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Welcoming Ella Müller
We welcome our new doctoral student, Ella Mueller. Ella completed a Master's degree in History and Digital Humanities at University of Zurich. Her PhD project focuses on the Basel Mission’s scientific collecting in the 19th century. We look forward to working with Ella and wish her a great start at the professorship.
Conference:
The Basel Mission in India: Social, Economic, and Religious Entanglements with the Swiss-German World
Dates: 23-25 November 2023 Location: Mission 21, Missionstrasse 21, 4009 Basel, Switzerland Room: Alpha & My (located in the restaurant building next to the Mission House/Hotel, Odelya on the first floor)
The Professorship for History of the Modern World held a press conference at the Statdhaus in Zurich on the project «M-Inschriften» mit rassistischer Wirkung im Zürcher Niederdorf: Studie zur Bau- und Begriffsgeschichte.
With Corine Mauch (Mayor of Zürich), Dr. Ashkira Darman (Fachschaft Geschichte, Realgymnasium Rämibühl), Prof. Dr. Bernhard Carlos Schär (UNIL) and Prof. Dr. Harald Fischer-Tiné (ETH Zurich)
Date and Time: Tuesday, 28 March 2023, 2pm Venue and Room: Stadthaus, Stadthausquai 17, 8001 Zurich, Medienraum 201
The results of the third representative survey of the ETH Swiss Panel Global Cooperation 2023 are in. More than 4,000 Swiss residents shared their views on global poverty, and on Switzerland’s funding and allocation of development cooperation.
The ETH task force headed by the Vice President for Infrastructure is monitoring developments in the coronavirus pandemic and will continue to draw up suitable measures as necessary. You can find constantly updated information on the coronavirus web page.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals often became hubs of infection. Researchers from ETH Zurich, EPFL and the ISI Foundation are developing a wearable tracking system for healthcare facilities that can identify the risks of infections. Initial tests in Switzerland and Africa show its potential.
A new study by various Swiss universities shows that aerosols in indoor air can vary in acidity. This acidity determines how long viruses remain infectious in the air – with profound implications for virus transmission and strategies to contain it.
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a method to explore the possibilities of how the pandemic virus could evolve. Thanks to their work, it may be possible to develop antibody therapies and vaccines that are more likely to be effective also against future viral variants.
Harald Fischer-Tiné, ‘Jenseits von ‚Bollywood‘: Zur Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte von Bombays früher Filmindustrie (ca. 1913–1964)’, in: J. Zedler (ed.), The Bombay Talkies Limited: Akteure – deutsche Einflüsse – kulturhistorischer Kontext (München: utzverlag, 2021), pp. 27-73.
Fischer-Tiné, Harald, Huebner Stefan, Tyrrell, Ian (eds), Spreading Protestant Modernity: Global Perspectives on the Work of the YMCA and the YWCA, c. 1889 – 1970 (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press 2020)