Welcome to our blog ”Caricatures and Cartoons in a Global Perspective – Visions, Roles and Functions of Satire”! Here are all posts that were published by members of our working group up to date.
- Upcoming Cartoon Lecture with Kutay Onaylı

- Upcoming Virtual Symposium – Humor and the Right: Global Perspectives on Politics, Media, and Culture (November 14, 2025)

- Meet Alexander Reindl
- Autorengespräch in Heidelberg: „Können Karikaturen Geschichte erzählen?“ (27.10.2025, Universitätsmuseum)

- Kein Witz: Eine interdisziplinäre Ringvorlesung über Humor an der Universität Bern

- Caricature and Comics in a Global Context: A Marathon through Brazilian, Turkish, Algerian, Chinese and Taiwanese Text-Images Cultures

- Upcoming keynote in Heidelberg – In Search of Brazilian Culture through Post-Mao China by Ivan Gomes

- Upcoming workshop – Caricature and Comics in a Global Context: Brazil, Turkey, Iran, Algeria, China, and Taiwan (Heidelberg, 22 July 2025)

- Touma – The Voice of the People on Paper and on Screen

- Kommender Vortrag in Berlin über Oskar Schmerling von Oliver Reisner

- Blind alley or a blind spot? Walter Benjamin on caricature

- New publication – The Heidelberg exhibition catalogue is now online!

- Zeitungsartikel aus der Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung – Die Welt drehte sich schneller: Das Universitätsmuseum Heidelberg präsentiert in der neuen Sonderausstellung „Erst lachen, dann denken!“ historische Karikaturen aus dem Nahen Osten

- Upcoming Lecture in Naples – Fashion, Women, and Gender Roles in Late Ottoman Caricatures by Veruschka Wagner

- Event report – Opening of the exhibition ”Laugh First, Think Later! Caricatures from the Middle East, 1850-1940” (23.04.2025)

- Workshop Programme – How to Approach Caricatures: Methodology and Agency, Workshop of the International Working Group Caricatures and Cartoons in a Global Perspective (Heidelberg, 23-25 April 2025)

- Upcoming Exhibition in Heidelberg – Erst lachen, dann denken! Karikaturen aus dem Nahen Osten, 1850-1940 (24.04.-25.10.2025)

- The Boycott of the Tramway in Beirut 1922: Popular Mobilization and Early Lebanese Caricature

- Celebrating International Women’s Day – A Message from the Past

- Upcoming event – How to Approach Caricatures: Methodology and Agency, Workshop of the International Working Group Caricatures and Cartoons in a Global Perspective (Heidelberg, 23-25 April 2025)

- Call for Papers for Special Collection on ”Visual Rhetorics of Humour”
- Upcoming Caricature Lecture with Asma Hedi Nairi

- Event report from Paulo Jorge Fernandes – The Bordalo Pinheiro Museum in Lisbon is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the April 25

- Die Entwicklung der Moderne in ägyptischen Karikaturen der 1920er Jahre

- Modern City Life: Istanbul’s Promises and Perils in 1930s Satirical Press

- New Caricature Exhibition in Lisbon (The Bordalo Pinheiro Museum, 18. December 2024 – 9. March 2025)

- Cartoon of the Day 5: On the Boards that mean the World, or Discussing the Lebanese Constitution of 1926

- Upcoming Caricature Lecture with Elif Kiraz
- Cartoon(s) of the Day 4: Oxen, Bureaucrats, and Reforms

- The Working Group at Kadıköy Çizgi Festivali (27-29 September 2024) – Event report from Anna Kollatz

- Cartoon of the Day 3: Looking Back on Summer Holidays

- Meet our members!
- New Publication from Rakel Pinhas Meşulam
- Meet Valentina Marcella
- Event report from Sergey Troitskiy – Caricatures as a Sphere of Communication in the Late- and Post-Ottoman Context (25 / 26 March 2024)
- Meet Areej Yahya
- Call for Papers: Symposium on ”Visual Rhetorics of Humour: Using and Forming an Iconography of Stereotypes” (Tartu, 10-11. October 2024)
- Upcoming Caricature Lecture with Dr. Rakel Pinhas Meşulam (Bilgi University Istanbul)
- Meet Anna Kollatz
- Event report – Workshop on Caricatures as a Sphere of Communication in the Late- and Post-Ottoman Context (25 / 26 March 2024)

- Cartoon of the Day 2: Finland and immigration fears over a hundred years ago

- Final Program: Workshop on Caricatures as a Sphere of Communication in the Late- and Post-Ottoman Context (25 / 26 March 2024)
- New Publication from Elif Kiraz
- Imagined Discontinuities
- What’s so funny? Caricature as a Sphere of Communication in the Late and Post-Ottoman Context
- Call for Papers: Workshop on Caricatures as a Sphere of Communication in the Late- and Post-Ottoman Context (Istanbul, 25. March 2024)
- Job Advertisement (Heidelberg University)
- Stellenausschreibung (Universität Heidelberg)
- Meet Veruschka Wagner
- Meet Mariia Guleva
- Meet Safiye Ulufer
- Cartoon of the Day 1: On occasion of the 74th anniversary of the Peoples Republic of China

- Caricatures and Cartoons in a Global Perspective. Visions, Roles and Functions of Satire