Projects
Current projects
Past projects
Current Projects
- Comics Culture in the People’s Republic of China (ChinaComx)
Time Frame: 01.01.2024 - 31.12.2028
Financed by: ERC
Project supervisor: Lena Henningsen (PD Dr.)
Project staff: Damian Mandzunowski - Verbundkolleg Worldmaking aus globaler Perspektive: ein Dialog mit China: "Epochale Lebenswelten: Mensch, Natur und Technik in Krisen- und Umbruchsnarrativen"
Time Frame: 2021-2025
Financed by: BMBF
Project supervisor: Meyer-Clement, Elena (Berlin), Sachsenmeier, Dominic (Göttingen), Mittler, Barbara & van Ess, Hans (Heidelberg/München), Alpermann, Björn (Würzburg)
Project staff: Schuman, Matthias (Dr.) Landa, Sara (M.A.), Tsui, Emily - Thematic Research Network (TRN) "Umwelten – Umbrüche – Umdenken"
Time Frame: 2020-2023
Financed by: FoF3
Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.), Keppler, Frank (Prof. Dr.), Folger, Robert (Prof. Dr.), Gerhard, Ulrike (Prof. Dr.), Reents, Friederike (Priv.-Doz. Dr.), Butz, André (Prof. Dr.) - Die China-Schul-Akademie— Mehr vom A/anderen w/Wissen: (Lehr- und Lern-)Dialoge mit China
Time Frame: 2019-2023
Financed by: BMBF
Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.) - Die China-Schul-Akademie— Mehr vom A/anderen w/Wissen: (Lehr- und Lern-)Dialoge mit China
Time Frame: 2019-2023
Financed by: BMBF
Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.) - “Reading Taiwan, Living Taiwan, Understanding Taiwan” Taiwan Studies Project, Part II
Time Frame: 2019-2022
Financed by: Taiwan Minstry of Education
Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.) - Mining and metallurgy in Southwest China, 14th to 19th century
Time Frame: 2019-2022
Financed by: DFG (in Kofinanzierung mit NSFC)
Project supervisor: Kim, Nanny (Dr.) - No Parallel? The Fatherly Bodies of Gandhi and Mao
Time Frame: 2016-2021
Financed by: Humboldt Stiftung
Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof.Dr.), Ramaswamy, Sumathi (Prof. Dr.), Brosius, Christiane (Prof. Dr.), Juneja, Monica (Prof. Dr.) - “Reading Mao: The Making of a Global Icon” (Opus Magnum Award)
Time Frame: 2019-2020
Financed by: Volkswagen Stiftung
Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.) - Umweltschutz und Ressourcenmanagement in China
Time Frame: 2018-2020
Project supervisor: Senz, Anja (Prof. Dr.) - Monitoring Chinese-European Relations: Discourse and Practice
Time Frame: 2018-2020
Project supervisor: Senz, Anja (Prof. Dr.) - Chinese perceptions of Russia and the West during the 20th century: changes, continuities, and contingencies
Time Frame: 2017-2020
Financed by: DFG (DFG-RGNF)
Project supervisor: Müller-Saini, Gotelind (Prof. Dr.) - From Periphery to Centre? Socio-political and Economic Dynamics in the Borderlands of China, Myanmar and India
Time Frame: 2016-2020
Project supervisor: Senz, Anja (Prof. Dr.) - HERA: East Asian Uses of the European Past: Tracing Braided Chronotypes
Time Frame: 2016-2019
Financed by: HERA - Humanities in the European Research Area
Project supervisor: Kurtz, Joachim (Prof.Dr.) - Die Beschreibstoffe Holz und Bambus im alten China
Time Frame: 2015-2019
Financed by: DFG (SFB 933)
Project supervisor: Giele, Enno (Prof. Dr.)
Project staff: Staack, Thies (Dr.) -
Representations of History in Chinese Film and Television
Time Frame: 2007 -
Financed by: Heinz-Götze-Foundation
Project supervisor: Müller-Saini, Gotelind (Prof. Dr.) -
Popular Culture Group
(Research Group made up of PhD Candidates receiving different types of funding)
Time Frame: 2005 -
Financed by (u.a.): Supp-Stiftung, Stiftung Baden-Wuerttemberg, Universität Heidelberg, LEA
Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.)
Project staff: see website
Past Projects
- WorldMaking in Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China
Time Frame: 2019
Financed by: Field of Focus 3 “Cultural Dynamics in Globalized Worlds”
Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.), Graf, Emily (Dr.) - Recalibrating Culture: Putting the Transcultural in Perspective
Time Frame: 2018-2019
Financed by: University of Heidelberg, Field of Focus 3 “Cultural Dynamics in Globalized Worlds” (Start-Up Project)
Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.), Stoellger, Philipp (Prof. Dr.) - Knowing more about the Other: Dialogues with China (Mehr vom A/anderen w/Wissen: (Lehr- und Lern-)Dialoge mit China
Time Frame: 2018
Financed by: Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies, Transcultural Forays
Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.), Büchsel, Ulrike (M.A.) - Transcultural Sexualities: Writing, Practicing, Denying
Time Frame: 2018
Financed by: Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies, Tandem Fellowship
Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.), Zamperini, Paola (Prof. Dr.) - “Reading Taiwan, Living Taiwan, Understanding Taiwan” Taiwan Studies Project, Part I
Time Frame: 2015-2018
Financed by: Taiwan Minstry of Education
Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.) - Environments, people and mining in the Far Southwest of China since 1500: Cross-disciplinary explorations
Time Frame: 2015-2018
Project supervisor: Kim, Nanny (Dr.) - Regulation und Furcht: Zur Klassifikation von Cyberangriffen weltweit
Time Frame: 2016-2018
Fianziert von: Field of Focus 4, Universität Heidelberg
Project supervisor: Senz, Anja (Prof. Dr.), Harnisch, Sebastian (Prof. Dr.), Heuveline, Vincent (Prof. Dr.) - Bureaucratic Culture and Governance: State, Society and Rules
Time Frame: 2016-2017
Financed by: Field of Focus 4, Universität Heidelberg
Project supervisor: Senz,Anja (Prof. Dr.), Mukherji, Rahul (Prof.) - Humboldt Forschungspreis: Paul Pickowicz
Time Frame: 2016
Financed by: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.) - Die Funktion regionaler ökonomischer Kooperationsprojekte und der Mehrebenen-Diplomatie für die Konflikttransformation in der Grenzregion Nordostindien-Südwestchina-Bangladesch-Myanmar
Time Frame: 2015-2016
Gefördert von: Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung
Project supervisor: Senz, Anja (J.Prof. Dr. ), Reinhardt, Dieter (Dr.) - A15: Creating Patriotic Monotheists: a socialisation perspective on Islam and Christianity in Contemporary China
Time Frame: 2013 - 2017
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Müller-Saini, Gotelind (Prof. Dr.)
Project staff: Tontini, Roberta (Postdoc) -
Embodying the Nation—Representations of Gandhi and Mao
Time Frame: 2014 - 2015
Financed by: Exzellenzinitiative, 3. Säule, Mobilitätsmaßnahmen Universität Heidelberg
Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.), Ramaswamy, Sumathi (Prof. Dr.)
Project staff: Li, Shuang (Dr.) -
China, International Organizations and Public Spheres
Time Frame: 2014 - 2015
Financed by: Exzellenzinitiative, 3. Säule, Mobilitätsmaßnahmen Universität Heidelberg
Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.)
Project staff: Brownell, Susan (Prof. Dr.) -
Patriotische Erziehung in China
Time Frame: 2013 - 2015
Financed by: Heinz Götze Stiftung
Project supervisor: Müller-Saini, Gotelind (Prof. Dr.) -
China an die Schulen
Time Frame: 2013 - 2015
Financed by: Robert Bosch Stiftung
Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.)
Project staff: Büchsel, Ulrike (M.A.), Graf, Emily Mae (M.A.), Schröder, Odila (B.A.) -
ECPO Early Chinese Periodicals Online (ECPO)—Creating a Prototype for an Intelligent Archive
Time Frame: 2012 - 2015
Financed by: CCK Foundation
Project supervisor: Yu, Chien-ming (Dr.), Lien, Ling-ling (Dr.) , Hu, Hsiao-chen (DR.), Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.)
Project staff: Sun, Liying (M.A.) et al. -
MC4 Frames: Frames and Framings in Transcultural Interactions
Time Frame: 2012 - 2015
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Kurtz, Joachim , Trede, Melanie, Harder, Hans -
MC5 Global Concepts: Towards a Global History of Concepts
Time Frame: 2012 - 2015
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Kurtz, Joachim , Wagner, Rudolf G. W., Juneja, Monica, Raina, Dhruv -
MC13 Practices of Argumentation: Practices of Argumentation in Transcultural Perspective
Time Frame: 2012 - 2015
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Kurtz, Joachim, Kellner, Birgit -
MC 15: Powers of the Press and Media Changes
Time Frame: 2012 - 2015
Financed by: Exzellenz-Cluster Asia-Europe
Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.)
Project staff: Sun, Liying (M.A.) -
Central Propaganda and Local Stability in China
Time Frame: 2012 - 2013
Financed by: Crawfoord Foundation
Project supervisor: Goebel, Christian (Dr.) -
A12: Framing Visions of Self and Other: History, Television and the State in Contemporary China
Time Frame: 2010 - 2012
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Müller-Saini, Gotelind (Prof. Dr.) -
C11: Medicine and Religion in Premodern East Asia
Time Frame: 2010 - 2012
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Kurtz, Joachim (Prof. Dr.); Fuess, Harald (Ph.D. Harvard) -
A8: Teaching Identity: Re-shaping the Citizen in Chinese and Japanese Language History Schoolbooks in Manchuria (1931-1945)
Time Frame: 2009 - 2012
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Müller-Saini, Gotelind (Prof. Dr.); Seifert, Wolfgang (Prof. Dr.)
Project staff: Lüdecke, Sarah (M.A.) -
HRA8: Chinese Women´s Magazines in the Republican Period
Time Frame: 2009 - 2011
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.); Arnold, Matthias; Gietz, Peter -
B16: Parcours Exhibition in Heidelberg: “Becoming Intense – Becoming Animal – Becoming …”
Time Frame: Nov. 2009 - Feb.2010
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Trede, Melanie (Prof. Dr.) -
B8: Rethinking Gender, Sexuality and the Body in a Transcultural Art World
Time Frame: 2009 - 2010
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Trede, Melanie (Prof. Dr.); Brosius, Christiane (Prof. Dr.); Dharampal-Frick, Gita (Prof. Dr.); Enderwitz, Susanne (Prof. Dr.); Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.); Prohl, Inken (Prof. Dr.) -
Taiwan Studies Enrichment Program
Time Frame: 2008 - 2013
Financed by: Taiwan Ministry of Education
Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.), Mei Chia-ling (Prof. Dr., Taiwan University) -
Asian Image and Multimedia Databases
Time Frame: 2008 - 2012
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Brosius, Christiane (Prof. Dr.); Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.), Maissen, Thomas, (Prof. Dr.), Rosenberg, Raphael (Prof. Dr.), Trede, Melanie (Prof. Dr.) -
B1: Satire - Gauging Cultural Asymmetries: Asian Satire and the Search for Identity in the Era of Colonialism and Imperialism
Time Frame: 2008 - 2011
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Harder, Hans (Prof. Dr.); A'rokay, Judit (Prof. Dr.); Ursinus, Michael (Prof. Dr.); Enderwitz, Susanne (Prof. Dr.); Dharampal-Frick, Gita (Prof. Dr.); Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.) -
B2: Creative Dissonances: Creative Dissonances: Music in a Global Context
Time Frame: 2008 - 2011
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.); Redepenning, Dorothea (Prof. Dr.) -
B4: Transcultural Visuality Learning Group
Time Frame: 2008 - 2011
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Brosius, Christiane (Prof. Dr.); Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.) Sumathi Ramaswamy -
D11: Hidden Grammars of Transculturality - Migrations of Encyclopaedic Knowledge and Power (pilot project)
Time Frame: 2008 - 2011
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Herren-Oesch, Madeleine (Prof. Dr.); Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.) -
A New Approach to the Popular Press in China: Gender and Cultural Production, 1904-1937.
Time Frame: 2008 - 2011
Financed by: TransCOOP-Programm, Humboldt Foundation
Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.); Judge, Joan (Prof. at York University); Fong, Grace (Prof. at McGill University, Canada)
Project staff: Jöst, Annika (M.A.); Sun Liying (M.A.) -
HRA3: Enhancement of Visiual Database - Position of a coordinator for a visiual database
Time Frame: 2008 - 2011
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Brosius, Christiane (Prof. Dr.); Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.); Maissen, Thomas (Prof. Dr.); Rosenberg, Raphael (Prof. Dr.); Trede, Melanie (Prof. Dr.)
Project staff: Arnold, Matthias; Bertolo, Christoph; Gruening, Simon -
A5: Nationising the Dynasty. Asymmetrical Flows in Conceptions of Government
Time Frame: 2008 - 2011
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Maissen, Thomas, (Prof. Dr.); Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.); Schneidmüller, Bernd (Prof. Dr.) -
A2: Schoolbooks - Cultural Flows in History Education: Shifting Re-creations of European and Asian ‘Others’ in East Asian Schoolbooks
Time Frame: 2008 - 2010
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Müller-Saini, Gotelind (Prof. Dr.); Seifert, Wolfgang (Prof. Dr.) -
A3: Networking - The Real Fiction of Unreal Equality: Networking the International System
Time Frame: 2008 - 2010
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Herren-Oesch, Madeleine (Prof. Dr.); Nüsser, Marcus (Prof. Dr.); Wagner, Rudolf G. (Prof. Dr.) -
B5: Rise of dan Actors - The Stuff Stars are made of: International Politics, Mass Media and the Rise of dan Actors in the Republican Era (1910s-1930s)
Time Frame: 2008 - 2010
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Yeh, Catherine (Prof. Dr.) -
HRA1: Restructuring the conceptual field: The notion and status of the "political" in the East Asian modernization processes 1850-2007 (pilot project)
Time Frame: 2008 - 2010
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Wagner, Rudolf G. (Prof. Dr.) -
A2: Cultural flows in history education: shifting re-creations of European and Asian "Others" in East Asian schoolbooks
Time Frame: 2008 - 2010
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Müller-Saini, Gotelind (Prof. Dr.); Seifert, Wolfgang (Prof. Dr.) -
HRA2: Global Heroes - Archiving Mothers and Fathers of the Nation in Europe and Asia: Developing a Digitized Prototype of Braided Pictorial Histories (pilot project)
Time Frame: 2008 - 2009
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Brosius, Christiane (Prof. Dr.); Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.); Maissen, Thomas (Prof. Dr.); Ramaswamy, Sumathi (Prof. Dr., Duke University) -
Rethinking Trends - Transcultural Flows in the Global Popular Sphere
Time Frame: Sep. 2008 - Nov. 2008
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Henningsen, Lena (M.A.); Gehrig, Sebastian (M.A.); Altehenger, Jennifer (M.A.)
Project staff: Thiel, Petra (M.A.); Jöst, Annika (M.A.); Sun Liying (M.A.); Jungbluth, Cora (M.A.); May Jennifer (M.A.); Xiong Jingjing (M.A.); Huang Xuelei (M.A.); Frisch, Nora (M.A.); Schneider, Julia (M.A.) - Taiwan Politics, History and Society: A Series of Lecture Series (Part I-III)
Time Frame: 2007-2016
Gefördert von: CCK Foundation and Taiwan Culture Office
Project supervisor: Barbara Mittler (Prof. Dr.) -
Taiwan Politics, History and Society: A Series of Lectures
Time Frame: 2007 - 2013
Financed by: CCK Foundation and Taiwan Culture Office, Berlin
Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.)
Co-Directors: Schubert, Gunter (Prof. Dr., Universitä Tübingen); Ash, Robert (Prof. Dr.) & Fell, Dafydd (Dr.) (SOAS, Director and Deputy Director of the Centre for Taiwan Studies); Vittinghoff, Natascha (Prof. Dr., University of Edinburgh) -
HRA4: QuotationFinder: A Tool for Text Comparison
Time Frame: 2007 - 2012
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.); May, Jennifer; Damn, Marco -
Erstellung von digitalem Chinesisch-Sprachlehrmaterial (德語地區華語文數位教材暨網路教學發展計畫)
Time Frame: 2007 - 2010
Financed by: Ministry of Education, Republic of China (Taiwan)
Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.); Hsin, Shih-Chang (Prof. Dr.)
Project staff: Lin, Xinyu; Lin, Chunping -
Ferner Osten - ganz nah! (Schulprojekt)
Time Frame: 2006 - 2009
Financed by: Robert Bosch Stiftung, BMBF
Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.); Henningsen, Lena (Dr.)
Project staff: Müller, Simone, Marschall, Anne, Gao Ming, Wan Li, Sheng Kejia, Nora Frisch, Dirk Wiegand, Nina Lösch, Sven Eigler -
Research Group "Monies, Markets, and Finance in China and East Asia, 1600-1900: Local, Regional, National, and International Dimensions"
Time Frame: Oct .2005 - Sep. 2011
Projekt Director: Hans Ulrich Vogel
Financed by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Sub-project 5: Military Expenditures and their Economic Impact in Qing China - Part 1: Zuo Zongtang's Western Campaign 1866-1878
Project supervisor: Wagner, Rudolf (Prof. Dr.)
Project staff: Kaske, Elisabeth
Sub-project 6: From the Southwestern Mines to the Metropolitan Mints: Technologies, Organization and Representations in State Transports of Qing China
Project supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.)
Project staff: Kim, Nanny (Dr.) -
Online Course: Digital Resources for Chinese Studies
Time Frame: Jun. 2002 - Jun. 2005
Financed by: DFG
Project supervisor: Wagner, Rudolf G. (Prof. Dr.)
Project staff: Arnold, Matthias (M.A.) -
Electronic Index to the leading articles of the early Shenbao (1872-1895)
Time Frame: Jan. 2002 -
Financed by: Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
Project supervisor: Wagner, Rudolf G. (Prof. Dr.)
Project staff: Janku, Andrea (Dr. des.); Kim, Nanny (Dr.) -
DACHS - Digital Archive for Chinese Studies
Time Frame: Aug. 2001 -
Financed by: Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Stiftung
Projektleiter:: Wagner, Rudolf (Prof. Dr.)
Project staff: Lippmann, Sven -
Internet Guide for China Studies
Time Frame: Nov. 1995 -
General Editor: Lecher, Hanno (M.A.)
Editors: Arnold, Matthias (M.A.); Gieselmann, Martin (M.A.); Kaun, Matthias (M.A.) -
ChinaResource.org
Time Frame: Jan. 1999 - Dec. 2002
Financed by: Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Stiftung
Project supervisor: Wagner, Rudolf G. (Prof. Dr.)
Project staff: Arnold, Matthias (M.A.); Gross, Jennifer; Lecher, Hanno (M.A.); Sass, Oliver; Schröder, Gesche (M.A.) -
Buddhist Dictionaries, Project RE9.10/08
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Harbsmeier, Christoph (Prof. Dr.); Wagner, Rudolf G. (Prof. Dr.) -
Sinological Serials in European Libraries
Financed by: EACS, CCF
Project staff: Schimmelpfennig, Friederike (M.A.) -
Common People and the Artist
Financed by (among others): CCK Foundation, CNRS 2005-2009
Project supervisor: Henriot, Christian (Prof. Dr.); Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr. ); Yeh, Catherine Vance (Prof. Dr.) et al.
Project staff: Sun Liying -
D14: Language Flows in Pre-Modern East-Asia: Literary Chinese
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Wagner, Rudolf G. (Prof. Dr.); Statu, Nicolae Cristian
Project staff: Gubic, Ivana -
D15: Making Powerful Arguments in Late Imperial China: Shifting Standards pf Validity in Transcultural Perspective
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Hofmann, Martin (Dr.); Kurtz, Joachim (Prof. Dr.)
Project staff: Steavu, Dominic -
HRA5 Modern Chinese Scientific Terminologies: The distribution of Western Knowledge in Late Imperial China
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Joachim Kurtz, Jens Østergaard Petersen, Kaja Müller-Wang, Iwo Amelung -
HRA6: HyperEvaluation
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Brosius, Christiane (Prof. Dr.); Maissen, Thomas (Prof. Dr.); Rosenberg, Raphael (Prof. Dr.); Trede, Melanie (Prof. Dr.); Arnold, Matthias (M.A.); Gietz, Peter (M.A.) -
HRA11: Chinese Entertainment Newspapers
Financed by: Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe"
Project supervisor: Arnold, Matthias; Yeh, Catherine (Prof. Dr.)
Project staff: Jiang, Rui