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.
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 the evening of October 24, 2024, two lectures themed on Alexander von Humboldt were presented to the faculty and students of the Foreign Studies College at Hunan Normal University. The lectures were organized by the Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies, aiming to share cutting-edge results from international Humboldt research.Dr. Tobias Kraft shared his insights on “European Perspe...
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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