Ordinariat Neueste Geschichte

Im Juni 2025 organisiert die Professur für Neueste Geschichte zusammen mit Kolleginnen und Kollegen aus Aarhus, Oslo, Paris Cité, Tübingen und dem King's College London die vierte Sandbjerg Summer School in Global History. Sie richtet sich an Doktorierende aus der Neueren, Neuesten und Zeitgeschichte sowie den Area Studies, die zu einem globalhistorischen Thema arbeiten.

Die Summer School findet vom 18.-21. Juni 2025 auf Sandbjerg Estates im Süden Dänemarks statt.

→ www.summerschool-globalhistory.net

Im Juni 2024 organisierte die Professur für Neueste Geschichte zusammen mit Kolleginnen und Kollegen aus Aarhus, Oslo, Paris Cité, Tübingen und dem King's College London die dritte Sandbjerg Summer School in Global History. Sie richtete sich an Doktorierende aus der Neueren, Neuesten und Zeitgeschichte sowie den Area Studies, die zu einem globalhistorischen Thema arbeiteten.

Die Summer School hat vom 19. bis zum 22. Juni 2024 auf Sandbjerg Estates im Süden Dänemarks stattgefunden.

→ www.summerschool-globalhistory.net

Im Juni 2023 organisierte die Professur für Neueste Geschichte zusammen mit Kolleginnen und Kollegen aus Aarhus, Oslo, Paris Cité, Tübingen und dem King's College London die zweite Sandbjerg Summer School in Global History. Sie richtete sich an Doktorierende aus der Neueren, Neuesten und Zeitgeschichte sowie den Area Studies, die zu einem globalhistorischen Thema arbeiteten.

Die Summer School hat vom 21. bis zum 24. Juni 2023 auf Sandbjerg Estates im Süden Dänemarks stattgefunden.

→ www.summerschool-globalhistory.net

Die verschiedenen Artikel dieses Special Issue betonen die Bedeutung des Hin- und Herwanderns in den transatlantischen Migrationsbewegungen um 1900. Mit diesem Ansatz tragen wir zu einem umfassenderen Verständnis der Verflechtung von Migrations- und Arbeitsgeschichte bei und unterstreichen die zentrale Rolle von Mobilität und Zeitlichkeit in den Erfahrungen von Migrant:innen in der atlantischen Welt um 1900.

Agnes Gehbald, Philipp Horn & Rea Vogt (eds.). Atlantic Crossings: Temporary Migration and Labour around 1900, in: Comparativ 35: 1-2 (2025).

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Historisches Institut der Universität Bern
Mittwoch 16.15-17.45 Uhr | Raum F -114

• 12. März 2025: Juri Auderset (University of Bern)
  Der metabolische Riss durch die Schweiz. Arbeit, Natur und die Geschichte des Ressourcenkapitalismus
• 2. April 2025: Felix Krämer (University of Erfurt)
  A Prehistory of the Racial Capitalists’ Revolution
• 7. Mai 2025: Sabine Pitteloud (UniDistance Suisse)
  Organized Business and the Politicization of the Environment in the 1970s
• 21. Mai 2025: Leila V. Girschweiler (University of Zurich)
  Class Struggle at the Factory: Labor Management at Swiss Subsidiaries in Argentina and Brazil 1965–1985

Die Vorträge sind öffentlich. Alle Interessierten sind herzlich eingeladen.

This workshop seeks to explore the dual nature of port cities as both physical and symbolic points of passage. With presentations on the history of Dakar, Hamburg, Philadelphia, and Tokyo, among others, we will examine how these locations facilitated not only the movement of goods and people but also the shifting dynamics of power, culture, and identity in the last two centuries. 

If you would like to receive the pre-circulated papers, please send an email to agnes.gehbald@unibe.ch 

11 April 2025 | 9.00–18.15 | Mittelstrasse 43 | Room 220

University of Bern, Institute of History
12-13 September 2024
Mittelstrasse 43 | Seminarraum 216
Organised by: Derya Bozat, Philipp Horn, Christiane Hoth, Rea Vogt

Internationale Tagung vom 2. und 3. September 2024 an der Universität Bern.

Keynote Lecture:
Monetary Pluralism and Extractive Borderlands in Early-Colonial Eastern India
Andrew Sartori, Professor and Chair, Department of History, New York University

Aus Platzgründen wird um Anmeldung gebeten unter moritz.vonbrescius@unibe.ch

The purpose of this workshop is to promote the study of temporary transatlantic migrations in a global historical perspective. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, a large number of people crossed the Atlantic, in search of better working conditions, economic opportunities, or as a stage in their professional careers. This workshop puts migrants, both women and men, as highly mobile actors at the centre stage, asking for the social and economic dimensions of their mobilities.

October 19 – 20, 2023
Bern, Uni S, Schanzeneckstrasse 1, Room S 201

For further information and registration, please contact the organisers: agnes.gehbald@unibe.ch, philipp.horn@unibe.ch, or rea.vogt@unibe.ch

Second Meeting Bern-Leipzig, November 2023

Convenors:
Moritz von Brescius and Christof Dejung (Bern)
Steffi Marung and Antje Dietze (Leipzig)

In her keynote, Eileen Boris, Hull Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Barbara, explores intimate labors (domestic, care, and sex work in both their commodified and unpaid forms) as informal labors during the century of labor standardization, 1870-1970, when such labor often went unrecognized as work or stood outside of formalization through union organizing and legal codification of the employer-employee relation. Intimate labor, she suggests, belongs to a transnational story with the circulation of people and ideas.

31 August 2023, Room S 201, UniS, Schanzeneckstrasse 1, 3012 Bern
17:45         Reception
18:15         Keynote by Eileen Boris

Convenors: Sibylle Marti (Bern), Christof Dejung (Bern), Susan Carin Zimmermann (Vienna)

Vom 31. August bis zum 2. September diskutierten Forschende auf verschiedenen europäischen Ländern und den USA  über «Insecurity in the Age of Labour Formalisation: Informal Work in Europe, ca. 1870–1970».

Die Tagung wurde organisiert von Sibylle Marti (Bern), Christof Dejung (Bern) und Susan Zimmermann (Wien).

Die von Moritz von Brescius (Bern und Harvard) organisierte Tagung «Extraction, Sovereignty and Resources in the Long Great Acceleration: Writing Global Economic and Environmental Histories, 1800-2000» brachte Forschende aus diversen europäischen Ländern und Indien am 28. und 29. August in Bern zusammen.

Organisation: Institute of History (Chair of Modern History) and Center for Global Studies, University of Bern 
Convenor: Sibylle Marti (Bern) 

29 March 2023: Research Colloquium History Post-1800
30 March 2023: Workshop / CGS-Forum: Contested Concepts of Labor: Slavery and Informality 

This conference aims for exploring the potential benefit of adopting gender as a useful category of global historical analysis by having a fresh look at the long nineteenth century. How was the transformation of the world characterized by particular concepts of gender? Did European expansion result in an assimilation of gender roles across the globe? How were the respective notions of masculinity and femininity related to other social categories such as ethnicity/race, class, religion or sex in different parts of the world?

Conference at the Hotel Bad Murtensee, Muntelier, Switzerland, 25 to 27 August 2022 
Convenors: Christof Dejung (Bern); Angelika Epple (Bielefeld) 

This conference aims for breaking new ground by exploring the significance of temporal regimes for the breakthrough of capitalism globally. By linking the history of temporality, which has become a vibrant research field in the last few years, to the history of capitalism, it aims for confirming that economic history in general, and the history of capitalism in particular, cannot be understood without investigating the cultural processes that accompanied, and often rendered possible, the implementation of specific economic structures.

Organisers: Christof Dejung (Bern), Moritz von Brescius (Harvard and Bern)
23 to 25 June 2022, Hotel Bad Murtensee

Workshop 21. - 22. November 2019
Universität Leipzig, SFB 1199
Strohsackpassage, Nikolaistraße 6–10 / 5. Etage, 04109 Leipzig 

Organisatoren: 
Antje Dietze, Universität Leipzig, SFB 1199
Moritz von Brescius, Universität Bern, Historisches Institut

This conference interweaves global and social history, exploring global social history as a new field of historical inquiry. The papers aim to demonstrate that we cannot understand the emergence and transformation of social groups across the modern world, such as the aristocracy, the economic bourgeoisie, the educated middle classes, or the peasantry, without considering the impact of global entanglements on class formation. Moreover, the contributions aim to show that we have to examine globalization as a social process which was shaped not least by the agency of particular social groups. 
Bringing together established and early career scholars from the fields of social history, global history, labour history, and imperial history, the conference will examine the differences and similarities between particular social groups and processes of stratification in different world areas and their interrelations between the early modern period and the twentieth century. Overall, it will make a substantial contribution to the discipline: it aims to add a global dimension to the field of social history, and to introduce social historical questions to the field of global history.

Symposium vom 19. und 20. April 2018 | Universität Bern

Tagungswebsite mit allen Informationen

Interview mit Prof. Dr. Christof Dejung im Online-Magazin der Universität Bern
Radio SRF, Tagesgespräch vom Freitag, 20. April 2018, 13:00 Uhr