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@chriiisz.bsky.social

PhD Candidate in History @UniHeidelberg on the history of knowledge and the plantation economy in Central America

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The third blog entry is on the participation of the University of Heidelberg at the World Fair in St. Louis in 1904. If you want to know why it almost came to a clash with the foreign policy at the time, check it out: www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/between-s...

18.08.2025 17:19 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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If you want to know how an elephant from the Zoological Garden in Cologne ended up as a skeleton in the zoological collection of the University of Heidelberg check out the second blog entry on the history of the collections of the university of Heidelberg: www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/from-capt...

11.08.2025 16:10 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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During the semester we delved into the history of the university's collections with our undergraduate students. The result are some exciting blog posts. You can check out the first one here:
www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/en/colonial-...

04.08.2025 16:37 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Rezension zu: B. C. Schär u.a. (Hrsg.): Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe Rezension zu / Review of: Schär, Bernhard C.; Toivanen, Mikko: Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe. At the Margins of Empire, 1800–1950

It has been a great pleasure to review the volume on Integration and Collaborative Imperialism edited by @mtoiv.bsky.social and @boscha.bsky.social for @hsozkult.bsky.social. Looking forward to continue the discussion on European Integration in an imperial context! www.hsozkult.de/publicationr...

18.07.2025 08:38 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0
Rezension zu: B. C. Schär u.a. (Hrsg.): Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe Rezension zu / Review of: Schär, Bernhard C.; Toivanen, Mikko: Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe. At the Margins of Empire, 1800–1950

First review (I think) of Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe is now up! "Comprehensive and thought-provoking", says @chriiisz.bsky.social in HSozKult. Check it out here: www.hsozkult.de/publicationr...

18.07.2025 07:39 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

On Wednesday, July 16, 2025, H. Glenn Penny (UCLA) will give a lecture at the lecture hall of the Department of History in Heidelberg, titled “Quotidian Interconnections: The Implications of Globalizing German-Chilean Microhistories, 1920s–1940s.” The talk will take place from 4:15 to 5:45 PM.

14.07.2025 12:06 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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