Philipp Krauer

Es wäre mir neu, dass Joseph Jung ein Experte für die Geschichte des Rassismus oder auch Ikonographie um 1900 wäre.

Award winning book! Philipp Krauer has won the Thomas Welskopp Dissertation Award - German Labour History Association for his book Swiss Mercenaries in the Dutch East Indies. Photo: #StefanBerger, President #GLHA, 2 winners #PhilippKrauer & #KorneliaRung and #SibylleMarti & #KnudAndresen GLHA board.

PhD Position in Global History

PhD Opportunity in Global History

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Last week I visited Switzerland to present a paper at the University of Zurich. As part of the conference,
the organizers had the inspired idea to engage ZH Kolonial, a tour guide company organising walking tours of Zurich's colonial past www.zh-kolonial.ch/en/station/i...

this weekend in Zurich, say hello if you're around 👋

Swiss Mercenaries in the Dutch East Indies - LUP This book elucidates the complexities of the nineteenth-century military labour markets through Swiss mercenaries in the Dutch East Indies.

🥳 Now it's getting real!!! After several years of work, my book about Swiss mercenaries who served in the Dutch colonial army in Indonesia will finally be published in March. The book can be ordered - or downloaded OA. lup.nl/publications...

🔊 Diesen Freitag im Sozialarchiv Zürich: Buchpräsentation «Ordnungen des Todes»! 📖 Mit Beiträgen von Moisés Prieto und Nina Kreibig und mir. Ich werde meinen Artikel zu den Verlustlisten Schweizer Kolonialsöldnern vorstellen, die in Niederländisch Ostindien verstarben. Kommt vorbei!

Eva Walter (1900–1991): «Mein Mann war so scheu, dass er monatelang kein Wort mit mir sprach» Sie arbeitete erst im Kreml, dann in Berlin für einen Nazi, der sie vor ihrer eigenen Verhaftung warnte, und war Teil der indischen Unabhängigkeitsbewegung: Das spektakuläre Leben der Kommunistin E...

Toller Artikel von Joanna Simonow zu Eva Geissler, indischem Anti-Kolonialismus, Kommunism, Biografien und Frauengeschichte

www.woz.ch/2349/eva-wal...

Gerda Henkel Fellowships for the History of Knowledge and the History of Science: Two postdoctoral and one doctoral fellowship for up to three months at the Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies (IZEA) in Halle 🗃️

📆 Deadline: 15 January, 2024

Shadow of the Tree Diagrams have long been used to describe, claim, and produce the relatedness of human individuals and groups, animals, and plants. The tree form seems to have attained particular dominance for represe...

Happy to announce the second online launch of cache 03: Shadow of the Tree (ed. @ehounshell.bsky.social and Ruth Amstutz)!

with new chapters by Séverine Lepape, Staffan Müller-Wille, Charlotte Bigg, Sun Too Kim, David Sabean, Christiane Klapisch-Zuber and others:

cache.ch/shadowofthet...

“Cultural Heritage and Slavery” has just been published and is fully available online. It examines slavery heritage and memory in Europe, with contributions ranging from studies on Britain, to France, the Nordic countries, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain.
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

CFP - The Histories of (Post-)Colonial Universities in the Netherlands - 29&30 august 2024 @ Wageningen University & Research

www.historici.nl/call-for-pap...

Image shows the front of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, a gothic-style, red-brick facade; the facade is reflected in the water of the canal in the foreground.

Want to come to Amsterdam and hang out at the Rijksmuseum? This 9-month fellowship for early career researchers supports historical research on objects in their collections
www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/education...

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Grosser Dank an dich für die Unterstützung! 🙌

Cache 03: Shadow of the Tree examines the variety of diagrammatic representations of relatedness in scientific and popular practice. The tree seems dominant, but there are dramatically different forms, e.g. the revolving discs of the Zürcher Regimentsspiegel exhibited at landesmuseum.ch /1

Out now! Svenja Goltermann's important book "Victims" from Oxford UP. It couldn't be more topical in these dark days.

Ein mit zwei Preisen ausgezeichnetes Buch zur deutschen Kolonialgeschichte in Tansania und zum Widerstand gegen die Kolonialherrschaft.
Open Access!

👉 Von Mitten in Europa zu Mitten in der Welt 🌏 – Für das Historische Lexikon der Schweiz durfte ich den Artikel «Fremde Dienste» aus globalhistorischer Perspektive überarbeiten. Vieles wird ausgelassen, doch ich hoffe, es ist ein Anfang für weitere Forschung. hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/...

Hey BlueStorians (? SkyStorians?), I am new in the peer review game 🥲 Hit me with your "how to write a good peer review" manuals, pretty please 🙏

We are hiring!!!
Two Post-Doc positions (Historians, French and Italian native speakers): Projet de recherche historique sur les abus sexuels dans le milieu de l’Eglise catholique suisse

www.infoclio.ch/de/node/185704

'Colonial Pasts and Image Wars', the lecture I gave for the History Council of Victoria on 25 October, is now online. A lecture from the heart about Australia, Indonesia, the Netherlands, colonial violence, and history as truth-telling, collaboration, and courage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zKj...