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Call for Papers
International Workshop: “More Than Child’s Play: Global Perspectives on the History of Playgrounds”
26–28 August 2026
ETH Zürich
Deadline for submissions: 15 January 2026
Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2026
Call for Proposals
International Workshop: 'Empire and (Im-)Mobility in South and South-East Asia (19th and 20th Centuries)
Where: New Delhi
When: 6-7 February 2026
CONVENERS: HARALD FISCHER-TINÉ and SIDDHARTH PANDEY
Deadline for Proposals: November 9, 2025
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Welcome Dr Robert Kramm!
We welcome Dr Kramm as acting Chair for the History of the Modern World at ETH Zurich until January 2026. Dr Kramm will also be teaching in autumn term: Modernity, Empire and Tensions: Japan in the 19th and 20th Century; History Part One: Europe (The Cradle of Modernity, Britain, 1789-1914); and Research Colloquium. Extra-European History and Global History. We wish him a wonderful ane inspiring time at ETH Zurich!
International Workshop
Two Wheels, One World: Global Perspectives on the History of the Bicycle and of Cycling
ETH Zurich, 21-22 August 2025, Building IFW, Room E42
Organisers: NATHAN CARDON (University of Birmingham), HARALD FISCHER-TINÉ (ETH Zurich)
Welcome Dr Philipp Krauer!
The Professorship for History of the Modern World warmly welcomes Dr Philipp Krauer. Dr. Krauer has been working with us as a senior assistant since 1 July 2025 – we wish him a successful start!
Curious about Ghandi's Salt March? Have a listen!
Harald Fischer-Tiné in a conversation about Gandhi's Salt March on 12 March 1930, sheding lights on Gandhi and colonialism: reduction of Gandhi from certain myths and images; external page West German Radio (Westdeutscher Rundfunk,WDR) 12 March 2025, by Almut Finck.