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Philipp Krauer

@philippkrauer.bsky.social
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Historian & Archivist. Interested in global & colonial history. Working on Swiss mercenaries in the Dutch colonial army in Indonesia in the 19th & 20th century.

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infoclio.ch @infoclio.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Joint ETHZ-UZH Research Colloquium in Global and Extra-European History #infoclioevent
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Joint ETHZ-UZH Research Colloquium in Global and Extra-European History
Joint ETHZ-UZH Research Colloquium in Global and Extra-European History 4 13. Februar 2026 Joint ETHZ-UZH Research Colloquium in Global and Extra-European History, FS 2026 Thursdays, 16.15-17.45; ETH Zurich, RZ F21, Clausiusstrasse 59, 8092 Zürich   February 26, 2026 Dr Michael Philipp Brunner (University of Münster)  "From Conversion to Cooperation: Protestant Internationalism and Asia, 1920-1950"   --- March 12, 2026 Dr Tom Menger (LMU Munich) Oil, Infrastructures and Information - Or Not? Rethinking Global Connectivity through Ottoman Mesopotamia, 1890s-1920s --- March 26, 2026 Dr Sneha Krishnan (University of Oxford)  “Unhoming Domesticity at a Women’s College” --- April 23, 2026 Prof Dr Marie Muschalek (University of Basel)  “Killing Animals for Knowledge. Naturalist Field Practices in the Cape Colony around 1800” --- May 7, 2026 Dr Susanne Quitmann (global dis :connect Munich)  Temporal Ecologies: Dendrochronology and Modern Concepts of Time --- May 21, 2026 Dr Larissa Schulte Nordholt (Wageningen University & Research)  Indigenous Expertise in the Making of Colonial Knowledge at Wageningen Agricultural College, circa 1920-1940   Organisiert von ETH Zurich, Professur für Geschichte der modernen Welt, Profs. Harald Fischer-Tiné (ETH) and Martin Dusinberre (UZH) Sprachen der Veranstaltung Englisch Anmeldung nicht erforderlich ETH Zürich, Gebäude RZ Raum F21 Clausiusstrasse 59 8092  Zürich
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Monika Dommann @modomodo.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Es wäre mir neu, dass Joseph Jung ein Experte für die Geschichte des Rassismus oder auch Ikonographie um 1900 wäre.
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Leiden University Press @leidenup.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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.
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Monique Ligtenberg @moniqueligtenberg.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
PhD Opportunity in Global History Join our team at ETH Zurich for the SNSF-funded project Engineering Empire. 4 years, fully funded. Applicants from marginalized groups are particularly welcome. More details:
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PhD Position in Global History
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Alonso Gurmendi @alonso-gd.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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...
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Ein Stadtrundgang durch Zürichs Koloniale Vergangenheit
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intercomverlag @intercomverlag.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
this weekend in Zurich, say hello if you're around 👋
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Philipp Krauer @philippkrauer.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
🥳 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...
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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.
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Philipp Krauer @philippkrauer.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
🔊 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!
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Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
Toller Artikel von Joanna Simonow zu Eva Geissler, indischem Anti-Kolonialismus, Kommunism, Biografien und Frauengeschichte www.woz.ch/2349/eva-wal...
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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...
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Annika Bärwald @annikabaerwald.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
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
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Gerda Henkel Fellowship for the History of Knowledge and the History of Science :: Interdisciplinary...
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intercomverlag @intercomverlag.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
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...
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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...
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Annika Bärwald @annikabaerwald.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
“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...
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Larissa Schulte Nordholt @lascno.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
CFP - The Histories of (Post-)Colonial Universities in the Netherlands - 29&30 august 2024 @ Wageningen University & Research www.historici.nl/call-for-pap...
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Call for papers – The Histories of (Post-)Colonial Universities in the Netherlands | Historici....
Historici.nl is dé website voor iedereen met een serieuze interesse in de Nederlandse geschiedenis. Onderzoekers, studenten, docenten, archivarissen, museummedewerkers en historisch geïnteresseerden...
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
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...
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.
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intercomverlag @intercomverlag.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
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
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Philipp Sarasin @philippsarasin.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
Out now! Svenja Goltermann's important book "Victims" from Oxford UP. It couldn't be more topical in these dark days.
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Gesine Krüger @gesinekrueger.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Ein mit zwei Preisen ausgezeichnetes Buch zur deutschen Kolonialgeschichte in Tansania und zum Widerstand gegen die Kolonialherrschaft. Open Access!
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Philipp Krauer @philippkrauer.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
👉 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/...
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Constanze Jeitler @constanzejtlr.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
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 🙏
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Monika Dommann @modomodo.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
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
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Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
'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...
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