Harald Fischer-Tiné: Catalogue data in Spring Semester 2022

Name	Prof. Dr. Harald Fischer-Tiné
Field	The History of the Modern World
Address	Geschichte der modernen Welt ETH Zürich, RZ G 24 Clausiusstrasse 59 8092 Zürich SWITZERLAND
Telephone	+41 44 632 69 15
E-mail	harald.fischertine@gess.ethz.ch
Department	Humanities, Social and Political Sciences
Relationship	Full Professor

Number	Title	ECTS	Hours	Lecturers
853-0726-00L	History II: Global (Anti-Imperialism and Decolonisation, 1919-1975)	3 credits	2V	H. Fischer-Tiné
Abstract	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.
Learning objective	The lecture will give students an insight into the history of the non-European world, looking specifically into the political, economic, social and cultural transformation on the backgrounds of colonial penetration strategies and the resistance of anti-colonial movements. The aim is to show that societies in Asia and Africa are not just the product of colonial penetration or anti-colonial resistance, but that both aspects influenced the present political, economic, social and cultural perception of these parts of the world to a considerable extent. A nuanced knowledge of the long and arduous process of decolonisation is hence important to understand today's geopolitical constellation, still characterised by the struggle for a just post-imperial world order.
Literature	Jansen, J.C. und Osterhammel, J., Dekolonisation: Das Ende der Imperien, München 2013.
Prerequisites / Notice	A detailed syllabus will be available in due course at http://www.gmw.ethz.ch/en/teaching/lehrveranstaltungen.html
862-0078-12L	Research Colloquium. Extra-European History and Global History (FS 2022) For PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. Masterstudents are welcome.	2 credits	1K	H. Fischer-Tiné, M. Dusinberre
Abstract	The fortnightly colloquium provides a forum for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers to present and discuss their current work. Half of the slots are reserved for presentations by invited external scholars.
Learning objective	PhD students will have an opportunity to improve their presentation skills and obtain an important chance to receive feedback both from peers and more advanced scholars.
Prerequisites / Notice	The venue changes each semester alternately between UZH and ETH.
862-0113-00L	Culture, Conflict, Commerce: Toward a Global History of Jazz in Switzerland, c. 1900-2020	3 credits	2S	H. Fischer-Tiné, M. Ligtenberg
Abstract	The seminar offers a critical, globally historically informed examination of jazz history in Switzerland and at the same time opens up a completely new approach to important topics of recent cultural, social and gender history.
Learning objective	The seminar takes place as an Aether research and writing workshop. The aim is to guide the students in independent, topic selection, archive research and the writing of a published essay. In this way, the participants should gain concrete experience with central elements of academic research and publishing.
Content	In the past three decades, the historiographical examination of the music form jazz has undergone radical changes in two respects. On the one hand, the fixation on the USA as a supposedly ‘natural’ point of reference in jazz history was increasingly expanded to include transnational and transregional perspectives. The ‘historical world map of jazz’, which has been constantly expanding since the late 1980s, still contains a number of blank spots. In view of the high density of research on the history of jazz in the neighboring countries of France and Germany, the lack of a critical, globally historically informed examination of the history of jazz in Switzerland is particularly striking. . In the planned seminar, the students should therefore have the opportunity to contribute to closing this glaring research gap in jazz historiography by writing short essays based on original source work and at the same time to gain a completely new approach to important topics of recent cultural and social history in Switzerland . The most important source is the extremely extensive, but so far seldom used, holdings of the Swiss Jazzorama in Uster. The range of topics proposed is just as broad as the chronological window. Contributions to the prehistory of jazz around 1900, which deal with the first tours of Afro-American gospel choirs and ragtime soloists, are also planned, as are essays on the gentrification of jazz in Switzerland through commercialized high-profile festivals or the academization of musician training in the 2000s. Other planned articles ask about the importance of jazz culture for the development of youth subcultures in the 1930s and 1950s, or analyze debates about the role of women as artists in public space, or about the redefinition of sexual norms. The role of Switzerland as a place of exile for African and Afro-American musicians will be at the fore, as will the question of the mediality of jazz culture. In addition to sound carriers and written media (lead sheets, media, fan magazines), there are also changes in the visual language of jazz posters in the longue durée and much more.