Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS)

Welcome to join the CATSFORUM that is going to present eight brief talks from existing research projects or individual research foci. Do not miss the insights into current research that is going on within CATS on Friday from 11am-2pm, details in the programme here. [ Programme ]

Under the auspices of the "Ruperto Carola Ringvorlesung" the BMBF-funded Kolleg "Worldmaking from a Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China" is organizing a series of events that will examine the question of destruction and (re-)creation from different disciplinary perspectives including exchanges with artistic models, in music, art and film, and the ideas of young people. [Mehr...] | [Flyer]

As a result of the consternation about democratic backsliding and the consequent provocation for academic freedom, Asian and Heidelberg scholars discuss the political backdrop to this intellectual challenge in this fall's issue of CATSarena.
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