Harald Fischer-Tiné: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2023

Name Prof. Dr. Harald Fischer-Tiné
FieldThe History of the Modern World
Address
Institut für Geschichte
ETH Zürich, RZ G 24
Clausiusstrasse 59
8092 Zürich
SWITZERLAND
Telephone+41 44 632 69 15
E-mailharald.fischertine@gess.ethz.ch
DepartmentHumanities, Social and Political Sciences
RelationshipFull Professor

NumberTitleECTSHoursLecturers
851-0005-00LColour-Coded Conflict: A Global History of Racism and Anti-Racism (c. 1500-2000)3 credits2VH. Fischer-Tiné
AbstractThe lectures analyses the trajectories of racism and anti-racism from the late 15th to the early 20th century. In an effort to go beyond the usual focus on anti-semitism, various forms of racist thought and practices linked to European and extra-European imperialism are scrutinised. Particular emphasis lies on scientific racism in the 19th/20th centuries and the counter-discourses it triggered.
Learning objectiveThe students learn to historicise 21st century phenomena related to the legacy of racial thought, such as the "Black Lives Matter" movement or the current controversies in Europe, Australia and North America revolving around non-western migrants and refugees. Importantly, students of the sciences are sensitized for the role their disciplines played in creating structural inequalities.
ContentThe lecture provides an overview of modern forms of racism as they emerged since the late 15th century. It reconstructs the close entanglement of racism with European expansion, but it also looks at racist practices and world views beyond the West. Importantly, it demonstrates that racist rhetoric went never uncontested by also discussing in-depth anti-racist critique and critics from the anti-racist interventions of Bartholomeo de las Casas in early modern Spain to the American civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s or the South African anti-Apartheid struggle during the final decades of the 20th century.
CompetenciesCompetencies
Subject-specific CompetenciesConcepts and Theoriesassessed
Method-specific CompetenciesAnalytical Competenciesassessed
Social CompetenciesSensitivity to Diversityfostered
Personal CompetenciesCritical Thinkingfostered
853-0725-00LHistory Part One: Europe (The Cradle of Modernity, Britain, 1789-1914) Information 3 credits2VH. Fischer-Tiné
AbstractA range of fundamental processes have transformed European societies in the course of the 19th and the 20th centuries. This lecture series looks a several key aspects of these modernization processes and ask about their continuing relevance for our times . The regional focus lies on the Britain, where these processes took place for the first time.
Learning objectiveAt the end of this lecture course, students can: (a) highlight the most important changes in the "long nineteenth century" in Britain (b) explain their long-term effects (also for other European countries ; and (c) relate these changes to global developments today.
ContentThe thematic foci include: Industrialization, urban growth, democratisation and mass politics, shifting gender roles and ideals, and the emergence of consumerism and leisure culture.
Lecture notesPower Point Slides and references will be made available in digital form during the course of the semester.
LiteratureMandatory and further reading will be listed on the course plan that is made available as from the first session.
Prerequisites / NoticeThis lecture series does not build upon specific previous knowledge by the students.
CompetenciesCompetencies
Subject-specific CompetenciesConcepts and Theoriesassessed
Method-specific CompetenciesAnalytical Competenciesassessed
Social CompetenciesSensitivity to Diversityfostered
Personal CompetenciesCritical Thinkingassessed
862-0078-15LResearch Colloquium. Extra-European History and Global History (HS 2023)
For PhD and postdoctoral students. Master students are welcome.

Information for UZH students:
Enrolment to this course unit only possible at ETH. No enrolment for the respective module at UZH.
Please mind the ETH enrolment deadlines for UZH students: Link
2 credits1KH. Fischer-Tiné, M. Dusinberre
AbstractThe fortnightly colloquium provides an ideal forum for Master and PhD students as well as postdoctoral researchers to familiarize themselves with current trends in global history. The slots are reserved for presentations by invited external scholars of the highest calibre.
Learning objectiveParticipating students will have an opportunity to follow high level debates in global history. By writing short reports and comments on two selected sessions they train the ability to summarize complex arguments and articulate their position in controversial debates.
Prerequisites / NoticeInformation about dates and program
http://www.gmw.ethz.ch/studium.html