Journal of Transcultural Studies online symposium9.10.2026 {en}

The Journal of Transcultural Studies invites you to a virtual symposium, celebrating fifteen years since its inauguration. Four scholars will bring together wide-ranging case studies and disciplinary approaches to reflect critically on the process of transculturation: the constitution and transformation of cultural, social, and regional formations through extensive contacts with other regions and cultures.

The symposium will be held on Friday 30 October, 2:30–5:30pm (Central European Time). Attendees can join virtually through the following link: https://heiconf.uni-heidelberg.de/y9rd-777j-ddfm-f74q (no pre-registration required). Each talk will be followed by a brief public Q&A. The programme is as follows, in European Central Time:

2:30pm: Derek Catsam (University of Texas-Permian Basin and Rhodes University), “Nazism and Afrikaner Nationalism in Apartheid South Africa.”

3pm: Nuwan Herath (University of Kentucky), “The Monastery as a Transcultural Space: Sri Lankan Buddhist Monasteries in the United States.”

3:30pm: Pause.

4pm: Irina Rabinovich (Holon Institute of Technology), “Unmothered Daughters, Unfathered Homes: Transculturation, Gender, and Intergenerational Memory in Bertha Pearl Moore’s Jewish Immigrant Fiction.”

4:30pm: Alexander McKinley (Loyola University Chicago), “The Tools of Ritual: Metamorphic Mythic Stratigraphy in Sri Lanka.”

5pm: Response and discussion from the Journal’s editors.

Further information at https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/transcultural/.

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