BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2329@dg.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250826T164734 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250922T171500 SUMMARY:«Transnational Histories of Rural Reform\, 1900−1950» DESCRIPTION:Cultivating Race - Transatlantic Agricultural Reform in South A frica\, c. 1900–1950 [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/cultivatin g-race-9780198917281?cc=ge&lang=3n] Julia Tischler is Associate Professor of African History at the University of Basel\, Switzerland. She obtained her PhD in History at the University of Cologne\, Germany\, in 2012. After her postdoctoral research at Humboldt University in Berlin\, Germany\, sh e joined the University of Basel in 2015. Her research focuses on historie s of the environment\, development\, and racism in Southern Africa. Her re cent book\, Cultivating Race (OUP 2025)\, examines agricultural progressiv ism in segregationist South Africa as a transnational movement.\\r\\nCulti vating Fields of Progress - Agriculture and the International Labour Organ ization\, 1920s–1950s [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/cultivati ng-fields-of-progress-9780192849892?cc=us&lang=en] Amalia Ribi Forclaz is Full Professor in International History and Politics at the Geneva Graduat e Institute. She holds a DPhil in Modern history from the University of Ox ford (Lincoln College\, 2008). Her current research interests focus on the history of agriculture\, labour\, development\, international institution s\, and the environment. Her recent book Cultivating Fields of Progress (O UP 2025) explores how the improvement of working and living conditions in agriculture became an international issue in the broader context of the in terwar and immediate post Second World War years.\\r\\nJuri Auderset is Le cturer for the History of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries at the In stitute of History at the University of Bern and research fellow at the Ar chives of Rural History in Bern. Among his research and teaching interests are the history of agriculture and environment\, labor history and the hi story of capitalism\, conceptual and intellectual history.\\r\\nMonday\, S eptember 22\, 2025\, 17:15 Hörsaal Orangerie\, Europainstitut\, Riehenstr asse 154\, Basel\\r\\nThe event will be followed by a reception.\\r\\nCont act: julia.tischler@unibas.ch [mailto:julia.tischler@unibas.ch] X-ALT-DESC:

Cultivating Race - Transatlanti c Agricultural Reform in South Africa\, c. 1900–1950
Julia Tischler is Associate Professor of African History at t he University of Basel\, Switzerland. She obtained her PhD in History at t he University of Cologne\, Germany\, in 2012. After her postdoctoral resea rch at Humboldt University in Berlin\, Germany\, she joined the University of Basel in 2015. Her research focuses on histories of the environment\, development\, and racism in Southern Africa. Her recent book\, Cultivating Race (OUP 2025)\, examines agricultural progressivism in segregationist S outh Africa as a transnational movement.

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Cultivating Fields of Progress - Agriculture and the In ternational Labour Organization\, 1920s–1950s
Ama lia Ribi Forclaz is Full Professor in International History and P olitics at the Geneva Graduate Institute. She holds a DPhil in Modern hist ory from the University of Oxford (Lincoln College\, 2008). Her current re search interests focus on the history of agriculture\, labour\, developmen t\, international institutions\, and the environment. Her recent book Cult ivating Fields of Progress (OUP 2025) explores how the improvement of work ing and living conditions in agriculture became an international issue in the broader context of the interwar and immediate post Second World War ye ars.

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Juri Auderset is Lecturer for the History of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries at the Institute of History at the University of Bern and research fellow at the Archives of Rural History i n Bern. Among his research and teaching interests are the history of agric ulture and environment\, labor history and the history of capitalism\, con ceptual and intellectual history.

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Monday\, September 22\, 2025\, 1 7:15
Hörsaal Orangerie\, Europainstitut\, Riehenstrasse 154\, Basel

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The event will be followed by a reception.

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Conta ct: julia.tischler@unibas.ch

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