Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS)

On July 26, HCTS professor of Global Art History Monica Juneja will deliver a keynote speech at the 26th European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS). Prof. Juneja’s talk on “Disciplinary Thresholds - Art History's Ecological Imaginaries” will examine the nexus between the discipline of art history and the global climate crisis.

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The inaugural issue of CATSarena, the newsletter of the Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS), is now online. It is focused on the topic of social distancing in Asia. As the two founding directors of CATS, Axel Michaels and Barbara Mittler, with the help of two generous designers, Susann Henker and Jennifer Landes, have served as editors for this inaugural issue.

From July 13, 2019 to April 4, 2020 selected items from the CHIME Collection will be displayed in the foyer of the CATS Library, introducing e.g. the peculiarities of the Chinese seven stringed zither guqin, and the development of a new wave of Chinese music in the 1980s. [more...]