Daniel Marc Segesser's lectureship focuses on the social, cultural and environmental history of the military as well as on the history of law and politics in the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. A special focus is on the history of the First World War in a local as well as a global perspective, the study of environmental influences on the course of wars as well as of war on the environment and the addressing of international macro-crimes by contemporary lawyers, politicians and publicists.
The aim of the lectureship is to consciously overcome existing boundaries between research on the 19th and on the 20th century as well as between the period of the First and the Second World War and to single out continuities as well as ruptures in a differentiated manner. In this context it is particularly important not only to analyse contemporary sources and literature, but also to continuously reflect on the resulting findings in the context of contemporary and later research, always to locate global developments locally and always to view local events in the light of global perspectives.
