Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies

Changsha, China /Berlin, Germany

Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies

Changsha, China / Berlin, Germany

Mission Statement

HCTS has been created to introduce and promote the study on the life and works of Alexander von Humboldt.

Welcome Speech

Professor Dr. Ottmar Ette, Director of the HCTS

Launching Ceremony

The Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies was launched.


Latest News

Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies


Exploring the Terrestrial Roots of Critical Philosophy: HCTS Hosts "Kant on Earth" Lecture

    On the evening of October 14, the Humboldt Interdisciplinary Research Center at Hunan Normal University convened a scholarly lecture titled "Kant on Earth" in the Zhonghe Building. Organized as a flagship event of the third annual "Humboldt Day" series, the session featured Professor Stefanie Buchenau, a distinguished scholar of German intellectual history from the University of Sorbonne No...

HCTS Hosts 3rd Humboldt Day

From October 9 to 14, the series of academic events for the 3rd Humboldt Day International Forum, titled “Humboldt's Cosmos: Ethics and Aesthetics”, was held in Tenglong Building at the School of Foreign Studies. Co-organized by the School of Foreign Studies and the Humboldt Interdisciplinary Research Center of Hunan Normal University, the forum featured academic lectures and keynote reports ...

“Only the Chinese Understand China”? HCTS Lecture Challenges Cultural Interpretation Paradigms

       On the evening of October 10, 2025, Professor Li Xuetao, Dean of the School of History and Culture at Beijing Foreign Studies University, was invited to Hunan Normal University to deliver a special lecture titled “The Contribution of the Outsider: The Cultural Context and Hermeneutic Issues of ‘Only the Chinese Understand China.’” The lecture was part of the 3rd Humboldt Day Internat...


Members

Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies


Prof. Dr. Ottmar Ette

Director

Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Director of the Humboldt Center for Interdisciplinary Studies

Dr. Ren Haiyan

Deputy Director

Professor at the English Department of Hunan Normal University, Deputy Director of the Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies


About Humboldt

Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies


About Alexander von Humboldt

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...


Contact Us

Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies


Thank you for visiting our website.

Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies, Hunan Normal University. All Rights Reserved.