BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.6.1//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:news2678@europa.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250917T101442 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250922T171500 SUMMARY:Book launch: "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. Afte r her postdoctoral research at Humboldt University in Berlin\, Germany\, s he joined the University of Basel in 2015. Her research focuses on histori es of the environment\, development\, and racism in Southern Africa. Her r ecent book\, Cultivating Race (OUP 2025)\, examines agricultural progressi vism in segregationist South Africa as a transnational movement.\\r\\nCult ivating Fields of Progress - Agriculture and the International Labour Orga nization\, 1920s–1950s [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/cultivat ing-fields-of-progress-9780192849892?cc=us&lang=en] Amalia Ribi Forclaz i s Full Professor in International History and Politics at the Geneva Gradu ate Institute. She holds a DPhil in Modern history from the University of Oxford (Lincoln College\, 2008). Her current research interests focus on t he history of agriculture\, labour\, development\, international instituti ons\, and the environment. Her recent book Cultivating Fields of Progress (OUP 2025) explores how the improvement of working and living conditions i n agriculture became an international issue in the broader context of the interwar and immediate post Second World War years.\\r\\nJuri 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 in Bern. Among his research and teaching intere sts are the history of agriculture and environment\, labor history and the history of capitalism\, conceptual and intellectual history.\\r\\nMonday\ , September 22\, 2025\, 17:15 Hörsaal Orangerie\, Europainstitut\, Riehen strasse 154\, Basel\\r\\nThe event will be followed by a reception.\\r\\nC ontact: julia.tischler@unibas.ch [https://dg.philhist.unibas.ch/de/aktuel les/veranstaltungen/details/transnational-histories-of-rural-reform-190019 50/#] X-ALT-DESC:

Cultivating Rac e - Transatlantic Agricultural Reform in South Africa\, c. 1900–1950
Julia Tischler \;is Associate Professor o f African History at the University of Basel\, Switzerland. She obtained h er PhD in History at the University of Cologne\, Germany\, in 2012. After her postdoctoral research 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 rec ent book\, Cultivating Race (OUP 2025)\, examines agricultural progressivi sm in segregationist South Africa as a transnational movement.

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Cultivating Field s of Progress - Agriculture and the International Labour Organization\, 19 20s–1950s
Amalia Ribi Forclaz \;is F ull Professor in International History and Politics at the Geneva Graduate Institute. She holds a DPhil in Modern history from the University of Oxf ord (Lincoln College\, 2008). Her current research interests focus on the history of agriculture\, labour\, development\, international institutions \, and the environment. Her recent book Cultivating Fields of Progress (OU P 2025) explores how the improvement of working and living conditions in a griculture became an international issue in the broader context of the int erwar and immediate post Second World War years.

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Juri Aude rset \;is Lecturer for the History of the Nineteenth and Twen tieth Centuries at the Institute of History at the University of Bern and research fellow at the Archives of Rural History in Bern. Among his resear ch and teaching interests are the history of agriculture and environment\, labor history and the history of capitalism\, conceptual and intellectual history.

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Monday\, September 22\, 2025\, 17:15
Hörsaal Oran gerie\, Europainstitut\, Riehenstrasse 154\, Basel

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The event w ill be followed by a reception.

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Contact: \;julia.tischler@unibas.ch

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