EXC 270:  Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows

• Subject Area: Social and Cultural Anthropology, Non-European Cultures, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies
• Term: from 2007 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 39092596

• Final Report Year: 2019

Final Report Abstract

The Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context was established in 2007 by members from the Faculty of Philosophy and four other faculties. A 2nd funding period began in 2012. In 2013, the Cluster was transformed into a full-scale institute, the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS). In 2019 it has become part of the Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS), the first research building project in the Humanities supported by both Federal and State governments. The growing importance of Asia significantly shapes and determines the world in the 21st century. Researchers at the Cluster were investigating the emerging tensions, risks and opportunities. Disciplinary and linguistic diversity, geographical breadth and historical depth have been the hallmarks of our research, it profits from the possibilities that a comprehensive research university can offer. The Cluster aimed to fundamentally realign research and teaching on Asia and Europe. Academic disciplines, traditionally structured in accordance with nation-state borders, do not do justice to the dynamics that have arisen in past and present from the interactions between Europe and Asia. Taking a transcultural perspective throws a critical view upon established concepts, taxonomies and value structures. The Cluster implemented this critical perspective by 1. creating 5 sustainable professorships and, in the 2nd phase, 2 start-up professorships, reaching across disciplines; 2. offering project funding for 10 junior research groups in the Humanities and Social Sciences; 3. providing funds for research projects in 4 Research Areas (A Governance and Administration, B Public Spheres, C Health and Environment/Knowledge Systems, D Historicities and Heritage); 4. building an international Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies (GPTS) and an English-language Master Programme for Transcultural Studies (MATS); 5. developing a series of innovative open-access publications in Transcultural Studies and the Heidelberg Research Architecture (HRA), a digital and computational humanities unit; 6. establishing the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS), a long-term research platform with associated graduate, fellowship and research programs financed by project funds; 7. winning additional funds for the construction of the Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS), an innovative collaboratorium supporting transdisciplinary and transregional collaboration between the Humanities and the Social Sciences, which, through its central library, serves the use of hybrid, digital and conventional sources. The transcultural perspective has become an integral part of the university's institutional strategy (e.g. Field of Focus 3 Cultural Dynamics in Globalized Worlds). In addition, (Transforming) Cultural Heritage, a concept significantly grounded in research at the Cluster, has become one of the University’s flagship initiatives.

Link to the final report

https://doi.org/10.2314/KXP:1698797435

Publications

• A Continuous Revolution: Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture. Harvard East Asian Monographs 343. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012
  Mittler, Barbara
  
• Conceptualizing Cultural Hybridization: A Transdisciplinary Approach. Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Heidelberg: Springer, 2012
  Stockhammer, Philipp W. (ed.)
  
• Connecting the Nineteenth-Century World: The Telegraph and Globalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012
  Wenzlhuemer, Roland
  
• Cultural Variations in Psychopathology: From Research to Practice. Göttingen: Hogrefe Publications, 2012
  Barnow, Sven, and Nazli Balkir, eds.
  
• Entre mers – Outre-mer: Spaces, Modes and Agents of Indo-Mediterranean Connectivity. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2018. Juneja, Monica, Matthias Bruhn, and Elke Anna Werner (eds.) “Universalität der Kunstgeschichte?” Special issue, Kritische Berichte 40, no. 2 (2012)
  Jaspert, Nikolas and Sebastian Kolditz (eds)
  
• Europa im Geflecht der Welt: Mittelalterliche Migrationen in globalen Bezügen. Abhandlungen und Beiträge zur historischen Komparatistik 20. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2012
  Borgolte, Michael, Julia Dücker, Marcel Müllerburg, Paul Predatsch, and Bernd Schneidmüller, eds.
  
• Hard Times in the Hometown: A History of Community Survival in Modern Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2012
  Dusinberre, Martin
  
• Historical Disasters in Context: Science, Religion, and Politics. Routledge Studies in Cultural History 15. New York: Routledge, 2012
  Janku, Andrea, Gerrit Jasper Schenk, and Franz Mauelshagen (eds.)
  
• Images of Otherness in Medieval and Early Modern Times: Exclusion, Inclusion, Assimilation. Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2012
  Eisenbeiß, Anja, and Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch (eds.)
  
• Materiality and Social Practice: Transformative Capacities of Intercultural Encounters. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2012
  Maran, Joseph, and Philipp W. Stockhammer (eds.)
  
• Re-use: The Art and Politics of Integration and Anxiety. Delhi: Sage, 2012
  Hegewald, Julia A. B., and Subrata K. Mitra (eds.)
  
• Structures on the Move: Technologies of Governance in Transcultural Encounters. Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Heidelberg: Springer, 2012
  Flüchter, Antje, and Susan Richter (eds.)
  
• The Construct of Egypt’s National-Self in James Sanua’s Early Satire and Caricature. Studien zum modernen Orient 22. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2012
  Ettmueller, Eliane Ursula
  
• The Idea of Writing: Writing Across Borders. Leiden: Brill, 2012
  Voogt, Alexander J. de, and Joachim Friedrich Quack (eds.)
  
• Transcultural History: Theories, Methods, Sources. Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Heidelberg: Springer, 2012
  Herren, Madeleine, Martin Rüesch, and Christiane Sibille
  
• Xin ciyu xin gainian: Xixue yijie yu wan Qing Hanyu cihui zhi bianqian [New terms for new ideas: Western knowledge and lexical change in late imperial China]. Jinan: Shandong huabao chubanshe, 2012
  Amelung, Iwo, Joachim Kurtz, and Michael Lackner, eds.
  
• Asian Punches: A Transcultural Affair. Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Heidelberg: Springer, 2013
  Harder, Hans, and Barbara Mittler (eds.)
  
• Citizenship and Migration in the Era of Globalization: The Flow of Migrants and the Perception of Citizenship in Asia and Europe. Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Heidelberg: Springer, 2013
  Pohlmann, Markus, Jonghoe Yang, and Jong-Hee Lee (eds.)
  
• Citizenship as Cultural Flow: Structure, Agency and Power. Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Heidelberg: Springer, 2013
  Mitra, Subrata
  
• Cultural Brokers at Mediterranean Courts in the Middle Ages. Mittelmeerstudien 1. Paderborn: Fink, 2013
  Höh, Marc von der, Nikolas Jaspert, and Jenny Rahel Oesterle (eds.)
  
• Kulturerbe und Denkmalpflege transkulturell: Grenzgänge zwischen Theorie und Praxis. Beiträge einer internationalen Tagung im September 2011 in Heidelberg. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2013. ISBN: 978-3-8376-2091-7
  Falser, Michael, and Monica Juneja (Hrsg.)
  
• Modernity’s Classics. Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Heidelberg: Springer, 2013
  Humphreys, Sarah C., and Rudolf G. Wagner (eds.)
  
• Shifting Social Imaginaries in the Hellenistic Period: Narrations, Practices, and Images. Supplement, Mnemosyne 363. Leiden: Brill, 2013
  Stavrianopoulou, Eftychia
  
• South Asian Festivals on the Move. Ethno-Indology 13. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 2013
  Hüsken, Ute, and Axel Michaels (eds.)
  
• The Nation State and Beyond: Governing Globalization Processes in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Heidelberg: Springer, 2013
  Löhr, Isabella, and Roland Wenzlhuemer (eds.)
  
• The Russian Revolution of 1905 in Transcultural Perspective: Identities, Peripheries, and the Flow of Ideas. The Allan K. Wildman Group Historical Series 6. Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers, 2013
  Fischer von Weikersthal, Felicitas, Frank Grüner, Susanne Hohler, and Raphael Utz (eds.)
  
• Yoga Traveling: Bodily Practice in Transcultural Perspective. Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Heidelberg: Springer, 2013
  Hauser, Beatrix (ed.)
  
• “Archaeologizing” Heritage? Transcultural Entanglements between Local Social Practices and Global. Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Heidelberg: Springer, 2013
  Falser, Michael, and Monica Juneja (eds.)
  
• “Power, Politics, and Maritime Governance in the Indian Ocean.” Special issue, Journal of the Indian Ocean Region 9, no. 1 (2013)
  Schöttli, Jivanta (ed.)
  
• Asymmetrical Conversations: Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries. Epistemologies of Healing 14. Oxford: Berghahn, 2014
  Naraindas, Harish, Johannes Quack, and William Sturman Sax (eds.)
  
• Buddhist Stone Sutras in China: Sichuan Province. Vols. 1-3. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014 ff.
  Ledderose, Lothar, and Sun Hua et al. (eds.)
  
• Chinese Encyclopaedias of New Global Knowledge, 1870–1930: Changing Ways of Thought. Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Heidelberg: Springer, 2014
  Doleželová-Velingerová, Milena, and Rudolf G. Wagner (eds.)
  
• Disaster as Image: Iconographies and Media Strategies across Europe and Asia. Regensburg: Schnell + Steiner, 2014
  Juneja, Monica, and Gerrit Jasper Schenk (eds.)
  
• Divided Languages? Diglossia, Translation, and the Rise of Modernity in Japan, China, and the Slavic World. Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Heidelberg: Springer, 2014
  Arokay, Judit, Jadranka Gvozdanovic, and Darja Miyajima, eds.
  
• E-Governance in India: Interlocking Politics, Technology, and Culture. Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies 27. Abingdon: Routledge, 2014
  Chaudhuri, Bidisha
  
• Entangled Histories: The Transcultural Past of Northeast China. Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Heidelberg: Springer, 2014
  Ben-Canaan, Dan, Frank Grüner, and Ines Prodöhl, eds.
  
• Exploring the Senses. South Asian and European Perspectives on Rituals and Performativity 3. New Delhi: Routledge, 2014
  Michaels, Axel, and Christoph Wulf, eds.
  
• India in the Contemporary World: Polity, Economy, and International Relations. New Delhi: Routledge, 2014
  Zajcązkowski, Jakub, Jivanta Schöttli, and Manish Thapa (eds.)
  
• Large Dams in Asia: Contested Environments between Technological Hydroscapes and Social Resistance. Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research. Heidelberg: Springer, 2014
  Nüsser, Marcus (ed.)
  
• Mensch. Natur. Katastrophe: Von Atlantis Bis Heute. Publikationen Der Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, 62 REISS-62. Mannheim; Regensburg: rem gGmbH Mannheim und Schnell & Steiner, 2014
  Schenk, Gerrit Jasper, Monica Juneja, Alfried Wieczorek, and Christoph Lind
  
• Networking the International System: Global Histories of International Organizations. Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Heidelberg: Springer, 2014
  Herren, Madeleine
  
• River Control in India: Spatial, Governmental, and Subjective Dimensions. Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research. Heidelberg: Springer, 2014
  Baghel, Ravi
  
• Zwangsarbeit als Kriegsressource in Europa und Asien. Krieg in der Geschichte 77. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2014
  Lingen, Kerstin von, and Klaus Gestwa (eds.)
  
• Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West: Tracing the Emergence of Medieval Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015
  König, Daniel
  
• Cultural Heritage as Civilizing Mission: From Decay to Recovery. Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Heidelberg: Springer, 2015
  Falser, Michael (ed.)
  
• Die Rezeption indischer Miniaturen in der europäischen Kunst des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. Studien zur internationalen Architektur- und Kunstgeschichte 121. Petersberg: Imhof, 2015
  Forberg, Corinna
  
• Discourses of Purity in Transcultural Perspective, 300–1600. Dynamics in the History of Religions 7. Leiden: Brill, 2015
  Bley, Matthias, Nikolas Jaspert, and Stefan Köck
  
• Healing Holidays: Itinerant Patients, Therapeutic Locales, and the Quest for Health. London: Routledge, 2015
  Naraindas, Harish, and Cristiana Bastos
  
• Il lama e il bombo: Sciamanismo e Buddhismo tra gli Hyolmo del Nepal. Sapienza Sciamanica 2. Rome: Edizioni Nuova Cultura, 2015
  Torri, Davide
  
• Monarchische Herrschaftsformen der Vormoderne in transkultureller Perspektive. Europa im Mittelalter 26. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015
  Drews, Wolfram, Christoph Dartmann, Antje Flüchter, Jörg Gengnagel, Almut Höfert, Sebastian Kolditz, Jenny Rahel Oesterle, Ruth Schilling, and Gerald Schwedler
  
• Pflug und Steuerruder: Zur Verflechtung von Herrschaft und Landwirtschaft in der Aufklärung. Köln: Böhlau, 2015
  Richter, Susan
  
• Politics in South Asia: Culture, Rationality, and Conceptual Flow. Heidelberg: Springer, 2015
  Wolf, Siegfried O., Jivanta Schöttli, Dominik Frommherz, Kai Fürstenberg, Marian Gallenkamp, Lion König, and Markus Pauli (eds.)
  
• Shimaji Mokurai and the Reconception of Religion and the Secular in Modern Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2015
  Krämer, Hans Martin
  
• Spirits in Transcultural Skies: Auspicious and Protective Spirits in Artefacts and Architecture. Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Heidelberg: Springer, 2015
  Gutschow, Niels, and Katharina Weiler (eds.)
  
• Suicide and Agency: Anthropological Perspectives on Self-Destruction, Personhood, and Power. Studies in Death, Materiality, and the Origin of Time. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015
  Broz, Ludek, and Daniel Münster (eds.)
  
• The Chinese Political Novel: Migration of a World Genre. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015
  Yeh, Catherine Vance
  
• The Dynamics of Transculturality: Concepts and Institutions in Motion. Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Heidelberg: Springer, 2015
  Flüchter, Antje, and Jivanta Schöttli (eds.)
  
• Die Balkankrise von 1875 bis 1878 im Spiegel osmanischer und westlicher Karikaturen. Geschichte und Kultur des modernen Vorderen Orients, History of Culture of the Modern Near and Middle East 38. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag, 2016
  Elmas, Elif
  
• Die “chinesische Avantgarde” und das Dispositiv der Ausstellung: Konstruktionen chinesischer Gegenwartskunst im Spannungsfeld der Globalisierung. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2016
  Koch, Franziska
  
• Globalisation and Governance in India: New Challenges to Society and Institutions. Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies 28. Abingdon: Routledge, 2016
  Bhattacharyya, Harihar, and Lion König, eds.
  
• Globalization and Popular Music in South Korea: Sounding Out K-Pop. Routledge Studies in Popular Music 7. New York: Routledge, 2016
  Fuhr, Michael
  
• Governing Post-imperial Siberia and Mongolia, 1911–1924: Buddhism, Socialism, and Nationalism in State and Autonomy Building. Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe. London: Routledge, 2016
  Sablin, Ivan
  
• Indian Muslims and Citizenship: Spaces for Jihad in Everyday Life. Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies 29. Abingdon: Routledge, 2016
  Abdelhalim, Julten
  
• Islam, Sufism, and Everyday Politics of Belonging in South Asia. Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies 31. Abingdon: Routledge, 2016
  Dandekar, Deepra, and Torsten Tschacher (eds.)
  
• Locating Religions: Contact, Diversity, and Translocality. Dynamics in the History of Religions 9. Leiden: Brill, 2016
  Glei, Reinhold F., and Nikolas Jaspert (eds.)
  
• Muslim Devotional Art in India. New Dehli: Routledge, 2012
  Saeed, Yousuf
  
• Muslim Sanzijing: Shifts and Continuities in the Definition of Islam in China. China Studies. Leiden: Brill, 2016
  Tontini, Roberta
  
• Passing Through Shanghai: Ethnographic Insights into the Mobile Lives of Expatriate Youths. Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Press, 2016
  Sander, Marie
  
• Politics of the “Other” in India and China: Western Concepts in Non-western Contexts. London: Routledge, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-138-85118-4
  König, Lion, and Bidisha Chaudhuri (eds.)
  
• The Body and Military Masculinity in Late Qing and Early Republican China. The Art of Governing Soldiers. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016
  Schillinger, Nicolas
  
• The News of Empire - Telegraphy, Journalism, and the Politics of Reporting in Colonial India, c. 1830–1900. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016
  Bonea, Amelia
  
• Transforming the Void: Embryological Discourse and Reproductive Imagery in East Asian Religions. Sir Henry Welcome Asian Series 16. Leiden: Brill, 2016
  Andreeva, Anna, and Dominic Steavu, eds.
  
• Transkulturelle Verflechtungen: Mediävistische Perspektiven. Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2016
  Christ, Georg, Saskia Dönitz, Daniel G. König, Sevket Kücükhüseyin, Margit Mersch, Britta Müller-Schauenburg, Ulrike Ritzerfeld, Christian Vogel, and Julia Zimmermann
  
• War Crimes Trials in the Wake of Decolonization and Cold War in Asia, 1945-1956: Justice in Time of Turmoil. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
  Lingen, Kerstin von
  
• Appropriating Innovations: Entangled Knowledge in Eurasia, 5000‒1500 BCE. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2017
  Maran, Joseph, and Philipp W. Stockhammer (eds.)
  
• Authenticity in Architectural Heritage Conservation: Discourses, Opinions, Experiences in Europe, South and East Asia. Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Heidelberg: Springer, 2017
  Weiler, Katharina, and Niels Gutschow (eds.)
  
• Entangled Worlds: Religious Confluences between East and West in the Roman Empire (Orientalische Religionen in der Antike 22). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017
  Nagel, Svenja, Joachim Friedrich Quack, and Christian Witschel (eds.)
  
• French Revolutionaries in the Ottoman Empire: Diplomacy, Political Culture, and the Limiting of Universal Revolution, 1792–1798. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017
  Firges, Pascal
  
• Religious Dynamics under the Impact of Imperialism and Colonialism: A Sourcebook. Leiden: Brill, 2017
  Krämer, Hans Martin, Björn Bentlage, Marion Eggert, and Stefan Reichmuth (eds.)
  
• Sex Work in Nepal. The Making and Unmaking of a Category. London: Routledge, 2017
  Caviglia, Lisa
  
• The Sultan's Renegades: Christian-European Converts to Islam and the Making of the Ottoman Elite, 1575–1610. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017
  Graf, Tobias
  
• The Transformative Power of the Copy - A Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Approach. Heidelberg: HeiUP, 2017
  Stockhammer, Philipp and Corinna Forberg (eds.)
  
• Transcultural Encounters in the Himalayan Borderlands. Heidelberg: HeiUP, 2017
  Viehbeck, Markus (ed.)
  
• Tschingis Khaan in der deutschsprachigen Literatur. Eine Geschichte des (Nicht-)Wissens (Heidelberg Transcultural Studies, vol. 4). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017
  Nowoitnick, Jule
  
• Crimes against Humanity. Eine Ideengeschichte der Zivilisierung von Kriegsgewalt 1864–1945. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2018
  Lingen, Kerstin von
  
• Im Transit auf dem Ozean – Schiffszeitungen als Dokumente globaler Verbindungen im 19. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2018
  Beamish, Johanna
  
• Legal Lessons: Popularizing Laws in the People’s Republic of China, 1949– 1989. Harvard: Harvard University Press: 2018
  Altehenger, Jennifer
  
• The Mortal God: Imagining the Sovereign in Colonial India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018
  Banerjee, Milinda
  
• The Rise and Fall of Russia's Far Eastern Republic, 1905–1922: Nationalisms, Imperialisms, and Regionalisms in and after the Russian Empire. London: Routledge, 2018
  Sablin, Ivan
  
• The Transported Imagination: Australian Interwar Magazines and the Geographical Imaginaries of Colonial Modernity. Amherst: Cambria, 2018
  Liebich, Susann, Victoria Kuttainen, and Sarah Galletly (eds.)
  
• Tumor im Blick. Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 2018
  Kamola, Jadwiga
  
• Why China did not have a Renaissance - and why that matters. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2018
  Maissen, Thomas and Barbara Mittler
  
• Women and Literary Narratives in Colonial India: Her Myriad Gaze on the ‘Other’. London: Routledge, 2018
  Chatterjee, Sukla
  
• Engaging Transculturality. Concepts, Key Terms, Case Studies. London: Routledge. 2019
  Abu-Er-Rub, Laila, Christiane Brosius et al. (eds.)
  
• Hundred Days’ Literature: Chinese Utopian Fiction at the End of Empire, 1902–1910. Leiden: Brill, 2019
  Andolfatto, Lorenzo
  
• Isis im Römischen Reich. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2019
  Nagel, Svenja
  
• Religion and Aesthetic Experience: Drama – Sermons – Literature (Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality 4). Heidelberg: HeiUP, 2019
  Dorpmüller, Sabine, Jan Scholz, Max Stille, and Ines Weinrich (eds.)