Philipp Krauer
@philippkrauer.bsky.social
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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Es wäre mir neu, dass Joseph Jung ein Experte für die Geschichte des Rassismus oder auch Ikonographie um 1900 wäre.
August 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Es wäre mir neu, dass Joseph Jung ein Experte für die Geschichte des Rassismus oder auch Ikonographie um 1900 wäre.
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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.
April 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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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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:
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:
PhD Position in Global History
jobs.ethz.ch
April 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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:
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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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...
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...
ZH Kolonial
Ein Stadtrundgang durch Zürichs Koloniale Vergangenheit
www.zh-kolonial.ch
December 2, 2024 at 11:06 AM
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...
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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this weekend in Zurich, say hello if you're around 👋
November 14, 2024 at 10:32 AM
this weekend in Zurich, say hello if you're around 👋
🥳 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...
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.
lup.nl
February 29, 2024 at 7:33 AM
🥳 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...
🔊 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!
January 23, 2024 at 5:50 AM
🔊 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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Toller Artikel von Joanna Simonow zu Eva Geissler, indischem Anti-Kolonialismus, Kommunism, Biografien und Frauengeschichte
www.woz.ch/2349/eva-wal...
www.woz.ch/2349/eva-wal...
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...
www.woz.ch
December 11, 2023 at 9:17 AM
Toller Artikel von Joanna Simonow zu Eva Geissler, indischem Anti-Kolonialismus, Kommunism, Biografien und Frauengeschichte
www.woz.ch/2349/eva-wal...
www.woz.ch/2349/eva-wal...
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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
📆 Deadline: 15 January, 2024
Gerda Henkel Fellowship for the History of Knowledge and the History of Science :: Interdisciplinary...
gerda_henkel_fellowship_for_the_history_of_knowlegde_and_the_history_of_science_in_halle
www.izea.uni-halle.de
December 11, 2023 at 11:14 AM
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
📆 Deadline: 15 January, 2024
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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...
with new chapters by Séverine Lepape, Staffan Müller-Wille, Charlotte Bigg, Sun Too Kim, David Sabean, Christiane Klapisch-Zuber and others:
cache.ch/shadowofthet...
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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December 7, 2023 at 8:08 AM
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...
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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“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...
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
November 21, 2023 at 4:20 PM
“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...
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
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CFP - The Histories of (Post-)Colonial Universities in the Netherlands - 29&30 august 2024 @ Wageningen University & Research
www.historici.nl/call-for-pap...
www.historici.nl/call-for-pap...
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...
www.historici.nl
October 13, 2023 at 7:27 AM
CFP - The Histories of (Post-)Colonial Universities in the Netherlands - 29&30 august 2024 @ Wageningen University & Research
www.historici.nl/call-for-pap...
www.historici.nl/call-for-pap...
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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...
www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/education...
November 15, 2023 at 11:46 AM
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...
www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/education...
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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
November 9, 2023 at 9:50 AM
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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Out now! Svenja Goltermann's important book "Victims" from Oxford UP. It couldn't be more topical in these dark days.
November 9, 2023 at 8:32 AM
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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Ein mit zwei Preisen ausgezeichnetes Buch zur deutschen Kolonialgeschichte in Tansania und zum Widerstand gegen die Kolonialherrschaft.
Open Access!
Open Access!
November 3, 2023 at 6:51 AM
Ein mit zwei Preisen ausgezeichnetes Buch zur deutschen Kolonialgeschichte in Tansania und zum Widerstand gegen die Kolonialherrschaft.
Open Access!
Open Access!
👉 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/...
November 1, 2023 at 6:13 PM
👉 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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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 🙏
October 30, 2023 at 2:39 PM
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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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
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
October 27, 2023 at 3:51 PM
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
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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'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...
October 27, 2023 at 3:45 PM
'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...