On May 22 and 23, Bruce McCoy Owens, associate professor of Anthropology at Wheaton College, visited the HCTS to participate in a workshop on DANAM and to give a lecture on “Intangible Heritage and Visual Repatriation”. He was hosted by the NHDP project and the professorship of Visua…
From March 27-29, the Heidelberg E-Science Days 2019: "Data to Knowledge" will take place at the Neue Universität. On Thursday,
Recently our new intern Charlotte von Waitz started her work with NHDP in Nepal.During her two-month internship at NHDP she is participating in the data gathering about phalcās (public resthouses) and ethnographic research about their usage by the local communities. Charlotte is a B.A. student o…
In December 2018, shortly after its launch, the project was getting attention from "Campus TV". The German television station produced a film portrait, that was broadcasted on German TV in December 2018 and is now available with English subtitles. The film portrait features project leader Prof. …
NHDP project leader Prof. Christiane Brosius participates at the conference "Epicentre to Aftermath. Political, Social and Cultural Impacts of Earthquakes in South Asia", hosted by the South Asia Institute of SOAS, University of London on 11-12 January. Besides her talk under the title "Art as p…