Online Event
This event is part of the International History and Politics Forum.
The International History and Politics Department warmly invites you to this International History and Politics Forum event. The International History Forum and Politics (IHPF) is a regular series of discussions convened by the International History and Politics Department at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies to discuss a variety of global questions from a multiplicity of historically-informed perspectives.
Julia Tischler is professor of African history at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She obtained a PhD from the University of Cologne (2011); her dissertation focused on the Kariba Dam, on the border between today’s Zambia and Zimbabwe, as a case study of development and state building during the late colonial period. Before taking up her current position in Basel, she was a postdoc at the International Research Center “re:work: Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History” at Humboldt University in Berlin. Her project was a transnational history of agricultural education in South Africa in the first half of the twentieth century.