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New Video about the History of the Sandgrube

Prof. Dr. Susanna Burghartz and Prof. Dr. Madeleine Herren explored the micro-global connections of the Sandgrube. In a video, they show the interactions between the local and the global using the example of the Chinese Room.

University of Basel, Newsletter of 21.12.2021

Open Access: Building Paradise

The new book by Madeleine Herren and Susanna Burghartz is now also available as an open access version. You can download it here.

Burghartz, Herren, Sand, Seide, Papier (2021)

New release: Building Paradise

In an 18th century summer house, Basel's global past comes to life. In their new book, Susanna Burghartz and Madeleine Herren discuss Basel's multi-faceted global interdependencies using the example of the Sandgrube and its inhabitants. 300 years of global history - fascinating to this day. The book about the current location of the Institute for European Global Studies has been published by Christoph Merian Verlag.

Buy it here.

Burghartz, Herren, Sand, Seide, Papier (2021)

New Release: Basel Papers on Europe in a Global Perspective

"Forgotten Icons of Global Transition" is the topic of the latest issue of the e-journal "Global Europe". Three contributions elaborate on processes of transformation by examining objects that literally disappeared as global exchange attributed new identities to them. Thus, a statue of Erasmus of Rotterdam ended up in a Japanese temple and Japanese Buddhist bells arrived in a Swiss bell foundry.

Further Infos and Download.

Burghartz, Herren, Thomsen, Basel Papers on Europe in a Global Perspective, No. 120 (2021)