Transcultural Studies at the HSG explore cultural and social transformations, configurations and negotiations from an ethnographic, comparative and genealogical perspective. The particular foci lie on (im)mobility/migration and borders; inequality and redistribution; and education (see also Research).

In our approach, Transculturality represents a heuristic to grasp new forms of transnational, translocal and transgenerational practices, formations, movements and connections and their histories; and engage with (emic) notions of culture while being attentive towards power inequalities and related practices of culturalization and cultural essentialism.