Dr Pascal Firges
Lecturer
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Hirschgässlein 21
4051 Basel
Switzerland
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About Pascal Firges
Pascal Firges studied history and philosophy in Heidelberg, Paris, and Cambridge. He completed his doctorate in 2014 with a thesis on French revolutionaries in the Ottoman Empire, which he prepared at Heidelberg University's Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe’.
From 2014 to 2019, Firges was principal investigator of a junior research group at the German Historical Institute in Paris, which dealt with power strategies and interpersonal relationships in dynastic centres. He was then awarded a fellowship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation at the Historische Kolleg in Munich that was followed by a fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation and the Taiwanese Ministry of Science in Taipei. From 2021 to 2023, he taught at the University of Duisburg-Essen and then held deputy professorships in Bielefeld and Essen.
Firges completed his habilitation at Bielefeld University in 2024 with a thesis on the culture of marriage and extramarital relationships in French court society. Since autumn 2024, he is lecturer at the Department of History at the University of Basel where he is a member of Nadine Amsler's SNSF project ‘Early Childhood and Dynastic Reproduction at Princely Courts, 1600-1800.’ Here he is responsible for the sub-project ‘Dynastic Femininities in the Age of Exploration: Extra-European Arguments and the Negotiation of Gender in Early Modern Europe’.
European history from a global perspective, entangled history of the Old Swiss Confederacy, intercontinental return migrations, gender history, history of marriage, social history of court societies, history of political culture, Ottoman-European relations, cultural history of diplomacy, global history of the French Revolution
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