HCTS has been created to introduce and promote the study on the life and works of Alexander von Humboldt.
Professor Dr. Ottmar Ette, Director of the HCTS
The Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies was launched.
The Second Forum on "China's Modernization from Overseas Perspectives" hosted by Xiamen University, was successfully held on May 26, 2025. Professor Ottmar Ette, Director of the Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies at Hunan Normal University, Professor at the University of Potsdam, and member of the European Academy of Sciences, delivered a keynote speech analyzing the historical and c...
On May 8 and May 12, 2025, the Humboldt Center for transdisciplinary Studies at Hunan Normal University hosted an academic workshop titled "Order and Progress: Narrating the World". The event featured two lectures by Professor Ottmar Ette. The workshop attracted a large audience of faculty and students, sparking in-depth discussions and exchanges.During the May 8 lecture, Prof. Ottmar sketched ...
From October 23rd to 26th, the Second Humboldt Day "Rethinking the World" series of academic activities, co-hosted by the Foreign Studies College at Hunan Normal University and the Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies, took place at the Foreign Studies College, Hunan Normal University. The event, which included academic lectures on Humboldt's themes and keynote speeches, aimed to comme...
On September 14th 1769, exactly 251 years ago, Alexander von Humboldt was born in Berlin, under the sign of a comet, as he proudly remarked. He became one of the most famous scholars and scientistsof his time on a world-wide scale and is celebrated today both in Europe and the Americas. In China, it is high time to discover a naturalist, writer and traveller who, crossing the Russian Empire, no...
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