Neuere europäische Geschichte (Herren-Oesch)Head of Research UnitProf. em. Dr.Madeleine Herren-OeschOverviewMembersPublicationsProjects & CollaborationsProjects & Collaborations OverviewMembersPublicationsProjects & Collaborations Projects & Collaborations 22 foundShow per page10 10 20 50 Kooperation Global Networks Research Project | 3 Project MembersExploration von Machine Learning Verfahren zur Analyse globaler historischer Netzwerke in Zusammenarbeit mit Prof. Dr. Madeleine Herren (EIB), Dr. Christiane Sibille (ETH Sammlungen und Archive), Gentiana Rashiti (ETH Sammlungen und Archive) 'Lessons to Learn? Unfolding a Global Market in Difficult Times'; The British Chamber of Commerce for Switzerland 1920 - 1950 Research Project | 1 Project MembersThe project develops a research rationale with digital methods enabling a line of inquiry that reveals the function of chambers of commerce beyond institutional history and sheds light on the closely guarded secrets of Anglo-Swiss(-German) relations during World War II. Until now, historical research investigated chambers of commerce as institutionalized interests of trade and industry. Focusing thereby on a national context, on the instruments that gave liberal access to the market, but less on their practices, the function of networks, individual actors, and their ties to the global market. With the British Chamber of Commerce for Switzerland (BSCC), established in 1920 in Basel, as an example, the classical understanding of a chamber of commerce is challenged by the fact, that their members acted as foreigners in the specific local environment of Basel, although shaping, contributing and addressing connectivity with the British market in its global dimensions at the same time. Since the BSCC not only survived World War II but was also operative in times of war, this example allows discussing how global networks developed in times of crises and war. The newly accessible fond provides insights in more than 3,000 different actors and trading conditions for more than 1,400 goods. While this information is overwhelming and nearly unprocessable within an institutional history, the use of currently developed methods within the fields of Digital Humanities, in particular network analysis and the creation of a member database, allow unfolding practices and interdependencies of global market structures even and especially in situations, when paper trails are hidden or destroyed.The dissertation investigates the unfolding of a global market in difficult times with three goals on the methodological level: I. The investigation of another unit, the individual actors, of the institution under consideration with new (digital) methods, allows to reveals new insights on their practices, networks, ties and activities and therefore on very real economic circumstances. II. Focusing on the World War II. period will shed new light on market practices and individual actors, which are hard to identify, since they avoided to leave paper trails. III. The creation of a member database of the BSCC. This approach enables to reframe the institution and its actors locally and globally and understand them in their multi-layered complexity. Therefore, the project is relevant in both respects, as insights in global networks during crises and war, and in the use of digital methods, to the research fields of the Digital Humanities and micro-global History. Since, the proposed narrative is multidimensional in respect to the methods, data, sources and especially the individual actors and subjects, it allows to investigate far-reaching (international) trade networks and market relations and at the same time the consideration of specific actors which shaped and made use of these, with the specific microcosm of Basel as starting point to unfold a global market. Dissertation Kasper: Lessons to learn? Unfolding a Global Market in Difficult Times: The British Chamber of Commerce for Switzerland 1920 - 1950 Research Project | 2 Project MembersNo Description available Moving workers: Restructuring labor markets in the Portuguese Empire and Portugal (1870-2015) - a global history Research Project | 2 Project MembersNo Description available Basel's Global Paradise. Research in virtual reality and global history Research Project | 7 Project MembersIn 2019, the Institute for European Global Studies moved into the so-called "Sandgrube," the former summer house of the silk ribbon manufacturer Achilles Leisler. This location ideally represents the research field of European Global Studies: Starting from this house, a wide variety of economic and cultural connections have emanated to Europe and around the world since the 18th century. These connections reflect the local representation of the global as well as the global influences on the city's local self-understanding. Among these connections are the original Chinese wallpapers used to furnish the Chinese Room on the second floor of the house, the exotic gardens staged for global cosmopolitanism, or the far-reaching financial and commercial relations of its residents. Today, the "Sandgrube" is an artifact for all traces left over in a local Basel environment by centuries of global exchange. In this Project, we follow these traces, starting in the Chinese Room, at the intersection of global history and virtual reality. Dissertation Jouini: Forgotten Lesson from the Cold War. How the Asia-Pacific region moved from the Periphery into the Center in the OECD's mission to manage the Global Political Economy Research Project | 2 Project MembersNo Description available Dissertation Kury: Infrastructuring Nature. The Malacca Strait and the Making of an Environmental Transit Corridor, c. 1870 - 1910 Research Project | 2 Project MembersNo Description available Genève, la Suisse et la formation des élites internationales: l'Institut universitaire des hautes études internationales sous la direction de Jacques Freymond (1955-1978) Research Project | 1 Project MembersA la fin des Trente Glorieuses, les élites se sont profondément transformées au niveau mondial. Elles sont dès lors internationalisées et concentrent leurs intérêts dans le domaine de l'économie. Les institutions universitaires participent de la progressive émergence de ces nouvelles élites au cours des Trente Glorieuses. Dans cette thèse, je m'appuie sur la sociologie des élites pour investiguer précisément cette phase de préparation à travers le modèle de formation des élites internationales de l'Institut universitaire des hautes études internationales à Genève. Cet institut est créé en 1927 avec le but initial de former du personnel diplomatique à destination des institutions de la Genève internationale de l'entre-deux-guerres.A l'aide de l'approche micro-globale, qui constitue l'un des principaux atouts de ma recherche, j'observe comment ce modèle internationaliste intègre les spécificités locales et nationales. En effet, je me focalise sur un objet de recherche très précis, l'Institut, afin d'explorer différentes échelles d'analyse dans lesquelles se joue la formation des élites, du niveau local de la ville de Genève jusqu'au niveau de l'internationalisation des élites au second 20ème siècle. J'apporte une originalité à l'histoire de cet institut en mettant au centre de mon étude le principal artisan de ce modèle, Jacques Freymond, directeur de l'Institut entre 1955 et 1978 et lui-même membre des élites suisses.L'une des forces de ce projet réside dans le regard oblique qu'il porte sur des mécanismes de transformation culturelle et politique plus larges. En effet, ce modèle de formation des élites permet également d'éclairer les relations inter- et transnationales de la Suisse dans le contexte de la guerre froide sous un angle nouveau. L'Institut a pour but de former des élites internationales, alors que la Suisse est isolée sur le plan diplomatique à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Elle souhaite préserver sa neutralité et ne participe pas aux organisations politiques internationales. Ainsi s'intéresser à un institut d'études internationales en Suisse durant la guerre froide permet d'ouvrir une fenêtre sur la progressive internationalisation du pays qui sort peu à peu de son isolement au cours du second 20ème siècle. L'Institut devient par exemple un lieu important de la formation des diplomates suisses au cours de la guerre froide. The Divisive Power of Citizenship Research Project | 5 Project MembersErosion of nationality and the politicization of citizenship have become dominant features of discourse in Western democracies. However, these issues are not new: since the beginning of the 21st century Western states have been loosening historic hurdles to de-naturalization of their citizens, mainly as a consequence of the War on Terror and stricter treatment of migrants. In addition to this re-framing of citizenship - as a privilege that can be lost - supra-national organizations pose orthogonal challenges. For example, the European Union grants its citizens free movement, thereby relaxing the historic connection between citizenship and geographical region and replacing nationality with a new form of multi-layered citizenship. This project, "The Divisive Power of Citizenship", seeks to relate and connect these recent processes effectively with historical precedents to create an expanded understanding of citizenship which can both reveal new insights about the past as well as the contemporary situation. Focusing on East Asia in the early 20th century, we examine conditions applying to European merchants, whose citizenship bestowed distinct jurisdiction and rights compared with their Asian contemporaries - creating multilayered trans-cultural communities. Such competing communities can be analyzed in terms of colonial privilege, racism and nationalism, affording new perspectives on historical communities and also provide a lens through which to view the tumultuous processes at work today. Chronologically this survey spans the period between 1919 and 1945, witnessing the climax and decline of western dominance in East Asia and also the rupture precipitated by the Pacific War. Sites of International Memory Research Project | 1 Project MembersThe project is an international cooperation with the Laureate Research Program in International History, University of Sydney. For further information see https://sitesofinternationalmemory.wordpress.com/about/ 123 123 OverviewMembersPublicationsProjects & Collaborations
Projects & Collaborations 22 foundShow per page10 10 20 50 Kooperation Global Networks Research Project | 3 Project MembersExploration von Machine Learning Verfahren zur Analyse globaler historischer Netzwerke in Zusammenarbeit mit Prof. Dr. Madeleine Herren (EIB), Dr. Christiane Sibille (ETH Sammlungen und Archive), Gentiana Rashiti (ETH Sammlungen und Archive) 'Lessons to Learn? Unfolding a Global Market in Difficult Times'; The British Chamber of Commerce for Switzerland 1920 - 1950 Research Project | 1 Project MembersThe project develops a research rationale with digital methods enabling a line of inquiry that reveals the function of chambers of commerce beyond institutional history and sheds light on the closely guarded secrets of Anglo-Swiss(-German) relations during World War II. Until now, historical research investigated chambers of commerce as institutionalized interests of trade and industry. Focusing thereby on a national context, on the instruments that gave liberal access to the market, but less on their practices, the function of networks, individual actors, and their ties to the global market. With the British Chamber of Commerce for Switzerland (BSCC), established in 1920 in Basel, as an example, the classical understanding of a chamber of commerce is challenged by the fact, that their members acted as foreigners in the specific local environment of Basel, although shaping, contributing and addressing connectivity with the British market in its global dimensions at the same time. Since the BSCC not only survived World War II but was also operative in times of war, this example allows discussing how global networks developed in times of crises and war. The newly accessible fond provides insights in more than 3,000 different actors and trading conditions for more than 1,400 goods. While this information is overwhelming and nearly unprocessable within an institutional history, the use of currently developed methods within the fields of Digital Humanities, in particular network analysis and the creation of a member database, allow unfolding practices and interdependencies of global market structures even and especially in situations, when paper trails are hidden or destroyed.The dissertation investigates the unfolding of a global market in difficult times with three goals on the methodological level: I. The investigation of another unit, the individual actors, of the institution under consideration with new (digital) methods, allows to reveals new insights on their practices, networks, ties and activities and therefore on very real economic circumstances. II. Focusing on the World War II. period will shed new light on market practices and individual actors, which are hard to identify, since they avoided to leave paper trails. III. The creation of a member database of the BSCC. This approach enables to reframe the institution and its actors locally and globally and understand them in their multi-layered complexity. Therefore, the project is relevant in both respects, as insights in global networks during crises and war, and in the use of digital methods, to the research fields of the Digital Humanities and micro-global History. Since, the proposed narrative is multidimensional in respect to the methods, data, sources and especially the individual actors and subjects, it allows to investigate far-reaching (international) trade networks and market relations and at the same time the consideration of specific actors which shaped and made use of these, with the specific microcosm of Basel as starting point to unfold a global market. Dissertation Kasper: Lessons to learn? Unfolding a Global Market in Difficult Times: The British Chamber of Commerce for Switzerland 1920 - 1950 Research Project | 2 Project MembersNo Description available Moving workers: Restructuring labor markets in the Portuguese Empire and Portugal (1870-2015) - a global history Research Project | 2 Project MembersNo Description available Basel's Global Paradise. Research in virtual reality and global history Research Project | 7 Project MembersIn 2019, the Institute for European Global Studies moved into the so-called "Sandgrube," the former summer house of the silk ribbon manufacturer Achilles Leisler. This location ideally represents the research field of European Global Studies: Starting from this house, a wide variety of economic and cultural connections have emanated to Europe and around the world since the 18th century. These connections reflect the local representation of the global as well as the global influences on the city's local self-understanding. Among these connections are the original Chinese wallpapers used to furnish the Chinese Room on the second floor of the house, the exotic gardens staged for global cosmopolitanism, or the far-reaching financial and commercial relations of its residents. Today, the "Sandgrube" is an artifact for all traces left over in a local Basel environment by centuries of global exchange. In this Project, we follow these traces, starting in the Chinese Room, at the intersection of global history and virtual reality. Dissertation Jouini: Forgotten Lesson from the Cold War. How the Asia-Pacific region moved from the Periphery into the Center in the OECD's mission to manage the Global Political Economy Research Project | 2 Project MembersNo Description available Dissertation Kury: Infrastructuring Nature. The Malacca Strait and the Making of an Environmental Transit Corridor, c. 1870 - 1910 Research Project | 2 Project MembersNo Description available Genève, la Suisse et la formation des élites internationales: l'Institut universitaire des hautes études internationales sous la direction de Jacques Freymond (1955-1978) Research Project | 1 Project MembersA la fin des Trente Glorieuses, les élites se sont profondément transformées au niveau mondial. Elles sont dès lors internationalisées et concentrent leurs intérêts dans le domaine de l'économie. Les institutions universitaires participent de la progressive émergence de ces nouvelles élites au cours des Trente Glorieuses. Dans cette thèse, je m'appuie sur la sociologie des élites pour investiguer précisément cette phase de préparation à travers le modèle de formation des élites internationales de l'Institut universitaire des hautes études internationales à Genève. Cet institut est créé en 1927 avec le but initial de former du personnel diplomatique à destination des institutions de la Genève internationale de l'entre-deux-guerres.A l'aide de l'approche micro-globale, qui constitue l'un des principaux atouts de ma recherche, j'observe comment ce modèle internationaliste intègre les spécificités locales et nationales. En effet, je me focalise sur un objet de recherche très précis, l'Institut, afin d'explorer différentes échelles d'analyse dans lesquelles se joue la formation des élites, du niveau local de la ville de Genève jusqu'au niveau de l'internationalisation des élites au second 20ème siècle. J'apporte une originalité à l'histoire de cet institut en mettant au centre de mon étude le principal artisan de ce modèle, Jacques Freymond, directeur de l'Institut entre 1955 et 1978 et lui-même membre des élites suisses.L'une des forces de ce projet réside dans le regard oblique qu'il porte sur des mécanismes de transformation culturelle et politique plus larges. En effet, ce modèle de formation des élites permet également d'éclairer les relations inter- et transnationales de la Suisse dans le contexte de la guerre froide sous un angle nouveau. L'Institut a pour but de former des élites internationales, alors que la Suisse est isolée sur le plan diplomatique à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Elle souhaite préserver sa neutralité et ne participe pas aux organisations politiques internationales. Ainsi s'intéresser à un institut d'études internationales en Suisse durant la guerre froide permet d'ouvrir une fenêtre sur la progressive internationalisation du pays qui sort peu à peu de son isolement au cours du second 20ème siècle. L'Institut devient par exemple un lieu important de la formation des diplomates suisses au cours de la guerre froide. The Divisive Power of Citizenship Research Project | 5 Project MembersErosion of nationality and the politicization of citizenship have become dominant features of discourse in Western democracies. However, these issues are not new: since the beginning of the 21st century Western states have been loosening historic hurdles to de-naturalization of their citizens, mainly as a consequence of the War on Terror and stricter treatment of migrants. In addition to this re-framing of citizenship - as a privilege that can be lost - supra-national organizations pose orthogonal challenges. For example, the European Union grants its citizens free movement, thereby relaxing the historic connection between citizenship and geographical region and replacing nationality with a new form of multi-layered citizenship. This project, "The Divisive Power of Citizenship", seeks to relate and connect these recent processes effectively with historical precedents to create an expanded understanding of citizenship which can both reveal new insights about the past as well as the contemporary situation. Focusing on East Asia in the early 20th century, we examine conditions applying to European merchants, whose citizenship bestowed distinct jurisdiction and rights compared with their Asian contemporaries - creating multilayered trans-cultural communities. Such competing communities can be analyzed in terms of colonial privilege, racism and nationalism, affording new perspectives on historical communities and also provide a lens through which to view the tumultuous processes at work today. Chronologically this survey spans the period between 1919 and 1945, witnessing the climax and decline of western dominance in East Asia and also the rupture precipitated by the Pacific War. Sites of International Memory Research Project | 1 Project MembersThe project is an international cooperation with the Laureate Research Program in International History, University of Sydney. For further information see https://sitesofinternationalmemory.wordpress.com/about/ 123 123
Kooperation Global Networks Research Project | 3 Project MembersExploration von Machine Learning Verfahren zur Analyse globaler historischer Netzwerke in Zusammenarbeit mit Prof. Dr. Madeleine Herren (EIB), Dr. Christiane Sibille (ETH Sammlungen und Archive), Gentiana Rashiti (ETH Sammlungen und Archive)
'Lessons to Learn? Unfolding a Global Market in Difficult Times'; The British Chamber of Commerce for Switzerland 1920 - 1950 Research Project | 1 Project MembersThe project develops a research rationale with digital methods enabling a line of inquiry that reveals the function of chambers of commerce beyond institutional history and sheds light on the closely guarded secrets of Anglo-Swiss(-German) relations during World War II. Until now, historical research investigated chambers of commerce as institutionalized interests of trade and industry. Focusing thereby on a national context, on the instruments that gave liberal access to the market, but less on their practices, the function of networks, individual actors, and their ties to the global market. With the British Chamber of Commerce for Switzerland (BSCC), established in 1920 in Basel, as an example, the classical understanding of a chamber of commerce is challenged by the fact, that their members acted as foreigners in the specific local environment of Basel, although shaping, contributing and addressing connectivity with the British market in its global dimensions at the same time. Since the BSCC not only survived World War II but was also operative in times of war, this example allows discussing how global networks developed in times of crises and war. The newly accessible fond provides insights in more than 3,000 different actors and trading conditions for more than 1,400 goods. While this information is overwhelming and nearly unprocessable within an institutional history, the use of currently developed methods within the fields of Digital Humanities, in particular network analysis and the creation of a member database, allow unfolding practices and interdependencies of global market structures even and especially in situations, when paper trails are hidden or destroyed.The dissertation investigates the unfolding of a global market in difficult times with three goals on the methodological level: I. The investigation of another unit, the individual actors, of the institution under consideration with new (digital) methods, allows to reveals new insights on their practices, networks, ties and activities and therefore on very real economic circumstances. II. Focusing on the World War II. period will shed new light on market practices and individual actors, which are hard to identify, since they avoided to leave paper trails. III. The creation of a member database of the BSCC. This approach enables to reframe the institution and its actors locally and globally and understand them in their multi-layered complexity. Therefore, the project is relevant in both respects, as insights in global networks during crises and war, and in the use of digital methods, to the research fields of the Digital Humanities and micro-global History. Since, the proposed narrative is multidimensional in respect to the methods, data, sources and especially the individual actors and subjects, it allows to investigate far-reaching (international) trade networks and market relations and at the same time the consideration of specific actors which shaped and made use of these, with the specific microcosm of Basel as starting point to unfold a global market.
Dissertation Kasper: Lessons to learn? Unfolding a Global Market in Difficult Times: The British Chamber of Commerce for Switzerland 1920 - 1950 Research Project | 2 Project MembersNo Description available
Moving workers: Restructuring labor markets in the Portuguese Empire and Portugal (1870-2015) - a global history Research Project | 2 Project MembersNo Description available
Basel's Global Paradise. Research in virtual reality and global history Research Project | 7 Project MembersIn 2019, the Institute for European Global Studies moved into the so-called "Sandgrube," the former summer house of the silk ribbon manufacturer Achilles Leisler. This location ideally represents the research field of European Global Studies: Starting from this house, a wide variety of economic and cultural connections have emanated to Europe and around the world since the 18th century. These connections reflect the local representation of the global as well as the global influences on the city's local self-understanding. Among these connections are the original Chinese wallpapers used to furnish the Chinese Room on the second floor of the house, the exotic gardens staged for global cosmopolitanism, or the far-reaching financial and commercial relations of its residents. Today, the "Sandgrube" is an artifact for all traces left over in a local Basel environment by centuries of global exchange. In this Project, we follow these traces, starting in the Chinese Room, at the intersection of global history and virtual reality.
Dissertation Jouini: Forgotten Lesson from the Cold War. How the Asia-Pacific region moved from the Periphery into the Center in the OECD's mission to manage the Global Political Economy Research Project | 2 Project MembersNo Description available
Dissertation Kury: Infrastructuring Nature. The Malacca Strait and the Making of an Environmental Transit Corridor, c. 1870 - 1910 Research Project | 2 Project MembersNo Description available
Genève, la Suisse et la formation des élites internationales: l'Institut universitaire des hautes études internationales sous la direction de Jacques Freymond (1955-1978) Research Project | 1 Project MembersA la fin des Trente Glorieuses, les élites se sont profondément transformées au niveau mondial. Elles sont dès lors internationalisées et concentrent leurs intérêts dans le domaine de l'économie. Les institutions universitaires participent de la progressive émergence de ces nouvelles élites au cours des Trente Glorieuses. Dans cette thèse, je m'appuie sur la sociologie des élites pour investiguer précisément cette phase de préparation à travers le modèle de formation des élites internationales de l'Institut universitaire des hautes études internationales à Genève. Cet institut est créé en 1927 avec le but initial de former du personnel diplomatique à destination des institutions de la Genève internationale de l'entre-deux-guerres.A l'aide de l'approche micro-globale, qui constitue l'un des principaux atouts de ma recherche, j'observe comment ce modèle internationaliste intègre les spécificités locales et nationales. En effet, je me focalise sur un objet de recherche très précis, l'Institut, afin d'explorer différentes échelles d'analyse dans lesquelles se joue la formation des élites, du niveau local de la ville de Genève jusqu'au niveau de l'internationalisation des élites au second 20ème siècle. J'apporte une originalité à l'histoire de cet institut en mettant au centre de mon étude le principal artisan de ce modèle, Jacques Freymond, directeur de l'Institut entre 1955 et 1978 et lui-même membre des élites suisses.L'une des forces de ce projet réside dans le regard oblique qu'il porte sur des mécanismes de transformation culturelle et politique plus larges. En effet, ce modèle de formation des élites permet également d'éclairer les relations inter- et transnationales de la Suisse dans le contexte de la guerre froide sous un angle nouveau. L'Institut a pour but de former des élites internationales, alors que la Suisse est isolée sur le plan diplomatique à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Elle souhaite préserver sa neutralité et ne participe pas aux organisations politiques internationales. Ainsi s'intéresser à un institut d'études internationales en Suisse durant la guerre froide permet d'ouvrir une fenêtre sur la progressive internationalisation du pays qui sort peu à peu de son isolement au cours du second 20ème siècle. L'Institut devient par exemple un lieu important de la formation des diplomates suisses au cours de la guerre froide.
The Divisive Power of Citizenship Research Project | 5 Project MembersErosion of nationality and the politicization of citizenship have become dominant features of discourse in Western democracies. However, these issues are not new: since the beginning of the 21st century Western states have been loosening historic hurdles to de-naturalization of their citizens, mainly as a consequence of the War on Terror and stricter treatment of migrants. In addition to this re-framing of citizenship - as a privilege that can be lost - supra-national organizations pose orthogonal challenges. For example, the European Union grants its citizens free movement, thereby relaxing the historic connection between citizenship and geographical region and replacing nationality with a new form of multi-layered citizenship. This project, "The Divisive Power of Citizenship", seeks to relate and connect these recent processes effectively with historical precedents to create an expanded understanding of citizenship which can both reveal new insights about the past as well as the contemporary situation. Focusing on East Asia in the early 20th century, we examine conditions applying to European merchants, whose citizenship bestowed distinct jurisdiction and rights compared with their Asian contemporaries - creating multilayered trans-cultural communities. Such competing communities can be analyzed in terms of colonial privilege, racism and nationalism, affording new perspectives on historical communities and also provide a lens through which to view the tumultuous processes at work today. Chronologically this survey spans the period between 1919 and 1945, witnessing the climax and decline of western dominance in East Asia and also the rupture precipitated by the Pacific War.
Sites of International Memory Research Project | 1 Project MembersThe project is an international cooperation with the Laureate Research Program in International History, University of Sydney. For further information see https://sitesofinternationalmemory.wordpress.com/about/
