Institute of East Asian Art History
Institute
The Institute of East Asian Art History (IKO) is an international center for the study of East Asian visual and material culture, focusing on the arts of China and Japan, and addressing arts of Inner Asia, India and Korea. IKO draws on the strengths of its institutional networks, collaborations, and outreach.
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Bachelor
East Asian Art History can be studied as major and minor. Students acquire foundational knowledge on iconography, styles, techniques for the arts and visual cultures of China and Japan and learn to develop topics of their own interest.
Master
The Master’s degree programme in East Asian Art History is designed to give students the opportunity to acquire in-depth and hands-on knowledge of the art and visual culture of China, Japan, and, to a lesser extent, Korea.
PhD
Our PhD students cover a variety of research topics and time periods related to Asian modernities, Buddhist and funerary art and architecture, calligraphy, painting, and artistic practice.
Research
Members of the Institute of East Asian Art History (IKO) conduct research in Asian modernities, Buddhist art, calligraphy, painting, and artistic practice, with an emphasis on transcultural and interdisciplinary methods. Faculty-led projects are complemented by the research of international visiting scholars, post-docs, and doctoral students.
Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies
Together with the Institute of Anthropology (IfE), the South Asia Institute (SAI), and the Centre for East Asian Studies (ZO), the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) forms the Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS). The CATS complex surrounds the new central library building.
