May 19, 2025
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 ...
October 27, 2024
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...
October 27, 2024
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...
October 29, 2024
On October 23rd at 4:30 PM, a lecture titled "My Class, My World, My Gender: The Female New Boom in Latin American Literature" was held in Room 214 of the Zhonghe Building at Hunan Normal University. The speaker was Dr. Patricia A. Gwozdz, who is a senior lecturer for Comparative Literature with special focus on Romance Literatures and Cultures at the University of Potsdam. Attending the lectur...
October 29, 2024
On the evening of October 26th at 7:00 PM, the Foreign Studies College at Hunan Normal University held a lecture on "Atmospheric Aesthetics" in Room 515 of the Tenglong Building. The lecture was hosted by Professor Xie Minmin from the Foreign Studies College , with Professor Wang Bingjun from Beijing Foreign Studies University invited as the keynote speaker. Professor Wang is an outstanding sch...
August 28, 2024
The highly anticipated launch of the new book Mountains and Fishermen: Contemporary Chinese Cultural Criticism, co-edited by Chen Zhongyi, Ren Haiyan, and João Cezar de Castro Rocha, is scheduled for September 2nd at 6 PM (UTC-4) at the CASA DIRCE Cultural and Arts Center at Rio de Janeiro State University. The event will feature a special discussion between Professor Ren Haiyan, Deputy Directo...
March 15, 2024
On March 15, 2024, Prof. Dr. Ren Haiyan, Deputy Director of the Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies, delivered a lecture at the University of Macau. The lecture, titled "Desire for Knowledge and Historicity: A Comparison of the Travel Writings of Alexander von Humboldt and Xu Xiake", delved into the works of these two eminent travelers, aiming to illuminate the pursuit of knowledge an...
October 25, 2023
On the afternoon of October 25, 2023, Prof. Dr. Ottmar Ette, Director of the Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies, visited the School of Foreign Languages at Xiangtan University to deliver a lecture titled "Alexander von Humboldt and the Birth of Modern Ecology" to the students and faculty of the French Department.In his lecture, Prof. Dr. Ette provided an in-depth examination of the l...
October 18, 2023
On October 18, 2023, at the invitation of the German Department and the Virtual Teaching and Research Office of German Literature at Sichuan International Studies University, Prof. Dr. Ottmar Ette, Director of the Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies, delivered a lecture titled "Learning Symbiosis: Symbiosis in Contemporary German Literature" at the German Studies Center of Sichuan Int...
October 16, 2023
In September 2023, the Chinese translation of Alexander von Humboldt's work Cosmos, translated by our center member Ms. Gao Hong and published by Peking University Press, marked a significant milestone in the fields of literature and science. This renowned work by the explorer and naturalist challenged traditional disciplinary boundaries by merging knowledge from different domains into a compre...
October 15, 2023
On September 25th, the official website of Germany's Tagesspiegel reported on Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies under the title "Bridge Builder Humboldt: Encounters with the Celestial Empire." The article's introduction states, "Romance linguist Ottmar Ette established a research center in Changsha and asked: Could China produce its own Alexander von Humboldt?"This report not only r...
September 11, 2023
On October 11, 2023, the first "Humboldt Day" in China is set to commence, organized by the Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies, Hunan Normal University. This event will be under the theme of "Alexander von Humboldt: Ways of/in European Modernity"
July 23, 2023
On the afternoon of May 22, 2023, Prof. Dr. Ottmar Ette, director of HCTS, gave a captivating lecture on "Alexander von Humboldt: Life on the Move" in Room 613, Tenglong Building, Hunan Normal Universtiy.
May 31, 2023
On the afternoon of May 30, 2023, Prof. Ottmar Ette, director of HCTS, along with Prof. Chen Zhongyi and Prof. Stephen Hart, engaged in a captivating dialogue on "Mo Yan and Magical Realism in Latin America" in Room 304, Tenglong Building, Hunan Normal Universtiy. Here are some highlights from the discussion
October 13, 2022
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Germany, the German Department of Foreign Studies College of Hunan Normal University and the Humboldt Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies jointly planned the first German Cultural Festival under the banner of “Building bridges of friendship and promoting the development of the discipline” on Octo...
September 17, 2022
An event of the Academy Project“Alexander von Humboldt on Journeys - Science from the Movement”at the Center“Prussia - Berlin”of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) has been held on Alexander von Humboldt Day, Sept. 16 2022. Prof. Dr. Ottmar Ette, Director of HCTS, announced its opening. Dr. Ren Haiyan, Deputy Director of HCTS, was also invited to participate in...
April 15, 2022
The International Colloquium“Building Bridges, Broadening Horizons: China and Latin America” takes the opportunity of the launching of the special issue of the Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures in order to unfold a project concerning the strengthening of cultural, aesthetic and literary ties between China and Latin America.Instead of insisting in sophisticated forms of exceptionalism,...
November 24, 2021
A global conference to commemorate the 24th anniversary of the opening of Alexander von Humboldt House Museum was held in Havana, Cuba.Humboltians from Cuba, Germany. Ottmar Ette, director of the Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies, and Ren Haiyan, vice director of the Center, editorial director of the periodical Foreign Languages and Cultures delivered their speeches at the conference.
April 2, 2021 Ren Haiyan
From March to June 2021, the HCTS organized a webinar on Romanticism.
November 29, 2020
Special lecture by Prof. Dr. Ottmar Ette
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