In cooperation with the Cluster Asia and Europe in a Global Context of the University of Heidelberg and with the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in New Delhi
Recent research in
transboundary travels of concepts, (institutional) practices, and material
culture has provided new perspectives in cultural and historical studies. Not
only have transcultural biographies been the subject of recent scholarly
interest, but there has also been an increasing interest in questions of space.
Research related to border crossing interrogates
the boundedness of national political space. Research in this field,
which focuses on global sites and migrant trails in the present and in the
past, evinces a new interest in processes of border crossing as well as border
making. The transnationalisation of law or the study of multicultural
organisations provides yet other fruitful fields to investigate these
processes.
This workshop critically
investigates border crossings in different media and in a variety of colonial
and post–colonial contexts. It also explores the production of transcultural
bodies and seeks to understand how biographical research is transforming our
understanding of transcultural entanglements.
