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
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...
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...
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
November 29, 2020
Foreign Languages and Cultures, vol. 3, no. 3, 2019
November 28, 2020
The Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies was launched.
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