Frühlingssemester 2020
Geschichte II: Global (Anti-Imperialismus und Dekolonisation, 1919-1975)
Vorlesung
Mi, 15-17 Uhr, IFW A 36
In der Vorlesung soll ein Einblick in die verschiedenen Wege zur Unabhängigkeit ehemaliger Kolonien in Asien und Afrika seit dem Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts präsentiert werden.
Pastime, Disciplinary Tool, Mass Culture: A Global History of Sports circa 1700-2000
Lecture
Mo, 15-17 hrs, HG D 1.2
The course gives an overview of the historical trajectories of sports and games in various parts of the world since 1700. It seeks to understand sports as leisure activity, method of physical (self-) optimization, political tool and form of mass Entertainment and explores the interrelation of games and sports with moving forces of modernity such as capitalism, colonialism and consumer culture
Science and Masculinities
Seminar
Tue, 13-15 hrs, ETZ G 91
Men have always been over-represented in the sciences. Why is this so? This seminar inquires how male supremacy in science evolved and transformed historically in different places around the world. How was and is science linked to particular images of manliness? How did and do women and non-conforming men around the world nonetheless succeed in doing science?
Science and Food in the Development of the Modern World (1890s–1970s)
Seminar
Wed/2w, 10-12 Uhr, ETZ E 7
Looking at specific food and non-food commodities cultivated, developed and consumed across different regions in the world through the late 19th and 20th centuries, the course shall try to make sense of the aesthetic, economic and scientific assumptions inherent within the varied food palettes of our modern world. The course shall introduce students to the interlinked and overlapping histories of the development of modern agricultural science, the political economy of food production, distribution and consumption, and ideas of culinary aesthetics and national cuisines.
Irrtümer, Täuschungen, Lügen und verwandte Phänomene
Vorlesung
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Mo, 13-15 Uhr, ML F 34
Irrtümer, Täuschungen und Lügen sind Erscheinungen, die zur Wissenschaft, ihrer Anwendung und Deutung gehören. Diese Ringvorlesung der Wissenssektion beleuchtet diese Phänomene in unterschiedlichen Disziplinen, zu unterschiedlichen Zeiten und in unterschiedlichen politischen Kontexten.