Prof. Klaus Antoni | |
| Prof. Antoni (born in 1953), is teaching and carrying on research since 1998 at the University of Tübingen. He holds the professorship in Japanese Studies with special focus on Japanese cultural theories. Previously, he held the professorship (C4) at the University of Hamburg (1987-1993) and at the University of Trier (1993-1998). From 2010 to 2016, he has also been Vice-Dean of research at the Faculty of Humanities. Current core research areas are: intellectual and religious history of Japan, relations between religion (Shintô) and political ideology in Japan, „sacred scripts“ and political mythology in Japan, theory of Japanese fairy tales, literature in Old Japan. Furthermore: intercultural communication, Japanese cultural theories; relations between Japan and Asia. Further information ... |  |
Prof. Dr. Heidrun Eichner | |
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Prof. Dr. Regula Forster | |
| Regula Forster (*1975) is Professor of Islamic History and Culture in Tübingen since 2020. Her research focuses on classical Arabic literature (dialogue as a literary form, literature conveying knowledge, Fürstenspiegel), the history of science (especially alchemy), the history of Koran exegesis and cultural contact. Further information... |  |
Private Lecturer Dr. Sabine Klocke-Daffa |
| PD Dr. Sabine Klocke-Daffa (born in 1956) teaches and does research in Tübingen since 2008. She is a lecturer at the department of social and cultural anthropology and spokesperson of the post graduate program „Networks and Resource complexes“ of the Collaborative Research Center 1070 „ResourceCultures“ as well as the second head of the project „Resources and public relations“. Her current focal points are: Social security and exchange systems, basic income grant, networks and cultural dynamics of resources and applied anthropology. Her regional focus lies in Africa, especially Southern Africa. Further Information... |  |
Prof. Dr. You Jae Lee | |
| Prof. Lee is historian and Korean specialist. He teaches and does research in Tübingen since 2010. He is head of the department of Korean Studies and director of the King Sejong Institute Tübingen. His research focuses on colonialism and post-colonialism, Cold War, Migration and Diaspora. Currently he works on the following projects: „Welt aneignen. Alltagsgeschichte in transnationaler Perspektive“ (“Aquire the world. Everyday history in transnational perspective”, DFG), „Korea and East Asia in Global History“ (AKS), „Korean European Studies“ (DAAD) and Asian German Studies. Further information... |  |
Prof. Dr. Heike Oberlin | |
| Heike Oberlin is Head of the Department of Indology. Her academic background includes studies in Indology and Social and Cultural Anthropology at Tübingen, complemented by training in Sanskrit theatre in the kūṭiyāṭṭam style in Kerala. Her main research interests are the performing arts of India, Malayalam and Kerala studies, manuscriptology and gender studies. In 2004 she obtained a Doctorate in Indology with distinction (Univ. of Würzburg) and was awarded the Ernst Waldschmidt Prize 2008 (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation). Her habilitation (2013, venia legendi for Indology) was followed by the appointed as an “Außerplanmäßige Professorin” at Tübingen in 2016. In 2018, she was honored by the state government of Kerala as ‘Scholar in Residence’. In 2019, the Indian Council of Cultural Relations ICCR awarded her the Gisela Bonn Prize for outstanding achievements in the field of Indo-German relations. She had been invited as a visiting professor at La Sapienza University in Rome for March/April 2025. Further information... |  |
Prof. Dr. Monika Schrimpf | |
| My research interests are in Japanese history of religion, with a particular focus on modern and contemporary times. Presently, my research focuses on the fields of gender and religion, as well as medicine and religion in Japan. With regard to the first topic, I investigate the role of gender concepts in the self-understandings of contemporary ordained Buddhist women, thus reconstructing changed interpretations of religious roles. Besides, I examine diverse ways in which religion and medicine are entangled in contemporary Japan, asking for strategies of legitimation and self-positioning among religious actors offering therapeutic practices. Here, Buddhism and new religious movements serve as examples. I am professor for Japanese Studies at the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies of the University of Tübingen since 2014. Further information... |  |
