Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS)

From 15 April 2021 to 22 June 2021, the lecture series “Asian Religions and the Politics of Heritage” will take place, which is jointly organised by the South Asia Institute and the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies.

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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...]