Professur für Geschichte der modernen Welt

Vergangene Veranstaltungen

Call for Papers "Precarious Racial Superiority: Imperial Prestige and Deviance in colonial Asia, ca. 1800-1940", due 20 June 2023.

This workshop will take place on 1-2 February 2024 at Villa Hatt (ETH Zürich) in Zürich, Switzerland. For individual paper proposals, please submit a title, 250-word abstract, and a short CV (max. 1 page) to Denise Lim () by 20 June 2023. Confirmation of acceptance of papers will be sent by end July 2023.

DownloadLearn more about this event.

Call for Papers: “Spaces of Social Policies: Achievements and Prospects of Historical Research Perspectives” Conference, Liechtenstein Institute, Gamprin-Bendern, Liechtenstein, October 12 – 14, 2023.

Weitere Informationen zum DownloadHerunterladen.

PhD-Stelle in Globalgeschichte

The Professorship of History of the Modern World invites applicants for a PhD position. Applications via email or postal services will not be considered. The deadline for applications is 31 March 2023. Please find further information about the role here.

Conference: "Decolonizing Natural Histories: Critical and practical perspectives in museum contexts"Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle Neuchâtel, 15-17 March 2023

Organized in the context of Agora grant of the Swiss Science National Foundation to the research project of Dr. Tomás Bartoletti.

Abstract: While decolonization has been the subject of much recent discussion in both ethnological and archaeological collections, it has largely been absent from natural history contexts. In addressing this topic in a natural history museum, this three-day conference will examine the circumstances under which non-European collections have found their way into European natural history museums and develop practical tools for both collections management and public mediation that represent and include the participation of a diversity of voices and experiences.
Specifically, speakers from different Latin American and European countries will develop a critical reflection on decolonial thought and practices, including the identification of key issues in a natural history context. Participatory workshops and other activities will also aim to create a space for meaningful exchange among participants to lay the groundwork for future collaborations and to develop critical toolkits for natural history museums and museum professionals interested in engaging in decolonial practices.

More information: externe Seitehttps://naming-natures.ch/
DownloadDownload Programme here.

Konferenz:  "Decolonizing Curricula, Pluralizing Research and Teaching"

Wir freuen uns, die internationale Konferenz "Decolonizing Curricula, Pluralizing Research and Teaching" anzukündigen, die vom 2.-4. Februar an der ETH Zürich stattfindet. Die Konferenz bietet eine Plattform für die dringend notwendige Debatte darüber, wie Hochschulen aus postkolonialen Erkenntnissen und Perspektiven Nutzen ziehen können, um sich den Herausforderungen von Lehre und Forschung im 21. Jahrhundert zu stellen. Internationale sowie Schweizer Wissenschaftler:innen, Aktivist:innen, Kurator:innen und Politiker:innen diskutieren die Herausforderungen von Forschung und Lehre im 21. Jahrhundert und erarbeiten Strategien, wie Universitäten zu offeneren und vielfältigeren Institutionen werden können, die im Geiste von Geschichtsbewusstsein, Gleichberechtigung und Weltoffenheit agieren.

Anmeldung unter

DownloadKonferenz-Programm (PDF, 866 KB)

Colloquium 

Joint ETHZ-UZH Research Colloquium in Global and Extra-European History

5. und letzte Sitzung: Donnerstag, 01. December 2022, 18:15-​19:45 Uhr
Raum: RZ F21 (ETH Zürich), Clausiusstrasse 59, 8092 Zürich

In our last session of the joint ETHZ-UZH Research Colloquium in Global and Extra-European History we will have the honour to welcome Dr. Saima Nasar from the University of Bristol who will prent her ongoing research on "Managing Minorities: Creating the Ugandan Asian Refugee".

Dr. Nasar is a lecturer in the History of Africa and its Diasporas at the University of Bristol working on the histories of race, empire and immigration. Her research is committed to multi-archival and interdisciplinary perspectives, whereas her previous and future work contributes to developing comparative and interdisciplinary approaches in the fields of migration and imperial studies. Dr. Nasar's first book examines the transnational trajectories of Britain’s East African Asian population. She has also worked on the history of trauma in relation to post-war Irish diasporic communities. Her future research focuses on welfare and Black British activism.
DownloadSitzungsplan (PDF, 8.2 MB)

 

4. Sitzung 

Donnerstag, 3. November 2022, 18:15-19:45 Uhr     

Raum: RZ F21 (ETH Zürich), Clausiusstrasse 59, 8092 Zürich

The fourth session of this semester's joint ETHZ-UZH Research Colloquium in Global and Extra-European History is taking place on 3 November 2022. Dr. Julian Strube from the University of Vienna will give a talk on "The Global History of Modern Tantra".

Julian Strube is Assistant Professor in Religious Studies at the University of Vienna. He works from a global historical perspective about the relationship between religion and politics, as well as debates about the meaning of religion, science, and philosophy since the eighteenth century. He recently completed a DFG-funded postdoc project about "Tantra within the Context of a Global Religious History of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," which focuses on the exchanges between Bengali and Western intellectuals in colonial Bengal. In march 2022, his monograph, Global Tantra: Religion, Science, and Nationalism in Colonial Modernity, was published with Oxford University Press.


3. Sitzung

Donnerstag, 27. Oktober 2022, 18:15-19:45 Uhr

Raum: RZ F21 (ETH Zürich), Clausiusstrasse 59, 8092 Zürich

The third session of this semester's joint ETHZ-UZH Research Colloquium in Global and Extra-European History is taking place on 27 October 2022. Dr. Mònica Ginés-Blasi will present her project with the title "Beyond the 'Coolie Trade': Interconnected Networks of Human Trafficking in Treaty-Port China (1830-1910)".

Dr. Ginés-Blasi is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies. Her current research project focuses on the interconnections between three distinct yet linked forms of coerced labour and forced relocation in China: the trafficking of indentured labourers, children and women to Latin America and Southeast Asia. The project studies the trafficking of women and children alongside the coolie trade from the earliest indications of international female trafficking in the 1830s, to the abolitionist ordinances issued in various Southeast Asian colonies in the 1930s. It particularly focuses on the role of intermediaries such as Chinese local authorities, Western consulates and consular officials in China, immigration agents, companies, brokers, ship owners, and captains in the south China coast and overseas, as well as on the international political strategies which the nations involved implemented through diplomacy and legislation. It aims at illuminating the complex transnational networks operating human trafficking in China and beyond, and how they determined the international circulation of Chinese migrants in an integrative perspective. It will particularly address the specific alignments which formed these networks, how these agencies coordinated, operated, became entangled or collided, and how they bridged and activated connections between these three types of human trafficking.
Sitzungsplan

 

2. Sitzung

Donnerstag, 13. Oktober 2022, 18:15-19:45 Uhr

Raum: RZ F21 (ETH Zürich), Clausiusstrasse 59, 8092 Zürich

The second session of this semester's joint ETHZ-UZH Research Colloquium in Global and Extra-European History is taking place on 13 October 2022. Dr. Mischa Suter will present his research on "The Nature of the Ego and the Politics of Ethnopsychology in the Era of Decolonization".

Mischa Suter is a Swiss National Science Foundation Eccellenza Professirial Fellow at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. His research interests include the history of science, European social history, the history of colonialism and capitalism as well as history and social theory. His current research project focusses on the history of ethnopsychology in the second half of the 20th century.


1. Sitzung

Donnerstag, 29. September 2022, 18:15-19:45 Uhr

Raum: RZ F21 (ETH Zürich), Clausiusstrasse 59, 8092 Zürich

The first session of this semester's joint ETHZ-​UZH Research Colloquium in Global and Extra-​European History's will take place on Thursday, 29 September, at RZ F21 (ETH Zurich), Clausiusstrasse 59, 8092 Zurich. Dr. Ritesh Jaiswal from the University of Zurich will present his research on"Ceylon for Sinhalese": Interwar ethnonationalism and politics around Indian migrants.

Ritesh Kumar Jaiswal is a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Fellow at the University of Zurich. He will be working on his project “Repercussions of the Great Depression and World War-​II in Asia” with Dr. Judith Vitale. Jaiswal was awarded his PhD from the University of Delhi, 2021. His doctoral thesis examined the non-​Indentured (kangany and maistry) systems of Indian Migration to Ceylon, Malaya and Burma, 1880-​1940. During his PhD he was a Fulbright-​Nehru Fellow at Harvard University; Volkswagen Global History Fellow, Gottingen University and Indian Council for Social Science (ICSSR) Doctoral Fellow, Delhi. He has also been a recipient of research grants from the Charles Wallace India Trust and the Joint Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge University and Harvard University. He has widely presented and published his research in edited books and Journals of International repute. In between 2015-​17 and 2021-​22, he taught as an Assistant Professor at the Department of History of various colleges of University of Delhi. His research and teaching interests includes labour and migration History, Indian Ocean studies, Non-​Indentured and Indentured systems of migration, British Colonialism, Modern Indian History, history of Modern Europe, and the Global history.

 

 

 

GMW Workshop 2022: Geographies of Exchange: "South Asia and Germanophone Europe in New Histories of Knowledge"  

Organisiert von Josephine Selander MA, ETH Zürich, Claire Louise Blaser MA, ETH Zürich, Dr. Razak Khan, CeMIS, Universität Göttingen, PD Dr. Margit Franz, Universität Graz

7.-8. September 2022, ETH Zurich

DownloadProgramm

GMW Workhop 2022: Drugs and the „Industrial Situation“, 1800s–1960s

Organisiert von Elife Biçer-​Deveci, Judith Vitale, Tomás Bartoletti

22.-23. August 2022, ETH Zürich.

DownloadAnkündigung (PDF, 2.1 MB)

Workshop 'Transimperial Histories of Knowledge'

Workshop orgnisiert von Claire Louise Blaser (GMW), Monique Ligtenberg (GMW), Josephine Selander (GMW) und dem Zentrum Geschichte des Wissens (ZGW). 

23./24. März auf Zoom  
DownloadProgramm

The United States and South Asia from the Age of Empire to Decolonisation: New Perspecitves on Indo-US Entanglements, c. 1850s-1950s

Konferenz organisiert von Sujeet George und Prof. Harald Fischer-Tiné.

22. & 23. Januar 2020, ETH Zurich.

Five Types of “closed country” (sakoku), and Perhaps More: Japan’s Self-Portrait within the Context of “General History”

Oeffentlicher Vortrag Prof. Dr. Fuyuko Matsukata (University of Tokyo)

10. Dezember 2018, Universität Zürich

New Approaches to Swiss & Colonial Global History

Aktuellste Beiträge zur Schweizer Geschichte zeigen, dass das Land auch ohne eigene Kolonien mit der imperialen Welt des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts verflochten war. Wie sieht eine Schweizer Geschichte aus, die diesen Verflechtungen gerecht wird? Und welche Folgen hat dies für unser heutiges Verständnis einer 'globalen' Schweiz?

Workshop, 16. November 2018, ETH Zürich

DownloadProgramm (PDF, 664 KB)

GMW Workshop 2018

Gastkommentatoren: Prof. Cyrus Schayegh (Graduate Institute Geneva), Dr. Adrian Ruprecht (Universität Bern)

Interner Doktorandenworkshop, 9. November 2018, Coalmine Winterthur

An Empire of Demands and Opportunities. Relocating the Dutch Indies in European History

Workshop, 27.-28. August 2018, ETH Zürich

Young South Asia Scholars Meet

Workshops, 15.-17. August 2018, ETH Zürich & Universität Zürich

Von der Kolonisierung zur Globalisierung. Weshalb wir Schweizer Geschichte neu denken sollten

Öffentliche Tagung, 19./20. April 2018, Universität Bern

externe SeiteTagungsbericht

Sports for Development

Das Science and Development Forum 2018 an der ETH Zürich, mitorganisiert von der Professur für Geschichte der modernen Welt, beschäftigt sich dieses Jahr mit dem Zusammenhang von Sport und Entwicklung. Sport ist als globales Thema Teil der Agenda 2030, die das Potenzial von Sport für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung betont. Im Rahmen des Forums wird Prof Fischer-Tiné einen Vortrag zum Zusammenhang von Sport und Kolonialismus halten.

29. Januar 2018, ETH Zürich

Fringe Science and Threadbare Knowledge

Interdisziplinärer Workshop, 22.-23. Juni 2017, ETH Zürich

DownloadAnkündigung (PDF, 365 KB)

GMW Workshop 2017

Gastkommentar: Proff. Margrit Pernau (Max-Planck-Institut) und Alexander Keese (Universität Genf)

Interner Doktorandenworkshop, 24. April 2017, Professur Geschichte der modernen Welt, Coalmine Winterthur

Mediating the Knowledge of Modernity: Global Perspectives on the ‘Secular’ Work of the YMCA (c. 1870-1970)

Internationale Konferenz, 19.-20. Januar 2017, ETH Zürich

DownloadProgramm (PDF, 136 KB)

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of the Social Gospel in Asia, c. 1890s-1930s

Internationale Konferenz, 25./26. August 2016, Asia Research Institute, Singapore  

DownloadProgramm (PDF, 838 KB)

Sport and Society in Transnational Contexts

Internationale Konferenz, 5./6. Juni 2015, ETH Zürich

DownloadProgramm (PDF, 105 KB)

GMW Workshop 2014

Gastkommentator; Prof. Dr. Martin Dusinberre (Heidelberg)

Interner Doktorandenworkshop, 31. Oktober 2014, Coalmine Winterthur

Young South Asia Scholars Meet

Internationaler Workshop, 21./22. Juli 2014, ETH Zürich

DownloadFlyer (PDF, 2.4 MB)

Poison, Science and the Colonial Order: India, 1830-1950

Vortrag Prof. em. David Arnold, Emeritus Professor für asiatische und Globalgeschichte, University of Warwick

13. November 2013, ETH Zürich

DownloadFlyer (PDF, 84 KB)

GMW Workshop 2013

Gastkommentator: Prof. David Arnold (Universität Warwick)

Interner Doktorandenworkshop, 31. Oktober 2013, Coalmine Winterthur

Religion in the Age of Imperial Humanitarianism

Internationale Konferenz, 5.-7. September 2012, Diözeseakademie Mainz

DownloadFlyer (PDF, 467 KB)

Fighting Drink, Drugs, and Venereal Diseases: Global Anti-Vice Activism, ca. 1870-1940

1.-4. April 2012, Monte Verità

DownloadWeitere Informationen (PDF, 137 KB)

The Role of Experts in Dealing with the Past

Konferenz, 18./19. November 2011, Center for Global Studies, Universität Bern

DownloadProgramm (PDF, 411 KB)

Traveling Penologies. Towards an entangled history of the prison and technologies of punishment

Internationaler Workshop, 2.-3. Dezember 2011, ETH Zürich

DownloadFlyer (PDF, 599 KB)

‘Un seul monde’? Forschungskolloquium zur Geschichte der Schweizer Entwicklungszusammenarbeit

Kolloquium, 7. November 2009, ETH Zürich

Programm

The Cold War and the Postcolonial Moment: Prehistory, Aims and Achievements of the Non-alignment Movement

3.-4. Juni 2011, ETH Zürich

externe SeiteTagungsbericht

Winter-School für Doktorierende

23.-28. Januar 2011, Monte Verità

Desperate and Dangerous: Bad-Character Policing in Colonial India, 1872-1919

Vortrag Gastprofessor Prof. Dr. Radhika Singha, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

31. Mai 2010, ETH Zürich

DownloadWeitere Informationen (PDF, 69 KB)

African Network in Global History

Vortrag Christine Whyte

9.-11. Dezember 2009, University llorin, Nigeria

Workshop Postcolonial Schwitzerland

7. November 2009, ETH Zürich

ZGW Kolloquium

mit Prof. Dr. Kapil Raj, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
13. Mai 2009, ETH Zürich

Einführungsvorlesung Prof. Dr. Harald Fischer-Tiné

27. Feburar 2009, ETH Zürich

Jahaji Music: India in the Caribbean (Surabhi Sharma, India, 2007)

World Music: Documentarfilm von und mit der unabhängigen, indischen Filmemacherin DownloadSurabhi Sharma (PDF, 126 KB)
11. November 2008, ETH Zürich

JavaScript wurde auf Ihrem Browser deaktiviert