EXC 270 Asia and Europe Mini-Clusters

While each Research Area had a different focus and drew on the expertise of its members in different disciplines, they all addressed related questions: moving on from locating asymmetries and documenting cultural flows, they strove to refine our ability to understand the inventory of transcultural interactions and develop an adequate language to capture their dynamics. In order to strengthen interconnections between different parts of the Cluster’s Research Web, the Research Areas housed, next to individual projects, a number of larger-scale research groups, called Mini-Clusters. These brought together groups of several senior and junior researchers from many different disciplines, thus profiting from and contributing to the fact that Heidelberg has throughout been committed to the concept of a comprehensive university. These Mini-Clusters either strengthened interdisciplinary dialogues within one Research Area on the vertical axis, or they addressed issues raised in several Research Areas, thus strengthening horizontal dialogues between them.