Projects

Running Projects

• Indian Overseas Migration and Global Anticolonial Networks, c. 1905-1950: Political Imaginaries, Social Composition and Local Entanglements (Harald Fischer-Tiné)
  
• 10004837 - Engineering Empires from the Margins: Global Techno-Colonialism and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, c. 1860-1980 (Harald Fischer-Tiné)
• Fighting Insect Enemies at the Tropical Frontier: Swiss and German Entomologists in Plantation Economies c. 1880–1930 (Tomás Bartoletti)
• Nommer les Natures: Sur les traces du Humboldt suisse (Tomás Bartoletti)
• Between Piety, Politics and Empowerment: Religious, Social and Economic Transformations among Dalit Converts of the Basel Mission in India, c. 1835-​2020 (Mukesh Kumar)
  
• Physical Education and Femininity in India (1900s – 1970s): Global Trends and Local Politics towards Crafting Women Citizens (Elena Valdameri)
• 10003436 - Shaping Asian Future Generations in an Age of (De)Colonisation: Playgrounds and outdoor games in India and China, ca 1900–1950 (Elena Valdameri)
• Medicine, Masculinities, and Colonial Warfare: A Transimperial History of German-speaking Physicians in the Dutch East Indies, c. 1873-1914 (Monique Ligtenberg)
  
• A global biography: Frieda Hauswirth Das (1886-1974) between Switzerland, California, and India (Claire Blaser, SNSF)
• Making mindfulness: Narrating, Mediating, Medicalizing transcultural emotion-knowledge, 1920-2000 (Josephine Selander)
  
• Muscling in on Asia: the Y.M.C.A. in India and Ceylon, c. 1890-1950 (Harald Fischer-Tiné)
• Behaving badly: ‘European deviance’ in colonial Singapore, c. 1890-​​​1940 (DeniseZhi Qing Lim)