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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)

For more information, contact:
Mukesh Kumar-

DownloadDownload programme (PDF, 225 KB)

Open invitation to listen to Transimperial History An open invitation to listen to Transimperial History Podcasts:

Launched by The Graduate Institute, Geneva (IHEID). Listen on external pageApple Podcasts and external pageSpotify

external pageLive Stream from 28 March 2023, Credit to: Keystone-SDA-ATS

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


GESS News

New professors at ETH CIS

Contributions to Public Debates

external pageWoher kommst du eigentlich? Schwarze in Deutschland, interview with Harald Fischer-Tiné, 3Sat, 29.09.2021.

DownloadWas Yoga mit YMCA zu tun hat, (MP3, 4.3 MB) interview with Harald Fischer-Tiné, SRF 2 Kultur kompakt, 21.05.2021.

external pageFreihandelsabkommen mit Indonesien: Mehr als nur Palmöl, PhD student Monique Ligtenberg comments on the free trade agreement between Switzerland and Indonesia, Das Lamm, 24.02.2021.

external pageJohann Jakob von Tschudi: Natuforscher und Rassist, a talk by Tomás Bartoletti, Swiss Broadcasting Services (SRF), 14.01.2021.

DownloadEin Jäger als Forschugnsreisender (PDF, 270 KB), presentation by Tomás Bartoletti, Schaffhauser Nachrichten, 19.12.2020.

external pageWie eine Frau aus Borneo die Gründung der Schweiz prägte, article by Bernhard C. Schär, Republik Magazine, 15.12.2020.

Special Communication

Information on the coronavirus

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.

To ETH's coronavirus web page

Finding and blocking infection routes in hospitals

Acids help against airborne viruses

Preparing for future coronavirus variants using artificial intelligence

New Publications

Fischer-Tiné, Harald/Framke, Maria (eds): external pageRoutledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia, Routledge 2022.

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: DownloadCosmopolitan, Bridge-Builder and Missionary: Prof. Dietmar Rothermund, 1933–2020 (PDF, 881 KB), Journal of South Asian Studies, 16 May 2021.

With Julia Hauser und Ashok Malhotra, external page'Feeding Bodies, Nurturing Identities: The Politics of Diet in Late Colonial and Early Post-Colonial India', Journal of South Asian Studies, 16 February 2021.

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)

Publications


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