011, accessed on January 16, 2012.
- ↑ Flows of Images and Media. Annual Conference 2009 of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" , H-Soz-u-Kult, November 20, 2009, accessed on January 16, 2012.
- ↑ Summer School "Seeing Matter (s): Materiality and Visuality" , H-Soz-u-Kult, January 24, 2012, accessed on March 20, 2013.
- ↑ Cultures of Consumption in Asia and Europe (PDF; 60 kB). AHF Information, November 15, 2011, accessed January 16, 2012.
- ↑ Knowledge on the Move: Circulation, Domestication, and Transcultural Reconfigurations , Internationales Asian Forum, 41/2010, accessed on January 16, 2012.
- ^ Summer School "Objects on the Move - Circulation, Social Practice and Transcultural Intersections" , H-Soz-u-Kult, March 18, 2009, accessed on January 16, 2012.
- ↑ Lecture Series on Imaging Disasters ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, accessed on March 20, 2013.
- ^ Philosophy in a global perspective , MyScience, October 17, 2011, accessed on January 16, 2012.
- ^ The power of things in cultural processes , Science Information Service, March 8, 2011, accessed January 16, 2012.
- ↑ Transculturality - Theories and Explorations , H-Soz-u-Kult, May 9, 2008, accessed January 16, 2012.
- ↑ Participating Institutions of Heidelberg University , Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, accessed on January 16, 2012.
- ↑ International Key Partners , Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, accessed on January 16, 2012.