Projects

I. As Principal Investigator:

• “Moving On: Reading, Living, Understanding Taiwan—Integrating Academy and Public” Taiwan Studies Project, Part III: Time frame: 2023–2028
  Financed by: Taiwan Minstry of Education, 225.000 Euro
  Project Supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.)
• Die China-Schul-Akademie— Mehr vom A/anderen w/Wissen: (Lehr- und Lern-)Dialoge mit China
  Time frame: 2019 - 2025
  Financed by: BMBF, 1.300.000 €
  Project Supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.)
• Reading Taiwan, Living Taiwan, Understanding Taiwan” Taiwan Studies Project, Part II
  Time frame: 2019 - 2022
  Financed by: Taiwan Minstry of Education, 150.000 €
  Project Supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.)
• “Reading Mao: The Making of a Global Icon” (Opus Magnum Award)
  Time frame: 2019-20
  Financed by: Volkswagen Stiftung, ca. 100.000 €
  Project Supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.)
• Start-up Project: Kultur neu denken—Re-En-Visioning the (Trans)-cultural—C’est quoi, la (trans-)culture?
  Time frame: 2018
  Financed by: Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies, Transcultural Forays, ca. 15.000 €
  Project Supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.), Stoellger, Philipp (Prof. Dr.)
• WorldMaking in Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China
  Time frame: 2019
  Financed by: Field of Focus 3 “Cultural Dynamics in Globalized Worlds”, ca. 15.000 €
  Project Supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.)
• Knowing more about the Other: Dialogues with China (Mehr vom A/anderen w/Wissen: (Lehr- und Lern-)Dialoge mit China)
  Time frame: 2018
  Financed by: Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies, Transcultural Forays
  Project Supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.), Büchsel, Ulrike (M.A.)
• Recalibrating Culture: Putting the Transcultural in Perspective
  Time frame: 2018
  Financed by: University of Heidelberg, Field of Focus 3 “Cultural Dynamics in Globalized Worlds”, ca. 35.000 €
  Project Supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.), Stoellger, Philipp (Prof. Dr.)
• Tandem Fellowship: Transcultural Sexualities: Writing, practicing, denying
  Time frame: 2018
  Financed by: Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies, 10.000 €
  Project Supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.), Zamperini, Paola (Prof. Dr.)
• Anneliese Maier Award: Sumathi Ramaswamy for a project “No Parallel? The Fatherly Bodies of Gandhi and Mao”
  Time frame: 2016-2019
  Financed by: Humboldt Stiftung, 250.000 €
  Project Supervisor: : Ramaswamy, Sumathi (Prof. Dr.) & Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.)
& Brosius, Christiane (Prof. Dr.) & Juneja, Monica (Prof. Dr.)
  Project Staff: Prof. Dr. Sumathi Ramaswamy, Dr. Li Shuang
• Humboldt Forschungspreis: Paul Pickowicz
  Time frame: 2016
  Financed by: Humboldt Stiftung, 60.000 €
  Project Supervisor: Barbara Mittler (Prof. Dr.)
• Taiwan Studies Project: “Reading Taiwan, Living Taiwan, Understanding Taiwan”, Part I:
  Time frame: 2015 - 2018
  Financed by: Taiwan Minstry of Education, 150.000 €
  Project Supervisor: Barbara Mittler (Prof. Dr.)
• Taiwan Politics, History and Society: A Series of Lecture Series (Part I-III)
  Time frame: 2007 - 2016
  Financed by: CCK Foundation and Taiwan Culture Office, Berlin, 80.000 €
  Project Supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.)
; Schubert, Gunter (Prof. Dr., Universitä Tübingen); Ash, Robert (Prof. Dr.) & Fell, Dafydd (Dr.) (SOAS, Director and Deputy Director of the Centre for Taiwan Studies); Vittinghoff, Natascha (Prof. Dr., University of Edinburgh)
• Embodying the Nation—Representations of Gandhi and Mao
  Time frame: 2014 - 2015
  Financed by: Exzellenzinitiative, 3. Säule, Mobilitätsmaßnahmen Universität Heidelberg, 11.500 €
  Project Supervisor: Barbara Mittler (Prof. Dr.)
  Project Staff: Prof. Dr. Sumathi Ramaswamy, Dr. Li Shuang
• China, International Organizations and Public Spheres
  Time frame: 2014 - 2015
  Financed by: Exzellenzinitiative, 3. Säule, Mobilitätsmaßnahmen Universität Heidelberg, 45.000 €
  Project Supervisor: Barbara Mittler (Prof. Dr.)
  Project Staff: Prof. Dr. Susan Brownell
• Taiwan Spotlight
  Time frame: 2013 - 2015
  Financed by: Taiwanesisches Kulturministerium , 100.000 €
  Project Supervisor: Barbara Mittler (Prof. Dr.)
  Project Staff: Ulrike Büchsel (M.A.), Emily Mae Graf (M.A.), Odila Schröder (B.A.)
• China an die Schulen
  Time frame: 2013 - 2015
  Financed by: Robert Bosch Stiftung, 70.000 €
  Project Supervisor: Barbara Mittler (Prof. Dr.)
  Project Staff: Ulrike Büchsel (M.A.), Emily Mae Graf (M.A.), Odila Schröder (B.A.)
• Powers of the Press and Media Changes
  Time frame: 2012 - 2015
  Financed by: Exzellenz-Cluster Asia-Europe, 40.000 €
  Project Supervisor: Barbara Mittler (Prof. Dr.)
  Project Staff: Sun Liying (M.A.)
• ECPO Early Chinese Periodicals Online (ECPO)—Creating a Prototype for an Intelligent Archive
  Time frame: 2012 - 2015
  Financed by: CCK Foundation, 80.000 €
  Project Supervisor: Yu Chien-ming (Dr.), Lien Ling-ling (Dr.) , Hu Hsiao-chen (DR.), Barbara Mittler (Prof. Dr.)
  Project Staff: Sun Liying (M.A.) et al.
• Taiwan Studies Enrichment Program
  Time frame: 2008-2013
  Financed by: Taiwan Ministry of Education, 30.000 €
  Project Supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.), Mei Chia-ling (Prof. Dr., Taiwan University)
• Asian Image and Multimedia Databases
  Time frame: 2008 - 2012
  Financed by: Exzellenz-Cluster Asia-Europe
  Project Supervisor: Brosius, Christiane (Prof. Dr.); Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.), Maissen, Thomas, (Prof. Dr.), Rosenberg, Raphael (Prof. Dr.), Trede, Melanie (Prof. Dr.)
• Creative Dissonances: Music in a Global Context
  Time frame: 2008 - 2011
  Financed by: Exzellenz-Cluster Asia-Europe
  Project Supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.); Redepenning, Dorothea (Prof. Dr.)
• Transcultural Visuality Learning Group
  Time frame: 2008 - 2011
  Financed by: Exzellenz-Cluster Asia-Europe
  Project Supervisor: Brosius, Christiane (Prof. Dr.); Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.) Sumathi Ramaswamy
• Hidden Grammars of Transculturality - Migrations of encyclopaedic knowledge and power (pilot project)
  Time frame: 2008 - 2011
  Financed by: Exzellenz-Cluster Asia-Europe
  Project Supervisor: Herren-Oesch, Madeleine (Prof. Dr.); Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.)
• A New Approach to the Popular Press in China: Gender and Cultural Production, 1904-1937.
  Time frame: 2008-2011
  Financed by: TransCOOP-Programm, Humboldt Foundation
  Project Supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.); Judge, Joan (Prof. at York University); Fong, Grace (Prof. at McGill University, Canada)
  Project Staff: Jöst, Annika (M.A.); Sun Liying (M.A.)
• Nationising the Dynasty. Asymmetrical Flows in Conceptions of Government
  Time frame: Duration: 3 Jahre; Start: 1.10.2008
  Financed by: Exzellenz-Cluster Asia-Europe
  Project Supervisor: Maissen, Thomas, (Prof. Dr.); Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.); Schneidmüller, Bernd (Prof. Dr.)
• Archiving Mothers and Fathers of the Nation in Europe and Asia: Developing a Digitized Prototype of Braided Pictorial Histories (pilot project)
  Time frame: 2008 - 2009
  Financed by: Exzellenz-Cluster Asia-Europe
  Project Supervisor: Brosius, Christiane (Prof. Dr.); Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.); Maissen, Thomas (Prof. Dr.); Ramaswamy, Sumathi (Prof. Dr., Duke University)
• QuotationFinder: Ein Werkzeug zum Textvergleich
  Time frame: 2007 - 2012
  Financed by: Exzellenz-Cluster Asia-Europe
  Project Supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.); May, Jennifer; Damn, Marco
• Erstellung von digitalem Chinesisch-Sprachlehrmaterial (德語地區華語文數位教材暨網路教學發展計畫)
  Time frame: 2007 - 2010
  Financed by: Ministry of Education, Republic of China (Taiwan)
  Project Supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.); Hsin, Shih-Chang (Prof. Dr.)
  Project Staff: Lin, Xinyu; Lin, Chunping
• Common People and the Artist
  Time frame: 2005-2009
  Financed by : CCK Foundation, CNRS
  Project Supervisor: Henriot, Christian (Prof. Dr.); Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr. ); Yeh, Catherine Vance (Prof. Dr.) et al.
  Project Staff: Sun Liying
• Popular Culture Group
  (Research Group made up of PhD Candidates receiving different types of funding)
  Time frame: 2005 -
  Financed by: Supp-Stiftung, Stiftung Baden-Wuerttemberg, Universität Heidelberg, LEA
  Project Supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.)
  Project Staff: Jennifer Altehenger; Lucia Banholzer; Nora Frisch; Lena Henningsen; Huang Xuelei; Cora Jungbluth; Jennifer May; Sun Liying; Petra Thiel

II. Project Member (Co-Applicant)

• Verbundkolleg Welterzeugung („worldmaking") aus globaler Perspektive: Ein Dialog mit China. Teilprojekt „Epochale Lebenswelten: Mensch, Natur und Technik in Krisen- und Umbruchsnarrativen“
  Time frame: 2020-2025
  Financed by: BMBF
  Subproject Supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.)
• Thematic Research Network Umwelten Umdenken Umbrüche
  Time frame: 2020-2023
  Financed by: Bund und Land Baden-Württemberg Exzellenzinitiative
  Project Supervisor: Prof. Dr. André Butz, Prof. Dr. Robert Folger, Prof. Dr Ulrike Gerhard, Prof. Dr. Frank Keppler, Prof. Dr. Barbara Mittler, PD Dr. Friederike Reents.
• Mechanics, Techniques, and Image Markets: Transcultural and intermedia approaches in India and China, 19th-21st centuries (Joint Project with EHESS Paris)
  Project Supervisor: Kerlan, Anne (Prof. Dr. ), Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.)
• CATS (Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies)
  Time frame: 2013-2018
  Financed by: Bund und Land Baden-Württemberg, Forschungsbauprogramm, § 91b, 27 Mio
  Project Supervisor: Michaels, Axel (Prof. Dr.) & Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.)
• Cluster of Excellence Asia – Europe
  Time frame: 2007-2017
  Financed by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 70 Mio
  Project Supervisor: Wagner, Rudolf (Prof. Dr.); Herren-Oesch, Madeleine (Prof. Dr.); Michaels, Axel (Prof. Dr.); Maissen, Thomas (Prof. Dr.); Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.); Maran, Joseph (Prof. Dr.)
• Rethinking Gender Sexuality and the Body in a Transcultural Art World
  Time frame: 2009-2010
  Financed by: Exzellenz-Cluster Asia-Europe
  Project Supervisor: Trede, Melanie (Prof. Dr.); Brosius, Christiane (Prof. Dr.); Dharampal-Frick, Gita (Prof. Dr.); Enderwitz, Susanne (Prof. Dr.); Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.); Prohl, Inken (Prof. Dr.)
• Gauging Cultural Asymmetries: Asian Satire and the Search for Identity in the Era of Colonialism and Imperialism
  Time frame: 2008 - 2011
  Financed by: Exzellenz-Cluster Asia-Europe
  Project Supervisor: Harder, Hans (Prof. Dr.); A'rokay, Judit (Prof. Dr.); Ursinus, Michael (Prof. Dr.); Enderwitz, Susanne (Prof. Dr.); Dharampal-Frick, Gita (Prof. Dr.); Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.)
• Ferner Osten - ganz nah! (Schulprojekt)
  Time frame: 2006 - 2010
  Financed by: Robert Bosch Stiftung, BMBF
  Project Supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.); Henningsen, Lena (M.A.)
• From the Southwestern Mines to the Metropolitan Mints: Technologies, Organization and Representations in State Transports of Qing China
  Time frame: Jan 1999 - Dec 2002
  Financed by: Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Stiftung
  Project Supervisor: Mittler, Barbara (Prof. Dr.)
  Project Staff: Kim, Nanny (Dr.)
• ChinaResource.org
  Time frame: Jan 1999 - Dec 2002
  Financed by: Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Stiftung
  Project Supervisor: Wagner, Rudolf (Prof. Dr.)
  Project Staff: Arnold, Matthias (M.A.); Gross, Jennifer; Lecher, Hanno (M.A.); Sass, Oliver; Schröder, Gesche (M.A.), PD Dr. Barbara Mittler