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Comics played an important role during the colonial period as transmitters of colonial images and racism. Today they are used to criticise colonial continuities. In this seminar we will examine scholarship on the subject matter and analyse concrete examples from different world-regions and periods.
History II: Global (Anti-Imperialism and Decolonisation, 1919-1975)
Geschichte II: Global (Anti-Imperialismus und Dekolonisation, 1919-1975)
The lecture will give an insight into the formation of anticolonial nationalist movements in Asia and Africa from the beginning of the 20th century onwards and discuss the various dimensions of dismantling of colonial empires.
Men have always been over-represented in the sciences. Why is this so? This seminar inquires how male supremacy in science evolved and transformed historically in different places around the world. How was and is science linked to particular images of manliness? How did and do women and non-conforming men around the world nonetheless succeed in doing science?
The 'Dutch East Indies' and Science in German Speaking Europe, c. 1800-1950
"Niederländisch Ostindien" und die deutschsprachigen Wissenschaften, ca. 1800-1950
Between about 1800 and 1945 the Netherlands was a small country with a huge empire in what is now Indonesia and the Caribbean. In order to conquer and explore this empire, the Dutch depended also on the help of German-speaking scientists. How did German-speaking science and Dutch imperialism mutually benefit from each other? What consequences did it have for whom?