Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS)

12.06.2026–05.09.2026, Foyer CATS-Bibliothek
The exhibition is part of Dr. Martin Blahota’s research on Asianism and Buddhism as important dimensions of East Asian modernity. Although Asianism has attracted growing scholarly attention in both East Asia and the West in recent years, Asianist propaganda posters from Manchukuo have not yet been presented in an exhibition outside Japan. [More...]

This event series takes the question of building futures from the margins as its starting point for a review of some of the seminal literature in global history. In taking what is read as “marginal,” its voices and sources seriously, and by including artistic and activist resources, it offers an intervention to established academic reasoning. The series sets out to test out transcultural perspectives on and alternative approaches to the writing of histories. [More...]