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Wolfgang Behr (Chinese studies/URPP Asia and Europe) was appointed to “Wilson T. S. Wang – New Method College Visiting Professor in Chinese Linguistics and Language Education (2013–2014)” at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Laura Coppens (social and cultural anthropology/URPP Asia and Europe) was awarded a fellowship from the Stiefel-Zangger Foundation to continue her research project “Representing the ‘Queer Other’ in Ethnographic Film: An Experimental Anthropological Approach to Intersectionality and Identity Politics of Lesbians in Urban Java, Indonesia” at the NYU Center for Media, Culture, and History from June to November 2013.

Bettina Dennerlein (Islamic studies/URPP Asia and Europe) received a three year funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation for her reseach project “Islam, Pluralism, and Gender: The Tunisian ‘An-Nahda’ Movement,’” starting in June 2014.

Sandra Hotz (legal studies/URPP Asia and Europe) was awarded an International Short Visit grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation. She stayed as a visiting scholar at the East Asian Center for Law and Culture, Cornell University (June to September 2013).

In February 2014, Justyna Jaguścik (Chinese studies/URPP Asia and Europe) completed her doctoral thesis “Literary Body Discourses: Corporeality, Gender and Class Difference in Contemporary Chinese Women’s Poetry and Fiction.”

Aymon Kreil (URPP Asia and Europe/anthropology) is a visiting scholar at the American University in Cairo until November 2014.

Starting in October 2013, Jörg Lanckau (theology/URPP Asia and Europa) took up a position as a professor in biblical studies and history of Christianity at the Lutheran University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg.

Elena Lange (Japanese studies/URPP Asia and Europe) and Raji C. Steineck (Japanese studies/URPP Asia and Europe) received a three year funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation for their reseach project “Fetish and Value: Uno Kōzō (1897–1977) and his School in Light of the Marxian Critique of Political Economy,” starting in May 2013.

In collaboration with the Department of Indian Studies, University of Lausanne, Angelika Malinar (Indian studies/URPP Asia and Europe) has received a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation for the research project “Voyages, Missions, Translations: Mechanisms of Encounter between India and Switzerland (1860-1970)”. A Ph.D. project based in Zurich deals with the “History of Buddhism in Switzerland.”

Katharina Michaelowa (political science/URPP Asia and Europe) was a visiting scholar at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in New Delhi from August to September 2013.

Simone Müller (Japanese studies/URPP Asia and Europe) was awarded an International Short Visit grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation for a two-month stay at Cornell University (January to February 2013). She was also invited by the Kyoto Institute of Technology (KIT) for a research stay from June to August 2013.

In February 2014, Matthäus Rest (social and cultural anthropology/URPP Asia and Europe) completed his doctoral thesis “Water Power: Discourses on Modernity and Development around the Nepalese Arun-3 Hydropower Project.” Additionally, he was awarded an Early Postdoc.Mobility fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation for a six-month stay at the Nepa School of Social Sciences and Humanities in Kathmandu and an ensuing 12-month stay at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Andrea Riemenschnitter (Chinese studies/URPP Asia and Europe) held a visiting professorship at Beijing Normal University in March 2013. From April to July 2013, she was a visiting senior research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.

Starting in October 2013, Fabian Schäfer (URPP Asia and Europa/Japanese studies) accepted a position as a professor in Japanese studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Raji C. Steineck (Japanese studies/URPP Asia and Europe) was awarded a fellowship from the Japan Foundation for a research stay in Japan, which he spent by invitation at the Doshisha University in Kyoto from August 2013 to January 2014.

In March 2013, Dilyara Suleymanova (social and cultural anthropology/URPP Asia and Europe) completed her doctoral thesis “Schooling the Sense of Belonging: Identity Politics and Educational Change in Post-Soviet Tatarstan.”

James Weaver (Islamic studies/URPP Asia and Europe) and Ulrich Rudolph (Islamic studies/URPP Asia and Europe) received a three year funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation for their reseach project “Organising disagreement in the Long Ninth Century: On the Use of the Term ‘Khtilaf’ in the Abbasid Period,” starting in October 2013.

Miriam Wenner (geography/URPP Asia and Europe) was awarded a Doc.Mobility fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation for a reseach stay at the University of Oxford from October 2013 to September 2014.

Yue Zhuang (architectural history/URPP Asia and Europe) was awarded a four-year Marie Curie Career Integration Grant for her research project “Entangled Histories of Nature in the Landscape Discourses of Early Modern China and Europe.”

(Asia & Europe Bulletin, 3/2014, p. 23)