Cooperation
The Basel Graduate School of History is part of many networks and has close connections with various partner institutions. This allows doctoral researchers to expand their national and international networks beyond the BGSH, to spend time abroad, to gain an in-depth understanding of other academic cultures, and to participate in summer schools and international conferences and workshops.
To promote exchange between academic cultures, the School of History at Queen Mary University of London and the Basel Graduate School of History organize an annual doctoral conference that alternates between Basel and London.
Previous programs:
- 2024: Race and Racialization (23-24 May, 2024)
- 2023: Basel meets Queen Mary (11-12 May, 2023)
- 2022: Celebrating a Decade of Intellectual Contact and Friendship (19-20 May, 2022)
- 2019: Basel meets Queen Mary (2-3 May, 2019)
- 2018: Soft Power, Hard Power: Channels, Discourses, Practices (17-18 May, 2018)
- 2016: Transcultural Exchanges from the Middle Ages to Modernity (2-3 December, 2016)
- 2015: Renaissance, Mediterranean, Global History (22-23 October, 2015)
- 2014: Writing History in the 21st Century (31 October, 2014)
The BGSH cooperates with the transdisciplinary PhD program Regimes of Inequality - Past and Present of the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Fribourg. It is aimed at doctoral students who deal with the topic and analysis of inequality in the Swiss, European and global context. In doing so, diverse topics such as migration and racism, capitalism and neoliberalism, as well as social and ecological issues will be brought into connection with diverse interdisciplinary perspectives, from postcolonial, gender and minority studies, for example. The aim is to question the (re)production of inequality in a historical-critical way, promoting transdisciplinary and intertemporal approaches.
The doctoral program is not so much a fixed curriculum with courses that build on one another, but rather an additional, innovative educational offering. It is intended to enable doctoral students to engage with current methodological and theoretical debates and to exchange knowledge and experience.
Since July 2023, the BGSH has been cooperating with the graduate program of the Institute Cultures of the Alps in Altdorf .
The IKdA is an independent institute active in scientific research and knowledge transfer in the alpine region, which is affiliated to the University of Lucerne. It is supported by the foundation "Wissenschaft Uri" and financed by the canton of Uri. For the education of young scientists, the IKdA runs the Graduate School Cultures of the Alps.
The cooperation agreement was signed by BGSH Commission Head Prof. Dr. F. Benjamin Schenk and IKdA Director Prof. Dr. Boris Previšić on July 10, 2023.
The contact person in Basel is Dr. Marino Ferri.
The aim of the cooperation is to provide mutual access to the event programs. BGSH members can apply for membership in the IKdA Graduate School and have achievements in the curriculum recognized there.
Joint formats, further education or conferences are also planned for the future.
The BGSH is a member of the Graduate Interdisciplinary Network for European Studies (GRAINES) alongside higher education institutions in Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Spain and Switzerland. The network focuses mainly on postgraduate education and research. It aims to create a stimulating, interdisciplinary and truly international environment for postgraduate communities and for current and future academics. GRAINES organizes and hosts workshops and winter/summer schools on a broad range of topics within modern European history. The network also provides exchange opportunities for staff members and postgraduate researchers.
Associated universities:
- Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
- Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Sciences Po, Paris, France
- University of St Andrews, Great Britain
- University of Vienna, Austria
- University of Cologne, Germany